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Runite ore is an ore that can be obtained through mining runite rocks, requiring level 50 Mining, in various places around RuneScape.
Runite is required to craft rune bars. As players increase their Mining level and use higher tier pickaxes, they are able to mine runite at quicker rates.
Runite, like other mining resources, can be stored in an ore box. 100 runite can be stored in a rune ore box or higher. This capacity is increased by 20 at level 55 Mining, a further 20 with the completion of the Everything Is Oresome achievement, and a further 10 with the completion of the Everything Is Still Oresome achievement.
Runite was known for a long time, although it was not used at first, with runite being a rather weak metal.[1] In the Second Age, Saradoministdwarves discovered that runite ore smelted with luminite, while not physically stronger, projected an invisible energy field around it. This energy field would damage and disrupt anything that comes into sudden contact with the item, which was found to be rather useful for making weapons and armour, although not much else.[2]
The magical properties of the metal gave rise to a belief that it was a gift from Saradomin himself. With runestones being subject to similar beliefs, the ore and metal came to be known as runite and rune, respectively. Even though it turned out the metal had no connection with runestones, the name ended up persisting.[3]
At Divination release in 2013 the transmutation recipe to create runite ore required 96 Divination, the highest transmutation requirement in the game at the time until the release of The Arc in 2016. Following the 4 May2021 major Divination update, runite ore required 6 Divination to create with transmutation, the lowest in the game until Update:Necromancy Patch Week - This Week In RuneScape added the ability to create broken mementos with transmutation on 11 September2023.
^Boric's Book of Metal, written by Boric, RuneScape. "While the strange blue metal was known to early dwarves, they found the resulting metal weak, and could fine no use for it."
^Boric's Book of Metal, written by Boric, RuneScape. "In the second age, Saradominist dwarves searching for new sources of adamantite experimented by smelting the blue ore with luminite, and the results were fantastic. Despite being soft and deformable to a degree normally useless for making weapons and armour, properly refined rune metal which has been smelted with luminite projects a kind of invisible energy field around it. The energy field damages and disrupts anything that comes into sudden contact with it, which works superbly well both offensively and defensively. Attacks with rune weapons almost tear their opponents apart, which rune armour will deflect incoming blows from lesser materials like steel or mithril. The dwarves found the energy field too unstable to use in devices or as a power source, so the use of rune metal never spread beyond weaponry."
^Boric's Book of Metal, written by Boric, RuneScape. "Amongst Saradominists, it was the belief than runes were the personal creations and gifts of their god. The properties of runite were so incredible that they believed it to have a similar origin, and named it for that reason. By the time they discovered that there was no relationship, the name had stuck."
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