Runescape Air Running

Air running in runescape is a good way for low level players to make money without the need of any particular skills. The main requirement is that a player has the time and dedication to constantly run air runes to and from Falador bank.

As stated, no skill is required for this method of making money in runescape, but patience is certainly a virtue to have. Air runes are not as profitable as law or nature runes, but free to play runescape people can use this method equally as effective as runescape members.

There are two groups of people required to Air Run:

• Runecrafters
• Essence Runners

Runecrafters with higher runecrafting levels will be in a much better situation than crafters with low levels. It is generally suggested that runecrafters have level 44 runecrafting in order to get 5 air runes per essence.

Essence runners, there are no skill requirements needed whatsoever and this is what I referred to when there were no skill requirements to make money. It is the running that is required and this can be done by any player whether free to play or a runescape member.

Runecrafters will normally be required to pay the air runners directly in cash, this normally ranges from 1,500gp to 2,000gp per trade. The crafter will be able to offset the cost of training somewhat by selling the air runes produced. It therefore makes sense to have at least level 44 runecrafting.

Runecrafters inventory should be:

• Noted essence (25 noted traded per time)
• Money
• 25 un-noted essence (or 25 air runes).

Air runners will normally need to bring 25 un-noted rune essence to the Air Altar and exchange it for 25 noted essence + 2,000gp (or whatever coin level has been agreed). Runners should also have an air tiara so that they can trade inside the air altar itself. This helps improve the efficiency for the runecrafters.

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.

Runescape Money Tips Within Jagex Rules

As most runescape players are all too familiar with the temptations of buying runescape money either through online websites or auction sites, I would like to remind everyone that this is in breach of Jagex Rules.

Rule 12 clearly states that real world items cannot be traded for runescape items, including money.

With this said, I have also changed my search for this money tips blog from the original runescape community search to the new google offering for community searching, my very own runescape search engine if you like - although Google still hold overall control of all the propriety technology.

My aims with the search engine are to include all runescape fan sites that stay within Jagex rules so that the whole runescape community can safely search and find answers to their queries without being tricked into visiting a site that breaches any runescape rule. The previous search used did enable me to exclude existing sites, but there were so many already indexed it would have been too ominous a task to remove sites for every conceivable search query. Having the control from the outset to be able to add sites is a much better approach as it should lead to much higher quality results.

Big Bones on Free to Play

It is commonly accepted that free to play in Runescape offers less methods of making some serious money. One option that can be useful as you train your melee is collecting big bones from hill giants.

If you manage to collect a significant amount of big bones then you can sell them in bulk for 300gp each. There are quicker methods to making money, although this way you are able to train your melee stats and increase your chances of gaining wealth via the wilderness.

The hill giants are located in Edgeville Dungeon - or can be accessed near the Cook's guild if you have a bronze key to unlock the doors. It is a popular area and can often become crowded although it is worth it given the limited options available.

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.

Pure Essence Running

Although running essence used to be pretty lucrative for all members on RuneScape, since the introduction of pure essence it has decreased in the number of people who run essence for runecrafters.

The affect of the higher priced pure essence means there are less people concentrating on raising up their runecrafting level and consequently there are less people who continually run the essence for them.

The main place for people who wish to make money via essence running is still on world 66. The price of laws are still the same, but due to the reduced number of runecrafters, the length of time the runners may wait is likely to have increased.

There is still plenty of opportunity for low level players to still make a decent income per hour, provided they have patience and if they manage to get on at a time when there are relatively low numbers of runners to crafters ratio.

Overall, this should not be dismissed as a perfectly viable method of making money in runescape as there are still a large number of players looking to increase their runecrafting skill - albeit many may now invest some of their cash in player owned houses or other skills.

Wine of Zamorak

Although Herblore is a member only skill on RuneScape, players that are non-members can still help out and make some money by collecting up Wine of Zamorak. The wine can fetch 1000gp each and is relatively easy to collect, provided you have an ample supply of telegrab runes and the required magic level to cast telegrab.



The picture above is me casting the telegrab spell on the Zamorak Wine at the Chaos Altar on the far west side of the wilderness, basically north from Falador will get you there.

Players who wish to collect the Wine of Zamorak would be best advised to do so after they had secured an order - since this will not be the easiest resource to shift, although it can be highly profitable for players who do secure large, or regular orders.

If you know any members who love their herblore and ranging skill, then they may be ideal candidates to propose collecting the Wine of Zamorak for as it is used primarily in herblore to make the ranging potion.