Potato
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| Members only? | No |
|---|---|
| Quest item? | No |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 9 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 6 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | 11 coins |
| Exchange price | 89 coins update |
| GE Database | Look up price |
| Examine | This could be used to make a good stew. |
| Weight | 0.5 kg |
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Potatoes can be picked from fields across RuneScape. Members with level 1 farming can grow them from seed. They take 40 minutes to grow, grant 8 experience for planting and 9 experience for harvesting. Up to 10 potatoes can be stored in a sack.
The farm to the north-east of the east chicken farm in Lumbridge contains many potatoes that can be picked. There is also a potato field north-west of the western chicken farm in Lumbridge and one in Hemenster, across the road from the Farming shop.
Additionally, players with 43 Construction may build a Teak larder in their kitchen to get a never ending supply of potatoes. Players can also purchase potatoes at the Farming shops after another player has sold there, but this is rare since those shops cycle their player stocks rather quickly. Note that since the Grand Exchange update, the Farming shops sell potatoes at GE prices (when they have potatoes) but will pay players only a starting payment of 11 coins for a potato, assuming the store has no potatoes in inventory - the payment per potato goes down gradually as the inventory increases.
Consumed raw, they heal only 1 hitpoint. However, members can cook them and get 15 cooking XP per potato and then put various toppings on the resulting baked potato to make it heal much more. Potatoes cannot be cooked on anything but a range. If you try to cook one on an open fire or a sulphur vent, the result is always a burned potato. All players can also use the potato as an ingredient in stew.
[edit] Stores
- Frenita stocks 10 of them in Yanille starting at 16 coins.
- Sigmund the Merchant stocks 10 of them in Rellekka starting at 16 coins.
- Hudo stocks 10 of them in Grand Tree Groceries starting at 16 coins.
[edit] Money Making Guide
Making money off of potatoes is something anyone can do, regardless of your skill experience or combat level.
Starting off Draynor Village, follow the road north until you get to a crossroads (the one with the lone Highwayman). Here you take the road east, towards Lumbridge. After some time you will encounter a potato field. Open the gate and pick 28 potatoes, then return it to the Draynor Village Bank.
An empty inventory will allow you to carry 28 potatoes and each potato is worth around 74 coins. When you get the hang of it, one trip back and forth between the potato field takes slightly less than 150 seconds, or 2 and a half minutes; assuming a little bit of slacking, let's say it takes exactly 150 seconds.
This will give us a gold rate of: (3600x28x96)/150 = 64,512 coins/hour.
Members, on the other hand, can do a bit better. In under 15 minutes, you can get 190 potatoes if you go to Ardougne.
Empty your inventory except for 18 empty sacks (sacks hold 10 potatoes each). Run north out of Ardougne's north bank and then immediately east and then north again. You will soon come to a potato field across from the cooking shop.
Open the gate and begin picking potatoes. Each time your inventory fills up (10 potatoes), just click on a sack and keep picking. Continue until all 18 sacks are filled and your ten empty slots are filled as well.
Run back to the bank and deposit all of the potatoes and 15 of the sacks (leaving 3 in your inventory). Right-click each sack and click Empty Sack. The third sack will be only half emptied. Deposit all potatoes and the two empty sacks and get two more full sacks (giving you 2.5 sacks of potatoes again). Empty them all and start over.
Total time (including dropping the annoyingly worthless potato seeds you'll get from time to time) will be aprox 14.5 minutes, or 870 seconds.
(3600x190x96)/870 = 75,475 coins/hour (or more)
EDIT: Depending on the price, if a sack of potatoes is worth more than 10x a single potato, its better just to bank the sacks and get 18 fresh empty ones out the bank. All you have to do here is buy a load of sacks next time you're at the farm shop, but they're expensive.. a whole single coin each.
For comparison, an experienced level 68 miner (with a Rune pickaxe), will in the same time harvest around 500 iron ore (~50,000 gold/hour) or 140 gold ore (~70,000 gold/hour).
A much faster way, though requiring some investment, is to go to Frenita in Yanille, buying a full inventory of potatoes from her for 16gp each and having the tool leprechaun right outside note those. Repeat as desired. This method is much faster to gather potatoes rather than one by one picking, but nets no seeds for budding farmers.
The positive of this money making strategy is that it can be done by ANYONE, from a level 3 rookie with no experience whatsoever to a high-level veteran. However, there is no skill experience given from picking potatoes. Regardless, players will find that they will obtain a lot of cash provided the potatoes are sold on the fixed price.
