Table of Contents:

• Getting there
• Playing the Game
• Runic creatures
• Runic Energy Nodes
• Travelling between Islands
• Yellow Wizard
• Runesphere
• Strategy
• Rewards

Getting There

Head to the roof floor of the Wizards' Tower and you will find the green low-level portal on the east side and red high-level portal on the west side. There are several ways to get to the Wizards' Tower.

• Wizards at each Runecrafting altar will offer to teleport you to the tower.
• Teleport to Draynor Village and walk south towards the tower.
• Use the Wicked hood's teleport option to teleport to the second floor of the tower.
• Use the Fairy Ring code DIS to teleport right behind the tower.
• Use a Runecrafting guild teleport tablet to reach the Runecrafting Guild. From there, go through the portal to the second floor of the Wizards' Tower.

As soon as you have chosen an option you will appear in the center of the Runespan. In the center you will also find Wizard Finix who will give you a short tutorial. To leave the mini-game talk to any wizard in the Runespan or use their right-click teleport option.



While in the Runespan a number of symbols, showing useful information, will appear in the top left corner of your screen.

Icon	Information
	Your current total of Runespan points, from earlier sessions.
	The current Runespan points value of the runes in your inventory
	The floor you are currently on
	Shows if a runesphere is active.

Within the Runespan you are able to access the 3 floors by climbing up and down ladders. You can travel to the second floor from the first floor by climbing up the vine ladder to the west. The top floor can be reached by climbing up the bone ladder located in the southwestern corner of the second floor. The vine ladder requires a level of 33 Runecrafting, while the bone ladder requires 66 Runecrafting.

Tip: To quickly reach the top floor from the second one, collect 3 air runes and cross the float platform to the island to the south. Collect 2 chaos runes from one of the creatures and cross the missile platform twice to the ladder in the southwest.

Playing the Game:

The goal of the mini-game is to craft runes within the Runespan by siphoning energy from various creatures and nodes that inhabit the realm. There are several options in order to obtain the energy that you require.

• Floating essence
• Runic creatures
• Runic energy nodes

Any runes or essence that you obtain in the Runespan cannot be taken outside of it. Crossing platforms and chipping runic creatures will decrease your points as you use up runes in these actions. When you leave the area your runes and essence will be converted into points that you can use to buy rewards from Wizard Fenix's shop next to the portal in the Wizards' Tower.

Floating Essence:

The most basic way to get a hold of essence is by collecting it from Floating essence. Simply click on Floating essence to draw off its energy into Rune essence. If you already have more than 25 Rune essence in your inventory, you will not be able to siphon more from a Floating essence.

Runic Creatures:

There are runic creatures living in the Runespan that you can siphon to produce runes. You may also choose to chip them to collect even more essence. Chipping turn 10 runes back into 10 rune essence. If you chip a creature you will not be able to chip it again until you have chipped three other types of creatures. However, you may not always succeed. If you fail to create a rune, you will get 1 xp. The amount of xp you get from successfully siphoning is listed below. When a creature is killed, it will drop a certain amount of Rune essence which will go straight into your inventory.

Creature	Runecrafting level	Runes to chip	Runes produced	Xp per essence	Floor	Members only
Air essling	None	Air	Air	9.5	All	No
Mind essling	None	Air	Mind	10	All	No
Water essling	5	Air	Water	12.6	All	No
Earth essling	9	Water	Earth	14.3	All	No
Fire essling	14	Water	Fire	17.4	All	No
Body esshound	20	Mind	Body	23.1	2 and 3	No
Cosmic esshound	27	Earth	Cosmic	26.6	2 and 3	Yes
Chaos esshound	35	Fire	Chaos	30.8	2 and 3	Yes
Astral esshound	40	Cosmic	Astral	35.7	2 and 3	Yes
Nature esshound	44	Chaos	Nature	43.4	2 and 3	Yes
Law esshound	54	Astral	Law	53.9	2 and 3	Yes
Death esswraith	65	Nature	Death	60	3	Yes
Blood esswraith	77	Law	Blood	73.1	3	Yes
Soul esswraith	90	Blood	Soul	106.5	3	Yes

Runic Energy Nodes:

These concentrated essence nodes spawn randomly in the Runespan. Higher level nodes will spawn in higher levels of the area. You can siphon these to obtain runecrafting xp and runes. Each time you try to make a rune you will use rune essence from your inventory. However, you may not always succeed. If you fail to create a rune, you will get 2 xp but will not have used up a rune essence.
Nodes last a set amount of time, and last longer if you are siphoning it with other people.
The amount of xp you get from successfully siphoning is listed below.

Node	Runecrafting level	Runes produced	Xp per essence	Floor	Members
Cyclone	none	Air rune	19	All	No
Mind storm	none	Mind rune	20	All	No
Water pool	5	Water rune	25.3	All	No
Rock fragment	9	Earth rune	28.6	All	No
Fireball	14	Fire rune	34.8	All	No
Vine	17	Earth rune Water rune	30.3/34.3	All	No
Fleshy growth	20	Body rune	46.2	2 and 3	No
Fire storm	27	Fire rune Air rune	22.8/41.7	2 and 3	No
Chaotic cloud	35	Chaos rune	61.6	2 and 3	Yes
Nebula	40	Astral rune Cosmic rune	63.8/85.6	2 and 3	Yes
Shifter	44	Nature rune	86.8	2 and 3	Yes
Jumper	54	Law rune	107.8	2 and 3	Yes
Skulls	65	Death rune	120	3	Yes
Blood pool	77	Blood rune	146.3	3	Yes
Bloody skulls	83	Death rune Blood rune	144/175.5	3	Yes
Living soul	90	Soul rune	213	3	Yes
Undead soul	95	Death rune Soul rune	144/255.5	3	Yes

Traveling between Islands:

To access the various islands around the Runespan you will need a number of runes to move between “bridging points”. This always costs at least 1 rune. However, the amount of different types of runes and the required Runecrafting levels can make it impossible for you to use that particular platform. If you have the runes and level to use a platform, then the platform on your end and at your destination will glow. When traveling from a small island to a bigger island you will not get charged. Traveling to a smaller island, however, will require payment. If you do not know the way to reach a certain island you can open the world map, which will show you the entire Runespan area.

Yellow Wizard:

While traveling through the runespan you will find various wizards, one of which is dressed up in yellow robes. Every 10 minutes you will hear a yellow wizard call you. This wizard is stranded and requires your help. Give him the runes he asks for and you will receive a decent amount of experience. You can only hand a max of 10 runes to a wizard at a time. If you do not have the required runes in your inventory, give him the best runes you have but you will receive less experience. To find the yellow wizard ask Finix or any other wizards around to point you in the right direction.

Runesphere:

Runespheres are balls of pure rune essence that spawn every few hours. You have to siphon the different layers of the sphere to get to the core. The outer layer requires the highest Runecrafting level. Siphoning the various layers converts rune essence into runes and Runedust. When you reach the core, you can trade your Runedust for 25 runecrafting xp each. You can, however, gain no more than 1000 Runedust a day and you can only siphon one sphere a day. Below is a list of layers a sphere can have along with the required levels.

Strategy:

First of all, it is very much recommended to use official worlds for this minigame, as they're very much populated which assures the nodes will last longer. The official worlds for Runespan are World 38 (Free) and World 39 (Members). When entering the Runespan, your priorities are collecting essence and runes. Collect 25 essence from one of the nearest floating essence and use it to siphon runic creatures to collect runes and more essence. If you previously gained Runespan points, you can talk to Wizard Finix in Runespan to receive 10 of each rune you can siphon at the cost of a small number of points. However, if you are planning on hunting nodes and yellow wizards, it is advised to gather around 50 of each rune. This will ensure that you can travel between islands for a while without having to restock all the time.

Generally, there are 2 strategies one can use depending on whether you are after experience or points. If are looking to maximize your points, it is advised to camp on an island with highest level creature that you can siphon. If your focus lies on experience, it is advised to camp on a central island with a low-leveled runic creature, for fast essence gathering, and to travel to the surrounding islands when a high-level nodes appears on them.

High level nodes do not always give you the most experience and runes compared to Mid level nodes as they usually take longer to successfully siphon. As you level, you will be able to siphon previously unlocked nodes more successfully than at the level you unlocked them.