Herblore training for Ironmen
Herblore makes your combat potions, prayer potions and restores, so it decides how long your trips last.
Herbs and secondaries. Farming, Slayer drops and contracts are the main sources.
Methods and XP rates from the OSRS Wiki's Ironman and training guides, October 2026. Times are our estimates.
1 to 50
1.5 h
1 to 70
7 h
1 to 80
16 h
1 to 90
35 h
1 to 99
78 h
Methods by level
| Levels | Method | XP/hr | Time for this stretch | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–26 | Attack potionsDerived: 2,500 potions/hr. Herb-gated; quests alone reach 26. | ~62,500 | 20 min | Druidic Ritual |
| 26–38 | Energy potionsDerived rate; harralanders must be farmed or looted. | ~168,750 | 20 min | Druidic Ritual |
| 38–63 | Prayer potionsDerived rate; ranarr supply is the real bottleneck. | ~218,750 | 4 h | Druidic Ritual |
| 63–81 | Super restoresDerived rate; snapdragons and red spiders' eggs are gated. | ~356,250 | 13 h | Druidic Ritual |
| 81–99 | Saradomin brewsDerived rate; time spent gathering herbs not included. | ~450,000 | 60 h | Druidic Ritual |
XP rates are typical, not maximum. Our time column scales skills where you gather your own supplies (Prayer, Herblore, Cooking, Construction, Smithing, Fletching, Crafting) to include that gathering.
What Herblore levels unlock
- 3Jungle Potionquest
- 5Lunar Diplomacyquest
- 8Zogre Flesh Eatersquest
- 10The Dig Sitequest
- 14Watchtowerquest
- 15Shades of Mort'tonquest
- 18One Small Favourquest
- 25Heroes' Questquest
- 25Recipe for Disasterquest
- 30At First Lightquest
- 31Eadgar's Rusequest
- 40A Taste of Hopequest
- 45Legends' Questquest
- 48Land of the Goblinsquest
- 50A Kingdom Dividedquest
- 52Grim Talesquest
- 57Fairytale II - Cure a Queenquest
- 58Herb sackunlock
- 62Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empirequest
- 64The Blood Moon Risesquest
- 65While Guthix Sleepsquest
- 70Song of the Elvesquest
Plan it for your account
Look yourself up and use Goal mode: it shows the levels a target needs and roughly how long each takes from your real XP.
Questions
- How long does 99 Herblore take on an Ironman?
- Roughly 78 h with the methods on this page, including rough time to gather your own supplies. Faster methods exist if you push harder.
- What is the best way to train Herblore as an Ironman?
- It changes with level: Super restores from 63, then Saradomin brews from 81. The full table above shows every stage.