OSRS Mastering Mixology Guide

Before the first order

Getting to Aldarin

The easiest first visit is the Mastering Mixology teleport in the Grouping menu, subject to its 20-minute cooldown. You need 60 Herblore and Children of the Sun to play.

If that teleport is on cooldown, use the quetzal to Aldarin once you have unlocked quetzal travel during Twilight’s Promise, then run north. Aldarin’s landing site is already built. With fairy rings unlocked during Fairytale II, use CKQ and run south-east. If you have neither travel network, take the 20-coin boat from Sunset Coast and walk south from the dock.

Enter the Alchemical Society building marked on the map, go downstairs and speak to Supervisor Lalo for the tutorial. The bank chest and refiner are in the south-east part of the facility; the workroom is through the opening to the west. Bring a small selection of clean herbs and leave room for three potions. You do not need combat gear or normal potion secondaries.

The images and clips below come from our own sessions. The RuneLite helper section explains the overlays you will see. Select a still image to enlarge it, or play a clip at normal or half speed to follow the clicks.

01 / Prepare your paste

Refine a small batch and load the hopper

Requirement

60 Herblore, not boostable

Quest

Children of the Sun

All potion bases

81 Herblore

Hopper capacity

3,000 of each paste

1. 1Refine herbs and put the paste in the hopper.
2. 2Pull three levers and collect the potion base.
3. 3Process each potion at its requested workstation.
4. 4Hand the finished batch in at the conveyor belt.

Choose your supplies using the main account herb comparison or the Ironman herb advice. Withdraw unnoted clean herbs, then operate the refiner next to the bank chest. It also accepts the corresponding unfinished potions, so an existing stack of those can be used here.

One click lets the refiner work through your inventory. For faster preparation, click it once per game tick, roughly every 0.6 seconds. Each herb becomes stackable paste; the herb you feed in determines its colour and quantity.

Do not refine the whole stack on your first visit. Make a small amount of each paste, learn which colours you use fastest, then top up. Paste cannot be traded or used outside Mixology.

02 / Optional RuneLite helper

Make the orders and timing cues easier to read

The helper shown here is Mastering Mixology by Hexagon. In RuneLite, open the plugin configuration panel, select the plug icon at its top right to open the Plugin Hub, then search for Mastering Mixology and install the entry by Hexagon.

Its short recipe codes save you reading the full potion names each round. Inventory Potion Tags labels your bottles, while the order list marks the requests you have finished as “done”.

Highlight stations points out a requested workstation for an unfinished potion in your inventory. It helps with the next processing step; still check the order icon when two requests use the same recipe.

Under Reward Tracking, choose your Selected Reward and enable Show Resin Bars. Here, Lye has the shortest bar for Prescription goggles. You need to fill all three bars to afford the reward.

What the coloured outlines mean

• Blue, green and pink levers: Highlight levers marks Mox, Aga and Lye respectively. These colours identify the levers; they do not tell you how many times to pull them.
• Magenta workstation: the station highlight helps you find where to process a potion. When the alembic or agitator turns green, Highlight quick-action events is showing its brief speedup window. The clips below show the change and the extra click.
• Green plant in a corner: Highlight DigWeed marks a harvestable plant. Notify DigWeed can also alert you to its spawn. Pick it, then use the herb on a potion yourself.

Those are the colours used in this recording; station, quick-action and Digweed colours can be changed in the plugin settings. The blue square around the player and the red cursor are separate visual aids in this client setup. They are not timing cues you need to copy.

For a reward grind, the resin bars are especially useful: they show which colour still needs work. Display resin amount can also add your total earned resin to the HUD. Keep that separate from the hopper’s paste counts when checking supplies.

The recipes, workstation actions and batch bonuses are part of the game. The plugin adds labels and highlights; you still choose which orders to make and perform the clicks. You can follow the same loop on the standard client using the order icons, machine animations and sounds.

03 / Brew your first batch

Read the potion name, then follow the workstation icon

Each letter in the potion name represents 10 paste:

M

Mox

A

Aga

L

Lye

Choose the base with the levers

For Mystic mana amalgam (MMA), pull Mox twice and Aga once. The two purple blobs and one green blob in the picture show those three inputs. Collect the base from the mixing vessel in front of the levers; this costs 20 Mox and 10 Aga paste.

The lever order does not matter: MMA, MAM and AMM make the same base. If you make a mistake, each extra pull replaces the oldest input. Check the three blobs and correct the mix before collecting it. Paste is spent when you take the base, not when you pull a lever.

At 81 Herblore, MixALot (MAL) uses one of each: 10 Mox, 10 Aga and 10 Lye. Collect a separate potion for each order you plan to complete.

Match the station, then learn its speedup

Read the icon beside each request. Two orders can ask for the same base at different stations, so the recipe code alone is not enough. Left-clicking a station uses the first unfinished potion in your inventory, even if it is wrong for that order. Arrange your bottles in processing order, or use each specific potion on its requested station.

Finish potions that need the same station together to avoid walking back and forth. When you need all three stations, a useful route is alembic, retort, agitator, then the conveyor belt.

You can let each station finish normally on your first round. Then add these extra clicks to speed up the same process.

Finish the batch before using the belt

When all the potions you intend to submit are processed, click the conveyor belt. A hand-in replaces the whole order list. If you submit one potion while still working on the other two, those old requests disappear.

Two correct orders submitted together give 20% more resin per potion; three give 40% more. In the picture, both MMA orders are finished, even though they needed different processing stations.

Make all three while learning. The “done” labels are a useful final check with the plugin; on the standard client, check that each finished potion matches both the requested base and processing type.

After handing in, read the new list and start again. Do not assume a recipe will need the same workstation next round.

Recipe reference

These are the base XP awards. Digweed and workstation speedups add to them.

04 / A bonus worth picking up

Use Digweed on a valuable potion

Digweed occasionally matures in a corner of the workroom. Pick it when it appears; the plugin’s Highlight DigWeed setting adds the green outline shown here. Without the plugin, watch the corners and the in-game maturity message.

Use the herb on a potion to double that potion’s XP and resin. You can add it before or after processing. At 81, use it on MixALot for a strong return in all three resin colours. Below 81, use your highest-XP available recipe.

05 / Choose what you are saving

Start with all three orders

“Maximum points” needs a little context. Resin per hour, resin per paste and the fastest way to finish one reward can favour different orders. The normal three-order loop above is a useful starting point; choose a more selective method once you know which of those matters to you.

Saving paste at level 81 and above

Here, “two-colour” means a recipe such as MMA or ALL. MAL uses all three colours. Every potion still takes three lever inputs and 30 paste. For example, MAL + AAA + MMM is an all-three hand-in for this paste-saving strategy; without MAL, MMA + ALL + AAA means make MMA and ALL.

This table is for resin per paste. A method aimed at maximum resin per hour can skip different orders to spend less time at the stations.

When XP is the priority

For faster XP, prepare a stock of finished potions ahead of the order list. That lets you hand in several times before another lap of the stations, but gives you less control over resin colours and batch bonuses. Learn the normal loop and speedups first, then try this level-81 setup:

1. Prepare three sets of seven bases: MMA, MML, AAM, ALA, MLL, ALL and MAL. That uses 21 inventory slots. Keep each set together and use spare space for the current orders.
2. Process one set at each station. For example, crystallise the first seven, concentrate the next seven and homogenise the last seven. Use any extra current-order potions on their correct station before moving on. Check the bottle caps to separate finished stock from bases.
3. Return to the belt and submit matches. Read each replacement list and submit again while your finished stock can satisfy it. You are using up prepared matches, so do not wait to make every hand-in a full three-order batch.
4. When no stocked potion matches, refill the gaps with the same bases and prepare the new current orders. Repeat the station lap, processing only the unfinished bottles.

The extra inventory management is where this method takes practice. Our clips demonstrate the normal reward loop and station clicks; they do not show this pre-mixed XP inventory.

Expected rates

06 / Best herbs for mains

Buy the cheapest paste, not the cheapest herb

Every herb produces a different amount of paste. A cheap herb can still be poor value if it gives very little. Compare GP per paste separately for Mox, Aga and Lye.

Main accounts

Buy the cheapest paste, not the cheapest herb

Saved fallback prices14 Aug 2026, 17:26 UTC

Every herb produces a different amount of paste. These figures use the instant-buy price of the clean herb and compare each paste colour separately.

MoxMarrentill is cheapest now

HerbPastePer herbHerb priceGP/paste

MarrentillMoxPaste/herb13231 GP17.77

TarrominMoxPaste/herb15269 GP17.93

HarralanderMoxPaste/herb20378 GP18.90

Guam leafMoxPaste/herb10269 GP26.90

AgaLantadyme is cheapest now

HerbPastePer herbHerb priceGP/paste

LantadymeAgaPaste/herb401,249 GP31.23

Dwarf weedAgaPaste/herb421,388 GP33.05

Irit leafAgaPaste/herb301,599 GP53.30

CadantineAgaPaste/herb342,316 GP68.12

TorstolAgaPaste/herb443,168 GP72.00

HuascaAgaPaste/herb205,863 GP293.15

LyeAvantoe is cheapest now

HerbPastePer herbHerb priceGP/paste

AvantoeLyePaste/herb301,571 GP52.37

ToadflaxLyePaste/herb322,211 GP69.09

KwuarmLyePaste/herb332,283 GP69.18

SnapdragonLyePaste/herb407,638 GP190.95

Ranarr weedLyePaste/herb265,842 GP224.69

Prices can move between batches. The cheapest row is recalculated from the same 5-minute Grand Exchange snapshot and one-hour fallback used by the Herblore Calculator.

Prices can change independently. Buy enough for one session and check again before the next large batch.

Normal potion making may still be faster or cheaper for your goal. Use the Herblore Calculator before buying a large stack.

07 / Best herbs for irons

Use spare herbs and keep the potions you will need later

Grand Exchange price does not matter on an Iron. Start with herbs you have plenty of, then keep a reserve for the potions your account still uses.

Our default herb choices

This is a default, not a ban. A late-game account with thousands of spare herbs should use its bank, not follow a generic preserve list forever.

Check the Ironman potion and secondary table if a missing ingredient is holding you back. Herbs become paste permanently; refine for the next reward, then reassess your bank.

Do not aim for an even 1:1:1 paste stack. Start with the herbs you can actually spare and make more of a colour when your next reward shows you need it.

08 / XP per herb

Which herbs give the most Mixology XP?

Herbs produce different amounts of paste, and the XP from that paste depends on the potions you make. This comparison runs from single-colour potions (MMM, AAA or LLL) to MixALot at level 81, with every potion handed in for a matching order.

The figures include 6 XP for refining each herb and a fixed 14 XP per potion from a workstation speedup. They exclude Digweed. Your actual XP per herb changes with the recipes and speedups you use; these are comparison figures, not the lowest and highest possible returns.

Mox paste

HerbMixology XP/herbUseful normal potion

Guam leaf74–132.3Guam tar

Marrentill94.4–170.2Marrentill tar

Tarromin108–195.5Tarromin tar

Harralander142–258.7Energy potion

Aga paste

HerbMixology XP/herbUseful normal potion

Irit leaf210–385Super attack

Huasca142–258.7Prayer regeneration

Cadantine237.2–435.5Super defence

Lantadyme278–511.3Antifire potion

Dwarf weed291.6–536.6Ranging potion

Torstol305.2–561.9Super combat potion

Lye paste

HerbMixology XP/herbUseful normal potion

Ranarr weed182.8–334.5Prayer potion

Toadflax223.6–410.3Saradomin brew

Avantoe210–385Super energy / stamina

Kwuarm230.4–422.9Super strength

Snapdragon278–511.3Super restore

Paste colour alone does not tell you the XP from one herb. Torstol gives 44 Aga paste, while Avantoe gives 30 Lye, so Torstol has the larger return in this comparison. That does not make it the better purchase: compare current GP per paste, and keep herbs you need for useful potions on an Ironman.

For example, one Avantoe supplies the 30 Lye paste for a Liplack liquor: 190 XP for the matching order, plus 14 for processing and 6 for refining, gives 210 XP. Using Digweed adds a bonus to the potion you choose.

09 / Best Mastering Mixology rewards

Recommended reward order

Choose Rewards on Supervisor Lalo, just outside the workroom in the basement, to open the shop. Each purchase spends all three listed resin amounts. You keep your earned resin between visits, so there is no need to finish an unlock in one session.

Every reward costs a different amount of Mox, Aga and Lye resin. Check the table before you start skipping orders. If one colour falls behind, prioritise orders that award that resin.

How long do the rewards take?

Use roughly 3,000 Mox, Aga and Lye resin per hour as the level-81 reference. Your actual time changes with skipped orders, mistakes, Digweed and how evenly the three resin colours come in.

Bought on its own from zero resin, Potion storage takes about 3 hours, the reagent pouch about 5 hours and the chugging barrel about 6.2 hours at the same reference rate.

10 / Training for profit

Make money while training Herblore

Read the Aldarium money-making guide and use the profit calculator to enter your own Mox, Aga and Lye rates, paste costs and preparation time. It also covers choosing Lye orders below level 81.

Once you have the permanent rewards you want, spend resin on Aldarium or a chugging barrel to sell. You still earn Herblore XP from the orders. For a main who prefers playing an activity to mixing potions at a bank, the sale can pay for the herbs and leave a profit.

Choose what you will sell before filling the hopper

Aldarium sells in small units and lets you cash out regularly. A barrel needs a much larger resin stack, roughly six hours at the reference pace below, and must be disassembled into its tradeable form. Its price can change while you earn it. Compare both against the cost of replacing your paste, even if the herbs are already in your bank.

1. Compare the current net return below. Check which resin colour limits each reward. A large surplus of the other two does not buy another barrel or Aldarium by itself.
2. Buy or refine a small batch. The herb comparison finds cheap paste by colour. Test the buy price before committing to a long session.
3. Train toward the reward’s resin balance. Complete all three orders while learning, use Digweed on MixALot when available, and favour your short colour when choosing which orders to make.
4. Check the actual sale price before buying more supplies. Treat the comparison as a current estimate. Your own full-session resin rate, including preparation, gives a better time budget than a perfect stretch of orders.

The paste-saving strategy stretches herbs, but is not automatically the most profitable use of an hour. Likewise, the pre-mixed XP strategy targets XP rather than resin income. Start with the normal order loop and measure the return before trying to optimise it.

For an Iron: the tradeable sale comparison is not the reason to play. Aldarium supplies your own prayer regeneration and goading potions; goggles and the amulet improve future potion batches. Keep earning XP while working toward those supplies.