As you enter the mysterious ruins, walk towards the centre to find the altar. Once there, click on the alter to convert all the blank essences in your inventory to runes. This does not work with rune essence notes - so redeem your essence notes and take actual rune essence with you when attempting to craft runes. To exit, find the portal and enter it. You will be teleported back outside.

Below is a table of the basic runes and the runecrafting levels required to make them.

As your runecrafting skill develops, you will be able to craft multiple runes from one piece of rune essence. Below is a table to show you what level you need to be, to get more runes from your essence. Remember, although you are getting multiple runes per essence, you will only get runecrafting experience for each essence you convert into runes. For example, if you’re level 33 Runecrafting, and you craft 4 air runes from 1 essence, you only get experience using 1 rune essence and not for making 4 air runes.

It is possible for those who are experienced in Runecrafting, to use pure essence to bind two forms of an elemental rune into a single rune. One which acts in place of two separate runes of different elements, allowing the well prepared wizard to save precious space in their inventory.

To make combination runes, you will need to have a rune of one elemental type, a talisman which matches the type of elemental rune you have brought with you, and some pure essence. You should then head to the altar of the secondary element you wish bound into your combination rune (as shown in the table below). Use the talisman that matches the elemental runes you brought with you on the altar of the secondary element and you will attempt to bind the energies into a combination rune.

For example: Mud runes are a combination of Earth and Water runes. So to make Mud runes you will need some Earth runes, an Earth talisman and some Pure essence. Go to the Water altar and use the Earth talisman on the altar and you will craft the runes. Alternatively, you can take Water runes and a Water talisman to the Earth altar.

The runes and pure essence will be converted into an equal number of combination runes. This process of combining runes uses up your original runes, your pure essences and your talisman!

There is a 50% chance of success when you combine runes, but you can increase this to 100% by wearing a Binding Necklace. The Binding Necklace detoriates as you combine your runes. After combining runes fifteen times, the Binding Necklace will vanish.