F2P Mining and Money Making

Mining on runescape is an essential skill for most people to have if they are on free to play (f2p) servers. Mining for ores will take a lot of time, but will be worthwhile whenever a player is able to sell a bulk amount of ores for cash.

When I mean sell for cash I mean selling to other runescape players for runescape money and not real world trading - as real world trading is against Jagex rules.

Some basic mining tips on how to make money in runescape when on free to play servers:

• Essence - Level 1 mining - It is easily mined and can sell for a decent price to people who are runecrafting and making any of the basic 6 types of rune. Price may be up to 30gp each.
  
• Iron Ores - Level 15 mining - These can be mined quickly and will normally sell between 50gp - 100gp price range.
• Silver - Level 20 mining - Silver can be mined at the crafting guild and will normally sell for around 200gp each to people who are trying to raise their crafting skill.
• Coal - Level 30 mining - Coal is always in demand and can fetch up to 200gp each in bulk, although any price from 140 - 200gp range is normally considered decent enough.

These runescape money tips are ways to help players on free to play servers think about using their skills to make money rather than spending time merchanting and risking market price changes.

An extensive list of runescape money tips is available on RuneCrypt and on runescape fan sites.

Players on runescape free to play servers can also make money by collecting cow hides, air running or via woodcutting. Obviously there are many ways to make money and it is finding a method that you enjoy and are happy to do for long periods at a time that will help build up your reserve of runescape gold.

Bulk Items and Runescape Merchanting

Merchanting in runescape is one the the best methods to make money. The main reason merchanting makes considerable money in runescape is the fact higher level players (skill based players) will generally deal in bulk items.

Bulk items can be any resource (depending which skill is being trained). It is normally 1000 or more of a single resource, so 1000 iron ores would be consider bulk whereas 100 iron ores wouldn't.

The desire of players raising their skills by buying in bulk is obvious, it saves them a lot of time accumulating the resources in bulk rather than in smaller quanities, so they are willing to pay to have a larger amount guaranteed in order to gain the level they desire quicker.

This desire leaves it open as an ideal situation for merchanters to take advantage and offer their services to gather up items in smaller quanitities. Runescape merchants will spend their time gathering up smaller quantities of items initially and building up their supplier line for specific resources. In the long term, they can request their suppliers provide them with higher amounts of items (thereby reducing time taken to acquire resources).

As a supply line of workers is established for a merchant in runescape, it makes it easier for them to merchant other items - they simply ask their supply line to gather up the required items. This enables merchants to diversify a bit, although they shouldn't try and merchant everything, 3 or 4 items is normally enough for novice merchants to handle adequately.

One the supply line for bulk items is in place, it just remains to have an outlet - or a buyer. This is the person or people who will be training a skill and will normally want to buy in bulk to reduce the time of gathering up resources. The profit from merchant trades will vary from resource to resource, but any profit will add up in the long term and improve a merchants communication lines and ability to react to changes in the runescape economy.

Once firmly established as a bulk trader or merchant, any runescape player will have the chance to pursue some of the rare items such as party hats or santa hats. They will likely be able to afford them, but whether they decide to actually merchant the party hats or santa hats is another question entirely. That decision I will leave to the runescape player involved, although massive price growth is unlikely and prices will be unstable at different times of the year... so if deciding to merchant those rare items, tread with caution.

Establish a chain of suppliers

A good tip for earning money in the longer term is to establish a chain of suppliers of the raw material that you want to focus on.

If you have a lot of regular suppliers of any resources then you can quickly accumulate a bulk amount to be able to sell on and profit from.

This approach is especially helpful for all players that are wishing to get into merchanting as a means to increase their wealth on runescape. Generally, the more suppliers you have, the less liklihood that you will ever run out of being able to supply people the raw materials they demand. This makes it easy for you to sell quickly and therefore making a quicker profit.

Wealth from the Wilderness

There are many aspects of the wilderness in Runescape and one of the most appealing is certainly player versus player battles. It can be a way to earn significant riches, but at the same time can end up bankrupting you quickly.

If everything was equal, and you could always rely solely on one vs one battles then there would be a lot less risks involved but the payoff would likely also decrease proportionately as risk declined. This is where player judgement comes into the reckoning and although great amounts of money can be made, if you make a bad decision it can end up being very costly.

Players who PK regularly will normally have had their good days and their bad days. On good days they may gain items worth millions, but on bad days could lose even more. The reason why there are such huge risks associated with earning wealth via PK is there are so many variables:

1. Timing - Runescape is open 24/7 and has players from all parts of the world playing. Subsequently, clans are also globally based and with so many clans in the game, the chances are you may run into a clan at any time.

2. Equipment Choice - There are 3 basic classes of player in Runescape - Mage, Warrior and Ranger. The wrong choice of class to venture into the wilderness could well seal your fate.

3. Food - different food heals different amounts of hitpoints and having a lower healing food could make the difference to winning and losing close battles.

These are just 3 of the many factors that determine how successful you are as a Pker on Runescape. One person cannot always outfox a group and as such many players prefer to PK as a group along with their friends and their clan. Again, this is not a guarantee that you will fair any better as your clan could run into a larger clan and quickly get wiped out before knowing what is happening.

The key to being a successful Pker is quite simple, always be alert, always be prepared and always assess situations before making rash decisions that can cost you and your friends a significant loss. Additionally, you should always follow the number one rule - Never take anything into the wilderness that you cannot afford to replace. Failure to abide by that rule is a sure sign that success in the wilderness will forever elude you.

Runescape Money - Wealth by Skills

In Runescape one of the main objectives for most people is to try and gain as much virtual wealth as possible. This seems to encourage a lot of fraudsters and does lead to many people being banned by Jagex for breaking the rules.

People are 100% aware that trading real life money for Runescape Money is against Jagex rules but that does not discourage many people, they still try to beat the system. There is no true substitute for shear hard work within the game while playing within the game rules.

Runescape offers many ways to make money, some require more effort than others. The aim of this section will be to compile all methods of money making within the game and use it as a resource for gathering information. By participating in this, you are helping other players who wish to get ahead in the game, but at the same time play by the rules Jagex enforce.