Magic logs



Magic logs are logs that can be acquired using the Woodcutting skill from magic trees, or by bringing cursed magic logs into Gielinor. Cutting magic trees requires a Woodcutting level of 75 or higher and yields 250 Woodcutting experience per log cut.

Magic logs sell for nearly three times the price of Yews or Eucalyptus, but take slightly more than twice as long to cut. At high (85+) levels, Magic logs tend to produce better returns, but at lower levels with the high competition and long respawn times for Magic trees, it can often be more profitable to continue cutting Yews or Eucalyptus instead. The higher the Woodcutting level of the player the larger the profit divide grows, with Yews or Eucalyptus providing better experience but less money.

Members can burn these logs with the Firemaking skill at level 75 Firemaking, giving 303.8 Firemaking experience. It's generally not advised to use them to train Firemaking, except when used as Magic pyre logs to burn Fiyr shade remains, or for the Fremennik task of making a pyre ship from magic logs.

Members can also use the Fletching skill to cut these logs into magic shortbows at a Fletching level of 80, or magic longbows at a Fletching level of 85, providing 83.3 and 91.5 Fletching experience respectively. They are also used to smith a Rune Spear or Rune Hasta through Barbarian Training.

The third option is to sell them. A full inventory of Magic logs is worth gp at the current GE Market Price.

Two quests and one followup to a quest require Magic Logs. The Desert Treasure quest requires 12 Magic Logs, Mourning's Ends Part I requires one Magic Log to fix the device, and the Balloon Transport System requires 3 Magic Logs to travel from Entrana to Tree Gnome Stronghold initially and 1 afterwards.

When the logs are in a player's inventory, the sparkles around them will change every now and then. The sparkles also animate when the logs are on the ground. The sparkle positions change upon being banked.

100 Magic Logs can also be looted from Movario's base after the While Guthix Sleeps quest. This can only be done once, however.

Tree locations

 * 1 in the western ruins in the Wilderness
 * 2 at Mage Training Arena
 * 3 outside Lletya
 * 3 at Tree Gnome Stronghold
 * 3 east of Ranging Guild
 * 4 at Sorcerer's Tower
 * 6 at Resource dungeon/Varrock Sewers

In total, there are only 22 Magic Trees in the game, excluding the Cursed Magic Tree after the Spirit of Summer quest, and those grown by players through the farming skill.

As Magic Trees are notoriously slow to respawn, the best place to cut them is at Lletya where the three Magic Trees are normally untouched and where the bank can be quickly accessed using a Teleport Crystal.

For those with 82 woodcutting, another option is in the Wilderness after completing the Spirit of Summer quest. Simply cut the Magic Tree in the Wilderness and enter the Portal (using Jennica's Ring, which you acquire after the quest) into the Spirit Realm which is a plane, parallel to the Wilderness. In there, you will find a Cursed Magic Tree that you can cut with 82 woodcutting. The Cursed Magic Tree logs turn into Magic Logs after leaving the Realm. Then leave via the Portal and cut the Wilderness Magic Tree. Repeat. The idea is, when one tree is down, the other grows immediately. This can be dangerous though as you can be killed players while cutting the tree in the wilderness.

Trivia



 * Magic Logs are the only item to have an animation in the Grand Exchange collection box ("Collect" banker).
 * Interestingly, Magic Logs change colours depending on what form they are in. Looking at a Magic Tree's trunk, it is a normal, brown bark colour. In your inventory, on the ground, in the G.E., and in your collection box, it is a rainbow colour. When fletched into an unstrung or strung shortbow or longbow, it is a blue-green-ish colour.
 * It used to be that, when you have a full inventory of magic logs, it would say "You can't carry anymore flax."
 * There is a graphical glitch that can cause the animation of the magic logs to take on the animation of a Fire Cape.
 * Magic logs used to have the same appearance as willow logs. However, players were easily scammed this way, so Jagex gave magic logs a unique appearance.
 * Because of their rarity, Magic logs have recently gone up in price.
 * When fletching the first Magic logs, they appear to be normal logs at first in the characters hand and then change to their normal appearance after the first fletch.