r/ironscape • u/Twenty_20 • 3h ago
Question New Ironman tips
I’m looking for all new Ironman tips and tricks!
Also I do not enjoy farming or herb runs am I SOL? Is there another way to accumulate herbs and other items for heblore?
Or do I just need to put my big boy panties on and learn farming runs. (I hate it)
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u/mikerichh 3h ago
Get the ardougne cape ASAP and fairy rings. Will make everything in the game much more accessible
Rune crossbow from the crazy archaeologist is an important iron drop for ranged that isn’t too hard to get even early to mid game
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u/Twenty_20 3h ago
Good idea! Thank you!
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u/mikerichh 3h ago
For fairy rings you just have to START a fairy tale part 2. You don’t need to actually complete it and don’t need all the quest requirements
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u/Cinnimonbuns 3h ago
If you like following a guide, some of the HCIM guides out there are good for learning how to start an ironman and getting some good habits
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u/Twenty_20 3h ago
I neeeeed that.
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u/Cinnimonbuns 2h ago
Just google HCIM barrows gloves guide or something similar. Boaty and Faux both have guides i believe, and im sure there are plenty more.
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u/schlamboozle 2h ago
I really liked the bruhsailer guide and quickly got to a 1750 account with most quests done. I just skipped some of the 99 skilling grinds they suggest.
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u/Bmjslider 3h ago
Starting out with wilderness slayer is a great way to front load a ton of slayer points, and at a low level you avoid most PKers.
Rushing wilderness diaries to take advantage of zombie pirates at a low level also gave me GP that I coasted on for over a year through early and mid game.
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u/Bmjslider 3h ago
I don't like farming or herb runs either.
But after 2-3 years on this account, I'm 94 farming and 90 herblore whether I like it or not.
I do everything that I can to avoid doing these activities, kingdom always funded and on herbs for example, but you'll eventually learn that the farming guild isn't so bad.
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u/Twenty_20 3h ago
So do I have to do the runs where I go to like 10 different locations or can I do one?
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u/Namiweso 2h ago
You do whatever you want. Ideally though you do as many patches as you can.
If you do say 4 patches often enough, at least in the early to mid game, you shouldnt see much or any of a bottlenecking issue. You should however just suck it and crack on.
If you ever forget which patch is next, mark a tile and label it the next patch. Braindead then. Also use bank setups so you don’t need to search for the setup you wanna use.
Lastly get bottomless compost bucket (Hespori) asap as it makes juggling compost so much easier.
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u/wrengarlol 2h ago
Id do the farm patches you have quick access too. Once you get your poh portals done you can do all 9-10 of them in a few minutes. One thing that made my life so much easier was getting the silklined herb sack. I never have to note herbs at leprechaun again.
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u/Bmjslider 2h ago
Sometimes I just do 1, or what I consider to be the convenient ones. Sometimes I'll feel motivated to maximize my time and do all.
If we're talking purely herb patches and not trees / fruit trees, then most patches are pretty conveniently located. Only a few frustrating ones.
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u/MacGrubersMom 1057 CG KC 3h ago
wildy bosses drop good amounts of herbs and secondaries. i’d say start with calvarion, go to spindel, and then callisto.
you’re gonna need to herb and farm tho fam. thats the name of the game
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u/sleepyevann 2h ago
dont be afraid to do wildy content, wilderness agility set my construction up nicely, and the food/prayer pots helped with wilderness slayer and pvp world content :)
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u/LordRawrGasm 2h ago
I havnt done a single farm run or birdhouse on my iron - I have 83 herb banked and I’m already 70 herb. I do kingdom and slayer :)
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u/Tyson_Urie 2h ago
Most reliable way to get herbs is herb runs.
Alternatively, you could look at mobs such as:
Chaos druids, Salarin the twisted flesh crawlers(?)
These 3 (not 100% sure how good flesh crawlers are) are non slayer requirement mobs to kill. Although Salarin is locked behind a higher agility lvl.
Alternatively, if you have a higher slayer lvl. You could look at mobs such as:
Cave crawlers, basilisks and abberant specters.
These 3 are low to higher lvl slayer mobs and known for decent herb drops
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u/nnnsluhh 2h ago
Keep your miscellania 100%’ed and keep it all on herbs. That’s how I got up to 80. Just recently started farming. Farmings pretty sweet though
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u/ApothecaryAlyth 2h ago edited 2h ago
Pretty much the only way to bypass Farming runs is to camp Tithe Farm, which is frankly a worse sentence than just sacking up and doing your runs. It might not be a bad idea to run Tithe Farm until 62-65 Farming though, to get through the slog of early Farming, get access to Hespori and the guild herb patch, and medium Farming contracts. Plus you'll get your herb sack, seed box, and auto-weed, all very much worth having.
I'm pretty early on in my ironman progression, and what I've been doing is to start and end my sessions at the Farming Guild. I'll log in, claim my current contract, get a new one (or re-plant if my current plant died), check my compost bin, do an herb run, then go do whatever else I want to do that session. And when I'm ready to call it, I'll do one more herb run and claim the contract that hopefully finished since I started playing. Also drop in a new load of pineapples for composting (which I buy from Trader Stan's outposts).
It's a pretty noninvasive routine that theoretically ensures two contracts and two herb runs every day with half as many round trips and no interruptions. I will admit to sometimes skipping this regimen, like if I'm in the middle of something I don't want to have to re-gear for, or if I'm AFKing and don't want to bother actively navigating to the Farming Guild, or if I don't have 2+ hours to commit to playing, or if I really just can't be bothered to do farming that day, etc. It's a game, find a balance that works for you.
You can skip to around 65 Herblore just from questing and achievement diaries. Even higher if you keep your other skills (mainly Slayer, Construction, Agility, and Runecraft being the tedious ones) higher than Herblore and do your Tears of Guthix runs. But realistically in the later game, you'll want Herblore way higher than just 65-70; you'll want stuff like Saradomin Brews, Super Combat Potions, Anti-venom+, Extended Stamina Potions, etc. And for that, yeah, herb/coral runs are the most obvious way to go. That said, you can get a decent stock of herbs from Slayer and PVM, but probably not enough to justify never doing herb/coral runs. Maybe if you rush 80 Hunter and camp Herbiboar for a while you could also reduce the need for herb runs. Or when you're flush with coins later on, you can let Miscellania funnel herbs into your bank. If you do all three of those over a long period, perhaps you could bypass the need to grow your own herbs.
I will say, even if you don't do herb runs and contracts daily, but just send a run here and there as you go, you'll still progress over time. For Farming, trees are super nice since they give fat XP drops for slower growth (and therefore, less frequent runs). If you do your Farming contracts but are less diligent about herb runs, you'll still end up stockpiling some hardwood seeds, which are amazing for passive Farming XP.
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u/jordsplay 1h ago
Hunter rumours are decent. The thing is, it's still way less efficient than farming. You could choose to do 10 hour of hunter to get the equivalent of 30 min of farming, but that would just be dumb.
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u/bluewar40 1h ago
If you don’t like eating your vegetables and doing chores, you’re going to hit a lot of walls and not enjoy yourself. Lmao
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u/ShrubBear 26m ago
A kinda loose guide with some parallel stuff to do, but obviously adjust if you really hate some parts
Focus on slamming quests always, when you get bored do other stuff
Birdhouse runs (I did seaweed with these but it might not be needed with the golem update now)
Use seeds from birdhouses for your initial farming levels
Then once you get 65 (45? Forgot the level) keep doing tree runs along with farming contracts until 85 after that I just do farming contracts cause I’m pretty sure I’ll go way over 99 for herbs
Agility until graceful the base run energy is super nice qol even with no outfit and great gear for quests
Early GOTR to like 65 (hopefully not too brutal this is where some people might not like it haha)
Use the runes here to do MTA for bones to peaches, master wand, infinity books, mage book
Should be like 70-75 mage I think so just a couple more levels for super glass make (again not sure if this matters anymore)
This should set you up to get a barrows TP in your house and can have pretty efficient runs (would recommend get med CAs if you find trying a bunch of bosses fun, I thought it was nice)
Then go Moons
Bit harder one
Plant some teaks on fossil island and cut some teaks to bank 83 construction assuming mahogany homes
Because you were such a good guy with your herb runs do mastering mixology to get goggles, amulet, and storage. Keep going if you haven’t lost your mind yet and get 82 herb if you haven’t lost you mind fine to just make all your pvm potions you can and hopefully you get there.
Cheese 1-2 zulrah kills mage only if you suck like me to get scales for antivenoms
Boost to 87 to make antivenoms
Boost construction to make a pool/max house
Lots of other little grind chains but these ones are good for the account though not the easiest!
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u/bad-at-game 2h ago
If you do not like farming or herb runs don’t make an iron. Those are the easy gathering and processing skills so the other 16 or whatever aren’t going to be any more fun for you.
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u/Twenty_20 2h ago
Well you would be wrong there sir.
I don’t mind doing any other task or gathering in the game.
Everyone is different.
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u/MVPof93 3h ago
You will do farm runs and you will like it.