Money making guide

This money making guide provides players with a list of ideas that can help make money in RuneScape. When using this guide, players should keep in mind that the RuneScape economy is constantly changing, which means not all of the information given here will be completely accurate. Although these methods have worked for the majority of players, they are not guaranteed to work for every player. Making money is about working hard and using resources.

Stronghold of Player Safety
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Players of any level can easily do the Stronghold of Player Safety between Barbarian Village and Edgeville in the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence, some of the monsters on the route to the 10,000 coins are non-aggressive. Upon the completion of the miniquest, players are rewarded with two skill lamps (each lamp is worth 500xp and can be applied to any skill regardless of level), 10,000 coins, Safety gloves and the Safety first emote.

It is tricky to navigate through the Stronghold of Player Safety, but the rewards are great. The high level monsters drop large numbers of runes.


 * free players who choose to train on them, some high-level ores such as mithril and adamant, and even rune scimitars and rune square shields for rarer drops.

The reward may only be received once per player, however, if a player loses/drops their Safety gloves they can come back to the chest for a new pair.
 * (For members, they mainly drop charms, seeds, and herbs.) No food is needed, but a high enough percent of run is recommended.

Once completed, the Cockroach soldiers (level 83) drop Rune Scimitar,Rune Sq Shieldand dragon spears. They also drop alot of crimson charms, which are used in summoning. They also offer decent training for higher leveled players.

Stronghold of Security
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If players are brave enough, they can attempt the Stronghold of Security in Barbarian Village. Food is recommended for players at all levels and even more for low-level players. (Note: For players with 10-15 hitpoints, 'trouts or higher are recommended). One can usually pick up raw trout and salmon from powerfishers near barbarian village on world 1. '''After players have had their account recovery questions set and proceed through all four levels in the Stronghold, they will be awarded 10,000 coins and either; the Fancy bootswhich are rainbow coloured or the Fighting boots these boots have spikes on the end. Both these boots have the same stats so either pair is fine.''' (You can only get the money one time and you can swap your boots if you change your mind).

The monsters in this dungeon get stronger as players descend from level to level, and are aggressive beginning with the second level. There are some "safe" spots on all levels where players can wait to recover their run energy and eat to restore their hitpoints before they proceed further.

Some lower trainable monsters in the security stronghold include zombies and minotaurs. The zombies constantly drop steel arrows, body runes, and gems. The minotaurs drop iron arrows and noted essence/pure esscence which can add up in time.
 * There have been reports that the random event occurrences tend to be increased in the stronghold, so training for a long time will increase your chances of getting gems and other random event items.

Players may bank all items and just sprint through each level to get the rewards easily.


 * For members, Once completed, the Flesh Crawler's often drop higher leveled herbs, which can be gathered, & sold for a tidy sum.

Silk merchanting
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Silk merchanting can be very slow: 4-5 pieces of silk are acquired per minute (3 if the player bargains) plus about 45 seconds each way running between Lumbridge and Al Kharid. The player will spend about 8 minutes to earn 126 coins (after the Al Kharid tolls and initial investment), far below the average income for other methods. (Even members taking advantage of the East Ardougne Silk Merchant will find that this method earns less than 300 coins per minute of work.) It is, therefore, only suitable for beginner players with no other options.

With 101 coins (74 if players are bargaining), they could travel on the road east from Lumbridge, cross the bridge, and go through the toll gate (paying a toll of 10 coins)(free if you have done the prince ali quest). The silk can then be sold at the Grand Exchange for , at any general store, the Varrock clothes store (not the Fancy Dress Shop), or to the Silk Merchant in East Ardougne (for members). If the general store currently has no silk, a pack of 27 pieces of silk sold at once will fetch 227 coins. Al Kharid has a bank, so players can bank their purchases and return for more. However, it should be noted that it takes the general store about a half-hour to clear its stock, so it is advised to do some fishing or mining between trips to the store. Three to four trips will net a beginner enough coins for buying a full set of Iron armour.
 * The road could be followed as it turns south into Al Kharid. A Silk Trader is just east of the first building. Silk can be bought from him at 3 coins per piece (or 2 if a player bargains).

Potatoes
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Collecting food materials can be quite profitable for beginners. Potatoes, in particular, can be found in several places on both member and free-to-play worlds. The current price of potatoes in the GE are, and are in strong demand due to several member food items that can be prepared with them, as well as for Stew in F2P cooking. The fastest location (in F2P worlds) is the potato farm just to the east of Draynor Village.
 * for members the potato field north of Ardounge is the best area as its only a few steps to the bank.


 * Bring 23 gardening sacks with you for mass storage and greatly improved profit rate, and, if you can create buttered potatoes, cook the potatoes on a range (traveling between the Leptoc mansion and the nearby bank to withdraw new potatoes is a good idea), purchase the at the GE, apply it to the cooked potatoes, then sell them for an excellent profit.


 * The potatoes can be banked in Draynor Village for (F2P) or by going north to the deposit box at the Gnomecopters. Potatoes also can be bought from Wydin's Food Store in Port Sarim for 16 coins each, banked, and then sold to the Grand Exchange, though this is obviously a slower method.

Cheese
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With a little bit of cash, a player can also travel to Port Sarim and buy Cheese for 8 coins each at Wydin's Food Store and in turn sell them on the void knight island.


 * Members which have completed at least part of Recipe for Disaster can buy cheese (and various other profitable food items) at the Culinaromancer’s Chest, which also functions as a bank; however, this shop does not have an infinite stock.

Wine of Zamorak
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You must have level 33 mage to do this. Travel to the chaos temple north of goblin village and TELEGRAB the wine. If you do not telegrab, the monks will attack you and lower your stats and possibly kill you. When you get some where around 25 wines, go to the Grand Exchange and sell them for.
 * Make sure it sells for the amount of or over the price of one law or you are wasting your time.

Dyes
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Harvesting onions and redberries can give some modest profit as well, but by far it is more profitable to make dyes from these items. For only 5 coins (even on F2P worlds), the player can trade 2 onions for yellow dyes, or 3 red berries for red dyes. These can in turn be sold on the Grand Exchange


 * you can buy all the different colours of dye inLleyta, by taking the charter to Tyra's camp and walking or if you have done underground pass and mournings end quests, you can use a fairy crystal to teleport there.
 * if you do take the charter, bring antipoison, food, wood cutting axe, and tinderbox. there are a number of traps that can damage/poison you.

On member worlds just south of Ardougne is a spawn point for purple dye.

Another good method is to buy redberries at 4gp each from the gnomecopters, then deposit them in the handy bank deposit boxes in the field. Repeat this until you have as many berries as you want, then go to draynor village, just a short walk away, and make red dye with the witch. This is an effective method of mass producing dyes.

Mining Clay
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Another way which you can make money is by mining clay and/or making soft clay.The best place to mine clay is in Varrock west. Take nothing but your pickaxe and mine 28 clay (per trip) deposit them in your bank and go for more.

When you have clay you can now soften it pack by pack or bank and soften larger amounts at a time to make the more sought after soft clay. To do so you will need to use a bowl of water or another water filled container on the normal clay. Buying 28 bowls and filling them at once at the Varrock fountain would be the fastest method as then you can soften 14 clay at a time without banking and 28 at a time without running to refill bowls.

For members who do not mind spending money to gain money, buying or making a bracelet of clay will highly speed up the process. Each bracelet has the charges to mine 28 Soft clay rather than Clay which avoid the above mentioned step completely. Bracelets of Clay are made using common saphire gems so often times crafters and/or mages sell them much cheaper than cost to gain their own levels without the desire to mine the clay.


 * bracelet of clay GE price ,
 * clay GE price
 * soft clay GE price.

And as with mining any type of rock, it is also possible to pick up gems, such as rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. These sell for alot even at the lowest price at the Grand Exchange. With the exception of mining Adamant and Rune, it is best keep the gems if you're mining any ore lower than those two.

Mining Coal
Requirements: 30 Mining

Coal can be found in many places (F2P) including the Dwarven Mine, the Mining Guild, Barbarian Village, Al-Kharid Mine, Crandor Isle, Edgeville Dungeon, Wilderness Skeleton Mine, and Hero's Guild Mine.

Places for F2P such as the Wilderness Skeleton Mine (north-west of Edgeville) are deserted even in heavily clogged worlds, and it has 34 coal rocks. The only set back is the skeletons (level 22) that roam around can be aggressive. After some 10 minutes they should stop attacking regardless of your level. Edgeville bank is very close, and you can quickly go and deposit coal to head back for more. Coal sells at the Grand Exchange for If you gather alot of coal and iron together often, smith them into steel bars, as the proportional price of 2 coal and 1 iron converting into a steel bar increases You can sell the bars for around sell at low/mid price at the G.E. You can also make cannonballs and sell them on GE, they are always in demand do to people using cannons for range experience/doing slayer tasks faster.

Red Spiders' Eggs
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For F2P These eggs can be found in the sewers of Varrock. There are 2 spawn points for them and they respawn about every 40 seconds (faster on busy worlds). They sell for Beware of the many level 34 spiders though, they'll try to pile you if you're not careful. F2P can also get red spider's eggs in the volcano on Karamja same rule applies to watching out for the spiders.

After making a few trips, you'll figure out just how much food is necessary for survival but runs out just in time for a full inventory of eggs. A minimum Combat level of 50 is recommended.

If you don't know where the sewers are at, the entrance is just east of the Varrock Palace and Just north of the east bank. It is marked on your map with a Red Exclamation (!) Mark. The spiders are towards the end of the sewers by the Moss Giants. The eggs are on the south wall on the ground. *Note: the spiders do NOT drop the eggs.

Also, with 10 summoning, you can summon a spirit spider. Buy the pouches and egg spawn scrolls off the grand exchange. The egg spawn scrolls spawn 0-3 red spiders' eggs. The spiders last 14 minutes. Each pouch costs the same as one egg, and each scroll costs 1/10 of the price of an egg. Remember that you get up to 3 eggs per scroll, so you can't lose money doing it!

Monk's Robes
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Requirements: 31 Prayer

These spawn at the Monastery just west of Edgeville. There are 2 pieces for them and they respawn approximately 52 seconds. The robes sell for

In members, a Combat bracelet will teleport there 4 times. It is not recommended to travel there by bracelet because of it's price. The closest bank is Edgeville. There is a shortcut to there. Go up north from the Monastery until you reach the Wilderness Ditch and continue south until you see a bank.

Planks
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Collecting planks can be profitable given time and patience. They spawn in the Graveyard of Shadows and can be sold for each. It is recommended that you have a high level however, as there are zombies in the grave that will swarm you. Conveniently, the Bounty Hunter bank is only a short walk away.


 * in members, you can pick up planks from behind barbarian outpost and put in bank deposit box there.

Eyes of Newts
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A form of merchanting that still survives to this day, Eye of Newt's can be a very good source of profit for all levels; in fact, you can do it with the 25 gp you receive at the beginning. It may require some patience, but the payoff is astounding! By purchasing eyes of newts (27 at a time) from Betty's Magic Emporium in Port Sarim (for 3gp each), you can make a huge profit; 24 times the gold you spent! Just bring your gold, go to Port Sarim Magic Shop, buy as many as you can carry, then bank them in Draynor Village(the Explorer's Ring 3's cabbage teleport can cut the run time between draynor and port sarim by about 5-10 seconds, which will save you run energy). Repeat and then sell them all at the Grand Exchange for. Wait for them to sell, and watch the gold flow in.
 * members can buy eye of newt in Taverly and either run to Falador, Burthorpe, or have your house at the portal and using portals you have or if you have a glory on the wall, teleport to a bank, then back to your house.

Making money via non member skills
these skills are with the member's skills to make it easier to find.

Cooking

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Cooking.

Fishing

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Fishing.

Woodcutting

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Woodcutting.

Magic

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Magic.

Mining

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Mining.

Runecrafting

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Runecrafting.

Smithing

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Smithing.

Air running
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 * See this page for more information on Air Running.

Flax
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Members with level 10 crafting can spin flax into bowstrings at Camelot, Falador, Lumbridge, and Neitznot (Near Banks). Lumbridge is the quickest area to spin flax and bank, assuming you use all the shortcuts (holding right-click on "Climb-Up Stairs" just as the last piece of flax finishes, rotating your camera to get the "Quick-Bank" option very shortly after ascending the stairs). One such trip with run enabled the entire time and no interruptions takes between 1:09-1:10 minutes.
 * Neitiznot, the second fastest, will take 1:10-1:12 with constant run enabled. Additionally, because of the longer distance and lack of staircase shortcut, your run energy may also deplete itself to the point where you can no longer continuously use it throughout the entire shift.

To start, teleport to the area you have chosen, take your flax, then simply click on the wheel and select the appropriate amount of flax to spin. Spin the flax into bowstrings and get ; almost doubling the amount of money you started with. Given a constant supply of flax in a Lumbridge run, players can make around quite a profit.

Soda Ash
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Members can collect or buy Seaweed and burn it into Soda ash for a profit. Buying Seaweed off the Grand Exchange and making Soda ash can turn a profit of over 150,000 Coins per hour with no required Skills. To maximize profits, a player should buy a large amount of Seaweed all at once and then make Soda ash at a Bank that is very near to a Fire or a Range. Some good places to do this are East Varrock range, the Rogue's Den fire, or the range in the Cooking Guild.

Alternatively, players with little money to start up can collect Seaweed from any of the locations listed here.


 * You can buy seaweed from the general store in catherby buy talking to the trader rather then right clicking him. you can purchase up to 80 seaweed a day for 2gp each.
 * you can also get pineapples this way, around 40 of these a day.

Swamp Toads
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Members can access Tree Gnome Stronghold, (North west from Ardougne), or the Lumbridge swamp. But, west of the Grand Tree, there is a small swamp. In the swamp, there are swamp toads. Collect as many as you like then head to the Grand Tree to bank. Players should avoid wearing any equipment that increases their weight, as there is no need to. this can make over 8k a trip

Glass Vials
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Members with little money can easily make 200,000 Coins or more per hour from "vial-merchanting". Go to Taverley, buy an inventory of vials from Jatix, and sell them in the Grand Exchange for a decent profit. Having 45 Magic helps a lot, as well as plenty of Law Runes. If you do, bring the required Runes or Teleport to House (if it's in Taverley), and another method of Teleportation so you can bank the vials for later, and repeat the process. Vials sell fast in the Grand Exchange, therefore, you don't need to wait very long.

Filling them with water is another option. Banks with fountains near them (e.g. Camelot) are especially helpful. Just use one vial on a fountain, and it'll fill every vial. Bank the vials, withdraw 28 more, and repeat. This way, you can earn even more money. The lunar spell, humidify is an even faster method for filling vials.

However, If you have done the Enlightened Journey quest, you have access to the balloon transportation system. You can buy ring of dueling and regular logs. Once you have these, tele to the castlewars arena. Once you are there, get a few energy pots, one normal log and your ring of dueling. Run out to the balloon, and travel to Taverley. Once there run to the herblore shop. Buy as many vials as you can. There is also a Fountain near that place making it easier to fill the vials. Once you have a full inventory, use your ring of duelling to tele back to Castlewars. Bank, and repeat.

Another option is to buy empty vials or water vials from the general store in Shilo Village. Bank and repeat, then sell in G.E.

Ranging Guild-Archery Competition
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This is a good way to get a large amount of ranged experience, along with a moderate amount of cash.

At level 40 Ranged, members have access to the Ranging Guild and the Archery Competition. The competition costs 200 coins per 10 shots, with a maximum of 100 points per shot. 1 Archery ticket is awarded per 10 points, which can be used to buy an assortment of ranged items from the Ticket Merchant. Also half of the score, per shot, is rewarded in experience.

The most profitable way to make money using this minigame is to get 2000 tickets, or a multiple of 2000, and buy 50 rune arrows per 2000 tickets. At a low Ranged level, a player may only score less than half the maximum per 10 shots, but it is still possible to make some money this way. At an average of 400 points (40 tickets) per 10 shots, 50 rounds (not as hard or time-consuming as it sounds) are needed to get 2000 tickets. 50 plays will cost 10k, but 50 rune arrows will fetch 19,300 coins (as of 19 Oct, 2008) earning a profit of 9,300 coins, as well as 10,000 experience( $$2,000 tickets*10 points per ticket=20,000 points; 20,000 points/2=10,000 exp$$ ).

At higher levels players will score higher, therefore spending less money and taking less time, which means making more money, while receiving faster experience. Scoring 800 points per 10 shots will only cost 5,000 coins to reach 2000 tickets, which will turn a profit of 14,300 coins, while earning the same experience, all in half the time as the previous example. It is slightly more profitable to sell the tickets although it may take a little longer.

Unicorn Horns(M)
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You can collect unicorn horns which sell in GE for

Another effective way of obtaining unicorn horns is The Creature Creation minigame. You must have completed Tower of Life to do this, but the rewards are worth it, because all the player needs is one unicorn and plenty of cowhides, and a player can come out of it with unlimited unicorn horns, which they can run back and forth from the Southern Bank in Ardougne.

Tinderbox Merchant(G.E Method)
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Tinderboxes can be bought from the general store for 1gp each and can be sold for more than 10x their original price on the Grand Exchange. This is because of players using them in the Summoning skill to make Pyrelords.

Spider Carcasses
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The Jungle Spiders east of Yanille drop Spider Carcasses, which can be sold on the Grand Exchange. A player can simply gather the carcasses in his or her inventory after killing the spiders, drop them off at the Yanille bank, and repeat the process.

Snape grass (M)
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An easy method to earn money is by gathering Snape grass. Just west of the Crafting Guild is a small peninsula, Hobgoblin Peninsula, that has a small collection of hobgoblins and a snape grass respawn point. The closest bank is the eastern Falador bank. Start there with an empty inventory and armor if needed. Make your way to the peninsula and collect a full inventory of snape grass. Make your way back to the bank and repeat this process until satisfied. Once you have had enough, the snape grass can be sold in the Grand Exchange for coins each. If you cannot survive an attack from a Hobgoblin, this method is not recommended.

If you are a member and choose this method, there are two things you should know. If you have the Agility level of 26 or higher, there is a short cut in the Falador wall just south of the gem shop. This means that the closest bank is now the western Falador bank. If you have the ability to summon a beast of burden (Level 22 Summoning - Spirit kalphite, Level 40 - Bull ant, Level 52 - Spirit terrorbird, Level 67 - War tortoise, Level 96 - Pack yak), you can bring them along to help by adding more inventory slots.

Alternatively, members who have completed lunar diplomacy and have at least 72 magic can teleport to Waterbirth, collect the snape grass, then teleport to moonclan to bank. One disadvantage to this method, however, is that Astral runes take a bit of time buying on GE.

Agility

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Agility.

Crafting

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Crafting.

Construction

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Construction.

Farming

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Farming.

Firemaking

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Firemaking.

Fletching

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Fletching.

Hunter

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Hunter.

Slayer

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Slayer.

Summoning

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Summoning.

Thieving

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money with Thieving.

Nature running
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 * See this page for more information on Nature Running.

Law running
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 * See this page for more information on Law Running.

Combat

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money while fighting.

Merchanting

 * See this page for a list of ways to merchant for money.

Miscellaneous

 * See this page for a list of ways to make money that don't fit in any of the above sections.

Tips and hints

 * The RuneScape official forums or the forums of a clan site can be used to help money makers buy and sell items.
 * The Grand Exchange in the specified trade worlds (Worlds 1-6, etc.) is the busiest trading centre for both free players and members.


 * Members with a high enough combat(70+) level can kill the various dragons for their bones and dragonhides and good loot, but don't forget your anti-dragon shield!! Bring Antifire potion if using a 2-handed weapon.


 * With 70 Agility Member's can use the pipe, near the ladder, in the Taverly dungeon for easy access to the Blue Dragon. This is called "farming" & it consists of a BoB (Beast of Burden) & Falador teleport tabs. it can be extremely quick cash (300k+ an hour on good days, depending on familiar BoB) & provides decent training too.


 * In the God Wars Dungeon, players can go and kill monsters that have amazing drops. The Player must have at least 60 strength Or level 60 agility to enter the God War's Dungeon, and note, it is extremely dangerous in there so bring food(sharks and up recommended).