Runecraft Ironman F2P Guide
1-9 Elemental Tiaras
1-9 Air runes
9-99 Earth runes
20-99 Body runes
Method #1: Varrock tele earths (EHP)
4,200 XP/HR (rune pick)
4,500 XP/HR (addy pick)
Description:
Mine rune essence at the essence mine in Varrock, and walk/run to the earth altar north. Craft runes and teleport to Varrock and repeat the process
Inventory:
Air runes/staff, law runes, fire runes, rune pickaxe, earth tiara
80,200 laws needed for 99 runecraft. 80,200 laws = 115,600 Ogresses (37,916,800 XP) 728,600 Hill Giants (102,004,000 XP) 374,900 Moss Giants (89,976,000 XP)
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Method #2: Chronicle tele earths (EHP)
4,000 XP/HR (rune pick)
4,200 XP/HR (addy pick)
Description:
Mine rune essence at the essence mine in Varrock, and walk/run to the earth altar north. Craft runes and teleport using the chronicle and repeat the process
Inventory:
Chronicle, rune pickaxe, earth tiara
Example:
Method #3: Adamant 2 tick
Description:
Objects you can mine, generally have something called an “arrivedelay”. Arrivedelays occur at the end of a path, when you are pathing to interact with the object. The arrivedelay is a 1 tick stall. This 1 tick stall completes your interaction from the tick before causing an additional roll, if your tick cycle ends in the same tick. Keep in mind that arrivedelays only happen with specific objects!
Using “double rolls”, you can 2 tick essence with a 4 tick cycle. Conveniently, each pickaxe has an assigned effect on the skilling timer. Rune creates 3 tick cycles, adamant creates 4 tick cycles, etc. Using an adamant pickaxe saves you inventory space, and allows you to move freely. You could 1.5 tick with a 3 tick cycle, but unfortunately 3 tick cycles are only long enough if you path in the same tick you start that 3 tick cycle.
Additionally, there’s a bug in F2P where each pickaxe has a 1/6 chance of reducing your cycle by a tick. This 1/6 chance means that 1/6 times you 2 tick with an adamant pickaxe, you will do a 3 tick thats too short to work. To help minimize the tick loss, if you dont get your rolls you should immediately path to the next square. This is because by the time you don’t see your XP drop, you’ve already started a cycle with your pickaxe, and you need to move quickly.
Example:
Method #4: Fally Pub earths (ALT METHOD)
4,800 XP/HR (rune pick)
5,150 XP/HR (addy pick)
Description:
Basically Method #1 but every 2 times you teleport to Varrock, you teleport to Falador. Afterwards you do the teleport to GE Method (below) and unequip your earth tiara. Then teleport to castle wars using the Recruiters, leave castle wars and go through the doors. This takes you to ferox where you can restore your run and teleport back to Varrock.
To set up, you bring your main and any alt to the GE. Make sure you start the challenging process after each teleport to the GE. – main challenges alt – accept challenge on alt – stay on options screen on alt – Should look like this on alt:
– after that the challenge is stored, and you can tele to ge from the fally pub!
Inventory: Air staff/runes, fire runes, water runes, law runes, rune/addy pickaxe, earth tiara.
125,300 laws needed for 99 runecraft. 125,300 laws = 180,500 Ogresses (59,204,000 XP) 1,138,400 Hill Giants (159,376,000 XP) 585,800 Moss Giants (140,592,000 XP)
Example:
Method #5: Suicide body runes No grave (ALT METHOD)
5,000 XP/HR (rune pick)
5,400 XP/HR (addy pick)
Description:
Suicide body runes is a NO LAWS method that can require multiple alts and a pvp world. You want to withdraw an inventory of essence, start heading to altar, attack main with alt1 (4-5 hits) and walk back, go into altar on main, make and drop runes, kill main with alt2, respawn in edgeville and equip body tiara. If you are high defence, its recommended you use a 3rd alt just north of barbarian village.
Requirements:
– Edgeville spawn (5m gp)
– 2-3 alts with sufficient combat stats
– body tiaras
– rune essence
Example:
Method #6: Suicide body runes With gravestones (ALT METHOD)
5,200 XP/HR (rune pick)
5,600 XP/HR (addy pick)
Description:
Basically the same as Method #5, but utilizes grave transfering. Gravestones can hold up to 28 essence, and when you die from a non pvp situation, the items you have in your inventory transfer to the grave stone. The trick we use here is that we trick the game into thinking it was just a normal death, by logging out on the alt as your main is dying. 3 items that protect over rune essence is also used so you can transfer 28 ess to your grave stone.
You can create a gravestone (at the altar) by pvp death with an untradable that is droppable and 3 items that protect over it. Every trip you to equip 3 items to protect over rune ess, and bank your body tiara. Then you want to die to your alt, and logout and in on it. Then you withdraw and equip a body tiara, and withdraw ess. After that you just do a normal suicide body trip, but withdraw from the grave as well (make sure you dont withdraw untradable!),
Requirements:
– Edgeville spawn (5m gp)
– 2-3 alts with sufficient combat stats
– body tiaras
– rune essence
– Untradable that goes to grave or drops on death (lms capes, diango claws)
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