Do unfinished potions make money?

An unfinished potion is a clean herb in a vial of water. It often sells for more than the herb and the vial cost, and it is quick to make: one tick each, an inventory of 14 herbs and 14 vials at a time, about 4,000 an hour. The table above prices every unfinished potion at your level right now, after the 2% tax; the GE tax calculator shows what the tax takes from any sale. Coral from Sailing works the same way and needs no cleaning. A few take another base: coconut milk for the antidotes and weapon poisons, and a vial of blood for the cadantine blood potion.

Mixing one gives no Herblore experience, apart from the haemostatic poultice and Guthix balance; the experience comes when you finish the potion, which the Herblore calculator plans. The herb cleaning calculator prices cleaning herbs to sell as they are.

Every way to make one

You can mix clean herbs yourself, or buy grimy herbs and clean them first, by hand or with Degrime, which can cost less and adds the cleaning experience. With the Herblore cape on, a grimy herb goes straight into a vial of water and you still get the cleaning experience, about 4,000 an hour. Zahur makes them for 200 coins each from clean herbs, or 400 from grimy ones, since she cleans them first. Pick a potion and the table of ways works out each one at your level, with what you have ticked.

Zahur, in Nardah

Zahur, in the building north of the Nardah bank, makes unfinished potions for you at 200 coins each. It needs the hard Desert diary or the Herblore cape worn, and it is a right-click option on her, "Make unfinished potion(s)"; her dialogue does not offer it. She takes clean herbs or coral with vials of water, or cadantine with vials of blood, noted or not, and mixes as many as you can pay for in one go. She will not use coconut milk, so the antidotes and weapon poisons are made by hand. The achievement diaries calculator lists what the hard Desert diary needs.

What Zahur does, what it costs and what it needs
Service	Cost	Needs
Makes unfinished potions	200 each	The hard Desert diary, or the Herblore cape worn; clean herbs or coral with vials of water, or cadantine with vials of blood, noted or not
Cleans grimy herbs	200 each	Unnoted herbs; noted ones too with the hard Desert diary
Makes coconut milk	Free	Half coconuts and empty vials, noted or not; she charges for a vial you do not bring
Decants potions	Free	Nothing; she sells you empty vials if you are short

Where vials of water come from

Every way to get vials of water and what each costs
Source	Cost each	Notes
The Grand Exchange	—	Bought in lots of 13,000 every four hours
Water-filled vial packs	2.01	201 coins for a pack of 100 at herb shops such as Jatix's in Taverley; a pack opens into 100 noted vials of water
Herb shops, loose	2	Jatix's keeps 750 in stock, most other herb shops fewer
Filling empty vials	2	Empty vial packs cost 200 for 100; filled at a water source, about 5,040 an hour at the Hosidius kitchen beside its bank chest
Humidify	2, plus a rune	Lunar spell, 68 Magic and Dream Mentor; fills every vial in your inventory for 1 astral rune with a steam battlestaff, 65 Magic experience a cast
Nightmare Zone	145 points	From Dom Onion's reward shop, paid in Nightmare Zone points

Ironmen, Hardcore Worlds and Deadman

Ironmen cannot use the Grand Exchange, so their herbs come from Farming and drops and what they make is kept. For them the table ranks by Herblore experience an hour, which here is the cleaning experience, and counts only the coins they pay: Zahur's fee, vials from shop packs and runes from rune shops. Group ironmen are the same. An ultimate ironman cannot bank, so mixing by hand means unnoting herbs and vials at a bank and noting the potions again at a tool leprechaun. With the hard Desert diary, Zahur takes noted herbs and vials and gives noted unfinished potions back, the one way to make them noted.

Hardcore Worlds have their own economy and no experience boosts, so prices there are the main game's and marked with a "~". On the permanent Deadman world, 345, every experience drop is multiplied: 20 times at level 1 down to 10 times from 50 while protected, and half that once protection ends. Its Grand Exchange has no tax, and its prices are taken from the main game, marked with a "~".

Unfinished potion questions

Which unfinished potion makes the most money? It changes with prices. The table sorts every unfinished potion by profit an hour at your level, and the top row is the answer right now.

Which NPC makes unfinished potions? Zahur, in Nardah, for 200 coins each, once you have the hard Desert diary or while you wear the Herblore cape.

What is the fastest way to make unfinished potions? By hand, about 4,000 an hour for a potion that takes one tick. With the hard Desert diary, Zahur mixes a whole noted stack in one go, so the only limit is how many herbs the Grand Exchange sells you every four hours.

Should I buy grimy or clean herbs? It depends on the herb and the day. Pick a potion and the table of ways prices both, with the cleaning experience that grimy herbs add.

Can I make unfinished potions without the Herblore level? Zahur makes them whatever your level, for the same 200 coins each.

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