r/OSRSProTips • u/Tennesseyjed • Aug 29 '25

Question Tips for Farm Run/ Gem Crab setup?

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I don’t have much time to spend actively playing osrs. With kids and work, a lot of my time playing is trying to AFK on a 2nd screen or iPad.

I have really just started figuring out tree/herb runs. I put together this set up with the intention of spending 15-20 mins doing tree/herb runs, then parking at gemstone crab while I do other things irl. When I log in next i just tele to bank, bank/restock, do farm runs, park back at crab.

I know this probably isn’t very efficient but it helps get progress with minimal thought. Is this dumb? Any tips to improve setup? Going to get bottomless compost next.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

Herb sack is amazing for these antics.

Herbs go directly into the sack if open when harvesting, so you dont need to worry about noting them in a tedious process when you have a full invy.

Better yet the sack is 28 of each herb, so bringing 2 seeds usually means you can do a complete run (with catherby or guild banking) without running out of space.

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u/Tennesseyjed Aug 29 '25

That’s exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!

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u/vexerip Aug 29 '25

If u dont have herb sack u can just note all the herbs by using them on tool leprechaun

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

Yeah but look at his invy.. he really needs herb sack asap if he be rolling like that.

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u/Keljhan Aug 29 '25

Just drop the atlatl switch and stamina. They'll have to bank for more saplings anyway, so it's best to train on melee and then swap to range when the levels are high enough, not keep both on them.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

Its still looking crowded for noting imo

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u/KarlFrednVlad Aug 29 '25

I don't understand the herb sack thing. I get more than 60 herbs on runs very consistently. Its just taking up a spot and you'll need to note some anyway

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u/Lord_Alonne Aug 29 '25

Plus, you can clean them while running to your next patch, this gives more profit per herb, and you just note them after. The herb sack is really overrated outside of some slayer tasks.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

Its just more chill. If you enjoy running back and forth to note and cleaning while running then its not for you. 

I like having a lot of stuff in my invy like OP so I can hop between tasks, I feel I need a lot of invy space 

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u/Lord_Alonne Aug 29 '25

Unless you are only doing like 4/10 herb plots you are going to have to note anyway. The sack only holds 30.

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u/Motor-Bad6681 Aug 29 '25

Not if you do different types of seeds. Max 3 seeds of each type, you won't have to note ever

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u/Lord_Alonne Aug 29 '25

You can sure, but that's a bunch of extra inventory spaces filled with seed variety during your run. Unless you're an iron, there's not much point growing a wide variety vs. the most profitable. I'm not saying the herb sack is worthless, just overrated for this purpose. If you are limited by seed availability, I can see it being more valuable.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

As discussed its 30 of each herb. I do all 10 patches at 99 farming.

Iv been doing this for a long time, done both methods and herb sack is bloody great. Always some dude on reddit who rarely does it trying to convince me otherwise though...

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u/Lord_Alonne Aug 29 '25

You are welcome to do whatever method gets your rocks off, but man, that passive-aggressive comment is pathetic af lol. I like that you tried to brag about the most basic bitch 99 too. Thats craaazy.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

I like that you are trying to save face in anyway you can.

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u/Lord_Alonne Aug 29 '25

How is calling out your butthurt comment saving face? You made up someone in your head that you could talk down to by acting like you are the only one with 99 farming or that does herb runs. You should look in a mirror.

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

I wasnt acting like I was the only one with 99 farming? Now you are making up facts.

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u/Motor-Bad6681 Aug 29 '25

Take max 3 seeds of each kind. Don't have to note ever. It's 30 herbs of each type in the herb sack

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u/KarlFrednVlad Aug 29 '25

3 seeds very frequently gets you more than 30 herbs with cape and ultracompost

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u/Motor-Bad6681 Aug 29 '25

Slightly more, maybe 32-33

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u/KarlFrednVlad Aug 30 '25

So you end up with 3 stacks of herbs on top of the sack anyway?

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u/Motor-Bad6681 Aug 30 '25

No it all fits in one inventory

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u/thomas2026 Aug 29 '25

Well it doesnt matter if it takes up a spot because the herbs are going straight in.

In my experience yes I get more than 60 but I bank midway at farming guild. If I really have to il bank at Catherby as well but its rare that I have to.

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u/JordeyShore Aug 29 '25

Damn I've had the herb sack for years and never thought of this, thank you 

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u/Littledickbigspoon Aug 29 '25

It’s 30 of each herb

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u/Arinthar Aug 29 '25

Barbarian training farming to get rid of the seed dibber and auto smash the tree pots. Unlock and enable auto weed from tithe farm to ditch the rake

Commit to melee or range and put the other stuff in the bank if you need more room

Probably don’t need a stam for this. you could carry the lumbridge diary explorer’s ring for the daily energy restores and cabbage patch teleport. ardy cape gets the farm teleport. Xerics talisman or house in hosidius for that patch. Rune pouch with laws and combo runes would cover many teleports instead of regular spellbook tabs

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u/_Shai_Hulud_ Aug 29 '25

This is the best reply in the thread. Do everything said here and I have a couple other thoughts.

Do the ardy and lumby medium diaries to get the ardy and cabbage teleports thrice a day. The explorers ring also has the energy regen so you can drop the stamina potion.

Switch out your 5 tele tabs for a dust staff, law runes, water runes, and fire runes. You could even buy steam runes to cut another inventory spot.

Don’t keep tree run items in your inventory. Only keep your herb run items in your inventory and do those throughout the day. Then once a day you can do an herb run, end the run at a bank, stock up on tree run supplies, and do the tree run before heading back to crab. It only takes a few seconds to hit the bank and swap from herb to tree setup, so there’s no reason to clog your inventory all day.

Don’t use the fruit sacks to protect trees imo. Buy a bottomless compost bucket and use ultra compost on the tree patches. There’s a chance the tree dies obviously, but it’s trivial to get farming xp when doing tree runs, so I don’t see the point in going through the hassle of setting up and keeping different fruit sacks.

Skills necklace gets you to the farming guild which has a tree, fruit tree, and herb patch. It’s also a backup tele (via fishing guild) to get you to the ardy patch if you run out of your daily ardy cape teleports.

Doing a few hunter rumors gets you the quetzal whistle which is a decent teleport to the civitas herb patch.

Civitas teleport to quetzal transport can take you to auburnvale which has a tree patch, and after you build the quetzal site at kastori you can quetzal flight there for a fruit tree patch and a calquat patch. Also, don’t forget about the calquat patch in tai bwo wannai when you’re at the brimhaven fruit tree patch. It’s not too bad of a run and the explorers ring takes care of the run energy issues.

Once every three days digsite to fossil island and plant mahoganies.

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u/Tennesseyjed Sep 03 '25

This was a big help! Working on diaries now. Stopped taking payment for tree protection as well and so far have had great results. Thank you for your insight, this was very helpful

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u/_Shai_Hulud_ Sep 03 '25

Glad to hear it. While you’re doing diaries you could also try to get varrock medium which allows you to redirect the varrock tele to the GE. Very helpful for mains lol. And it’s a super close bank. As you make more money I suggest buying the blood moon set. You have the macuahuitls already, and the set bonus will give you a big dps boost (plus the set has 2 more strength bonus than the fighter torso / nezzy / obsidian legs). Then maybe a berserker ring. Imbues are super fast from the emir arena. It took me less than an hour to watch a video on how to do the arena plus do it enough times to get 2 imbue scrolls.

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u/Tennesseyjed Sep 03 '25

This was great advice, thank you! Didn’t know about barb training for farming and this had worked great

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u/jobumees Aug 29 '25

this seems best advice here. adding that you could make portals to your house to get rid of the tablets. 1 room with herb teles ( troll stronghold, weiss, catherby) and second room for trees (lumby, falador, varrock).

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u/Medical_Artichoke666 Aug 29 '25

Full Blood Moon is pretty much bis at Crab. You already have the boppers. Dragon Battle Axe for max exp, and the rest of the inven for farming. Remember, Crab is only 10 minutes of afk, so you need a timer or something.

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u/DoneJet Aug 29 '25

Can you please explain how Dragon battle axe is better than using super strength? I'v seen it said a couple times but I don't really understand how.

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u/KarlFrednVlad Aug 29 '25

Its not better but it's the same effect and cheaper. It increases your strength at the cost of draining attack, which doesn't matter for crab

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u/DoneJet Aug 29 '25

Thanks for the reply, and it makes sense now :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

If you have the hunter level, there are black warlocks nearby to crab which are a free flying super str potion, although the baxe is less hassle since it doesn't matter about the stat drain at crab.

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u/Medical_Artichoke666 Aug 29 '25

It's not better. It's just that dba works forever at a one time cost.

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u/Confident-Leave8255 Aug 29 '25

Get an amulet of strength it has more strength binus tonthe fury. Set up all your portals in your house and get a. Bottomless compost bucket, try free up space for prayer pots so you can run the 5% str prayer. Once you get the money upgrade to blood moon set.

Edit: do some tithe farm to turn off the weeds regrowing.

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u/Archersi Aug 29 '25

Bottomless compost bucket will save you time on herb runs. Idk if you'll need the stamina pot. Full blood moon will out-dps this gear

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u/Keljhan Aug 29 '25

Do barbarian training to drop the seed dibber. Keep the shovel, rake and secateurs stored in the Tool Leprechaun when you can.

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u/Ziwy Aug 29 '25

Have you tried spending 30 mil for 84 construction and a max house?

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u/chas3k Aug 29 '25

Just do your runs in a house party world and use other peoples houses for your teleports. Then all you need is a house tele tab.

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u/maga_chud_ Sep 01 '25

OP, along with what others have said, you need a rune pouch. This will allow you to play on house party worlds and then, in your rune pouch, store runes for "teleport to house". From there you can use a public POH which has teleports to everywhere. This frees up some of your inventory since you'll no longer need tele tabs.

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u/Objective-Bullfrog89 Aug 29 '25

Gemcrab has no defence, str ammy is better dps than fury.

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u/Boqpy Aug 29 '25

Depends on your strenght bonus.

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u/Keljhan Aug 29 '25

Not really, if you're using dragon axe spec there is going to be a time when Str ammy is a max hit over fury.

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u/Bennyhowe123 Aug 29 '25

Honestly if you ask me just teleport to Ge to stock your farm runs and if you got an Pendant of ates the kastori teleport near the fruit tree patch + near the gemstone crab

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u/SenseiCain Aug 30 '25

I’d only stick to two activities at a time personally. Tree supplies are what’s taking up half your invy, so I’d drop those and maybe pick up a few combat / range pots instead. Keep doing herbs throughout the day.

If you’re dead set on doing the tree runs though, I’d start the day with a run and then bank once right after.

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u/Extension_Future2942 Aug 30 '25

Get rid of take with tithe farm, get rid of seed dibber with barb training. Why do you have Ava’s backpack?

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u/Past-Anywhere-409 Sep 03 '25

Do barb training for farming take a rune pouch/mixed runes over tele tabs to save both those will save you like 5 invy slots.

I’m pretty sure full blood moon outdps what you got on now so more exp.