Ultimate Ironman Guide

Looting Bag (Essential)

• - Holds 28 tradeable items or stacks. Untradeables can't go in, and only one bag can be in your possession at a time
• - Drops at 1/3 from Wilderness monsters level 50+ (1/15 at level 10 or lower). Or buy one for 1 LMS point or 10 Slayer points, or get one when paying the 150k Wilderness Agility Course fee if you don't own one
• - Fill it only inside the Wilderness, including the Ferox Enclave. The PvP-world looting bag spots do not work for UIMs
• - To get items out: die and pick up your pile, or destroy the bag inside the Wilderness and pick everything up (other players see the items immediately)
• - Destroying it outside the Wilderness, in the Ferox Enclave, or within two tiles of the Wilderness ditch deletes the contents

Player-Owned House

• - Magic wardrobe (oak at 42 Construction, 7 sets): Graceful, Raiments of the Eye, pyromancer, Smiths' uniform, mystic, infinity, bloodbark, ancestral and virtus robes, a filled log basket, and the Barracuda Trial outfits
• - Armour case (oak at 46 Construction, 25 sets): void, fighter torso, Oathplate, Masori, Justiciar, Inquisitor's, rogue, and skilling outfits such as lumberjack, prospector and angler
• - Treasure chest: clue rewards such as ranger boots, holy sandals, spiked manacles, dragon boots (g) and amulet of glory (t)
• - Cape rack, plus the achievement gallery cape hanger (one cape; a hung Dizana's max cape can still hold arrows)
• - Servant's money bag: up to 3,000,000 coins, in multiples of 100
• - UIM rules: you must deposit a complete set before you can withdraw any piece of it, and you can't store duplicates

STASH Units

Every clue item stored is a slot saved, and the high-tier units double as gear storage. The wiki's UIM guide highlights units that hold a Bow of Faerdhinen (Iorwerth Camp), primordial boots or avernic treads (Fountain of Heroes), any slayer helmet with a dragon defender (Warriors' Guild), a dragon pickaxe, a dragon axe, a Barrows set and blue moon armour. Each unit also needs its other listed items stored with it.

Coins and World Storage

• - Nightmare Zone and Last Man Standing coffers: up to 262,143,000 coins each, in multiples of 1,000.
• - Corrupted Warrior (Bounty Hunter), just south of the LMS coffer: up to 3,000,000 coins.
• - Grand Exchange: place a lowball buy offer for a bond and abort it; collect the coins later at any bank.
• - Tool Leprechauns: farming tools, and they note herbs, farmable Herblore secondaries and tradeable saplings.
• - Cold storage: log out during Blue Moon's weapon-freeze attack and Eyatlalli holds that weapon. The wiki says it survives an unsafe death.
• - Aldarin windmill nest: one tradeable item worth 99,999 coins or less, kept through an unsafe death per the wiki. Dragon claws turn into an egg there, so never store those.
• - Tombs of Amascut lobby cavity: one pickaxe of any tier.
• - Canoe stations: one axe each, up to a dragon axe.
• - Blast Furnace bar dispenser: bars, for example steel bars for Mahogany Homes or runite bars for later.
• - Dwarf multicannon: let it decay and reclaim it free from Nulodion.
• - Elnock Inquisitor: butterfly nets and up to 1,000 impling jars.
• - Warriors' Guild animated armour: one full helm, platebody and platelegs set up to rune, held by Shanomi.
• - Sandstorm grinder (Drew, desert quarry): up to 25,000 buckets of sand, withdrawn noted for 50 coins each.
• - Fossil Storage: fossils to trade for numulite at the Fossil Collector.
• - Mastering Mixology: 3,000 of each paste in the hopper; resin points are kept in the minigame interface.
• - Lunar staff: reclaim it from the Oneiromancer for 30,000 coins instead of re-getting a dramen staff.
• - Boat cargo holds: Sailing items, cannonballs and fish. See Sailing as a UIM

What the Cargo Hold Stores

• - Sailing items: salvage, courier crates, bounty items, repair kits, the Sailing cape and keg drinks such as grog, cider and whirlpool surprise
• - Cannonballs, with no cap since 25 February 2026 - which makes a dwarf multicannon far more practical on Slayer tasks
• - Fish offcuts, empty and filled fish crates, and listed raw and cooked fish from shrimp up to shark, anglerfish, karambwan and the trawling fish; since 5 August 2026 also the fishing tools and bait used to catch them
• - The captain's log, spyglass, current duck, crowbar and diving gear take no space and can be taken out from any of your boats
• - No noted items. Stackables use one slot per stack
• - You can own 1 boat at level 1, 2 at 15, 3 at 50, 4 at 78 and 5 at 91 Sailing, each with its own hold. The wiki's UIM Sailing guide uses spare sloops or a raft as overflow storage for fish crates and cannonballs

Capsizing, Dying at Sea and What You Lose

• - If your boat capsizes, you die or teleport off it at sea, a shipwright recovers it, or you cast Summon Boat, the hold loses courier crates, bounty items, salvage, trawled fish and filled fish crates. Cannonballs, repair kits, fish offcuts and empty crates stay
• - Capsizing isn't a death: the Sailing page says you go back to the last gangplank you set sail from with your inventory. A shipwright recovers the boat for a fee (base 250 for a raft, 4,125 for a skiff, 50,000 for a sloop, more with damage and parts)
• - Dying on your boat is a real death. The pile lands back at port: the last gangplank you set sail from, or the one before if you left from an island with only a mooring point. The wiki's UIM Sailing guide adds that the helm's Escape option shows which port that is
• - In waters that hurt both you and the boat (the forgotten ocean, the searing sea), that guide suggests keeping the boat's HP below yours so the boat capsizes before you die

Salvaging Inventory Pressure

• - Sorting salvage at a salvaging station (at most ports, or built on your boat at 42 Sailing and 34 Construction) puts the loot in your inventory, so a UIM fills up quickly. With an on-boat station the wiki says you can stay at a wreck indefinitely if you drop the loot
• - Crewmates put the salvage they hook straight into the cargo hold and stop once it is full
• - Salvage can wait in the hold (the wiki's example: plundered salvage for sapphire rings, made into rings of recoil for Zulrah), but a capsize, Summon Boat or teleporting off at sea wipes it
• - Opulent salvage (87 Sailing) is a decent herb and seed source: bring a seed box and herb sack

Full method, wreck levels and rates: shipwreck salvaging guide.

Training and Shipbuilding on a UIM

• - Courier tasks need almost no inventory: empty weapon and off-hand slots, teleports to ports and notice boards, and optionally a task book. The wiki's UIM guide rates them relatively low-risk while deathbanked; the one death risk it names is a frozen crystallised helm from resonance crystals in the Gwenith Glide
• - Hull and keel upgrades need a near-full inventory of materials, so deathbank or deathpile first. The guide's approach: make large hull or keel parts one at a time, keep them in the looting bag, then deathpile to drop them all and do the upgrade
• - A plank sack, log basket, Plank Make and sawmill vouchers speed up hull parts. At the Blast Furnace, tabled or dropped keel parts stay hidden from others and hop worlds with you
• - Parts of the wiki's UIM Sailing page are flagged as out of date, so check the main Sailing pages before a big upgrade

Pete Kayer's Item Storage

• - Pete Kayer's Challenges (7 October 2026) is a PvP tutorial minigame in the Ferox Enclave. You fight in Pete's loadouts, not your own gear, gain no XP, and the wiki marks it as a safe PvP activity. Rewards need 750 total level; his final challenge gives ancient fabric for the imbued ancient cape
• - Pete can end up holding your items. His right-click Reclaim-items option returns them only when your inventory and worn equipment are both empty, so plan where everything you carry goes before you click it
• - On 8 October 2026 Jagex disabled picking up pets inside the challenges specifically to stop players using Pete as item storage. Don't build a storage plan around him

The Fractured Archive as a UIM

• - The fourth raid (20 October 2026), for 1-8 players. It needs While Guthix Sleeps, and the Fractured Archive miniquest starts when you first try to enter the lobby
• - Getting there: a games necklace to Tears of Guthix with a lit sapphire lantern for the Chasm of Tears, or a Guthixian temple teleport. The Archivist's folio reward teleports you to the entrance
• - Deaths are not safe. On a team wipe everyone loses their unprotected items, is ejected, and gets a gravestone outside the entrance (fees up to 500k, 75% off until five clears)
• - UIMs can't use gravestones. Under the general UIM rules, items from an instance death land on the ground where the gravestone would be, on the usual 60-minute timer. The raid page doesn't describe a UIM-specific case, so assume a wipe leaves your gear on the floor outside
• - A wipe is an unsafe death, which also deletes anything a deathbank is holding. Clear your deathbank before you go in
• - After the third boss a Quartermaster arrives selling brews, restores, prayer potions and food for Supply Credits earned in the raid, which takes some pressure off your inventory

Bosses, gear and rewards: Fractured Archive ironman guide.

Herblore

• - The wiki calls it one of the most inventory-stressful UIM skills. Store your items at a deathbank before making potions
• - Zahur (hard Desert Diary) turns noted clean herbs and vials of water into noted unfinished potions for 200 coins per herb - the only way a UIM gets noted unfinished potions
• - Note finished potions by decanting to a lower dose at Bob Barter by the Grand Exchange (4 to 2 dose needs one free slot)
• - Note herbs at any Tool Leprechaun. To clean noted grimy herbs in bulk, unnote at a bank and re-note at the leprechaun in the Farming Guild's north wing (85 Farming) or the Hosidius Vinery
• - From 60 Herblore (after Children of the Sun), Mastering Mixology needs very few slots and no secondaries: the hopper holds 3,000 of each paste

Levels, secondaries and boosts: ironman Herblore guide.

Crafting

• - Glassblowing is the classic UIM method. The charter ship at Port Phasmatys works from level 1; from 77 Magic and Lunar Diplomacy, Superglass Make with charter supplies needs at least 23 free slots
• - Or stockpile: noted buckets of sand from the Sandstorm grinder plus giant seaweed farmed on Fossil Island (Bone Voyage) and noted at the Tool Leprechaun, then cast Superglass Make at any bank
• - From 60 Crafting, Golem crafting on Wyrmscraig needs no stockpile: Fallen From Grace (62 Sailing, 60 Crafting), 25 free slots, a fur pouch (the large one holds 28 furs), chisel, pickaxe and hammer. The wiki recommends deathbanking for it and calls the method safe; it lists about 100k-125k XP/hr with dashing kebbit fur

Full method breakdown: ironman Crafting guide.

Smithing

• - Fastest: gold bars at the Blast Furnace from 40, with goldsmith gauntlets (Family Crest), ice gloves (50 Mining and one Ice Queen kill) and a deathbank for space
• - Cheaper: Giants' Foundry from 30. Buy the platebodies at Salius' Armour Shop, Fortis Blacksmith or Horvik's, then from 70 a mix of 14 mithril and 14 adamant pieces from Aneirin's Armour in Prifddinas
• - The Blast Furnace bar dispenser holds bars between sessions, and items you table or drop there stay hidden from others and follow you between worlds

Inventory Management Tips

• 1.
  Plan Ahead - Before any activity, plan what items you need and what you can drop or store. Impulsive decisions lead to lost items.
• 2.
  Prioritize Multitasking Items - Items like graceful, construction supplies, and teleports that serve multiple purposes.
• 3.
  Quest Efficiently - Complete quest chains together to minimize bank trips and maximize inventory usage.
• 4.
  Use Noted Items Wisely - Unnote exact amounts with Phials (5 coins per item) or by unnoting at a bank with only a few free slots.
• 5.
  Build STASH Units Early - Every clue item stored is an inventory slot saved for future clue scrolls.

UIM Early Game Priorities