Runescape Money Making Using P2P Woodcutting

This is a quick post telling you how much more effective woodcutting is as a money method making on Runescape when you're a member as opposed to using the F2P option.  Most people discount woodcutting right away as a good way of making money, and although it's by no means the fastest, on a purely effort basis it's much easier than many other methods of making money - especially those which involve killing monsters and looting their drops.  Usually in these situations you're fighting very high level monsters, and so if you are even able to kill them they take a definite amount of concentration which you just don't find with woodcutting.

To start with when you're using P2P woodcutting to make gold there are a few massive advantages you instantly can get over F2P.  To start with your equipment is immediately a lot better and you are able to open up the possibility of wielding the dragon hatchet.  Just like the steps up from adamant to rune, from rune to dragon there's an even greater step which mean that they're much better to use.  They mean you cut logs quicker and hence make gold faster.

Location location location.  Being able to cut the logs quickly is one thing, but having a large amount of trees within close proximity to the bank also vastly speeds up the cutting process.  This isn't just making you money, it's allowing you to train the skill a lot faster.  But looking at it from a purely money making perspective, because you're able to quickly bank your load of logs and return back to woodcutting on a per hour basis you'll be making money.  Their proximity to the bank is important, but what's also important is the fact that there are also greater numbers of trees.  Whereas in the the F2P Runescape world there are only a maximum of two yew trees close together (in Varrock castle) with a third a small distance away.  In this area they're also quite far from the bank, not so much in terms of distance, but because you're winding your way through the castle it can be definitely time consuming if you want to make it to the bank quickly and then get back.

Two yew trees near Varrock Castle

On the other hand you can find a much larger amount of yew trees west of Catherby, there are around five yew trees which are closer together and a shorter distance from the bank.

Five yew trees near Catherby

So far it's clear that P2P woodcutting makes more gp then F2P by far.  But you also have to consider one other important factor - summoning.  Summoning is a members only skill on Runescape and with a summoning level of 33 you can summon beavers which increase the speed of gathering logs.

Finally the last important thing is that the best type of log you can cut on free to play worlds are yew trees - and these tend to sell for around only one third of the price of magic logs which are members only items.  Magic logs definitely do take a substantive amount of time more to cut than yew trees, which mean at lower woodcutting levels they're not very suitable for making money.  But with a dragon hatchet and a high woodcutting level it's a lot easier to cut them and hence even more money is made.  Combine this with summoning a beaver to help you with you Runescape woodcutting as well as shorter travelling times to and from the bank and you've got a pretty good money making method right there on pay to play!

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!

Woodcutting Money Making for F2P

Making money on Runescape isn't easy, but when you're playing the free to play game it gets a whole lot harder.  There are a few different approaches to making money if you're a non member, though I think I should warn you know that you'll make nowhere near the amount of money that a member could potentially make.

There are essentially three different routes you can go down if you want to make serious money on a f2p Runescape account:

1.  Skilling
2.  Merchanting
3.  Pking

Skilling is very simple, and it involves training a skill which are widely defined of as being non combat.  These skills include woodcutting, fishing, crafting, smithing and mining.  There are other skills that are non combat but don't expect these to make you money, expect them to lose you money.

With regards to making money by using the woodcutting skill, the concept is very simple, cut down the highest level tree you can with the best hatchet you can wield.  Right of the bat I'd definitely recommend buying a rune hatchet if you can wield it, if you can't, train up your attack so that you can.  It's very important if you are really interesting in making money by woodcutting.

The best woodcutting spots for willow trees are south of Draynor, near the sea where you'll find a bank close to a large number of willow trees.  This means you can fill your inventory and quickly bank without having to walk for a long amount of time, this takes a woodcutting level of 45.  For yew trees you have two good options, the first is south of Falador where there are three yew trees that are spread out.  This isn't quite as close to the bank as the willows but it's not too far of a walk.  The second option is on the outskirts of Varrock Castle, again you have three trees that are a moderate distance from the bank, not too far but not particularly short distances.

After you've cut down a good amount of logs, anywhere from 100 to several thousand it's time to sell them.  This means going to the grand exchange in Varrock, but there's a definite technique for selling logs.  Firstly check the grand exchange using the 30 day graph, if your logs are exceptionally low than there's a good chance they'll rise again and it's definitely worth waiting and simply cutting more logs until that point.  If on the other hand you're impatient (which is understandable), then the best thing to do is to sell one log at 1gp below medium price.  What happens?  If it sells instantly at the price than it means that you could actually make more money than what you sold it for.  This is great news because you only sold one, sell two more legs and rise the prices by a few gp every time.  Go as high as you can go that'll sell within 10-15 minutes and then after that put all of the logs to sell for that price!  This maximises how much money you can making from using the f2p woodcutting skill and means your hard work of hours doesn't go to waste!