Ironman Money Making — Coins and Supplies, Not Flips
Iron GP is High Alchemy, NPC shops, and clue/PvM coins. You cannot sell on the GE. The methods the community actually runs are the same every year: Wintertodt crates, birdhouses, herb runs, rumours loot sacks, GotR runes, Slayer alchs, then Corrupted Gauntlet. This page is that loop — not a fake GP/hr ladder copied from main accounts.
Skip if: you are a main. Use the normal money-making hub. If you have not left Tutorial Island as an iron, start with the beginner ironman guide instead.
50 FM — alchs + seeds
~80 min / ~50 min timers
75 Slayer — wiki ~0.7–1.1M
SotE — seeds, not GE sales
How iron “GP/hr” works- Coins pay Construction, death fees, shops, and stamina. You High Alch drops; you do not undercut the GE.
- Supplies (herbs, runes, food, secondaries) are usually worth more than the coin number. A ranarr in the bank is a prayer potion, not 7k GP.
- Main-account GP/hr on wiki money-making pages assumes GE sales. Treat those figures as “loot value,” not cash you can spend tomorrow.
- Early unlocks and questing live on the ironman beginner guide. This page is the money/supply loop after that.
Early — coins and a bankWintertodt (50 Firemaking)
- Hit 500 points, open crates. Seeds, herbs, ores, gems, and alchables. Phoenix is 1/5,000 per reward roll — ignore it for GP.
- Wintertodt guide · calculator
Shops and low combat
- Ardougne bakers / silk / stealing is early coins if you quested to Thieving. Do not camp cows for gold.
- Hill giants: big bones for Prayer, limps for Herblore later. Fine while melee is low.
- Tempoross if you need Fishing/cooking food more than coins.
The passive loop everyone agrees onBirdhouses (Bone Voyage)
- Four Fossil Island houses, ~50 minutes. Nests: seeds for Farming, rings, nest XP. Highest house you can place — redwood at 89.
- Birdhouse guide · calculator
Herb runs
- ~80-minute growth. Irons plant what they will drink (ranarr / snap / toadflax), not whatever mains sell that week. Ultracompost + magic secateurs.
- Herb run guide · calculator
Hunter rumours (46 Hunter, Varlamore)
- Loot sacks: meats, logs, herbs, blessed bone shards, outfit pieces. Teco's list keeps Herbiboar — that is the iron default. Do not copy an Aco XP list if you need herbs.
- Rumours calculator (block lists)
Mid — runes, bars, Slayer alchs- Guardians of the Rift (27 RC, Temple of the Eye) — runes you would otherwise buy. Pearl outfit is XP; the bank is the runes. GotR guide · calculator
- Blast Furnace — bars for cannonballs, darts, and Construction later. Irons mine or buy ore from shops/Kingdom; they do not buy from the GE. Blast Furnace · calculator
- Gargoyles (75 Slayer) — the mid-game alch task. Wiki ~700k–1.1M loot/hr if you smash and alch. Gargoyles
- Barrows — runes + bolts + uniques you use or alch. Fine between Slayer levels. Barrows
Late — CG, then bosses you already have guides forCorrupted Gauntlet is the iron money printer the community actually names. Enhanced weapon seed 1/400, armour seeds, shards. You keep the items; mains sell them. Practised 4–6 completions/hr. CG guide
Skip this if…- You wanted a GE flip list. Irons do not flip.
- You are still quest-locked on Fossil Island / Kourend / Prif. Unlock travel first — the beginner guide is shorter than grinding cows.
Common mistakes- Selling herbs to shops because a main guide said “GP/hr.” Drink them.
- Aco rumour blocks that delete Herbiboar when you still need Herblore.
- Skipping birdhouses because they “aren’t money.” They are seed income.
- Camping green dragons for coins after you can do gargoyles or CG. Wildy deaths cost irons more.