Steam runes are combination runes. They can be used as one fire rune and one water rune. Thus, any spell requiring one fire rune, one water rune or both will spend only one steam rune.
They can be created with the Runecrafting skill or purchased with Pizazz points from the Mage Training Arena.
When equipped, the Steam battlestaff and Mystic steam staff will act as an unlimited number of steam runes.
Runecrafting steam runes[]
At Runecrafting level 19 or higher, they can be crafted in either of two ways:
- Pure essence, fire runes and a fire talisman to the Water altar (for 9.5 Runecrafting experience per rune)
- Pure essence, water runes and a water talisman to the Fire altar (for 10.0 Runecrafting experience per rune)
Tiaras will not work in place of talismans while crafting combination runes. 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).
Spells that use both water and fire runes[]
Icon | Spell | Level | Runes | Exp | Category | Spell Group | Notes |
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Teleport Ape Atoll | 64 | 2221 | 74 | Teleport | Standard | Transports the caster to Ape Atoll. Partial completion of Recipe for Disaster is required to use this spell. | |
Teleport to Kourend | 69 | 2254 | 82 | Teleport | Standard | Transports the caster to the King Rada statue in Great Kourend on Zeah. You must first unlock this spell by reading Transportation incantations. | |
Bake Pie | 65 | 154 | 60 | Skilling | Lunar | Bakes all uncooked pies in the caster's inventory. One set of runes is required for each pie. | |
Humidify | 68 | 113 | 65 | Skilling | Lunar | Fills all empty water-carrying vessels (such as vials and buckets) in the caster's inventory with water, excluding some quest-specific vessels. | |
Magic Imbue | 82 | 277 | 86 | Skilling | Lunar | Allows combination of runes without the need for a talisman for a short time. |
Dropping monsters[]
Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity Cave kraken 127 7 Common Killerwatt 55 2 Uncommon Waterfiend 115; 134 3–10 Uncommon Brutal green dragon 227 37 Uncommon Ice warrior 57 2 Very rare
Elemental runes |
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Catalytic runes |
Mind • Body • Cosmic • Chaos • Astral • Nature • Law • Death • Blood • Soul • Wrath • Cabbage |