Free-to-play Woodcutting training



Woodcutting in free-to-play revolves around three main concepts: cutting yews for money, cutting willows for experience or training to level 30 in order to be able to cut down willows. 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
Different hatchets are available to cut trees for free-to-play players, ranging from bronze to rune. It's recommended you always use the best hatchet you can.

Level 1-15
Regular trees can be cut. There are many trees in the forest between Lumbridge and Draynor Village, and south of Falador. It is advised that players find a spot within a short distance from a bank or general store so they can bank or sell their logs. If you are looking to get another skill up as well, banked logs can be later be used to train Firemaking. A particularly good place for this is south of the Grand Exchange, as the area is abundant with trees and players can quickly bank or sell their logs at the Grand Exchange. You need 97 regular logs, yielding a total of 2425 experience points, to reach level 15, after which you can cut oak logs.

Level 15-30
Oak trees can be cut. The locations are:
 * East of Draynor Village's bank. Jail Guards no longer are aggressive so this is a good training spot for all levels.
 * West of Varrock. Near the watchtower is a good choice. It is right next to a bank, so players can chop and bank.
 * South-west of Varrock is ideal because it is right by the Grand Exchange.


 * North-west of Lumbridge.
 * 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
 * Also next to Draynor Bank there is an Oak Tree, this can be useful for people wishing to make money from oak logs.

You must cut 292 oak logs, yielding 10950 experience points, to reach level 30.

Level 30-45
Players would need to decide on cutting willow trees or oak trees, willow giving more experience but oak trees are worth more in coins and may be cut more quickly. It is recommended to cut oak trees and to avoid willow trees if the player has no access to adamant hatchets or above.

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)


 * Beside Draynor Village, as there are five willow trees there and a bank for quick easy banking. (It is usually crowded at that spot, but picking an empty server should lessen the amount of people.
 * 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.

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.
 * 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 of the coast of Daemonheim, near the place where the boat from Al Kharid left you off. After a full inventory firemake the logs. There is not enough room anywhere to light the logs all in one direction, so you should either run a few steps and then light a log (using up no time) or start a new row as far east as you can. (since lighting logs makes you step westward.)
 * 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.

Note: After you sell the logs to the store, drop the money earned from it. It is usually not much more than 300 coins per inventory and is not a good way to make money. Or, you can just drop your logs, people will come pick it up, and sell it for easy money.

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 willow 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 45-60
Maple trees can be cut with 45 woodcutting. The only maple trees for F2P can be found in the resource dungeon found on the Daemonheim peninsula. In the same resource dungeon there are also many willow trees. Maple trees give more experience per log (100 exp) 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. 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 about 1 minute 35 seconds to burn the logs just outside the resource dungeon. It takes about 1 minute 7 seconds to teleport to Daemonheim, bank, and run back. Burning is still preferred because you get both Woodcutting and Firemaking experience in a 30 second travel difference. In another experiment, it was found that at level 70 willows gave around 10k more exp per hour than maples when power training, and for this reason if you do not wish to bank any logs, willows are most likely to produce more exp. But its still recommended that people cut maple or yews if they are to sell or burn their logs.

Level 60-99
The sacred Yew tree can be cut. However, it is not recommended to switch to Yews at level 60, because the time it takes to cut 1 log off a Yew tree, you can cut off several more with a Willow Tree, therefore, yielding much faster experience for Willow trees. It is recommended you 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 70+, Maple Trees will be your best option.

To get to level 99 with willow logs, you must cut 192,493 willow logs, yielding 12,993,277.5 experience points.

Rimmington has another great spot to cut willows, just south of the general store. It contains 4 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. Remember though, as this spot is slowly getting more popular, on crowded worlds, there could be around 5-6 people here, though it's still 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, but is so populated that you may find yourself struggling to get a 3 logs/tree ratio.

If you don't want to bank your logs or sell them, but instead set them on fire, there's a whole grove of willow trees south of Port Sarim that is usually empty of players. Additionally, you can chop willows directly north of the Crafting Guild, by the Hobgoblin Peninsula.

Level 80-99
At level 80, players can cut yew trees at a decent rate. Keep in mind that the reason players should not start cutting yews at level 60 is because of the extremely slow rate at which the logs are obtained. Cutting yews at this level is one of the best means of obtaining wealth by skilling for free players.

Another method is to cut willows with woodcutting urns. Players with 90+ woodcutting can make over 55,000 experience per hour with them.

Trivia

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

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