Free-to-play Woodcutting training



Woodcutting in free-to-play consists of the concepts of; cutting yews for money, training to level 60 in order to be able to cut down yews, or powercutting willow logs for the purpose of experience.

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 in free-to-play, since F2Ps (non-members) have fewer kinds of trees and fewer locations than P2Ps (members). Then woodcutting usually ranges at around 30k-55k experience per hour at the 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 any tree, provided the player has the sufficient woodcutting level, albeit at a slower pace.

Hatchets
There are many different hatchets available to F2P players for Woodcutting, ranging from bronze to rune. It's recommended that players use the best hatchet available for their Wooodcutting level if they can afford it. Hatchets do not have to be wielded to be used for Woodcutting, although wielding a hatchet frees up an inventory space in a player's backpack. All hatchets can be wielded with the proper Attack level. A good priority Woodcutting is to reach level 41 to use a rune hachet, the best available hatchet in F2P.

Trees
There are five types of trees available to F2P players to cut: normal, oak, willow, maple, and yew.

Leveling Guide
Before training Woodcutting, consider whether or not you want to sell the logs you collect, use your logs to train Firemaking, or just drop them. If selling, make sure to find a bank near where you will be cutting trees. If burning, either bank your logs to burn later or burn them once you have a full load. It's best to decide this in advance as training Woodcutting is a great way to make money or to 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
From level 15 to 30, players should switch to cutting oak trees, which give 37.5 experience for each log collected. The locations to find oak trees are:
 * 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.
 * 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

Level 30-99 - Willow trees
From level 30 to 99, players should switch to cutting willow trees, which give 67.5 experience for each log collected. 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.
 * 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, then cut oak trees until around level 65. (The average experience rate per hour for oak is higher than willow below level 65 and lower than willow after 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.

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)
 * 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. 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, you 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 begininning 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 if you want quick but minimal cash.

Level 45-99 - Maple trees
From level 45 to 99, players can switch to cutting maple trees, which give 100 experience for each log collected. At level 45 Woodcutting, players can cut Maple trees but is not advised until level 80 Woodcutting since the experienced gained would be a lot less than cutting Willow logs due to the slowness at which Maples can be cut. The only Maple trees for Free-to-play can be found in the resource dungeon found on the Daemonheim peninsula, however, level 30 Dungeoneering is required to enter.
 * 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 =

In the same resource dungeon there are also many willow trees. Maple trees give more experience per log than willows, but less than Yews, however they are much faster than Yews making them a good choice for fast experience. They are more valuable than willow logs as they are often bought to train Firemaking and Fletching, however, for faster experience, players are advised to stick to cutting Willow logs at locations such as Draynor Village and Rimmington, as Daemonheim is quite far away from a bank.

For those who intend to cut Maple logs, it is recommended to bring and wear a Ring of Kinship in order to use its teleport option, as a faster method of transportation from the dungeon to the banker to bank logs if you wish to bank. After banking, the only option to get back to Woodcutting Island is to run/walk back to the dungeon entrance. One could also run back and forth from the dungeon to the bank, or they could simply drop their logs. In an experiment, it is found that banking in Daemonheim is faster than burning. It takes approximately 1 minute 35 seconds to burn the logs just outside the resource dungeon, whereas, in comparison it takes approximately 1 minute 7 seconds to teleport to Daemonheim, bank, and run back. Burning is not a bad option either, as players get both Woodcutting and Firemaking experience in a 30 second travel difference. However, it is generally recommended that players have at least 80 Woodcutting before cutting Maple logs, as the speed of the Maple logs cut is dramatically slower than cutting Willow trees if one's woodcutting level is beneath that.

For those who intend to continue to cut Willow logs, recommended places are Draynor Village and Rimmington. In terms of experience per hour, Willow logs are the preferable option.

Level 85 (90 Recommended) - 99
At level 60 woodcutting, the yew tree can be cut. However, it is not recommended to switch to yews at level 60, as the time it takes to cut one log off a yew tree, players can cut off several more from a willow tree, therefore, yielding much faster experience for willow trees. It is recommended that players stay with willows after level 60 as the logs are cut at a quicker rate and with greater experience compared to other trees. Once at level 85+, Yew trees will be a viable alternative.


 * (level 30 Dungeoneering) Players wishing to gain faster might want to spent time with cutting Maple tree 100 xp per log in the Daemonheim Peninsula resource dungeon since it is less crowed by bots or people.

Rimmington has another great spot to cut willows, just south of the general store. It contains four 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. Players should keep in mind that this spot is slowly getting more popular, and as a result, on crowded worlds, there could be several players Woodcutting here, however, this place is considered faster than the Draynor location.

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, north-east 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, however, it is extremely populated.



If players intend to burn logs (thus training the Firemaking skill) instead of banking or selling them, there is a whole grove of willow trees south of Port Sarim that is usually empty of players. Additionally, players can chop willows directly north of the Crafting Guild, by the Hobgoblin Peninsula.

Players can utilise Woodcutting urns to gain a decent boost in their Woodcutting xp rate.

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.