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Herblore Equipment Grimy Herbs and Clean Herbs

Most Herblore products are potions of one sort or another: liquids that have magical properties. These fluids are contained in small glass bottles called vials. Each potion is made by starting with a vial containing what I call a base liquid, to which herbs and other ingredients are added. Thus, the first step in making any potion is to gather vials and fill them with the appropriate base.

There are two main bases that are used for most potions: water and coconut milk. A couple of oddball potions, and all of the barbarian mix potions, actually use other completed potions as bases.

Most potions begin with a base of plain water, and in fact, vials already filled with water are a commodity item in RuneScape. Serious herblorists will have to decide if they want to get empty vials and fill them, or obtain water-filled vials directly; another option is to buy vials of “junk” liquids and empty them.

Later in the guide, I will describe to you several different methods for obtaining both empty vials and vials of water, and also analyze the pros and cons of each. If you get empty vials then you will have to fill them with water before use, and again, there are a few different options for doing this.

Note that one oddball potion is Guthix rest tea; as the name suggests, it is made as a hot tea and so actually uses a cup of hot water as a base.

Four potions in the game use, instead of water, a base of coconut milk: these are the more powerful poisons and antipoisons:

• Extra strong weapon poison (Weapon poison+)
  
  
• Extra strong antipoison potion (Antipoison+)
  
  
• Super strong weapon poison (Weapon poison++)
  
  
• Super strong antipoison potion (Antipoison++)

Note that regular weapon poison, regular antipoison and super antipoison all use regular water as a base.

Coconut milk begins with coconuts, picked from player-grown palm trees (level 68 Farming required)—they can also be obtained in small quantities from nature implings in the Impetuous Impulses minigame. Use a hammer on a coconut to crack it, and then use the opened coconut on an empty vial; this will yield a vial of coconut milk and an empty coconut shell (which can be used to make supercompost). Note that making many vials of coconut milk is a somewhat laborious process requiring a fair bit of clicking.

Coconut milk can also be purchased from other players.

There are two special potions in the game that use other potions as bases. First, the Guthix balance potion is made from a regular restore potion, to which additional ingredients (garlic and silver dust) are added. Second, Sanfew serum uses a super restore potion as a base, with unicorn horn dust, snake weed and nail beast nails added.

Both of these are specialty items used rather rarely in the game. They are noteworthy not only because of extending existing potions, but also because the XP you get for making them is awarded with each ingredient added, not just when the potion is done.

All barbarian potions are made from 2-dose regular potions of the matching type. For example, you start with a 2-dose prayer potion to make a prayer mix (2). You can split a 4-dose regular potion into a pair of 2-dose potions by using it on an empty vial.

Herblore Equipment Grimy Herbs and Clean Herbs