OSRS Blood Runecrafting Zeah: XP Rates & GP Per Hour

Crafting blood runes is a popular method of training runecrafting due to its profitability, XP rates, and low effort or click intensity. It has more requirements than other runecrafting training methods, but it’s worth it for most players.

Requirements for Crafting Blood Runes At Zeah

• 77 runecrafting: this is tough for most players, but we have made it a lot easier in our runecrafting guide.
• 38 mining: to mine dense essence blocks
• 38 crafting: to chip dark essence blocks
• Chisel: there is a chisel spawn at the dense runestone mine, in case you forget to bring one
• Any pickaxe: it does not matter the pickaxe you use, they all mine the dense essence blocks at the same rate

Official World for Crafting Blood Runes at Zeah

World 513: Location - United Kingdom

Recommendations for Crafting Blood Runes at Zeah

• 73+ agility: this is highly recommended, it allows players to use the agility shortcut in the dense runestone mine, which significantly speeds up this method
• Raiments of the Eye: Each piece of this outfit worn grants 10% more runes when runecrafting, with a 20% bonus for wearing the full set. This results in a total of 60% when the full outfit is worn. The pieces of the outfit can be purchased from the Guardian of the Rift reward shop for 1,350 abyssal pearls. To learn about this minigame, check our Guardian of the Rift guide.
• Full graceful: This is the best alternative to the Raiment of the Eye outfit. It does not offer any additional reward, but it helps maintain and restore run energy, which is quite useful since a lot of running is required in this method.
• Ring of endurance: if this ring has 500 charges or more, it will passively reduce the run energy drain rate by 15% without using any charges. This is useful for players who would be wearing the Raiments of Eye outfit. The ring is a potential reward from the Grand Hallowed Coffin and requires 70 agility to equip.
• Completion of Kourend and Kebos Diary: Completing the medium and elite Kourend & Kebos gives the player a chance to mine an extra essence block, increasing their profits significantly                 

The medium Kourend & kebos diary grants players a 5% chance to mine an extra essence block, and the elite Kourend & Kebos grants them a 10% chance to mine an extra essence block.

• Blood essence: When activated, it gives the player a 50% chance to craft an extra blood rune per dark essence fragment, pure essence, daeyalt essence, or guardian essence for no additional runecrafting XP. Each blood essence can craft an extra 1,000 blood runes before being destroyed. This is highly recommended as it improves the profit significantly. It is a possible drop from the Tombs of Amascut and a potential reward from opening an intricate pouch. Players can also just purchase it from the grand exchange. 

Location for Crafting Blood Runes at Zeah

Dense Essence Mine

Players will spend most of their time in the Dense essence mine when runecrafting blood runes at Zeah. There are two dense runestones in the mine, where players can mine dense essence blocks. The blood altar and dark altar are not far from here. 

Dark Altar

The Dark Altar is an artefact located west of the dense essence mine. It transforms dense essence blocks into dark essence blocks. Creating dark essence blocks reduces prayer points by 1 per block, and 2,5 Runecraft XP is awarded for each block. If you run out of prayer, you’d still be able to create dark essence blocks.

Blood Altar

The Blood Altar is a runic altar located south of the Dark Altar, it is used to craft blood runes from dark essence fragments. Crafting blood runes at this altar provides the player with 23.8 runecraft XP per dark essence fragment they imbue. The path from the dark altar to the blood altar is shown below.

Here are the fastest ways to get to these locations

• Fairy ring CIS: this is the fastest method to get to the dense essence mine. It teleports you directly west of the mine
• Arceuus Library teleport; teleports players to the caster north of the Grand Library of Great Kourend. It is only available on the Arceuus spellbook and requires 2 earth runes and 1 law rune.
• Kharedst’s memoirs: it is obtained as a reward for completion of the Client of Kourend quest. Use it to teleport to the dark disposition, then run north.
• Games necklace: teleport to Wintertodt with this necklace, then run south to the mine.
• Ship from Port Piscarillius: If you can’t use any of these options, then you can just take the boat from Port Sarim To Port Piscarrillius by speaking to Veos on the docks. Then, run north to the dense essence mine above.

Steps for Blood Runecrafting at Zeah

• While equipping the required items, mine an inventory full of dense essence blocks at the dense runestone mine
• Run to the Dark Altar and click on it to turn the dense essence blocks into dark essence blocks
• Chip the dense essence blocks into dark essence fragments with a chisel, as you run back to the dense runestone mine. Each block will create 4 pieces; chipping all 27 blocks will form a stack of 108 fragments, the maximum a player can hold at a time.
• Mine another inventory of dense essence blocks, then convert them into dark essence blocks at the dark altar. Note that you won’t be able to chip more dark essence blocks since you already have 108 fragments in your inventory.
• Run to the blood altar and runecraft the fragments in your inventory into runes
• Chisel the remaining blocks in your inventory into fragments and runecraft them as well
• Run back to the dense runestone mine and repeat

Don’t forget to always use the shortcut if you have at least 73 agility. This saves so much time. The maximum number of blood runes that can be crafted in one trip is 212 or roughly 300 with an activated blood essence. This limit increases to 232 with the completion of elite Kourend and Kebos Diary. 

XP per hour from Blood Runecrafting at Zeah

Players can do an average of 7.5 trips to the Blood altar while wearing the full set Raiment of the Eye, and about 7 trips while wearing the full graceful outfit. The rate below assumes that you wear the full set Raiment of the Eye

From level 77 runecrafting, players will get 35,905 runecrafting XP per hour, around 4,410 mining XP, and 5,880 crafting XP. 

GP per hour from Blood Runecrafting at Zeah

These rates assume you are wearing the recommended items above. Note that the price will be slightly different when you do this method due to price fluctuations at the grand exchange.

At level 77 runecrafting and without using any of the recommendations below, you will get only 1,470 blood runes, worth 454,230 GP each hour.

• If you are wearing the full set of the Raiment of the Eye outfit, you will get an additional 882 blood runes, worth 272,538 GP each hour.
• If you have completed the Elite Kourend & Kebos diary, you will get an additional 147 blood runes, worth 45,423 GP each hour.
• If you are using actuated blood essence, you will get an additional 735 blood runes, worth 227,115 GP each hour. Since an average of 0,74 blood essence, worth 48,775 GP is used each hour. The profit is 178,340 GP

If you have all recommendations, you will get a total of 3,234 blood runes, worth 999,306 GP each hour, for a total profit of 950,531 after the cost of actuated blood essence is deducted.