Potions are made via the herblore craft and start out fairly slow. The first potion you can make, Bird Nest Potion, requires you have potato seeds and garum herbs. Getting the potato seeds is as easy as slapping the junior farmer a few hundred times, but getting garum herbs means you need to start dipping into the farming skill.
If you haven’t started on the long journey to farming in Melvor Idle, check out my overview guide on the subject here.
The purpose of this guide is to tip you off about the materials you’re going to need for potions deeper into the herblore craft, and where to get the materials that aren’t growable herbs.
Because you have to grow herbs yourself, herblore is closely tied to farming. Even if you’re not starting to make potions now, it’s never too late to get started on the farming treadmill.
How to Get Herb Seeds
There are a few enemies that drop herb seeds at random, but your best bets for stocking up on herb seeds are always going to be:
Going to Farmlands and beating up farmers Pickpocketing the farmer (once you reach thieving level 30) to get herb sacks, which will grant a random amount of random herb seeds.
You may get them from bird nests from time to time, but they are far more reliably obtained via the above two methods.
Melvor Idle Potions
The table below touches on each type of potion you can make in Melvor Idle, as well as where you can obtain the ingredients that are not herbs. All herbs must be grown from their seeds by you.
The sorts of herbs in order of when you can farm them are as follows:
Garum Herb (Farm LVL 5) Sourweed Herb (Farm LVL 15) Mantalyme Herb (Farm LVL 25) Lemontyle Herb (Farm LVL 35) Oxilyme Herb (Farm LVL 50) Poraxx Herb (Farm LVL 60) Snape Grass (Farm LVL 61) (grown in the Allotments category) Pogtayle Herb (Farm LVL 70) Barrentoe Herb (Farm LVL 80)
Take a look at each recipe’s required materials and hold onto the ones you know you’re going to need once you’re of the right herblore level to craft the potions you want.
Do you have any tips on quickly leveling farming or the methods you’ve found fastest to get herb seeds in Melvor Idle? Leave a comment below!
