Ore box
Ore boxes are items that store metal ores. Initially, they can store up to 100 of each ore, increased by 20 for certain ores at certain Mining levels (see table below). Completing the Everything Is Oresome achievement (90 Mining required, boostable) also increases storage by 20 for all ores, allowing up to 140 to be stored. These two effects are independent of each other.
Gold and silver ores can only be stored after completing the Family Crest quest and are not subject to storage increases, but are rather always limited to 100 ores each. If a player completed the quest whilst a member, they are still able to store gold and silver without membership.
The ore boxes can be made at an anvil.
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
The ore box's left-click option, "fill", fills the box with all ores in the player's inventory. Ores (including noted ores) can also be individually used on the box to fill it with all ore of that type. A mouse-over tooltip is displayed showing the contents of the ore box sorted from the lowest to the highest tier. The ore box can be added to the action bar, and clicking it there allows filling of the box without interrupting mining.
The ore box cannot be emptied into a player's inventory. Once filled it can only be emptied into a bank, deposit box or metal bank. The "Deposit-All" option in the metal bank empties the ore box as well as having an "empty" option that works in the bank interface. With deposit boxes, the ore box must be used on it to deposit the contents without banking the ore box, as the empty option does not exist in the deposit box interface, but this does allow the player to return to mining. Simply placing an ore box into the bank also empties the box, placing all the ores stored within it into the bank. If there isn't enough space in the bank, the ore(s) will stay in the box while banked.
Ore boxes share storage between them, so there is no use in owning multiple boxes. The player cannot fill the ore box while carrying more than one of them in their inventory. Attempting to fill the ore box whilst carrying several of them simply results in the player character exclaiming "I can't hold all these ore boxes!", with no ore being added to the box.
A temporary boost in Mining level can increase the capacity temporarily.
Dying in the Wilderness with an ore box of any tier, if unprotected, will result in the box and all ores contained within dropping on the ground for the killer. If the player protects their ore box, any ores contained within the ore box will be dropped on the ground for the killer; however, the ore box will be kept.
If the inventory is filled by mining while carrying the ore box, the game displays a message that the player could fill the box, even if the material mined cannot be stored there (such as when the box is already full).
Types of ore boxes[edit | edit source]
| Ore box | Highest tier of ore storable |
Ingredients | Mining level for storage increase |
GE price | Profit of creation (From scratch - bars)[1] |
Profit of creation (From scratch - ores)[2] |
Profit of creation (Prior Ore box + bars)[3] |
Profit of creation (Prior ore box + ores)[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bronze ore box |
 Copper ore Tin ore |
2 × Bronze bar | 7 | 893 coins | -795 coins | 67 coins | N/A | N/A |
 Iron ore box |
 Iron ore |
1 × Bronze ore box 2 × Iron bar |
18 | 6,423 coins | 2,667 coins | 4,105 coins | 3,462 coins | 4,038 coins |
 Steel ore box |
 Coal Silver ore[5] |
1 × Iron ore box 2 × Steel bar |
29[6] | 2,975 coins | -2,159 coins | -291 coins | -4,826 coins | -4,396 coins |
 Mithril ore box |
 Mithril ore |
1 × Steel ore box 2 × Mithril bar |
37 | 10,840 coins | 4,356 coins | 6,942 coins | 6,515 coins | 7,233 coins |
 Adamant ore box |
 Adamantite ore Luminite Gold ore[5] |
1 × Mithril ore box 2 × Adamant bar |
41[6] | 30,658 coins | 21,338 coins | 24,646 coins | 16,982 coins | 17,704 coins |
 Rune ore box |
 Runite ore |
1 × Adamant ore box 2 × Rune bar |
55 | 42,191 coins | 29,007 coins | 32,555 coins | 7,669 coins | 7,909 coins |
 Orikalkum ore box |
 Orichalcite ore Drakolith |
1 × Rune ore box 2 × Orikalkum bar |
66 | 46,502 coins | 17,014 coins | 19,068 coins | -11,993 coins | -13,487 coins |
 Necronium ore box |
 Necrite ore Phasmatite |
1 × Orikalkum ore box 2 × Necronium bar |
72 | 81,956 coins | 31,498 coins | 33,512 coins | 14,484 coins | 14,444 coins |
 Bane ore box |
 Banite ore |
1 × Necronium ore box 2 × Bane bar |
85 | 129,937 coins | 60,211 coins | 55,801 coins | 28,713 coins | 22,289 coins |
 Elder rune ore box |
 Light animica Dark animica |
1 × Bane ore box 2 × Elder rune bar |
95 | 245,686 coins | 153,114 coins | 149,018 coins | 92,903 coins | 93,217 coins |
Update history[edit | edit source]
- patch 22 July 2019 (Update):
- The Ore Box tooltip has been adjusted to stop visual clipping when using a large variety of ores.
- patch 18 February 2019 (Update):
- An ore box can now be used on a deposit box, in a similar fashion to a (spirit) gem bag or coal bag, to empty the ore box's contents into your bank without depositing the ore box.
- patch 14 January 2019 (Update):
- It is now no longer possible to fill ore boxes when you have multiple of them on you.
- patch 4 February 2019 (Update):
- No longer autofill noted ores - you can still use the noted ores on the ore box to store them if you wish.
- patch 28 January 2019 (Update):.
- There is now a warning when attempting to alch or disassemble them.
- Smithing and ore boxes are no longer allowed in New Varrock.
- patch 21 January 2019 (Update):
- Players will no longer be able to remove pickaxes from their toolbelts while in New Varrock.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- As of September 25, 2019, ore stored in ore boxes are not encumbering (meaning that they are not counted towards carried or worn weight of the player). It is unclear if this was intentional or a bug.
- The value of ores stored in an ore box is not counted by the Wealth evaluator.