Free-to-play Woodcutting training

Woodcutting in F2P revolves around three main concepts: cutting yews for money, cutting willows for experience or training to level 30 in order to be able to cut down willows. Woodcutting is not as tedious to train compared to some other skills, as locations for tree cutting are diverse and experience is amassed quickly. However, like all other skills, one must have a certain amount of patience to train this skill as F2P Woodcutting usually ranges around 30k-50k experience per hour at max. This skill has become a popular skill for new players. The skill requires different hatchets for faster experience but using a bronze hatchet will still cut down a tree but only at a slower pace.

Hatchets
Different hatchets are available to cut trees for F2P players, ranging from bronze to rune. Always use the best hatchet you can.

Level 1-15
Regular trees can be cut. There are many trees in the forest between Lumbridge and Draynor Village, and south of Falador. It is advised that players find a spot within a short distance from a bank or general store so they can bank or sell their logs. If you are looking to get another skill up as well, banked logs can be later be used to train Firemaking. A particularly good place for this is south of the Grand Exchange, as the area is abundant with trees and players can quickly bank or sell their logs at the Exchange. You need 97 regular logs, yielding a total of 2425 experience points, to reach level 15.

Level 15-31
Oak trees can be cut. The locations are:
 * East of Draynor Village's bank. Low level players should be careful here, as level 26 Jail Guards patrol the area and will attack if they get close to you.
 * West of Varrock near the west bank watch tower is a good choice for lower levelled players. It is right next to a bank, so players can chop, bank, and then sell the logs.
 * South-west of Varrock is ideal because it is right by the Grand Exchange.


 * North-west of Lumbridge.
 * Between Falador and Draynor Manor (near the wall) -- Only recommended if you are going to either drop the logs or use them to train Firemaking

You must cut 332 oak logs, yielding 12450 experience points, to reach level 31.

Level 31-41
Players would need to decide on cutting willow trees or oak trees, willow giving more experience but oak worth more in coins and may be cut more quickly. It is recommended to cut oak trees and to avoid willows if the player has no access to adamant

hatchets or above.

It is recommended that you chop willows by the Grand Exchange, east of the River Lum, and the building to the west of the Exchange. Update one of the west and one on the east. West side has a bank and a store near it.

Willow trees can be cut here:

Willow Tree Locations (with Banking)


 * Beside Draynor Village, as there are five willow trees there and a bank for quick easy banking. (It is usually crowded at that spot, but picking an empty server should lessen the amount of people.
 * Northeast Port Sarim, right next to the Rusty Anchor bar. There is a bank deposit box just south of there near the Entrana boats.

Willow Tree Locations (without banking. IE Drop) If banking is not desired, there are other good willow tree spots at:


 * Northwest of the Crafting Guild, which contains a fairly large grove of willow trees that are rarely populated.
 * South of Rimmington (by the altar behind the jail)
 * South of Varrock West of Dark Wizard circle. Generally uncrowded.
 * West of Lumbridge there are many around a little lake. Generally uncrowded.

Willow Tree Locations (with General Store) Another good way to train Woodcutting with willows is by selling them to a general store either in Willow Tree Locations (with Firemaking) If one would like train Firemaking and Woodcutting simultaneously they can cut a full inventory and then burn all their logs and repeat.
 * Lumbridge (use the trees by the River Lum east of the Lumbridge general store, and sell to the general store nearby)
 * Rimmington (cut the willows to the south-east of the town and sell to the general store).
 * West of Lumbridge around the little lake there are many willow trees. For firemaking run to the west wall of Fred the Farmer's chicken pen and start lighting logs.
 * West and South west of Port Sarim there are plenty of willow trees to cut and burn.

Note: After you sell the logs to the store, drop the money earned from it. It is usually not much more than 300 coins per inventory and is not a good way to make money. Or, you can just drop your logs, people will come pick it up, and sell it for easy money.

If you cut oaks, you must cut 703 oak logs, yielding 26362.5 experience points to reach level 41.

SOME TIDY UP REQUIRED - A bigger list can be found in willow trees

Level 45-99
Maple trees can be cut with 30 Dungeoneering. The only maple trees for F2P can be found in the resource dungeon found on the Daemonheim peninsula. In the same resource dungeon there are also many willow trees. Maple trees give more experience per log (100Xp) than willows, but less than Yews. However they are much faster than yews making them a good choice for fast experience. They are also more valuable than willow logs as they are often bought to train firemaking. One could run back and forth from the dungeon to the bank at the entrance of daemonheim, they could bank at Fist of Guthix or they could simply drop their logs. In an experiment, it is found that banking in daemonheim is faster than burning. It takes about 1 minute 35 seconds to burn the logs just outside the resource dungeon. It takes about 1 minute 07 seconds to teleport to daemonheim, bank, and run back. Burning is still preferred because you get both woodcutting and firemaking experience in a 30 second travel difference.

Level 41-99
Willow trees can be cut. While it takes a long time until players can start cutting yew trees, it is recommended they stay with willows even after level 60 as the logs are cut at a quicker rate and with greater experience compared to other trees. It is also recommended to start using a rune hatchet right as you hit level 41.

To get to level 99 with willow logs, you must cut 192,493 willow logs, yielding 12,993,277.5 experience points. This is the quickest way to get 99 woodcutting in F2P.

Rimmington has another great spot to cut willows, just south of the general store. It contains 5 trees close to each other, and is almost always as empty as the spot mentioned above. The advantage is the distance to the general store, making it very easy to dispose of your logs. Remember though, this spot is slowly getting more popular, and on crowded worlds, there could be around 5-6 people here. It's still faster than Draynor though. Another popular location is a few feet south of Draynor bank. In an experiment, it took 3 minutes and 23 seconds to travel from the Draynor bank, South to the willows, to a full inventory of logs, back to the Draynor bank. It took 3 minutes and 13 seconds to travel from the Draynor bank, NE to a lake area with willows, to a full inventory of logs, back to the Draynor bank. The first choice, although further from the bank, is much more straightforward (just clicking on trees) than the latter, but is so populated that you may find yourself struggling to get a 3:1 logs/tree clicked ratio.

If you don't want to bank your logs or sell them, but instead set them on fire, there's a whole forest of willow trees south of Port Sarim that is usually empty of players. Additionally, you can chop willows directly north of the Crafting Guild, by the Hobgoblin Peninsula.

It is not recommended to cut yews until level 80 unless you wish to make money.

Edgeville also has another great spot with 2 yew trees close to a bank so you can deposit yew logs there.

Level 80-99
At level 80, players can cut yew trees at a decent rate. Keep in mind that the reason players should not start cutting yews at level 60 is because of the extremely slow rate at which the logs are obtained. Cutting yews at this level is one of the best means of obtaining wealth by skilling for free players.

There are three yew trees behind Varrock Palace, one at the graveyard of Lumbridge and two by the entrance of Edgeville Dungeon, however these places can be quite crowded. There are four yew trees west of Rimmington, but they are a long distance from a bank.

A good way to bank these is through the Cabbage port teleport system, provided by the Explorer's ring 3. There are three yew trees south of the Falador east bank and four west of Draynor Village. You must now cut 63,134 yew logs from level 80 to reach level 99. (11,048,450 experience points)

A great spot to quickly train your Woodcutting and bank your yew logs is near the cabbage patch field.

A still alternative method is woodcutting willows. They are arguably the best F2P Woodcutting experience. Locations for willows are located in Draynor, by bodies of water, and south/west of Rimmington. If you are of a high combat level, players may also chop willows in the Draynor area in PvP worlds.

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