Water rune

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This article is about the rune. For other uses, see Water rune (disambiguation).

The official world for RC Running & ZMI Altar is world 36 (P2P).

Water rune
Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Values
Value	17 coins
High alch	3 coins
Low alch	2 coins
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0 kg
Examine
One of the four basic elemental runes. Used in Magic (5).
Grand Exchange
Exchange	20 coins (info)
Buy limit	25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID	555
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The water rune is one of the four elemental runes. They are used to invoke the power of water, in spells such as Water and Ice spells, and may be substituted for by a water staff, water battlestaff, mud battlestaff, steam battlestaff, or tome of frost. Water runes are also substituted in spells by the mystic version of all staves mentioned previously. These runes are also used for ice spells.

These may be made using the Runecrafting skill at level 5 Runecrafting, granting 6 experience per essence, using the water altar south-east of Draynor Village in the Lumbridge Swamp. They can also be found at various spawns around the game, such as the spawn in the scorpion pit north of Al Kharid. Water runes can also be dropped by monsters. They can sometimes be found inside barrels. After the quest Dealing with Scabaras, water runes may be used on a water tiara, requiring both 50 Magic and Runecrafting, to make an enchanted water tiara. This item replaces waterskins in the desert heat, with three water runes accounting for one dose of water. The amount of charges that the tiara can store is unlimited. Similarly to infusing a druid pouch, the user must use at least 3 water runes on the tiara.

While wearing Explorer's Ring 2 from Easy Lumbridge Task achievement provides 10% chance of crafting an additional water rune per essence at the water altar (same for air, earth and fire runes at appropriate altar).

Crafting multiple water runes

For more information about Runecrafting multiples, see crafting multiple runes.

Multiplier		GE Price
1x	5	20
2x	19	40
3x	38	60
4x	57	80
5x	76	100
6x	95	120
7x	114*	140

Spells

Water runes are needed in a vast amount of spells, as listed below. Because of all the spells that need water runes, many mages will just use a staff of water, water battlestaff or mystic water staff.

Free spells

All players can cast these spells.

Spell		Members	Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Water Strike	No	5	11	Normal Daemonheim	Combat
	Water Bolt	No	23	22	Normal Daemonheim	Combat
	Water Blast	No	47	33	Normal Daemonheim	Combat
	Falador Teleport	No	37	113	Normal	Teleport
	Lvl-1 Enchant	No	7	11	Normal	Skilling
	Bones to Bananas	No	15	122	Normal Daemonheim	Skilling

Member spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Spell		Members	Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Water Wave	Yes	65	44	Normal Daemonheim	Combat
	Bake Pie	Yes	65	154	Lunar	Skilling
	Humidify	Yes	68	113	Lunar Daemonheim	Skilling
	North Ardougne Teleport	Yes	76	125	Lunar	Teleport
	Trollheim Farm Teleport	Yes	92	3310	Lunar	Teleport
	Tele-group Trollheim Farm	Yes	92	3320	Lunar	Teleport
	Ice Blitz	Yes	82	15	Ancient	Combat
	Ice Barrage	Yes	94	25	Ancient	Combat
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Pearl)	Yes	92	112	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Sapphire)	Yes	90	1111	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Pearl)	Yes	24	12	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Sapphire)	Yes	7	111	Normal	Skilling
	Ice Rush	Yes	58	13	Ancient	Combat
	Ice Burst	Yes	70	24	Ancient	Combat
	String Jewellery	Yes	80	2105	Lunar	Skilling
	Potion Share	Yes	81	21010	Lunar	Combat
	Sift Soil	Yes	91	1510	Lunar	Skilling
	Fire Urn	Yes	82	11055	Lunar	Skilling
	Magic Imbue	Yes	82	277	Lunar	Skilling
	South Feldip Hills Teleport	Yes	10	111	Normal	Teleport
	Waterbirth Teleport	Yes	72	121	Lunar	Teleport
	Tele-group Waterbirth	Yes	73	125	Lunar	Teleport
	Lassar Teleport	Yes	72	24	Ancient	Teleport
	Ardougne Teleport	Yes	51	22	Normal	Teleport
	Ghorrock Teleport	Yes	96	28	Ancient	Teleport
	Tele-group Khazard	Yes	79	228	Lunar	Teleport
	Khazard Teleport	Yes	78	224	Lunar	Teleport
	Tele-group Fishing Guild	Yes	86	3310	Lunar	Teleport
	Catherby Teleport	Yes	87	3310	Lunar	Teleport
	Ice Plateau Teleport	Yes	89	338	Lunar	Teleport
	Fishing Guild Teleport	Yes	85	338	Lunar	Teleport
	Tele-group Ice Plateau	Yes	90	3316	Lunar	Teleport
	Tele-group Catherby	Yes	88	3315	Lunar	Teleport
	Sapphire Aurora	Yes	77	13	Ancient	Combat
	Tele-other Falador	Yes	82	111	Normal	Teleport
	Lvl-5 Enchant	Yes	68	11515	Normal	Skilling
	Ape Atoll Teleport	Yes	64	2221	Normal	Teleport
	Shield Dome	Yes	84	333	Ancient	Combat
	Rapid Growth	Yes	88	3333	Ancient	Skilling
	Charge Water Orb	Yes	56	3301	Normal	Skilling
	Bones to Peaches	Yes	60	244	Normal	Skilling
	Water Surge	Yes	85	55	Normal Daemonheim	Combat
	Crystallise	Yes	88	6666	Ancient	Skilling

Removed spells

Spell		Members	Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Elemental bolt	No	9 EvilMagic	1111	evil	Combat
	Stat Restore Pot Share	Yes	81	21010	Lunar	Combat
	Boost Potion Share	Yes	84	31210	Lunar	Combat
	Fear	No	12 EvilMagic	31	evil	Combat
	Chill bolt	No	1 GoodMagic	21	good	Combat

Locations

Store locations

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Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Ali's Discount Wares	Al Kharid	17	Coins	300
Aubury's Rune Shop (New Varrock)	New Varrock	Free sample	-	15
Aubury's Rune Shop (New Varrock)	New Varrock	17	Zemomark	300
Aubury's Rune Shop	Varrock	17	Coins	300
Baba Yaga's Magic Shop	Lunar Isle	17	Coins	1,000
Battle Runes	Wilderness	17	Coins	1,000
Betty's Magic Emporium	Port Sarim	17	Coins	300
Carwen Essencebinder Magical Runes Shop	Burthorpe	17	Coins	300
Lundail's Arena-side Rune Shop	Mage arena bank	17	Coins	1,000
Magic Guild Store - Runes and Staves	Wizards' Guild	17	Coins	1,000
Rune Shop (Anachronia)	Anachronia	17	Coins	300
Tutab's Magical Market	Ape Atoll	17	Coins	1,000
TzHaar-Mej-Roh's Rune Store	TzHaar City	26	Tokkul	1,000
Void Knight Magic Store	Void Knights' Outpost	17	Coins	1,000

Item spawns

• On the ground in Al Kharid mine.
• On the ground in Black Knight Fortress in the Wilderness
• On the ground in Frozen Waste Plateau

Products

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Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Amulet of bountiful harvest (new)	7	1 × Opal amulet 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	777
Amulet of glory	68	1 × Dragonstone amulet 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	12,784
Amulet of glory	80  68	1 × Gold bar 1 × Dragonstone 1 × Ball of wool 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	12,784
Amulet of magic	7	1 × Sapphire amulet 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	2,196
Ardougne teleport (item)	51	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 2 × Water rune	4,384
Bones to bananas (item)	15	1 × Soft clay 2 × Water rune 2 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune	627
Bones to peaches (item)	60	1 × Soft clay 4 × Water rune 4 × Earth rune 2 × Nature rune	157
Bracelet of clay	7	1 × Sapphire bracelet 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	2,467
Catherby teleport (item)	87	1 × Soft clay 3 × Law rune 3 × Astral rune 10 × Water rune	2,620
Combat bracelet	68	1 × Dragonstone bracelet 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	11,284
Combat bracelet	74  68	1 × Gold bar 1 × Dragonstone 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	11,284
Cracked fishing urn (r)	2	1 × Cracked fishing urn (nr) 1 × Water rune	N/A
Decorated fishing urn (r)	76	1 × Decorated fishing urn (nr) 1 × Water rune	N/A
Elemental balance 1 (construction)	37	500 × Air rune 500 × Water rune 500 × Earth rune 500 × Fire rune	N/A
Elemental balance 2 (construction)	57	1000 × Air rune 1000 × Water rune 1000 × Earth rune 1000 × Fire rune	N/A
Elemental balance 3 (construction)	77	2000 × Air rune 2000 × Water rune 2000 × Earth rune 2000 × Fire rune	N/A
Enchant dragonstn.	68	1 × Soft clay 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune 1 × Cosmic rune	532
Enchant sapphire	7	1 × Soft clay 1 × Water rune 1 × Cosmic rune	238
Falador teleport (item)	37	1 × Soft clay 1 × Law rune 3 × Air rune 1 × Water rune	3,804
Featherfingered necklace (new)	7	1 × Opal necklace 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	1,669
Fishing guild teleport (item)	85	1 × Soft clay 3 × Law rune 3 × Astral rune 8 × Water rune	2,467
Fragile fishing urn (r)	15	1 × Fragile fishing urn (nr) 1 × Water rune	N/A
Games necklace (8)	7	1 × Sapphire necklace 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	2,900
Ghorrock teleport (item)	96	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 8 × Water rune	4,476
Headhunter's sacrifice (new)	7	1 × Opal bracelet 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	801
Ice plateau teleport (item)	89	1 × Soft clay 3 × Law rune 3 × Astral rune 8 × Water rune	1,921
Ivandis flail	47  27	3 × Silver bar 2 × Mithril bar 1 × Sapphire 1 × Emerald 2 × Cosmic rune 3 × Air rune 1 × Water rune	N/A
Khazard teleport (item)	78	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 2 × Astral rune 4 × Water rune	2,121
Lassar teleport (item)	72	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 4 × Water rune	2,236
North ardougne teleport (item)	76	1 × Soft clay 1 × Law rune 2 × Astral rune 5 × Water rune	1,918
Pearl bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	92	10 × Pearl bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 2 × Water rune	7,920
Pearl bolts (e) × 10	24	10 × Pearl bolts 2 × Water rune 1 × Cosmic rune	440
Plain fishing urn (r)	41	1 × Plain fishing urn (nr) 1 × Water rune	N/A
Polar habitat (construction)	67	1000 × Air rune 1000 × Water rune 1 × Bagged evergreen	N/A
Ring of Luck	7	1 × Lapis lazuli ring 1 × Water rune 1 × Cosmic rune	6,259
Ring of Wealth	68	1 × Dragonstone ring 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	9,251
Ring of Wealth	55  68	1 × Gold bar 1 × Dragonstone 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	9,251
Ring of metamorphosis (new)	7	1 × Opal ring 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	2,813
Ring of recoil	7	1 × Sapphire ring 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	2,307
Rod of ivandis	25  7	1 × Silver bar 1 × Mithril bar 1 × Sapphire 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	N/A
Rune case 1 (construction)	41	2 × Teak plank 2 × Molten glass 1 × Air rune 1 × Water rune 1 × Earth rune 1 × Fire rune	N/A
Sapphire bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	90	10 × Sapphire bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Mind rune 1 × Water rune	14,980
Sapphire bolts (e) × 10	7	10 × Sapphire bolts 1 × Water rune 1 × Mind rune 1 × Cosmic rune	810
Silvthril rod (enchanted)	7	1 × Silvthril rod 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	N/A
Silvthril rod (enchanted)	25	1 × Silver bar 1 × Mithril bar 1 × Sapphire 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Water rune	N/A
Skills necklace (4)	68	1 × Dragonstone necklace 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	11,979
Skills necklace (4)	72  68	1 × Gold bar 1 × Dragonstone 1 × Cosmic rune 15 × Earth rune 15 × Water rune	11,979
Strong fishing urn (r)	53	1 × Strong fishing urn (nr) 1 × Water rune	N/A
Trollheim farm teleport (item)	92	1 × Soft clay 3 × Law rune 3 × Astral rune 10 × Water rune	9,747
Water orb	56	1 × Unpowered orb 30 × Water rune 3 × Cosmic rune	5,808
Waterbirth teleport (item)	72	1 × Soft clay 1 × Law rune 2 × Astral rune 1 × Water rune	2,064

Drop sources

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Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	30	13/128
Bandit (Wilderness)	18	9	Uncommon
Bandit Brawler	112; 118	9	3/128
Bandit looter	42	3–17	Common
Barrel (Viyeldi caves)	N/A	1–11	Common	N/A
Basilisk	70; 77	20	12/128
Big frog	36	12	Uncommon
Black Heather	138	30	Uncommon
Black Knight Titan	28	Unknown	Unknown
Brine rat	49	10; 18	Uncommon
Casket (CS Week)	N/A	150	Unknown	N/A
Catablepon	53; 54	7	8/128
Cave bug	8; 12	1–16	4/128
Cave bug	8; 12	1–167	2/128
Cave goblin	1	6	Common
Cave slime	26	15	5/128
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	70; 101	10	Common
Chaos dwarf	28; 45; 47; 84; 101; 108	10	1/128
Chaos dwogre	92; 98	10	Common
Chest (Oldak)	52	10–19	61.31/1400	N/A
Cockatrice	44	1–2	3/128
Cockroach drone	4	1–8	18/128
Corpse archer	18	6	9/128
Corpse mage	21	8	10/384
Corpse spider	4	2	8/195
Crawling corpse torso	9	4	Uncommon
Crystal chest Taverley	N/A	200	Common	N/A
Cyclops	57; 63; 68; 91	7	Rare
Dagannoth guardian	98	10–36	Uncommon
Dagannoth spawn	65	3	Common
Dagon'hai Monk	77	10; 18	Common
Dark warrior	16	1	4/128
Dark wizard	22; 30; 33; 35; 37	10; 18	4/128
Desert strykewyrm	103	2–100	Uncommon
Donny the Lad	138	30	Uncommon
Dragith Nurn	26	8	Unknown
Drunken man	5	7	Uncommon
Elf warrior	84; 89	70	Common
Elite Khazard guard	77; 84	4–10	Common
Essence impling jar	?	30	Common	N/A
Essence impling	42	30	Common	N/A
Exiled kalphite paragon	84	31–89	Common
Exiled kalphite soldier	84	53–84	Common
Experiment No.2	64	3–14	Uncommon
Frog	77	6	Common
Giant Oyster	N/A	150	Common	N/A
Giant Oyster	N/A	300	Common	N/A
Giant Rock Crab	95	1–39	Common
Giant Sea Snake	63	15	Unknown
Giant ant worker	49	28	Common
Giant skeleton (Shadow Dungeon)	84	18	Uncommon
Giant skeleton (Tarn's Lair)	84	18	Uncommon
Giant wasp	70; 84	32; 35; 37	Unknown
Gnoeals	70	30–44	Common
Goblin guard (Observatory)	28	6	Unknown
Goblin Common	?	6	6/128	N/A
Guthix wizard	105; 119	42; 146	Uncommon
Hill giant	44	7	Common
Hobgoblin (elite)	41	2	Uncommon
Hobgoblin	28; 30; 32; 35; 91	2	2/128
Ice giant	51	12	Common
Ice troll	84; 89	65	Common
Icefiend	35; 84	1–5	Uncommon
Imp herald	98	5	Common
Imp	5	5	Common
Infernal Mage (elite)	82	25	Unknown
Infernal Mage	72	10; 18	4/128
Jailer	39	Unknown	Common
Kalphite Soldier	65	21; 22	Uncommon
Kalphite Worker	58	11–19	Common
Knight of Ardougne	53	70	Common
Man	4	7	Uncommon
Minotaur	14; 44; 52	5	5/128
Mogre	54	5–18	Uncommon
Molanisk	53	1–13	11/128
Mourner	33; 79; 85	70	Common
Mugger	15	6	Uncommon
Outlaw	32	6	Uncommon
Paladin	49	30	Common
Reward casket (easy)	Easy	150	Common	N/A
Reward casket (medium)	Medium	300	Common	N/A
Rock lobster	100	9	Common
Salarin the Twisted	77	12	Common
Sandy Casket (red)	N/A	300	Unknown	N/A
Sandy Casket	N/A	300	Unknown	N/A
Saradomin wizard	98	146	Uncommon
Sea Snake Hatchling	63	15	Unknown
Sea Snake Young	63	15	Uncommon
Security casket (CS Week)	N/A	300	Unknown	N/A
Sir Carl	81	30	Common
Sir Harry	81	30	Common
Sir Jerro	81	30	Common
Skeletal Wyvern	109	11–33	5/128
Skeletal miner	49	9	Uncommon
Skeleton (Lumbridge Catacombs)	15	5	5/128
Skeleton fremennik	23; 28; 30	20	Uncommon
Skeleton looter	42	Unknown	Uncommon
Skeleton	15; 16; 32; 43; 46; 47; 49; 51; 53; 54; 58; 70; 72	2–9	Common
Skoblin	19	6; 8	Common
Sorebones	49	23	Common

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Runes and talismans
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  94.5% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 94.5% 1 34 93.6 2 49 91.7 3 64 89.8 4 69 87.9 5 78 86.0 6 83 83.2 7 91 81.3 8 95 78.5 9 105 75.7
Possible materials
Often
Magic parts	85/100
Sometimes
Crafted parts	13/100
Rarely
Powerful components	2/100

Update history

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• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The most water runes required for a spell is 30, for the Charge Water Orb spell.
• Water runes used to have a price ceiling of 16 coins each, and were extremely hard to buy on the Grand Exchange. On 9 September 2009, the price cap was removed (and shortly before, the infinite stock of water runes in shops had been removed), and water runes increased in price to over 40 coins each. Due to this it was very smart to buy water runes from rune shops at 17 coins and sell on the Grand Exchange. However, this is not applicable anymore as the Grand Exchange price is now cheaper (20).