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)
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. Additional incense can be lit to add 10 minutes to the timer each. The timer cannot exceed 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.

More incense can be lit at any time to add 10 minutes per incense to the timer, capping at 60 minutes.

While logged out, the timer does not decrease.

Potency

When lit, incense begins at potency level 1. Every 10 minutes, the potency increase 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

Level	Incense stick	Logs	Firemaking XP to cut or coat	Firemaking XP to add herb	Ash	Effect	GE price	Members Only
1	Guam	Logs	16	24	Impious	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 10% chance to get an additional log while woodcutting regular trees.	1,222	No
5	Tarromin					Each potency level of these sticks provides a 25% chance to automatically bank ashes gained from burning logs.	677	No
9	Marrentill					Each potency level of these sticks reduces poison damage by 12.5%.	1,026	Yes
20	Harralander	Oak	24	36		Each potency level of these sticks increases run energy replenishment rate by 25% while resting.	747	Yes
25	Ranarr					Each potency level of these sticks provides a +1 Prayer bonus.	2,910	Yes
30	Toadflax	Willow	36	54		Each potency level of these sticks provides a 12.5% chance to avoid failing an agility obstacle.	6,334	Yes
35	Spirit weed					Each potency level of these sticks provides 10% increased familiar special attack recovery rate.	38,186	Yes
40	Irit	Maple	54.2	81.3	Accursed	Each potency level of these sticks reduces poison damage by 25%.	7,688	Yes
41	Wergali					Each potency level of these sticks gives a 0.5% chance to produce a strung bow when fletching logs into unstrung bows.	2,689	Yes
48	Avantoe	Acadia	56	84		Each potency level of these sticks provides a 5% chance to automatically bait Hunter traps.	2,945	Yes
54	Kwuarm					Each potency level of these sticks provides +2.5% weapon poison damage.	22,439	Yes
57	Bloodweed					Each potency level of these sticks provides a 2.5% chance to get double logs when cutting bloodwood trees.	21,657	Yes
59	Snapdragon					Each potency level of these sticks restores stats 50% faster.	3,612	Yes
65	Cadantine	Yew	81	121.5	Infernal	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 2.5% chance to not exhaust a tree.	6,321	Yes
67	Lantadyme					Each potency level of these sticks increases potion timers by 30 seconds.	18,681	Yes
70	Dwarf weed					Each potency level of these sticks provides a 2% chance to bank dropped or gathered items.	21,051	Yes
75	Torstol	Magic	121.5	182.2		Each potency level of these sticks provides a 0.5% increase to base XP gain.	14,634	Yes
91	Fellstalk					Each potency level of these sticks provides a x1.01 spawn chance to elite NPCs.	17,347	Yes

Update history

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• 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.