Rune bar

Rune bar

Release date	13 August 2001 (Update)
Members?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alch	3,000 coins
Low Alch	2,000 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Examine	It's a bar of rune.
Weight	2 kg

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Rune bar

A rune bar is a bar of refined runite ore. It can be created through the Smithing skill at level 85 by smelting 1 runite ore and 8 pieces of coal in a furnace, granting 50 Smithing experience. Outside of Daemonheim, it is the highest level bar in the game.

At any anvil, players can smith rune bars into various rune weapons and armour, granting 75 Smithing experience per bar used. When smelted and smithed, a rune bar produces 125 Smithing experience in total. A list of items that may be produced from rune bars, the Smithing levels required to produce them, and other information may be found here. Aside from its uses in Smithing, a rune bar is a tertiary ingredient for a rune minotaur pouch. As such, it may be received from a box of summoning ingredients.

Assuming all materials are purchased on the Grand Exchange, the cost to produce a rune bar is 12,775 coins. As a rune bar is currently worth 13,029 coins, each bar represents a profit/loss of 254 coins. Smelting rune bars at the Blast Furnace, which reduces the required number of coal per bar by 50%, reduces the cost per bar to 11,813 coins; the profit/loss for smelting rune bars at the Blast Furnace is 1,216 coins each. Players who use the Superheat Item spell, along with a staff of fire, to smelt rune bars incur a profit/loss of coins.

Three rune bars may also be obtained as a random reward from the crystal chest, or dwarf traders. Additionally, 1, 50, or 150 noted rune bars may be rarely obtained from the rare drop table.

Dropping monsters

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Mithril dragon	304	1–2	2Common
Abyssal demon	124	1	3Uncommon
Ferocious barbarian spirit	166	1	3Uncommon
Ice strykewyrm	210	1–2 noted; 1 unnoted	3Uncommon
Kalphite Guardian	141	1	3Uncommon
Kalphite Queen	333	1	3Uncommon
Magpie Impling	N/A (hunter)	2 (noted)	3Uncommon
Mature grotworm	167	1	3Uncommon
Steel dragon	246	1	3Uncommon
WildyWyrm	382, 562	1, 15 (noted)	3Uncommon
Black demon	172	1	4Rare
Bronze dragon	131	1	4Rare
Dagannoth Prime	303	1	4Rare
Dark beast	182	1	4Rare
Fire giant	86	1	4Rare
Ganodermic beast	280	1	4Rare
Giant Mole	230	1	4Rare
Iron dragon	189	1	4Rare
King Black Dragon	276	1	4Rare
Kingly impling	N/A (hunter)	10 (noted)	4Rare
Nechryael	115	1	4Rare
Ogre statue	75	1	4Rare
Ork statue	63	2 (noted)	4Rare
Black dragon	227	1	5Very rare
Chaos Elemental	305	1	5Very rare
Dagannoth Rex	303	1	5Very rare
Tormented demon	450	1	5Very rare