Herblore

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To start the members-only Herblore skill you must have completed the Druidic Ritual quest. The quest is very short and easy and a small price to pay for the endless opportunities Herblore can offer. Many people think Herblore is pointless, but as you get higher it becomes quite profitable, and sometimes you might actually find yourself enjoying it. Herblore can be temporarily raised by 1 level by drinking a Greenman's Ale.

Contents 1 Basics 1.1 Coconut Milk 1.2 Combining Potions 2 Herbs 2.1 Obtaining Herbs 2.2 Jungle Herbs 3 Ingredients 4 Potions 5 Barbarian Potions 6 Poison 6.1 Karambwan Poison 6.2 Getting rid of poison 7 Creature Creation Mini-game 8 Herblore Skillcape 9 FAQ

Basics

Herblore is mainly the art of making various skill-enhancing potions. The basic formula for making potions is as follows:

• Use an empty vial on any water source to get a water-filled vial.
• Use a clean herb with the water-filled vial to make an unfinished potion.
• Use a special ingredient to finish the potion.

Vials can be obtained from any Herblore shop, the one in Taverly being a prime example. To save time, you can also buy water-filled vials from the general store in Ardougne or Shilo Village, or from other players on the Grand Exchange.

Coconut Milk

In some higher levelled potions, as detailed later on, you must substitute water-filled vials with vials of coconut milk. Coconuts can be obtained by growing your own with 68 Farming or by buying from other players. The technique for making potions using coconut milk is as follows:

• Use a hammer on a coconut to split it open and reveal the coconut milk.
• Use an empty vial on the coconut milk to make a milk-filled vial.

Combining Potions

You might notice that when you finish a potion it has 3 doses. You might also see other people selling potions with 4 doses. These are not rare items. You can combine potions by using them with one another (for example a 1-dose and 3-dose will make a 4-dose, a 2-dose and a 3-dose with make a 4-dose and a 1-dose, etc.).

Herbs

Herbs are the first ingredient in a potion. Herbs dropped by monsters will be 'grimy' herbs, while those obtained through Farming and the Sorceress's Garden will be clean. If you have a high enough Herblore level, you can clean a grimy herb so it can be used in potions, or you could get Zahur in Nardah to clean them for you.

Grimy Pic	Clean Pic	Herb	Level to clean	Exp Earned
		Guam Leaf	3	2.5
		Marrentill	5	3.75
		Tarromin	11	5
		Harralander	20	6
		Ranarr Weed	25	8
		Toadflax	30	8
File:Grimy spirit weed.gif	File:Clean spirit weed.gif	Spirit Weed	35	7.8
		Irit Leaf	40	9
		Avantoe	48	10
		Kwuarm	54	11.25
		Snapdragon	59	11.8
		Cadantine	65	12.5
		Lantadyme	67	13
		Dwarf Weed	70	13.75
		Torstol	75	15

Obtaining Herbs

There are many ways they can be obtained, the most basic way being drops from assorted creatures around RuneScape. Monsters that drop a lot of herbs are:

• Men and Women (Level 2) - Extremely easy to kill, they drop herbs fairly often. They can be found all over RuneScape.
• Al-Kharid Warriors (Level 9) - Low-level, and pretty easy to kill. Again, they drop herbs fairly often. They can be found in the Al-Kharid palace.
• Chaos Druids (Level 13) - Easy to kill, and drop herbs with nearly every kill. They can be found in level 2-6 wilderness in Edgeville Dungeon, Taverly Dungeon and the Blood Rune Tower north of Ardougne.
• Various Slayer monsters - Most Slayer creatures drop herbs. The Cave Crawlers drop herbs, secondary ingredients, and vials with and without water extremely commonly, while being low-level and easy to kill. Make sure you bring an anti-poison though, they can poison you.

You can also obtain herbs through the Farming skill. Each herb patch, when fully grow, will yield 3-15 herbs semi-randomly based on your Farming level. Herb seeds are reasonably cheap compared to the herb, so not only could this be a good way of making money, but it is a very good way of obtaining herbs. You can also choose to pickpocket your own seeds from Master Farmers at level 38 Thieving.

Other ways to get herbs are to set your subjects to work farming herbs in the Managing Your Kingdom mini-game unlocked after the Throne of Miscellenia quest or by stealing them in the Sorceress's Garden mini-game.

Jungle Herbs

There are also certain Jungle Herbs which are used in some potions and obtained during the Jungle Potion [link to quest guide] quest.

Grimy Pic	Clean Pic	Herb	Level to clean	Exp Earned
		Snake Weed	3	2.5
		Ardrigal	3	2.5
		Rogue’s Purse	3	2.5
		Sito Foil	3	2.5
		Volencia moss	3	2.5

Ingredients

Once the primary ingredient (the herb) is in the vial you will have an un-finished potion. You will need a secondary ingredient to complete the potion. Some secondary ingredients will need to be ground up before they can be added. To grind these, use a Pestle and Mortar on the appropriate ingredient. A Pestle and Mortar can be bought from the Herblore shops in Taverly and Entrana.

Image	Ingredient	How to obtain
	Belladonna/Deadly Nightshade	Growing Belladonna plants in the Farming skill
	Cactus spine	Growing cactuses in the Farming skill
	Chocolate Dust	Chocolate bars can be bought in all food shops such as the ones in Yanille, the Cooking Guild, and the Grand Tree, which are then grinded using a pestle and mortar to make chocolate dust. Easy bank and shop access in Lumbridge basement after starting the Recipe for Disaster quest
	Cockatrice Egg	Dropped by Cockatrice
	Crushed bird’s nest	Using a pestle and mortar on an empty bird's nest. Bird's nests are random events while training Woodcutting.
	Eye of newt	Bought from Herblore shops or from the magic shop in Port Sarim.
	Garlic	Found by searching the drawers upstairs in a house in Draynor Village.
	Gorak claw powder	Using a pestle in mortar on Gorak claws. Gorak claws are obtained by killing Goraks in the Gorak Lair (fairy ring code DIR).
	Ground blue dragon scale	Using a pestle and mortar on blue dragon scales found in the Taverly Dungeon
	Goat’s horn	Killing goats in the Kharadian Desert
	Crushed unicorn horn	Using a pestle and mortar on unicorn horns. Kill a unicorn to get its horn.
	Jangerberries	Growing Jangerberries in the Farming skill.
	Crushed kebbit teeth	Using a pestle and mortar on kebbit teeth. Kebbit teeth can be obtained by trapping saber-toothed kebbits in the Hunting skill.
	Limpwurt root	Drop from Hobgoblins or Hill Giants or grown in the Farming skill
	Magic tree roots	Growing a magic tree in the Farming skill, chopping it down and digging up the roots.
	Yew tree roots	Growing a yew tree in the Farming skill, chopping it down, and digging up the roots.
	Mort Myre fungi	Cast-bloom with your blessed silver sickle while standing near rotten logs in Mort Myre Swamp after completing the Nature Spirit quest.
	Pharmakos Berries	Talk to the Makeover Mage south-west of Falador and he will give you a bunch of berries.
	Poison ivy berries	Growing poison ivy bushes in the Farming Skill
	Potato cactus	Picking up the spawn in the Kalphite Dungeon in the Kharadian Desert.
	Red spider’s eggs	Picking up spawns in the Varrock Sewers, Edgeville Dungeon, and Karamja Volcano Dungeon.
	Snape grass	Picking up the spawns on the Hobgoblin Peninsula near Melzar's Maze
	Silver dust	Using a silver bar on the bone grinder on the floor over the Ectofuntus just north of Port Phasmatys
	Star flower	Picking star flowers after finishing the Fairy Tale Part II quest (fairy ring code CKP)
	Toad’s legs	Removing legs from Swamp toads which spawn in the Gnome Stronghold, Lumbridge Swamps, and Taverly
	Whiteberries	Picking up the spawn in the Red Dragon Isle in level 40 wilderness or growing Whiteberry bushes in the Farming skill.
	Wine of Zamorak	Using the spell Telekinetic Grab on the Wine of Zamorak at the Chaos Temple north of Goblin Village

Potions

When you use the secondary ingredient on the unfinished potion you will get a 3-dose potion, sometimes shortened to 'pot'. Potions can be used to temporarily raise certain skill levels, which can prove very useful in a combat situation.

Strength potions are the only free-to-play potions. Although non-members can't make them themselves, they can bring red spiders eggs, a limpwurt root, and 5gp to the Apothecary in Varrock in exchange for a strength potion.

Note that these skill boosts do not stack when more than one dose is drank. For example, if you drank two attack potion doses you would not get twice the attack bonus.

Level	Potion	Primary Ingredient	Secondary Ingredient(s)	Exp Gained	Effect
3	Attack Potion	Guam	Eye of Newt	25	+ 12.5% temporary Attack boost
5	Anti-poison Potion	Marrentill	Ground Unicorn Horn	37.5	Cures poison
8	Relicym’s Balm	Rogue’s Purse	Snake Weed	40	Cures disease
12	Strength Potion	Tarromin	Limpwurt Root	50	+ 12.5% temporary Strength boost
15	Serum 207	Tarromin	Ashes	50	Allows the villagers in Mort’ton to talk to you
22	Restore Potion	Harralander	Red spiders eggs	62.5	Restores Attack, Strength, Defence, Hitpoints, Ranged, and Magic
22	Guthix Balance Potion	Harralander	Red spiders eggs Garlic Silver dust	62.5	Using this on Vampyres held by the Retainer will cure them, kill them, or make them angry.
25	Blamish Oil	Harralander	Blamish Snail Slime	80	Can be used a fishing rod to get oily fishing rod, which can catch lava eel
26	Energy Potion	Harralander	Chocolate dust	67.5	Restores 10% energy per dose
30	Defence Potion	Ranarr	White berries	75	+ 12.5% temporary Defence boost
34	Agility Potion	Toadflax	Toad legs	80	+ 3 Agility levels temporarily
36	Combat Potion	Harralander	Goat's horn dust	84	+ 12.5% temporary Strength and Attack boost
37	Goblin Potion	Dwarf weed	Pharmakos Berries	85	Turns you into a Goblin provided you are not weilding ANY items. Must have started the Land of the Goblins quest.
38	Prayer Potion	Ranarr	Snape Grass	87.5	Restores 33% of your prayer
40	Summoning Potion	File:Clean spirit weed.gif Spirit Weed	Cockatrice Egg	92	Restores x% of your summoning
45	Super Attack Potion	Irit	Eye of newt	100	+ 20% temporary Attack boost
48	Super Anti-Poison Potion	Irit	Ground Unicorn horn	106.3	Cures poison and gives small time of immunity
50	Fishing Potion	Avantoe	Snape grass	112.5	+ 3 Temporary Fishing boost
52	Super Energy Potion	Avantoe	Mort Myre fungi	117.5	Restores 20% Energy per dose
53	Hunter Potion	Avantoe	Ground kebbit teeth	120	+ 3 temporary Hunter boost
55	Super Strength Potion	Kwuarm	Limpwurt root	125	+ 20% temporary Strength boost
57	Magic Essence Potion	Star Flower	Gorak Claw powder	130	+ 3 temporary Magic boost
60	Weapon Poison Potion	Kwuarm	Ground blue dragon scale	137.5	Use on piecing weapons to add poison (p)
63	Super Restore Potion	Snapdragon	Red spiders eggs	142.5	Restores 33% of all stats except Hitpoints
65	Sanfew Serum	Super Restore Potion	Ground Unicorn horn Snake weed Nail beast nails	160	The combined effect of a Super Restore potion, an anti-poison potion, and a Relicym’s Balm. It can also be used as a weapon against Nail Beasts [link to Bestiary page]
66	Super Defence Potion		Whiteberries	150	+ 20% temporary Defence boost
68	Extra-strong Anti-Poison Potion	Toadflax	Yew tree roots	155	Cures poison and gives a longer time of immunity
69	Anti-firebreath Potion	Lantadyme	Ground blue dragon scales	157.5	Gives some resistance to dragon fire
72	Ranging Potion	Dwarf weed	Wine of Zamorak	162	+ (10%) +3 temporary Ranged boost
73	Extra-strong Weapon poison Potion	Cactus Spine	Red spiders egg	165	Use on piercing weapons to add poison (p+)
76	Magic Potion	Lantadyme	Potato cactus	172.5	+ 4 temporary Magic boost
78	Zamorak Potion	Torstol	Jangerberries	175	Temporary bonuses of + 15% Strength, + 20% Attack, - 10% Hp, and – 10% Defence
79	Super-strong Anti-Poison Potion	Irit	Magic tree roots	177.5	Cures poison and gives very long immunity
81	Saradomin Brew	Toadflax	Crushed birds nest	180	Temporary bonuses of + (15% + 2) Hitpoints, + (20% + 2) Defence, - (10% + 2) Attack, Strength, Magic, and Ranged
82	Super-strong Weapon Poison Potion	Belladonna/Deadly Nightshade	Poison ivy berries	190	Use on piercing weapons to add poison (p++)

Barbarian Potions

These potions are available to players once you complete the Barbarian Training minigame. They involve adding Caviar or Roe, and along with offering the standard effects of the potion you will also heal a small amount of Hitpoints (HP). Roe will heal 3 HP whereas Caviar will heal 6 HP.

Level	Potion	Name	Ingredient	Exp Gained
4		Attack Mix	Either	8
6		Anti-poison Mix	Either	12
9		Relicym's Mix	Either	14
14		Strength Mix	Either	17
24		Restore Mix	Either	21
28		Energy Mix	Caviar	23
33		Defence Mix	Caviar	25
37		Agility Mix	Caviar	27
40		Combat Mix	Caviar	28
42		Prayer Mix	Caviar	29
47		Super Attack Mix	Caviar	33
51		Super Anti-poison Mix	Caviar	35
53		Fishing Mix	Caviar	38
56		Super Energy Mix	Caviar	38
58		Hunting Mix	Caviar	40
59		Super Strength Mix	Caviar	59
61		Magic Essence Mix	Caviar	43
67		Super Restore Mix	Caviar	48
71		Super Defence Mix	Caviar	50
74		Antidote+ Mix	Caviar	52
75		Anti-fire Mix	Caviar	53
75		Ranging Mix	Caviar	54
80		Magic Mix	Caviar	57
83		Zamorak Mix	Caviar	58

Poison

You can be poisoned from certain monsters, other players, and from some traps dislodged while thieving from chests. Poison damage hits every 30 seconds at decreasing levels starting at 3 (p), 4 (p+), 5 (kp) or 6 (p++). You can also be hit starting at 12 from Tribesmen. The default poison damage from monsters is 6. Drinking an anti-poison potion, an extra-strong anti-poison potion, or a super-strong anti-poison potion will cure you, in addition to giving you varied levels of immunity depending on the type of potion you drink. Poison wears off after a while, so don't be worried if you don't have any anti-poison potions as long as you have extra food.

In addition, you can cure poison with the 'Recite-prayer' option with the Prayer book obtained through the Great Brain Robbery quest. You must be wearing a holy symbol and reciting will cost you 1 prayer point.

You can cover certain piercing weapons with weapon poison of assorted strengths. Weapon poison will poison for four damage, extra-strong weapon poison will poison for four damage, and super-strong weapon poison will poison for six damage. Note that all weapon poison potions only have one dose upon creation instead of the usual three.

Karambwan Poison

Karambwan poison is made by un-thoroughly cooking a karambwan and using a pestle and mortar on it to make karambwan paste. Using this on a spear will make it karambwan-poisoned, which will poison for five damage. Note that spears are the only weapons that can be poisoned with karambwan paste.

Weapons that can be poisoned

• Daggers
• 5 Arrows at a time
• 5 Javelins at a time
• 5 Darts at a time
• 5 Throwing knives at a time
• 5 crossbow bolts at a time
• Spears
• The Keris dagger (from the Contact! quest)

Getting rid of poison

You can rid a weapon of poison by using a cleaning cloth on it. You can create a cleaning cloth by using Karamja Rum (bought from the general store south of the banana plantation on Karamja) on any normal Silk (stolen from Ardougne silk stalls or bought in Al-Kharid from the merchant).

Creature Creation Mini-game

With the release of the Tower of Life quest came a new way to gather some secondary ingredients: the Creature Creation mini-game. You can create new monsters which drop secondary ingredients by combining DNA Samples of other monsters.

Newtroosts (level 19) - Made by using an eye of newt and chicken feather on the northwest altar, drop multiple eyes of newt Unicows (level 25) - Made by using a unicorn horn and cowhide on the northwest altar, drop multiple unicorn horns Spidines (Level 42) - Made by using a red spiders egg and raw sardine on the south-southeast altar, drop multiple red spiders eggs

Herblore Skillcape

When you have become a master of the skill at 99 Herblore you may want to purchase a Herblore Skillcape from Kaqemeex the druid. Kaqemeex can be found at the Guthix Altar slightly north of Taverly. If you have more than one 99 stat he will give you the trimmed version of the Herblore Skill Cape.

FAQ

Q: What does some of the Herblore lingo mean?
A: There are many terms herbalists use as shorthand when referring to different things. A brief list:

• Pot: Potion
• Super set: A Super Attack, Super Strength, and Super Defence potion
• WFV or W/f vial: Water-filled vial
• Limp: Limpwurt root
• Mara/Taro/Harra: Marrentil/Tarromin/Harralander

Q: Are my 4-dose potions rare?
A: No, you can get 4-dose potions by using a 3-dose with a 1-dose. Any other combinations will work, but the maximum number of doses you can have in a vial is four.

Q: What are the poison labels, and what do they mean?
A: The tags are (p): Regular weapon poison, hits 3 damage per attack (p+): Extra-strong weapon poison, hits 4 damage per attack (kp): Karambwan poison paste, hits 5 damage per attack (p++): Super-strong weapon poison, hits 6 damage per attack

Q: My stat restore potion isn’t restoring my non-combat stats that have been lowered by disease. Why is this?
A: Only super restore potions can restore non-combat stats.

Q: Where do I get the Jungle Herbs?
A: The Jungle herbs (Snake weed, Ardrigal, Rogue's Purse, Sito Foil, and Volencia Moss) are obtained during the Jungle Potion quest. They are also sometimes dropped by Tribesmen.