Pay-to-play Woodcutting training

Members' guide to training Woodcutting.

Level 1 through 15
Players can cut normal trees. There are many in the forest between Lumbridge and Draynor Village, and south of Falador. Players should find a Woodcutting location within short distance of a bank, where their logs can be stored safely until they're used or sold. Uses for logs include Fletching, Firemaking, and selling. A good place for Woodcutting is south of the Grand Exchange in Varrock, as the area is abundant with trees, and players can quickly bank or sell their logs at the exchange.

Good Experience - Regular trees (1-30)
Players can still get decent experience out of ordinary trees, but it is strongly recommended that they move on to Oak trees, mainly because they give multiple logs per tree and gives more experience per log cut.

Fast Experience - Oaks (15-30)
Players can cut Oak trees. A good spot is east of Draynor Village's bank. Low-level players should be careful, as level 26 Jail guards patrol here. The area west of Varrock's west bank is a good choice for low-level players. It is next to a bank. South of the bank in Seers' Village is also a good pick. Multiple oak trees grow around the bank in the Tree Gnome Stronghold.

Cutting oak trees is better experience than cutting willow trees, as it gives more experience per hour than willows and gives almost 4x the money than willow.

Fast experience - Willows (30)
Willow trees are a good source of experience at lower woodcutting levels. Good places for chopping them include Barbarian Outpost, north of the bank in Seers' Village, west of Catherby near the yew trees, Rimmington (after gaining access to the deposit box there during Rocking Out), and Draynor Village.

Willow trees, while decent at low and medium levels, quickly become outclassed once faster methods are available at higher levels.

Fastest experience - Teak (35)
Teaks are the fastest but most demanding experience for any member once he or she has at least level 35 Woodcutting. They have been proven to be up to 90,000 to 100,000 Woodcutting experience per hour at 99 Woodcutting, and they are faster than Willows and Ivy at any Woodcutting level.

Unfortunately, these trees are found in only a few places in RuneScape. A recommended area is the Hardwood Grove in Tai Bwo Wannai, which costs 100 trading sticks to enter. To bank, players must leave the grove and send the logs by Rionasta. It costs 10 trading sticks for each item you send. If the player does not wish to spend the trading sticks, they must drop the logs or bring a tinderbox to burn them.

Players who wish to bank the logs or do not want to pay should go to the tree south-west of Castle Wars. To minimise banking time, players can bring a Ring of Duelling to teleport back to the Castle Wars bank. However, banking the logs will give noticeably less experience per hour, so it is better to simply drop the logs if one is looking for fast experience. Using Mouse keys to drop the logs works very well here, giving the fastest experience per hour.

Three more Teak trees can be found on Ape Atoll, but to cut these, a greegree is vital. Otherwise, players will be attacked by poisonous creatures. The Teaks on Ape Atoll are extremely far from a bank, so it is advised to only cut these for experience. As a monkey cutting Teaks in Ape Atoll, a player cannot receive any random events other than the Bird nest random event.

The absolute best way to cut them is to wait until 5 or so logs have been cut, then drop a log as soon as a new one appears in the inventory, then quickly re-click the tree. This means there will be no delay in cutting, and the next log will appear at the same time as it would if you had not dropped anything. This allows for the best Woodcutting experience possible, faster than dropping a whole inventory. However, the disadvantages are that it requires full attention and that banking must be done every once in a while as your inventory will become full of nests.

Another uncommonly used, but very fast way to avoid the dropping process at the hardwood grove is to bring a friend who is looking for firemaking or fletching experience. A player would trade their cut logs to a friends, and their friend would either burn or fletch them. This allows for fast cutting experience for the player, and free experience for his or her friend.

Slow experience - Maple (45)
At level 45, players can cut maple trees. Maple trees are slow for experience with very little profit and should not be considered an efficient training method; avoid them. The Seers' headband 2 gives a 10% xp boost to maple logs, but even with the bonus they are not worth chopping.

Players seeking firemaking experience should turn instead to teaks or willows.

Fast Experience - Arctic pine (54)
At level 54, players will be able to cut arctic pines. To cut arctic pines, a player must have completed The Fremennik Isles to the point at which they have access to Neitiznot. Once on Neitiznot, go northwest of the bank to the Agility obstacle. You will see a pile of logs, a Woodcutting stump and a few Arctic pines. First, cut the trees, which provide 140.2 experience per log, then go to the woodcutting stump and create split logs, giving another 42.5 experience, and then dump them all in the pile of logs. Players may repeat this process for as much experience as they like. If you prefer to make money at the expense of some experience, you may bank the logs. Do not split the logs. The logs sell for coins in the Grand Exchange, making  coins per load.

Fast Money Making - Mahogany logs (50)
A lesser known money maker is cutting mahogany logs. Mahogany logs have a price of on the Grand Exchange due to the demand for them in Construction and, through the Plank Make spell, Magic. Mahogany trees are located in most of the same areas as teaks, but don't give as much experience as teaks.

Fast experience and cash - Eucalyptus (58)
Eucalyptus trees are probably the most underrated tree in RuneScape, requiring level 58 Woodcutting. Not only can players earn 120,000 coins per hour, but they can also get over 55,000 experience an hour. The best place to cut these is near Mobilising Armies, which also contains the bank. Without any bonuses, it takes ~77,637 eucalyptus logs to get to 99 Woodcutting from 58. This makes somewhere around the area of 31 million coins in that time.

Money Making & Medium Experience - Yews (60)
At level 60, players can cut yew trees. Yew logs are consistently valuable; however, they're slow to obtain. Despite their popularity as a training method and moneymaker, chopping yew trees is a relatively poor source of experience and a very slow moneymaker. For comparison, at 99 woodcutting, yews are usually slightly worse for profit than picking flax in the field south of Seers' Village.

Eucalyptus, teak, ivy, arctic pine, and sawmill training are all more efficient choices than yews.

For those who wish to chop them anyway, there are good spots behind Varrock Palace, a bit west of Catherby, and by the entrance of Edgeville Dungeon; however, these places can be quite crowded. There are four yews west of Rimmington, but they are a long distance from a bank. A good way to bank these is either through the Cabbageport teleport or by using a Ring of duelling and a house teleport to bank in Castle Wars and grab the runes needed to teleport to the Rimmington house portal, a mere 5 steps away. There are three yew trees south of the Falador east bank which can be a good spot considering it's not crowded often, and 4 west of Draynor Village. There is a good spot in the Tree Gnome Stronghold, which has 3 trees close to a bank, and if you go to the very South-West corner there are 4 trees reasonably close to each other. If you have the farming level to plant a yew tree, there is a tree patch there that can be used.

Fast Experience - Chopping Ivy (68)
Ivy requires 68 Woodcutting to cut. Since the recent woodcutting update, chopping ivy is now one of the quickest and easiest ways to earn Woodcutting experience. Just like trees, ivy contains a certain amount of it that can be cut before it is depleted, so the more people around the faster it is depleted. Finding an unpopulated spot is recommended for the fastest training. Cutting ivy does not fill your inventory with any items or logs except for a slight chance of a bird's nest. Cutting ivy can yield up to 75,000 to 80,000 experience per hour at 99 Woodcutting. One ivy gives you 332.5 Woodcutting experience.

However, ivy is not a good money-maker, so it is this deterrent that sets it apart from most other Woodcutting trees/plants. But there is a slight chance of bird's nest while cutting ivy.

A recommended place to use this method is behind Varrock Palace because if all the ivy respawns are chopped down the yew trees could be used for extra experience and cash, or near the sewer entrance in Varrock because there the tree seeds from the nests can be immediately farmed. Also the Castle Wars ivy is recommended because there are 7 ivy plants, but you have no extra activities available there. If there is more than one person at ivy, consider going somewhere else, such as Yanille. Yanille is helpful as there is a bank nearby; There is also a possible Evil Tree spot really close.

As you will receive no items besides the bird's nests, it's advised to bring a strung rabbit foot while cutting to increase the chance of a bird's nest.

Fastest Experience - Sawmill training (80)
Sawmill training is a very efficient means of gaining fast Woodcutting experience for the more advanced woodcutter (level 80 needed). It gives about 90,000 experience per hour when wielding a crystal saw (completion of The Eyes of Glouphrie), or about 12,000 experience per task. Sawmill training is faster experience than chopping ivy.

Hatchets for the job
Trading up to the best hatchet you can use is one part of fast woodcutting. If you have the necessary attack level you can wield the hatchet, freeing a valuable inventory slot. Selling your logs should easily pay for all but the dragon hatchet, which may take up to level 75 to reach just by selling your logs.

Experience per Hour
Choking Ivy Experience Per Hour by level

68 - 55k

80 - 68k

85 - 75k

90 - 80k

95 - 85k

99 - 90k

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Tips

 * Those with level 33 Summoning can summon a beaver, which provides an invisible 2 extra Woodcutting levels.
 * Wear a Strung rabbit foot to increase the chance of finding Bird's nests.
 * Lumberjack clothing obtained from Temple Trekking gives a total of +2.5% Woodcutting experience.
 * Always wield the hatchet, if possible (excluding ivy).
 * Wear Brawling gloves (woodcutting) for more experience.
 * Look for trees near banks, such as yews behind Varrock castle.
 * Another alright training method is in the Defender of Varrock quest, when you are defending the castle from the Zombies, you can cut yews here without any interference from other players.