#also looking for each herb mini milestone helped me get thru it too

[imunbreakabledude]

Nice acc, what's your herb run strats? I'm neglectful. Any good show recs too? I'm out :(

ah thanks! been seriously playing the iron as my main acc for a bit over a year now and work from home at the moment so i have been able to make more concerted progress, and wanted to track it i guess lol

for show recs I am happy to give them but there are simply so many shows out there that some pointer of what you are looking for in tone/genre/topic (or other shows you like) would help narrow it!

as for herb runs i am not particularly on the forefront of efficiency but I guess some basic tips that you might already know?

I have all the patches unlocked besides harmony (mory elite are kinda high reqs) - definitely do the My Arm quests for the troll patches if you haven't

other unlocks if you don't already have them - lumby med diary for tele to falador patch (hard for unlimited), ardy med/hard diary for patch tele, hosidius favor for patch protection, one of the kandarin diaries (i forget if it starts at med or hard?) boosts catherby patch yield; i think one of the kourend diaries boosts the farming guild patch yield as well

for seeds just always be doing farming contracts. all the time. every login... just make the farming guild your home base and do contracts whenever you can. rush the 65/85 milestones as soon as you can, use a garden pie to boost from 82->85 for hard contracts, it's worth it

i'm assuming you already have magic secateurs... and probably already use ultracompost but if you don't... it is 100% worth it. always use ultracompost on everything it is more than worth the scant time it takes to make a big batch of it

For transportation to each patch, I do:

Catherby -> House portal (can boost from 83 magic with magic pot/mind bomb to make the portal in a regular portal chamber - i think you can't boost for a nexus tho). Camelot tele next best option

Falador -> Explorer's ring

Morytania -> Ectophial

Ardougne -> Ardy cloak 2

Hosidius -> xeric's talisman (i think POH at hosi also works but I like having mine in rimmington personally since there's no other good rimmington tele)

troll stronghold roof -> Get the salt/basalt tele in your POH portal chamber. it doesn't take that long to get the salts for the regular (non nexus) portal and is 100% worth it. if you have 73 agil and fremmy hard it puts you right on the roof, even without that it's much faster than trollheim tele

weiss -> ditto above. (personally I have a portal chamber with weiss/troll stronghold/catherby portals which is super convenient for clicking them on runs and also saves having to get the more salts/higher levels to get those in the nexus)

farming guild -> spirit tree. (skills necklace is also fine, but thinking back to the days when i used the fairy ring to get to the guild? oh god that sucked. this is another reason rushing 85 farm helps a lot - if you don't already have it, as soon as you get 82/83 plant a spirit tree in your POH and in the farming guild (can boost with garden pie to get into the top tier). the one in your POH doesn't count towards the limit so you can do both right at 83

again i'm assuming you know but i guess i'll type it anyway because there's always people who don't know this whenever it's mentioned on reddit... note your produce at the tool leprechauns lol

also if you get irrationally pissed off when weeds grow right after you harvest a patch ... autoweed from tithe farm only takes 30-40 mins tops to get and is super easy and while not necessary at all just feels NICE to not have to bring a rake or feel bad when you space out after harvesting

one purely superficial tip i took from another iron i think, who probably also did it while going mad doing herb runs, was i planted a different crop at each allotment patch and just left it so it looks nicer than empty/weed patches! cabbages at fally, potatoes at mory, strawberries at kourend... it makes it feel more like they are my little gardens when i walk up to them lmao (you may want to actually plant limpwurt roots tho and harvest those with every herb run until you build up a good stock of them) (snape grass I only plant in the farming guild for contracts and have gotten way more than enough that way, no need to plant it anywhere else) (also, plant potato cacti and harvest whenever you can to build up a good stock for using your lantadymes bc it's easier to gather those than blue dragon scales - personally I leave one always grown in the farm guild until i need to harvest it for a contract, and leave one in al kharid that i can pick from any time i pass by without having to regrow it)

other than that there aren't really any tricks but yeah. don't listen to anyone who says master farmers are the only way, honestly they're kinda shit for herb seeds in my experience (and i hate pickpocketing) - contracts + slayer (but mostly contracts) will keep you fed on herb seeds

wow i just wrote so much about herb runs after saying i had nothing to say about herb runs... this game is something.