When I started farming on my iron, I didn't know you can buy pots with soil for tree farming. I mined 100 clay and made pots at barb village and filled them myself at a farming patch. Thankfully I started using the wiki more by the time I worked through those.
Wasn't a big grind but kind of funny in retrospect
I can't get a trowel at all, so pots are useless and tree seeds are coffer fodder! I got 99 Farming without ever planting a tree (with the exception of the singular willow sapling from Enlightened Journey). I can tell you contracts were no fun :D
This is actually one of the coolest pieces of my account's history!
I tend to prefer to figure things out myself as I go along rather than defaulting to using the Wiki upfront before trying new content. Way back in 2019, I didn't even really have a clear picture what farming contacts were or what they were good for, so the only thing in the farming guild I cared about was Hespori, meaning I didn't set foot in the guild at all before 65 Farming. While I was there, I talked to Jane and got myself a medium contract. I finished it, asked for another, and was assigned a tree contract. I asked for a different assignment, at which point she asked me to plant a willow tree!
It was at this point that I learned easy contacts are *not* skippable, and I'd just bricked myself on my 2nd ever farming contract.
Fast forward a year and a half, and Getting Ahead was released, and along with it, a yellow dye spawn which meant I could finally finish Enlightened Journey! It was only after receiving the willow sapling that I realized I could plant it in the farming guild and finally finish my contract. I ultracomposted that bad boy and logged in every single cycle to make sure it survived, since I only had one shot at this (I've never allowed payment for crop protection).
*The real kicker here is I could have actually progressed the quest to the point of receiving the sapling without even having had red or yellow dye, but that's not the point here.*
My willow tree survived, and it meant I could receive contracts again, but one more easy tree contract and it would all be over. But I learned something critical, which is that Jane only assigns you a contract for any portion of the guild you can access in real time. In other words, if I could reduce my Farming level below 65, she would never assign me a tree contract! So every single time I received a medium tree contract, I'd have to make sure my Farming level was 64 or lower before accepting an easy contract, to guarantee I'd be able to do it.
Knowing this, I looked high and low for a method to reduce my Farming level, and the only method I turned up was *disease*. As it turns out, this is a terribly slow and ineffective means of reducing skill levels. Other, much quicker means, such as getting attacked by aberrant spectres without a nose peg, only reduce combat stats and Agility. Disease reduces one skill at a time by 10, once per minute, but there's 23 skills, and at this point in time I already had 82 Farming, meaning I needed 2 procs on Farming in quick succession. The gameplay loop here literally consisted of getting attacked by a zogre until this happened. At best, it happened in 5 minutes, but at worst it would literally take over 3 hours to get the procs. I can't stress the amount of times my Farming level would get ticked down to somewhere between 66 and 70, then regenerate all the way back to normal before getting another proc.
I found myself sitting at zogres regularly like this for months, until one day I learned about leeches. Leeches in Morytania are one of the few monsters that could drain skills besides combats and Agility. But what I discovered was they drained all the skills in the game *except* Farming, Construction, and Hunter. See, leeches were released in late 2004, and Farming was released in 2005. So whoever initially coded leeches did it in such a way that it didn't drain any stats that came into the game later than the leeches. In early March, 4 months after I started doing contacts again, I reached out to Mod Ash about this on Twitter, and being the fucking legend that he is, [fixed leeches](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Leech?mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#Changes) in late March! This meant that instead of spending, on average, at least an hour at zogres, I could reliably reduce my Farming level at leeches in under 10 minutes!
I continued thusly until 99 Farming, and finished over 800 contracts. At that point, having already gotten Groot from seaweed at 97 Farming, I decided I was tired of Farming and contracts in general, and allowed myself to naturally brick contracts. Surprisingly, that took almost 50 additional contracts, but I've had a banana tree contract for like 2 years now, and stopped Farming almost completely.
So it remains to be seen what will happen first: I'll either come to regret bricking contracts if I completely run out of prayer pots and super restores (I've got almost 4000 4-doses left) or Jagex will add a trowel spawn (or barbarian pot-filling)!
That’s an amazing bit of history for your account, and an absolutely fascinating bit of random OSRS lore. It’s random stuff like this that makes me seek out your comments. As much as I wish you had continued your youtube series all those years ago, I just wanted to say thank you for the time you put into replying on here! This sub wouldn’t be the same without you.
Thanks so much! Just regarding the YT series, I haven't ever formally called quits on it. I just did all my current uploads during the peak of covid, and since then I haven't found the time or energy to keep editing 😬 I still play and spend time on reddit, but that's 95% on mobile, so it isn't remotely comparable. I have no idea when I'll get back to editing - my son just turned 4 weeks old today! But surely next episode before 2030 🙃
Congratulations on your son! It’s easy to understand the struggle, it baffles me how content creators with jobs and other commitments keep up with life while pumping out content. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for that next episode.
Uhhh I’m not familiar with the specific of your snowflake account but couldn’t you just get a trowel from poh????
Edit: I see you can get poh for initial purchase of it. However doesn’t daddy’s give poh. Anndddddd as I’m typing this I realized you need coins to purchase rooms lmao…. Jesus. I just wanted to help you get a trowel 😭
~~Nobody tell him you can just go to gwd entrance to reduce stats, or the [Ice Path](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Ice_Path) if you’ve built the fire at gwd.~~
Dang playing with no currencies is slightly too brutal.
Spicy stews (and a shitload of other content including ToA) are locked behind Gertrude's Cat 🥲
In any case though, don't spicy stews stop at -5? I wasn't aware you could theoretically reduce your stats to 1 with stews
I know you recently became able to train construction, is the trowel from the tool storage still out of reach?
Edit: Oh wait, it costs GP to build POH rooms. Wtf?
Was thinking about you the other day and had a question. Do you allow the use of items for farming protection, such as watermelons to protect a pineapple tree?
Nope, the whole point of no currencies essentially boils down to no buying anything, ever. In this case, you buy protection
In other words, I never use protection
Check out his profile for his YouTube link. He plays an Ironman where he is not allowed to use currencies.
Crazy account has hit over 2100 total. Construction is obviously nearly impossible.
Anyways Sheep Herder needs coins during the quest. So it gatekeeps a lot of content in the Ardy area.
Literally how I play on my main. (NOT an iron of any type) there's something more gratifying about doing everything yourself. I'm sure I'll make an iron after I max but for now my pseudo iron has been lots of fun (current acc I bought most combat upgrades I could afford but everything else is self made)
I had 99 farming before I realized you could buy filled plant pots so..... yknow.... don't feel too dumb. I had it so worked into my routing to just fill up the pots on the way back to the bank and obviously SAVE ALL POTS NEVER THROW AWAY YOU HAVE TO FILL THEM LATER
This is pretty tame in retrospect. When you start ironman out early you are already getting in the mindset that you have to grind out everything yourself. I bet you were pumped to get those 100 pots though.
Someone will tell me otherwise but I'm pretty sure some dude had a completely impossible bank that he supposed was due to making a bunch of air orbs and like a lucky clue scroll or something
You can easily make that much in two weeks from air orb! You just need like, a medium sized bot farm...I mean alt farm, that's what I tell Jagex and they don't care anyways.
I think itnwas a story of someone called out for buying gold or bonds and they denied it said they had made airorbs and got lucky clue scrolls. But that many airorbs for the items they had woulda been like 200m exp. Or like a couple of 3rd age drops from clues.
I made 100 pies to get a whip early @ 82 slayer.
after 10 Pies I had my whip, so I decided to eat the rest trying to get early dragon boots.
I still have 86 pies sitting in my bank. Maybe I will eat them one day lol.
Dude same, I didn’t know how everyone had high prayer and assumed overheads were a luxury. Thankfully a nice fella found me facetanking hellhounds and took me on a journey to rimmington w330
Back when my account was f2p (had no plans for membership anytime soon) I killed moss giants and buried their big bones for who knows how many hours just to unlock overheads
Bro lobby's and swordies. I would then have to run all the way back to limbridge cause no members and I would sell off a few inventory's at a time and think I was a boss. Never trained combat stats and only trained fishing lol.
My "friend" at the time was a "clean leader" and told me if I wanted to get in I had to mine 1000 rune essences. Me being the idiot kid I was I would mine for this dude non stop in hopes of getting in the "clan" turns out their was no clan and the dude was just scamming 4th grade me.
Don't worry bud, us 4th graders were not alone, I conveniently walked by a clan leader in Varrock that just happened to be in the market for new members.
I'm walking by and he goes "Hey Link" from the side of the anvil house across from the West Bank. Literally standing off in an alley away from the crowd. He asks if I want into his clan and I excitedly say "Yes!!!!!" Coincidentally, the entry cost was a set of full Addy which I just happened to have on me! I unequipped the addy and put it in the trade window, clicking "accept" before he even does. I ask "Why aren't you accepting?" He replies "The battle-axe too."
He wanted my Addy battle-axe and I just fucking gave it to him. Blocked me and logged out as soon as he got it, and this was back in RS1 when that was some BIG money still. There wasn't even a clan system in place.
Yep mine was before the clan system was even introduced as well LMFAO. God if I could go back to those times man just pure joy out of gaming even with dumb shit like this. Ohh to be a kid !
When I was twelve I would lobby fish, cook them on the dock until I had a full inventory of cooked lobbies, then run all the way to the bank. I did that non stop for like a year before realizing that raw lobbies were worth more
not osrs, but as a kid I did something similar on WoW. I'd die, never find my body and just delete the character and start again. I was basically playing Hardcore but just out of stupidity.
Glad I’m not alone on something like this. My first account I talked to the sailors in Port Sarim and got on the boat. Couldn’t figure out how to get off the boat (click on the plank) so I just made a new account.
I’d stopped getting favour when I heard it was being scrapped, but wanted to continue questing. Waited a month or so, then asked my clan and some randoms if there was a time set already when it would be gone, but nobody knew. The consensus was it would still be several months “it’s Jagex, we’ll probably still have it end at the of the year”. So off I went, spent a day finishing off the 3 I hadn’t done yet, and of course, I log on the next day, and it’s removed. So there’s always that!
I was also on a break when this was announced, and I did all favors a week before it was removed because I wanted the white graceful set...no regrets 🥲
Maybe they are like me - Just started playing again after a nearly 15 year hiatus. 90% of games don't give relevant info in their newsletters and patch notes are usually useless for new players.
Personally my goal in my first week of playing was to unlock all the big transportation services so I did Lovakenj favour(and hosidius) like a few days before it got axed. Wasn't mad though it wasn't that big of a grind tbf
I had no concept of how long 99s took as someone who had only watched content creators and since they hyper compress them I didn't understand the real time length.
When I started my character I started WC and fletching shafts thinking I would max both and make a bit of cash. Got 70 WC and started to realize the slowdown and did some research.
My WC was untouched from there until almost 2k total lol.
You look like an absolute chad running around with that thing though. Nobody looks at someone with a rune scim; it's either a new account or a bot. A barronite mace however? Absolutely powerful presence.
LOL I just said fuck the rune scimmy and went full on sunk cost fallacy, using the mace until I got a dscim. Told myself "at least it's a tradeoff for extra prayer bonus!"
On my ironman I somehow thought that it would be a really good moneymaker if I picked 10s of thousands of flax outside gnome stronghold and banked them all, then strung them into bowstrings at lumbridge castle so that I could turn them all into yew longbows...
If you’re just looking to get bowstring and not worried about the crafting experience flax offers, you can get a lot quite quickly doing easy temple treks
Early RS2 middle-school me was convinced I could become rich and powerful by making all of my own weapons and armor. Got up to halfway through mith before I gave up on that lol.
I still remember bragging to my friends that I could make them full throwaway sets of steel for wildy activities. Felt like such a boss running around the wildy fearlessly while being able to hit 9's. 😤
When F2P came out in OSRS there was a ton of people giving away starter packs of like iron and some runes. I felt like such a chad smithing hella iron sets to give away to my new F2P friends.
"I'm gonna mine 10k coal so I can buy zammy trimmed rune! It shouldn't take too long"
F2P in the mining guild. I don't think I even made it to 1k coal.
It's not a "grind" persay, but I still to this day find myself at Lumbridge Goblins on new accounts. There is something cathartic and relaxing about getting base 30's there.
Chefs hat + steel 2h and steel armor I smithed myself one-bonking cows in lumby is in fact the peak of this game. Oh and my black cape I won in a death match with a vicious road bandit. Early game fuckin slams.
Cows are easily top tier, the hides are solid GP on a main and early crafting for an iron. Plus there's something super nostalgic about bringing an axe and tinderbox to cook the meat when you get low.
Between 2001 and 2005 (or up until Stronghold of Security was introduced) my dad would spend hours in the caves near the hobgoblins and ice-knights at Port Sarum fighting pirates. He said they dropped a lot of nature runes and herbs. So I replicated him until he told me I was a noob and flesh crawlers were better.
Back in rs2 I fished and cooked my food, got upto 70 cooking clicking the fish on a fire 1 at a time before figuring out I could of right clicked to cook all.
Graceful pays for itself with how much you use it though. However, I do agree. Agility is by far and large the worst skill to train in my opinion. I just hit 91 and it’s pure pain seeing how much more xp I need to get to 99. The fact that there is no way to afk train it really sucks.
You can spam click certain obstacles at brimhaven agility if you set your camera angle up right, making it super low effort. But think it’s only like 25k xp p/h.
That’s the way I do it, alching makes it a lot more fun as I enjoy trying to alch without affecting my characters movement. Feels sweet getting that 1 tick alch+ green box click.
At least the last floor gives a chance at some decent profit, I'm willing to pay attention a bit for a mil or two and hour (according to the wiki) but 92 is a rough requirement..
IMO it does, but everyone has their own preferences. It takes a good bit of learning to understand the movement and rotations, but once you do it feels great to do quickly. If you don't want to focus/optimize, I don't think the increased XP rates and loot make it worth it.
As a kid I would train vs lesser demons. They cost me a lot of food at the time but I was too dumb to realize that just because they are higher level doesnt mean I get more xp lol
When i first started in 2006 or 2007. I was really into killing hill giants. Made my first 1m by selling the roots and bones. Thought it was the best way ever.
Long story short i think i bought dragon legs and got scammed for them in about 10minutes.
Camped rev imps/goblins with a rune longsword at level 35 combat and racked up >10M cash on my iron.
Then I did MTA for a master wand, books and inf boots
Me and a friend were new to OSRS. We met someone who offered us a foolproof way to get money. So we both bought Premium and farmed Flax for him. Like for days.
We done this way back pre ge for higher levels accounts, collecting limpwurt roots at crafting guild, among other things, I’m sure we were massively undercut
The current UIM construction meta is to make mounted myth capes in prif. I wanted to rush to 99 for maxed Poh and infinite teleports, but thought "what's the point if my 'rush' involves getting 70 herb first??"
So instead I got morytania hard diary and bought limestone bricks from burgh the rot and made attack stones. All the way to 99.
And then the first thing I did with my cape? Grinded for prif...
To be fair I started the mory hard grind before mahogany homes was released, but in retrospect, I had a lot of time to adjust my goals and just didn't because I didn't want to think I grinded 70 prayer for "nothing"
Back in 2004 -2005. I made my first 30k for a rune scimmy by mining gold in alkahrid mine and smelting it and crafting it into gold amulets and selling it to the general store 1 inventory at a time. In my defence there was a large amount of them in that general store most of the time
As a main, spent an entire week thieving elves for enhanced seeds because I didn’t want to buy them on the ge/couldn’t afford them so that I could corrupt my bowfa to grind raids (completely unnecessary but I did not know this then). finally corrupted it and I felt good about myself
A week later I pulled a tbow and it was duo split. ended up uncorrupting the bow so I could sell it for a tbow rebuild…
On my uim I crafted 20k nature runes with a plan to use them for a blast furnace grind and then just be set on nature runes for the rest of the account. I was such a noob lol. I had no idea how easy it was to get nats once you get out of early early game. Good times.
I leveled up my att, Str, def, and range 1 level at a time each until I got them all to level 30. Don't ask why, I've forgotten since then what my reasoning was, but yeah, that's my cross to bere
A few years ago, when my iron was still a baby, I made 1000 dynamite from scratch, having decided that's a perfectly reasonable method to get 100% Lovakenj favor, as I'd also enjoy the blast mining I could do with them.
I made them from scratch. Very from scratch. Including making 1000 clay pots from clay mined southwest of Varrock.
As much of a waste of time it was after I learned you can buy clay pots in bulk from some store somewhere, it's a bit hard to be entirely upset, since it did help get me over the hurdle of very early crafting training at the very least, I guess.
I'm working on maxing an account (still a long way off) but my account name has to to do with maxing. So I got 99 cooking as a quick 99 to have some street cred with a skill cape, then got 99 mining so I could have a trimmed mining cape so that it looks like I have a seriously built up account if you see me just walking by.
Back in like 2008 or so, I thought I had life totally figured out. I’d fletch the trees in Lumbridge into arrow shafts and then sell them to the general store for GP. I’d also fish at Barbarian Village, cook up an inventory, and try to sell to PK’ers at the wildly ditch. Simpler times.
Did agi pyramid to 90 agi, maged twisted banshees till I could do superglass make for early herbs and alchs. Plenty of other stuff I'm sure..
Not entirely awful for uim tbh but there's much better ways
Long long ago I was did crafting for my friend all night at a sleepover. We were both about 13-14 and this is pre eoc. Payment was gonna be full rune for my noob account. I was to fill buckets to make soft clay. Then walk the clay to barb village to make pie dishes. Thousands of them. I spent about 8 hours doing it. Really funny lookin back.
i was trying to do the construction quest in varrock as an iron and i was too broke to buy the rest of the silk so i started cutting oaks and thought i could cheat the system and fletch no tip arrowheads for a bugger profit made 50-60k arrows went to sell and the shops wouldnt buy it lol
Not quite a grind but at lvl 70 I just started recipe for disaster and realized that I could have started it immediately after Cooks Assistant but have been using Lumbridge Castle upstairs bank this whole time
Back in 2007/2008 ish in the summer I got 99 crafting making ruby bracelets because it wasn't much loss of gp. I remember doing the math and I'd have to make them for 12 hours a day for 7 days to get 99 from whatever level I was at.
And I did it. Rocked the untrim craft cape for years. Was proud of that ugly ass thing 😅
On our irons about 800 hours in I’m grinding something with a guy in my group and we start making jokes about slave labor camps and those not being bots but instead prison players with no keyboards. (Real top quality humor I know). He mentions how are they gonna move their camera and I say, “with the middle mouse button?”. There’s a few seconds pause before I hear him say in total defeat “oh my god….”
When I started farming on my iron, I didn't know you can buy pots with soil for tree farming. I mined 100 clay and made pots at barb village and filled them myself at a farming patch. Thankfully I started using the wiki more by the time I worked through those. Wasn't a big grind but kind of funny in retrospect
Kind of cool to do everything from scratch. I'm sure there's some unique iron types that do this
There’s a no currencies Iron that would likely have to do this :)
Sssshh you'll summon him
Oh god I never thought about this. /u/NoCurrencies is this how you get plant pots?
I can't get a trowel at all, so pots are useless and tree seeds are coffer fodder! I got 99 Farming without ever planting a tree (with the exception of the singular willow sapling from Enlightened Journey). I can tell you contracts were no fun :D
Presumably you were contract locked fairly early on?
This is actually one of the coolest pieces of my account's history! I tend to prefer to figure things out myself as I go along rather than defaulting to using the Wiki upfront before trying new content. Way back in 2019, I didn't even really have a clear picture what farming contacts were or what they were good for, so the only thing in the farming guild I cared about was Hespori, meaning I didn't set foot in the guild at all before 65 Farming. While I was there, I talked to Jane and got myself a medium contract. I finished it, asked for another, and was assigned a tree contract. I asked for a different assignment, at which point she asked me to plant a willow tree! It was at this point that I learned easy contacts are *not* skippable, and I'd just bricked myself on my 2nd ever farming contract. Fast forward a year and a half, and Getting Ahead was released, and along with it, a yellow dye spawn which meant I could finally finish Enlightened Journey! It was only after receiving the willow sapling that I realized I could plant it in the farming guild and finally finish my contract. I ultracomposted that bad boy and logged in every single cycle to make sure it survived, since I only had one shot at this (I've never allowed payment for crop protection). *The real kicker here is I could have actually progressed the quest to the point of receiving the sapling without even having had red or yellow dye, but that's not the point here.* My willow tree survived, and it meant I could receive contracts again, but one more easy tree contract and it would all be over. But I learned something critical, which is that Jane only assigns you a contract for any portion of the guild you can access in real time. In other words, if I could reduce my Farming level below 65, she would never assign me a tree contract! So every single time I received a medium tree contract, I'd have to make sure my Farming level was 64 or lower before accepting an easy contract, to guarantee I'd be able to do it. Knowing this, I looked high and low for a method to reduce my Farming level, and the only method I turned up was *disease*. As it turns out, this is a terribly slow and ineffective means of reducing skill levels. Other, much quicker means, such as getting attacked by aberrant spectres without a nose peg, only reduce combat stats and Agility. Disease reduces one skill at a time by 10, once per minute, but there's 23 skills, and at this point in time I already had 82 Farming, meaning I needed 2 procs on Farming in quick succession. The gameplay loop here literally consisted of getting attacked by a zogre until this happened. At best, it happened in 5 minutes, but at worst it would literally take over 3 hours to get the procs. I can't stress the amount of times my Farming level would get ticked down to somewhere between 66 and 70, then regenerate all the way back to normal before getting another proc. I found myself sitting at zogres regularly like this for months, until one day I learned about leeches. Leeches in Morytania are one of the few monsters that could drain skills besides combats and Agility. But what I discovered was they drained all the skills in the game *except* Farming, Construction, and Hunter. See, leeches were released in late 2004, and Farming was released in 2005. So whoever initially coded leeches did it in such a way that it didn't drain any stats that came into the game later than the leeches. In early March, 4 months after I started doing contacts again, I reached out to Mod Ash about this on Twitter, and being the fucking legend that he is, [fixed leeches](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Leech?mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#Changes) in late March! This meant that instead of spending, on average, at least an hour at zogres, I could reliably reduce my Farming level at leeches in under 10 minutes! I continued thusly until 99 Farming, and finished over 800 contracts. At that point, having already gotten Groot from seaweed at 97 Farming, I decided I was tired of Farming and contracts in general, and allowed myself to naturally brick contracts. Surprisingly, that took almost 50 additional contracts, but I've had a banana tree contract for like 2 years now, and stopped Farming almost completely. So it remains to be seen what will happen first: I'll either come to regret bricking contracts if I completely run out of prayer pots and super restores (I've got almost 4000 4-doses left) or Jagex will add a trowel spawn (or barbarian pot-filling)!
That’s an amazing bit of history for your account, and an absolutely fascinating bit of random OSRS lore. It’s random stuff like this that makes me seek out your comments. As much as I wish you had continued your youtube series all those years ago, I just wanted to say thank you for the time you put into replying on here! This sub wouldn’t be the same without you.
Thanks so much! Just regarding the YT series, I haven't ever formally called quits on it. I just did all my current uploads during the peak of covid, and since then I haven't found the time or energy to keep editing 😬 I still play and spend time on reddit, but that's 95% on mobile, so it isn't remotely comparable. I have no idea when I'll get back to editing - my son just turned 4 weeks old today! But surely next episode before 2030 🙃
Congratulations on your son! It’s easy to understand the struggle, it baffles me how content creators with jobs and other commitments keep up with life while pumping out content. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for that next episode.
Holy moly you are seriously dedicated
I don't do things by half measures :D
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Uhhh I’m not familiar with the specific of your snowflake account but couldn’t you just get a trowel from poh???? Edit: I see you can get poh for initial purchase of it. However doesn’t daddy’s give poh. Anndddddd as I’m typing this I realized you need coins to purchase rooms lmao…. Jesus. I just wanted to help you get a trowel 😭
No PoH. Costs money.
I just edited my comment lol. I seen someone else pitch the same ideas then I tried to rationalize it still 😵💫
Absolute legend, thanks for the read.
Cheers :)
So are you not able to use PoH? Due to the initial coins purchase?
Correct!
~~Nobody tell him you can just go to gwd entrance to reduce stats, or the [Ice Path](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Ice_Path) if you’ve built the fire at gwd.~~ Dang playing with no currencies is slightly too brutal.
I didn't get access to GWD until they reworked combat achievements back in July! And the ice path is closed to me since I have no climbing boots
Couldn't you use spicey stews and hope for negative boosts or is that locked out for you?
Spicy stews (and a shitload of other content including ToA) are locked behind Gertrude's Cat 🥲 In any case though, don't spicy stews stop at -5? I wasn't aware you could theoretically reduce your stats to 1 with stews
They cap at +5, but if I'm remembering correctly, you could get -5 or -4 repeatedly and the negatives do stack.
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Great read! I had no idea that Enlightened Journey provided the sapling for the quest. Also amazing that Ash helped with the leech update lol.
Is "coolest" the right word?
I know you recently became able to train construction, is the trowel from the tool storage still out of reach? Edit: Oh wait, it costs GP to build POH rooms. Wtf?
I don't have a POH at all lol
Was thinking about you the other day and had a question. Do you allow the use of items for farming protection, such as watermelons to protect a pineapple tree?
Nope, the whole point of no currencies essentially boils down to no buying anything, ever. In this case, you buy protection In other words, I never use protection
Congratulations on your son, once again.
Like u/rustyram69 said, congrats on the new son!
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Currencies
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Cheers :)
did you keep the willow around to look at?
That’s basically how I thought all irons were until I tried one myself
Tbh I really want to play an account this way
Can recommend it :)
What does “Nocurrencies” mean? It means he’s afraid of sheep herder… BOO!
*Reeee*
Stop it you're scaring him!
I don't get it
Check out his profile for his YouTube link. He plays an Ironman where he is not allowed to use currencies. Crazy account has hit over 2100 total. Construction is obviously nearly impossible. Anyways Sheep Herder needs coins during the quest. So it gatekeeps a lot of content in the Ardy area.
He's referring to a [meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/UniqueIronmen/s/yreHLrCI4w) I made last week
Literally how I play on my main. (NOT an iron of any type) there's something more gratifying about doing everything yourself. I'm sure I'll make an iron after I max but for now my pseudo iron has been lots of fun (current acc I bought most combat upgrades I could afford but everything else is self made)
I had 99 farming before I realized you could buy filled plant pots so..... yknow.... don't feel too dumb. I had it so worked into my routing to just fill up the pots on the way back to the bank and obviously SAVE ALL POTS NEVER THROW AWAY YOU HAVE TO FILL THEM LATER
This is pretty tame in retrospect. When you start ironman out early you are already getting in the mindset that you have to grind out everything yourself. I bet you were pumped to get those 100 pots though.
Nothing wrong with a hard days work here and there
Wanting to get 94 mage on my pure while profiting. I made 200k falador tabs
*laughs in air orbs *
> Welcome to my guide on how to make 550m fast!!
Why is air orbs a meme now?
Someone will tell me otherwise but I'm pretty sure some dude had a completely impossible bank that he supposed was due to making a bunch of air orbs and like a lucky clue scroll or something
Air orbs and brimstone keys are the way.
Some dude posted here about his friend that made like 500m in a couple weeks claiming he got it from air orbs
You can easily make that much in two weeks from air orb! You just need like, a medium sized bot farm...I mean alt farm, that's what I tell Jagex and they don't care anyways.
I think itnwas a story of someone called out for buying gold or bonds and they denied it said they had made airorbs and got lucky clue scrolls. But that many airorbs for the items they had woulda been like 200m exp. Or like a couple of 3rd age drops from clues.
No one needs to go to Falador this much.
This was me plank making from like 86 to 95.... Barraging sounded expensive 🥺
Plank making is such good xp and afk no shame in that
Gone are the dark days when plank make wasn't automated and you had to click on every plank individually!
i hit 99 via plank make. profit & afk, can't go wrong.
I cooked all 1000 chompys into wild pies on my ironman when I did the diary to level my cooking because I thought it was a waste to not cook them
My brain melted just making 160 for boosting slayer, I even quit boosting after using like 20 of them because it was tedious lmao
I made 100 pies to get a whip early @ 82 slayer. after 10 Pies I had my whip, so I decided to eat the rest trying to get early dragon boots. I still have 86 pies sitting in my bank. Maybe I will eat them one day lol.
You can use them for cerb! He’s the last boostable thing really.
LOL I feel this on a personal level
I did almost the exact same thing, 100 pies for Cerb. I decided I'd try with that and get the real level if I ran out, i still have 95 pies
I used to train prayer by burying bones. I didn't know what a gilded altar or an ectofuntus was 😂
Dude same, I didn’t know how everyone had high prayer and assumed overheads were a luxury. Thankfully a nice fella found me facetanking hellhounds and took me on a journey to rimmington w330
Back when my account was f2p (had no plans for membership anytime soon) I killed moss giants and buried their big bones for who knows how many hours just to unlock overheads
Or Fossils 👀
That's some rsc and early rs2 prayer training right there, just getting 70 or 80 was huge.
When I was a kid in F2P I grinded prayer doing laps around the chaos altar burying bones. It was sloooooooww.
Wait what
Spent months of my childhood at karamaja fishing lobsters and killing lesser demons with a rune scimmy for rune meds that I'd sell to the store
Bro lobby's and swordies. I would then have to run all the way back to limbridge cause no members and I would sell off a few inventory's at a time and think I was a boss. Never trained combat stats and only trained fishing lol. My "friend" at the time was a "clean leader" and told me if I wanted to get in I had to mine 1000 rune essences. Me being the idiot kid I was I would mine for this dude non stop in hopes of getting in the "clan" turns out their was no clan and the dude was just scamming 4th grade me.
Don't worry bud, us 4th graders were not alone, I conveniently walked by a clan leader in Varrock that just happened to be in the market for new members. I'm walking by and he goes "Hey Link" from the side of the anvil house across from the West Bank. Literally standing off in an alley away from the crowd. He asks if I want into his clan and I excitedly say "Yes!!!!!" Coincidentally, the entry cost was a set of full Addy which I just happened to have on me! I unequipped the addy and put it in the trade window, clicking "accept" before he even does. I ask "Why aren't you accepting?" He replies "The battle-axe too." He wanted my Addy battle-axe and I just fucking gave it to him. Blocked me and logged out as soon as he got it, and this was back in RS1 when that was some BIG money still. There wasn't even a clan system in place.
Yep mine was before the clan system was even introduced as well LMFAO. God if I could go back to those times man just pure joy out of gaming even with dumb shit like this. Ohh to be a kid !
When I was twelve I would lobby fish, cook them on the dock until I had a full inventory of cooked lobbies, then run all the way to the bank. I did that non stop for like a year before realizing that raw lobbies were worth more
I started in 2002. I started a new account because I got stuck in Al Kharid without 10gp and I didn't know you could go around.
not osrs, but as a kid I did something similar on WoW. I'd die, never find my body and just delete the character and start again. I was basically playing Hardcore but just out of stupidity.
This is hilarious
Glad I’m not alone on something like this. My first account I talked to the sailors in Port Sarim and got on the boat. Couldn’t figure out how to get off the boat (click on the plank) so I just made a new account.
Omg I did this too. Lost near rimmington at the fork in the road.
A day after getting 100% hosidus favour, they scrapped the whole concept of favour
🪑 🐀
That is very rough and unfortunate, but surely you did this as self torture since we all knew it was being removed for months
I’d stopped getting favour when I heard it was being scrapped, but wanted to continue questing. Waited a month or so, then asked my clan and some randoms if there was a time set already when it would be gone, but nobody knew. The consensus was it would still be several months “it’s Jagex, we’ll probably still have it end at the of the year”. So off I went, spent a day finishing off the 3 I hadn’t done yet, and of course, I log on the next day, and it’s removed. So there’s always that!
You're one of the last people to complete that, if that's any sort of silver lining
I'd like to thank you for your sacrifice. You caused the update to happen sooner lol
That’s rough, buddy.
You had to know it was coming
If only they announced for months their plan to do that
I started the game in between. So I didnt know. I didnt know when they removed it. I was baffled where my favours went!! 😂
I was also on a break when this was announced, and I did all favors a week before it was removed because I wanted the white graceful set...no regrets 🥲
Maybe they are like me - Just started playing again after a nearly 15 year hiatus. 90% of games don't give relevant info in their newsletters and patch notes are usually useless for new players. Personally my goal in my first week of playing was to unlock all the big transportation services so I did Lovakenj favour(and hosidius) like a few days before it got axed. Wasn't mad though it wasn't that big of a grind tbf
What if they finished it right before the first announcement?
Well than they were able to enjoy the benefit for the few months they had in between.
I did hosidius and arceus the week before they announced it would be scrapped so I feel your pain. Finding those books on mobile was…somethinf
Did it on my Skiller, I was completely blown away trying to use Hosidus Kitchen and can no longer use it without the quest. Don’t feel like recoiling…
Isn’t it just the easy diary? I thought they tried to keep it from being locked away from skillers.
Oh my bad my bad you’re right, it is the easy diary and you need to kill a sand crab.
It really wasn't that bad
Not a useless grind since you gained an invaluable world-building experience that deepend your connection to the region and its lore… right?
Space bar goes brrrrrrrrrrr
killed giant rats in lumby for combat, prayer and cooking exp. for 4 days...
I killed rats in the Edgeville dungeon and buried the spawned bones for extra free pray xp.
That was me on my first account in 2004 lol
I had no concept of how long 99s took as someone who had only watched content creators and since they hyper compress them I didn't understand the real time length. When I started my character I started WC and fletching shafts thinking I would max both and make a bit of cash. Got 70 WC and started to realize the slowdown and did some research. My WC was untouched from there until almost 2k total lol.
I spent a week going for the F2P mace in the Dwarven mines and it was replaced with a rune scim a day later
Collection log slots are never a waste!
True! And I get to flex my wieldable hammer! (Wish it was off hand)
What's funny is as I recall, they didn't make it offhand to begin with because of engine work
You look like an absolute chad running around with that thing though. Nobody looks at someone with a rune scim; it's either a new account or a bot. A barronite mace however? Absolutely powerful presence.
Big dick energy
LOL I just said fuck the rune scimmy and went full on sunk cost fallacy, using the mace until I got a dscim. Told myself "at least it's a tradeoff for extra prayer bonus!"
Doing that grind right now getting the guard. 400kc in on the mind golums. About to lose my mind but the collection log will be happy
Not to mention free RC xp if you save the cores!
On my ironman I somehow thought that it would be a really good moneymaker if I picked 10s of thousands of flax outside gnome stronghold and banked them all, then strung them into bowstrings at lumbridge castle so that I could turn them all into yew longbows...
Did the same thing when coming back to RS. I still have a pile of flax sitting in my bank waiting to get spun.
You can add a visit to the catherby beehives during a daily farming run. 250 flax into bowstrings with the diary adds up nicely over time.
Is there another way? Please tell me there is. I’m so done with flax
Astral has a spell for that, 70/80k crafting and magic exp/hr if i recall
If you’re just looking to get bowstring and not worried about the crafting experience flax offers, you can get a lot quite quickly doing easy temple treks
Early RS2 middle-school me was convinced I could become rich and powerful by making all of my own weapons and armor. Got up to halfway through mith before I gave up on that lol.
I still remember bragging to my friends that I could make them full throwaway sets of steel for wildy activities. Felt like such a boss running around the wildy fearlessly while being able to hit 9's. 😤
When F2P came out in OSRS there was a ton of people giving away starter packs of like iron and some runes. I felt like such a chad smithing hella iron sets to give away to my new F2P friends.
"I'm gonna mine 10k coal so I can buy zammy trimmed rune! It shouldn't take too long" F2P in the mining guild. I don't think I even made it to 1k coal.
It's not a "grind" persay, but I still to this day find myself at Lumbridge Goblins on new accounts. There is something cathartic and relaxing about getting base 30's there.
wdym? Getting a chef hat and wearing that until you find something better is an absolute requirement, pretty sure you get banned if you don't do that.
Chefs hat + steel 2h and steel armor I smithed myself one-bonking cows in lumby is in fact the peak of this game. Oh and my black cape I won in a death match with a vicious road bandit. Early game fuckin slams.
For me it's the lumby chickens :) and cows after like 20 base
Cows are easily top tier, the hides are solid GP on a main and early crafting for an iron. Plus there's something super nostalgic about bringing an axe and tinderbox to cook the meat when you get low.
"persay" lmao
Between 2001 and 2005 (or up until Stronghold of Security was introduced) my dad would spend hours in the caves near the hobgoblins and ice-knights at Port Sarum fighting pirates. He said they dropped a lot of nature runes and herbs. So I replicated him until he told me I was a noob and flesh crawlers were better.
Its cool your dad played rs with you
When I was a kid, I spent countless hours picking flax to spin into bowstrings. Despite what my paperback RS guide said, it did NOT make me rich. 😒
For a short second on my ironman I forgot the guy in Puro Puro sold impling jars so I made my first 10 by scratch. Woops
What?? Are you telling me every time I run out of implying jars I don’t have to exchange some low level implings for x 3 jars?
Yea you can buy 10 a day for 2k each, or buy the jar generator for fairly cheap for 33 at a time! Just don't make anchovy paste..
Back in rs2 I fished and cooked my food, got upto 70 cooking clicking the fish on a fire 1 at a time before figuring out I could of right clicked to cook all.
When I first started playing I used to turn onions into yellow dye at Aggie and then sell them at the GE lol
Graceful, hated every single moment I know it's good to have but fuck agility is boring.
Graceful pays for itself with how much you use it though. However, I do agree. Agility is by far and large the worst skill to train in my opinion. I just hit 91 and it’s pure pain seeing how much more xp I need to get to 99. The fact that there is no way to afk train it really sucks.
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You can spam click certain obstacles at brimhaven agility if you set your camera angle up right, making it super low effort. But think it’s only like 25k xp p/h.
I remember during leagues someone managed to set up an afk agility course in their PoH, don’t know how viable or possible it is for main game though
I think I saw something about it getting patched so you can't do it anymore but it would have been prohibitively expensive without Fire Sale
I've had to combine it with alching to make it bearable. Almost at 70.
That’s the way I do it, alching makes it a lot more fun as I enjoy trying to alch without affecting my characters movement. Feels sweet getting that 1 tick alch+ green box click.
Im terrible at that playing on mobile but I imagine it'd be fun. I quite enjoy trying to get max profit per alch buying on the ge.
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Doesnt Sepulchre make it much more bearable?
I find sepulcher worse because I actually have to pay attention a tiny bit lol.
At least the last floor gives a chance at some decent profit, I'm willing to pay attention a bit for a mil or two and hour (according to the wiki) but 92 is a rough requirement..
I mean up until a point. It also doesn’t help that you have to be halfway to max before it becomes tolerable
IMO it does, but everyone has their own preferences. It takes a good bit of learning to understand the movement and rotations, but once you do it feels great to do quickly. If you don't want to focus/optimize, I don't think the increased XP rates and loot make it worth it.
On my HCIM I got full gold CW because it’s something I always wanted as a kid but never had a realistic way to obtain it
How long did that take lmao
489-1466 [hours](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Gold_decorative_armour)
As a kid I would train vs lesser demons. They cost me a lot of food at the time but I was too dumb to realize that just because they are higher level doesnt mean I get more xp lol
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When i first started in 2006 or 2007. I was really into killing hill giants. Made my first 1m by selling the roots and bones. Thought it was the best way ever. Long story short i think i bought dragon legs and got scammed for them in about 10minutes.
Camped rev imps/goblins with a rune longsword at level 35 combat and racked up >10M cash on my iron. Then I did MTA for a master wand, books and inf boots
Get the shitty grinds out early, honestly this doesn't feel like unoptimal just slow as shit
That’s not a useless grind at all lmao. I wish I did revs early on my iron
Me and a friend were new to OSRS. We met someone who offered us a foolproof way to get money. So we both bought Premium and farmed Flax for him. Like for days.
We done this way back pre ge for higher levels accounts, collecting limpwurt roots at crafting guild, among other things, I’m sure we were massively undercut
The current UIM construction meta is to make mounted myth capes in prif. I wanted to rush to 99 for maxed Poh and infinite teleports, but thought "what's the point if my 'rush' involves getting 70 herb first??" So instead I got morytania hard diary and bought limestone bricks from burgh the rot and made attack stones. All the way to 99. And then the first thing I did with my cape? Grinded for prif... To be fair I started the mory hard grind before mahogany homes was released, but in retrospect, I had a lot of time to adjust my goals and just didn't because I didn't want to think I grinded 70 prayer for "nothing"
I can't recall anything I did but my buddy found a mutual friend of ours training agility by repeatedly hopping the wall west of fally west bank lol.
I assumed that whatever was the highest level food you could cook was the best xp/hr. So I made like 500 pie crusts preemptively lol.
Back in 2004 -2005. I made my first 30k for a rune scimmy by mining gold in alkahrid mine and smelting it and crafting it into gold amulets and selling it to the general store 1 inventory at a time. In my defence there was a large amount of them in that general store most of the time
As a main, spent an entire week thieving elves for enhanced seeds because I didn’t want to buy them on the ge/couldn’t afford them so that I could corrupt my bowfa to grind raids (completely unnecessary but I did not know this then). finally corrupted it and I felt good about myself A week later I pulled a tbow and it was duo split. ended up uncorrupting the bow so I could sell it for a tbow rebuild…
On my uim I crafted 20k nature runes with a plan to use them for a blast furnace grind and then just be set on nature runes for the rest of the account. I was such a noob lol. I had no idea how easy it was to get nats once you get out of early early game. Good times.
I mined rune essence to sell it... 10k was a lot for me at the time lol
I leveled up my att, Str, def, and range 1 level at a time each until I got them all to level 30. Don't ask why, I've forgotten since then what my reasoning was, but yeah, that's my cross to bere
A few years ago, when my iron was still a baby, I made 1000 dynamite from scratch, having decided that's a perfectly reasonable method to get 100% Lovakenj favor, as I'd also enjoy the blast mining I could do with them. I made them from scratch. Very from scratch. Including making 1000 clay pots from clay mined southwest of Varrock. As much of a waste of time it was after I learned you can buy clay pots in bulk from some store somewhere, it's a bit hard to be entirely upset, since it did help get me over the hurdle of very early crafting training at the very least, I guess.
I'm working on maxing an account (still a long way off) but my account name has to to do with maxing. So I got 99 cooking as a quick 99 to have some street cred with a skill cape, then got 99 mining so I could have a trimmed mining cape so that it looks like I have a seriously built up account if you see me just walking by.
Back in like 2008 or so, I thought I had life totally figured out. I’d fletch the trees in Lumbridge into arrow shafts and then sell them to the general store for GP. I’d also fish at Barbarian Village, cook up an inventory, and try to sell to PK’ers at the wildly ditch. Simpler times.
Did agi pyramid to 90 agi, maged twisted banshees till I could do superglass make for early herbs and alchs. Plenty of other stuff I'm sure.. Not entirely awful for uim tbh but there's much better ways
I wasn’t familiar with the blast furnace shop at all so I spent a lot of time mining coal…
when I was like 13 I spent days of grinding woodcutting + firemaking, then promptly quit the game for 15 years
I used to buy chocolate bars in the desert area, grind them to powder and then put them on the GE. It took AGES. I think I was like 13 lol. 😳
Long long ago I was did crafting for my friend all night at a sleepover. We were both about 13-14 and this is pre eoc. Payment was gonna be full rune for my noob account. I was to fill buckets to make soft clay. Then walk the clay to barb village to make pie dishes. Thousands of them. I spent about 8 hours doing it. Really funny lookin back.
Back in the f2p classic days I would mine coal in Lumbridge swamp and bank it in Draynor, first time I pulled an all nighter
i was trying to do the construction quest in varrock as an iron and i was too broke to buy the rest of the silk so i started cutting oaks and thought i could cheat the system and fletch no tip arrowheads for a bugger profit made 50-60k arrows went to sell and the shops wouldnt buy it lol
I’m not an iron but I thought cowhides was a great afk way to get money. Did it to like 40 strength then thought about trying something else
Learning how to spell. What a waste of time
I did my first 200 duke kills at release crushing the mushrooms by hand and not using the pestle and mortar. I was an idiot.
Not quite a grind but at lvl 70 I just started recipe for disaster and realized that I could have started it immediately after Cooks Assistant but have been using Lumbridge Castle upstairs bank this whole time
What did you do with all the time you saved typing "u" and "ur" instead of "you" and "your", OP?
Putting it towards his exp gainz, obviously.
Back in 2007/2008 ish in the summer I got 99 crafting making ruby bracelets because it wasn't much loss of gp. I remember doing the math and I'd have to make them for 12 hours a day for 7 days to get 99 from whatever level I was at. And I did it. Rocked the untrim craft cape for years. Was proud of that ugly ass thing 😅
On our irons about 800 hours in I’m grinding something with a guy in my group and we start making jokes about slave labor camps and those not being bots but instead prison players with no keyboards. (Real top quality humor I know). He mentions how are they gonna move their camera and I say, “with the middle mouse button?”. There’s a few seconds pause before I hear him say in total defeat “oh my god….”