Introduction
You must have completed the Druidic Ritual Quest in order to begin using this skill. To start this quest speak to Kaqemeex who is located at the Druids Circle North of Taverley.

There are three main ways in which you can obtain herbs within RuneScape, there are different advantages to using each style, whilst the more practiced herbalist can use a combination of techniques in order to achieve maximum levels of stock.

You can obtain herbs by:

Farming

Through the use of the Farming skill, you can choose which herbs you want to grow (once the necessary seeds have been obtained of course). Those who use this skill proficiently will be able to grow crops, as well as breeding herbs and many other plantation. For more information on farming, please see the Farming section of the manual.

Drops

Herbalists can pursue a variety of man and beast found across the world and collect herbs from the drops upon the creatures death. Herbs obtained in this manner will need to be identified in order to tell what kind of herb they are. Monsters that drop herbs include:

• Men and Women
• Thugs
• Skeletons
• Chaos Druids
• Slayer Monsters - especially Cave Crawlers.

Purchase

The richer herbalists may buy herbs from people who have gathered stock using the above two methods. A lot of the herbs you find within the game will be unidentified. To be able to use them you will first need to use your herblore skill to identify them. To identify a herb, simply click the right mouse button, once the cursor is hovering over it and choose identify from the list of options.

If you have the appropriate herblore level needed to identify the herb, its name will now be displayed when you hover the cursor over it. As your herblore level increases so will your ability to identify different types of herbs.

Creating either a potion or a poison is a three stage process, with creations following the basic setup as shown below:

*Some higher level creations will use coconut milk instead of water. Coconut milk is made from using a hammer on a coconut, then using the half coconut to fill an empty vial with the coconut milk:

The same type potion can also be combined. For example, if you have a 1 dose and a 3 dose attack potion you can right click and ‘use’ one of the potions on the other making a 4 dose potion. Alternatively, choose to empty the vial by using the right click option.

Now that you know what all the ingredients are and how to put them together, in order to create a potion you are ready to begin mastering the herblore skill. The easiest way in which to advance your Herblore is to actually make potions and poisons.

Click here to view the Herblore FAQs