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How to Get 99 RS Farming

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My first guide for my favourite skill. Enjoy.

In this guide I will detail how I myself went about 99 farming, giving my methods, tips and advice on how to make the most of your time.

What I notice with so many other guides, is they simply regurgitate whats in the manual. Posts upon posts of locations, xp, levels to do what etc. Without actually giving tips on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this is something different, maybe you'll learn a new trick or two. Even if its just one thing, then it will have been worth the effort.

Be warned, my methods of training rely heavily on how much cash you're willing to spend. So although everyone may find it useful, having a large bank balance will certainly be an advantage lol.

Contents:

Part 1 – Preface

Part 2 - Introduction

Part 3 – Useful Quests

Part 4 – Useful Items

Part 5 – Plan Ahead!

Part 6 - Supercompost

Part 7 – Inventory

Part 8 - The Tool Leprechaun

Part 9 – Farmer Payments

Part 10 – Starting Off – Levels 1 - 47

Part 11 – Moving up in the world – Levels 47 – 68

Part 12 – I r Pro Farma – Level 68 +

Part 13 - Growth Times

Part 14 - Herblore Habitat

Part 15 - The Livid Farm

Part 16 – Special Patches and Bushes

Part 17 – Mep's Daily Farm Runs

Part 18 - Useful Familiars

Part 19 - The Scroll of Life

Part 20 - Lunar Magic

Part 21 - Collecting Seeds

Introduction

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The vast majority of players I come across in game have low farming. The reason for this is the mistaken belief that farming is very slow to train, unprofitable, hard and most of all, boring.

Personally I find the skill to be very fast, very profitable, easy and most of all, fun!

Its all about perspective. You ideally spend as little time actually farming as possible. Then once your plants are grown, you wander over, check them out and plant new ones if necessary. Actual time taken is very little.

Yes training farming from a low level can initially be a daunting task, but once you get in a rhythm, as with runecrafting, it eventually becomes a very smooth and simple task.

What you have to remember with farming is that although yes, you can get a significant amount of xp daily, you need to be patient with it to get a result. This isn't cooking lol. So if you arn't seeing the result you want right away, don't be disheartened, you'll get there eventually.

Farming is our break from grinding skills, it is something we can turn to for a bit of something different. It can be very relaxing, wandering about the game, checking your patches, planting seeds and reaping the rewards, so most of all, have fun with it!

Useful Quests

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Although I say, go out and do every quest, because they're all useful, farming has a few that are specifically amazing for it lol.

A Fairy Tale part 1 – Easily the most important farming quest, as it gives you the fantastic magic secateurs, which increase yield when harvesting patches. Also gives 3.5k farming xp.

A Fairy Tale part 3 - More fairies, more farming goodness. The quest gives access to the magic watering can which never needs filling. Perfect if you're making lots of saplings at a time or just cant be bothered refilling cans. Also allows you to ask farmers to weed your patches for you, so you never need to do it again, which is a win.

My Arms Big Adventure - 2nd most important farming quest, as it gives access to the 5th herb patch which is disease free!

Tree Gnome Village – For use of the spirit trees, access to the Gnome Stronghold which has a fruit tree and a normal tree patch. Very useful

Back to my Roots – Gives a healthy 24k farming xp and access to the Jade vine patch which is 1.5k experience every time you check it, also more slayer xp if you kill it as well.

Love Story - Offers the ability to make teleport tabs to all house portals and Trollheim, which is vastly useful if you spend a lot of time on Ancient or Lunar spellbook like I do

Useful Items

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Ectophial, for easy access to the Port phasmatys allotment. From the quests Ghosts Ahoy.

Explorer Ring, from the Lumbridge Achievement Diary, gives you a teleport to the cabbage patch directly south of the Falador allotment.

Falador Sheild, from the Achievement Diary medium tasks, gives you 10% extra experience when farming the allotment north of Port Sarim.

Also, its worthwhile completing the hard Falador tasks too, because that gives you access to the White Lily seeds mentioned further on in the guide.

Ardougne Cape, from the Achievement Diary offers unlimited teleports the Kandarin Monastery which gives great access to a bush patch and a fruit tree patch by the Tree Gnome Village.

Again its worthwhile completing the medium tasks, for the once a day teleport to the allotment northeast of Ardougne and also if you have craaaaaaaaazy high skills, complete the elite tasks for unlimited teleports to this allotment.

Elf Teleport Crystal, received from killing elves in Lletya after accessing this area, gives access to a fruit tree patch that would be very annoying to get to otherwise.

Plan Ahead

Plan Ahead!

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Using your time effectively is key to success with the farming skill. Everything you plant has a time associated with it, so standing around staring at your plants, waiting for them to grow, is a huge waste of your time, when you could be happily slaying evil beasts, saving damsels in distress or.... standing around doing nothing... somewhere else!

It pays off to know how long things take to grow, so as a rule of thumb follow this mini guide:

Herbs/Allotment plants take 75 minutes.

So you can do a herb/allotment run quite a few times a day. Good stuff!

Magic trees take nearly 8 hours to grow, so if you time well, you can do two tree runs daily. One when you wake up, one later in the evening usually works well. Depends on your sleeping pattern though.

Fruit trees take nearly 15 hours, and often a bit longer, so you can only do one fruit tree run a day, this is best done at the same time as your first normal tree run, to make use of your time most effectively.

ts best to do tree runs and herb runs separately so as to maximise the use of your inventory. So don't try and pile everything into one run, you'll just get overpacked and the run will take a lot longer than is needed.

Also, when doing your runs, try and follow the same pattern every time you do it, you'll soon find it becomes second nature to do your patches in this order and you wont get lost

Planning ahead also means preparing your items for a run:

Making sure you have replacement seeds for what you harvest.

Making sure you put tree seeds into plant pots, water them and let them sprout before going on a run. This is best done in the comfort of your favourite bank spot.

Am I on the right spellbook?!

Might sound silly, but if you've just come back from terrorising n00bs in the Wilderness with Ancient magic, you won't be able to get to all of your farming locations effectively. Same said for Lunar magic, although arguably this is a far better spellbook to be on for farming. Due to the great teleport locations and the ever – useful Fertile Soil spell.

Also, as pointed out by Barrett, a lovely chap, you can simply use teletabs to replace the spells lost by using the Lunar spellbook. Handy eh?

Having a bank tab devoted to farming is a great way to organise your things. So make sure you shuffle your items about and leave room for a farming tab.

Also, don't buy more than you need! Even if you're massively rich, no point spending tonnes on seeds that you will never use. Yes you can sell them if you don't, but hey, I found it more rewarding to see what I would definitely use, get used up as it allowed me to see how well I was doing.

A note on hops patches. The experience gained from hops patches is so small that I don't find it worth the effort. But if you do want the extra experience, then feel free to plant hops as you please, moving up to better ones as and when you can.

Supercompost

Supercompost

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One more thing has to be mentioned. As it is maaaaaaaaaassively important to a farmers success:

SUPERCOMPOST EVERYTHING!!!

May sound silly, but it really is tantamount to success. You can make your own supercompost at allotments with snazzy fruit such as pineapples/watermelons/papayas and the likes. Simply fill the compost bin with the fruits, leave it for an hour or so, come back with 15 buckets and fill them up!

If you dont want to supercompost trees, if you're paying for their protection, you dont have to, but be warned that they may take longer to grow if you dont, which can affect your tree runs.

Supercomposting your herbs is vital if you want to see any success. Without supercompost, or compost at all, they have a high chance of disease/death and also, the minimum amount you will get is reduced to 3, instead of 5 with supercompost. Which of course, further reduces your potential profit.

Use the Tool Leprechaun to store buckets and supercompost. He can hold 31 empty buckets and 255 buckets of supercompost, so whenever the number of supercompost dwindles, refill and carry on with your day.

Inventory

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Having the right gear for the job is paramount in any activity you undertake, an nowhere else in runescape is having the right gear for the job more important than when you're farming!

Items that every farmer should have!

Spade

Rake (Dont need if completed fairy tale 3)

Secateurs (preferably magic)

Seed Dibber

Trowel

Watering Can (preferably full )

Buckets

Plant Pots (full of dirt)

All of the above can be purchased either from the Grand Exchange or even better, the Farming shop north of Port Sarim.

Runes to get you where you need to go – Laws, fires, waters, earths and airs. (Unless you're on lunar spellbook, in which case add astrals and possibly natures/cosmics to the mix)

Don't wear armour unless you really want to look pretty (Like I do ) since it will weigh you down during your runs. Best to wear Boots of Lightness (Temple of Ikov quest) spotted or spottier cape (40 and 66 Hunter respectively) and Agile top and bottom (85 and 90 Agility respectively, though can be achieved with 80 and 85 Agility using Summer Pies)

The Tool Leprechaun

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The Tool Leprechaun, may appear useful, well in fact he is, but listen well! Only use the Tool Leprechaun as a backup, not as your primary source of storing farming implements. So by all means fill the little guy with all your tools, but leave them there! Use a second set on your run, in your inventory.

The reason for this is people are forgetful! Well I am anyway.

All too often I went on a run and upon getting there, realised I'd forgotten a spade or something. Handy that a leprechaun is there eh? No! Because on a previous run, I'd forgotten to restore my tools after using the leprechaun! It happens. So yes, only use your leprechaun as a backup and REMEMBER TO REPLACE what you take out lol.

Please note that the Tool Leprechaun is massively useful for storing supercompost, so always remember to do that, regardless of what I just said.

The most important part of the Tool Leprechaun though, is his fantastic ability to note any crop that you harvest. Be it herbs, fruit or anything else that you grow, just use something you've harvested on the Leprechaun and all same items in your inventory will be noted. Very, very handy.

Farmer Payments

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One thing I cannot stress enough when farming trees/fruit trees and calquats specifically is to pay the farmer to look after them. These seeds are way too expensive to risk them getting diseased and dying. So here is a handy table that my darling bud of may friend Barrett made to follow when you're collecting payments.

Acorn – 1 Basket of Tomatoes

Willow – 1 Basket of Apples

Maple – 1 Basket of Oranges

Yew – 10 Cactus Spines

Magic – 25 Coconuts

Apple – 9 Raw Sweetcorn

Banana – 4 Baskets of Apples

Orange – 3 Baskets of Strawberries

Curry – 5 Baskets of Bananas

Pineapple – 10 Watermelons

Papaya – 10 Pineapples

Palm – 15 Papayas

Calquat – 8 Poison Ivy Berries

Spirit Tree – 1 ground suqah tooth, 5 monkey nuts, 1 monkey bar

You can take all payments in noted form, so don't worry about not having enough inventory space.

Also a further point regarding trees, unless you want to cut them down yourself for the logs and xp, pay the farmer 200gp to cut it down for you. It saves a lot of time. Note that farmers will not cut down fruit trees for you.

Starting Off – Levels 1 to 47

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'Level 47 is starting off??!!'

May be the reaction of some people, but don't run away just yet. I'm here to help, so keep reading, I won't bite!

I'll focus this section to people who are very new to farming, so if you're higher levelled, feel free to skip this part.

To someone with level one farming, I would say personally, go find an easy quest, get an xp lamp and use it on farming. Level 47 is 75,127 xp. Thats really not much at all and using whatever lamps you can get your hands on will help you get there superfast.

But this is a farming guide, so here's how to go about starting off!

To start with you need to get some items, spade, seed dibber and a rake are the most important items for a low level farmer. As you will use these virtually every time you farm. Next you need some seeds!

Potato seeds and generally all seeds can be gained from either killing monsters, buying from the Grand Exchange or other players or stealing from Master Farmers (level 38 thieving).

Get your hands on some potato seeds, go to your nearest allotment – either Falador, Ardougne, Catherby or Port Phasmatys, rake away the weeds, and plant your seeds. If you have compost, use it to give your seeds a fighting chance.

Move up to the next best thing – onions/cabbages and so on, as and when you reach the level required to increase your experience gained per run.

Plant marigolds when you can (level 2) as they will prevent your potatoes from becoming diseased, allowing you to level without worry.

As with allotments, move onto better flowers as and when you are able to.

As for herbs, plant guams at level 9, then as you level up choose what you wish to plant as it suits you. If you do slayer, you should get a lot of herb seed drops, so using those is a great way to level and make cash.

Trees, are where the bulk of your xp will come in. You require 15 farming to plant oaks, and because of how cheap acorns are, getting hold of them shouldn't be a problem. With trees, the best bet is to swap to the next tree as soon as possible, so at 30 go to willows, 45 maples and so on. Obviously it depends on your budget, but the rule of thumb is, keep moving up.

There are 5 tree patches dotted about Gielnor. One behind Lumbridge Castle, one in Varrock Castle gardens by the east wall, one in Taverly next to Pikkupstix's house, a 4th in Falador Gardens, one by the bank in the Tree Gnome Stronhold Use all 5 to maximise experience.

Same for fruit trees. Low level seeds are very cheap at the moment, so plant apple seeds as soon as you can (level 27) and move up to higher trees whenever possible.

There are 6 fruit tree patches. One at the eastern shore of Catherby, one in Brimhaven next to the docks, one in Lletya by the bank (Elf teleport for easy access), one outside of the Tree Gnome Village, another one in the Tree Gnome Stronghold directly east of the Spirit Tree. Finally, theres a 6th hidden away at the Herblore Habitat. Use a Juju teleport bag to get there and climb over the vine to access it. Use all 6 if you can.

Moving up in the world – level 47 to 68

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Again, people see the difference between 47 and 68 and think its a big deal. 68 is under one tenth of the xp needed for level 99. Yes it is a big jump, but the method you will use to get to 68 from 47 will barely change, you'll just notice you're getting xp a lot faster lol.

From 47 you can now plant watermelons at your allotments, which is the start of greater things!

With watermelons you can make your own supercompost effectively and also get a healthy amount of xp every herb/allotment run you do. Roughly 12k-15k xp per run.

Each allotment has two patches for fruit/veg, each taking 3 seeds, so thats 6 seeds, with 4 allotments thats 24 seeds needed per run. This is approximately 50k gp per run, just on watermelons.

If you choose to not do watermelons because of the price tag, I don't blame you, but they are the best xp per gp you can buy for allotments. Otherwise, strawberries and sweetcorn are viable options. Strawberries will cost you a lot less gp, but for dramatically less xp than watermelons, less than half. Far cheaper, but looking at twice as long to get your goal.

By now you should be planting Maple seeds, budget dependant, and moving onto Yews at level 60.

Same with fruit trees, plant the highest you can, so move onto Pineapples at 51 and Papayas at 57.

WHITE LILY SEEDS!

To use these wonderful seeds, you must have completed Falador hard diary and be able to kill the Giant Mole underneath Falador gardens. Kill the mole and pick up the mole skin and claws it drops, then trade them into Wyson the Gardener who lives in a little house to the east of the gardens, whilst weilding your falador sheild. He will offer to trade them for White lily seeds. Collect 4 of these and use them in the flower patches in all of the allotments. These seeds prevent you watermelons or vegetables from dying.

I r Pro Farma – Level 68+

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Here is where the big prices and bigger experience comes in.

Palm Tree seeds at level 68 – costing 98k each, 580k for all 5 and 115k for the 90 papayas for farmer payments. = 700k for 60k experience.

Calquat Tree seeds at level 72 – costing 13k and the 8 poison ivy berries costing 3.8k = 16.8k for 13k experience.

Magic Tree seeds at level 75 – costing 278k each, 1.4m for all 5 and 155k for the 125 coconuts as payment. 1.55m for 65k experience.

Remember you are doing two tree runs a day, so thats 3.2m for 140k experience.

Obviously this is only if you decide to throw your cash at the skill. Many will find it simpler and a hell of a lot cheaper, to stick with the same methods used from level 47+ all the way to 99. Which although not as fast, is still a very viable option if you're in no hurry to get to level 99.

By using the expensive option, all Palm Trees, Magic Trees, Calquats, Watermelons and Herbs and getting in both tree runs a day as well as 4 herb/allotment runs, you're looking at spending a little under 5m a day on roughly 260k experience.

If you do the math, it will take roughly 48 days, keeping up that momentum to get to level 99 from level 75. At a cost of around 190m geepee.

LOL?

Of course that's not factoring in the cash you'll make back from the 4 herb runs a day. Using kwuarms, I make roughly 200k a run, which is 800k a day. This saves you approximately 40m geepee. So make sure to do it!

I took quite a bit longer than 48 days to get 99 farming, I relied on herb farming to fund it, which took several months. But I am very pleased with the result. But yes, if you have the money to throw on it, you can do it that fast.

Growth Times

Growth Times

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All herbs take roughly 70 minutes.

All fruit trees take roughly 14 hours 40 minutes.

All flowers take roughly 18 minutes.

Allotment seeds (minutes):

Potato 30-35

Onion 30-35

Cabbage 30-35

Tomato 35-40

Sweetcorn 50-55

Strawberry 50-55

Watermelon 76-80

Bush seeds (minutes):

Redberry 90

Cadavaberry 110

Dwellberry 130

Jangerberry 150

Whiteberry 150

Poison Ivy 150

Trees (minutes):

Acorn 140

Willow 220

Maple 300

Yew 380

Magic 460

Special patches (minutes):

Evil Turnip 5

Bittercap Mushroom 220

Cactus 520

Belladonna 270 - 4.5 hours

Calquat Tree 1,200 - 20 hours

Spirit Tree 3,680 - Roughly 61 hours

Herblore Habitat

Herblore Habitat

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Papa Mambo's neck of the woods is so valuable to a medium/high level farmer its unbelievable. The main use you'll find from it is the amazing Juju Farming Potion which can dramatically boost the yield from your herb runs.

The Herblore Habitat is tucked away in the south eastern corner of Karamja, just southeast from Shilo Village. But the easiest way to get there is to simply buy a Juju Teleport Bag from the Grand Exchange or from Bettamax in Taverly.

The area is set around 4 key stages. The first, Farming/Luring, which involves planting a specific arrangement of plants in order to lure a particular Jadinko - Cute Little Lizard, out of hiding. The second stage, is the Hunting/Tracking which involves as it sounds, using traps to catch them or tracking the little critters. The 3rd stage will be using the herb seeds you get as drops and the 4th stage simply harvesting the herbs and making the potion you want.

The minimum farming level required to start using the Habitat is 54, which you'll need to be able to plant the various vine blossoms to attract the Jadinko's.

There are much better guides devoted to Jadinko hunting and all the combinations of plants to find them, so I'll only focus on the cool ones for farming.

Igneous Jadinko's@@@@@@@

Requires 74 Hunter to catch. Drops Marble Vines and herb seeds. The herb seed you're looking for, is Ugune. 70 farming needed to plant ugune seeds.

Plants needed - Blue Blossom, Orange Tree, Lergberry Bush and a Thermal Vent.

Juju Farming Potion@@@@@@@

Requires 64 Herblore to make. Uses 1 marble vine and 1 Ugune herb.

This potion once used, lasts for 5 minutes and gives you a 1 in 3 chance of recieving double herbs when harvesting your patches.

Using this potion will dramatically increase the profits from your herb runs so I 100% suggest you get on it asap!

When I use the potion my average yield goes to about 40-50 instead of the typical 30-35.

The Livid Farm

The Livid Farm

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The Livid Farm is a new area on Lunar Isle where you can train several skills at once, most notably farming and magic. The minigame gives access to many new Lunar magic spells and some farming and herblore rewards too. This is great for farmers because it gives pretty decent hourly farming xp so that you can train farming without having to wait for your plants to grow elsewhere.

To help Pauline with the Livid Farm, you must have completed Lunar Diplomacy and have all of the following skill level requirements:

Magic level 70

Agility level 60

Farming level 60

Crafting level 60

Construction level 50

Curing the livid (Cure Plant) - Magic level 66

Bunching the livid (String Jewellery) - Magic level 80

Fertilising the soil (Fertile Soil) - Magic level 83

Making fenceposts (Plank Make) - Magic level 86

Energising Pauline (Energy Transfer) - Magic level 91

You only need the runes to cast these spells, not the levels to cast them, so if you dont have high magic, you can still do it! You just wont get xp for the cast.

Its a fantastically simple minigame to do, though it can get very boring. Its best to do it in a busy world so you can chat to other players so its less dull

Once you have gained enough produce points for the last spell, Group Vengeance, you can spend the points you've earned on other rewards like seeds and herbs!

Definately worth checking out for some good hourly farming xp amongst others.

Special Patches and Bushes

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I personally only use the Calquat Tree special patch in Tai Bwo Wannai Village as it is the most useful special patch in terms of experience, aside from Spirit Trees but they're hard to come by and take over 60 hours to grow!

The cactus patch in Al-Kharid is useful for collecting cactus spines for use as Farmer Payment for the Yew trees. So if you're doing yews, make sure you're planting cacti as well.

The bittercap mushroom patch just to the west of Canifis is useful for the Ancient Caverns Fairy Ring, which you repair by using 5 mushrooms and a spade on it. Other than that, its not particularly useful lol. But still worth a mention.

The evil turnip and belladonna patch at Draynor Manor, north of Draynor Village are close enough to the Falador Allotment to be a useful source of extra experience so if you find the time, hop through the fence and get farming

Bushes in general aren't massively useful, but whiteberries and poison ivy berries are useful for herblore so if you find the time again, it can be worth investing in some bushes. There is a patch outside the champions guild south of Varrock, outside Etceteria Castle, east of Miscellania, one in rimmington outside of the chemist's and the last is right outside Kandarin Monastery (Ardougne Cape teleport)

Mep's Daily Farm Runs

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Here I will tell you the route I take and the inventory used to get through the run as smoothly as possible.

Full Tree Run Inventory

100 laws, waters, fires, earths, airs

Spade, rake, 20k gp

5 Tree seedlings

6 Fruit Tree seedlings

1 Calquat Seedling

Noted gardener payment for trees

Noted gardener payment for fruit trees

Noted gardener payment for the calquat tree

Elf Teleport Crystal

Any Axe

Juju Teleport Bag (or witchdoctor mask)

(You don't need the rake if you have completed Fairy Tale 3)

Lumbridge teleport, run west behind the castle, to the tree patch. Once complete, teleport to Falador, run north to Taverly to the tree patch there. Teleport back to Falador, and run east to the Falador Garden Tree. Now teleport to Varrock, run north into the castle, then go the east wall to the tree there. Once complete, run west to the Grand Exchange and use the spirit tree to the Tree Gnome Stronghold.

Once at the Stronghold, go slightly east to the Fruit Tree patch, note the fruits harvested at the Leprechaun, then run south west behind the bank to the final Tree spot. Now teleport to the Kandarin Monastery, and run far west through the battlefield, before dropping south by the river and going to the Fruit Tree there. Now teleport to Lletya with the elf crystal and head east to the fruit tree. Now Juju bag to Herblore Habitat and climb over the vine to the tree.

Once complete, teleport to Camelot and head south east, through Catherby to the shore, go east to the fruit tree patch. Now run back west, to the docks and charter a ship to Brimhaven. Once there, run south to the final Fruit Tree. After this, keep running south to Tai Bwo Wannai village. On the eastern side of the village by the mahogany/teak trees is a Calquat patch. Plant your Calquat, pay the farmer and pat yourself on the back for a job well done and roughly 140k xp if you're using Magics and Palms with your Calquat.

Full Herb/Allotment Run Inventory

100 laws, fires, waters, airs

spade, rake, seed dibber

5 herb seeds

24 allotment seeds

Ectophial

Juju Farming Potion

(You don't need the rake if you have completed Fairy Tale 3)

Wearing - Ardougne Cape, Agile top and bottom, Boots of Lightness, Explorer Ring, Falador Shield, Magic Secateurs

Teleport to Trollheim, use the agility shortcuts to head west down the mountain, run through the small village and up the ramp heading into the mountain. Inside, head south, using the door on the west wall, go through and north, climbing up the ladder to the top of the mountain. Collect supercompost from the Leprechaun (hoping you've stored some in there! ), drink a dose of the Farming Potion and harvest the herbs.

Ectophial teleport to Port Phasmatys, run west to the allotment, emptying the compost bin with buckets and refilling it with what you harvest, note all your harvests with the leprechaun. Now ardougne teleport with either spell or the cape, if you used spell, run east out of the city, heading north as soon as you pass the fence, following the fence up until the reach the allotment. If you cape teleport, you are already there.

Once finished here, cabbage teleport with the Explorer Ring, heading north through the gate to the Falador allotment.

Once complete, teleport to Camelot, running east until you reach Catherby allotment. Finish here for a job well done.

Always remember to note your harvests

Useful Familiars

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Compost Mound - level 28 summoning

Forages for compost and seeds

Farming boost (1 + 2% of your level)

Use a bucket on your compost mound to get compost - deals 2 damage to your familiar

Strange Plant - level 64 summoning

Farming boost (1 + 4% of your level)

Fruit Bat - level 69 summoning

Forages for fruit and seeds, so useful for gardener payments

Giant Ent - level 78 summoning

Increased yield when harvesting fruit trees, belladonna and cacti

Hydra - level 80 summoning

Use scroll on a farmed tree stump to instantly regrow that tree, useful if you wish to profit from your trees - Thanks to Djfieldsy for reminding me about the hydra

Wolpertinger - level 92 summoning

Increases yield when harvesting bushes

Theyre the only really useful ones for farming.

The Scroll of Life

The Scroll of Life

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With the new skill of Dungeoneering, came an amazing farming reward - the Scroll of Life.

This Scroll, costing a paltry 10k Dungeon tokens gives the user a 10% chance of getting their seeds back when harvesting allotments/herbs/bushes and also a 5% chance of getting a seed back when harvesting a tree. This chance also applies to when the patch has died and you clear it.

10k tokens is 100k Dungeoneering xp roughly, since the xp is rounded down. 100k xp takes an hour or less...

This was the first reward I ever bought with my tokens, never regretted it. Saved millions in seed in the time I've had it.

Its also absolutely amazing when combined with the Scroll of Cleansing which saves you herblore ingredients when making potions, this scroll in particular arguably the best dungeoneering reward there is. So get 'em both

Dooooooooo it!!!!

Lunar Magic

Lunar Magic

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The Lunar spellbook is absolutely fantastic if you're a farmer.

Having completed the Livid Farm spells will help a bit, but isnt essential.

A magic level of 87 is required to fully make use of the benefits for farming and having completed the Love Story quest for the Trollheim teletabs will also be very handy.

Lunar Herb Run Inventory

1000 Astrals, Laws, Natures, Earths and Waters.

Teletab to Trollheim

Juju Farming Potion

Seed dibber, Magic Secateurs and Spade

Ardougne Cape (or just fishing guild teleport)

Explorer ring

Ectophial

This will start with Trollheim as before, so break the tab and go to the patch, drink some potion and harvest. Use Fertile Soil spell (level 83 magic) on the patch. This spell replaces the need to use supercompost, so is amazingly handy if you're lazy

Ectophial, go wild at that patch as usual then either Ardy Cape teleport or Fishing Guild Teleport for that patch. After this one, cabbage patch time and lastly Catherby Teleport for the final patch.

How easy was that?

Collecting Seeds

Collecting Seeds

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Obviously you wont get very far in Farming, if you have no seeds to plant!

So here are a few of the best ways that I've found of collecting them.

1 - Slayer!@#

Best way of getting seeds in the game in my opinion. Most tasks drop herbs and seeds but a few particularly awesome ones are Abberant Spectres, Dagganoths, Nechryael and Strykewyrms. Spectres and Dagganoths are speficially brilliant because you can cannon the task efficiently and they drop tonnessssssss of good seeds so keep your eyes open!

2 - Kingdom Management

After completing the Miscellania/Etceteria Quests you have access to the Kingdom. This is basically a way for you to have slaves and make lots of profit by making them collect various resources around the island. Its highly recommended to complete both the quests so you can make full use of the Kingdom.

The resources you will recieve are based on how much money you put into the kingdoms coffers. A maximum of 7.5m can be placed into the coffer to stay, but a maximum of 75k will be taken out daily to pay the workers. So if you put in millions, itll take a long time to run out, so thats the way to go

There are two ways a farmer can utilise this well, depending on what you want to get. If your primary interest is herbs/seeds then put all your resources into herb collection and the rest on Maples.

Alternatively and potentially far more profitable, is to do the opposite. Putting full resource into Maples for the birds nests you can recieve and the rest on herbs.

Whilst it is based on luck what seeds youll recieve from the nests, you can get anything from apples and oaks to magics and spirits so this is well worth doing.

3 - Master Farmers

In Draynor village there are two master farmers that you can pickpocket for lots of seeds and good thief experience. Requires 38 Thieving.

4 - Grand Exchange!

Or you could just buy everything from other players.

Happy Farming! Good Luck!

And there you have it!

Mep's Farming Guide

Feel free to ask any questions, for advice and tips or to post your own methods for comparison and discussion.

Thanks for taking the time to read through.

Finally......

Good luck with 99 farming!!

thanks to Mephus for this guide

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