
You will need to mine a combination of 138 copper or tin ores to reach level 15, since they both give 17.5 experience a piece.įrom level 15 to 75, players should mine iron at a location that has three iron rocks in a triangle, as such a formation allows the player to mine all three rocks without moving. To progress from level 1 to level 15, you will need 2411 experience. This can be done anywhere, though the Lumbridge Swamp mining site is debatably the easiest due to its relative lack of players, aggressive monsters and its collection of Copper and Tin rocks.

If the player is not willing to do any quests, copper or tin should be mined from level 1 to 15. Both quests have fairly low requirements, and completing them allows the player to skip early levels and use Adamant pickaxe right from the start. Players can quickly drop their items by holding the shift key and clicking on the ore.Ĭompleting Doric's Quest and The Digsite grants the player a total of 16600 Mining experience, which elevates a level 1 Mining to level 32. To gain Mining experience most efficiently, players should always drop the ores they mine ("powermining" or "dropmining"). There are regular mining gloves, superior mining and combined with 60 unidentified minerals, expert mining gloves. There are also mining gloves available in the Mining Guild. Varrock armour 1 gives this bonus ores up to coal, Varrock armour 2 up to mithril, Varrock armour 3 up to adamantite and Varrock armour 4 up to runite (additionally, works as a prospector jacket).Īdditionally, the Prospector kit obtained from Prospector Percy in the Motherlode Mine using golden nuggets, provides a total of 2.5% bonus experience per ore mined. Although a certain Attack level is required to wield one, players are still able to use the pickaxe to mine without the required Attack level.Ĭompleting task sets from the Varrock Diary grants the player Varrock armour, which gives the player 10% chance of mining 2 ores at once while worn. However, certain low level rocks become attainable at maximum speed at higher mining levels, even with lower level pickaxes. In order to achieve the greatest amount of experience and ores, one should always use the best pickaxe available at their Mining level. ZMI Runecrafting prices used in this calculator are updated on a daily basis.The only item required to mine is a pickaxe.

ZMI Runecrafting xp rates in this calculator aim to be in line with suggested xp rates on the Wiki. pure essence, stamina potions and astral runes). Profit and gp per hour calculations include cost of supplies (i.e. Raiments of the Eye outfit provides 60% bonus runes (without additional xp).Įssence per hour, Runecrafting xp per essence and bonus rune chance information is sourced from the Wiki.ĭaeyalt essence calculations do not factor in the time taken to mine/obtain the essence. This calculator assumes the player is playing at regular efficiency and has access to the Ourania Altar and NPC Contact Lunar spells.Ĭompletion of the Ardougne medium diary provides a chance for receiving bonus runes (without additional xp). For example, calculating from 50 Runecrating to 80 Runecrafting with the Giant essence pouch option checked means this calculator would calculate 50-75 Runecrafting without the Giant pouch and 75-80 Runecrafting with the Giant pouch activated. ZMI rune distribution information is based on this tweet by options are only activated once the respective Runecrafting level is reached.
