Volatile runic brick

Volatile runic brick is a members item, with a high alchemy value of 30,000 coins. No shop sells Volatile runic brick and no monster drops it, so an Ironman makes it: it takes 110 Runecrafting and gives 100 Runecrafting XP, using 1000 × Pure essence fragments, 1000 × Air rune, 1000 × Mind rune, 1000 × Water rune, 1000 × Earth rune, 1000 × Fire rune, 1000 × Body rune, 1000 × Cosmic rune, 1000 × Chaos rune, 1000 × Astral rune, 1000 × Nature rune, 1000 × Law rune, 1000 × Death rune, 1000 × Blood rune, 1000 × Soul rune and 1000 × Time rune.

“A condensed - and dangerous - block of runic essence.”

MembersTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 30,000 gp

Updated 9 October 2026. Sources from the RuneScape Wiki's drop, shop and recipe data (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), checked 2026-10-09. Item sprite © Jagex.

Ironman verdict

Where the materials come from: Pure essence fragments (made with 1 Crafting); Air rune (sold by Betty's Magic Emporium for 17 coins); Mind rune (sold by Betty's Magic Emporium for 17 coins). Making ten takes 10,000 × Pure essence fragments, 10,000 × Air rune, 10,000 × Mind rune, 10,000 × Water rune, 10,000 × Earth rune, 10,000 × Fire rune, 10,000 × Body rune, 10,000 × Cosmic rune, 10,000 × Chaos rune, 10,000 × Astral rune, 10,000 × Nature rune, 10,000 × Law rune, 10,000 × Death rune, 10,000 × Blood rune, 10,000 × Soul rune and 10,000 × Time rune and gives 1,000 Runecrafting XP. Reaching level 110 Runecrafting takes 38,737,661 XP in total; the Runecrafting calculator counts the actions and materials to any target, and the Runecrafting guide has the Ironman training route. 3 recipes use Volatile runic brick, including Grounded masterwork staff base, Masterwork runic conduit and Unhoused masterwork focus. Volatile runic brick is members-only. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 30,000 coins.