Hey! My name is Rat. I've been playing OSRS on and off since I was a kid. Between watching content and enjoying my main account, I've been thinking about logging and talking about my journey through a few snowflake accounts I've had the idea of creating. For people who don't know, a snowflake account is an account where you set up specific restrictions to the account you're playing on. Some people decide to restrict their account to a specific portion of the map, some restrict their account to only getting items by certain means and some people restrict their account to only one combat style. I'll link some of my favorite snowflake accounts down below so anyone who doesn't know so they can see an example of what it looks like. While I work on some ideas and figure out my game plan with the main account I want to work on I've decided to create this account. Meet FreeHRT.
FreeHRT is a Magic only UIM. This means I will not be able to gain any experience in Attack, Strength and Range. I am able to train my defense as long as it is through magic defensive autocast. This restriction will hopefully create an enjoyable and unique account where I have to come up with creative solutions to problems and challenges I will have to face. This is my first UIM and first snowflake account so this account will be about the journey and discovery. With project rebalance for Magic (an update where specific monsters now have elemental weaknesses based on what type of spell is used against them ie: Air, Water, Earth, Fire) there's no better time to start my magic only series. I have some goals in mind and items I want to work towards in the future.
So far in my journey I've done a little bit of runecrafting, woodcutting, firemaking, and combat training while I was still a free to play account. I did these activities while playing my main account. I used the runes and resources I gained to kill moss giants in Varrok Sewers. This let me train my magic and prayer. Nothing crazy just getting used to not having a bank and figuring out a gameplan for the future. After getting membership, I messed around with a few other skills why teaching my partner how to play and just walking around the world. Agility has been my go to training as of right now.
For my goals this week, There are two things I really want to accomplish...
Get enough marks of grace to buy every graceful piece except for the cape.
Complete the Ardougne Easy Diary and get the Ardy Cloak 1
I know a lot of early UIMs skip graceful until they're able to store it in their POH. Since my account is locked to using only magic, I'm still going to be going for graceful early. This is an easy grind I can turn my brain off while I plan ahead. Also for most early monsters I will be safe spotting so my armor won't matter much until I'm realistically able to get the upgrades that will really help my account. Before that graceful will make the quality of life of this account much better since I'm still figuring out exactly what I want to do and make traveling and questing so much easier. Same goes for the Ardy Cloak 1 and since I'm magic only this will be the only Ardougne Achievement Diary I'll be able to complete so let's just get it done.
Moving forward a few items I have my eyes set on are...
Tome of Fire
Tome of Water
Infinity Outfit and Master Wand
Anti-dragon Shield
I hope you enjoyed this post and hopefully I'll find the motivation to post more. Please feel free to leave any helpful tips for UIM as well as ask any questions. Like I said, I'm still figuring out a lot of this myself and have a lot to learn but I'm excited for the journey ahead of me. Thanks! (:
A few Youtube snowflake accounts I enjoy...
Impling Only UIM
Verf's Zeah Restricted Account
Frosty Bard's Edgeville Chunk Account
Grubfoot's Ranged and Magic only Ironmen Accounts
