OSRS Herblore Boost guide

Last Updated on 5 January, 2022

OSRS Herblore Boost guide – All the boosts, their effects, and where or how to unlock each of them – Herblore Cape, Spicy Stew, Greenman’s ale, Botanical pie…

OSRS Herblore Boost – Table

OSRS Herblore Boost – How to Get?

A guide to get / unlock each boost

Herblore Cape

A Herblore cape can be purchased for 99,000 coins from Kaqemeex the druid, located in the druid circle of Taverley by players who have achieved level 99 Herblore

Greenman’s ale

These are the steps to make Greenman’s ale (requires Cooking 29):

1. Use 2 bucket of water on the fermenting vat
2. Use 2 barley malt on the fermenting vat
3. Optional: Use 1 the stuff on the fermenting vat, increasing the chance to mature the ale from 5% to 36%
4. Use 4 harralander on the fermenting vat
5. Use 1 ale yeast on the fermenting vat
6. Wait 1–5 days until the beer has fermented
7. Use 8 beer glasses on the completed ale in the fermenting vat

Mature Greenman’s ale

These are the steps to make Greenman’s ale (requires Cooking 29):

1. Use 2 bucket of water on the fermenting vat
2. Use 2 barley malt on the fermenting vat
3. Optional: Use 1 the stuff on the fermenting vat, increasing the chance to mature the ale from 5% to 36%
4. Use 4 harralander on the fermenting vat
5. Use 1 ale yeast on the fermenting vat
6. Wait 1–5 days until the beer has fermented
7. Use 8 beer glasses on the completed ale in the fermenting vat

Botanical pie

Baking an uncooked botanical pie on a cooking range, requiring level 52 Cooking:

1. Use a pastry dough on a pie dish to make a pie shell
2. Use a golovanova fruit top on the pie shell to make an uncooked botanical pie
3. Cook the uncooked botanical pie on a range to finish a botanical pie

Spicy stew (brown spice)

Requirement: Spicy stews are available only to those who have completed the Freeing Evil Dave subquest in Recipe for Disaster

These are the steps to make Spicy Stew

• First, obtain a regular stew
• Get the spices
  • Get a cat (or hellcat) to chase the hell-rats
  • Go to Evil Dave’s basement in the house west of the Edgeville bank
  • Using a cat (wily is best) to attack the hell-rat behemoths. These will always give a 4 dose of the specific colour spice they are guarding
• Add up to 3 doses of a colour spice to the regular stew to get a spicy stew

Skill Boost Range:

• -1 to +1: x1 dose
• -3 to +3: x3 dose
• -5 to +5: x3 dose

Locations of each Spice:

• Red: Northern-most Room
• Orange: North-western Room
• Yellow: South-western Room
• Brown: Southern-most Room

Skills Affected:

• Red: Combat Skills > Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic
• Orange: Production Skills > Smithing, Crafting, Fletching, runecraft, Construction, Firemaking, Cooking
• Yellow: Character Development > Agility, Hunter, Slayer, Thieving, Prayer
• Brown: Resource Skills > Woodcutting, Farming, Fishing, Mining, Herblore

Other Old School RuneScape Boost Guides:

• Smithing
• Crafting
• Construction
• Thieving
• Mining
• Slayer
• Cooking
• Agility
• Fletching
• Farming