Runy’s Mining Guide: Part 1

Runy’s mining guide, part 1 of 2.

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Table of contexts,

1. Introduction.

2. How do I mine?

3. Pickaxes.

4. Ores.

5. Other mine-able items.

6. Level 1-20 strategies.

7. Level 21-31 strategies.

8. Level 32-45 strategies.

9. What is power mining? (FAQ)

10. Thanks.

1. Introduction.

Welcome to my newest guide it’s on mining; it’s 2 parts for tedious and uninteresting reasons.

Also along side of this guide I’m releasing a smithing guide too, this will be split into sections based on levels, note this guide only covers levels 1-45 mining, and mostly non-member information, though it does have some, so if this isn’t fit your needs you may leave now.

This guide gives information on low-level mining, and starts medium level mining.

2. How do I mine?

If you are a very new player of my not know how to mine, and with the new tutorial you really might not know, this would be perfectly understandable, in the tutorial you might have chose to be a miner, in this case you may know, but if wanted to cut wood, then you probably wouldn’t have found out.

With the new tutorial you don’t get a pickaxe to start out in Lumbridge with so you have to go to Bob’s Axes in Lumbridge, it’s northeast of the castle, and has an axe icon on the mini-map, trade with Bob and get a free bronze pickaxe, now that you have your axe you just need to find a mine, there is one east of the axe shop, near Lumbridge swamp, it contains copper and tin, both are quite easy to mine, even at level 1, at this point you should equip you pickaxe, click on a copper or tin rock, after a couple seconds your character will yield a ore from the rock, then the rock will have no more ore for a few seconds since they have a lot of rocks you may simply move on to another rock, you should get X copper ore and X tin ore, in other words the same amount, then when you come back to Lumbridge you can make a number of bronze bars and not have any ore left, you should make bars if you are going for a profit or even if you aren’t since either way you are training and making more money, for more information on this see section #6.

3. Pickaxes.

As I said in section 2 you can get a free bronze pickaxe at bob’s axes in Lumbridge,

There are 9 pickaxes, but only 6 are non-member pickaxes, the non-member ones are,

Bronze, this is the worst pickaxe you can use, you don’t need any experience in mining to use it, and is VERY cheep. 1gp-30gp

Iron, this is a step off from bronze but still not very good, you don’t need any experience in mining to use it, and also like the bronze pickaxe it is very cheep. 30gp-200gp

Steel, this is an ok pickaxe, a bit better then iron, you need level 6 mining to use it, and 5 attack to wield it, it’s also fairly cheep. 300gp-600gp

Mithril, you can see a very big difference between it and the steel version, it’s much better for mining, but it requires 21 mining to use, 20 attack to wield, the only thing that ISN’T very different is the price, the mithril pickaxe is quite cheep, but you might have problems attaining one if you are poor. 500gp-1.5k

Adamant, this is the 2nd best pickaxe for non-members, it’s very good, requires 31 mining to use, 30 attack to wield, and probably 3 times as much as a mithril pickaxe, so you might want to save up a little to buy one. 1.5k-3k

Rune, this is the best pickaxe for non-members, it’s EXTREMELY good, requires 41 mining to use, and 40 attack to wield, this is VERY expensive. 19k-26k

The 3 member pickaxes are,

Sacred clay, this is a pickaxe that matches that of a rune pickaxe, but is better, it gives you DOUBLE experience on ALL mined items, and has NO attack requirements to wield! With only a few downsides downside, after a while it will disintegrate, and you cannot buy this item from other players, you must buy it from stealing creation, it cost 20 stealing creation points, but it’s very useful. You need 40 mining to use this pickaxe.

Inferno Adze, this is a very cool pickaxe because it doubles as a woodcutting axe, the woodcutting aspect has more upsides then the pickaxe but anyway, and the pickaxe is also just as powerful as a rune pickaxe, and just like the sacred clay pickaxe it has no attack requirements to wield, but the one thing that makes this pickaxe a very un-practical item is, you NEED 92 firemaking to get it! You must have 14 beacons lit simultaneously in the all fired up mini-game, this may sound easy but it’s really quite hard, and getting 92 firemaking is also VERY time consuming. You need 41 mining to use this pickaxe.

DRAGON, this is the BEST pickaxe in the game, it’s AWESOME, and it looks awesome, it’s very hard to get and you need 61 mining to use, 60 attack to wield and is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. 9.5M-11M

Those are all the pickaxes in the game, you should try and use the best pickaxe you can, and you should try to be able to wield it too, this saves space gaining you experience faster and making it a little easier to fend off attacking NPCs.

Also note you CANNOT smith pickaxes unless you are a member.

4. Ores.

Please note that: I do include coal as an ore although it is technically not an ore.

Now, a list of all ores mine-able by non-member miners with level 45 mining or less, with experience gains per ore, level required to mine, name, and what you do with it.

5. Other mine-able items.

These are all the non-member things that a F2P player could mine at level 45 mining.

Please note that: Gems are a VERY rare occurrence so just say I mine 140 gold ore, I MIGHT get 1 sapphire, and the sapphire is the MOST common of the gems, emeralds could happen, rubies are VERY rare, and diamonds are so EXTREMELY rare, might get one if you mine 560 coal well wearing a glory amulet. And getting one in say a copper rock is VERY unlikely, in iron, you’d probably mine it to fast to get a gem, coal and gold are (in my experience) the best things to mine if you are looking for gems, and to make quick money.

Also note that to mine rune essence you must complete “rune mysteries” quest first and you can be teleported to the mine by Wizard Sedridor in the downstairs of the wizard’s tower or by Aubury the rune shop owner, Aubury is preferred over Sedridor since he is closer to a bank, once in the mine you may find a HUGE rock with an unlimited supply of rune essence, and to get out you just need to use one of various portals around the mine.

6. Level 1-20 strategies.

1.0. To start I’d suggest you mine copper and tin, this is a high money yield, (considering your mining level) about 3k for one load if you mine 14 copper ore, and 14 tin ore then smelt it into bronze bars, so a good way is to do ten loads this will give you almost level 21 mining (if you started the ten loads with level 1 mining) and almost 13 smithing, also it will give you a very nice start on Runescape, about 31.5k by doing this, this is enough to buy a new mithril pickaxe, a adamant pickaxe, and rune pickaxe for once you get to level 31/41…

1.5. Another method would be to mine clay from level 1-20, this is still very profitable, in fact you make about the same as with bronze bars, and it’s probably faster, just you get no smithing experience, but you can simply do the knight’s sword and get about 20 smithing, you can sell all your clay and buy a mithril pickaxe, a adamant pickaxe, and a rune pickaxe

2. After this you should get your smithing up to 15 by doing “The knight’s sword” quest this gives you about enough experience to have 31 smithing (if you did 1.0.) or 28 (if you did 1.5.), this will let you smith iron bars, which I suggest you mine iron ore in Al Kharid then on your way to the bank use the furnace since there is a 50% chance of losing ore the I’ll be calculating money gains/ iron bar gains/ experience gains based on this.

At level 20 you can mine with, a bronze pickaxe, an iron pickaxe or a steel pickaxe.

At level 20 you can mine, tin, copper, rune essence, clay, Blurite, iron, and silver.

7. Level 21-31 strategies.

(This continues 1.0. 1.5. and 2. from section 6) You gain 980 mining experience per load of iron (28 iron) so I suggest you do 10 loads of iron, this will get you 9800 mining experience getting your mining up to about 31, and this should get you about 350 smithing per load, 3500 experience in total this will get you to about level 32 smithing (if using 1.0.) or 30 (if using 1.5.).

1.0. You can get to about level 35 from 21 by power mining 500 iron ores if this is somewhat slow, you may want to try 1.5.

1.5. Power mine tin/copper whichever is less crowded, since these players you’ll be mining with are new you’ll be able to out mine them for the goods, and since you’ll be dropping them they wont care really, you’ll need to mine 994 copper/tin to get to level 35, this is a lot faster then it seems, copper/tin respawns in about 2-4 seconds, at the mine near Lumbridge swamp they have 3 copper ore near each other, so near to don’t have to move to mine them, you simply mine them once you are done mining the other two ores the first one you mined will be back, you can mine 3 copper in 4 seconds so by doing this it would take about 22 minutes, not counting the time it takes to drop the ore, and about 30 minutes counting the time it takes to drop it, or if you want to cut some time you could simply trade someone the ore, but with trade limits you wont be able to trade much of it, and since all of that ore is worth about 77k, and you’d only be able to trade 6k worth of it you’d still need to drop 71k so this would shave maybe 2 minutes off your time.

At level 31 you can mine with, a bronze pickaxe, an iron pickaxe, a steel pickaxe, a mithril pickaxe, or an adamant pickaxe.

At level 31 you can mine, tin, copper, rune essence, clay, Blurite, iron, silver, and coal.

8. Level 32-41 strategies

1.0.  Moneymaking way, you must have 30 smithing for this. Go to Falador mine, mine 18 coal, and 9 iron ore, go smelt the ore into steel bars, or if you are a member you can bring warping tiles and warp out, but either way, bank the steel bars, you’ll make 1215 mining experience per load, 337.5 smithing experience, and of course you can sell the steel bars for about 890gp, which means you make 8010gp per load, this is a not necessarily fast if you are a lower level but at level 41 well using a rune pickaxe it’s a lot faster, this is a good way to get levels up until level 55, at which point you would start a mithril mining/smithing technique, which will be available in part 2!

1.33. Moneymaking way 2, you can go to Falador mine, or to the more northeastern Lumbridge swamp, just mine coal, for Falador mine, go to the Falador bank closest to the mine, for Lumbridge swamp mine go to Draynor bank. You’ll make about 6k for a full load, and each load will get you 1400 mining experience this is a faster mining technique but you wont get smithing experience which will cause problems down the road.

1.66. Fast mining experience, go to Falador mine or Al Kharid mine, in Falador they have 3 iron rocks that are in a close proximity to each other, but there is a lot of competition for the ore so you should go to Al Kharid for a more laid back mining experience in Al Kharid they have a few sets of 2 iron rocks which you can mine with no movement so you can simply mine the ore then drop/trade it, on a very packed server iron respawns in 5 seconds and in a near empty server about 10seconds, so you will make 35–70 experience every 10 seconds, so 210-420 experience every minute, 12.6k-25.2k experience per hours that would get you from level 34 mining to level 38 mining in one hour and from level 34 to level 40 in two hours! Or if you’ve got a lot of time on your hands from level 34 to level 50 in eight hours, so from level 34 to level 57 you can get 1-6 levels in an hour, this is the most effective form of power mining in the F2P world in almost everyone’s eyes, copper/tin would be if you didn’t have to drop so often although coal is also better if you have a high enough level.

2.0. Get out the rune pickaxe, go to the more northeastern mine near Lumbridge swamp and mine then drop the coal; it takes 30seconds-1minute (30 seconds in an full server, 1 minute in a empty server) for coal to respawn, so by the time you finish mining all the coal another would respawn, based on this, no counting dropping or travel time, you would make 24k-48k experience per hour (24k on the empty server, 48k on the full server), so at the slowest you’re making almost as much as iron at it’s fastest.

But once you account for all the moving and dropping you’d probably make 18k-36k per hour, once you get a hang of it you’ll be getting easily 40k.

At level 41 you can mine with, a bronze pickaxe, an iron pickaxe, a steel pickaxe, a mithril pickaxe, an adamant pickaxe, or a rune pickaxe.

At level 41 you can mine, tin, copper, rune essence, clay, Blurite, iron, silver, coal, and gold.

9. What is power mining? (FAQ)

This is my short little FAQ about my article, I hope it helps and the most frequently asked question I get from my friends who are new to Runescape,

Q. “What is power mining?”

A. Power mining is when you mine then drop/trade the mined ore/item for the most part it’s for experience but it could also be so you can give a ton of free ores to players, so you can show off, ect.

Q. “What is the most commonly power mined ore?”

A. Iron, and coal, coal is more commonly done by level 60+ since they have access to the mining guild with it’s HUGE amounts of coal, but iron is very often done by level 40-60.

Q. “What’s the fastest way I can make money mining?”

A. Well it depends on your level, if you are level 1-20 you can mine clay, at level 21-29 you can mine silver, at level 30-39 you can mine coal and iron and make steel bars on the spot with superheat item (30 smithing/ 43 magic), at level 40-55 you can mine gold, at level 55-69 you can mine mithril ore and coal at the same time and make mithril bars on the spot (55 smithing/ 43 magic required), at level 70-84 you can mine Adamanite ore and coal at the same time and make bars on the spot (70 smithing/ 43 magic), at level 85-99 you can mine runite in the wilderness and hop worlds, you can also bring 24 coal 3 nature runes and a fire staff so you can make 3 runite ore into bars on the spot, and you should drop the staff since one runite ore is 13k or so, and the staff is 1k, you could also just bring 15 fire runes (this would be preferred since then you waste less money), the profits (I have already added up all the expensive such as coal, nature runes ect.) are as followed, and are set in a load format.

Level 1-20: 1k

Level 21-29: 5k-7k

Level 30-39: 16k

Level 40-55: 17k

Level 55-69: 23k-27k

Level 70-84: 60-70k

Level 85-99: 325k-350k

Q. “Why is your name “Runy”967?”

A. “Because originally I was a skiller pure and the joke was I would “Runy” away, from things like, black knights, scorpions, dark wizards… imps. But  I got annoyed by this and thus trained my combat and it was fun, right now, I’m taking a break from combat thought since I got 60 attack finally.

Q. “What is your password?”

A. “I refuse to answer that truthfully.”

Q. “How long does it take until the sacred clay pickaxe disintegrates?”

A. “It’s not a time period, it’s an amount of experience and I really don’t know what that amount is, sorry.”

Q. “Why can’t I assist someone/ be assisted by someone in mining?”

A. “That’s because the assist system was made to stop scammers who for instances say, ‘I will cut diamonds for free!’ using this method they would still get the experience and you’d still keep the item, so it MUST be a processing skill, such as crafting, fletching, firemaking, cooking, smithing, ect. Things like mining and woodcutting do not fall under this category.

Q. “Why do you write exp, instead of xp?”

A. “It’s just the way I write it.”

Q. “Why do you write exp sometimes but other times you’ll write experience?”

A. “Once again, it’s just the way I do it.”

Q. “Why is ‘exp’ the only thing you abbreviate?”

A. “Because it’s the only word I find so straining that I think it really is necessary to abbreviate, also because new players who want to understand the game wont understand something like if I said, “My WC lv is 70 what’s yurs?” or “u shld mine silver at Al Kha” or something as even as (seemingly) simple as “My WC level is 70 what is your WC lv?” and besides my computer and Triond both wont let me having spelling errors, so it’s much easy for when I do spell check to not get called on 423432 spelling errors.”

Q. “If you have a shield or other item in your shield slot will it make you mine slower?”

A. “No, that is simply a rumor, also wearing/ carrying anything wont effect your mining, but I will make you lose run energy faster (except for some member armor such as boots of lightness).

Q. “How can I make my chances of making an iron bar 100%?”

A. “For non-members you can only achieve that with ‘superheat item’ spell (level 43 magic required) but this is not a good idea since it takes 1 nature rune and 5 fire runes, which is about 300gp total. If you are a member you can use a ‘ring of forging’ this is a ring that will let you smelt 140 iron bars with 0% chance of failure, after 140 bars it will disintegrate or another member’s only way is the Blast Furnace, I don’t really know anything about the Blast furnace except that when using it you need only halve the normal amount of coal to make bars and that you have a 100% of making a iron bar.”

Q. “Are you ranked in mining?”

A. “Yes, I am ranked in almost every non-member skill and I’m also ranked in the member’s only skill of fletching.”

Q. “What level do you need to be to be ranked in mining?”

A. “I’m not quite sure, I know it’s above 50 and bellow 54, I think it’s level 52.”

Q. “Why is this a 2 part article?”

A. “Because since I work on Triond.com I make money based on how much the hosting site makes off of advertising, then the host splits the money with Triond, then Triond splits that money with me, and since the more views means more revenue, then just say this gets 15 views per day, as a one part article, that makes me X cents, but having a two part article I make X cents times 2, so in other words by me doing this the hosting site, Triond, and I make twice as much money.”

Q. “Why does this FAQ have some many questions not related to mining?”

A. “That’s because people would ask me these questions and since a article about a FAQ on me wouldn’t get any views it’s much easier to scam you into reading this by putting it into an article about something that is somewhat interesting.”

10. Thanks.

Big thanks to Triond, my hosting site(s), the creators of Runescape, the people who keep Runescape alive today, Willwam1 (a friend on Runescape), Runescape Wiki who gave me the idea to make this guide and was my secondary source of some information, Sals Realm who was a secondary source of information, and anyone else who has helped me create this guide.

I do not own Runescape; I do not claim to own Runescape or anything associated with Runescape.

I wrote this guide with information from Sals Realm of Runescape, Runescape Wiki, Runescape.com, Rune HQ, my own personal experience, and wrote the FAQ myself with no-ones help, I simply thought of the questions that others would ask, though I my add more to the FAQ as people add comments/ questions about me or the article.

If I have infringed upon any laws, or have caused any legal issues, please contacted me at: Robert-Foxton@hotmail.com and I will get back to you on it, PLEASE don’t e-mail me asking for personal favors, in the real world or on Runescape, also note if I do not responded within 14 days I probably deleted your e-mail due to an idiotic question comment, I didn’t need to respond or, simply I didn’t want to respond.

And my last thanks is extended to…

YOU!

Thank you for reading make sure to look for my second part if you are having trouble finding it please search, “Runy967 mining guide part 2 Runescape Triond” and you should find little to no other search results, and remember to click “liked it”, that is if you did like it. And if you need a small favor, or need something that is less then 3k, or some money I WILL give you money but if I tell you no and you continue to bother me I WILL block and report you.

THANK YOU READERS!