Unbeleivably Massive Ways To Make RS Money

First off, there are many ways of making money on runescape, but all of these take patience and time. For most occasions, depending on which skill (you may not be using a skill) to use money, the higher the level of the skill, the more money you will profit from it. There are also other ways to make money, (misc.) that do may not require any skill levels. Yet, most of these take time.

Credits: 1.1 - fletching
1.2 - woodcutting
1.3 - crafting
1.4 - monster killing
1.5 - merchanting
1.6 - herblore
1.7 - thieving
1.8 - fishing/cooking
1.9 - mining
2.0 - smithing
2.1 - pking
2.2 - dueling

Fletching -

Fletching is a very profitable skill in runescape, but primarily at the higher levels.
To start off fletching, you can only make shafts which sell roughly 9-20 each depending on quantity. Each time you cut a log (with a knife) you will receive 15 arrow shafts in return, you can either sell these, make headless arrows with them and sell, or lastly make complete arrows to sell. You cut a full inventory of logs roughly 1-3 minutes, so making 420 shafts every 2 minutes(roughly), so that would be 12.6k shafts an hour, but would be more like 11k shafts with the decrease of the bank run. This is actually a decent way of making money, its just not many people have thought of it. Making 70-100k an hour (merchanting, time included). Attaching feathers to these would make them sell for 5-15gp more, it would be same profit basically, unless you went and collected the feathers. Lastly, you could attach arrow heads to these. To get a full inventory of copper\tin(13 of each), you would take about 5 minutes of mining/running to bank. This means that, with an additional 1-2 minutes of running to smelt\smith, that you would get 195 bronze arrow tips. attach these to the feathered shafts, so an estimate of 8 minutes per every 195 bronze arrows complete. These will sell 5-20 each, so about 8k per 8 minutes (minus time to get arrows and feathers). At the higher level, you will start to be able to make yew long bows (level 70 to make). Cutting yews, you get approx. 200-400 per hour. Also, you could gather strings, getting about 500-750 an hour, or just buy them 90-100 each, but never go higher than 100. combining this, you get 400 yews an hour, and say you buy(most popular choice) 5k strings for 500k. This means after about 12 hours you will have 5k yews. After fletching and stringing all of these, it will take about 3-4 hours if VERY focused. And of course after alching, it will have taken another 1-2 hours depending on focusness. So a total of 17 hours, earning ~~3.5 mil. (Saying you bought the nats 350 each, with a 15 minute decrease of merchant time. This means a net profit of ~~1.7 mil plus good mage and fletching, and woodcutting experience. You can use this formula to find out how many and how much money for hour you will get with yew long bows. For mage logs, at any level you chop a full load 13-17 minutes. We will approximate this to 15. Then, saying you get 1k mage logs, this will use up about 525 minutes. Equaling 8.75 hours spent on chopping 1k magic logs. After that, you can buy 1k strings, for 100k. (5 minutes merchanting time spent). After this is done, to string and cut the logs, it would take about 1 and a half hours. In total, that’s 10.3 hours spent. Then to buy the nats 350 each(20 minute merchant time), then you high alch for 1,536gp per magic long bow. Alching them will take 3-4 seconds per alch, so taking 66 minutes, (1 hour and 6 minutes). After 11.7 hours, you have made 1.2 million, so about 102,564gp an hour.

Woodcutting –

First of all, to start chopping a tree, you are required to have an axe.
The first trees: normal trees, money rate: poor

Getting full loads in 3 minutes, you can get 560 normal logs an hour. If you find a nice buyer for 50 each, you can sell for ~25k.

Oak trees:
Money rate: very poor

Chopping a full load of oaks south of seers bank, with 60 woodcut and rune hatchet, would take about 1-2 minutes. Meaning 840 oaks an hour. The one problem is, nobody buys oaks, so might as well burn or fletch them.

Willow trees:
Money rate: Ok

Saying you have 70 woodcutting, you can chop willow full loads, in roughly 1-3 minutes. Meaning about 840 an hour, depending on focus ness. In free worlds, these normally sell 20 each, for the point of cost, I would just burn them or save them to fletch for members.
Then, if you are members, you could probably find a 50 each buyer, so that means 42k an hour.

Maple trees:
Money rate: Ok

Most people over rate maple trees, thinking that the price of log will get good profit, but you don’t chop these near as fast as willows. At a woodcut level of 90, I can chop about a load in 2 minutes tops. So lets say 4 minutes a load(for a lvl 60 cutter). This means around 420 logs an hour, which is a mere 42k

Yew logs:
Money rate: good
Chopping yew logs at level 90 cutting, I can get loads in around 3 minutes, normally 5 minutes. With this, you can get about 336 logs per hour, and if you get a buyer 300 each, that’s 108k per hour.

Magic logs: Very good

These can be gathered, at 15 minutes per 28 logs, this equals up to 112 logs an hour, and if you get a buyer 1k each, that’s a steady 112k an hour.

The best spots to chop:

Normal logs:

Lumbridge swamp, or the area between Seers village and Catherby.

Oak logs:

The 2 oak trees directly south of Seers bank. After you cut one down, the other one goes up, and I’m pretty sure these respawn quicker than normal trees.

Willow logs:

Directly west of Catherby, or south of draynor bank.

Maple logs:

Outside the bank of seers.

Yew logs:

South of the flax fields in seers, seers cemetery, behind castle in varrock, and south of falador.

Mage logs:

South-west of catherby, and in the courtyard in the Sorcerer’s Tower.

1.3 Crafting

Crafting is a “low down” skill at earlier, levels, and like all skills, the big bucks come at the higher levels. To start off you need cow hides; most leveling crafters buy these, so selling to them is good.

NOTE* since crafting is much more elaborate on members, sell cow hides only on member servers.

You can sell cow hides on free worlds 10-50 each, and 200-400 each on members. Killing a cow approx. every 12 seconds, you can get a full load(28) you get a full load in 420 seconds(7 minutes). This means that you can get 238 cow hides in an hour, selling 200 each = 47.6k

Gems:

Uncut sapphire normally go around 200-500gp each cut, and around 300-750 each cut, depending on quantity the price can rise or decrease. So obviously, there is no point buying uncut then cutting and selling, unless craving for crafting experience.
Also note that gold bars are 100-200 each (ore or bar), and this is a basic ingredient for making jewelry. So saying you bought 1 sapphire 400gp, and the gold bar for 200gp, and any type of mold for 5gp. This totals in 605gp. Next, taking about 20 seconds (saying you are at fallador eastern bank). Then, you choose if you want a ring, necklace, or amulet. After you make an amulet, it can be enchanted (using a cosmic rune), to make a magic amulet. The only problems with these are that nobody usually buys, and if they do it would be for 1 k-1.5k each. If you want profit, the best bet is to sell these to the story for around 600gp (??). This ends up in 0 profits, and actually a “loss” because you could have earned more in that time doing something else. For necklaces, these can be enchanted into games necklaces (8 charges), but yet this will result in the same problem above, nobody wanting to buy. But if you do manage to find a buyer, they usually sell 1-2k each. If sold to the store, it’s about the same as an amulet but a tad bit less. Rings, these are enchanted into rings of recoil, which are the best profit maker of sapphires. After making rings of recoils, you will sell them. These sell for 3k-6k each, or higher and lower depending on quantity. This is the best profit gainer of sapphires, costing about 7k and about 10 seconds to make a full one(walk time not included), you can earn 6.3k with selling time of only about 5 minutes or less.
Emeralds, the second gem up from sapphires, and then 2nd lowest on the rank of rarity or scarcity, obviously ending up in 2nd lowest in price.

Emeralds can be bought 600-1.5k uncut, and 400-1k cut. Just like any gem, they can be made into 3 different types of jewelry. Most of these are unpopular and have low demand, except sometimes the ring of dueling (8) can be sold for profitable prices.
Emerald necklaces and amulets (defense), should either just be kept or sold to the general store for around 700-900gp. The ring of duelings however, can be sold from prices ranging from 500-5k at times. (Use the formula above to find an estimate of the profit per hour). (5 min merchant time, can vary as usual).

Rubies can be bought 800-2k uncut, 600-1.75k cut. Unlike the emerald or sapphire, this is more profitable with amulets (strength). The strength amulet is sold for 2-10k, as is very profitable. The necklace for about 800gp to the store, and the ring (forging), for 2-5k. (Use the formula above for per hour rate.) (5-10 minute merchant time can vary though).

Diamonds can be bought 1k-4k uncut, 1k-4k cut. These can be made into diamond amulets (power), rings of life, and diamond necklaces.
The most profitable is either the amulets or rings. Rings would be more profitable, since low merchant time unlike the amulet. Rings sell for 5-10k, amulet sells for 5-15k. Amulet has an estimated 10-20 minute merchant time, ring 1-5 minute time. So obviously, choose the rings. (Also estimate per hour using the formula above stated in the sapphire section).

Dragon stone, being the most expensive, at 100k uncut or cut.
The dragon stone is tricky, because in most causes it creates no profit.
It can be made into a ring of wealth, d-necklace, and a glory ammy, which can be charged to get (4).

The ring of wealth is very hard to sell, but sells for 95-105k, should be rather used for its own owner.

The glory ammy sells for 100k, but with charges can go up to 120k.

The merchant time can be very high or very low, often to risky to take the chance to merchant these. Might as well use the glory or wealth for your own cause.

Dragonhides!

Green dragon:

These can be gathered at many different points in the wilderness, so yes there is a risk on getting these. Killing 1 dragon a minute, you can get 60 hides in an hour. These hides range from 1-2k in value. So if you sold these you are getting around 60-100k an hour with running/teleporting time. Or the other option, to craft these. The full set requires 63 crafting, so make sure you have that first. Then you should rather make full sets than sell separately (making all one item then trying to sell). If you don’t want to run around selling these for a while, lower the price to 10k. This way you’re increasing the hides from ~1.5k to 3.3k per hide with the corresponding time merchanted.

Blue dragon:

These can be gathered at the Hero guild, yannile dungeon, and taverly dungeon.
These can be killed at 1 per minute or less or more. The hides they drop are 1.6-3k each, most normally 2k. This can rate up to 96-160k an hour, very profitable.
For the crafter, 71 crafting is a necessity. These sets sell 15-20k each, making the hides value rise from 2k – 5-6k. Yet this is very hard to sell, and might as well just sell the hides.

Red dragon:

These can be gathered in Karamja Dungeon, or lvl 40ish wildy in the red lava maze.
These sell 3k-4k per, also note these are rather rare. Full sets sell 50-80k, so it can be worth it. You kill about 1 per 2 min, equaling in 30 an hour. So 90k-110k if you sell the hide.
Or for the crafter you can make full sets at level 77. This would rise the dragon hides worth from 3.5k – 20-30k. You would think this is good money but it is difficult to sell.

Black Dragon:

These can be killed at lvl 46 wildy (kbd, not sure if they drop though), and Taverly Dungeon. You kill about 2 per minute, obviously 30 per hour. These also sell 2-4k each.
So this would be 60-100k an hour, with a long walking distance. Crafting these require level 84 crafting. Making full sets sell for 20-30k a set, so not really a profit. This would mean the 2-4k – 6-10k per. These are hard to sell though, so I would stay off these, and stick to blue or green.

1.4 Monster Killing

Monster killing is a process of killing the monster, then getting good drops to sell/alch for money.

Monsters with good drops for cash – Fire giants, Black Demons, greater demons, King Black Dragon, Kalphite guards/queen, Gargoyles, Nechaeryls, Abyssal Demons, Green, Blue, and Black dragons, Bronze, iron, and steel dragons, Chaos Druids, and Hellhounds.

Good drops are – Dragon bones, hides, dragon armor, dragon weapons, herbs, Granite Maul, rune boots, abyssal whip, rune armor, rune weapons, Level 3 clues, etc..

Various Places to find these are..

Fire giants – Waterfall cave, and Karamja Dungeon, and wildy.
Black Demons – Taverly Dungeon, and Edgeville Dungeon.
Greater Demons – Demonic Ruins, Karamja Dungeon, and Monk’s Island.
Kbd – East of the Lava Maze.
Kalphite guards\queen - kalphite dungeon, desert.
Gargoyles, Nechareyls, Abyssal Demons – Slayer castle north of Canafis
Green dragons – Wildy in level 14-39.
Blue Dragons – Taverly Dungeon, Watch tower dungeon(yannile), and Hero’s Guild.
Black Dragons – Taverly Dungeon.
Bronze, Iron and steel dragons – Karmaja dungeon.
Chaos Druids – Edgeville dungeon.
Hellhounds – East ardy dungeon, Taverly Dungeon, and wildy.

Specific “best” Drops

Fire Giants – Dragon Med Helm
Black Demon –
Greator Demon – Level 3 clue, Rune chain
Kbd – Dragon Med Helm
Kalphite Queen – Dragon Chain
Kalphite Guards – Dragon Spear
Gargoyles – Granite Maul
Nechraeyls – Granite Maul/Rune Boots
Abyssal Demons – Abyssal Whip.
Green Dragons – Level 3 Clue
Blue Dragons – Level 3 clue
Black Dragons – Level 3 clue
Bronze, Iron, Steel Dragons – Dragon Platelegs/Dragon Plate Skirt.
Chaos Druids – Unidentified Herbs
Hellhounds – Level 3 clues.

There is no rate per hour on these, because the drops are completely random..

1.5 Merchanting

All merchants really do is buy low sell high. The best servers for this are 1, 29, 2, and 26.
Also the best areas are, Fallador East for 2, and 26, and Varrok West for 1 and 29.
You can also use forums to advertise what you are selling.

Simple things to merchant –
BUY SELL
Rune scimmis – 25k 35k
Full rune - 185k 200k+
Feathers 5 10
Iron 50 100
Coal 100 150

There of course are many others, but these are some of the most popular things to merchant.

Now for dragon armor, this will need a little more money to start with. Also all of these numbers represents money in millions.

BUY SELL
Dragon Med 2-2.1 2.2-2.5
Dragon Legs/Skirt 2.9-3.1 3.2-3.5
Dragon Sq. Left 5.7-5.8 6-6.2
Dragon Square(full) 6.5-6.6 6.8-7
Dragon Chainbody 22-25 26-30

Now For rares, You will need even more cash to start out with.

BUY SELL
Santa Hats 400-450k 500-600k
Green Masks 700-900k 1-1.2
Blue Masks 800-1.3 1.4-1.8
Red Masks 1.8-2 2.1-2.5
Purple Phats 7-8 8.1-8.5
Yellow Phats 9-9.5 10-10.5
Green Phats 11-11.5 12-12.5
Red Phats 13-13.5 14-15
White Phats 16-16.4 17
Blue Phats 18-18.3 19

So basically when you get something, anything, try to sell it high, rather than low. Also when you see a good deal, do it and resell for higher and profit.

1.6 Heblore –

In herblore, it is more like just merchanting really.

There are 15 different herbs, with different prices and potion results.
There are also roughly 12 second ingreidants.

Each of these have different herblore requirements to make potions..

The most popular potions are(with prices)

Prayer pots(4) – 2-5k per
Super Attack Pots (4) – 1-3k per]
Super Strength Pots (4) 2-5k per
Super Defense Pots (4) – 2-5k per
All of these together are aka “super sets”

Anti-fire Pots (4) – 3-8k per
Range Pots (4) – 5-10k per


Obviously just buy low and sell high, or start stock low build up and sell for higher since larger sell quantity.

Gathering “Uni” (short for Unidentified Herbs), can sell for 1-2k each, for nice profit gain per hour.

The best place to get these is by killing chaos druids(level 13, 19health I think), in level 2-4 Edgeville Dungeon.

By killing 1 of these every 20 seconds, you can get 3k a minute. Multiply that by 60 you have 180k per hour. Then descrease the run time, to get an estimated 150k an hour.
Though note, some may only buy rannar and above for ex.
This means that the money rate will go down since a lot of these “uni” herbs you get tend to be guams, marrentills, and tarromin.

1.8 Fishing/cooking

Fishing and cooking are grouped together, since if you sell raw ones, they are going to cook them!

At levels 1-20, your best bet is shrimp to level 20.
The best place to do this is at al-kharid, right by the bank..just drop the shrimp or deposit for cooking xp needed to cook better foods that give better money.

After you hit level 20, you can cook trout.
The best place to do this, is south of edgeville bank, on the east side of barbarian village.
There are 2 fishing spots, so no problem with the spots disappearing since you can just merge to the other spot.
You will get approximately 26 fish(trout), (not 28 since you have fly rod and feathers with you).
These sell 20-40 each raw, 20-30 each cooked.
Getting approximately 1 trout every 8 seconds(varies depending on fishing level of course, this is on an average of about 55).
This will get you 3.4 minute loads. This equals about 17.6 loads an hour.
This equals up to 467.6 trout an hour, rounding to 450 with load running time.
Selling at 30 each raw, equals 13k an hour.

If you cook this, you can cook about 1 per 4 seconds.