Making Money Guide
Written By: penguincow2
made: 1/6/2007
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Contents
Introduction
I. Merchanting
II. Mining/Smithing
III. Crafting
IV. Fishing
V. Rune crafting
VI. High Alching (Fletching)
VII. Working
VIII. PKing (Player Killing)
IX. Staking
X. Woodcutting
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Introduction
What is this guide for? Well, this guide is for those of you who find it it hard to make money.
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I. Merchanting
What exactly is merchanting? According to Webster’s Dictionary, a merchant is "One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit." In other words, a merchant is some one who buys things so they can make profits. In Runescape, that is buy cheap, sell high. To start out, you’ll need some cash. You cannot merchant if you do not have money. I recommend starting out with 200,000gp. I recommend you buy Rune items, such as axes. You will usually find people selling Rune Axes for around 15k each in Varrock world one. I’d recommend buy at least 10 of these to make a noticeable profit. To make a lot of profit, you should buy in bulk. Go to the Varrock Center and sell these for 20k each. You’ll make a 50k profit easily. Once you have more money, you can make more profits faster. Merchanting requires quite a bit of patience, so if you don’t have patience, I’d recommend that you don’t merchant. Merchanting also requires some knowledge about prices of items. If you do not know the prices on items, you may/may not make a profit. I personally think the best way to make money is merchanting.
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II. Mining/Smithing
What is mining and smithing? Mining is the ability to mine ores. For mining, you will need a pick. You will start out with a bronze pick in the beginning of your Runescape life, so use that until you can afford better picks. Mine copper/tin until you can mine iron. Then from iron, mine until you are level 30 mining. While getting to level 30, save your iron. Iron is needed for making steel bars, which are always going to be high in demand. If you want, you can keep iron and then mine 2X the amount of iron you have. Then, make these into steel bars and sell for 550 each. There are many places to mine iron, so you can pick the spot that you think is the best. Coal is also a good way to make money. Mine in 100s and then sell for 150-200 gp each. At level 55, you can start to mine Mithril ores. These sell for around 200-400gp each, but there aren’t too many Mithril rocks. If you are high enough to survive the wilderness mines, then I recommend going to the Hobgoblin Mines in the wilderness. There are 10+ Mithril rocks there, along with a few Adamant coal, and iron rocks. Mine Mithril ores until you are full, and then go bank at the Edgeville Bank. If you are high enough, start making Mithril bars. These can sell for around 1k each. Then, multiply the amount of Mithril Ores you have by 4 and that’ll be the amount of coal you need to mine. Make all these into Mithril bars and sell for cash. At 85 mining, you can start mining ruenite. There are only 2 ruenite rocks in F2P, and they are both next to each other in high level wilderness. The best way to mine rune is to have someone protect you from other PKers who might be lurking around the rune rocks.
Smithing is the ability to make armor, weapons, arrowheads, knives, hatchets, bars etc. It is a good source of money providing you have the proper smithing levels. To start out, make bronze bars with 1 tin and one copper. Make bronze items until you can smith iron bars. If you are a member, buy a couple Rings of Forging, because you have a 50% chance of turning an iron ore into an iron bar. With the Ring of Forging (144 uses), all your ores turn into bars. Make irons until you can start smithing steel bars. Many people buy steel bars for around 500-550 each. Steel bars require two coals and one iron. What I usually do is mine the iron and buy the coal. You will make money both ways, but mining the coal & iron yourself will get you even more cash. You won’t make much money from selling armor until you can make at least adamant and rune items.
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III. Crafting
I don’t recommend crafting for those who don’t have high level crafting. Strength amulets aren’t too easy to sell. But once you can make Power Amulets (Requires high level crafting and magic to make/enchant), you will start pulling in the cash. Buy diamonds for 2k-5k each, and turn into power amulets. These are always going to be wanted since they are the best F2P amulets. These sell any where from 8k-12k each. If you were a member and had high level crafting, I would make dragonhide sets. Rangers will always want to buy these. Also, you can make vials in members. These will always be needed since they are needed for the herblore skill.
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IV. Fishing
Fishing will always be needed in Runescape. PKers will always need food. To start out, get your fishing to level 40 fishing. From then on, fish lobsters. Get around 100 lobsters and cook them. Then, go sell them for 200-250gp each to make some cash. At level 50 fishing, you can fish swordfish. Swordfish can sell anywhere from 200-400gp each. I don’t fish swordfishes because it takes a while to fish them and they are hard to sell. For lower level fishers, fish trouts/salmon. Go to Varrock and sell these to other people for some good cash. For higher level fisherman who are members, I would recommend fishing sharks. PKers in members will always need these since they heal a lot. They also sell for good prices, ranging anywhere from 700-1000gp a piece.
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V. Rune crafting
I personally thing this is one of the worst ways to make money. But then I know there are many good rune crafters out there. Rune crafting is turning essences into runes. The higher Rune craft level you have, the better runes you can make. You will start pulling in the cash at around level 44 making natures, but that’s if you are a member. If you are, bring some cash and bring your essence in notes. Then, sell to the general store and buy it back. This is the easiest way since you don’t have to run all the way back to the bank.
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VI. High Level Alching (Fletching)
High level alchemy is a magic spell that turns items into even more gold. It requires 5 fire runes and one nature rune. It can only be done at level 55 magic or higher. I purposely put fletching with this because a lot of fletchers high alch their bows.
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VII. Working
Working is self explanatory. You ask someone for a job, and they give you one. Then you do whatever they ask you to do for them and they pay you. Sometimes you can find some high paying jobs, and sometimes low paying jobs. It could be woodcutting, mining, fishing, collect items, or basically anything.
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VIII. PKing
PKing means “player killing”. This is all done in the wilderness. You will need to have good skills to PK. I would recommend melee in F2P for higher levels, since they are the strongest in F2P (my opinion). At lower levels, rangers and mages are good for PKing, but you will not get the best loot at low levels. When you player kill, you can obtain all of their items except their 3 most valuable items. If the player was skulled, then you probably will keep all their items. PKing is a good source of money because you can PK a lot of stuff. This includes armor, weapons, amulets, food, runes, and items. Then, all you got to do is sell all these items to other players for more cash.
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IX. Staking
Staking is done in the duel arena or wilderness. Basically, its fighting people while putting things up for stake. Meaning, if you lose, your opponent keeps your staked items and vice versa. You could easily earn money this way or easily lose money this way. To do this, you will need relatively good combat skills, for example high strength. Many great staker’s know what they are up against, and know that there’s always the chance of them losing. In F2P, you can stake by just bringing some cash along. If you lose, your opponent gets your cash since cash will always be dropped.
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X. Woodcutting
Woodcutting can be a very profitable skill. Start out by cutting regular trees. These logs can sometimes be bought by members for fletching. Then cut oaks at 15. You can burn oaks for firemaking levels as well. Then, at 30, you can cut willows, which sell for 20-50gp each. When you get to 60, cut yews. Yews can be sold for 200-300gp each. At 75, you can cut magics, and the typical price is 1k per log.
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