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. 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	1,555	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 10% chance to get an additional log while woodcutting regular trees.	No
Tarromin	1,943	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 25% chance to automatically bank ashes gained from burning logs.	No
Marrentill	1,232	Each potency level of these sticks reduces poison damage by 12.5%.	Yes
Harralander	980	Each potency level of these sticks increases run energy replenishment rate by 25% while resting.	Yes
Ranarr	3,505	Each potency level of these sticks provides a +1 Prayer bonus.	Yes
Toadflax	7,632	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 12.5% chance to avoid failing an agility obstacle.	Yes
Spirit weed	33,951	Each potency level of these sticks provides 10% increased familiar special attack recovery rate.	Yes
Irit	25,222	Each potency level of these sticks reduces poison damage by 25%.	Yes
Wergali	3,069	Each potency level of these sticks gives a 0.5% chance to produce a strung bow when fletching logs into unstrung bows.	Yes
Avantoe	3,839	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 5% chance to automatically bait Hunter traps.	Yes
Kwuarm	39,411	Each potency level of these sticks provides +2.5% weapon poison damage.	Yes
Bloodweed	41,490	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 2.5% chance to get double logs when cutting bloodwood trees.	Yes
Snapdragon	4,757	Each potency level of these sticks restores stats 50% faster.	Yes
Cadantine	7,981	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 2.5% chance to not exhaust a tree. Or Archaeology material caches when excavated.	Yes
Lantadyme	17,192	Each potency level of these sticks increases potion timers by 30 seconds.	Yes
Dwarf weed	23,095	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 2% chance to bank dropped or gathered items.	Yes
Torstol	14,375	Each potency level of these sticks provides a 0.5% increase to base XP gain.	Yes
Fellstalk	20,953	Each potency level of these sticks provides a x1.01 spawn chance to elite NPCs.	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	1,555	Impious	1,682	Clean guam	676	-803	-33	Logs	16	24	Impious
5	Tarromin	1,943	Impious	1,682	Clean tarromin	293	-32	-1
9	Marrentill	1,232	Impious	1,682	Clean marrentill	7,184	-7,634	-318.08
20	Harralander	980	Impious oak	883	Clean harralander	1,179	-1,082	-30	Oak	24	36
25	Ranarr	3,505	Impious oak	883	Clean ranarr	4,944	-2,322	-65
30	Toadflax	7,632	Impious willow	1,944	Clean toadflax	12,411	-6,723	-125	Willow	36	54
35	Spirit weed	33,951	Impious willow	1,944	Clean spirit weed	17,810	14,197	263
40	Irit	25,222	Accursed maple	2,114	Clean irit	3,554	19,554	241	Maple	54.2	81.3	Accursed
41	Wergali	3,069	Accursed maple	2,114	Clean wergali	6,914	-5,959	-73
48	Avantoe	3,839	Accursed acadia	4,434	Clean avantoe	1,276	-1,871	-22	Acadia	56	84
54	Kwuarm	39,411	Accursed acadia	4,434	Clean kwuarm	20,460	14,517	173
57	Bloodweed	41,490	Accursed acadia	4,434	Clean bloodweed	24,249	12,807	152
59	Snapdragon	4,757	Accursed acadia	4,434	Clean snapdragon	1,814	-1,491	-18
65	Cadantine	7,981	Infernal yew	5,237	Clean cadantine	8,151	-5,407	-45	Yew	81	121.5	Infernal
67	Lantadyme	17,192	Infernal yew	5,237	Clean lantadyme	9,873	2,082	17
70	Dwarf weed	23,095	Infernal yew	5,237	Clean dwarf weed	16,771	1,087	9
75	Torstol	14,375	Infernal magic	6,032	Clean torstol	7,377	966	5	Magic	121.5	182.2
91	Fellstalk	20,953	Infernal magic	6,032	Clean fellstalk	12,071	2,850	16

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.