there is no steam altar. since steam runes are water and fire combined, you take your essence and a fire talisman to the water altar, or essence and a water talisman to the fire altar. you then attempt to create the steam runes (which have a 50% success rating, like smithing iron bars.)
You bring them to any rune alter. If you wish to keep the prior colour of the guardian, bring it to it's previous alter.
High level mining rune ores, then crafting them into rune weapons/armor.
You will get 8 xp. for crafting 1 cosmic rune if u need anymore help go to http://runescape.salmoneus.net/runecrafting.html this website is very helpful
A little south-east of the lumber yard in West Varrock.
tiaras can be used for rune crafting. You simply have to wear one. Then you need to go to the mysterious ruins ,in which powers the same element as the tiara your wearing, with rune essences and craft your runes
Bought from Reggie at the Fist of Guthix mini game caves for 75 tokens.
It comes from playing The Great Orb Project mini game in the rune crafting guild. The glasses are actually part of the rune crafting hat wit is one of the many prizes obtained from playing that mini game. This is a free to play and pay to play mini game.
Chaos alters let you make chaos runes assuming you have rune essense in your inventory and you actually are in the alter
F2P: Air rune Earth rune Fire rune Water rune Body rune Chaos rune Cosmic rune Death rune Law rune Mind rune Nature rune P2P: Dust rune Lava rune Mist rune Mud rune Smoke rune Steam rune Astral rune Blood rune Soul rune Extra: Rune Essence(F2P) Pure Essence(P2P) As you can see there is quite a few -Dd_rulez
The maker of Runescape by the name of Andrew. Rune is a made-up material that is ONLY used in runescape
Rune Pickaxe - 18,145gp - 20,055gp
There is no mist altar so you will have to buy them. However if you have a air & water talisman if you go to either the air alter or water alter use the opposite talisman with the alter and you make mist runes you gain 7.5 exp per rune however it costs 2 runes for 1 mist rune so make sure to take plenty of them