How to Get Barrows Gloves as an Ironman: Recipe for Disaster Requirements, Subquest Order, Prep & Final Fight

Barrows gloves are the gloves you will wear for most of your ironman account, and they take the longest quest chain in the early game to unlock. You can't buy your way past it on an iron: every fishbowl, greegree, stew and vanilla pod is something you make or gather yourself, and the final fight bans Prayer.

This page is the requirements and prep reference. The step-by-step route is in our Diaries and finishing RFD section (1.5), which slots every subquest into the Oziris order and finishes with "Finish RFD, buy B gloves". Use this page to check your stats, bank the right items, and know what each of the six final bosses does before you walk in. Every number below comes from the OSRS Wiki, checked as of October 2026.

Barrows gloves requirements

Barrows gloves need the whole of Recipe for Disaster: the opening chapter, all eight council-member subquests, and the final fight. The wiki's requirement list for the full quest includes the prerequisite quests, so these are the highest levels you need anywhere in the chain:

Two details the summary list hides:

• Magic is really 50 unboosted. Family Crest's 59 can be boosted, but Desert Treasure I needs 50 Magic and the wiki marks that one as not boostable.
• The 40 Ranged can be bypassed. Temple of Ikov lists it as unboostable, but the quest page notes you can skip it by using darts or throwing knives against the Fire Warrior of Lesarkus.

You do not need to finish Legends' Quest. RFD only needs it started far enough to reach the Kharazi Jungle, and starting it needs 107 quest points and its prerequisite quests, not its skill levels.

Quest prerequisites

The full list, from the wiki, grouped by the part of RFD that needs it:

Our quest order lists these in sequence with their own requirements.

Ironman-only extras

A main can buy their way past these items. An ironman makes them, which adds a few levels from the wiki's ironman notes and item pages:

Every subquest in ironman order

The order below is the one the wiki's ironman quest guide uses. The easy subquests go first because each council member you free raises the stock in the Culinaromancer's Chest, and the chest sells the milk, eggs, flour, cream and cake tins several later subquests need. Our step-by-step route does the same subquests inside the Oziris order.

1. Another Cook's Quest

Needs Cook's Assistant and 10 Cooking. Bring an eye of newt, a greenman's ale (Dragon Inn, Yanille), a rotten tomato (Pelters' Veg Stall in Varrock, Seers' Village, Yanille or Hosidius) and a dirty blast, which is a fruit blast with ashes added. A premade fr' blast does not work. Make the fruit blast at the Grand Tree from Hudo's lemons, pineapple and orange, or take the one the Varrock Museum curator offers for your level 3 certificate from The Dig Site. Finishing this opens the dining room and the Culinaromancer's Chest.

2. Freeing the Goblin generals

Needs Goblin Diplomacy. Bring bread, orange slices, a dye (blue, black, green or purple; the wiki's ironman guide uses blue), spice or gnome spice, fishing bait, a bucket of water and charcoal. The chest sells spice. Charcoal is sold in Shilo Village, Jiminua's Jungle Store and Gunslik's Assorted Items, and a purple dye spawns east of the spirit tree at the Khazard Battlefield.

3. Freeing the Mountain Dwarf

Needs Fishing Contest. Bring a bucket of milk, a pot of flour, an egg (all from the chest), a bowl of water, about 306 coins and gloves. Buy four Asgarnian ales at the Rising Sun Inn in Falador (bring two spares in case Rohak sobers up), or pick them up free at The Toad and Chicken in Burthorpe. Ice gloves cool the rock cake instantly; without them you have to kill an icefiend on Ice Mountain with the cake in your inventory. Ice gloves drop from the Ice Queen under White Wolf Mountain, are obtainable at level 3, and need a boostable 50 Mining to clear an obstacle on the way. You need them again for Sir Amik and for Flambeed in the final fight, so get them now.

4. Freeing Evil Dave

Needs Gertrude's Cat and Shadow of the Storm. Bring any cat except an overgrown cat (the wiki doesn't recommend kittens or lazy cats, which catch rats slowly) and up to nine stews. Your cat catches hell-rats in Evil Dave's basement in Edgeville for the four coloured spices, and you test doses one stew at a time. The wiki's ironman quest guide says the stews can be bought from The Cloak and Stagger in Shayzien, which stocks five at a time; otherwise cook them at 25 Cooking. Raise the kitten from Gertrude's Cat into a cat before you start. This subquest unlocks spicy stew, which you can use later for the Cooking boost Awowogei needs.

5. Freeing Pirate Pete

Needs 31 Cooking. Bring raw cod, bread, a knife, a pestle and mortar, an empty fishbowl, a needle and three bronze wire. You dive at Port Khazard, which needs your weight under 28 kg, at least five free inventory slots and no cat. Kill five mudskippers for hides, then a crab for its meat. Bring three of each ingredient, because the fishcake can burn and only the cod, bread, kelp and crab meat need replacing.

For the fishbowl, an ironman either blows one from molten glass at 42 Crafting (boostable) or dismantles the fishbowl and net from Rum Deal, which the wiki notes saves an iron the molten glass. Rum Deal needs 42 Crafting itself, so plan on the level either way. Mogres also drop fishbowls. The wiki's ironman quest guide makes seven bronze wire before Creature of Fenkenstrain so four are left over for this and Shilo Village.

6. Freeing the Lumbridge Guide

Needs 40 Cooking and six quests: Big Chompy Bird Hunting, Biohazard, Demon Slayer, Murder Mystery, Nature Spirit and Witch's House. Every item (bucket of milk, egg, pot of flour, cake tin) comes from the chest. Wizard Traiborn in the Wizards' Tower enchants the egg, milk and flour after a quiz for each. Fairy ring DIS or the Guardians of the Rift minigame teleport gets you there.

7. Freeing Skrach Uglogwee

Needs 41 Cooking, 20 Firemaking and Big Chompy Bird Hunting. Bring an axe (not a blessed axe), raw chompy, an iron spit, logs, a tinderbox, a pickaxe, ogre bellows, a ball of wool, an ogre bow and ogre arrows. Rantz sells the ogre bow during the quest for up to 600 coins, but keep the one from Big Chompy Bird Hunting, as the wiki's ironman guide suggests. The iron spit is an iron bar on an anvil at 17 Smithing. You make a balloon toad from a bellows-inflated toad, a rock and wool, use it to lure a jubbly bird, and cook the jubbly on Rantz's spit-roast. Kill and cook spares in case you burn one.

8. Freeing Sir Amik Varze

Needs 107 quest points, Legends' Quest started (you need the Radimus notes to enter the Kharazi Jungle if you haven't finished it), and Family Crest, Heroes' Quest, Shilo Village, Underground Pass and Waterfall Quest. The wiki recommends 70 Combat, an anti-dragon shield and antifire potions.

Bring a bucket of milk and a pot of cream (both from the chest), a pot of cornflour, a vanilla pod, a dramen branch, a pestle and mortar, a raw chicken and ice gloves. Three of those are ironman prep:

• Dramen branch: the wiki's ironman guide cuts a second one during Lost City. Don't make it into a staff; you crush it into cinnamon.
• Vanilla pod: grab it while you are in the Kharazi Jungle for Legends' Quest to save a trip.
• Cornflour: grind sweetcorn at a windmill into an empty pot. Sweetcorn can be picked from the fields south of Civitas illa Fortis in Varlamore without 20 Farming.

Talk to the Cook first, or the Wise Old Man in Draynor Village won't give you the Evil Chicken option. Then use a raw chicken on the shrine in Zanaris, kill one black dragon for a dragon token (there is a safespot just inside the corridor by the entrance for ranged or halberd users), and kill the Evil Chicken for its egg. It hits often with Magic, but for very low damage. Rub the token in Lumbridge or Zanaris to summon K'klik for the flambé, wearing ice gloves; without them you can take up to 50 damage. The anti-dragon shield is free from Duke Horacio in Lumbridge Castle.

9. Freeing King Awowogei

Needs 70 Cooking (boostable), 48 Agility (not boostable) and Monkey Madness I. The wiki recommends 65 Combat, antipoison and food.

You need an M'speak amulet and the gorilla, ninja monkey and zombie monkey greegrees. The cheap ironman way, from the wiki's quest guide, is to do it during Monkey Madness I: get four extra monkey talismans from the Monkey Child, kill a monkey guard, a monkey archer and a zombie monkey for their bones, and have Zooknock make three greegrees on the spot. Keep the fourth talisman for Monkey Madness II. If you skipped that, Tutab on Ape Atoll sells talismans for 1,000 coins each.

Then kill a level 84 Big Snake on Crash Island for its corpse, pick a red banana with a rope and the gorilla greegree, pick tchiki monkey nuts from inside the Agility course with the ninja greegree, and cook the stuffed snake in the Temple of Marimbo, crossing the hot coals with the zombie greegree. The snakes are in a multicombat pit, hit hard and are poisonous, so the wiki advises Protect from Melee. The stuffed snake burns often near 70 Cooking, so collect spare ingredients.

10. Defeating the Culinaromancer

Needs 175 quest points, all eight subquests, Desert Treasure I and Horror from the Deep. Full breakdown in the final fight below.

Ironman prep checklist

The wiki's ironman quest guide spreads this prep across the prerequisite quests so you never make a return trip. If you're following our route, most of it is already in your bank by section 1.5.

RFD bank tab

Ice gloves (Ice Queen; Dwarf, Sir Amik, Flambeed)

Dramen branch (Cut a spare in Lost City)

Vanilla pod (Kharazi Jungle)

Pot of cornflour (Sweetcorn plus a windmill)

Raw chicken (Evil Chicken shrine)

Anti-dragon shield (Duke Horacio)

Empty fishbowl (42 Crafting)

3

Bronze wire × 3 (Pirate Pete)

3

Raw cod × 3 (Pirate Pete)

4

Bread × 4 (Pirate Pete and Goblin generals)

Needle

Pestle and mortar

Iron spit (17 Smithing)

Ogre bow (Keep from Big Chompy)

3

Raw chompy × 3

Ball of wool

M'speak amulet (Monkey Madness I)

Gorilla greegree

Ninja monkey greegree (small)

Zombie monkey greegree (small)

Rope (Red banana)

Charcoal (Goblin generals)

Fishing bait

Orange

Blue dye

9

Stew × 9 (Evil Dave)

6

Asgarnian ale × 6 (Mountain Dwarf)

Knife

Also bring an axe, a pickaxe, a tinderbox, logs and ogre arrows for Skrach, a cat for Evil Dave, and coins. Milk, eggs, flour, cream, spice and cake tins come from the chest.

Where the less obvious items come from: