OSRS Herblore 1–99 Guide

Fastest main route

Fastest methods by level

Start with ordinary banked potions, then switch to one-tick stamina potions at 77 if you want the faster finish. The early recipes below use the same banking routine; their ingredients and XP change as you level.

Do not overpay for a new ingredient to save a few minutes in the early levels. From 77 to 98, one-tick stamina potions are the fastest method covered here. If you do not want to one-tick, use the normal banked mixing instructions and recipes below instead.

Buy a test batch first. Check the actual buy price and make sure you can maintain the method before committing to the rest. The Herblore Calculator shows the exact actions, ingredients and total cost for your goal.

Choose how much faster XP is worth to you

Compare two methods for the same target in the calculator. If the faster one costs another 3 million GP but saves two hours, you are paying 1.5 million GP per hour saved. That can be worthwhile if you enjoy earning the money elsewhere; otherwise, use the cheaper normal potion and keep your cash for gear.

A new potion unlock does not force a switch. Prayer potions, super restores and brews have ongoing demand, but their secondaries can move sharply in price. Compare the complete recipe and sale value. Buy unfinished potions when you want fast training; prepare herbs yourself only when the saving is worth the added time.

Levels 77–99: One-tick stamina and extended potions

77 staminas; 98 extended super antifires

Very fast XP from manually mixing potions with stackable secondaries. The extra input is worthwhile when shortening the grind matters more than a relaxed bank session.

Getting there

Use any bank and keep the unfinished potions and secondary in the same inventory slots. A stationary bank setup makes repeated clicking much easier to learn.

Bring and unlock

For stamina potions, super energy potions and amylase crystals. For extended super antifires, super antifire potions and lava scale shards. Choose the exact dose variant in the calculator: doses change both the materials and XP per action.

1. 
   4 doses + 4 crystals

   Use amylase on the four-dose super energy potion.

2. 
   1 four-dose stamina

   102 XP in one completed action. The crystals stack, so this is not a 14-and-14 inventory.

1. Withdraw the stackable secondary and the matching potion inventory.
2. Manually use the secondary on a potion each game tick instead of waiting for make-all to mix the full batch.
3. Keep the interval at one tick, or 0.6 seconds. Bank the finished batch and repeat with the same inventory positions.
4. Compare the cost of the dose variants before buying. A faster XP rate does not guarantee a cheaper level.

What “one-tick” changes

The stackable secondary leaves room for a large potion inventory. Use it on the next potion manually every 0.6 seconds; you are advancing the mixing action yourself instead of waiting through make-all. The finished potions stay in those slots, so move through the unfinished batch in a consistent order.

Levels 77–98: Stamina potions

Use amylase crystals on super energy potions. Each dose uses one crystal and gives 25.5 XP. A four-dose potion therefore takes four crystals and gives 102 XP in one action. A one-dose potion uses one crystal and gives 25.5 XP. Buying a cheaper-looking dose size without checking XP per inventory can change the method completely.

Levels 98–99: Extended super antifires

Use lava scale shards on super antifire potions, working through the inventory manually with the same rhythm. Each dose uses one shard and gives 40 XP, so a four-dose potion gives 160 XP. Compare the ingredient bill with finishing on staminas before switching.

There is no need to keep forcing the fast clicks during an entire session. Make-all still works when you want a quieter inventory; just compare it at that slower rate. Use the calculator’s dose-specific recipe when budgeting crystals and output.

Learning the method. Begin with a small batch to get the clicks right. The high published rate includes rapid banking and sustained manual mixing; lower the calculator’s pace if your session includes slower inventories.

Make stamina potions from 77 to 98, then extended super antifires to 99 for the fastest finish covered here. Both use a stackable secondary, so you can mix manually every tick. Keep ordinary make-all mixing when you want a quieter session.

Ironman route

Train Herblore by building useful supplies

1. Levels 1–59

   Quest and stock the basics

   Use the early quest rewards, then make the potions your account will consume. Keep herb runs and Farming contracts moving. Slayer, Kingdom, Herbiboar and Master Farmers can fill gaps, but they do not replace regular herb and secondary gathering.

   Prayer potions, super attacks, super strengths and restoration supplies are more useful than forcing the fastest-looking XP route.

2. Levels 60–80

   Use Mixology when it solves a real problem

   Mastering Mixology unlocks at 60 after Children of the Sun. Use it when you have spare herbs, are short on secondaries or want the goggles and amulet. The order pool is less flexible before level 81, so normal potions can still be the smoother option.

3. Levels 81–99

   Choose between supplies and herb efficiency

   At 81 every Mixology base is unlocked. Use Mixology when you want more XP from each herb. Keep making normal potions when the account still needs prayer, restores, brews, combat boosts, antifires or stamina doses.

Our default: keep ranarrs and snapdragons for prayer potions and super restores. Treat toadflax, torstol, huasca and any herb tied to a low potion stack carefully. Use lower-tier herbs and genuine surplus first.

The dedicated Mastering Mixology guide has the full main and Iron herb tables.

Keep seeds, herbs and secondaries moving together

Use herb runs for a steady supply and Farming Guild contracts for more seeds. Plant limpwurts alongside the herbs; add snape grass once you can grow it. Keep an established whiteberry bush and pick it when your route passes nearby. These small collections prevent the common problem of having a thousand herbs and nothing to mix them with.

Managing Miscellania supplies herbs over time at a coin cost. Slayer and boss drops fill gaps; Herbiboar from 80 Hunter gives more herbs while training another skill. None of them replaces the need for the specific secondary. Use diary lamps and other optional XP rewards on Herblore when supply gathering is holding up the account.

Turn the herb tab into a useful potion supply

Pick the potions for your next quest, Slayer block or boss, then gather the missing secondary. Herbs with easy secondaries make good XP now; rare herbs can wait in the bank until you can make the potion you actually want. These are practical defaults, not a requirement to hoard every herb forever.

Herb and useful potion	Secondary and how to gather it	Why keep it or use the surplus
HarralanderEnergy · 26; goading · 54	Chocolate dust / Aldarium Buy chocolate bars from food shops and crush them for energy potions. Goading potions instead use Aldarium bought with Mixology resin.	Energy potions supply early questing. Goading draws nearby monsters to you for Slayer, including normally unaggressive creatures. Reserve herbs for either supply you use, then turn the surplus into Mox.
RanarrPrayer · 38 Herblore	Snape grass Grow it in allotments at 61 Farming. Earlier, collect spawns on the peninsula west of the Crafting Guild or east of Hosidius.	Protection and offensive prayers consume this stack throughout Slayer and bossing. Keep ranarrs even when you temporarily lack snape grass.
IritSuper attack · 45 Herblore	Eye of newt Buy packs from Betty in Port Sarim. This is one of the easiest secondaries to stock in bulk.	A melee accuracy boost and a future super combat ingredient. Easy normal XP; use surplus irit for Aga after making your combat supply.
AvantoeSuper energy · 52; stamina · 77	Mort myre fungus, then amylase Use Bloom with a blessed silver sickle near dead logs in Mort Myre. Bring a Prayer-restoration route. Rooftop marks of grace or Colossal Wyrm termites buy amylase packs.	Super energy restores run immediately. Stamina adds reduced energy drain for running-heavy content. Keep the super energies you intend to upgrade, rather than drinking the entire stack.
KwuarmSuper strength · 55 Herblore	Limpwurt root Grow limpwurts in flower patches at 26 Farming while doing herb runs.	Melee damage for Slayer and bosses, then super combats. This is a useful supply to keep ahead of your combat sessions.
HuascaPrayer regeneration · 58 Herblore	Aldarium Buy Aldarium with Mastering Mixology resin. It competes with permanent rewards for those points.	Restores Prayer gradually on long trips. It complements immediate prayer potions; it does not replace the quick refill when Prayer is nearly empty.
SnapdragonSuper restore · 63 Herblore	Red spiders’ eggs Collect Edgeville Dungeon spawns for a small batch. Spidines after Tower of Life, temple spiders or Sarachnis are useful bulk sources.	Restores Prayer and lowered combat stats. Especially valuable alongside Saradomin brews, which lower offensive stats as they heal.
CadantineSuper defence · 66 Herblore	White berries Grow a whiteberry bush at 59 Farming and pick it on regular trips. The bush regrows berries without needing a new seed.	A Defence boost and a super combat ingredient. Make enough for those uses; a surplus can become Aga if berry gathering is holding up XP.
LantadymeAntifire · 69; magic · 76	Dragon scale dust / potato cactus Collect blue dragon scales in Taverley Dungeon or the Myths’ Guild basement after Dragon Slayer II, then crush them. Grow potato cactus at 64 Farming for magic potions.	Reserve antifires for dragon content; check the protection your target needs. Magic potions have a smaller regular demand for many accounts, so do not make a huge stack merely to use every herb.
Dwarf weedRanging · 72 Herblore	Wine of Zamorak Telegrab wines at the Chaos Temple north of Falador. Farming Zamorak’s grapes through Tithe Farm and making wine is another route; boss drops can supply later batches.	A regular Ranged boost for bosses and Slayer. Wines take more effort than eyes of newt: spare herbs can go into Aga, but preserve your next useful potion batch.
ToadflaxSaradomin brew · 81 Herblore	Crushed nest Keep birdhouse runs going, empty the nests and crush them. Giant Mole parts exchanged with Wyson are another bulk nest source.	Dense healing for bosses and raids. Brews lower offensive stats, so stock super restores too. A bank full of toadflax becomes useful when your nest supply catches up.
TorstolSuper combat · 90 Herblore	Super attack, strength and defence (4) Keep four-dose versions of all three potions and add a clean torstol. This recipe does not begin with a torstol unfinished potion.	Combines three melee boosts into one inventory slot. Reserve enough torstol and the component potions for your next boss grind before refining the surplus.

At the start, guam plus eye of newt makes attack potions from level 3. Marrentill plus unicorn horn dust makes antipoison from 5, and tarromin plus limpwurt root makes strength potions from 12. Keep small working supplies while these are useful, then use quests and the higher-level potions above to move on.

For large stacks, Zahur’s unfinished-potion service and Wesley’s crushing service can save substantial preparation time. Pay for the batch you will use; neither service creates herbs or secondaries.

Mastering Mixology

Better XP per herb, plus permanent Herblore upgrades

Mastering Mixology turns clean herbs into Mox, Aga and Lye paste. You use that paste to fill potion orders and earn Herblore XP plus resin for permanent rewards.

Requirement

60 Herblore, not boostable, and Children of the Sun

All recipes unlocked

81 Herblore

Normal level-81 range

About 45,000–70,000 XP per hour depending on attention and workstation speedups

Advanced XP methods

Up to roughly 105,000 XP per hour

Mixology is not the fastest way to 99, but it gets much more XP from each herb and does not use normal secondary ingredients. It is especially useful for Iron accounts and for anyone who wants the goggles, amulet, potion storage or reagent pouch.

Our recommendation: if rewards are your main goal and you are in no rush, wait until 81 for the full order pool. Start earlier when herb efficiency or an early unlock is worth more to you than the smoother level-81 rates.

Read the full Mastering Mixology guide for the order loop, best herbs and recommended reward order.

Want to make money while training? Selling Aldarium or chugging barrels can pay for the paste and leave a profit. The Mixology money-making section explains how to choose a reward and compares the current net return after herbs and GE tax. Keep resin spent on permanent unlocks separate from resin earned for a sale.

Bank setup and equipment

Set the bank up before you start mixing

Most normal potion inventories use 14 unfinished potions and 14 secondaries. Put both next to each other in a bank tab and use consistent withdrawal quantities. A clean setup can sustain roughly 2,000–2,500 potions per hour.

Stackable secondaries such as amylase crystals allow much faster one-tick methods, but they require constant input. Use normal make-all mixing if you want longer breaks between inventories. The Training Planner estimates time for the method you choose; the Calculator compares quantities, costs and maximum XP rates.

Zahur can clean herbs for 200 GP each. With the Hard Desert Diary or a Herblore cape, she can also make unfinished potions from noted herbs and vials of water for 200 GP each. Zahur and Bob Barter decant finished potions for free.

Useful Herblore upgrades

• Prescription goggles: 10% chance to save an eligible secondary. Get these before a large potion stack whenever possible.
• Reagent pouch: holds supported secondaries and lets you make up to 26 potions per bank trip. Best when longer inventories noticeably improve your training.
• Amulet of chemistry: 5% chance to add one dose to an eligible potion.
• Alchemist's amulet: raises that chance to 15% and holds many more charges. Use it for valuable eligible potions, not for extra XP.

Extra doses give no Herblore XP. Goggles save secondaries, not herbs. The Calculator only applies each effect where it works.