Runecrafting

Runecrafting is one of the Skills available for players to level up by fusing runes, killing Runic Mobs, or by killing Bosses. It allows the player to fuse Runes onto their weapons and armor. Runecrafting is a cosmetic-only mechanic, and can only be leveled up to level 3 with the 1Default rank.

Roman Numerals are used to express its levels in-game.

Mechanics

Runecrafting is one of three "cosmetic" skills, which have content locked to players without a Rank. Players with no ranks cannot increase past level 3 in the skill, and higher ranks apply a higher exp multiplier. As a "cosmetic" skill no important content or any stats require it to be leveled, and other than some small benefits it may provide (such as tabbed chests) it's purely decoration. The other cosmetic skills are Carpentry and Social.

Each rune has an associated level. The runes can be fused- however, they cannot be activated until the player has their Runecrafting level equal to or greater than the level of the rune.

Runic Mobs

Runes are obtained from Runic Mobs. Runic Mobs are normal SkyBlock Mobs, but with 4x higher Health, and deal double damage. They have a purple name tag, and a much lower chance to spawn. When killed, they are guaranteed to drop a Rune.

All mobs can be Runic except Ender Dragon, Magma Cube Boss, Slayer Boss/Miniboss, Dungeon Boss or Dungeon Boss Minion.

Certain runes are also obtained from Slayer or as special rewards.

Fusing Runes

Runes can be fused on the Runic Pedestal, found behind the Blacksmith and owned by the NPC Dusk.

Fusing two runes together will have a chance of upgrading the rune to the next level, up to the maximum level of 3. Upon success or failure, the second rune is consumed. If this process does not succeed, the remaining rune will not gain the level. The chance of success can be seen in the Runic Pedestal while hovering over the apply trigger. Regardless of the outcome, this will also grant Runecrafting experience. More experience is awarded upon success.

Runes can be fused onto Swords, Bows, Chestplates, and Boots, depending on the type of rune. The player must have their Runecrafting level either equal to or greater than the level of the rune, or they won't be able to fuse it. This only applies to fuse runes to items; runes above the player's Runecrafting level can still be combined together. Fusing runes onto items will also grant Runecrafting experience.

List of Runes

Standard Runes

Name	Level	Category	Rarity	Description	Unique Ways To Obtain
Blood	1	Weapons	Common	Create a blood effect when you kill mobs!
Snow	2	Weapons	Common	Freeze monsters to death!
Lava	3	Bows	Common	Shoot magma arrows!
Gem	4	Bows	Common	Create a gem effect behind your arrows
Zap	5	Boots	Uncommon	Zap across the lands!
White Spiral	6	Bows	Uncommon	Show your elegance with white sparkling arrows!
Smokey	7	Bows	Common	Creates a burnt trail behind your arrows!	Runic Wither Skeletons in the Blazing Fortress
Hot	8	Boots	Uncommon	Your shoes must be burning!
Redstone	9	Boots	Rare	Walk like an engineer!	Runic Pigmen at the Pigmen's Den
Hearts	10	Weapons	Rare	Shower your enemies in love!
Sparkling	11	Boots	Rare	Your shoes are sparkling!
Magical	12	Bows	Rare	Your arrows have a magical shine!	Mining Glowing Blocks
Fire Spiral	13	Bows	Rare	Inferno arrows!	Runic Mobs in the Blazing Fortress
Golden	14	Bows	Epic	Flaunt your wealth with golden arrows!
Music	15	Weapons	Epic	Put monsters out of their misery with sweet tunes!	Great Catch from Fishing
Clouds	16	Boots	Epic	Feels like you're walking in the clouds!
Wake	18	Bows	Legendary	Your arrows are calming waves!	Runic Sea Creatures
Lightning	19	Weapons	Legendary	Chance to strike lightning on the enemies you defeat!
Rainbow	20	Boots	Legendary	Walkin' on rainbows!
Empty Rune			Uncommon	This Rune is glitched, not giving any effect	Could be obtained while patch 0.7 was being rolled out. It would drop in extremely large quantities from mobs, causing the player's game to crash. Now the only way to obtain is through trading with other players.

Slayer Runes

Name	Level	Category	Rarity	How to Obtain	Odds
Pestilence	10	Weapons	Rare	Revenant Horror (2`Tier II`+) Unlocked: Zombie Slayer LVL 2	5Rare^(5%)
Snake	21	Boots	Legendary	Revenant Horror (4`Tier IV`+) Unlocked: Zombie Slayer LVL 6	9Pray RNGesus^(<1%)
Bite	15	Bows	Epic	Tarantula Broodfather (2`Tier II`+) Unlocked: Spider Slayer LVL 1	5Rare^(5%)
Spirit	12	Weapons	Rare	Sven Packmaster (2`Tier II`+) Unlocked: Wolf Slayer LVL 2	5Rare^(5%)
Couture	24	Boots	Legendary	Sven Packmaster (4`Tier IV`+) Unlocked: Wolf Slayer LVL 6	9Pray RNGesus^(<1%)
End	1	Bows	Epic	Voidgloom Seraph	7Extraordinary^(1%)
Endersnake	23	Boots	Legendary	Voidgloom Seraph (3`Tier III`) Unlocked : Enderman Slayer LVL 2	5Rare^(5%)
Enchant	25	Chestplates	Legendary	Voidgloom Seraph	9Pray RNGesus^(<1%)
Fiery Burst	25	Hoes	Legendary	Inferno Demonlord (3`Tier III`+) Unlocked : Blaze Slayer LVL 1	9Pray RNGesus^(<1%)
Lavatears	25	Bows	Legendary	Inferno Demonlord (4`Tier IV`+) Unlocked : Blaze Slayer LVL 5	5Rare^(5%)

The drop rate of the 3 runes above with "Pray RNGesus" is approximately 0.32%(1/309).

Event Runes

Name	Level	Category	Rarity	How to Obtain
Ice	8	Bows	Rare	Opening Season of Jerry Gifts
Tidal	20	Boots	Legendary	Runic Spooky Sea Creatures during the Spooky Festival
Jerry	4	Weapons	Common	Opening Jerry Boxes

Rates

Different rune rarities grant differing amounts of experience and have different success rates when fusing.

Rarity	Experience	Merge Chance	Expected Runes to Acquire T2	Expected Runes to Acquire T3
Common	10	25%	5	25
Uncommon	15	35%	3.86	14.88
Rare	25	40%	3.5	12.25
Epic	30	45%	3.22	10.38
Legendary	35	50%	3	9

F(n), the probability of successfully fusing on the nth attempt is represented as a function of P(n), the probability of merging on a given attempt. This distribution is binomial in nature.

$F(n)=P(n)*(1-P(n))^{n-1}$

C(n) the cost in runes on the nth attempt is

$C(n)=1+n$

Therefore, we can represent E(n), the expected number of runes during fusing as E(n) = ∑ F(n) * C(n)

$E(n)=\sum P(n)*(1-P(n))^{n-1}*(1+n)$ In order to calculate the expected runes to acquire

$T_{3}$ , we can represent the cost C(n) in terms of the cost of T2, or

$C_{3}(n)=E(n)+E(n)*n$

Therefore, the cost of T3 rune is

$E_{3}(n)=\sum P(n)*(1-P(n))^{n-1}*(1+n)+n*\sum P(n)*(1-P(n))^{n-1}*(1+n)$ $=E(n)^{2}$ Alternatively, where

$L$ is the level of the rune desired:

$E_{L}(n)=(P(n)^{-1}+1)^{L-1}$

Experience Table

Level	XP Required to Reach	Cumulative XP
0	0	0
1	50	50
2	100	150
3	125	275
4	160	435
5	200	635
6	250	885
7	315	1200
8	400	1600
9	500	2100
10	625	2725
11	785	3510
12	1000	4510
13	1250	5760
14	1600	7325
15	2000	9325
16	2465	11825
17	3125	14950
18	4000	18950
19	5000	23950
20	6200	30200
21	7800	38050
22	9800	47850
23	12200	60100
24	15300	75400
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Runecrafting EXP Multipliers

If you have different ranks on Hypixel, you will get more XP.

Normal: x1.0, Max level 3
2[VIP]: x1.1
3[VIP+]: x1.25
4[MVP]: x1.5
5[MVP+]: x2
6[MVP++]: x3

Bugs

Sometimes, Depth Strider stops working on boots with a rune. The only workaround is to throw the boots onto the ground and pick it up.

Trivia

This skill was supposed to be released July 16, 2019, but was delayed to August 2, 2019, due to the need for more testing.
The Headless Horseman Boss can be Runic, giving it 10M. With a base health of 3M, it should have 12M.
The glitched runes appeared from the original hour of the Runecrafting release date, they are most likely made unusable since every enemy dropped a blood rune.
The Tidal Rune is the only Rune that is in bold font.
The Jerry Rune is the only Rune that is only available in the 3rd tier.
The Enchant Rune is the first and only Rune that can be applied to Chestplates.

History

Alpha Hypixel Network
Unknown Date		Added Fiery Burst Rune.
Unknown Date		Added Lavatears Rune.
SkyBlock Prototype
Aug 2, 2019	0.7	Added Runecrafting.
Oct 11, 2019	0.7.2	Added Slayer Runes.
Dec 18, 2019	0.7.5	Added Ice Rune.
Nov 2, 2020	0.9.10	Added Tidal Rune.
Jan 11, 2021		Added Jerry Rune.
May 31, 2021	0.11.5	Added End Rune.
		Added Endersnake Rune.
		Added Enchant Rune.
Aug 13, 2021		Runes can now be sold to Merchants.
Apr 20, 2022	0.13	Added Fiery Burst Rune.
Apr 20, 2022	0.13	Added Lavatears Rune.