Urns

For other uses, see Urn (disambiguation).

This article has a calculator for filling urns here. Calculators determine experience and costs based on real-time prices from the Grand Exchange Market Watch.

This article has a calculator for crafting urns here. Calculators determine experience and costs based on real-time prices from the Grand Exchange Market Watch.

Urns are a type of pot made using the Crafting skill, used for gaining bonus experience when training other skills. Urns are available for ten different skills: Cooking, Divination, Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, Prayer, Runecrafting, Smithing, and Woodcutting.

Creation

A player adding rune to an urn (nr)

Making an urn requires two soft clay. The clay is formed into an unfired (unf) urn at a potter's wheel or portable crafter, using the drop-down menu in the top left of the crafting interface to select the type of urn to make.

The urn is then fired at a pottery oven or portable crafter or by casting the Lunar spell Fire Urn, resulting in a no-rune-attached (nr) urn.

Finally, the urn is activated by imbuing the (nr) urn with a rune or elemental staff to produce a rune-imbued (r) urn. Each type of urn uses a particular type of rune to be activated:

Skill	Required rune
Cooking	Fire rune
Divination	Mind rune
Farming	Nature rune
Fishing	Water rune
Hunter	Mud rune
Mining	Earth rune
Prayer	Air rune
Runecrafting	Pure essence
Smithing	Fire rune
Woodcutting	Earth rune

The crafting process requires a specific Crafting level that depends on the type of urn. For example, to form, fire, or add a rune to a decorated cooking urn, a player must have at least 81 Crafting. Although only (nr) urns are tradeable, the assist system can be used for any step in the process, which allows players with any Crafting level to use any type of urn.

Forming and firing urns gives Crafting experience. When a rune is attached, the player will gain 1 experience in the skill of the urn. For example, if a player adds a fire rune to any tier Smelting urn, they will gain 1 Smithing experience.

The Artificer's measure provides a 5% chance to duplicate an urn while forming an urn.

Usage

A player teleporting a full urn to Ernie

Urns need only be held in the backpack while training in order to fill them with experience. Empty urns are stackable but will generate a new used urn item when one begins to fill.

For every five normal experience points gained, one bonus experience point is added to the urn. Once the urn has been filled to capacity, it can be teleported to Ernie. A game setting allows players to automatically teleport full urns (see Settings > Gameplay > Interfaces > Inventory). After teleporting an urn, the player receives the experience held by the urn. Thus, having a suitable urn in backpack while training a skill results in a 20% higher experience gain.

Using an urn enhancer further increases experience awarded by 25% at the expense of 20 charges. Urns differ in the skill for which they collect bonus experience, their capacity, and restrictions on the quality of resources from which they can collect scraps. The experience they give is not affected by any experience multiplier other than the urn enhancer.

Only "base" experience from skill training counts towards filling an urn. For example, if one were to mine ore while wearing the golden mining suit, only the base amount of experience gained would count towards filling the urn. This also means that other "bonus" experience boosts given (such as from a penance horn or sacred clay item) or a special experience gain (such as a minigame reward or lamp) does not count towards filling the urn. For example, cutting magic tree only count for its base 365 experience even if bonus experience is used.

Use of Crystallise has different effects on filling urns of different types. Fishing and Woodcutting urns are filled at a normal rate when fishing or woodcutting a crystallised resource spot, while filling Mining urns include the 50-87.5% extra experience from using Crystallise and Light Form, which counts towards filling the urn.

The effigies obtained from the Effigy Incubator Distraction and Diversion take priority over urns; while any effigy is held in the backpack, all experience gained while skilling in one of its targeted skills will be used towards filling the effigy and will not fill an urn.

Prayer urns

Prayer urns are unique in that the player does not receive demonic ashes as a drop when killing a demon with a suitable urn in the backpack. Instead, the experience one would have gained from scattering the ashes plus a 20% bonus are directly added to the urn. This eliminates having to collect the ashes and scattering them manually, and allows training Prayer by killing demons from a safe spot without having to leave the safe spot to collect ashes.

Killing demons is the only way to fill prayer urns. Scattering ashes manually, such as ashes that were obtained as drops or by trade, has no effect on urns and receives no bonus.

Calculation of materials required to fill the urn

Material needed

All urns give a 20% bonus on the experience required to fill them. Therefore, players can use the following to calculate the required amount of the material gathered in order to fill the urn:

$\text{Material needed}=\frac{5\times \text{urn exp}}{\text{unit exp}}$

For example: cutting yew logs gives 175 experience and a strong woodcutting urn gives 1662.5 experience. The formula calculates that 47.5 logs are required, so the urn will be full after 48 logs are cut. If a second woodcutting urn is present in the backpack, the remaining half a log worth of experience will be transferred to the new urn.

Percentage filled

The contribution of each unit material toward filling the urn can also be calculated. The following can be used to estimate the percentage contribution of filling the urn per unit material:

$\text{Percentage per material}=\frac{20\times \text{unit exp}}{\text{urn exp}}$

Example continued: $\frac{20\times 175}{1662.5}\approx 2.1\%$, so each log will fill the urn by about 2.1%.

Calculation of prayer urns

For the prayer urns, the formula is a bit different, since the bonus experience, including the unit experience, is awarded when the urn is teleported. In this case, the "urn experience" above should just be the bonus experience, i.e. one sixth of the experience awarded when teleporting the urn.

The urn calculator can also be found here.

Using multiple urns

Only one urn of a specific skill type may be filled at a time. If a player has two or more urns of the same type in the backpack and one is filled, leftovers from the first urn will automatically be added to the second urn. Additionally, if the player has a partially filled urn in their bank and at least one stackable urn in the backpack, the partially filled urn will be automatically teleported from the bank into the backpack. Players may fill multiple urns simultaneously from various skills; for example, filling a cracked fishing urn can be done while also filling a cracked mining urn.

When there are different tiers of urns for the same skill that could be filled during an activity in the backpack, the urn with the lower tier is used first before the ones with a higher tier. For example, fishing raw pike (requires level 25 Fishing) with both a fragile fishing urn (fish up to and including level 30 Fishing) and a plain fishing urn (fish up to and including level 50 Fishing) will fill up the fragile urn first. The leftover from a full urn from one tier is also added to an empty urn of a different tier.

Players can only have 10 partially filled or full urns in one skill type at a time. Once the maximum number of urns is reached in total (backpack plus bank), at least one urn must be teleported away (only full urns may be teleported) before another urn can be filled. There is no advantage from stockpiling full urns.

Assisting

Players can buy an urn (nr) from the Grand Exchange and get an assist to add a rune to activate the urn. When using the Assist System, any suitable urns held by the assisted are activated, but none of the urns held by the assister are activated.

Beasts of Burden

Only unfired urns (unf) and runed urns (r) can be stored with Beasts of Burden. A urns (nr), partially-filled urns, and full urns cannot be stored with a BoB.

Urn storage

The Brooch of the Gods can be used to store 1,000 of each type of decorated urn (r).

Activities that do not fill urns

• Shifting Tombs
• Using divine locations
• Using protean items
• Making items from player-owned ports trade goods
• Cooking:
  • Brewing
  • Making great maki or great gunkan
  • Making jugs of wine
  • Slicing mushrooms
• Farming:
  • Gaining experience with seedicide
  • Gaining experience at Livid Farm
• Woodcutting:
  • Evil Tree Distractions and Diversions
  • Miniature evil trees from nature's sentinel outfit
  • Splitting Arctic pine logs to be split log
  • Curly, mutated, straight jade root
• Divination:
  • The Empty Throne Room
  • Transmutation
• Hunter:
  • Hunting skill training dummy

Types of urns

See also: Calculator:Urns/Tier-wise

Free-to-play players can craft the lowest tier urns, even if they are for members skills (such as Divination, Farming, and Hunter), but cannot craft tiers of urns that require higher than level 50 Crafting, even for free-to-play skills.

Cooking

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Cost per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked cooking urn						1	Food up to and including level 10	2,000	400 (500)	2,155	2,155	5.39 (5.44)
	Fragile cooking urn						12	Food up to and including level 25	2,750	550 (687.5)	2,215	2,215	4.03 (4.04)
	Plain cooking urn						36	Food up to and including level 40	4,750	950 (1,187.5)	1,237	1,237	1.3 (1.52)
	Strong cooking urn						51	Food up to and including level 55	5,250	1,050 (1,312.5)	3,128	3,128	2.98 (2.81)
	Decorated cooking urn						81	Any food	7,737.5	1,547.5 (1,934.3)	11,306	11,306	7.31 (6.14)

Divination

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked divination urn						3	Harvesting and converting memories up to and including level 10	1,050	210 (262.5)	2,391	2,409	11.47 (11.32)
	Fragile divination urn						16	Harvesting and converting memories up to and including level 30	1,750	350 (437.5)	1,124	1,142	3.26 (3.9)
	Plain divination urn						38	Harvesting and converting memories up to and including level 50	2,500	500 (625)	2,256	2,274	4.55 (4.54)
	Strong divination urn						56	Harvesting and converting memories up to and including level 70	4,000	800 (1,000)	7,085	7,103	8.88 (7.67)
	Decorated divination urn						82	Harvesting and converting any memories	9,500	1,900 (2,375)	11,088	11,106	5.85 (4.91)

Farming

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked farming urn						5	Check health and gathering up to and including level 12	1,100	220 (275)	2,203	2,702	12.28 (11.87)
	Fragile farming urn						18	Check health and gathering up to and including level 30	2,500	500 (625)	880	1,379	2.76 (3.11)
	Plain farming urn						40	Check health and gathering up to and including level 53	4,500	900 (1,125)	1,154	1,653	1.84 (1.97)
	Strong farming urn						58	Check health and gathering up to and including level 72	5,500	1,100 (1,375)	3,008	3,507	3.19 (2.96)
	Decorated farming urn						84	Check health and gathering on any patches	7,000	1,400 (1,750)	10,877	11,376	8.13 (6.82)

Fishing

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked fishing urn						1	Fish up to and including level 10	750	150 (187.5)	2,350	2,350	15.67 (15.54)
	Fragile fishing urn						15	Fish up to and including level 30	1,750	350 (437.5)	2,234	2,234	6.38 (6.39)
	Plain fishing urn						41	Fish up to and including level 50	2,500	500 (625)	5,639	5,639	11.28 (9.92)
	Strong fishing urn						53	Fish up to and including level 70	3,000	600 (750)	5,258	5,258	8.76 (7.76)
	Decorated fishing urn						76	Any fish	9,500	1,900 (2,375)	11,059	11,059	5.82 (4.89)

Hunter

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked hunter urn						3	Creatures up to and including level 11	1,100	220 (275)	2,431	2,431	11.05 (10.89)
	Fragile hunter urn						17	Creatures up to and including level 29	2,500	500 (625)	965	965	1.93 (2.44)
	Plain hunter urn						34	Creatures up to and including level 53	5,000	1,000 (1,250)	1,791	1,791	1.79 (1.88)
	Strong hunter urn						55	Creatures up to and including level 74	7,000	1,400 (1,750)	2,440	2,440	1.74 (1.72)
	Decorated hunter urn						79	Any creatures	8,000	1,600 (2,000)	11,068	11,068	6.92 (5.82)

Mining

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked mining urn						1	Ore up to and including level 10	437.5	87.5 (109.3)	2,883	2,883	32.95 (31.53)
	Fragile mining urn						17	Ore up to and including level 30	1,000	200 (250)	1,659	1,659	8.3 (8.89)
	Plain mining urn						32	Ore up to and including level 50	1,625	325 (406.2)	3,232	3,232	9.94 (9.34)
	Strong mining urn						48	Ore up to and including level 70	2,000	400 (500)	6,404	6,404	16.01 (13.93)
	Decorated mining urn						78	Any ore	3,125	625 (781.2)	12,297	12,297	19.68 (16.46)

Prayer

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Impious urn						1	Impious ashes	100	120 (150)	347	347	2.89 (6.07)
	Accursed urn						26	Impious and accursed ashes	312.5	375 (468.7)	2,529	2,529	6.74 (6.6)
	Infernal urn						62	Impious, accursed, infernal, tortured, and searing ashes	1562.5	1,875 (2,343.7)	10,856	10,856	5.79 (4.87)

Runecrafting

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked runecrafting urn						4	Creating runes and siphoning in the Runespan up to level 9	1,050	210 (262.5)	2,448	2,643	12.59 (12.21)
	Fragile runecrafting urn						18	Creating runes and siphoning in the Runespan up to level 27	1,750	350 (437.5)	2,111	2,306	6.59 (6.56)
	Plain runecrafting urn						33	Creating runes and siphoning in the Runespan up to level 54	3,500	700 (875)	4,486	4,681	6.69 (5.99)
	Strong runecrafting urn						52	Creating runes and siphoning in the Runespan up to level 77	5,000	1,000 (1,250)	2,647	2,842	2.84 (2.72)
	Decorated runecrafting urn						77	Creating any runes and siphoning in the Runespan	7,000	1,400 (1,750)	9,481	9,676	6.91 (5.85)

Smelting (Smithing)

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked smelting urn						4	Bars at level 1	200	40 (50)	2,025	2,025	50.63 (51.76)
	Fragile smelting urn						17	Bars up to and including level 30	312.5	62.5 (78.1)	2,126	2,126	34.02 (34.43)
	Plain smelting urn						35	Bars up to and including level 50	750	150 (187.5)	1,052	1,052	7.01 (8.61)
	Strong smelting urn						49	Bars up to and including level 70	1,250	250 (312.5)	955	955	3.82 (4.86)
	Decorated smelting urn						80	Any bars	2,000	400 (500)	11,578	11,578	28.95 (24.28)

Woodcutting

Urn		(unf)	(nr)	(r)	(full)		level	Accepts	XP to fill	Teleport XP (with enhancer)	Price	Cost	Coins per XP (with enhancer)
	Cracked woodcutting urn						4	Logs up to and including level 10	800	160 (200)	2,484	2,484	15.53 (15.23)
	Fragile woodcutting urn						15	Logs up to and including level 35	2,125	425 (531.2)	2,236	2,236	5.26 (5.27)
	Plain woodcutting urn						44	Logs up to and including level 58	4,125	825 (1,031.2)	4,448	4,448	5.39 (4.86)
	Strong woodcutting urn						61	Logs up to and including level 75	8,312.5	1,662.5 (2,078.1)	1,956	1,956	1.18 (1.21)
	Decorated woodcutting urn						76	Any logs	9,500	1,900 (2,375)	12,014	12,014	6.32 (5.3)

Notes

Gallery

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  Artwork of crafting urns

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  Artwork of cinerary urns

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 13 November 2023 (Update):
  • Imbuing urns with staves no longer requires a rune in your backpack.

• patch 30 October 2023 (Update):
  • Adding runes to urns has been re-themed to "imbuing urns", and staves can now be used to perform this action.

• patch 16 May 2022 (Update):
  • You can now withdraw urns and effigies from the Brooch of the Gods.

• patch 9 August 2021 (Update):
  • In-progress urns can no longer be stored in Invention machines' inventories.

• patch 4 May 2021 (Update):
  • It is now possible to activate a new skilling urn when no other urn of the same type is in use.

• patch 11 January 2021 (Update):
  • You can now add runes to urns from your rune pouch.

• update 1 June 2020 (Update):
  • Players are now able to start filling a singular urn while their backpack is full.

• patch 23 September 2019 (Update):
  • Corrected the message when making decorated skilling urns.

• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • The Make-X interface now correctly shows the amount of XP to be received when crafting unfired urns.

• patch 4 March 2019 (Update):
  • Tier 3 urns have been renamed to "plain" urns to prevent some confusion with daily challenges.

• patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • A limit of how many urns could be teleported away at once was causing players that attempted to teleport more than this amount to disconnect - this has now been resolved.

• patch 14 August 2017 (Update):
  • Players can now consistently teleport their filled urns with any Crafting level.

• ninja 16 January 2017 (Update):
  • The message for teleporting urns now uses commas in the XP displayed.

• ninja 26 January 2015 (Update):
  • Unfired and unstarted runed urns can now be stored in a Beast of Burden.

• ninja 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • Players can now walk while sending off urns instead of standing still then running to catch you.

• patch 1 November 2014 (Update):
  • Teleporting a full urn now states which stat the player is gaining XP in.

• patch 27 May 2014 (Update):
  • Unfired urns and unused urns with runes attached can now be noted.

• patch 11 December 2013 (Update):
  • The right amount of runes are now removed when adding them to urns whilst having a follower that can store additional urns.

• patch 11 December 2012 (Update):
  • Urns now require the correct rune to complete them.

• patch 11 April 2012 (Update):
  • The "Urn crafting" interface now shows urns the player can't make in red, and left-clicking on a pottery oven now only shows the unfired urns that the player is holding in the "Make-X" interface.

• patch 31 August 2011 (Update):
  • The urn teleport sound now plays after the correct duration.

Trivia

• They were first mentioned in the February 2011 Behind the Scenes article and released on 15 February 2011. A second batch of urns, which also made all runed urns stackable, were then released on 24 July 2017.
• When you "Check Level" of an urn that is exactly half full, the message shown is "This (urn type) is half full, or is it half empty?" as opposed to "This (urn type) is 50% full." a reference to the common optimist/pessimist comparison, "Is the glass half empty or half full?"
• Previously, teleporting urns did not require corresponding Crafting level to make or add runes to them. However, this was changed with the Evolution of Combat, but the requirement can be boosted or assisted. The Crafting level requirement to teleport urns has been removed on 14 August 2017.
• With the game update on 24 July 2017, urns that are filled with a rune (r) are stackable. Also, 4 new types of urns were released: Divination, Farming, Hunter, and Runecrafting.
• Unlike most tiered items, urns in free-to-play skills seemingly have their availability determined by skill level required to create them. Strong urns are divided into F2P ones that require less than 50 Crafting (Mining, Smithing) and members' ones that require more than 50 Crafting (Cooking, Fishing, Runecrafting, Woodcutting).