Free-to-play Woodcutting training

Woodcutting in F2P worlds has a simple aim: earn cash by cutting Yew logs. Woodcutting is not tedious to train as locations for tree cutting are diverse and experience is amassed quickly. However, one must have a certain amount of patience to train this skill as woodcutting does not have an distinct option of power leveling like other skills.

Axes
Different axes are available to cut trees for F2P players, ranging from bronze to rune.

Level 1-14
Regular trees can be cut. There are many trees in the forest between Lumbridge and Draynor Village, and south of Falador. It is advised that players find a spot within a short distance from a bank so they can bank their logs and then sell or drop them. If you are looking to get another skill up as well, banked logs can be later be used to train Firemaking. A particularly good place for this is south of the Grand Exchange, as the area is abundant with trees and players can quickly bank or sell their logs at the Exchange.

Level 15-40
Oak trees can be cut. A good spot is east of Draynor Village's bank. Low level players should be careful here, as level 26 Jail Guards patrol the area. The area west of Varrock near the west bank is a good choice for lower leveled players. It is right next to a bank, so players can chop, bank, and then sell the logs. South-west of Varrock is ideal because it is right by the Grand Exchange. Another place includes north-west of Lumbridge.

Level 31-40
Players would need to decide on cutting willow trees or oak trees, the former giving more experience but the latter worth more in coins and may be cut more quickly. It is recommended to cut oak trees and to avoid willows if the player has no access to adamantite axes or above. A quick way to chop willows is to cut down the ones just east of the Lumbridge general store and sell them to the store instead of banking. Another good location is the area northwest of the Crafting Guild, which contains a fairly large grove of willow trees that are rarely populated.

Level 41-99
Willow trees can be cut. While it takes a long time until players can start cutting yew trees, it is recommended they stay with willows even after level 60 as the logs are cut at a quicker rate and with greater experience compared to other trees. A good spot to cut willows is beside Draynor Village, as there are five willow trees there and a bank for quick easy banking. (It is usually crowded at that spot, but picking an empty server should lessen the amount of people. An even better idea is to choose one of the PvP worlds, as the experience players can receive working here can outweigh the dangers of training here). If banking is not desired, there are other good willow tree spots to the northeast Port Sarim, to the south of Rimmington, or to the north of Lumbridge.

If you're looking for fast Woodcutting xp and wouldn't mind a little firemaking xp on the side, then a good powerlighting (lighting logs in quick succession) spot is just north of Lumbridge, a few spaces northwest of the willow trees on the north side of the pond. The aforementioned area northwest of the Crafting Guild also provides an excellent powerlighting spot which is located starting at the southwest corner of the large rock next to the entrance of the Crafting Guild.



Level 80-99
At level 80, players can cut yew trees at a decent rate. Keep in mind that the reason players should not start cutting yews at level 60 is because of the extremely slow rate at which the logs are obtained. Yews can be fast experience at level 80+. Cutting yews at this level yields large amounts of experience and also offers one of the best means of obtaining wealth by skilling for free players. There are three yew trees behind Varrock Palace, one at the graveyard of Lumbridge and by the entrance of Edgeville Dungeon, however these places can be quite crowded. There are four yew trees west of Rimmington, but they are a long distance from a bank. A good way to bank these is through the Cabbage port teleport system, provided by the Explorer's ring 3. There are also 3 yew trees south of the Falador east bank, 4 west of Draynor Village. There is one yew tree to the northeast of Varrock next to the Earth Runecrafting Altar.

Logs

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Axes

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