Herb run

[Dr Brad]

How do you perform herb runs? This is how I do it.

For starters, my run assumes you're using a Juju Farming Pot (1/3rd chance of a single herb pick yielding 2 herbs).

Wield
- Magic secateurs (increase herb yield by 10%)

Inventory
- Teleport runes/staff to Trollheim
- Herb seeds (for Trollheim herb patch)
- Ardy cape (with teleport to Ardy Farm)
- Explorer's ring (Cabbage patch teleports)
- Ecotphial (Ectofuntus teleport)
- Juju farming pot (single dose)
- Scroll of life (OPTIONAL: When harvesting farming patches (including dead ones), there's a 10% chance your seeds will be returned to you.)

Procedure
A - Rushed time period
- Teleport to Trollheim and make way to disease-free herb patch (next to the troll, "My Arm")
- One sip from Juju farming pot
- Pick herbs from disease-free herb patch (once you pick herbs, have leprechaun note them)
- Add supercompost to herb patch and plant herb seed (this is the only planting done in rushed section)
- Immediately teleport to Ardy farm
- Pick herbs
- Lodestone home tele to Catherby
- Run to Catherby herb plot and pick herbs
- Immediately teleport to Cabbage patch and picks herbs at Fally farm
- Immediately teleport to Ectofuntus
- Run to Morytania farm plot and pick herbs
- Soon after this, Juju farming pot wears off
NOTE: If you come across a dead herb patch, don't stop, just move on to the next one.

B - Relaxed time period
- Home tele to closest bank (Lunar Isle for me)
- Pick up 4 herb seeds (and others, as desired, for flower plot and allotments)
- Teleport to Ardy, Catherby, Fally and Morytania plots and plant seeds in preparation for the next herb run.
- I also collect and prepare new supercompost at this time.

[Dave]

Wield/Inventory
- 5 air, 2 fire and 3 law runes
- 5 supercomposts
- Herb seeds (for Trollheim herb patch)
- Skills necklace (don't have ardy cape)
- Explorer's ring (Cabbage patch teleports)
- Ecotphial (Ectofuntus teleport)
- Scroll of life (OPTIONAL: When harvesting farming patches (including dead ones), there's a 10% chance your seeds will be returned to you.)

Procedure
- Teleport to Trollheim and make way to disease-free herb patch (next to the troll My Arm)
- One sip from Juju farming pot
- Pick herbs from disease-free herb patch
- Super compost & Plant
- As soon as exp from planing comes in click ecto
- Get the leprechaun at the ecto farm patch to note. then pick & plant
- In any order:
a) Teleport to fishing guild, run to the east to the herb patch, noting at leprechaun as you run past him.
b) Cabbage teleport, note as you run past the leprechaun, pick and plant. Note herbs here as leprechaun is always close.
- Teleport to Camelot, run to herb patch and pick/plant.

Optional
If I've vine herb seeds in my bank I take two of them, two more supercomposts and a juju teleport in my inventory as well. If running the normal 5 patches quickly there's time to pick the closest vine herb before the farming potion runs out.

[onezerobin]

Thank you Brad and Dave

I got 110 torstols from 10 seeds (I had scroll of life from dungeoneering too), and 940 snapdragons from 100 seeds. Juju potions rock ! If done efficiently I could hit all 5 farming patches + juju patch; including planting the seeds without a revisit.

[Touristguide]

Thank you for sharing this helpful insight!

[Sassy_Momma]

Thanks for sharing this...Its very helpful

[magerpainz]

If I am just doing herbs, I get all the harvesting done on one sip of juju.
After all herb patches are done I then fairy ring to mort mushroom patch. Since I finished all the elite tasks, I get 18 shrooms without using compost.

[Aero]

Very informative post Brad!

[mozcheez]

I manage to get mine done on one sip as well, mager. Thought I'd throw my process in here, since I use the Herblore Habitat plots, too:

Inventory
- 2 laws, 2 fires (trollheim tele)
- ardy cape (for ardy farm tele)
- explorer ring (cabbage patch teleport)
- ectophial (for farm patch west of port phas)
- magic secateurs
- greenfingers aura (I just have the low level one)
- fally shield 4 (increased farm xp when farming at the plot south of fally)
- 1 poh tele (runes or tab)*
- witchdoctor mask (to teleport to herblore habitat)
- scroll of life (reward from dung)
- 5 herb seeds
- 2 herblore habitat herb seeds
- 1 morchella mushroom spore*
- 7 supercompost
- fruit tree**
- fruit tree payment**

* if 4 hours has passed since last farm run/last time picking mushrooms
**if awhile has passed since last farm run/last time planting fruit tree

Procedure
- Teleport to trollheim and run to the herb patch
- activate greenfingers aura, take 1 sip of juju farm potion
- pick herbs, supercompost plot and plant herb seed
- note herbs at leprechaun
- ectophial tele and run to herb patch
- pick herbs, supercompost plot and plant herb seed
- note herbs
- cabbage patch tele and run to herb patch
- pick herbs, supercompost plot, plant herb seed
- note herbs
- ardy cape tele to herb patch
- pick herbs, supercompost plot, plant herb seed
- note herbs
- lodestone tele to catherby, run to herb plot
- pick herbs, supercompost plot, plant herb seed
- note herbs
----- at this point, the juju pot is just wearing off ----- (I personally don't care if the juju pot is in effect at HH, so I let it wear off, but if you hurry, you can usually pick the first herb plot with the effect still ongoing) -------
- witchdoctor mask teleport to herblore habitat
- pick herb plot ASAP if interested in juju pot effect, supercompost, plant hh herb seed
- check fruit tree, pick fruit, chop, dig up, plant new, pay zombie farmer (have to remove aura for this)**
- depending on how full inventory is (with hh herbs), I run to the bank drop box on the south side of HH and deposit the HH herbs i just picked (these can't be noted)
- cross vine to other herb plot
- pick herbs, supercompost, plant hh herb seed
- poh tele and use kharyll portal to get to canifis*
- run to mushroom plot and pick mushrooms, plant spore (I don't use supercompost here because I've completed the morytania diaries and this plot will not disease, as a reward, and also the harvest is guaranteed - 18 each time for me)*

This takes me about 7-8 minutes a run, and I earn anywhere from 12k-20k xp (fellstalk seeds and shengo, at the moment) without checking the fruit tree. It's pretty great xp! If it's time for a tree run, I'll typically do that right after. I take the fruit tree with me on the herb run for HH to save a trip out there.

[Jax]

you have 98 hunter you should have the witchdoctor mask which gives unlimited teleport to HH. This will saves you one inventory space and that 1k coins you spend on the teleport spiritbag. In addition you could make a Trollheim tablet (if you have done love story quest and unlocked it) and save another two inventory spaces since you wont need runes only one additional PoH tablet.

[mozcheez]

Hey, thanks a lot! I honestly never knew about either! Inventory space isn't an issue but that mask teleport will be very helpful! I'm going to have to look into how to unlock trollheim tele tabs, done the quest.

Thanks again!

[Jax]

Wielding magic secateurs while harvesting allotments, herbs, and hops will increase the yield by 10%

All those guide you all have posted here none of them includes those secateurs. Is there some specific reason behind that or it just obvious that you have it with you?

[Dr Brad]

Good point, Dev!

[mozcheez]

Oops, left it off my list, thanks for pointing that out dev, adding it and changing my setup to mask instead of those spiritbags