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Lava rune

Release date	Unknown edit
Members only?	Yes
Quest item?	Yes - Swan Song
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	Yes
High Alchemy	12 coins
Low Alchemy	8 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	1, 1, 15, 1 pizazz points
Exchange price	57 coins update
GE Database	Look up price
Examine	A combined earth and fire rune.
Weight	0 kg
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Lava runes are combination runes. They count as two separate runes: one Fire rune and one Earth rune. Thus, any spell requiring one Fire rune, one Earth rune or both will spend only one Lava Rune.

Runecrafting Lava Runes

At Runecrafting level 23 or higher, they can be crafted in either of two ways:

• Pure essence, Fire runes and a Fire Talisman to the Earth altar or
• Pure essence, Earth runes and an Earth Talisman to the Fire altar.

Players receive 10 experience for combining Earth runes at the Fire altar and 9.5 for combining Fire runes at the Earth altar. Combinations have a 50% success rate (or 100%, if the player is wearing a binding necklace), and the talisman is consumed in the process (unless the player uses the Lunar spell Magic imbue).

Miscellaneous

• Lava Runes are used for the quest Swan Song.
• 100 Lava runes are also required to build a Volcanic habitat in a POH's Menagerie.
• The Lava battlestaff provides an infinite amount of these runes when equipped.

Spells

• Enchant Level 6 Jewellery

Trivia

• As with all combination runes, the most amount needed for a spell is 30, for the Charge Orb spell series.
• Lava runes were released with the Abyss update.

References

Knowledge Base on Crafting Runes