Runescape Money Making Using Farming

A lot of people use skills to make money on Runescape because they don't like the idea of losing all their hard earned items by killing monsters.  While it's definitely true that killing monsters such as at the God Wars Dungeon will make you vast amounts of money if you're doing it correctly, it also takes a very high combat level to do it effectively as well as having potions such as extremes to compete with the other very high levels.  When you're farming however, there's no one to compete with but yourself so making money is much more relaxed and soothing.  You don't need to worry about dying and losing your items, all you need to do is plant some seeds and let them grow.

money making using farming

Whereas it would take a combat level of at least 110-120 to stand even a little chance of making money killing difficult monsters you can make money farming with only a farming level of around fifty.  This is very easy to achieve and isn't stressful at all and you don't have the fear of losing any items.  The best method of making money on Runescape using farming is to plant herbs on the farming herb patches.  Herbs are worth a relatively large amount of money because they're used by rich high level players at areas such as the God Wars Dungeon, on the other hand things you can plant such as magic trees are worth much less because their seed value easily offsets the money you gain from cutting them down.  The best herb to start making money with at a relatively low level is the ranarr herb.

The first thing you should do is check that you have the right level, and then search all the herb patches that you can reach.  After that it's a simple task of buying or making some super compost, adding it to a patch, planting the seed and moving on to the next one.  After you've finished you should routinely go back with some vials of plant cure to make sure your herb isn't dying.

Ranarr herb and seed at the Grand Exchange

At current GE prices as you can see you can purchase a ranarr seed for 12.4k, after it's planted you can expect to get around 3-7 herbs back, averaging that out at 5 means you'll get on average a 27k net return, and after you've subtracted the 12.4k that's 14.6k per farming patch.  This may not sound like a lot but if you're doing 6 patches at once, while perhaps woodcutting then you can easily be making around 90k for all the patches every hour at least - and that's not including the money you can be making from other things.

But I'm not telling you to stick to ranarrs although they are a good example to use, what you really have to do is research things yourself!  I would tell you right here and now what's best but the prices change so constantly it would be misleading.  The best thing you can do is to search all the major herbs on the Grand Exchange, do the maths and find out which one will serve you best!