Money making guide



This money making guide provides players with a list of ideas that can help them 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. Bear in mind that no matter how fast and effective is that form of way, it would still take a long term of time and patience in order to get the desired amount.

Non-Member Guides
These guides are ones that you can do as both a member and a nonmember.

Grand Exchange investments
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Before the Grand Exchange, some players would make millions buying separate items(such as god pages) and reselling as a set(a full set of pages) for significant profit, as many rich players didn't want to spend hours trading other players for single parts of the set. Due to the Grand Exchange, being an intermediate between the buyer and the seller is no longer really profitable. Since all trading is so easy to perform in bulk, some players started buying and selling in a similar way to Wall Street. There are 3 main ways to do profit:

1) Buy an item where the price will go up, and sell before it goes down again (eg new quest/skill items). It is hard to know when to sell and costly if you are wrong. However it's the only method that lets you do compound interest for extreme profit. One example is magic tree seeds, which tend to drop by 3% or more, whenever a new quest is out as rich players are busy, only to come back up in a few days.

2) Buy items that some players are getting rid of, but that other players need in vast quantities. An example is vials. Their prices vary by as much as 5% daily. Buy for 2% under the average price, and sell for 3% above average price in another trade slot, and you will have up to 5% interest on your entire fortune with very low risk. This method is limited by how many vials the GE will let you trade daily, so when you start noticing that your item is trading by multiples of 1000 only, start diversifying (for example, vials and vials of water and molten glass). Vial and Vial of water, for example, cap at approximately 300,000 coins of profit a day, for 2 minute of Grand Exchange-checking work.

3) As method 2 gets lower profit % when it hits trade caps, switch to higher priced items which are normally used up for lots of experience. The price will not crash down durably (prices will drop down during quests as many rich high level players are busy questing, and poor players and specialists keep producing the item). Expensive usually means trade caps will not matter, so you will be able to get about 3% profit daily on even a very large fortune. Good items for method 3 would be Runite Bars, high level tree seeds, Uncut Dragonstones, Dragon Hides and bones, and very expensive arrows/bolts types.

Here are the things you must do if you want to invest:

•	It takes 156 days for 1 million to become 100 million if you manage to get 3% interest a day; it also takes 5.2 hours over 5.2 months to achieve, which is a 19 million profit per hour. Notice that if you were working more and investing more in the first few weeks, it would go much, much, much quicker from 1 million to 10 million and you'd save some months.

•	It takes 117 days for 100 million to become 1 billion if you manage to get 2% interest a day; it also takes 5.85 hours (as you'll take an extra minute per day to check the price graph) over 3.9 months to achieve, which is 153.8 million profit per hour. For most impatient players this is a good time to stop investing and spending anything over 100 million in rapid skill gain and rares.

•	Remember that coins cap at 2147 million, so if you have 2147 million and add 1 coin to your fortune, the game will tell you that you cannot make a stack that big. If you keep investing past those limits (for the fun of owning a party hat set as there is no real point to being that rich except rares) you'll have to keep some of your fortune permanently invested so it is not disappearing in the bank or inventory after 2147 million. This is why extremely rich people buy party hats and keep them, and one of the reasons party hats never stop slowly going up.

•	The majority of the community being young, they usually do not have the patience to wait for a fortune to grow, and delay the training of expensive skills until after they're extremely rich. Know your level of patience and plan accordingly. Most people who planned for a party hat years ago never got to 50 millions after years of frequent playing.

•	If you want to invest in something (e.g. gold ore), then go first to the Runescape site, then go to ‘Game Guide’, and then click on ‘Grand Exchange’ (For more info, click here). Search your item and study the price changes for a few minutes. If the prices where constantly rising, you can buy it and hope next week you can sell it for a decent profit. If there is a price decrease, don’t buy it then, because if you do, you can’t sell it with profit anymore.

Here are some negative points on investing:

•	Most of all, you don’t get much money for you investment, if your investment is about 100k, you can only do approx 5% a day because of the price ranges, so your 2 minutes of GE managing only get you 5000 coins at best... you could have mined a load of iron instead and be certain to get approx 4200 coins instead so investing less than 100k is semi-pointless. However, if you have one million to invest (which most experienced players can gather in a weekend without much effort), investing with method 2 is guaranteed to give you more cash for your few minutes spent at the ge than those minutes doing any kind of work.

•	Prices change all the time, so sometimes a quest come in and make your item permanently or temporarily unsellable. This is why it's good to diversify your investments. As members get 6 trade slots, it is easier for them to diversify.

Long term investments by raw products is also another way people can make money. Raw products that is in low demand and high stock means that the price will be low in the winter especially due of the difference in numbers of players in the winter (School is in session during the winter). These items can then be resold at higher prices during the summer, since there is a higher demand for raw products due to a larger number of players. Some examples of these raw products include: Ore Bars Food (raw and cooked) Rune essence Metal ores (Gold, Adamantite, Runite) Hides (suggested for members only)

As it takes months for seasonal investments to pay off, it's more of a "when to mine, when to smith" kind of advice except for the american school starts or ends; on those 2 weeks 5% profit is probable and very low risk.

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 Center of Excellence, all 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, the cockroaches mainly drop charms, seeds, and herbs as well as all of the free to play items. 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 Shield and dragon spears. They also drop a lot 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 most world`s. 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 boots, which are rainbow colored, or the Fighting boots which have spikes on the end. Both of these boots have the same stats, so either pair is fine.


 * This reward cannot be collected if you already have a pair. The boots may also be swapped at any time.


 * 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 rune essence (free to play) or pure essence (members only) 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 the 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 Crawlers often drop higher leveled herbs, which can be gathered & sold for a tidy sum.

Logs
Rating: For players with high Woodcutting levels, cutting and selling logs can be a profitable pastime. Yew trees, which require 60 Woodcutting to cut, give the best non-member logs, and are therefore the most expensive. There are several located around Varrock, 4 in Rimmington (not recommended due to distance from a bank), 2 in Edgeville, 3 south of Falador ,for members there are 3 near seers village and 4 in the forest west of Lumbridge and east of Draynor, although there are others.The ones south of falador are reccomended as they are close to banks, and few players know about them, seers village is a good location,for members as they are closer to a bank then falador.Yew logs sell for coins each.

Steel bars
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For fearless players, there is a Steel bar respawn in level 22 Wilderness. The location is in the southern part of Ruins (west). These ruins are west of the Bandit Camp. Since it takes a few minutes to respawn, it is highly recommended to switch worlds. Collecting steel bars is one of the easiest ways for a player with low levels to make fast money.

Cowhiding
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Cowhiding, or selling Cowhides, is a highly profitable way to make lots of money. However, as this requires frequent trips to the Al-Kharid bank, the completion of the Prince Ali Rescue quest is a good idea. You can go to the cow field behind the flour mill in Lumbridge. There is a deposit box there where you can deposit cowhides straight to your bank. The deposit boxes are near the gnomecopters.

Before starting, players should empty their inventory except for a weapon. They should also have at least three times the amount of cowhides they plan to collect in money, as it costs 3 coins to tan cowhides. Obtaining the cowhides is done by heading to the cow-fields northeast of Lumbridge. It is advised that players do this in in worlds with low amounts of people, as some competition for cows is involved. Enter the cowfield through the gate, and immediately start killing cows and collecting their raw cowhide. This can be tedious, but the rewards are great.

Once 28 cowhides have been collected, players may choose to bank them at the Gnomecopter deposit box, or heading to Al-Kharid. This is where completing Prince Ali Rescue helps, as it allows players to pass through the gate free of charge. The tanner is located south of the gate and north of the Al-Kharid bank, and can tan players' cowhides for 3 coins each. Players may choose to have the money in their inventory to begin with, allowing them to head to the tanner and then bank the hard leather, or they may collect all of the cowhides first and then run back and forth between the bank and the tanner.

Once this is finished, players can sell their hard leather at the Grand Exchange for coins. These sell remarkably fast, allowing players to make money quickly. Or, if their crafting isn't high enough, sell the original cowhide for the same price.

Cooks' guild item collecting
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Gathering items from the cooking guild can be fast money since most respawn fast there but are rare when talking about RuneScape as a whole. Therefore players may gather them at the Cooks' Guild fast and run them straight to the Varrock West Bank which is directly east(or the Grand Exchange, which is north) Players that work hard at this method can make 10,000 to 20,000 coins an hour; the only requirements are 32 Cooking and be wearing a Chef's hat, Cooking cape, or Varrock armour 3.

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 coins, and are in strong demand due to several member's only food items that can be prepared with them, as well as for the Stew in F2P cooking. The fastest method of obtaining them in F2P worlds to collect them from the potato farm 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.


 * Bringing 23 gardening sacks will help significantly, as it allows for mass storage and a greatly improved profit rate. Players that can create buttered potatoes can then cook the potatoes on a range (traveling between the Leptoc mansion and the nearby bank to withdraw new potatoes is recommended). Once cooked, players can add pats of butter (which cost coins) to their 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, although this is 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 can also go to Draynor Village and get cheese for free in the witches house.


 * Members which have completed at last part of Recipe for Disaster quest may buy cheese (and various other profitable food items) at the Culinaromancer’s chest, which also functions as a bank. This shop does not have an infinite stock.

Pastry Dough
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Selling pastry dough that players have made is a good method to make money. Note that pastry dough sells for more than the pies it is used to make. Firstly, go to the Grand Exchange and buy about 20 pots of flour. Players also need a bucket with them. After going to the Fountain east of the Grand Exchange and west of the palace, players can fill the bucket with water, which can then be used on a pot of flour. Drop used pots, and repeat until all of the flour has been made into pastry dough, which can be sold for about coins each. It is easier if you go into the Cook's Guild and use a jug on the sink and a bowl on the flour.

Wine of Zamorak
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Players need a Magic level of 33 in order to do this. Travel to the chaos temple north of Goblin village and telegrab the wine. Telegrabbing the wine is strongly recommended, as the monks will attack and possibly kill players who chose to grab it. Once about 25 wines have been collected, they can be sold at the Grand Exchange for coins. ''Make sure the wines sell for at least the price of one Law rune (which is currently coins) or the cost of casting the telegrab spell will outweigh the profit. Alternatively, the Monks of Zamorak may be killed prior to taking the wine, allowing players to physically take the wine. Players who do this will be greeted with an inhuman scream, "STAY AWAY FROM MY WINE!" and lose some hitpoints, but this is better than being killed.

Red spiders' eggs
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Red spiders' eggs can be found in the sewers of Varrock. The entrance point of the Varrock Sewers is just east of the Palace and north of the east bank, and is marked on the minimap with. There are 2 spawn points located at the end of the sewers, near the Giant spiders and Moss giants. Not that the spiders themselves do not actually drop the eggs themselves. Eggs respawn approximately every 40 seconds, although this is faster on busy worlds. Red spider' eggs can be sold for the the Grand Exchange.

'''Players should be careful of the many level 34 spiders, which can all attack at once due to the fact that the sewers are in a multicombat area. Players must be at least level 69 to not be attacked by the spiders. A minimum Combat level of 50 is recommended, along with lots of food.'''

F2P can also obtain red spider's eggs in Karamja volcano, however this is just as dangerous and much farther from a bank.

Players with level 10 summoning may also summon spirit spiders. Buy the pouches and egg spawn scrolls off the Grand Exchange. The scrolls spawn 0-7 red spiders' eggs and the spiders last 14:59 minutes. Each pouch costs the same as one egg, and each scroll costs 1/10 of the price of an egg. Remember that each scroll gives 3 eggs, so it is essentially impossible to lose money this way. in a fact you cant lose since theres only a 20% chance to get 0 eggs.

Monk's Robes
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Requirements: 31 Prayer

These spawn at the Monastery just west of Edgeville. There are 2 pieces (robe top and bottom) and they respawn in approximately 52 seconds. The robes sell for coins for the top and  coins for the bottom.

Dyes
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Harvesting onions and redberries can give some modest profit, however turning these into dyes is far more profitable. 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 for coins.


 * Members may buy all the different colours of dye in Lleyta. Players may get there by taking the charter to Tyra's camp and walking, or if you have done Underground pass and Mourning's Ends quests, you can use an elf teleport crystal to travel there.
 * If you do take the charter, bring antipoison, food,a woodcutting axe, and a tinderbox as 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 4 coins 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 and make red dye with the witch. This is an effective method of mass producing dyes.

Mining Clay
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Another way for which RuneScape players can make money is by mining clay and/or making soft clay. The best place to mine clay is in western Varrock. Taking nothing but a pickaxe and having a mining level of 28 is the fastest method. Regular clay sells on the Grand Exchange for coins. Alternatively, soft clay can be created by bringing 14 buckets of water which can be used on mined clay, turning them into soft clay, which sells for coins.

The other way a F2P can make easy money in under 60 minutes is the following method. You also need 101k to do this. First head on over to the Grand Exchange and purchase 1k clay for around 100gp each. After that, go to the Gnome Copters with 1,000gp. Buy 27 jugs of water from the gnome, for 1gp each. Bank them at the deposit box by him. Repeat this until you have 1,000 jugs of water in your bank. Now head back over to the Grand Exchange and withdraw 14 jugs of water and 14 pieces of clay. Use the Jug of water With the Clay, then select "use on all." Repeat this until all of your clay is turned into soft clay. Now, sell all of your soft clay in the Grand Exchange for around 180gp each! 1,000 soft clay * 180gp each = 180k! Now if you want to, repeat this to almost double you money!

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 avoids the need to bring buckets. Bracelets of Clay are made by enchanting common Sapphire bracelets, and are often sold for low prices, due to the fact that the crafter is usually more interested in the experience rather than the ability of the bracelet. Bracelet of clays currently sell for coins.

As with mining any type of rock, it is also possible to pick up gems, such as rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, which sell for a lot even at the lowest price at the Grand Exchange. With the exception of mining Adamant and Rune, it is best to keep the gems found, as the only ores that are worth more than them are Adamantite and Runite.

Mining rune/pure essence
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After completing the Rune Mysteries quest, players can mine Rune essence by being teleported by Aubury at Varrock. There is one other person in F2P who can teleport players to the Rune essence (Sedridor, who is located in the wizard's tower,) and 3 in P2P, however these are further away from banks, and are not recommended. Teleporting by Aubury is a very convenient method as the Varrock east bank is located directly north. Members with a mining level of 30 and above will automatically mine Pure essence, which sells for much more. An inventory of rune essence sells for about 1000 coins, while one of pure essence sells for about 4000. - P2P at magic guild w/o summoning or pouches: 175k/h

Mining Coal
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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, about a half a minute walk away, and you can quickly go and deposit coal to head back for more. Coal sells at the Grand Exchange for. Gathering as little as 100 coal and selling it at the Grand Exchange at the lowest price will grant you coins.

For P2P there is the Coal Trucks ( north west of seer village )which has a lot of coal rocks and you can load your coal in to the trucks for a max of 120 coal ores.

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 coins each. It is recommended that players have a high combat level however, as there are zombies and Revenants in the grave that will swarm them. Conveniently, the Bounty Hunter bank is only a short walk away. Planks can also be found in the Ruins part of the Wilderness.


 * For members, players may pick up planks from behind barbarian outpost and deposit them in the deposit box there.

Another way is to buy the logs at the Grand Exchange and take them to the sawmill north-east of Varrock. Players make profit off this but is a bit slow. Note that this way is member's only. to further increase efficiency while plank running, use a Spirit Terrorbird with 'Tireless Run' scrolls, speeding up the process immensely over walking.

Eyes of Newt
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A form of merchanting that still survives to this day, eyes of newts can be a very good source of profit for all levels; in fact, players can do it with the 25 coins they receive at the beginning of the game. 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 3 coins each, players can make a huge profit of up to 24 times the gold they spent! Players may purchase them in the Port Sarim Magic Shop then banking 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 run energy. Repeat this process then sell them all at the Grand Exchange for 73 coins each. Money gained by doing this can be used to buy more eyes of newts, so players can essentially never lose money doing this.

However, this method was soon spread and the price of each eye of newt went down to around 50 coins. This makes it not as profitable.


 * Members may buy eyes of newt in Taverly and either run to Falador, Burthorpe, or by having using their Player-owned house.

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 The silk can then be sold at the Grand Exchange for coins, 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 work on a skill that can be "trained" close to these spots, such as fishing and 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).

Making money via non-member skills
(note: Some of these guides have a very small list of things for non-members.)

Cooking

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

Combat

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

Crafting

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

Firemaking

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

Fishing

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

Magic

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

Merchanting

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

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

Smithing

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

Woodcutting

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

Miscellaneous

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

Dragon Bones and Hide
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Members with a good combat level (At least 70 or up), good armor, and a good weapon can go to the Chaos Tunnels to kill Green Dragons. Don't forget a Anti-Dragon Shield or a Dragonfire Shield. Good food (Tuna and above) is recommended. The entrance closest to the Green Dragons is right behind the Grand Exchange. Just go under the tunnel north-west of the Grand Exchange (Need 21 Agility) and walk North-East until you find a rift.

Once inside, run to the south-east portal and you should be teleported into a area full of Green Dragons and Baby Black Dragons. Start attacking the Green Dragons. The Baby Black Dragons will attack you but you can run behind the Green Dragon you are killing to prevent the Baby Black Dragons from attacking you.

When a Green Dragon dies, pick up the Dragon Bones and Green Dragonhide. You can also pick up some loot worth more than the Dragon Bones and Green Dragonhide (Rune Dagger, Clue Scrolls, etc). When you have a full inventory, head back to the portal where you came from and climb up the exit. Then run back to the Grand Exchange and sell the loot for more than 1,500 GP each.

Flax
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Members with a crafting level of 10 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).

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 sell them on the Grand Exchange for coins each; almost doubling the amount of money you started with.

Alternatively you can pick your own flax from the flax field in Seer's Village and spin the flax in the spinning wheel located north west of the flax field. With this method you can make potentially make 5.3k per inventory at coins each.

Another option is to use the flax gathered by your subjects from Miscellania. With 10 workers and a 100% approval rating, you will receive 1250 flax per day. If you spin them all and sell them on the Grand Exchange for coins each; you will receive around 230k. Remember that you must pay your subjects daily. For an explanation of how this works, please refer to the Notable features of this guide.

Plank Making
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This method works for regular logs, oak logs, teak logs and mahogany logs. Players may either cut these logs themselves or buy them. Using the chart below, take the required amount of money and logs to the sawmill operator, and get them converted into planks. It is advised to bank the planks in the east Varrock bank, then run back with the correct materials again and repeat the process. Once done, players can sell the planks at the Grand Exchange. Note that players will make much more money by cutting the logs themselves, rather than buying them.

The following image shows the price for the logs, cost to make them and the price for the planks.

Raw Bird Meat
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Players must have completed As a first resort to use this method. Jump into the spa baths and get infinite run for 20 minutes. Get all weight to 0 and have just money. Run to chargurr and buy raw bird meat for 17 coins each. Run raw bird meat from chargurr to the bank and back again until you have enough. Sell all of them on the grand exchange for coins. Its possible to run 4 thousand raw bird meat from chargurr to the bank per hour making about 250,000 coins.

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 Cooking Guild 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, Zanaris, the Rogue's Den fire, or the range in the Crafting Guild. (Warning, there are large amounts of soda ash in the Grand Exchange)

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 by 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, teleport to the castlewars arena. Once there, withdraw 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 and 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 dueling 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.

Another option is to teleport to East Ardougne and go to the General store and buy an full inventory of water-filled vials. Bank and repeat. Then sell at G.E. It's much faster than the Taverley/Camelot way. You save time, run energy and runes, and possibly get more money. The best way to get to the grand exchange from the store in east Ardougne is to complete the tree gnome village quest. Use the spirit tree just outside of the city to teleport to the center of tree gnome village. Then use that tree to teleport to the Grand Exchange. It saves time, money and requires no runes.

Possibly the best (and cheapest) method is buying filled vials from Sigmund the Merchant in Relekka and then using Peer the Seer close by to deposit the vials into your bank. The vials cost 10gp each and sell for around 80-85gp making about 1890gp profit per trip. To utilize this method, a player must have Fremennik Sea Boots 1 equipped, money in their inventory and anything to reduce weight such as penance gloves or spotted cape

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 14,400 (as of 26th Nov 08) 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.

Nowadays, buying 50 rune arrows from Ticket Merchant is not encouraged. Rather, sell the tickets directly to to Grand Exchange where you can get more profit.

Unicorn Horns(M)
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You can collect unicorn horns which sell in Grand Exchange for coins.

Unicorns can be found in Catherby, south of Varrock East Bank, and above the Barbarian Village. These unicorns are level 14, and there are only two (2) unicorns per location, therefore many players prefer killing the Black unicorns in the Wilderness. Black Unicorns are level 27, and therefore are stronger than white unicorns. Don't waste your time killing the Black unicorn foal because they do not drop horns. Other drops from black unicorns include charms, coins, and bones.

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. They can also use fairy ring code: D J P for fast banking.

Candle Merchanting
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Candle merchanting is a very slow process. First go to Catherby fishing village right below Camelot. Head over to the candle shop with 3,000 coins, then buy 27 candles and bank them. Repeat until you have spent all of your money. You should have about 1,000 candles. Now go to the Grand Exchange and sell them for coins each.

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(M)
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Jungle Spiders drop Spider Carcasses, which can be sold on the Grand Exchange for coins. A player can simply gather the carcasses in his or her inventory after killing the spiders, drop them off at the bank, and repeat the process. By far the closest spiders to a bank are the ones right next to the eastern part of Shilo Village. Another great way is to pay the fare for a cart ride from Vigroy to Brimhaven, kill the spiders, and then when inventory is full, ride with Hajedy back to Shilo Village. The fare is 10gp. The spiders east of Yanille are also a good option. Items can be banked from Tai Bwo Wannai by using Trading sticks with Rionasta to ship items for you.

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. There is another respawn point on waterbirth island with six snape grass respawns. The nearest bank is on miscellania not seers village as most people think, just simply ride the boat there. This method is highly recommended but you must have completed The Fremenik trials quest.

If you are a member and choose the hobgoblin peninsula 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 Island, collect the snape grass, then teleport to moonclan to bank, making about 250k/hr if selling on the GE.
 * Disadvantage - Teleport requires Astral Runes, which take a while to purchase on the G.E. Hint: purchase runes prior.

If you have an Explorer's Ring, you can cut the travel time to and from the eastern Falador bank by half. Just teleport from the Snape Grass Peninsula to the Cabbage Patch, then run to the bank. After banking, teleport to the Cabbage Patch again, then run to the peninsula.

Cloth Run (M)
Rating: Bolts of Cloth can be bought at the Varrock sawmill, banked in the most eastern of Varrock's banks, and sold on the Grand Exchange for 850 coins each. Doing so will give a profit of approximately 2,700 coins per minute, high agility level and light to no armor are recommended due to running distance. Also equipment that lowers the weight (Boots of lightness, Spotted Cape of Spottier cape etc.) will help a lot. Pack animals are also recommended. You can also do the quest: Enlightened Journey to have easy access to the sawmill and the air balloons unlocked in the quest.

Cat Giver(M)
Rating: This is very easy to do provided that you have completed Biohazard, and Gertrude's Cat. Once you complete both of these make sure you have at least 15k. Go to Varrock and then to Gertrude, make sure you have 100 GP with you and buy a kitten. Once you get your kitten drop it, when you drop it this will let it grow. Walk over to a bank in Varrock and pull out 15k. When you pull this out walk over to the Grand Exchange and buy 7k worth of sardines and 7k worth of milk, with the remaining 1k GP you will use that on an Ardougne Teletab. Now you have the easy part finished, this next part includes a whole lot of patience. Drop your kitten and feed it only when the hunger gets to 40% or more, Leave it out while you are doing whatever you are doing. Make sure you stroke it every thirty minutes and take it rat catching at least ten minutes a day. When it grows into a cat give it some milk and stroke it. Leave it out as you won’t need any food anymore just give it attention. Do this until it grows into a overgrown cat, reward it with milk and a stroke, put this in your bank and then repeat the process over again until you have twenty seven overgrown cats. Teleport to East Ardougne using your Teletab and then walk on over to West Ardougne, once here go to a citizen and use the cat on him or her and then you get 100 death runes. Repeat until all your cats are gone. Voila! You just made about 28,400gp worth of death runes! You can now sell them and make a good sum of money!

Note: You can simplify this process by only feeding the kitten and giving it attention. A grown cat needs nothing to keep it from running away. Feeding at 85% will also decrease food costs, but beware, after this mark the hunger seems to increase much faster.

Sinew making
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To make sinew simply choose "make sinew" when using raw beef on a range/fire. The sinew sell for about 100-130gp each on the Grand Exchange. There are three ways of getting beef (listed below). After you get the beef and bank it, find a range or light a fire near a bank, and then use the beef with the range/fire.

Note making sinew has a small risk of burning the beef

Ways of getting beef:
Cheap way This method is very simple but requires an area to be unlocked. Its profit is only 8gp less then the "long way" (below):

To use this method first you must have access to Canifis or Chargurr (Chargurr is located in the city of Oo'glog). Buy beef from any of these two locations for only 8gp and then bank it. This will result of a profit of about 100-110gp (120-8=112).

Easy way This method is the easiest but will make only half the profit of the other two:

Simply buy the beef on the Grand Exchange and bank it. This will yield a small profit of only about 50gp because beef on the GE cost about 60-70gp(120-70= about 50).

Long way This method makes the largest profit but takes A LOT of time:

Just kill cows and bank their beef. The recommended place is the the "Lumbridge gnomecopter cow field" because there is a deposit box in the gnome copter area. (This area has many trees and oaks so you could bring and axe and tinderbox and make sinew on the spot and then deposit it. This method will make a total profit of 100-120gp (not including expense on weapons and/or axe and tinder box)

Desert Goat Horns
50+ combat recommended. Get about 800gp and some waterskins(4),take desert carpets to Nardah and kill desert goats and pick up the horns and bank in Nardah. Use pestle and mortar to get desert goat horn dust. They sell for about 100gp each. They usually sell instantly. This can make 4k an hour. Warning! This is in the desert, you have a chance to die.

It is better to sell the horns while they are still horns and not powder because they sell for 650.

White gloves
First the player must have reached the adept ranking in order for this to work. Boots of lightness,spotted or spottier cape,high agility level, and penance gloves are highly recommended.This method may seem long and slow, but it is very rewarding at the end. Talk to Sir Vyvin in the white knights castle. Now buy as many gloves as you can for 6 coins each, once you're done deposit the gloves into the bank and withdraw 168 coins. After you have as many gloves as you want, sell them in the Grand Exchange for 206gp. With 168 coins the player can buy a full inventory of 28 gloves which allows for more profit. An inventory of 28 gloves sold for 206 coins in the Grand Exchange will profit the player with 5,768 coins.

White berries
Rating: This way can be dangerous, so if you are taking any items you are not prepared to lose, bank them. It is recomended that you use a games necklace and an anti-dragonfire shield. First, go to Bounty Hunter, bank everything and clear your inventory. Then head to the red dragon isle. When you get to the gate, go south. Here you will see white berries on the ground. Pick the berries (they respawn every 5-6 seconds). When you get a full inventory, enter a cave west of the chaos dwarf camp and tele to Bounty Hunter. If you do not have one, you will have to walk back the way you came. Bank the white berries at Bounty Hunter and repeat as many times as desired. Each inventory full is about 18,700gp to 20,300.Each trip is about from 5 to 8 minutes.It takes 5 trips to get 95k. Another respawn of white berries is located west of Lletya.

Climbing boots
Rating: This is a very efficient but tedious way of making money. The player goes to Tenzing and repeatedly asks for climbing boots. Each pair of climbing boots costs the player 12 gp, so an effective thing to do is take 336 gp with nothing else in your inventory. When the player has a full inventory of climbing boots, he/she can use a combat bracelet to teleport to the Warrior's Guild to bank or he/she can use a games necklace to teleport to the Burthorpe Games Room and then run to the Rogue's Den minigame to bank. This method requires the player to have completed Death Plateau up to the point where the player can buy Climbing boots, as well as have the required stats to enter the Warrior's Guild if they want to bank there(faster than banking at Rogue's Den). Climbing boots sell for 529 gp on the Grand Exchange, therefore a full inventory(28) makes about 14,000 gp. It only takes 4-5 minutes to get the 28 boots, bank them, and return to Tenzing(while wearing boots of lightness and spotted cape). That means that the player can make about 170,000 gp in an hour. It gets tedious going through the same conversation with Tenzing 28 times(although it only takes 2-3 minutes) to get to full inventory and this method doesn't offer any experience in any skill.

Culinaromancer's Chest
Rating: This is a very good way of making money, as it requires no running or fighting and it also gives good profits, All that must be done it to buy food items such as cheese, cooking apple,chocolate and also the grapes. Then go to the grand exchange and sell. All that must be done is part of the Recipe For Disaster quest (all of the quest would be better as it gives more food items to buy). This can give profits around 100k to 230k an hour. for this to be profitable you must do all of Recipe For Disaster.

Aviansies
Rating: Aviansies are a very good way of making money. 75+ range and 65+ def or 40+ prayer is recommended as the Aviansies cannot be fought in melee, not even with an Ivandis Flail or halberd. Ranged is recommended as magic is not very cost effective. Players using protection prayer should use a Saradomin Mitre or Zamorak Mitre while wearing an Armadyl pendant,Monk's robe (top), Black D'hide Chaps, Climbing Boots, and Ava's accumulator.

The prayer option's main set up is mithril bolts or broad-tipped bolts(55 slayer required) and rune c'bow, black d'hide vambs, zamorak or saradomin book opposite of mitre god, and ring of wealth, Armadyl pendant using the protect from range prayer needing prayer pots or super restores.

Higher defence players should use the tank method to kill them. Torag's helm, Torag's platelegs, saradomin or zamorak d'hide body, opposite god for the vambraces to the d'hide body saradomin or zamorak and granite shield or obby shield. Their drops are very good with 4 noted adamantite bars which are  per bar and also runite limbs and rune daggers (p+) the limbs and dagger should be alched. Bones to peaches and sharks are recommended. It is recommended that the player does not pick up the feathers as they are not worth much. They also drop level 3 Clue scrolls.

A more expensive yet more efficient setup is using dragonfire shield, armadyl helmet, dragon platelegs, amulet of fury, Saradomin/Zamorak d'hide, Saradomin/Zamorak bracers, bandos/ranger boots. This setup allows the player to stay there as long as they want, with respect to the amount of bolts and bones to peaches tablets they bring, due to the non-degrading armor. Substitutes, such as dragon plateskirt, amulet of glory, and granite shield, work well for those with a smaller amount of coins. - This will get you 250k-300k an hour

note:if you do not wear the armour of the follower you will be piled by the followers

Ankous
Rating: Ankou's combat level is 86 and they are located in the 4th/bottom level of the Stronghold of Security. Most people that do this are level 85+ combat. Barrows armour and/or food is recommended. These are good experience and have very good drops; Mithril ore, battlestaves, death runes, blood runes, pure essence, level 3 clue scrolls etc. There are multiple rooms of ankou, along with some halberd- and range-friendly safe spots. There is a possibility of making 134-160k a trip. A salve amulet or salve amulet(e) would be quite helpful here.

Snake Skins
Must have finished Cabin Fever and have a decent weapon and armor. Travel to Mos Le'Harmless. Bank everything except 1 piece of food, (preferably lobster+) and go to the east end of the island, just north of Trouble Brewing. Kill the snakes there for thier hides. Then bank them in the deposit box at Trouble Brewing. Repeat as long as necessary. Hides sell for around 2k each in the Grand Exchange. Thats around 50k per load if you bring anti poison potions. Note: the snakes are poisonous, so it is a good idea to bring 1-3 anti poison potions. Also to cut down on time, play Trouble Brewing for awhile to rack up Pieces of Eight to be spent on rum, which gives you an instant teleport back to the snakes. Watch out for jungle horrors, as they follow you around and often make snake killing a rather tedious business.

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.

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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Law running
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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 Taverley dungeon for easy access to the Blue Dragon. This is called "farming". it consists of a BoB (Beast of Burden) and Falador teleport tabs. it can be extremely quick cash (300k+ an hour on good days, depending on familiar BoB) and provides decent training too.


 * In the God Wars Dungeon, at the tormented demons, and at the corporal beast, 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 dungeon, as well as read a strategy guide or two to start an efficient raiding party (it's much easier as a team, and impossible alone for some monsters). Note, it is extremely dangerous in there so bring food (sharks and up recommended).


 * In the grand Exchange, there is a 4-hour penalty from re-selling or buying the same item again. Sell your items VERY carefully.

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