Runescape Woodcutting Basics

Woodcutting in Runescape is one of the most popular skills in the game. Woodcutting is a skill that costs very little Runescape gold to get started. As a matter of fact you don't need gold to start woodcutting. All you need is an axe bronze or iron at first and you can make axes with the smelting skill or you can just buy one for a few gold at the market place.

Woodcutting is one of the easiest skills to level in Runescape. All it takes is time and patience to level up this skill. Woodcutting is beneficial in many ways. You can use it to make materials for bows and arrows, witch works on another skill called fletching, or you can use the logs to build up another skill called fire making. Last but not least you can just woodcut to sell logs to people that are working on their fletching skill, though this is not profitable until you are able to cut yew trees. Yew logs sell for 350 gold each.

When a player starts woodcutting the levels increase very fast. I suggest you find trees that are somewhat close to a bank. This way you can just bank the logs you cut and wait until you have a large amount (over a thousand) and decide what you are going to do with them.

One thing to keep in mind while woodcutting, is that you should always get the best axe you can use at that time. Having the best axe will increase the speed at which you cut the logs. Also as you increase levels you can cut different trees. You will want to switch to trees the same way you do axes. As soon as something better is available use until you reach willow trees.

Willows trees are what you are going to train on till level 65. You will want to cut willows because it is very quick experience. I know you can cut maple trees which give more experience per log but it takes longer to cut than willows so you actually make more experience per hour if you cut willows and as a result level up faster.

After you reach level 65 you can move on to cutting yew trees. This is where the money is. I can cut a thousand yews in a few hours and then sell them at the grand exchange for 350k gold or more depending on the demand at the time. Let me warn you yews are a slow process at first but stick with it. It will get better.

Magic trees are not a good choice for woodcutters unless you specifically need the magic logs. Magic logs sell for about 1000 gold per log but the down side is that it takes a few days just to get a thousand logs to sell.