OSRS Witch's Potion Quest Guide

Witch's potion is a free-to-play quest where the player helps the witch Hetty make a magical potion. It has no skill or quest requirements, but players are required to kill a rat to obtain a rat's tail.

Difficulty: Easy

Length: Very short

General Questing recommendations: enable RuneLite Quest Helper in your RuneLite plugin section, hold your space bar to skip through NPC dialog, and use number keys for chatting dialog.  

Time to complete: Witch's potion can be completed within a minute or 2. 

Item Requirements for Witch's Potion

All these items can be purchased from the Grand Exchange on normal accounts. However, ironman has to obtain them through the methods below.

• Burnt meat
• Eye of newt
• Onion
• Rat's tail

Obtaining the required items on Ironman

• Burnt meat: This can be made using cooked meat on a fire. To obtain cooked meat, kill a giant rat just north of the chapel graveyard in south-east Rimmington, or alternatively, kill a cow in the cow pen south of Falador. Cook the meat and use it on the fireplace in Hetty’s house. If the meat does not burn you can place the cooked meat on a fire or range to burn it. A player-lit fire also works. For convenience, raw meat can be purchased from Wydin at the food store in Port Sarim.
• Eye of newt: They can be bought from Betty's Magic Emporium in Port Sarim.
• Onions: Onions can be found in a field just north of Rimmington and east of Melzar's Maze, or in the backyard of Fred the Farmer’s farmhouse, located west of the sheep pen in Lumbridge. Alternatively, they Can be found on the 2nd floor of the Lumbridge General store.
• Rat's tail: Kill a level 1 rat, which can be found in the archery shop west of Hetty’s house, to obtain a rat’s tail. Note: You can only get a rat’s tail after starting the quest, and giant rats will not drop one if not.

Recommended items for Witch's Potion

Skill necklace: Teleport to Crafting Guild, north of Rimmington. It can be purchased from the Grand Exchange.

Walkthrough of Witch's Potion

• Ensure you have all the required items then talk to Hetty in Rimmington. Reply 1, 1 to start the quest. Use a house teleport if your player-owned house is in Rimmington, or run west from Draynor Village or Lumbridge to reach the area.

• Kill a rat in the house to the west to get a rat tail if you don't have one.

• When you have all the required items, take them to Hetty, she will put them in to her cauldron and ask you to drink from it. Drink from the cauldron to complete the quest and gain your rewards.

Congratutions! You have completed the Witch's potion. Your rewards are shown below.

Reward from Witch's Potion

• 1 quest point
• 325 magic XP