Sawmill training

Sawmill training is a members-only feature available to train woodcutting. It was released with the Woodcutting rebalance on the 23 September 2009, along with the Ivy feature. The area for this type of training is located south of the Sawmill

It can be used by any player with a minimum woodcutting level of 80. It provides easy and relatively fast experience, but no material rewards such as logs. When entering the Sawmill, the player must fist talk to Jill, who will tell the player to take a job from the job list.

Getting started
Getting there:
 * Balloon transport system puts the player just south of the Sawmill.
 * Ring of duelling to Fist of Guthix, and walk southeast.
 * Walk from Varrock.

Items needed:


 * Saw (optional, there's a crate full of saws near the entrance)


 * or Crystal saw (again optional, however it grants faster cutting and double Woodcutting experience.)

Once there, the player has to talk to the Overseer and offer to help. The player will then be told to take one of the jobs. Inside the play area, there is a notice sheet of jobs to the left of the door (it may be hard to see at first). When looked at, the player can choose between two jobs, a quick job, or a large job. The bulk of experience comes at the completion of the job.


 * Quick jobs are faster, but give only 4500 exp when completed.
 * Large jobs give 9,000 experience, but take longer.

The amount of planks needed is shown in a small box at the top left corner of the screen when selecting a job and after choosing one.

First off, the player needs to take logs from the stack of logs from the west of the job area, and place them into the conveyor belt hopper, where each log is turned into two planks. A maximum of 63 logs can be placed in the hopper at any one time, meaning that the plank tray can hold up to 126 planks at once. A full inventory can be withdrawn in one click.

At the workbenches, cut the planks into the desired types of planks to fulfill your order. Note that making some plank types may be failed. After making the required number of each type of plank, the player can continue making them and removing the excess logs from the order, or leave them where they are.

None of the logs or planks can be taken out of the playing area. If a player attempts to, Jill will stop the player trying to leave, saying that they cannot leave with the sawmill wood in their inventory. The player is then asked to confirm leaving and losing all the planks in the inventory. If the player teleports out, she will confiscate them without a warning. Progress such as planks int he plank tray or planks already cut into specific types is not lost.

Tips

 * Number of plank types that need to be made, and the number already made can be seen by looking in the top-left corner of the screen.
 * Completed orders can then by given to Jill by right-clicking on her and selecting 'Finish job'.
 * There are no penalties for having excess planks of one type in the cart. It's optional to withdraw them and use them for the next order.
 * Using the Crystal saw in this minigame does not use any "charges". For the increased experience, it is worth completing the The Eyes of Glouphrie quest (requirements are 46 Magic, 5 Construction, and 25 Agility) to obtain this item.

Trivia

 * When first introduced, planks cut in the minigame were lost when a Random event occurred.
 * Fires cannot be lit in the minigame area, meaning a player cannot burn logs in the area at all.
 * At times, your task list will show when you are outside the sawmill.
 * If a player exceeds the limit for Small planks, most attempts to withdraw them results in the message "You can't carry that many", even if they have the inventory space to spare. The only way to withdraw them is by right clicking, hitting "Withdraw X", and typing in the desired number. Withdrawing them simply by clicking them still has yet to be fixed by Jagex.
 * Jill the NPC that finishes the orders, name is a pun to the story of Jack and Jill. Lumber Jack and Jill.
 * One of Jill's lines was missing an apostrophy, and was misspelled "youll".
 * After completing a job, a player may recieve a dialogue from her stating how they're doing well. When the player mentions pay, she laughs, and yells "Get back to work!". This may be a play on sweatshops, where workers get little to no pay, with apathetic bosses.
 * The circular saw in the minigame is made out of runite metal.