Mastering Mixology/Strategies Guide – OSRS

General tips

These are some efficiency tips that improves the outcome no matter the strategy used.

Efficient pathing

Orders should be prepared at the same station when possible to minimise movement between stations. Using the shortest path between stations and the conveyor belt provides a more efficient outcome from the activity. This can be improved by putting the orders in the inventory in the order that they are going to be made using this path. This will minimize moving items in the inventory since only a click directly on the station will start making the correct potion.

As a general rules, this is the recommended pathing : Crystalise > Concentrate > Homogenise

Time to travel

Station	Distance traveled
Alembic / Crystalise	1 tick
Retort / Concentrate	2 ticks
Agitator / Homogenise	1 tick
Conveyor Belt	2 ticks
Total	6 ticks

By grouping orders by station, the total ticks per order should be 6 ticks as a worst case scenario (Having to visit every station in the current order).

Faster preparation

By using player input during the preparation, potions will be made faster and also gives chip herblore experience.

If the three orders are not desired, the potion with the most efficient processing speed should be made to resets current orders rapidly.

While preparing the pastes, clicking every tick on refiner also accelerates the creation of pastes between cooking sessions.

Digweed

Digweed doubles the experience and points gained from a potion. They should exclusively be used on MAL recipe, keep it in the inventory otherwise.

Before 81 herblore, it should be used on the recipe that offers the best experience.

Simple priority strategies

Complete full orders

Making all orders makes the most out of the 40% bonus from potions. This is the most straight forward way to play this activity. Some players might find themselves having too many Aga points, since most of the the rewards cost little of them. This can be compensated by buying rewards that costs more green points than the other two (Adept potion pack, for example).

Complete non-triple orders

This method skips the recipes that gives the least experience and the least amount of points, making this more efficient for experience, since the biggest con is that it doesn’t benefit as much from the 20% bonus points that comes with orders that are done at once.

Personalize order priority

Depending on priorities, it might be advantageous to skip less efficient recipes depending on objectives. Use the information on this page the define which one you should skip or complete, depending on your objectives. This activity is a balance between experience, point or resource efficiency.

Some strategies example:

• Skipping triples, unless a MAL is in the current orders
• Skipping double of a particular color to get less point that wont be spent on rewards
• Doing triple orders if there is at least 4-5 of the most needed color

Overview: Resin reward ratios

In order to obtain desired rewards in the Mastering Mixology minigame, players will target quantities of Mox, Aga, and Lye. This guide will provide information on which potion orders to fulfill to optimise points in the resin types.

The table below displays the results of the 20% point bonus for double orders and 40% point bonus for triple orders fulfilled.

Ironmen with limited supplies of paste or players with reward targets in mind should consider the reward ratio when deciding which orders to fully or partially fulfill. The single-ingredient bases (AAA, MMM, LLL) are net-negative in all cases when considered on their own. However, in conjunction with higher-reward orders, the contribution to the total reward ratio of the order may be net-positive.

Note that there are three categories: single-paste, double-paste, and triple-paste.

Prioritise experience per hour

This strategy optimizes experience gain but does requires more setup than the more conventional method of simply following the orders. One can expect up to 105k experience per hour with this method, although there is no control over points gained like other methods.

1. Setup the inventory so that every non-triple types of mix are made in advance with each different type of processing.
2. Prepare potions that are in the current order list that are non-triple.
3. Deposit the order on the conveyor belt 2-5 times (The premade potions in the inventory should complete the second order).

Prioritise one resin

Players looking to boost one resin reward should evaluate orders as follows, assuming they are focusing on net-positive use of the relevant paste:

The target resin is designated X. A mix that does not contain the target paste/resin will be called non-target. Because all double-paste mixes have the same reward ratio, 2X scenarios are interchangeable (MMX+MMX vs XXM + non-target).

In simplest terms: single-paste mixes are worth creating in any order that contains other bases with the target resin, and triple orders should always be completed unless they do not contain the target resin or only contain single-paste mixes.

Prioritise total points

Players looking to maximize total points per paste for each order should evaluate orders as follows: