Money making guide

This money making guide provides players with a list of ideas that can help 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.

Rating scale
Different star ratings are relevant to how quickly and effectively money can be made, NOT the difficulty of making money. The more stars there are, the better the money-making scheme.

Somewhat slow and inconvenient. Only recommended for players with little money making experience and/or not possessing the required skills for better money making.

Good for players who need a little bit of cash in a small period of time. There are more effective methods for a long-term investment.

Solid for nearly all players.

Very effective if in need of earning the funds for items worth hundreds of thousands of coins, although higher skill levels are usually required.

The ultimate of money-making schemes. Most of these require investment, experience, and/or high skill levels.

Stronghold of Player Safety
Players can attempt the Stronghold of Player Safety between Barbarian Village and Edgeville in the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence. 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.

While it is tricky to navigate through the Stronghold of Player Safety, the rewards are great, and the high level monsters populating the area are not aggressive unless they are attacked. However, they drop large numbers of runes for players who choose to train on them. (For members, they mainly drop charms, seeds, and herbs.)

Stronghold of Security
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). 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 or the Fighting boots.

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.

Silk merchanting
Silk merchanting can be very slow: 4-5 pieces of silk is 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 should travel on the road east from Lumbridge, cross the bridge, and go through the toll gate (paying a toll of 10 coins). The road should 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). The silk can then be sold at the Grand Exchange for coins, at any general store, 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 do some fishing or mining between trips to the store. Three to four trips will net a beginner enough coins for buying a full set of Iron armour.

Potatoes
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 are coins each, and are in strong demand due to several member food items that can be prepared with them, as well as for stews in F2P cooking. The fastest location (in F2P worlds) is within the potato farm just to the east of Draynor Village. The potatoes can be brought to the bank in Draynor Village.

Cheese
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 them on the Grand Exchange for coins each, making a modest profit from just a few coins. The player can buy large quantities quickly from the grocer, so the main drawback is having to run back and forth from Port Sarim to the bank in Draynor Village. The player can make about 5-8 trips per hour, assuming that the player leave all of the player’s equipment in the bank and only bring coins to purchase the cheese. If the player brings precisely 224 coins on each trip, the player can purchase a full 28 slices of cheese, maximizing the player profit.

Potatoes (members)
Members can earn money even faster by bringing empty sacks to the potato fields and harvesting the potatoes and filling them while in the field, then selling the sacks of potatoes. Sacks of potatoes are fixed at 10 times the price of individual potatoes (by Jagex), but are used as a payment option in farming and a few other areas in member areas.

It is possible to collect some potato seeds in this fashion if players want to start farming for the first time (for free), as about 1 in 10 potatoes that a player harvests on member servers will provide a seed. The seeds are "stackable", therefore it is unnecessary to keep running to the bank as often, if a player collects several potato seeds. Bringing 24 empty sacks (purchased on the Grand Exchange, or from Farming stores) while harvesting will allow a player to fill and sell the sacks for 0 coins with about an hour's worth of work and requires no skills of any kind, including farming.

Dyes
Harvesting onions and redberries can give some modest profit as well, but by far and way more profitable is to make dyes from these items. For only 5 coins (even on F2P worlds), the player can trade 2 onions for yellow dyes, or 3 redberries for red dyes. These can in turn be sold on the Grand Exchange for coins each for yellow dye, or  coins for red dye. These would have sold for more, but Jagex has imposed a price ceiling on dyes of all colors, where demand has far outstripped supply.

Cowhides and leather
Killing cows and collecting their cowhides is a great beginner method of making money, as cowhides sell for coins each in the Grand Exchange. A good place for gathering cowhides would be around the Gnomecopters in Lumbridge, due to availability of a deposit box within the area.

These cowhides can be brought to Ellis in Al Kharid to be tanned into leather or hardleather, which would increase the price from coins, to  coins or  coins, respectively.

Wine of Zamorak
These are mabye the best possible way of making a fortune for F2P. At roughly 800gp each, selling one full inventory can make a great fortune for beginners. Wine of Zamoraks are found at the chaos temple noth of the goblin village, and are protected by Monks of Zamorak. It is fairly difficult to obtain for two reasons: a spell would be cast on you if you touched the wine with bare hands, greatly reducing combat stats; and if monks are around, they would attack you regardless of your combat level.

Recommended ways of obtaining the wine would be to ues the tele-grab spell on the wine, or by finishing off every monk.

Making money via skills
Note: Some methods of money making may only be available to members, even if these involve free-to-play skills.

Agility (members)

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

Crafting (members)

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

Construction (members)

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

Farming (members)

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

Firemaking (members)

 * 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.

Fletching (members)

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

Hunter (members)

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

Magic

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

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.

Slayer (members)

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

Smithing

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

Summoning (members)

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

Thieving (members)

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

Woodcutting

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

Combat

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

Merchanting

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

Miscellaneous

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

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 1-5, etc.) is the busiest trading centre for both free players and members.