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Learning the Ropes Ready now
The mandatory first quest. Ironman mode is chosen at the very end of it, before you leave the island.
Why this: Everything it needs is done — this is ready to do now.
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Free-to-play start. Get through Learning the Ropes, bank quest points, and reach rune-tier melee.
Quest points are the throttle on almost every later gate, so cheap F2P quests are never wasted time.
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Everything from here on is members-only content. This is the line between the foundation and the real account.
Do first: Learning the Ropes
No requirements.
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The mandatory first quest. Ironman mode is chosen at the very end of it, before you leave the island.
No requirements.
If you leave the starting island on a normal account you cannot convert it to an Ironman later, so this is the one step there is no way back from.
OSRS update: Replaced Tutorial Island, 22 Oct 2025
Last reviewed 2026-09-17.
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Rune-tier melee: the free-to-play ceiling and the base every later combat milestone assumes.
Do first: Learning the Ropes
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Work through the cheap free-to-play quests. Quest points gate Recipe for Disaster (175), While Guthix Sleeps (180) and Dragon Slayer II (200).
Do first: Learning the Ropes
Almost every later wall is a quest point wall. Points earned now are points you are not grinding for under pressure at 175.
Last reviewed 2026-09-17.
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The free-to-play capstone quest: rune platebody, and a prerequisite for Dragon Slayer II much later.
Do first: Learning the Ropes
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Cheap free-to-play quest that opens the Ruins of Camdozaal — F2P fishing, smithing and the Imcando hammer.
Do first: Learning the Ropes
It is also a hard prerequisite for Defender of Varrock and therefore the whole Arrav quest line, so doing it early costs nothing and saves a detour.
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Novice free-to-play quest with no requirements that unlocks Brutus, a repeatable boss you can fight at very low combat.
Do first: Learning the Ropes
No requirements.
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Free-to-play repeatable boss in the Lumbridge cow field — the earliest boss kill an account can get.
Do first: The Ides of Milk
Buy membership and unlock the map: Herblore, fairy rings, Varlamore, Sailing, Wintertodt and Tempoross.
This phase is about unlocks and transport, not levels. Cheap quests here pay for the rest of the account.
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Protect from Melee / Missiles / Magic. The requirement almost every boss guide quietly assumes you have.
Do first: Buy membership
The black mask components plus Wanted! and 55 Crafting. Highest value per unit of effort of any melee item in the game.
Do first: Buy membership
A slayer helmet is +16.67% melee accuracy and damage on task, and once imbued it extends the bonus to Ranged and Magic. Everything else in the mid game is balanced around you having one.
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No requirements at all, and it opens the whole of Varlamore plus the Quetzal transport network.
Do first: Buy membership
No requirements.
The highest payoff-per-minute quest added since 2023. It is also the only requirement for the Fortis Colosseum and the Gemstone Crab, both of which matter much later.
OSRS update: Released 10 Jan 2024
Last reviewed 2026-09-17.
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Unlocks Herblore — the slowest skill on an Ironman, so it needs the longest run-up.
Do first: Buy membership
The wiki's Ironman quest route funnels experience lamps into Herblore specifically because it is the hardest skill to train self-sufficiently. You cannot start until this is done.
Last reviewed 2026-09-17.
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Complete Fairytale I and start Fairytale II to get permission to use fairy rings. The single best transport unlock in the game.
Do first: Lost City
Fairy rings reach Zulrah, the Abyssal Nexus, the Smoke Devil Dungeon, Mort Myre, Piscatoris and dozens of resource spots. The wiki's Ironman quest route front-loads it for exactly this reason.
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50 Firemaking. The reward crates scale to your levels and hand you herbs, seeds, gems, ores and supplies all at once.
Do first: Buy membership
For an Ironman this is the single biggest early supply faucet in the game — it solves several skills' input problems simultaneously.
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Ava's devices. The wiki's Ironman ranged guide calls this a top-priority early quest, and it stays relevant to the assembler at 70.
Do first: Buy membership
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Ardougne cloak 1: unlimited teleports to the Monastery altar, for almost no effort.
Do first: Buy membership
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260 marks of grace for −25 kg weight and +30% run-energy restore. It affects every hour you will ever play.
Do first: Buy membership
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27 Runecraft and Temple of the Eye. The colossal pouch, the abyssal lantern and Raiments of the Eye are Ironman-only sources.
Do first: Buy membership
Full Raiments of the Eye is 60% more runes per essence, and the colossal pouch has been usable from 25 Runecraft since November 2024.
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Opens Zanaris and, with Fairytale I, the fairy ring network. Also the source of the dragon dagger.
Do first: Buy membership
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The dragon scimitar, and the start of the chain toward Monkey Madness II and zenyte jewellery.
Do first: Buy membership
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No requirements. Unlocks the Sailing skill, a raft and the first plank coupons.
Do first: Buy membership
No requirements.
Sailing's ironman-relevant unlocks are clustered at low and mid levels, and several of them (squid beaks for blowpipe materials, Port Roberts thieving) feed straight into mid-game gear.
OSRS update: Sailing released 19 Nov 2025
Last reviewed 2026-09-17.
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750 Slayer reward points (or Mage Training Arena points). Three rune types in one inventory slot.
Do first: Buy membership
It is the item that makes a practical teleport-plus-combat inventory possible at all. Nearly every later setup assumes it.
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35 Fishing. Fish barrel, tackle box, spirit flakes, the dragon harpoon and the Tome of water.
Do first: Buy membership
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Follow-up to Children of the Sun: the Civitas illa Fortis teleport and 3,000 Thieving experience.
Do first: Children of the Sun
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A skiff plus shipwreck salvaging: low-effort resources while you do something else.
Do first: Pandemonium
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Just talk to Tyss in Arceuus — no quest needed. The combat spells and thralls come later with A Kingdom Divided.
Do first: Buy membership
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About seventy seconds of work per cycle on Fossil Island for the best passive Hunter experience and seed supply in the game.
Do first: Bone Voyage
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Opens Fossil Island: hardwood, the Volcanic Mine, herbiboar and bird house runs.
Do first: Buy membership
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Throne of Miscellania, then Royal Trouble. The only genuinely passive resource stream in the game — start it early and let the coffer compound.
Do first: Buy membership
Last reviewed 2026-09-17.
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Explorer's ring: free Low Alchemy casts and a run-energy restore.
Do first: Buy membership
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The helm of neitiznot: +3 strength and +3 prayer, and the base for the Neitiznot faceguard much later.
Do first: Buy membership
Slayer becomes the spine of the account, and the first real gear arrives: Barrows gloves, dragon defender, fighter torso, Moons of Peril.
The grandmaster quest gates: Dragon Slayer II, Monkey Madness II, Sins of the Father, A Kingdom Divided — plus Zulrah, Vorkath and God Wars.
Desert Treasure II, Prifddinas and the Corrupted Gauntlet, the Fortis Colosseum, and 90s combat stats.
Raids and the modern bosses: Tombs of Amascut, Chambers of Xeric, Theatre of Blood, Yama, Araxxor, the Doom of Mokhaiotl.
"End game" here means raid-ready with the gear that actually matters — not owning every item in the game.
Entirely optional long-term goals: max cape, every diary, Combat Achievements Grandmaster, the collection log.
No Ironman needs any of this to be finished with progression. It is here because some people want it.
The OSRS Hiscores contain none of these. Enter your RSN above and, if you've synced your account to RuneProfile, we can read your completed quests, quest points, achievement diaries and Combat Achievement tier from there instead of asking you to tick them.
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Every step links the sources it was built from. The structure draws on the OSRS Wiki's Ironman guide and Optimal quest guide (Ironman); requirements and unlocks are taken from the wiki's own quest, boss and item pages. The phase split is our synthesis, not a wiki-stated taxonomy — the wiki's Ironman guide itself uses three phases and Yazi's Ironman Gear Progression uses four.
Content reviewed 2026-09-17. OSRS progression advice changes with every update; each card shows when it was last checked and which update it reflects.