Ashes
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- This article is about the white powder left over when burning logs. For the items dropped by demons, see Demonic ashes.
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| Release date | 4 January 2001 (Update) |
|---|---|
| Members? | No |
| Quest item? | No |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alch | 1 coin |
| Low Alch | 0 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | Not sold |
| Examine | A heap of ashes. |
| Weight | 0.056 kg |
Ashes appear when a fire burns out, by picking the White lily, by equipping the Abyssal whip provided by an Abyssal minion, or as the end result of smoulderingFever grass, Lavender, or Tansymum. Ashes look like mined Clay except that Ashes are white and Clay, in contrast, is tan; this relationship exists between Ashes and a number of items, mainly anything with 'dust' in the item name. Although Ashes have limited uses in RuneScape, their role in Herblore-training by Serum 207 makes them valuable.
Uses
- They are used in the Shades of Mort'ton and Desert Treasure quests.
- They are used to make Serum 207.
- They can be crushed with a Pestle and mortar to make a Ground ashes used to dust the character's hands. This helps when throwing a shotput in the Warriors' Guild for better grip.
- They are used with a Fruit blast to make a Dirty blast for the first part of the Recipe for Disaster quest.
- They are used as food for the Phoenix eggling and the Abyssal minion.
- Used with the Phoenix familiar's scroll, Rise from the ashes, to activate its special move. (To use the special move, the ashes must be on the ground.)
Obtaining/Money-Making
- The player will need: At least partial completion ofAs a First Resort..., up to the 'Kebbit, Kebbit' section of "Accelerate The Action Point"; a Tinderbox in the inventory or Tool belt (the latter recommended)
Fever grass, available only during and afterAs a First Resort..., can be used as a relatively quick way to obtain ashes. Smouldering the Fever grass and waiting, or simply unequipping the smouldering grass, yields ashes; untradeable Fever grass can be turned into Coins-fetching Ashes at a faster rate than waiting for a fire to burn out. There is a patch of Fever grass just outside the western entrance of Oo'glog, a relatively short run from the town bank and outside the reach of any nearby Ogresses, facilitating Fever grass-gathering:
- Starting from the bank, with the player's choice of Beast of Burden, run west and fill up on Fever grasses. Hugging the south side of the grass patch helps to avoids prolonged combat with the nearby Ogresses. One click collects one grass.
- Run east to the bank and deposit any Fever grasses.
- Repeat Steps #1 and #2 until the desired number of grasses is collected. When finished, fill the inventory with Fever grasses and have a Tinderbox ready. If Beasts of Burden were used to assist in grass-collecting, they are no longer required at this point.
- "Light" the Fever grass in the inventory to equip the now renamed "Smouldering fever grass" in the main hand.
- Unequip the Smouldering fever grass to yield Ashes in the inventory. Deposit the Ashes.
- Repeat steps #4 and #5, withdrawing additional Fever grass when necessary, until the desired number of Ashes are converted from Fever grass.
There are a couple things to note about this method:
- Nearby Platypus will attack and poison the player if the player has Smouldering fever grass near the Fever grass patch. The Thermal Bath in Oo'glog can alleviate any complications (only afterAs a First Resort... is completed), but the player can simply avoid smouldering fever grass near the native platypus.
- Ogresses may take a swing at the player when approaching or leaving the Fever grass patch, but their attacks will hardly be lethal to the average player. While the Ogresses' interventions are not fully preventable, the Thermal Bath can solve any problems associated with damage and turning Auto Retaliate off will prevent the player from engaging the Ogresses for too long.
- Smouldering Fever grass can only be done in the Oo'glog area. "There is too much wind to keep something smouldering" in any other location.
- Fever grass is available on theGrand Exchange for a fraction of the price of Ashes, allowing a player to amass a stock of grass ready to be turned into Ashes and still turn a profit. That being said, the Exchange's supply of grass is questionable, as Fever grass is relatively useless after As a First Resort... and most players will not consider Fever grass worth stockpiling, let alone selling.
- On the plus side, Fever grass weighs 0 kg, allowing constant or near-constant running. Even if Energy was a concern, the nearby Saltwater Spring can easily provide unlimited Energy for a decent period of time.
- Using Shortcut keys F1 (Inventory) and F2 (Worn Equipment) can expedite the grass-to-ash process, depending on player preference:
- Click to 'Light' the grass -> Click/F2 to access Worn Equipment -> Click to Unequip the grass -> Click/F1 to return to inventory -> Click to 'Light' the grass -> etc.
Trivia
- Because ashes are occasionally used to raise Herblore (by making Serum 207), players can make some profit by selling them on the Grand Exchange, some times for a higher price. They can be commonly collected just off the ground around the Grand Exchange or near the Draynor bank left over from players training their Firemaking.
- Some players collect ashes at the Grand Exchange (there are many players burning logs), instead of buying and burning the logs themselves. There have been numerous reports of players (almost always with a combat level of 3) using bots to pick up ashes at the Grand Exchange.
- It appears that ashes vanish much faster on the floor than other items, disappearing after around 30 seconds when normally dropped tradeable items stay for three minutes. However, this might simply be due to the time while the fire burns is counted in the ashes natural destruction timer.
- During the Draynor Bank Robbery, the victims dropped ashes when the Wise Old Man killed them.
- On 7 August 2009 the price changed from 3 coins to 342 coins overnight, an increase of just over 11000%. The price then dropped to 4 coins after less than one hour of the change.
- A fake Abyssal whip can be obtained from an Abyssal minion which will turn to ash when equipped.
- Before 15 February 2011 demons, imps and fiends would drop ashes as a 100% drop, but they were replaced with impious ashes, accursed ashes and infernal ashes on that date.
- There is currently a right-click option for free-players to grind the ashes even though only members can do it. Clicking on that option will show a message saying: 'You need a pestle and mortar to do that.' However, if the player is/was a member and has a pestle and mortar in a non-member world, they can grind the object to make a Members object.
- Sometimes a player will drop a red bead on some ashes to make others think that a Santa hat was dropped on the ground. This was occasionally used in scams.