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
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Players of any level can easily do the Stronghold of Player Safety between Barbarian Village and Edgeville in the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence, as all of the monsters on the route to the 10,000 coins are all non-aggressive. 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.

It is tricky to navigate through the Stronghold of Player Safety, but the rewards are great. The high level monsters drop large numbers of runes for players who choose to train on them, some high-level ores such as mithril and adamant, and even rune scimitars for rarer drops. (For members, they mainly drop charms, seeds, and herbs.) No food is needed, but a high enough percent of run is recommended. The reward may only be received once per player.

Once completed, the Cockroach soldier (level 83) drop Rune Scimitar and Rune Sq Shield. They also offer decent training for higher leveled players.

Stronghold of Security
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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). One can usually pick up raw trout and salmon from powerfishers near barbarian village on world 1. 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. (You can only get the money one time and you can swap your boots if you change your mind).

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.

Some lower trainable monsters in the security stronghold include zombies and minotaurs. The zombies constantly drop steel arrows, body runes, and gems. The minotaurs drop iron arrows which can add up in time. There have been reports that the random event occurrences tend to be increased in the stronghold, so training for a long time will increase your chances of getting gems and other random event items.

Players may bank all items and just sprint through each level to get the rewards easily.

Like the Stronghold of Player Safety, the reward may only be received once per player.

Once completed, the Flesh Crawlers often drop higher leveled herbs, which can be gathered, & sold for a tidy sum.

Silk merchanting
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Silk merchanting can be very slow: 4-5 pieces of silk are 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 could travel on the road east from Lumbridge, cross the bridge, and go through the toll gate (paying a toll of 10 coins). The road could 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, the Varrock clothes 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
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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 in the GE are coins each, and are in strong demand due to several member food items that can be prepared with them, as well as for Stew in F2P cooking. The fastest location (in F2P worlds) is the potato farm just to the east of Draynor Village. Bring 23 gardening sacks with you for mass storage and greatly improved profit rate, and, if you can create buttered potatoes, cook the potatoes on a range (traveling between the Leptoc mansion and the nearby bank to withdraw new potatoes is a good idea), purchase the butter at the GE, apply it to the cooked potatoes, then sell them for an excellent profit. The potatoes can be banked in Draynor Village or by going north to the deposit box at the Gnomecopters. Potatoes also can be bought from Wydin's Food Store in Port Sarim for 16 coins each, banked, and then sold to the Grand Exchange, though this is obviously a slower method.

Cheese
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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 onhe void knight island to bank. Members which have completed at least part of Recipe for Disaster can buy cheese (and various other profitable food items) at the Culinaromancer’s Chest, which also functions as a bank; however, this shop does not have an infinite stock.

Dyes
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Harvesting onions and redberries can give some modest profit as well, but by far it is more profitable 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 red berries for red dyes. These can in turn be sold on the Grand Exchange for coins each for yellow dye or  coins for red dye.

On member worlds just south of Ardougne is a spawn point for purple dye. This can be collected and sold for coins.

Another good method is to buy redberries at 4gp each from the gnomecopters, then deposit them in the handy bank deposit boxes in the field. Repeat this until you have as many berries as you want, then go to draynor village, ust a short walk away, and make red dye with the witch. These dyes can then be sold at the market for coins. This is an effective method of mass producing dyes.

Mining Clay
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Another way which you can make money is by mining Clay.The best place is in Varrock west.Take nothing but your pickaxe and mine about 27 Clay (per trip)deposit them in your bank and go for more. when you are satisfied get a bowl and go to the fountain in the middle of Varrock and make Wet Clay. When you are done sell them at the Grand Exchange for 174 gp or more. Two trips or 59 Wet Clay is about 10 k.

Snape grass
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An easy method to earn money is by gathering Snape grass. Just west of the Crafting Guild is a small peninsula, Hobgoblin Peninsula, that has a small collection of hobgoblins and a snape grass respawn point. The closest bank is the eastern Falador bank. Start there with an empty inventory and armor if needed. Make your way to the peninsula and collect a full inventory of snape grass. Make your way back to the bank and repeat this process until satisfied. Once you have had enough, the snape grass can be sold in the Grand Exchange for coins each. If you cannot survive an attack from a Hobgoblin, this method is not recommended.

If you are a member and choose this method, there are two things you should know. If you have the Agility level of 26 or higher, there is a short cut in the Falador wall just south of the gem shop. This means that the closest bank is now the western Falador bank. If you have the ability to summon a beast of burden (Level 22 Summoning - Spirit kalphite, Level 40 - Bull ant, Level 52 - Spirit terrorbird, Level 67 - War tortoise, Level 96 - Pack yak), you can bring them along to help by adding more inventory slots.

Red Spiders' Eggs
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These eggs can be found in the sewers of Varrock. There are 2 spawn points for them and they respawn about every 40 seconds. They sell for 350-400gp on the G.E. which is fast cash if you need some easy money. One trip with a full inventory can bank you a little more than 10k! Beware of the many level 34 spiders though, they'll try to team up on you if you're not careful.

After making a few trips, you'll figure out just how much food is necessary for survival but runs out just in time for a full inventory of eggs. I'd suggest a minimum Combat level of 20, just to be on the safe side.

If you don't know where the sewers are at, the entrance is just east of the Varrock Palace and Just north of the east bank. It is marked on your map with a Red Exclamation (!) Mark. The spiders are towards the end of the sewers by the Moss Giants. The eggs are on the south wall on the ground. *Note: the spiders do NOT drop the eggs.

View Image of where you can find the eggs here ->

Cooking

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

Fishing

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

Woodcutting

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

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.

Smithing

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

Air running
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 * See this page for more information on Air Running.

Potatoes
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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.

Soda Ash
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Members can collect or buy Seaweed and burn it into Soda ash for a profit. Buying Seaweed off the Grand Exchange and making Soda ash can turn a profit of over 150,000 Coins per hour with no required Skills. To maximize profits, a player should buy a large amount of Seaweed all at once and then make Soda ash at a Bank that is very near to a Fire or a Range.

Alternatively, players with little money to start up can collect Seaweed from any of the locations listed here.

Glass Vials
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Members with little money can easily make 200,000 Coins or more per hour from "vial-merchanting". Go to Taverly, buy an inventory of vials from Jatix, and sell them in the Grand Exchange for a decent profit. Having 45 Magic helps a lot, as well as plenty of Law Runes. If you do, bring the required Runes or Teleport to House (if it's in Taverly), and another method of Teleportation so you can bank the vials for later, and repeat the process. Vials sell fast in the Grand Exchange, therefore, you don't need to wait very long.

Filling them with water is another option. Banks with fountains near them (i.e. Camelot) are especially helpful. Just use one vial on a fountain, and it'll do every vial. Bank the vials, withdraw 28 more, and repeat. This way, you can earn even more money.

Ranging Guild-Archery Competition
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This is a good way to get a large amount of ranged experience, along with a moderate amount of cash.

At level 40 Ranged, members have access to the Ranging Guild and the Archery Competition. The competition costs 200 coins per 10 shots, with a maximum of 100 points per shot. 1 Archery ticket is awarded per 10 points, which can be used to buy an assortment of ranged items from the Ticket Merchant. Also half of the score, per shot, is rewarded in experience.

The most profitable way to make money using this minigame is to get 2000 tickets, or a multiple of 2000, and buy 50 rune arrows per 2000 tickets. At a low Ranged level, a player may only score less than half the maximum per 10 shots, but it is still possible to make some money this way. At an average of 400 points (40 tickets) per 10 shots, 50 rounds (not as hard or time-consuming as it sounds) are needed to get 2000 tickets. 50 plays will cost 10k, but 50 rune arrows will fetch 19,300 coins (as of 19 Oct, 2008) earning a profit of 9,300 coins, as well as 10,000 experience( $$2,000 tickets*10 points per ticket=20,000 points; 20,000 points/2=10,000 exp$$ ).

At higher levels players will score higher, therefore spending less money and taking less time, which means making more money, while receiving faster experience. Scoring 800 points per 10 shots will only cost 5,000 coins to reach 2000 tickets, which will turn a profit of 14,300 coins, while earning the same experience, all in half the time as the previous example. It is slightly more profitable to sell the tickets although it may take a little longer.

Agility

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

Crafting

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

Construction

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

Farming

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

Firemaking

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

Fletching

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

Hunter

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

Slayer

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

Summoning

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

Thieving

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

Nature running
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 * See this page for more information on Nature Running.

Law running
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 * See this page for more information on Law Running.

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 1-6, etc.) is the busiest trading centre for both free players and members.


 * Members with a high enough combat(70+) level can kill the various dragons for their bones and dragonhides and good loot, but dont forget your anti-dragon shield!!


 * With 70 Agility Member's can use the pipe, near the ladder, in the Taverly dungeon for easy access to the Blue Dragon. This is called "farming" & it consists of a BoB (Beast of Burden) & falador teleport tabs. it can be extremely quick cash (300k+ an hour on good days, depending on familiar BoB) & provides decent training too.


 * In God wars Dungeon, a player can go and kill monsters that have just amazing drops. The Player must have at least 60 strength Or level 60 agility to enter the God War's Dungeon, and note, it is extremely dangerous in there so bring lots of food(sharks and up recommended).