Runecrafting is one of the most dreaded skills in osrs. Experience rates are slow and many players don’t find it fun to do. These players are forgetting something: runecrafting is insanely profitable. The experience rates might be slow, but with runecrafting you can make some serious money in osrs.

This osrs runecrafting moneymaking guide will explain just how profitable the skill can be.

What you’ll need:

  • At least 13 runecrafting, but higher is highly recommended. Check out our runecrafting guide for the fastest methods.
  • Runecrafting pouches from the enter the abyss mini-quest, again check out our runecrafting guide for more info on that as well.
  • Weight reducing outfit

OSRS Runecrafting moneymaking methods

1. crafting mud runes 800K Profit/hr

runecrafting moneymaking in osrs - crafting mud runes for 800K profit per hour

Runecrafting level required: 13, 50+ recommended for giant pouch

Exp per hour: 30K

Other requirements:

What you’ll need:

  • water and astral runes (for altar/magic imbue)
  • pure essence
  • steam battlestaff equipped (magic imbue)
  • ring of duelling equipped (quick bank teleports)
  • binding necklace equipped
  • earth tiara equipped
  • digsite pendant in inventory (quick altar teleports)

Mud run route:

  1. Teleport to digsite (digsite pendant) and run north-west toward the earth altar
  2. Cast magic imbue and use water runes on the altar
  3. Empty your pouches and once again use water runes on the altar
  4. Teleport to castle wars to bank and repeat

2. crafting law runes: 1M Profit/hr

runecrafting moneymaking in osrs - crafting law runes for 1M profit per hour

Runecrafting level required: 54, 95+ recommended

Exp per hour: 30K

Other requirements:

  • 21 mining (70+ recommended)
  • 70+ hitpoints

What you’ll need:

  • stamina potions
  • pure essence
  • food
  • multiple amulets of glory (4)

Law run route:

runecrafting nature runes in the abyss
  1. run from Edgeville bank to the mage of zamorak in the wilderness, use him to teleport the abyss
  2. head over to the law altar (runelite is convenient for highlighting the correct altar)
  3. repeat

3. crafting death runes: 1.2M Profit/hr

runecrafting moneymaking in osrs - crafting death runes for 1.2M profit per hour

Runecrafting level required: 65

Exp per hour: 27K

Other requirements:

  • 21 mining (70+ recommended)
  • 70+ hitpoints

What you’ll need:

  • stamina potions
  • pure essence
  • food
  • multiple amulets of glory (4)

Death run route:

runecrafting nature runes in the abyss
  1. run from Edgeville bank to the mage of zamorak in the wilderness, use him to teleport the abyss
  2. head over to the death altar (runelite is convenient for highlighting the correct altar)
  3. repeat

4. crafting astral runes: 1.3M Profit/hr

runecrafting moneymaking in osrs - crafting astral runes for 1.3M profit per hour

Runecrafting level required: 82

Exp per hour: 34K

Other requirements:

  • Lunar Diplomacy (to access the altar)
  • 69 magic (moonclan teleport)

What you’ll need:

  • pure essence
  • law rune
  • astral rune
  • stamina pots (optional)

Astral run route:

  1. teleport to moonclan, run towards the astral altar
  2. teleport to moonclan to bank
  3. repeat

5. crafting double nature runes: 1.4M Profit/hr

runecrafting moneymaking in osrs - crafting nature runes for 1.4M profit per hour

Runecrafting level required: 44, 91+ recommended

Exp per hour: 30K

Other requirements:

  • 21 mining (70+ recommended)
  • 70+ hitpoints

What you’ll need:

  • stamina potions
  • pure essence
  • food
  • multiple amulets of glory (4)

Nature run route:

runecrafting nature runes in the abyss
  1. run from Edgeville bank to the mage of zamorak in the wilderness, use him to teleport the abyss
  2. head over to the nature altar (runelite is convenient for highlighting the correct altar)
  3. repeat

6. crafting wrath runes: 1.8M Profit/hr

runecrafting moneymaking in osrs - crafting wrath runes for 1.8M profit per hour

Runecrafting level required: 95

Exp per hour: 32K

Other requirements:

  • dragon slayer 2
  • mythical cape
  • anti-dragon shield

What you’ll need:

  • wrath tiara/runecrafting cape
  • pure essence
  • stamina potions

Wrath run route:

  1. use mythical cape to teleport to Myth’s Guild, access the basement, run past the dragons and enter the cave.
  2. craft runes at altar
  3. teleport to bank
  4. repeat

More info on crafting wrath runes.

Hopefully, this article has taught you some osrs runecrafting money making methods and hopefully it has convinced you to start training runecrafting!

Read also: osrs money-making guide

Dean

Dean started playing Runescape in 2006 when he was just 10 years old and has been playing ever on and off ever since (you never quit OSRS, right?) In 2013 he switched to OSRS Servers and never looked back. Dean has spent over 20,000 hours in the game now and frequently revisits his favourite portion of OSRS; the early-to-mid game through new account builds. You can also find bite-sized runescape guides on Deans' YouTube channel

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