To effectively do contracts on a UIM, you’ll need something to do that doesn’t require much inventory space. Ardy knights, Agility, Pest control, Minnows, etc.
Herb runs are a little tight on space but it’s very possible to do them and bag the herbs. Toadflax, Ranarrs and Harrs, when you get them from seed packs, you can plant on the next herb run to free precious inventory space.
Preplant Maples because they’re assigned from easy to hards most often. Since the changes to contracts, palm/celastrus are more worth pre-planting and keeping on you.
Redwoods you can keep in the Looting bag or an Item Retrieval Service, or just plant the seeds when you get them. The rest of the preplants are the same as regular ironmen.
Do berry tasks, it’s worth it to reduce risk of fruit tree easy’s, even if you have to do master farmers.
Equipped: secateurs, defender, amulet of nature (on your contracted patch), explorer’s ring, ardy/farm/cons/max cape.
Rune pouch: revive crops runes minus earth. Buy earth runes if one of your herbs dies (Yanille center portal in poh).
For the Hespori, use void melee with protect range, or melee gear with protect mage if you have it on you. If you’re high melee you shouldn’t need food, but bring cheese taters and drink the str/atk pots on the way there. Also pre-drink the super antipoison spawn before you get food (optional). It is possible (though unlikely) to die at the Hespori, so don’t store anything you aren’t prepared to lose in an instanced bank like zulrah/vm/vork. Keep most of your things in the looting bag.
Grab the whip from the stash and put the legends cape on your cape rack if you’re normally wielding secateurs. The Hespori is weak to slash.
Anima seeds are hardly worth keeping on you. Kronos>Attas>Iasor. You should have Kronos planted about 75-90% of the time if you’re doing Hespori as soon as you can, so keeping a stack on you is optional. Just replant it every time you get it by using the spade on the plant and using the new seed on the patch.
For more inventory space, you can keep only one berry stack on you and preplant the other (psn ivy/whtberry) when you get them from seed packs. You can also just carry the herb seeds for hard tasks (Lants, Cadantine, Dwarf, Snapdragon, Torstol) and do farmers for the others. The more seeds you have on you, the more effectively you can complete contracts, so only do this if you need the space.
Keep low level tree seeds/cactus (up to maple/curry) in an instanced bank for safety, and pick up the stacks as you need them. Keeping all of the easy tree seeds also will guarantee that you won’t have to do bird runs to get seeds for contracts. When you have too many stacks in your inventory, you can die again to get them all back at vm. This strategy requires several banked fossils, every time you die you’ll be using 2 smalls or 1 of another size. You can use vorkath too, but it’ll get very expensive. This is optional, if you don’t have the space/currency, you can do bh runs to get any seeds you need.
Compost:
Take the black pickaxe from your poh (or buy a mith one, quality of pickaxe only speeds up the first ash on each node, so a low level one is fine) to mine 175 volcanic ash per run. Bottomless bucket saves invo space over the spell, but the spell saves a small amount of time. You profit lots of watermelon seeds from contracts, so plant those to make compost at each bin, and protect them with nasturtiums. Alternatively, you can keep Harralanders for compost potions and make ultracompost in this way:
Here is an image to give you an idea what a setup might look like. Priority is on Lants, Cadantine, Dwarf, Snapdragon, Torstol, they’re hard contracts and will be assigned more often.
Thanks: Gibbed, Renewed, FishK, Kela et al.
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