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Specialty and Quest-Related Potions Herb Tars

Unfinished potions are the intermediate products that result when you add to a vial some, but not all, of the items needed for a potion. To most herblorists, these items are only waypoints on the journey to a completed potion, and in fact, for most players they exist only for the few seconds needed to withdraw secondary ingredients from the bank to add to them. It turns out, though, that these items are actually rather useful and even important to the Herblore skill in their own right. Understanding how they work can be essential in finding ways to train efficiently and even make money with the skill.

Most regular potions are made by adding a single herb and a single secondary ingredient to a vial of liquid. Each step takes about the same amount of time and effort—adding the secondary is a little slower—yet you get all of the XP when you add the secondary item and none for adding the herb. In other words: making unfinished potions gives you zero XP.

The reason this matters is that unfinished potions concentrate training speed potential, and are tradeable. Since they can be bought and sold, unfinished potions represent a way that players can prioritize making money or gaining XP.

Several unfinished potions are used in multiple potions; they are differentiated by the secondary ingredient(s) added. This can have a big impact on the relative costs and availability of potions. For example, I am level 85 Herblore, and I’ve made hundreds, if not thousands of super defence potions—but I’ve never made a regular defence potion. Most players are the same. The reason is that a regular defence pot is made from an unfinished ranarr potion, which can also be used to make a prayer potion. Nobody wants to waste a ranarr on a defence potion when they can make a prayer pot from it!

You will need to take into consideration when deciding how to use your herbs. For example, you can make Agility potions from unfinished toadflax potions at level 34, but given that this same herb is also used in two high-level potions, that’s a big waste of your money.

Table 23 shows much of the same information about regular and specialty potions that I illustrated in Table 21 and Table 22, but has been reorganized to group together potions by the unfinished potions they use. This allows you to see what the “tradeoffs” are in terms of using particular herbs, and which levels are needed to add secondary ingredients to differentiate an unfinished potion. I’ve also included the “oddball” potions, such as Guthix rest tea (which uses no seconds, only herbs) and the Guthix balance and Sanfew serum potions (which are made from existing potions and have only seconds, not herbs), and I show all the intermediate steps involved in making these.

Table 23: Unfinished Potions and the Finished Potions Made From Each

Herblore Level for Unfinished Potion	Unfinished Potion	Base Item	Ingredient	Item Produced	Herblore Level for Finished Potion	Secondary Ingredients	Final Product	Experience Points
3	Unfinished Guam Potion	Vial of water	Clean guam	Guam potion (unf)	3	Eye of newt	Attack potion (3)	25
					31	Rubium	Super fishing explosive	55
5	Unfinished Marrentill Potion	Vial of water	Clean marrentill	Marrentill potion (unf)	5	Unicorn horn dust	Antipoison (3)	37.5
8	Unfinished Rogue’s Purse Potion	Vial of water	Clean rogue's purse	Rogue's purse potion (unf)	8	Clean snake weed	Relicym's balm (3)	40
12	Unfinished Tarromin Potion	Vial of water	Clean tarromin	Tarromin potion (unf)	12	Limpwurt root	Strength potion (3)	50
					15	Ashes	Serum 207 (3)	50
15	Unfinished Ash Potion	Vial of water	Ashes	Ash potion (unf)	15	Clean tarromin	Serum 207 (3)	50
18	Unfinished Guthix Rest Tea (Step 1 of 4)	Cup of hot water	Clean guam	Herb tea (blue)	--	--	--	14
	Unfinished Guthix Rest Tea (Step 2 of 4)	Herb tea (blue)	Clean guam	Herb tea (green-blue)	--	--	--	14
	Unfinished Guthix Rest Tea (Step 3 of 4)	Herb tea (green-blue)	Clean marrentill	Herb tea (green)	--	--	--	15
	Guthix Rest Tea	Herb tea (green)	Clean harralander	Guthix rest (3)	--	--	--	16
22	Unfinished Harralander Potion	Vial of water	Clean harralander	Harralander potion (unf)	22	Red spiders’ eggs	Restore potion (3)	62.5
					25	Blamish snail slime	Blamish oil	80
					26	Chocolate dust	Energy potion (3)	67.5
					36	Goat horn dust	Combat potion (3)	84
22	Unfinished Guthix Balance Potion (Step 1 of 2)	Restore potion (1, 2, 3 or 4)	--	--	22	Garlic	Guthix balance (unf) (1, 2, 3 or 4 doses)	25
	Unfinished Guthix Balance Potion (Step 2 of 2)	Guthix balance (unf) (1, 2, 3 or 4 doses)	--	--	22	Silver dust	Guthix balance (1, 2, 3 or 4)	25
30	Unfinished Ranarr Potion	Vial of water	Clean ranarr	Ranarr potion (unf)	30	White berries	Defence potion (3)	75
					38	Snape grass	Prayer potion (3)	87.5
34	Unfinished Toadflax Potion	Vial of water	Clean toadflax	Toadflax potion (unf)	34	Toad’s legs	Agility potion (3)	80
					81	Crushed nest	Saradomin brew (3)	180
40	Unfinished Spirit Weed Potion	Vial of water	Clean spirit weed	Spirit weed potion (unf)	40	Cockatrice egg	Summoning potion (3)	92
45	Unfinished Irit Potion	Vial of water	Clean irit	Irit potion (unf)	45	Eye of newt	Super attack (3)	100
					48	Unicorn horn dust	Super antipoison (3)	107.5
50	Unfinished Avantoe Potion	Vial of water	Clean avantoe	Avantoe potion (unf)	50	Snape grass	Fishing potion (3)	112.5
					52	Mort myre fungus	Super energy (3)	117.5
					53	Kebbit teeth dust	Hunter potion (3)	120
55	Unfinished Kwuarm Potion	Vial of water	Clean kwuarm	Kwuarm potion (unf)	55	Limpwurt root	Super strength (3)	125
					60	Dragon scale dust	Weapon poison	137.5
57	Unfinished Magic Essence Potion	Vial of water	Star flower	Magic essence (unf)	57	Gorak claw powder	Magic essence (3)	130
63	Unfinished Snapdragon Potion	Vial of water	Clean snapdragon	Snapdragon potion (unf)	63	Red spiders’ eggs	Super restore (3)	142.5
65	Unfinished Sanfew Serum (Step 1 of 3)	Super restore (1, 2, 3 or 4)	--	--	65	Unicorn horn dust	Mixture - step 1 (1, 2, 3 or 4)	47.5
	Unfinished Sanfew Serum (Step 2 of 3)	Mixture - step 1 (1, 2, 3 or 4)	--	--	65	Clean snake weed	Mixture - step 2 (1, 2, 3 or 4)	52.5
	Unfinished Sanfew Serum (Step 3 of 3)	Mixture - step 2 (1, 2, 3 or 4)	--	--	65	Nail beast nails	Sanfew serum (1, 2, 3 or 4)	60
66	Unfinished Cadantine Potion	Vial of water	Clean cadantine	Cadantine potion (unf)	66	White berries	Super defence (3)	150
68	Unfinished Extra Strong Antipoison Potion	Coconut milk	Clean toadflax	Antipoison+ (unf)	68	Yew roots	Antipoison+ (4)	155
69	Unfinished Lantadyme Potion	Vial of water	Clean lantadyme	Lantadyme potion (unf)	69	Dragon scale dust	Antifire potion (3)	157.5
					76	Potato cactus	Magic potion (3)	172.5
72	Unfinished Dwarf Weed Potion	Vial of water	Clean dwarf weed	Dwarf Weed potion (unf)	72	Wine of Zamorak	Ranging potion (3)	162.5
73	Unfinished Extra Strong Weapon Poison Potion	Coconut milk	Cactus spine	Weapon poison+ (unf)	73	Red spiders’ eggs	Weapon poison+	165
78	Make Unfinished Torstol Potion	Vial of water	Clean torstol	Torstol potion (unf)	78	Jangerberries	Zamorak brew (3)	175
79	Unfinished Super Strong Antipoison Potion	Coconut milk	Clean irit	Antipoison++ (unf)	79	Magic roots	Antipoison++ (4)	177.5
82	Unfinished Super Strong Weapon Poison Potion	Coconut milk	Cave nightshade	Weapon poison++ (unf)	82	Poison ivy berries	Weapon poison++	190

Specialty and Quest-Related Potions Herb Tars

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