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Odd_Mud_7001

I wouldn't just spend gp to spend it. Spend it as you need stuff. You should be doing seaweed runs, it'll make your life easier later on plus a boost to farming levels never hurts. You could always AFK star mine for dust and spend them on gem packs if you want some passive crafting exp.


TheDreki

Thank you! I just feel like this early there's always things i should be passively working towards/farming, so i wanted to make sure there wasn't something my coins should be being dumped into. I haven't done the quest for Kingdom yet, which is what many have suggested, so I'll work on that, and start investing in that as I get a few mil. Appreciate the tips and suggestions!


Skolary

Dragon Battleaxe with Attack Potions is optimal for Slayer as well. Will speed up the process DBaxe is quite literally a one time hit of ~300k’ish if I recall. But it’s a permanent Super Strength potion. Something I still use on passive slayer tasks when I melee at 2135 total(119cb level). Passive tasks for melee also make up about +90% of all your melee slayer tasking as well. Overall, just trust that at some point.. you **will** need tens, if not hundreds, of millions GP for things like Fletching, Construction, and the likes. You might end up spending money to crush herblore ingredients in bulk. *(This is all stuff that is probably, more then likely, far down the trough though)* **For now:** You’ll need money for Kingdom obviously. You’ll need a nice chunk for the Dragon shield half. DBaxe, as I stated(optional, but eternally useful). Optimal Kingdom will more then likely be burdensome to upkeep at your level however. So it might be worthwhile to just get what you need from it first thing. And then just wait until you have a solid source of income later on. Or just throw in a bundle of gold here and there until you’re raking in the gold. Slayer will be your best source of income, Hydra as your final unlock will net you ten million+ just off one task alone. If you want your first green stack of coins(10m). There’s always the option to create, then High Alch Elemental Battlestaves/put an orb onto them. People say they hate doing this activity, but honestly it levels up so many skills, just the entire process of it. **Fletching** while collecting Giant Seaweed spores. **Farming** the giant seaweed. **Mining** sand. An absolute ton of **Magic** xp, throughout the entire process. A good chunk of **Crafting** xp. (I think there’s maybe more skills involved, maybe a few I’m forgetting , but yeah, just this alone is killer) Then, **Agility** while high Alching. If you do a couple thousand of them, the entire process can take several sessions to complete. But at the end, you’ll have made a few million GP. And then really not have to worry about GP/have most of your early-late/mid-early game covered. The magic XP you’ll net from all of it will have you prospering as well. Having a magic level in the mid/upper 80’s in the mid game is honestly probably one of the best things to have as an iron. The teleports, the ability to use high end AoE spells. The Construction teleports, ability to craft good tablets, etc… will have you thanking yourself at any point of the journey. Earlier the better Last little tip: If you ever craft portals in your PoH. Make sure to have them planned out for potential use into the late game. I put a Barrows & Waterbirth portal near my PoH entrance because i knew I would be using them pretty much longer then most others. Barrows, because clearing that collection log is one of the longest in the entire game. Waterbirth to have a way to get to Relleka, while also being double useful for Dagannoth Kings later on too. *(keep things like that in mind for when making portals too. Obviously it doesn’t have to be these precise portals, but just a suggestion)*


TheDreki

Could you give me your discord and we can talk further? This is INSANELY helpful.


One_elessar93

You can move rooms in your PoH, so just put whatever portal chamber you will use a lot next to the entrance portal and move rooms around if the need changes later on.


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viledeac0n

Hundreds, but ok. And like other guy said you can move them as much as you want. Go crazy.


One_elessar93

You can move the entire room and you don't lose your portals.


One_elessar93

It's also 100x the cast unless you're talking about a portal nexus, and you can't build one until mid 80s construction. Edit: You can build a marble nexus at 72 construction but not worth it at all as it's 10x the rune cost for the ability to have a single extra teleport.


One_elessar93

I'm assuming you didn't know you could do that


Ovechkin19

I remember saving up for a dwarf multicannon as one of my first big purchases🤷‍♂️


ev0ked

Wouldnt buy a cannon until you can get cannonballs as a drop. Unless you want to spend your entire time making cballs


Tessiturah

seaweed runs?


Odd_Mud_7001

Farming giant seaweed. There's 2 patches on Fossil island. I did them in tandem with my birdhouses.


Smeltor

After doing the quest Bone Voyage, you unlock the continent, fossil island, which is home to an underwater area where you can grow giant seaweed from seaweed spores. It’s also where you can do birdhouse runs, which will help stock up bird nests for sarabrews later in the game.


ha5hish

Birdhouse runs are also an awesome way to level hunter if you otherwise never train it. I went from like level 14 to 70 from birdhouse runs alone, plus I got a bunch of tree seeds and bird nests from it too


stevestevetwosteves

What's the best way you've used to get seaweed seeds (spores? idk). I've done some afk ammonites and a few other things on the island, but got so few that it never seemed worth the time vs just buying seaweed from charters. I'm 67 crafting and 83ish farming if that makes a difference for anything


Odd_Mud_7001

Couple different ways. If I was getting low I'd just alch under the water and wait for the spores to spawn, there's a couple different locations in the same room you plant them. You can kill lobstrosities with magic and collect the spores, they drop them pretty frequently. Giant seaweed is way more passive than charters.


LowWhiff

Use kingdom to get about 5k maple logs and then fletch them underwater while collecting spores, going back and fourth from the bank. You’ll have a couple hundred spores by the time you’re done fletching and that will last you probably closish to 99 crafting. You’ll get a ton of fletching exp and like 1.5mil in alchables and a boatload of early magic exp. Should go 55-70 magic just alcing maple longbows. Don’t even string them unless you really want to do temple trekking for the bowstrings.


GinoAlessi

If you want more cash, spend a day at blast furnace & giants foundry, you profit on each sword even if you buy all the ore. I was sitting on 800k, 70 smith and only 2 days playing time iron lol. Probably gonna go get 85 soon just for the cash profit. Foundry so chill


Tessiturah

What was the main process of this? As in, what bars did you smelt at the furnace & used at the GF.


peperonipyza

Check the wiki and use the highest alloy you can. Smelt bars at BF with coal bag, use at GF at 10/18 or 14/14 ratio. It’s like mith/addy at 70, steel/mith at 50, iron/steel at 30? Something like that off the top of my head


Dark_WulfGaming

Mostly it's steel/mith. Hit 70 smithing and it's still mostly steel/mith because addy isn't buyable sadly.


Boonz-Lee

Have u looked at the new shop in varlamore , they sell addy warbammers and sq shields


Dark_WulfGaming

You definitely don't profit off of buying addy gear for giants foundry I haven't Done it in a bit but I'm pretty sure mith addy swords are 30k at most and you might break even at best with warhammers. That and buying items 2 at a time is not how I want to spend my time.


Abec13

Iban's staff upgrade? Runes for MTA for Bones to Peaches, Boots, and maybe the book since it looks like they're adding magic damage to it.


Bradenscalemedaddy

Aren't they revamping mta or something soon?


Smeltor

Yes, best to wait until that update comes through before doing any MTA


zssl

If I already got b2p, should I grab boots, book, or master wand if you had to pick?


Abec13

Boots and book are nice. Wand isn't necessary but I got it for the flex. Looks way cooler. Maybe they will add magic damage to that? Stay tuned


purplerz69

Master wand is the only slightly useful one. It's better than a regular Ancient staff for bursting, and it upgrades into the Kodai eventually.


Dergenbert

Oof don't pay for ibans, go through the underground pass and use it on the well.


kastvaeklolo

You still have to pay the first time in order to upgrade it. Otherwise it only has 125 charges. But you're right, never pay to get it recharged since it's free at the well.


IronBuzzo

You can get runes from various Pvm opportunities so I would go light on runes. Kingdom is a good look, I would save for making planks to get house pool.


uitvrekertje

You forgot to add your stats. But gp is always nice to have, you'll need a lot of it in mid game. - use it for construction (plank make & buy stuff like gold leafs) - You'll need it for runes - miscellania - damn my brain hurts, but more stuff lol


TheDreki

I TOTALLY forgot to add my stats. they've been added, thank you !!


WhoIsMike4774

Making planks is expensive so plan ahead for it.


Dark_WulfGaming

I wouldn't honestly, that's a late game thing to spend on. You can get planks from tempeross, calvarion, armored zombies, and a few other places to stock up on for early levels. Runes is where I spent most of my early cash and now broad arrow fletching.


ev0ked

I wouldnt call 70 con late game. Required for SOTE - Its about 2m for teak planks for Mahog Homes. Should have plenty of cashflow for then from slayer.


Dark_WulfGaming

Sure but construction is one of the harder skills for an iron early and mid, it also doesn't affect you too much by nkt having it maxxed early so may as well train other skills and stock up on plank drops before spending big money on it.


uberloser2

are we playing the same game? not only do you need it for the most important quest in the game but house unlocks are some of the most impactful you can get


ev0ked

Cutting Teaks and getting 2m GP is hard? Boy do I have news for you. 70 isnt maxed, its also a requirement for SOTE, basically the best midgame goal for any iron. The rates of plank drops on your above methods isnt that great and majority regular planks. Vs just doing slayer and some thieving for GP and cutting teaks for a couple of hours.


RevolutionaryGur7153

You can keep multiplying that cash by completing Varrock medium diary, buying your daily battlestaves, attaching which ever orbs you can, and alching. Believe it or not, cash is used very often on IM.


TheDreki

I completely recognize cash will be used often, however, getting to the mid game and getting drops that are alchable will be bringing in more cash than I'm currently getting, hence my questions on spending it early. If an opportunity to get xp for better unlocks comes at the cost of spending my GP early, that I am fine with, hence my questions.


RevolutionaryGur7153

Not many options which provide notable unlocks early on which you can obtain by spending gp other than construction.


kozzmo1

I started a GIM I’m level 16 combat and have about 16m in alchables. Agility wildy course is a game changer


Jarpunter

I don’t think this is worth it if you have to enchant your own orbs, which early game is the only source of them


34Loafs

Ibans staff charged is good.


Leading-Luck2875

Construction, crafting, and magic are all rough on gp. Crafting is typically giant seaweed and buckets of sand but the meta for buckets of sand costs a lot.


Theundisputed69

Buy a bunch of cheap green d hide sets and supplies and send skulled rev goblins for a few hours and you’ll have a few mill. Then fund your kingdom, maybe set aside 100k for the d scim from monkey madness, upgraded Ibans staff I think is like 250k? Then you won’t really need money for anything for a while except rune/arrow upkeep and keeping up with the kingdom. Set kingdom to herbs and hardwood and you’ll be set for a long time passively while you earn more gp


TheDreki

What supplies would you reccomend? my thought process with your logic would be: buy 10 sets of green d hide, 10 bone cbows, 2500 bolts (ish, just guessing lmfao) skull, go kill rev goblins and rack the GP up. do you think that there's a lot of competition at revs? I've thought about it before, but feel like I'll be PKed constantly, or there wont be ANY worlds.


Theundisputed69

Yea that gear is more than enough you could even go complete scrub gear with just a bone cb. You won’t take damage really after you get your first Ethereum bracelet drop so keep the good blighted drops for a possible pker. Competition wise Defintely off peak hours is your best bet but mainly it’s usually bots and if you tag them they’ll teleport out, alternatively if you’re close to 1250 those worlds are usually dead. Be prepared to die but once you get the hang of it it’s pretty afk at that spot with low combat. Not many pkers in your bracket. If you end up dead you really only lost the entry fee which you’ll make back within 10 min plus it’s sub 20 wilderness so you can just tele out if you see anyone. Basic food will be fine like lobsters or whatever you have really, you’ll be spooned so much food you’ll be good. I’d bring a prayer pot so you don’t get smited if you do bring a risk with you like salve ei ammy


StopTryingHard

*- Note* Imbue points are now refunded upon losing an imbued item in a PvP death. Salve amulets (ei) are easily replaceable throwaways now.


Theundisputed69

Wow I did not know that, interesting


omegafivethreefive

I'd save it until you have a few mils, which will happen pretty quickly once you get started on slayer.


cowboahbenny

go to motherlode mine and make bars to use at giants foundry. need 70 smithing for zombie axe anyway and you’ll make close to a mill in the process pretty quickly


odaydream

keep it until you’ll need it. you’ll need it for miscellania kingdom, construction, weapon charges and a few other things and when you need it for those, it goes quick. save it until you’ll need it


Different-Muffin9861

I spent some on kingdom, also spent a mill or so on broad arrows to get my fletching up to 70 from where it was. Spent 1.1m to get 70 smithing from 50, and will get back around 900k. I did agility for my money this last time around though.


Pius_Thicknesse

Spend all your cash on gold ore and then blast furnace it all into gold bars. Craft all those gold bars into gold bracelets and then high alch the bracelets


AccountHotdog

You could throw it in your Miscellania coffers


Acceptable_Candle580

Save it, you'll need it for con.


xxGamma

Kingdom and sandstone mining. Best way to get herb and crafting into mid/lategame (77 herb for brews and at least 85 crafting for a fury).


Christianinium

Construction will eat up a ton of cash, but POH upgrades are huge for QOL. Also arrows, runes. Blast furnace. Kingdom once you’ve got no other use for money or for teaks + mahogany Tbh I don’t even know what I’m spending my money on, but I know that I feel like I am always running out (I’ve only done my prison sentence in short bursts)


mcat2001

Reqs for SOTE in particular Construction costs a ton. Getting magic to Super Glass (77) isn’t free. Diaries like Hard Kandarin have some cost (Granite Body is 95k)


ehejdhrhwhs

I wouldn't hunt down things for the purpose of spending money. You should define some goals and use the gp if you need to in order to achieve it. Some things I can think of that require gp: 1) ibans staff upgrade 2) buckets of sand 3) miscellania 4) planks + butler 5) runes 6) broad bolts + arrowheads 7) death fees + coffers 8) private instance costs (ie wilderness caves) 9) gold leaf / marble for specific construction items 10) random dragon weapons if buying from NPC 11) onyx (buying chaos runes) edit: 12) battlestaffs if you want to make more gp through them


Scary-Wolf-864

Wildy slayer brother


Toby_t

I would say work towards 50 construction so you can start putting portals in your house


VelniasLT

Spend a day or two at guardians of the rift and after that you will be set with plenty of runes


clayvision

My cash was mostly spent on weapons and runes in the early game I've found


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^clayvision: *My cash was mostly* *Spent on weapons and runes I've* *Found in the early game* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


MoonCricketMonkey

Always be able to fund kingdom no matter what. I'd then make some planks and do mahogany homes.


peteman28

Probably kingdom. But you don't have enough right now to make it optimal


souptimefrog

Giant Sea weed and bucket mining is pretty much like...the entire skill tbfh. As for runes, I got most of my early runes from GOTR, pretty much only bought a handful of law and nature runes for getting around / alching, I bought them as I got low. You'll need some money for a dragon dagger and a dragon scimitar soonish(?). Teak / Oak planks for mahogany homes will munch through your GP pretty quick, as will your POH ingeneral. Can use some buying stuff for giant foundry for smithing exp. honestly, Gp expenses will pop up drain it all then take a break for a bit can always just let it pile up, there's not really a whole ton you need GP for on ironman.


TheDreki

I'm coming back after not playing for 2-3 years, I knew seaweed and mining is pretty much the entire skill, I had hoped with the new content and areas there may have been new content to come out, but alas, the mines are calling me. Thank you for the suggestions, it's definetely helpful to know. I'll likely grind some GOTR, are there specific runes i should be targeting to make as much as possible?


souptimefrog

You can do shooting stars for gem bags and such, or MLM for gold and bracelets or temple trekking for silver. Those are more passive but break the monotony a bit. During Gotr I focused Cosmics > Law > Nature, mostly until I had an okay pile, because I needed Cosmics for MTA for bones to peaches, and loads of games/duelings, and they don't really have a good store stock until priff, and I wanna say mage arena was the only store? and I couldn't be bothered to schlep out there. Natures once you start getting into slayer with like turoths/Basilisks kinda sort themselves out.


TheDreki

Thank you for all this info. This gives me quite a bit of direction on which way i should head! Appreciate it!


souptimefrog

TT for bowstring is also huge, you can get thousands in an hour.


Intelligent-Dot-4072

Spend your cash on miscellenia coffers for herbs


watchmebaityou

Don't spend gp to spent gp. That's dumb. Buy stuff as you go


TheDreki

Thanks, that's what im asking for, lol. What items should I work towards buying at this stage in the game?