Incense sticks

"Incense" redirects here. For other uses, see Incense (disambiguation).

Incense sticks are slivers of wooden logs combined with demonic ashes and herbs. Each kind of incense stick has a different effect that players can use. The effect is activated by consuming an incense stick. Making and using incense requires Firemaking.

Details

Creation

Incense sticks are created in three steps:

1. Cut logs into incense sticks (2 logs to 1 stick); click on log to 'Craft' bringing up a 'Choose a Tool' window and select 'Incense sticks'.
2. Apply 2 demonic ashes to 1 incense sticks (1 stick plus 2 ashes to 1 ashed stick)
3. Add a herb to the ashed incense sticks (1 herb plus 1 ashed stick to 1 completed stick)

Each step grants some Firemaking experience. Additionally, adding the demonic ashes to the incense sticks also grants the same amount of Prayer experience as scattering those ashes. You can make maximum of 375 sticks an hour from scratch, with no banking times included.

Timer

When initially lit, incense has a base time of 10 minutes. More incense can be lit at any time to add 10 minutes per incense to the timer, capping at 60 minutes.

Incense can be active indefinitely if more incense is consumed after waiting a while - so you can use 6 right away, wait 30 minutes, then consume 3 more.

The timer does not decrease while logged out.

Potency

When lit, incense begins at potency level 1. Every 10 minutes, the potency increases by 1 up to a cap of potency level 4, multiplying the effect of the incense by the potency (e.g. potency 4 guam sticks provide a 40% chance).

Alternatively, incense can be 'overloaded' via a right-click option. This consumes 6 incense and skips straight to potency level 4, but only provides 10 minutes of the effect (which can be extended with more incense, as normal).

Regardless of waiting 30 minutes or overloading, potency level 4 can be maintained indefinitely as long as more of the incense is lit before the effect expires completely.

Multiple effects

The interface to override effects.

Players are limited by the amount of incense sticks they may have activated simultaneously based on their Firemaking level. Attempting to activate any incense sticks beyond the player's max limit will prompt the player to choose which one they wish to override.

Incense limit	Level required
1	No requirement
2	71
3	95

Notably, marrentill and irit stack multiplicatively, not additively. For example: potency 3 irit (75%) + potency 2 marrentill (25%) does not yield 100% poison resistance, rather 81.25% (1 - (1-0.75) * (1-0.25)).

List of incense sticks

Incense stick	GE price	Effect	Members Only
Guam	2,203	Each potency level provides a 10% chance to get an additional log while woodcutting regular trees, up to a maximum 40% chance.	No
Tarromin	10,284	Each potency level provides a 25% chance to automatically bank ashes gained from burning logs, up to a maximum 100% chance.	No
Marrentill	1,548	Each potency level reduces poison damage by 12.5%, up to a maximum 50% reduction.	Yes
Harralander	1,521	Each potency level increases run energy replenishment rate by 25% while resting, up to a maximum 100% rate.	Yes
Ranarr	4,869	Each potency level provides a +1 Prayer bonus, up to a maximum +4 bonus.	Yes
Toadflax	9,227	Each potency level provides a 12.5% chance to avoid failing an agility obstacle, up to a maximum 50% chance.	Yes
Spirit weed	34,788	Each potency level provides 10% increased familiar special attack recovery rate, up to a maximum 40% increase. This also affects potions which restore familiar special attack points.	Yes
Irit	20,407	Each potency level reduces poison damage by 25%, up to a maximum 100% reduction.	Yes
Wergali	3,671	Each potency level gives a 0.5% chance to produce a strung bow when fletching logs into unstrung bows, up to a 2% chance.	Yes
Avantoe	5,507	Each potency level provides a 5% chance to automatically bait Hunter traps, up to a maximum 20% chance.	Yes
Kwuarm	32,316	Each potency level provides +2.5% weapon poison damage, up to a maximum +10% damage.	Yes
Bloodweed	49,790	Each potency level provides a 2.5% chance to get double logs when cutting bloodwood trees, up to a maximum 10% chance.	Yes
Snapdragon	6,569	Each potency level restores stats 50% faster, up to a maximum 200% increase.	Yes
Cadantine	11,502	Each potency level provides a 2.5% chance to not exhaust a tree (Woodcutting) or material caches (Archaeology), up to a maximum 10% chance.	Yes
Lantadyme	22,984	Each potency level increases potion timers by 30 seconds, up to a maximum 2 minute increase.	Yes
Dwarf weed	23,017	Each potency level provides a 2% chance to bank dropped or gathered items, up to a maximum 8% chance.	Yes
Torstol	22,651	Each potency level provides a 0.5% increase to base XP gain, up to a maximum 2% increase.	Yes
Fellstalk	22,633	Each potency level provides a x1.01 spawn chance to elite NPCs, up to a maximum increased chance of approximately 4% (each tier stacks through multiplication).	Yes

Creation

Level	Incense stick	GE price	Primary Ingredient	Primary Cost	Secondary Ingredient	Secondary Cost	Secondary only Profit	Secondary only Profit/xp	Logs	Primary Ingredient Firemaking XP (coating)	Secondary Ingredient Firemaking XP (adding herb)	Ash
1	Guam	2,203	Impious	5,171	Clean guam	484	−3,452	−144	Logs	16	24	Impious
5	Tarromin	10,284	Impious	5,171	Clean tarromin	200	4,913	205
9	Marrentill	1,548	Impious	5,171	Clean marrentill	6,677	−10,300	−429.17
20	Harralander	1,521	Impious oak	1,457	Clean harralander	1,730	−1,666	−46	Oak	24	36
25	Ranarr	4,869	Impious oak	1,457	Clean ranarr	5,220	−1,808	−50
30	Toadflax	9,227	Impious willow	12,258	Clean toadflax	4,599	−7,630	−141	Willow	36	54
35	Spirit weed	34,788	Impious willow	12,258	Clean spirit weed	11,739	10,791	200
40	Irit	20,407	Accursed maple	6,294	Clean irit	618	13,495	166	Maple	54.2	81.3	Accursed
41	Wergali	3,671	Accursed maple	6,294	Clean wergali	12,257	−14,880	−183
48	Avantoe	5,507	Accursed acadia	20,551	Clean avantoe	1,214	−16,258	−194	Acadia	56	84
54	Kwuarm	32,316	Accursed acadia	20,551	Clean kwuarm	1,113	10,652	127
57	Bloodweed	49,790	Accursed acadia	20,551	Clean bloodweed	25,661	3,578	43
59	Snapdragon	6,569	Accursed acadia	20,551	Clean snapdragon	1,439	−15,421	−184
65	Cadantine	11,502	Infernal yew	6,996	Clean cadantine	1,851	2,655	22	Yew	81	121.5	Infernal
67	Lantadyme	22,984	Infernal yew	6,996	Clean lantadyme	8,321	7,667	63
70	Dwarf weed	23,017	Infernal yew	6,996	Clean dwarf weed	8,901	7,120	59
75	Torstol	22,651	Infernal magic	6,294	Clean torstol	11,553	4,804	26	Magic	121.5	182.2
91	Fellstalk	22,633	Infernal magic	6,294	Clean fellstalk	10,771	5,568	31

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• update 1 June 2020 (Update):
  • Firemaking XP is now added to the Pyro-matic when creating incense sticks.

• patch 24 February 2020 (Update):
  • Incense buffs are no longer removed when leaving the Fight Kiln.

• patch 19 August 2019 (Update):
  • Quotation marks have been removed from incense examine texts.

• patch 29 April 2019 (Update):
  • Crafting incense sticks now has a chance of providing event currencies (such as crystalised chocolate).

• ninja 23 April 2019 (Update):
  • Adding herbs to incense sticks now check which one to make if you have multiple valid combinations but only one single herb of each type.

• hotfix 23 April 2019:
  • Creating incense burners now give out various passive skilling rewards, such as the crystallised chocolate fragments.

• patch 8 April 2019 (Update):
  • The tool select menu will no longer get stuck when trying to create a single incense stick.

• patch 1 April 2019 (Update):
  • Removed the "change-tool" button on the Make-X interface for untreated and ashy incense sticks.
  • Prevented incense sticks from being crafted from items stored in a beast of burden.
  • Crafting logs into incense sticks is now remembered in Make-X when producing from the same types of sticks.

• update 25 March 2019 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Up to accursed maple incense sticks can be made in free-to-play, but only impious incense sticks and wooden incense sticks is useful in f2p, as all the other incense sticks require members-only herbs. Those other sticks can still be traded, however.