Vial

This article is about the item used primarily in Herblore. For other uses, see Vial (disambiguation).

For the variant encountered in Daemonheim, see Vial (Dungeoneering).

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Vial
Release																				27 February 2002 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				An empty glass vial.
Values
Value																				5 coins
High alch																				3 coins
Low alch																				2 coins
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0.015 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				2 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
Volume																				11,841,438
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Advanced data
Item ID																				229
Links																				MRID • recipe

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A vial is a glass container that players generally use in Herblore to make and store potions. They can fill a vial of water by using it on a water source (all the vials in their inventory will fill automatically). Players can also use the Lunar spell Humidify to fill vials with water.

The ability to throw away vials when finishing a potion can be toggled with Bob Barter (herbs). This ability may also be toggled in Gameplay Settings under the "Interfaces" tab, in the "Inventory" section.

Obtaining vials

Decanter

One fast method to obtain vials is via decanting. The player can take a noted stack of 2–4 dose potions to a decanter, decant those potions into 1-dose potions, and then decant the potions back into the 2–4 dose versions. This will result in the original noted 2–4 dose potions and a number of noted empty vials. The player should then deposit the empty vials into their bank to repeat the process – otherwise, decanting into 1-dose potions will use the empty vials. The decanter will charge you 2 per vial supplied.

Note that this method will not work if "Destroy empty vials when decanting potions" option is checked under Settings -> Interfaces -> Inventory.

Members

Two vials spawn in Frincos's Fabulous Herb Store in south-west Entrana as well as a house in Mort'ton. The respawn rate is two every two minutes. A vial is also obtained through the Swept Away quest.

Non-members

Even though vials are mostly used in Herblore (a members-only skill past level 5), they are not a members-only item. One way to obtain a vial for non-members is by having the apothecary make a strength potion for the player. The player needs to supply him with a limpwurt root and red spiders' eggs, and pay him 5 coins. The player can empty this vial or drink all the doses of the potion to obtain an empty vial. However, the potion itself is worth more than the empty vial.

Jatix sells a small amount of them in his shop in the eastern part of Taverley.

Before it was removed, players could obtain a good number of vials simply by waiting outside Bounty Hunter, as player-killers used potions and then dropped the vials because they could not be taken into the craters.

Making vials

Using the Crafting skill, members can make their own vials. This requires level 33 Crafting, a glassblowing pipe and molten glass.

Creation

Requirements
Members			Yes
Ticks			3 (1.8s)
Tool			Glassblowing pipe (tb)
Skill			Level	XP
Crafting			33 (b?)	35
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Molten glass		1	360
Total cost				360
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Vial		1	2
Profit				−358

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Product		Members	Using	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Anchovy oil		Sieve	None	None	8 × Anchovy paste 1 × Vial	689
	1 × Augmentation dissolver		Inventor's workbench	16	99	1 × Vial 35 × Delicate parts 35 × Cover parts	14,576
	1 × Black mushroom ink		Pestle and mortar(tb)	1	0	1 × Black mushroom 1 × Vial	N/A
	14 × Black mushroom ink		Telekinetic Grind	85 1	89 0	14 × Black mushroom 14 × Vial 2 × Astral rune 1 × Law rune	N/A
	1 × Coconut milk		N/A	1	1	1 × Vial 1 × Coconut (open)	9,057
	1 × Coconut shell		N/A	1	1	1 × Vial 1 × Coconut (open)	143
	1 × Equipment dissolver		Inventor's workbench	16	770	1 × Vial 35 × Organic parts 35 × Clear parts	22,948
	1 × Gizmo dissolver		Inventor's workbench	8	770	1 × Vial 35 × Organic parts 35 × Clear parts	23,717
	1 × Primal extract		N/A	90	145	1 × Vial 1 × Primal fruit pulp	1,893
	2 × Primal extract (Improved +1 recipe)		N/A	102	145	2 × Vial 1 × Primal fruit pulp	3,786
	3 × Primal extract (Improved +2 recipe)		N/A	112	145	3 × Vial 1 × Primal fruit pulp	5,679
	1 × Vial of blood		Blood fountain	None	None	1 × Vial	N/A
	1 × Vial of mountain water		Spring (Glorious Memories)	None	None	1 × Vial	N/A
	1 × Vial of vile water		Sink (Twilight of the Gods)	None	None	1 × Vial	N/A
	1 × Vial of water		Water source	1	0	1 × Vial	66
	28 × Vial of water (Humidify)		Humidify	68	65	28 × Vial 1 × Fire rune 3 × Water rune 1 × Astral rune	1,848

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Alexis	28	1	50/512
Boris	28	1	50/512
Borrokar	39	1	50/512
Crate of vials	N/A	1	Always
Eduard	28	1	50/512
Freidir	39	1	50/512
Freygerd (Rellekka)	39	1	50/512
Galina	28	1	50/512
Georgy	28	1	50/512
Giant spider	2; 29; 33	1	3/128
Imre	28	1	50/512
Irina	28	1	50/512
Jennella		1	50/512
Jeroen	28	1	50/512
Joseph	28	1	50/512
Ksenia	28	1	50/512
Lanzig	39	1	50/512
Lensa (Rellekka)	39	1	50/512
Lev	28	1	50/512
Liliya	28	1	50/512
Milla	28	1	50/512
Nikita	28	1	50/512
Nikolai	28	1	50/512
Serum 207	N/A	1	Common
Sofiya	28	1	50/512
Svetlana	28	1	50/512
Vera	28	1	50/512
Yadviga	28	1	50/512
Yuri	28	1	50/512
Zoja	28	1	50/512

Shop locations

† Denotes discontinued or seasonal shops that stocked Vial. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Price sold at	Price bought at	Members
Frincos's Fabulous Herb Store	Entrana	10	5	1
Granny Rowan's Supplies	Fort Forinthry	10	5	1
Grud's Herblore Stall	Gu'Tanoth	10	5	1
Gunslik's Assorted Items	Keldagrim	300	5	1
Jack Oval's Crafting Shop	Taverley	10	5	1
Jatix's Herblore Shop	Taverley	10	5	1
Jiminua's Jungle Store	Tai Bwo Wannai, Karamja	300	5	1
The Lighthouse Store	Lighthouse	10	5	1
Poletax's Herblore Shop †	Taverley	10	5	1
Meilyr Clan Store	Prifddinas	10	5	1
Poletax's Herblore Shop †	Taverley	6	250	N/A
Moon Clan General Store	Lunar Isle	10	5	1
New Varrock General Store	New Varrock	10	5	1
Nicholas Angle's Shop	Taverley	10	5	1
Obli's General Store	Shilo Village	10	5	1
Polypore Dungeon Supplies	Polypore Dungeon, first level	20	5	1
Sigmund the Merchant (shop)	Rellekka	10	5	1
Bandit Duty Free	Bandit Camp	6	225	N/A
Survival Shop	Anachronia	10	5	1
Frincos's Fabulous Herb Store	Entrana	6	250	N/A
Granny Rowan's Supplies	Fort Forinthry	6	250	N/A
Grud's Herblore Stall	Gu'Tanoth	6	250	N/A
Jatix's Herblore Shop	Taverley	6	250	N/A
The Lighthouse Store	Lighthouse	20	250	N/A
Meilyr Clan Store	Prifddinas	6	250	N/A
Obli's General Store	Shilo Village	20	250	N/A
Moon Clan General Store	Lunar Isle	20	250	N/A
Sigmund the Merchant (shop)	Rellekka	6	250	N/A

Spawns

• On the 2^nd floor^[UK]3^rd floor^[US] of the Wizards' Guild in Yanille (two spawns)
• Entrana (two spawns)
• Red Dragon Isle in the Wilderness (two spawns)
• Mort'ton (two spawns)

Disassembly

Vial
Disassembly category	Glass items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Clear parts	35/100
Delicate parts	32/100
Smooth parts	30/100
Rare materials
Enhancing components	3/100

Achievements

• Only Takes a Little Vial ( 10) – Make three vials in the furnace building at Rellekka.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• update 27 February 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Real vials are cylindrical, whereas in RuneScape they have a wide bottom and tapered top, resembling Erlenmeyer flasks.
• Vials with nothing in them used to be named empty vial.
• As of 30 September 2022, 100,975,318,296 vials were owned by active players.