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Herblore can be quite an interesting skill, allowing you to brew your own potions and mixtures by combining the correct ingredients together. Each potion has a unique effect when you drink or use it, such as curing poison, raising your defense, or adding poison to a dagger. Of course, this is a Members-Only skill, and you need to complete the Druidic Ritual Quest before you can begin making potions.

The Basics

Generally, a potion is made up of three separate ingredients: a specific type of herb, a secondary ingredient, and a water-filled vial.

Obtaining Herbs

There are a number of ways of obtaining herbs for use in your potions:

1. Farming - At level 9, you can begin growing herbs in your own Farming Patch.
2. Monster and NPC Drops - Herbs can be dropped by many of the monsters and NPCs you'll come across in RuneScape. Men, Women, Druids, Skeletons, and Giants are just a few that can drop herbs.
3. Trading Other Players - Of course, you can also buy herbs from other players in the game.

When you grow your own herbs, or pick them up from monster loot, they will be labeled as a "Grimy" herb. Before being able to use it in a potion you'll need to clean it by right-clicking on the herb and selecting the "Clean" option. See the Herb section below for more information.

Obtaining Vials

All potions are contained in a vial so that they can be consumed later. There are several methods of obtaining vials:

1. Crafting - Vials can be crafted using the glassblowing technique.
2. Bought From Stores - There are herblore shops in Taverley, Shilo Village, Mort'ton and East Ardougne where you can buy empty vials.
3. Monster Drops - Some monsters such as Water Elementals drop vials.
4. Trading Other Players - Vials can be bought from other players in the game as well.

The Herblore Help guide contains the best methods of obtaining vials in the Obtaining Vials section.

Creating Potions

Potions are created in three main steps. First, you need to fill an empty vial with water. Some potions require another type of liquid such as Coconut Milk, but it depends on the potion.

Next, add your cleaned herb to the water-filled vial. You'll now have an unfinished potion (unf). Lastly, add the required secondary ingredient to the unfinished potion to complete it. There you have it, a freshly-made potion, ready for drinking!

Ground-Ingredients: Certain potions require an ingredient such as a dragon scale, which must first be ground up into powder before being used in a potion. To grind an ingredient up, use a Pestle and Mortar (available at any Herblore shop) with the item.

See the Other Ingredients section for more information on secondary ingredients.

Combining & Emptying Potions

Most potions you make will have 3 doses, which means that you can drink it 3 times before it's completely used up, with exception to Weapon Poison, which only has 1 dose. You can combine your used potions together to make one up to 4-doses, as long as they're the same type of potion. You can also choose the "Empty Potion" option to completely empty the vial to make room for another potion.

Greenman's Ale

These drinks will give your Herblore a quick "level-up" when you drink them, which can be helpful if you're just a level away from Identifying an herb or mixing a potion. You can buy them from the bar in Yanille, just west of the Magic Guild for 10gp.

Cleaning Herbs

Any herbs grown using your Farming skill, or picked up as loot from an enemy, must be cleaned before being used in a potion. When picked up, it will be called a "Grimy" herb. By right-clicking on it in your inventory and selecting the "Clean" option, your character will clean it up and make it usable in a potion.

Herb Notes

• Jungle Potion Herbs - These are found on Karamja during the Jungle Potion Quest and include Ardrigal, Sito Foil, Volencia Moss, Rogues Purse and Snakeweed.
• Agility Arena - Snapdragon and Toadflax can both be exchanged for tickets in the Agility Arena.

Zahur

If you need your herbs cleaned for you, head to the city of Nardah and speak with Zahur. He will clean all of your herbs for you!

Other Ingredients

Each potion consists of an identified herb, and another ingredient to mix in with it. You need to combine the correct ingredients together to make the potion of your choice, and many of the ingredients can be looted from enemies. Others may require you to venture into the Wilderness to find them.

Ingredient Chart
Item & Picture	Where to Obtain
Eye of Newt	Bought: Taverley Herblore Shop, Port Sarim Magic Emporium. Dropped By: Zombies
Unicorn Horn	Normal: Unicorns; ground the horn with a Pestle and Mortar. Ground: Chaos Druid Warriors
Limpwurt Root	Dropped By: Hobgoblins and Giants
Ashes	Dropped By: Demons and Imps; they'll also appear from an extinguished fire.
Red Spider's Eggs	Respawn: Karamja Volcano and the Varrock Sewers past the giant spider web.
Blamish Snail Slime	Obtained: Kill & cook a Mort Myre Snail, grind it with a Pestle while carrying a Test Bottle with you.
Chocolate Bar	Bought: Port Sarim Grocery Store, Gnome Stronghold, Culinaromancer's Chest in Lumbridge Respawn: South of the Lost City of Zanaris bank, Cook's Guild.
White Berries	Respawn: Level 37-40 Wilderness in the Red Dragon Isle. Be careful of the Red Dragons wandering around! Dropped By: Cave Crawlers
Toad Legs	Respawn: The Gnome Stronghold Swamp, southeast of Jatix's Herblore shop in Taverley; remove the legs from the Toads.
Snape Grass	Respawn: Hobgoblin area just west of  the Crafting Guild. Dropped By: Tribesman on Karamja Island.
Mort Myre Fungi	Respawn: Use your Druid Spell near any log in the Mort Myre Swamp and pick the fungi.
Blue Dragon Scale	Respawn: In the chamber home to the Blue Dragons in the Taverley Member's Dungeon.
Wine of Zamorak	Respawn: On the altar in the Temple of Zamorak. You must cast the Telekinetic Grab spell on the wine to get it. Or, just kill all of the Monks of Zamorak, pray at the Chaos Altar and then take the wine.
Potato Cactus	Respawn: In the Kalphite Lair, in the chamber west of the room leading to the second level of the cave.
Jangerberries	Respawn: On the island just west of Yanille. You can either use Telekinetic Grab to take them, or bring a rope to swing across the river (requires 30 Agility).
Tree Roots	Obtained: Chop down a tree (Yew or Magic) and use a spade on the stump to dig out the roots. Note: You must have farmed the tree yourself to get a tree root from it.
Cactus Spine	Obtained: Farmed by you or another player.
Poison Ivy Berry	Obtained: Farmed by you or another player.
Crushed Bird Nest	Obtained: Bird nests sometimes fall out of trees while chopping them down. Just use a Pestle and Mortar with the nest to crush it.
Coconut Milk	Obtained: Use a Hammer on a Coconut to crack it open. then use the open coconut with an empty Vial to fill it with Coconut Milk. Coconuts can be Farmed or traded from other players.
Garlic	Obtained: Can be found in a house in Draynor, or in a chest in the Burgh De Rott Inn.
Silver Dust	Obtained: Made by crushing a Silver Bar in the bone grinder in Port Phasmatys.
Nightshade	Obtained: During the Watchtower Quest. Grown: From the Farming skill.
Gorak Claw	Obtained: Sometimes dropped by Goraks.
Kebbit Teeth Dust	Obtained: Catch a Sabre-toothed Kebbit with your Hunter skill and use a Pestle and Mortar with it's teeth.
Starflower	Obtained: Obtained during the Cure a Queen Quest.
Ground Goat's Horn	Obtained: Use a Pestle and Mortar on a Goat's Horn. Goats can be found in the desert, north of Sophanem, near the Kalphite entrance, to the west and north of Nardah, and near Uzer.

Potions

Now that you've got all your identified herbs and the required ingredients to go with them, you're about ready to make your own potions!

Potion Chart
Potion & Picture	Herblore Level	Herblore Experience	Herb & 2nd Ingredient	Effect
Attack	3	25	Guam Leaf & Eye of Newt	10-15% added to Attack
Anti-Poison	5	37.5	Marrentill & Ground Unicorn Horn	Cures Poison
Waking Sleep	5	168	Guam, Marrentil, Ground Suqah Tooth, special Lunar Vial.	Used during the Lunar Diplomacy Quest.
Relicym's Balm	8	42	Rogues Purse & Snake Weed	Cures Disease
Strength	12	50	Tarromin & Limpwurt Root	10-15% added to Strength
Serum 207	15	50	Tarromin & Ashes	Heals the Afflicted
Guthix's Rest	18	59.5	Heat a Bowl of Water, pour the water into a Tea Cup, add 1 Harralander, 2 Guam Leaves and 1 Marrentil.	Cures some poison, restores Run Energy & boosts hits by 5 if you have full health
Stat Restore	22	62.5	Harralander & Red Spider's Eggs	Restores lowered stats to base level, excluding hits & Prayer.
Guthix Balance	22	-	Harralander, Red Spider Eggs, Garlic, Silver Dust. You can add garlic and silver to a stat restore potion to make this.	Used to finish off Vampyres.
Blamish Oil	25	80	Harralander & Blamish Snail Slime	Use this mixture on a Fishing Rod to make an Oily Fishing Rod.
Energy	26	67.5	Harralander & Chocolate Dust	Restores 10% Energy
Defense	30	75	Ranarr Weed & White Berries	10-15% added to Defense
Agility	34	80	Toadflax & Toad Legs	3 levels added to Agility
Combat Potion	36	84	Harralander & Ground Goat's Horn	3-12 levels added to Strength and Attack.
Restore Prayer	38	87.5	Ranarr Weed & Snape Grass	Restores 40% Prayer
Super Attack	45	100	Irit Leaf & Eye of Newt	20% added to Attack
Bravery	45	0	Snake Weed & Ardrigal	Enables drinker to explore the cave in the Legend's Quest.
Super Anti-Poison	48	107.5	Irit Leaf & Ground Unicorn Horn	Cure poison & adds a temporary resistance to poison.
Fishing	50	112.5	Avantoe & Snape Grass	Adds 3 levels to Fishing
Super Energy	52	118	Avantoe & Mort Myre Fungi	Restores 20% Energy
Hunter Potion	53	120	Avantoe & Kebbit Teeth Dust	+3 to Hunter
Super Strength	55	125	Kwuarm & Limpwurt Root	20% added to Strength
Magic Essence	57	130	Starflower & Gorak Claw	+3 to Magic
Weapon Poison	60	137.5	Kwuarm & Ground Blue Dragon Scale	Poisons 5 Arrows, 1 Dagger or 1 Spear.
Super Restore	63	142	Snapdragon & Red Spider Eggs	Restores all lowered stats to base level and 40% prayer.
Super Defense	66	150	Cadantine & White Berries	20% added to Defense
Extra-Strong AntiPoison	68	155	Toadflax, Coconut Milk & Yew Roots	Cures poison and provides a longer immunity to it.
Anti-FireBreath	69	158	Lantadyme & Ground Blue Dragon Scale	Temporary resistance to Dragon's Firebreath
Ranging	72	165	Dwarf Weed & Wine of Zamorak	15% added to Ranged
Extra-Strong Weapon Poison	73	170	Cactus Spine, Red Spider Eggs & Coconut Milk	Use with an arrows, dagger or spear to poison it.
Magic	76	172.5	Lantadyme & Potato Cactus	Adds 4 levels to Magic
Zamorak	78	175	Torstol & Jangerberries	Lowers hits & Defense by 10%; increases Strength by 10% and Attack by 20%.
Super-Strong Anti-Poison	79	180	Irit Leaf, Magic Tree Roots & Coconut Milk	Cures poison and provides a very long immunity to it.
Saradomin's Brew	81	180	Toadflax & Crushed Birdnest	Increases Defense by 20%, and hitpoints by 15%; lowers your Strength, Magic & Ranged by 10%.
Super-Strong Weapon Poison	82	186.5	Nightshade, Poison Ivy Berries & Coconut Milk	Use with arrows, dagger or spear to poison it.

Herblore Notes

• Stat Restore potions come in handy when using a special attack that drains one or more of your stats to increase another, like the Dragon Battleaxe attack.
• To use a weapon poison potion, just use a weapon such as a dagger or stack of arrows with it.
• To get a Serum 208, simply use a Serum 207 with the fire while the sanctity is at 20% in the Mort'ton Temple.
• To get full resistance to FireBreath, just drink a dose of Anti-FireBreath Potion while equipping the Anti-Dragon Shield.

Gathering Herbs

Sometimes, it can be difficult to gather new herbs when you really need them. There are 2 methods (besides looting monsters and trading other members) which you can use to increase your Herb stock.

Exchanging Goutweed

If you've completed the Eadgar's Ruse Quest (in which you had to get a Goutweed for Sanfew), you can use this method. Head to the Troll Stronghold (of course, you'll probably need some food and equipment!) and make your way to the Storeroom. You'll need the Storeroom Key to get in, which is in the southeast Kitchen Drawer (near Burntmeat the troll).

Once you're inside, you'll need to get through the "maze" of boxes to the southern part of the room. Don't let the Troll guard see you! Once you get to the south side of the room near the sleeping troll, search the nearby crate for a Goutweed.

Repeat this as many times as you wish. Once you're all set, head over to Sanfew, located upstairs in the Taverley Herblore Shop. He'll trade you as many unidentified herbs as you give him Goutweed. So if you bring him 10, he'll give you 10 unidentified herbs.

Sinister Chest

You will find Salarin the Twisted in the Yanille Agility Dungeon, and he can only be killed with the use of Strike magic spells. Each time you kill him, there's a chance that he will drop a Sinister Key, used to open the sinister Chest in the Skeleton room.

Once you have a Sinister Key, leave the dungeon and head to the old (practically dilapidated) house found north of Yanille. You'll need a knife or other sharp object to slice through the web, and you'll probably want an anti-poison potion as well.

Go down the stairs, walk across the Balance Ledge (you'll see an area where the floor has apparently caved in), and then enter the room to the west to find the chest. Open it with the Sinister Key, and you'll be poisoned. But you'll also find several herbs, including:

• 3 Ranarr Weed
• 2 Harralander
• 1 Irit Leaf
• 1 Avantoe
• 1 Torstol
• 1 Kwuarm

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