Lumberjack clothing

The set of Lumberjack clothing is dropped in pieces by Undead Lumberjacks in the Temple Trekking activity. Lumberjack clothing, when worn, gives extra woodcutting experience for cutting logs. This includes experience gained from chopping ivy. However, this does not include experience from the Distraction and Diversion, Evil Tree. Level 44 Woodcutting is required to wear Lumberjack clothing. The pieces of Lumberjack clothing are as follows:


 * Lumberjack top
 * Lumberjack legs
 * Lumberjack hat
 * Lumberjack boots

Each piece of Lumberjack clothing worn raises the amount of Woodcutting experience earned per log by a certain amount, but there is an additional bonus when wearing the whole set.

The individual bonuses are as follows:
 * Lumberjack top + 0.8%
 * Lumberjack legs + 0.6%
 * Lumberjack hat + 0.4%
 * Lumberjack boots + 0.2%

This adds up to a total bonus of 2.0%. However, actually 2.5% extra experience is given for the entire set, so wearing the entire set gives an additional bonus of 0.5%.

A full lumberjack set can be stored in the armour case in the Costume Room of a player-owned house.

When using the whole set, the experience per log can be calculated by using the formula $$1.025 \times (\mathrm{normal\,XP\,per\,log})$$, rounding to the nearest tenth of an experience point.

Obtaining
Lumberjack clothing is obtained during the Temple Trekking activity. One of the events players may encounter during Temple Trekking is an area where there is a broken bridge, a zombie, and no trees. This event is where Lumberjack can be obtained. In this event, undead lumberjacks come out of the water. The undead lumberjacks drop planks, which can be used to repair the bridge, but the undead lumberjacks also drop pieces of the Lumberjack set. No more than one piece can be obtained for each event, and a player can get the same piece more than once. A player going for the lumberjack set should kill the undead lumberjacks until they drop a piece, and then continue across the bridge. The undead lumberjacks appear one at a time, but there is a break of one minute after five have appeared. If a player has killed five and still not gotten a lumberjack piece, time can be saved by logging out and logging in, which causes the next set of lumberjacks to start appearing without the minute wait.

The fastest way to obtain a set of lumberjack clothing involves taking any person through route one (the easiest route). This enables the player to skip past most combat events. In addition, the player should carry slayer rings or Kharyrll Teleport runes to teleport out of the Bog event, and possibly also the sick people event, due to the time these events take. For profit while going for lumberjack clothing, a player can kill the Swamp snakes encountered and sell the obtained hides for profit. Players must bring a Knife to harvest the hides; using the Protect from melee prayer while fighting the snakes may be recommended. Nail Beast Nails from the Nail Beast are used in herblore and can be profitable as well, however the Nail Beast Charms are the real prize giving over 1k summoning xp when turned into pouches. Many players chose to play out these two encounters. After having completed an encounter it is best to take the evade path rather than the continue trek as this increases chances of more encounters before trips end; however, this will have an adverse affect on the reward offered for the trek. Reward tokens are given for completed treks, but they will not be very valuable due to the easiest route being used, and so many events being skipped over. However, the value of the reward tokens can be increased slightly by using the hard NPCs instead of the easy or medium NPCs.

All of the lumberjack items can be obtained on any of the routes, although it is possible that the pieces have different probabilities of being dropped on the different routes.

The lumberjack top is the hardest to get of the four pieces. This has been confirmed by Mod Mat K on RuneScape Forums. It seems that the relative rarity of each of the four pieces is proportional to the bonus Woodcutting experience that they provide: the top is the rarest with an 0.8% individual bonus, and the boots seem to be the most common with a 0.2% bonus.

Players who already own a complete set of lumberjack clothing will find that the undead lumberjacks no longer drop more pieces. In order to obtain multiple lumberjack sets, bring all copies of one piece on the trek, and drop them when undead lumberjacks appear. This allows them to drop another piece of the set. Be sure to pick up the ones you dropped before they disappear.

Usefulness
The usefulness of the lumberjack clothing is highly debated. Depending on the goal the woodcutter is aiming for, generally, the difficulty in obtaining all four pieces outweighs the benefits. Assuming the goal is from level 44 to 99 (roughly 13,000,000 experience ponts), 2.5% roughly works out to 325,000 experience. With an estimated 80,000 experience per hour at chopping ivy, the lumberjack clothing can only save four hours of woodcutting. However, the chance of obtaining a full set of lumberjack clothing in four hours is quite low, as one is very likely to get duplicate items. Some players have reported only obtaining the full set after 10 hours of play. Hence, some players regard the lumberjack clothing as worthwhile only for aesthetic purposes, unless the goal is to gain very high woodcutting experience (for example, 200,000,000).

However, the above analysis mainly only applies to players who are only interested in gain woodcutting experience. Some players regard Temple Trekking as a fun and rewarding activity in itself, in which case getting a set of lumberjack clothing is seen as a bonus. Some other players find training woodcutting to be tedious, so acquiring lumberjack clothing helps them gain woodcutting experience on the occasions where they need to train woodcutting (such as levelling up to qualify for a quest).

Trivia

 * When examining the clothes, it says, "You'll certainly be alright wearing these" referring to The Lumberjack Song. The clothes themselves look just like those that the typical lumberjack (played by Michael Palin) wears.
 * On the first day of release, there was a glitch where players were not able to receive the lumberjack boots as a drop.
 * There is a glitch that allows Zombie Lumberjacks to spawn on Bridge events with trees. However there is no confirmation that lumberjack clothing can be received using this glitch.
 * Lumberjack clothing used to not give its bonus experience when chopping ivy, however, this has been fixed.