OSRS Ultimate Ironman Challenge Guide (2024)

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Creating an Ironman account is hard enough in OSRS already challenging on its own already but for the ultimate test in the game, you'd want to do an Ultimate Ironman run. This mode is best for those who have full extensive knowledge of the game already and for those who have beat the campaign multiple times.

Not a lot of players are able to start the challenge, let alone finish it. If you want the extra bragging rights for you and your friends, we're going to give you an Ultimate Ironman guide. First off, let's talk about the restrictions on this account.

Ultimate Ironman Restrictions

If you've played Ironman or Hardcore Ironman before, then this mode should feel very familiar. Ultimate Ironman is the ultimate test of skill so the restrictions encompass nearly all aspects of the game.

1. Death is permanent unless you're doing one of the activities that has a safe death. Additionally, there are a few mechanics concerning item drops and death.

   • When you die, you will drop everything except untradeables.
   • The Protect Item prayer does not work.
   • Your items will stay on the ground for one hour before disappearing; they will not be visible to other players and will just disappear after one hour.
   • Certain items will disappear on death no matter what; these are covered here.
   • If you die in an instance, you will lose everything that is dropped onto the ground.
2. All forms of trading with players aren't allowed. The only exceptions are with quest-related items and receiving bonds. On that end, you can take advantage of player trading to make a profit.
3. You can only use the Grand Exchange for buying bonds. On that note, you can't sell bonds.
4. You can't get any loot from targets that are hit by other players - regardless of whether it's PVE or PVP. To loot, you must kill the monster yourself.
5. No XP is gained from PVP encounters. Oddly enough, you can still get Magic XP from spells while doing PVP.
6. Requesting help from other players via Accept Aid isn't allowed.
7. Entering a POH is prohibited regardless of who the player is.
8. You can't join group instances in the Nightmare Zone. Additionally, you can only get the scroll of redirection from chests in the zone.
9. Banking actions such as depositing, withdrawing, and noting items are prohibited. Banks cannot be used to unnote items.
10. Creating new item sets at the Grand Exchange is not allowed.
11. Resources from managing miscellania and sand from Bert cannot be obtained.
12. Sending items to the bank for storage using methods like coal trucks, Daeyat essence, and the Dwarven Boatman is not permitted.
13. Sending items to your Servant for storage in banks or sawmills is not allowed.
14. The seed vault cannot be used for storage.
15. Duplicate items cannot be stored in the POH Costume Room.
16. Withdrawing items before depositing the entire set is not allowed.
17. The looting bag's mechanics do not work on PvP servers outside the Wilderness.
18. There is no safekeeping of valuable items; all items are lost upon death.
19. The Protect Item ability is disabled, so other Prayers should be used instead.
20. Graves are not usable; items are dropped on the ground upon death.
21. Items and supplies will still be placed in graves and on the floor during activities like the God Wars Dungeon or any other instance.
22. Item retrieval services remain the same, except at Zulrah.
23. Items can be retrieved from Zul-Gwenwynig for free, bypassing the interface required for regular accounts.
24. If you die in the Wilderness, most items will be converted into coins for the player who killed you, reflecting the fate of all non-tradeable items.

Ultimate Ironman Questing

While there are no quest restrictions on Ultimate Ironman, you need to keep in mind that there are some quests to prioritize and some quests to avoid. Those to finish first are the ones that reward you with key items and those that unlock key areas. Those you need to avoid are the ones that are very risky.

Priority Quests For Important Unlocks

While these are quests with great unlocks, you should still be wary about doing them. Make sure to only do ones that you're confident in doing so that you don't put yourself at risk of dying in your run.

Skill Unlocks

Area Unlocks

Transportation Unlocks

Equipment Unlocks

Quests With Item Requirements

Some quests in the game will force you to hold onto or at least get a few specific items. These quests become more difficult because of the storage restrictions on Ultimate Ironman. To give you a heads up on what those quests are, refer to this table below:

Quest	Item		Notes
Animal Magnetism		Mithril axe	You'll need to bring a mithril axe to forge a blessed axe. To save inventory space on materials, just buy a mithril axe from the Woodcutting Guild but you need 60 Woodcutting to get inside. You can also get a mithril axe from tree spirits and blue dragons. However, these are fairly difficult enemies so take caution. If you have at least 29 Thieving, you can get one from the chest on the Isle of Souls.
Desert Treasure I		Magic logs	You'll need 12 magic logs in total for this. They're easy to get once you have level 75 Woodcutting but an alternative source would be Windertodt. At level 58 Hunter, you can catch nature implings who can drop magic logs. If you're lucky, you can also get these as a reward from Brimstone Chests.
Dragon Slayer II		Dragonstone	You'll need one dragonstone for the quest. One source is the chests inside Rogues' Castle but it will require a high level of Thieving at 84. Another source is in Prifddinas but you'll need to finish Song of the Elves for this. Zalcano drops dragonstone as a reward or you can go crystal impling hunting as well.
The Eyes of Glouphrie		Mud rune	During the quest, you need one mud rune to create the magic glue. You can get one at the Mage Training Arena by trading pizazz points.
Fairytale I - Growing Pains		Nature talisman	In Fairytale I, enchanting the secateurs might necessitate the use of a nature talisman. The best place to find one is in the Guardians of the Rift minigame, where you can buy them for 50 Abyssal pearls.
The Hand in the Sand		White berries	You can grow these via bush patches but you'll need to raise your Farming to 59 before being able to do this. Alternatively, you can head to the Lava Dragon Isle and look for berries there. Another location is near the elf tracker in Isafdar but getting access to this place means starting the Regicide quest first. Cave crawlers can also drop these as a reward.
Mourning's End Part I		Magic logs	You'll need one magic log here. Just use the same farming method in Desert Treasure I.
Song of the Elves		Runite bar You'll need one of each item to help Lady Trahearn fix her exoskeleton. You can get a runite bar through ore smelting but only if you're at level 85 Smithing. If you're far from reaching this level but you have 150 Kudos, you can get one from Pete's Ore Shop on Fossil Island. For monster drops, you can get bars from rune dragons, magpie implings, and demonic gorillas. For the seed, the best way is via Slayer. Just do tasks for aberrant spectres, cave horrors, and nechyrael dagannoth. If you don't want to do Slayer tasks or if your level isn't high enough, you can get it from Hespori or in seed packs.
		Cadantine seed
Swan Song		Lava rune	Get these from Mage Training Arena. Just do a few and you can trade your pizazz points for these.
		Mist rune
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio		Agility potion(4)	You need level 84 Herblore to make agility potions using toad legs and toadflax potion. Alternatively, you can do Dr. Jekyll's random event. You can get the potion by exchanging it for a clean irit leaf.
Tears of Guthix		Bullseye lantern	The bullseye lantern is a requirement for the sapphire lantern part of the quest. You can get one from Death to the Dorgeshuun quest from Miltdog. If you have good Thieving, you can get one from pickpocketing the cave goblins as well.

Quests Involving Entrana

Entrana is a tricky place to get into because weapons and armor here are not allowed. However, you can still bring runes and supplies for Fletching and crafting armor. In an Ultimate Ironman run, you'll have to store banned items before going to Entrana. It's best to give them to a retrieval service in this case.

Other Item Limitations

There are some quests that will prevent you from using items in certain areas. It's best to prepare for these beforehand.

Weight Requirements

There are only a few but some quests are either easier or impossible to complete if you don't reach certain weight requirements. If you don't have a Graceful outfit, then you can use this so that you can lose weight easily. Otherwise, you can store items in your looting bag.

Quests With Inventory Space Requirements

There will be quests where some items are forced into your stash. The last thing you want is being forced to let go of valuables because of these quests. We won't be diving deep into what you'll be forced to bring for these quests but we'll show you how many slots you'll need to have in your stash.

OSRS Ultimate Ironman Money Making

Because of the restrictions, money making is difficult in an Ironman account, let alone an Ultimate one. While all methods are available, you still need to do ones that are most efficient. Below is a list of what you can do to start earning money.

Most Efficient

Low Requirements

High Requirements

Tips Inventory Management On Ultimate Ironman

One of the main reasons why Ultimate Ironman is so hard is the lack of bank space. That only means that you'll need to be wary of the items you'll pick up as you have a very limited amount of storage for your account. As that is the case in Ultimate Ironman accounts, there are a few things you can do to manage your inventory better.

1. Level Up Construction Early

As much as possible, make sure to level up Construction to 42 as early as you can. It offers a lot of amazing storage options that would make your UItimate Ironman journey a little bit easier. You can store lots of items inside your player-owned house including the Graceful set, Void set, and more.

2. Noting/Unnoting Items

To make it clear, noting items isn't allowed in an Ultimate Ironman run. However, there's a work around to it using a few items.

• You can not ANY item that can be grown using your Farming Skill. Some items include herbs, watermelons, pineapples, papayas, and strawberries. You can do it with the help of the Leprechaun tool. You can also note unfinished herb potions but to do this, you'll need to finish the Desert Hard Diary first. Each unf potion will require 200 gold. Otherwise, all other items that you want to have noted need to be noted as they go into your inventory.

Unnoting is easier than noting. All you need to do is to use a noted item on a bank booth or with any of the banker NPCs. Items can be unnoted at no cost. When you do this, all of the noted items on your inventory will be unnoted and placed there as long as you have the space for it.

Other than the bankers, you can unnote items from Phials who's next to the Rimmington General Store. He charges 5 gold per item which is relatively cheap.

What's good about him is that there's a house portal near from where he is so unnoting is more convenient set aside from the 5 Gold. He also offers an "unnote X" option which doesn't appear in any other bank.

Tip: If you need to unnote two items, but have four inventory spaces, you can remove worn items to fill up the space.

3. Get The Looting Bag

This is one of the most important items to get in an Ultimate Ironman run. You can get this from beating low-level mobs inside the Wilderness. The best and least risky option is the Thugs in Edgeville Dungeon. The drop rates are pretty low but since these enemies are relatively weak, you can easily farm them.

While the looting bag can only store noted items, it's still going to be an important part of your journey. It's not something that you have to get straight away as early Ultimate Ironman runs tend to focus on moneymaking and questing.

To get items from the bag, you must commit suicide to get the items inside. You'll have to get another looting bag though as this process will break the one that you currently have.

4. Don't Get Killed By Zulrah

One of the biggest misconceptions in an Ultimate Ironman Run is that you can store your items by getting killed by Zulrah. While she does hold your items for you, you will lose them. She's still very useful as you can use her for a full inventory wipe for skilling or for when you're going to do activities where you shouldn't have any items.

We highly recommend not using Zulrah for "storing" items as you can end up permanently losing all of them when you disconnect from the game or even die.

5. Use Emote Clue Storage

There are emote clue storage containers that you can build when at the emote locations. There's a storage container for each of the difficulty level of the clues meaning that there are 5 of them in total.

This is a late-game form of extra storage as most of the ones in the early game are either impossible to access or their locations are risky to get to. There are lots of items you can store in these. Here's a list, along with their locations.

Easy

Medium

Hard

Elite

Master

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