Free-to-play Woodcutting training

Woodcutting is a quick skill to train in free-to-play starting off as locations for cutting trees are numerous and experience gains are high. However, at higher levels since, Woodcutting takes more time, especially since free players have fewer kinds of trees and locations to choose from than members. Training typically ranges around 30k-55k experience per hour at the max. This skill is a popular choice for new players given the initial speed and ease of training combined with the decent profits from selling logs.

Equipment
A hatchet is the main tool required for Woodcutting. There are many different types of hatchets available to free players, ranging from bronze to rune. It is recommended that players add the best hatchet they can afford to their tool belt as a better hatchet improves woodcutting speed. Hatchets do not have to be wielded or in the tool belt to be used, although wielding one or adding it to the tool belt frees up an inventory space in a player's backpack. Hatchets can be wielded with the proper Attack level for the metal they are made of. A good first priority for free players is to reach level 41 allowing the use of a rune hatchet, the best hatchet available to free players.

Woodcutting urns are also useful for training Woodcutting in free-to-play. Urns provide bonus experience while training skills. While a player holds an urn in his inventory while training, the urn will collect 1 bonus experience point for each 5 experience points gained. Once full, the urn can be teleported to Ernie for bonus experience. There are three types of woodcutting urns available to free players: cracked, fragile, and normal. To use an urn, players must have the appropriate Crafting level; otherwise, the urn cannot be teleported once full.


 * A cracked woodcutting urn gives 160 bonus experience for 800 experience earned from cutting normal logs. Requires level 4 Crafting to use.
 * A fragile woodcutting urn gives 425 bonus experience for 2,125 experience earned from cutting normal, oak, or willow logs. Requires level 15 Crafting to use.
 * A woodcutting urn gives 825 bonus experience for 4,125 experience earned from cutting normal, oak, willow, or maple logs. Requires level 44 Crafting to use.

Trees
There are five types of trees available to free players to cut: normal, oak, willow, maple, and yew.

Leveling Guide
Before training Woodcutting, there are a few things to consider beforehand. Figure out what you want to do with the logs you cut. You can either drop, sell, or burn the logs you receive. If selling, find a bank close by or plan a quick banking route. If burning, either bank your logs to burn later (which also gives you the option to sell the logs later if you change your mind) or burn them once you have a full load. It's best to decide these things in advance as training Woodcutting is a great way to make money or train Firemaking at no cost to yourself.

Level 1-15 - Trees
The best way to get from level 1 to level 15 is by cutting trees, which give 25 experience for each log collected.
 * Starting experience - 0
 * Experience needed - 2411
 * Logs needed - 97 (2425 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =

Level 15-30 - Oak trees
At level 15, players should switch to cutting oak trees, which give 37.5 experience for each log collected. The locations to find oak trees are:
 * Starting experience - 2425
 * Experience needed - 10,938
 * Oak logs needed - 292 (10,950 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of oak logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =
 * East of Draynor Village's bank. Jail Guards no longer are aggressive so this is a good training spot for all levels.
 * East of Varrock. Near the watchtower is a good choice. It is right next to a bank, so players can chop and bank (Very crowded)
 * North-west of Varrock is ideal because it is right by the Grand Exchange.
 * On the doorstep of the entrance to Varrock, visible as soon as you come through the lodestone
 * North-west of Lumbridge (Either bank these logs or sell them to the nearby general store).
 * 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
 * South of the Burthorpe bank, slightly south of the Burthorpe lodestone. There are 2 oaks there, near a bank, where you can chop the trees and then bank immediately.

Level 30+ - Willow trees
At level 30, players can switch to cutting willow trees, which give 67.5 experience for each log collected.

If only cutting willows from level 30 to level 45: If only cutting willows from level 30 to level 60: If cutting willows from level 30 all the way to 99: For training purposes, willows trees are better to cut from level 30 onwards in F2P as they yield more experience than oak trees. Willows can also be cut very quickly and the trees respawn relatively fast, making them better for training than maples or yews. However, willow logs are hardly profitable, selling for only coins each as opposed to  coins for oak logs,  coins for maple logs, or  coins for yew logs.
 * Starting experience - 13,375
 * Experience needed - 48137
 * Willow logs needed - 714 (48195 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of willow logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =
 * Starting experience - 13,375
 * Experience needed - 260,415
 * Willow logs needed - 3858 (260,415)
 * Grand Exchange price of willow logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =
 * Starting experience - 13,375
 * Experience needed - 13,021,056
 * Willow logs needed - 192,905 (13,021,087.5 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of willow logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =

If looking at experience per hour, players should continue to cut oak trees until approximately level 65. (The average experience rate per hour for oak is higher than willow below level 65). It is recommended to cut oak trees and to avoid willow trees if the player is not using an adamant or rune hatchet yet.

The recommended place to cut willows in F2P is in Draynor Village just southwest of the bank. The short distance between the bank and the trees allow for fast banking of logs. However, due to the popularity of this spot, it can be crowded at times with other players also cutting willow trees.

Other locations for cutting willow trees are:

Willow Tree Locations (with Banking)
 * Draynor Village bank; most popular F2P spot for cutting willows. At any time, there should be an empty world to hop to in case of crowding.
 * East of Draynor Village; 7 Willow trees surrounding a small pond.
 * Port Sarim has 4 willow trees near the rocky fence separating it and Draynor Village. There is a deposit box near the boat to Entrana, beside the monks. Rarely used.

Willow Tree Locations (without banking (i.e. dropping)) 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.
 * South of Varrock South-West of the Dark Wizards. Generally Uncrowded.
 * Lumbridge North of the Chicken Coop. Every so often someone is there.
 * Daemonheim Peninsula resource dungeon (30 Dungeoneering Required) has plenty of empty willow trees in most worlds, and effectively might be the least used location for power training due to its requirement and that it is not well-known. You can also firemake logs here (see below.)

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. For money making, collect ashes. Alternatively, you can simply light a single fire and continue to add logs, but this is a slower method.
 * 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.
 * With Level 30 Dungeoneering, players can access a resource dungeon at the coast of Daemonheim, near the place where the boat from Al-Kharid left you off. After a full inventory, firemake the logs.
 * South Rimmington is also good for firemaking as well as dropping - walk a few spaces north and make a line beginning by going west along the top of the small shed which has a Customs Sergeant sleeping inside - a full line can be made, making this a perfect spot, as well as being extremely unused.

If you cut oaks, you must cut 703 oak logs, yielding 26362.5 experience points to reach level 45, after which you can cut maple logs, which are rare to F2P because of the requirement of 30 Dungeoneering to enter the resource dungeon on the Daemonheim Peninsula.

It is also advised to go to the yew trees at Edgeville because it is very close to the bank. The Grand Exchange is relatively close to Edgeville, and there is a General Store nearby to make quick but minimal cash.

Level 45+ - Maple trees
At level 45, players can switch to cutting maple trees, which give 100 experience for each log collected. However, in order to access maple trees in F2P, players will also need level 30 Dungeoneering as well.

If only cutting maples from level 45 to level 60: If cutting maples from level 45 all the way to 99: At level 45 Woodcutting, players can start cutting maple trees, but it is suggested that players wait until level 80 since willows are faster to cut and thus yield more experience. Maple logs are more valuable than willow logs to sell, but still relatively cheap due to the large volume available in the Grand Exchange.
 * Starting experience - 61,570
 * Experience needed - 212,172
 * Maple logs needed - 2,122 (212,200 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of maple logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =
 * Starting experience - 61,570
 * Experience needed - 12,972,861
 * Maple logs needed - 129,729 (12,972,900 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of maple logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =

The only place to cut maple trees in F2P can be found in the Daemonheim Peninsula resource dungeon; however, level 30 Dungeoneering is required to enter the area. There are 9 maple trees and 6 willow trees in the resource dungeon. There is no deposit box in the dungeon so players are advised to use the ring of kinship to teleport to the Daemonheim bank and then run back to the resource dungeon.

Level 60+ - Yew trees
At level 60, players can switch to cutting yew trees, which give 175 experience for each log collected. At level 60 Woodcutting, yew trees can be cut. However, it is not recommended to switch to yews at level 60 as in the time it takes to collect one log from a yew tree, players can collect many more logs from a willow tree yielding much greater experience. It is suggested that players continue cutting willows after reaching level 60 as willows tend to have the greatest experience gains from level 60 to 99. At level 85, yew trees become a viable alternative for experience gains mixed with profit.
 * Starting experience - 273,770
 * Experience needed - 12,760,661
 * Yew logs needed - 72,919 (12,760,825 experience)
 * Grand Exchange price of yew logs =
 * Potential profit from selling all logs =

Generally, players cut yews for profit rather than for experience. At coins each, cutting and selling yew logs is a great way to make money in F2P. However, as mentioned above, cutting yews is very slow. Having a higher Woodcutting level (85 or higher) is recommended for maximizing profit. Also, due to the lucrative money to be made from selling yew logs, competition yew tree locations is fierce. There are only 24 yew trees in F2P areas with very few located close to banks. It is advised free players world hop in order to find the best location with the least amount of competition.

Trivia

 * In reality, oaks are one of the stouter kinds of tree, yet in RuneScape it is easier to cut down than the willow, which, in reality, is easier to bend.