Making Money With Herblore

Herblore on RuneScape has traditionally been one of the most costly skills to raise. However, it has also provided players who want to make money the opportunity to gather up resources to sell to people that need them.

Since the shop update by Jagex, empty vials and water filled vials are unlikely to provide players with any solid money making potential. Although any money invested in empty vials or water filled vials will easily be able to be recovered by selling existing stock.

For members who are buying water filled vials from the shop, they should use their Karamja gloves to get buying their vials for a reduced price. Empty vials normally cost 5gp while water filled vials will now cost 10gp due to unlimited stock.

Non-members can gather up unicorn horns and limpwurt roots as well as telegrabbing wine of zamorak to sell to members who require them for herblore. Although there is not a great deal of demand for many secondary herb ingredients that can be gathered on free to play servers, they can always be used to stockpile your resources if you are intent on becoming a member.

Other secondary herb ingredients that are desired by players training herblore are white berries, red spider eggs, snape grass and crushed bird nests. Most of these are only available on member servers with snape grass generally fetching around 500gp each and other items around 1000gp each.

Unidentified herbs used to be a way to make money on runescape with herblore, although Jagex updated herbs to be grimy instead of unidentified due to the amount of people who used to try and scam other players by lying about the true unid herb. Nowadays, grimy herbs will generally sell for the same price as clean herbs - although this can still make players money IF they do not have an adequate herblore level to be able to use the herbs. It actually makes it easier for players who collect grimy or clean herbs to get a more competitive price.

As in all methods of making money in runescape, it is always advisable to try and work with other people - this usually involved establishing a chain of suppliers (or buyers) so that you can quickly offload any resources when needed, or to enable you to buy resources when needed. This all helps in helping you learn more about merchanting in runescape.

If there are any queries on making money through the herblore skill on runescape, then I will attempt to answer all of them on here. As always, I can be contacted on my main runescape help site with any other queries that I will try and resolve if I am able to.

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.

Runescape Money via Woodcutting

Runescape offers various different trees to cut down and enable players to make money from. Members have more types of trees available to them than non-members and more profit can be made - especially with Magic Logs that generally sell for 900 -1100gps each.

However, non-members can easily earn significant amounts of money from cutting yew logs, oak logs or normal logs. Although it is more limiting and in some cases will require more patience as buyers for normal logs or oak logs may be in shorter supply, while Yew log buyers may not pay premium prices to non-members.

In general, when selling logs in runescape, players must focus on the quantity available. Most players will pay premium prices for significant quantities if they are trying to achieve a skill level quickly. Members will buy logs for firemaking, fletching and construction skills while non-members will buy only for firemaking. In which case they will normally look at using their own logs that they cut when training their woodcutting skill.

The target market is therefore members who are training either fletching or construction skills. For fletching, Yew logs will be desired more while players training their construction skill will favour oak logs.

To effectively collect up large quantities of either Yew logs of Oak logs, players will need to find the relevant trees close to a bank. Time is money, and the closer the trees are to a bank, the better. Some of the better locations for training woodcutting (and consequently stockpiling logs) are:

Free to play:

• Oak Trees - East of Draynor bank
• Yew Trees - 3 north of Varrock Palace

Members:

• Oak Trees - West of Catherby bank
• Maple Trees - North of Seers Bank
• Yew Trees - West of Catherby bank - below the beehives.
• Teak/Mahogany - can be collect via your own kingdom in Miscellania

In addition to this, members will also have a chance to get seeds from bird nests. Seed prices have dropped a bit since farming was released, although some seeds can still receive good prices - yew seed, magic seed and some of the other tree seeds.

Overall, woodcutting in runescape does have some methods to make money for people in the game and it has been a skill used by many players to earn significant wealth over time. Any player is welcome to add to the runescape money tips here or register on my runescape help site and compile a list of your own money tips for any skill in the game.

Oak Logs and Iron Ore

In free to play Runescape there are limited methods to make decent amounts of income. However, Iron Ore mining has been a longstanding guaranteed money earner for all those free to play players. The price of Iron Ore has increased over time and now players can easily expect to receive 100gp for each ore provided they have a decent quantity (normally 1000+ ores).

A relative newcomer for free to play players is cutting Oak Logs. This is primarily due to the introduction of the Construction Skill as the demand for Oak Logs has increased significantly. My advice is earn the money now while the demand is there as overall demand has now settled down and in the long term will start to decrease as less people need to raise their construction.

Overall, the traditional Iron Ore mining will always have a good steady demand as Iron is a necessary resource for the production of Steel bars. Additionally, the price of Coal has also increased in price and a dedicated miner can reap good rewards as they can sell at 200gp each when selling in bulk.