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OSRS Ironman daily and weekly runs

Recurring runs are how an Ironman turns time away from the game into supplies. None are mandatory, but the earlier you start the passive ones, the more they add up. Daily resets happen at midnight UTC.

Updated 1 October 2026. Facts checked against the game.

Your Today listThis routine filtered to your unlocks, with ticks that reset at 00:00 UTC.
Farming timers →Herb, tree and fruit tree timers that follow the real growth ticks.

Timed runs

  • Birdhouses (every ~50 minutes)

    Four houses on Fossil Island. Bring logs, a hammer, a chisel, clockworks and 10 cheap seeds per house. Keep Crafting one level above Hunter for the best house. The real prize is bird nests with tree and fruit tree seeds.

    Needs: Bone Voyage

  • Herb runs (every ~80 minutes)

    Falador, Port Phasmatys, Ardougne, Catherby, Hosidius, Troll Stronghold, Weiss, Harmony Island, the Farming Guild and Varlamore. Use ultracompost or Fertile Soil and magic secateurs, and keep an anima plant in the Farming Guild.

    Needs: 9 Farming

  • Tree and fruit tree runs

    Trees a few times a day, fruit trees roughly daily. Irons usually use ultracompost rather than paying gardeners.

    Needs: 15 / 27 Farming

  • Farming contracts

    The steadiest source of herb and tree seeds. Pick one up whenever you pass the Farming Guild.

    Needs: 65 Farming (hard contracts at 85)

  • Hespori

    A seed from contracts grows into a boss worth a lot of Farming XP and rare seeds.

    Needs: 65 Farming

Once a day

  • Kingdom of Miscellania

    Collect your resources and keep the coffer topped up so workers are paid the maximum. Approval drops each day; a few skilling actions on the islands restore it.

    Needs: Throne of Miscellania

  • Zaff's battlestaves

    15, 30, 60 or 120 noted battlestaves for easy to elite Varrock diary. Claim the diary reward first.

    Needs: Varrock diary

  • Bert's sand

    84 buckets of sand to your bank every day; automatic at elite Ardougne.

    Needs: The Hand in the Sand

  • Wizard Cromperty's essence

    100 to 250 noted pure essence daily.

    Needs: Medium Ardougne diary or higher

  • Diary freebies

    Bowstrings from flax (Kandarin), runes from Lundail (Wilderness), dynamite (Kourend & Kebos), ogre arrows (Western Provinces), bone crushing for bonemeal (Morytania), and daily charges on the Ardougne cloak, Explorer's ring and Falador shield.

  • Kittens for death runes

    Raise cats and sell them in West Ardougne.

    Needs: Gertrude's Cat

Once a week

  • Tears of Guthix

    Free XP in your lowest skill. You also need to have gained 100,000 XP or a quest point since your last visit.

    Needs: 49 Firemaking · 20 Crafting · 20 Mining (quest)

Sailing

Sailing has no daily reset of its own. Its recurring value is activity-based: shipwreck salvaging for seeds and planks, courier tasks along your route, and the extra farming patches (coral, calquat and trees) you can fold into existing runs.

The full list and what each needs

Everything above in one place, with the quest, diary or level that unlocks it. The Today tab in your planner shows only the ones you have.

Every day

  • Buy noted battlestaves from ZaffCheap battlestaves for elemental staves and battlestaff crafting. Needs: Varrock Easy diary.
  • Collect 84 buckets of sand from BertFree sand for molten glass, sent straight to the bank. Needs: The Hand in the Sand.
  • Claim free pure essence from Wizard CrompertyFree pure essence for Runecraft. Needs: Ardougne Medium diary.
  • Exchange noted flax for bow strings at the Flax keeperSkips spinning flax into bow strings by hand. Needs: Kandarin Easy diary.
  • Collect free ogre arrows from RantzFree ammo for ogre bows and early ranged. Needs: Western Provinces Easy diary.
  • Claim random runes from LundailFree random catalytic runes from Mage Arena. Needs: Wilderness Easy diary.
  • Claim free dynamite from ThirusFree dynamite for Blast Mine. Needs: Kourend & Kebos Medium diary.
  • Turn bones into bonemeal and slime with RobinSkips Ectofuntus grinding and slime collection. Needs: Morytania Medium diary.
  • Use Explorer's ring free alchemy casts30 rune-free alchs save nature runes (no Magic XP). Needs: Lumbridge & Draynor Easy diary, 21 Magic.
  • Falador shield prayer restoreFull prayer restore in an emergency. Needs: Falador Hard diary.

Every week

  • Play Tears of GuthixFree XP in your lowest-XP skill. Needs: Tears of Guthix.

On a timer

  • Top up Kingdom of Miscellania coffers and approvalPassive daily resources: herbs, logs, seaweed, fish, ores. Needs: Throne of Miscellania.
  • Birdhouse run on Fossil IslandPassive Hunter XP and bird nests (seeds) for ironmen. Needs: Bone Voyage, 5 Hunter, 5 Crafting, 25 Construction.
  • Herb farming runMain ironman herb supply for Herblore. Needs: 9 Farming.
  • Tree farming runLarge Farming XP from checking tree health. Needs: 15 Farming.
  • Fruit tree farming runBig Farming XP; fruit for protection payments. Needs: 27 Farming.
  • Giant seaweed patchesSoda-ash source for molten glass (Crafting). Needs: Bone Voyage, 23 Farming.
  • Hardwood tree runTeak/mahogany logs for Construction plus Farming XP. Needs: Bone Voyage, 35 Farming.
  • Grow and kill HesporiSeeds, anima seeds, bottomless compost bucket chance. Needs: 65 Farming.
  • Farming Guild contractSeed packs: steady seed income for ironmen. Needs: 45 Farming.

Questions

What dailies should an OSRS Ironman do?
Miscellania, Zaff's battlestaves, Bert's sand and whatever diary freebies you have unlocked, plus herb and birdhouse runs through the day.
When do OSRS dailies reset?
At 00:00 UTC.

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