RuneScape F2P Woodcutting Guide
A massive and comprehensive guide on how to chop trees well in RuneScape as a free player. This is much more detailed and in-depth than those other noobie guides.
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F2P Woodcutting Guide
Are you a non-member? Stressed out at all those members who make 10 mil a day? There are great ways to make money in RuneScape if you’re not a member. Woodcutting is one.
This is one of the hardest skills to train in RuneScape, but when it gets to 60, you’re talking about making the big bucks. As of November 15, 2008, the price of a single yew log is 457 gp each! In the good old days waaayyy before the Grand Exchange, they were only 300 gp each, and you had to spam your sale in a bank. Currently, only around 8 loads of yew logs (each load is 28) is 100k.
To train woodcutting, you start with an iron axe and cut normal trees at…anywhere? There’s no place without ordinary trees near it. After you cut a whole inventory of logs, either drop them or deposit them in a nearby bank to sell later. Grand Exchange price is 25 gp each. You should get to level 15 WC in a few minutes because each log gives you 25 exp.
Immediately chop oak logs after you get 15 WC if you want experience (they give 37.5 exp), but still chop normal logs if you really need money (because oak logs also sell for 25 gp). Remember to deposit all oak logs in the bank after you get a full load. The best place to chop oak logs is at an oak tree on the right-hand side of Draynor bank (circled in red); that way you can deposit the oak logs you get almost instantly. Plus, oak trees spawn only a few seconds after they have been chopped down. The only disadvantage to this spot is that it’s popular and another person will chop here.
Don’t start cutting willows at level 30 WC, because of two reasons: they’re slow to cut & only give 67.5 exp (you cut oak logs more than two times faster) and they don’t sell at ALL. Although the grand exchange price is 18 gp each, thousands (or possibly millions) of willow logs sit in there collecting dust for all eternity. Keep cutting the same oak tree until your wc level is around 50; now willow trees are better experience since you can cut them fast. Cut willows at the spot southwest of Draynor Bank (circled in blue) until level 60. This is by far the best spot for willows because it’s right next to a bank and has five willows, so there’s always one to cut, even though there are always a few people here. The ordeal from level 55-60 gets extremely boring because it takes a long, LONG time to get one level. But once you get to 60 wc, you’ve got a reason to celebrate! Shout to everyone around you, “Woot, 60 wc!!!!” and say goodbye to the willow trees forever. The whole process from level 1 to 60 takes several weeks if you don’t play that much. If you haven’t realized, it takes a lot longer to level up at higher levels. From 1-15 is 5 minutes. 15-30 is 1 hour. 30-60 is many weeks. And 60-99? God knows how long.
Finally! The time to make money has come. There are 4 good spots to cut yew logs, but each has its advantages and disadvantages. In the following figures, the path to the nearest bank(s) has been labeled as a red arrow. My favorite and the least crowded is the 4 yew trees between Lumbridge and Draynor Village (left). You must be using a rune axe at this point, or you’ll chop hella slowly. When you get a full inventory, cross through the tower at the Lumbridge castle and go to the bank in Lumbridge if you are at the easternmost yew tree. Otherwise go to the Draynor bank to bank your yew logs. This area is good because it’s less crowded and even empty late at night but bad because the trees are widely spaced apart.
One of the most convenient yew spots is north of the Varrock Castle (right). Its workers have grown three yew trees for players to chop. It’s a great place because the trees are very close to each other and the whole spot is very close to the Grand Exchange, which doubles as the nearest bank. Many people have taken advantage of this, however, and there are LOTS of people here on every world, including pvp worlds. Even late at night you can’t find a world without someone here. You spend more than half your time waiting for a yew to spawn.
To the left is a map of the four yew trees south of Falador. Their perks are kinda in between the two previous spots because the yew trees are closer to each other than the first spot mentioned, but have more people. Less people than Varrock castle, more space in between each tree. To take a shortcut down to the southern tree, go through the cabbage field. You may have to open the gates. If your inventory is full when you’re at that yew tree, bank your yew logs at the Draynor bank. Use the Falador bank for the three closer to Falador.
Last (and also convenient) area to cut yews is southwest of Edgeville bank, where you can basically run back and forth between the trees and bank without losing much run energy. The distance between the trees and bank is its main appeal. I’ve heard that most people go to this one, and as a result, is as crowded as Varrock palace’s yew trees. I don’t suggest this one because only two yew trees make it hard to find something that’s not a stump.
Once you’ve got several hundred logs, sell them by going to the grand exchange and putting up your yew logs at market price. Don’t use highest because no one will buy it nor lowest because you won’t make as much. Most of the time, all of them will be sold immediately, and sometimes it takes a few minutes.
Well guys, enjoy your career of woodcutting. The skill that’s safer than pking, less risky than merchanting, and faster than fishing. Oh, and the chopping doesn’t look as gay as mining (try mining something and look closely at your character swinging the pickax. If you liked this guide, press the “I like it!” button and click on the ads.
Tips:
- Immediately upgrade to the next axe when your woodcutting level qualifies for it. The wc levels for steel, mithril, adamant, and rune axes are 6, 21, 31, and 41, respectively, 1 level above the required attack level to wield them. Iron axe can be used at level 1.
- If your attack level is high enough, equip the axe you use to chop. This gives you one extra inventory space.
- Woodcutting etiquette: if other people are also chopping, ask, “wc lvl?” or use quick chat. If it’s pretty high, say “Nice” or “wow”. Also state your wc level.
- Occasionally, a tree spirit will spawn and attack you with melee. Try to kill it, using prayer if necessary. Tree spirits drop anything from a single banana to 22 nature runes to a random axe. You cannot attack a tree spirit that wants to attack another person; a message “It’s not after you.” will show.
- If the tree you’re cutting suddenly shows these moving branches and has red eyes on the trunk, it has become an Ent. Stop chopping it immediately or your axe will be broken. In the event that your axe does get broken, you can’t chop or attack anything with it and must get Bob to repair it. Bob’s Brilliant Axes is in Lumbridge, where Bob repairs bronze, iron, and steel axes for free and any axes above that for a certain price. I know that rune axes cost 427 gp to repair.
- Chopping willows and yews gets quite boring, because it takes a while for the tree to become a stump and you have to move to another tree. I’ve developed a good way to multitask while chopping that I’ll share with you. Make sure your audio settings in RuneScape have the sound effects at max. Then turn your speakers up a bit so that you can clearly hear the chopping sound whenever you’re chopping. Open up another browser window, and surf the internet, watch YouTube videos, do anything while your character in RuneScape is chopping. Once you stop hearing the chopping sound, go back to the RuneScape window and go to a different tree and start chopping that one, then resume your second activity. This is a very effective way to not be bored, but you won’t be able to hear Ents so your axe will be broken just about every time an Ent shows up.
- Especially with yew trees, every single place to chop them is very crowded in main hours (not at night or early morning). Therefore a good way to have more trees to yourself is to chop in a pvp world. Few people go that far outside a safe place. You can even multitask as explained in the previous tip, because you will hear combat sounds if you’re being attacked. Unfortunately, other people may go on pvp worlds for the same purpose of chopping yew trees. If someone attacks you, you will hear them and must run to the nearest bank or safe spot if you can’t kill them.
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