0-99 Woodcutting

[Adah Orhenkowski]

Thisguide outlines the best methods for training the Woodcutting skill. The profit from Woodcutting is low compared to other money-making methods and the profitable methods offer very slow experience per hour. Some players may find it more beneficial to perform the fastest experience methods and use the saved time to make money from other activities.

The only item required to cut wood is an axe, either equipped or in a player's inventory. Felling axes offer 10% more Woodcutting experience than their regular counterparts when used with forester's rations. Using the best felling axe available will offer the fastest experience rates.

Felling axes up to dragon and the forester's rations can be bought from the Grand Exchange. The crystal felling axe is untradeable and can only be created by using a felling axe handle on a regular crystal axe while standing near a singing bowl. As such, using the crystal felling axe effectively requires completion of Song of the Elves. The felling axes below rune are uncommonly traded at the Grand Exchange and they are relatively expensive for how long they are used, so using normal axes below level 41 Woodcutting is advised.

The Lumberjack outfit provides a total of 2.5% bonus experience per log cut, and is worth getting timewise for level 99 Woodcutting. The Temple Trekking minigame is the fastest way to obtain the outfit. When using route 1 and evading all the events except the one with undead lumberjacks, it will only take less than an hour to get the full set. Alternatively, the outfit can be obtained from participating in Forestry events and buying the outfit pieces with anima-infused bark.

The dragon axe special attack can be used to temporarily boost one's Woodcutting level by 3, which stacks with the level bonus provided by the Woodcutting Guild. Equipping the Lightbearer will also allow the player to use the special attack more often. The temporary level boost can be extended with the Preserve prayer. With the clothes pouch attached to the Forestry kit, the player can wear prayer armour to reduce prayer drain while also getting the Woodcutting experience boost from the Lumberjack outfit.

Completing Monk's Friend, Enlightened Journey, Icthlarin's Little Helper, and the Skrach Uglogwee subquest of Recipe for Disaster grants a total of 9,000 experience. This will get the player from level 1 to 26.

Cutting teak trees offers the fastest Woodcutting experience in the game when using tick manipulation. If the player is not using any sort of tick manipulation, cutting teak trees offers the fastest experience only up to level 65.

1.5-tick woodcutting teaks on Fossil Island is the fastest training method in the game. 1.5-tick woodcutting is done by setting up a 3-tick cycle (such as using swamp tar on a clean herb) and alternating tiles next to the hardwood patches. When timed correctly, the player has a chance to receive two logs at once every three ticks. Planted teak trees have a 1/8 chance to fell and they do not have a depletion timer, unlike the teak trees found elsewhere.

Using the best felling axe available with forester's rations will offer the fastest experience rates. The forester's rations also restore run energy, which makes stamina potions unnecessary for this method.

2-tick woodcutting teaks is a slightly slower, but less attention- and click-intensive alternative to 1.5-tick woodcutting teaks on Fossil Island. 2-tick woodcutting is done by auto-retaliating to being attacked every two ticks and clicking on a tree. When done correctly, the player has a chance to receive logs every two ticks instead of four due to the way Auto Retaliate works.

To start 2-tick woodcutting, draw aggressiveness from the birds or rabbits without killing them (such as casting Confuse or Weaken). Equip a 2-tick or 3-tick weapon that cannot perform attacks, such as a shortbow on rapid without ammunition. Turn on Auto Retaliate and get two monsters attacking you such that a hitsplat appears every two ticks. This can be accomplished by walking under the monsters if they are on the same tile to split them up, then getting one stuck on a tree or bush. When this is done, manoeuvre the two around until you are stood between two teak trees with both enemies attacking you. On each tick that a hitsplat appears on the player click a teak tree, and on each off-tick either click the ground at the base of a teak tree or drop a teak log.

Players with low Defence may be hit by birds and can minimise the damage they take by using a regen bracelet and a Hunters' crossbow with a shield instead of a shortbow. Rabbits are unable to hit the player.

Participating in Forestry events offers decent Woodcutting experience and some profit from purchasing the rewards with anima-infused bark. Forestry events will appear while collecting logs in the overworld (excluding regular trees, hollow trees, and trees within the Woodcutting Guild).

Cutting the blisterwood tree in Darkmeyer becomes a viable low-effort alternative at level 62. To access the tree in Darkmeyer, players must have partially completed Sins of the Father. The blisterwood tree never depletes, but there is a 1/10 chance that the player stops cutting it, after which the player will need to click the tree again to continue cutting it. Players can gain up to around 65,000 experience per hour prior to level 90. Up to 80,000 experience per hour using a crystal felling axe and forester's rations.

Cutting sulliuscep mushroom trees on Fossil Island is a low-effort alternative that offers the fastest experience when not using tick manipulation. Sulliusceps are located in the Tar Swamp, which is in the south-western part of the island. There are six sulliusceps found throughout swamp, but only one is large enough to be chopped down at any given time, while all other locations will have sulliuscep sprouts in their location. Players must traverse the Tar Swamp to find the choppable sulliuscep, the location of which is unique to each player. Once chopped, the next sulliuscep will spawn, the location of which cycles through the same sequence over and over.

To access Fossil Island, players must have completed Bone Voyage. When in the swamp, players must also be able to withstand occasional attacks from tar monsters and spine mushrooms. The Spine mushrooms can also poison the player, so bringing a form of antipoison, such as an antidote++ or the prayer book, is also recommended. When wearing the Hitpoints cape and the regen bracelet, very little healing is usually required. Teleporting back to your POH and using your restoration pool after chopping the final sulliuscep with the gear shown will mitigate the need to have food or Saradomin Brews in your inventory.

World 321 is the designated world for cutting sulliusceps. However, it is better to have as few players as possible when sulliuscep cutting to reduce damage taken, as Tar Monsters spawned by other players may target the player.

Experience rates are shown in the table below. The rates assume wearing the lumberjack outfit. If using this method from level 65 to 99, 97,778 sulliuscep chops are needed when wearing the lumberjack outfit.

Assuming players keep the sulliuscep caps, numulite, and unidentified fossils, on average players obtain approximately the following numbers of items when chopping the 97,778 sulliusceps required for 99 woodcutting from 65:

Through completing the Varrock museum fossil exhibit, 120,000 experience is obtained in skills of choice. The remaining 1,329 small, 638 medium, 509 large, and 140 rare fossils may then be converted at the mycelium pool, calcifying them using pyrophosphite and calcite. The recalcified bones can then be used on the most eastern strange machine in the House on the Hill for a total of 2,416,000 Prayer experience. This amount of prayer experience would be worth 18,431,587.00 at the Chaos altar in the Wilderness using dragon bones. The expected average experience rate is 580,000 experience per hour for recalcifying and converting the fossils obtained from Woodcutting, which takes on average about 4 hours and 20 minutes in total.

Cutting redwood trees in the Woodcutting Guild requires very little attention and offers decent experience. Players can bank the logs in the nearby bank chest, but redwood logs are not worth very much as opposed to magic logs, based on the current Grand Exchange prices. It is faster to simply drop the logs for the best experience rates. Fletching logs into stackable arrow shafts can also be convenient if the player would like to put less effort, as this does not require dropping logs. This will lower experience rates, however.

Redwoods can be cut reliably starting from level 88 using the Dragon axe special attack, a Lightbearer, and the Preserve prayer. Players should also wear as much prayer boosting equipment as possible to reduce the drain rate of Preserve. At level 89, Preserve is no longer required as the Lightbearer will almost always restore the player's special attack energy before their level drops back below 90 unless the special attack was activated in the last segment (12 seconds) of the boost cycle.

The following charts show expected experience rates for every tree. They assume the player is woodcutting 100% of the time, so real experience rates may be significantly lower due to downtime caused by resource depletion, banking, etc. Because of this, these experience rates are more accurate for higher level trees, as they allow the player to stay woodcutting for much longer.

These are the most abundant of all tree varieties in Old School RuneScape, and can be found nearly anywhere. Because regular trees only provide a single log per tree, it is recommended to find an area with multiple trees; simply use the World Map to find a suitable location that has a bank nearby. Note that dead trees and evergreen trees all count as regular trees.

This guide describes the most effective pay to play methods to train the Woodcutting skill. The experience rate estimates in this guide do not incorporate the use of any experience boosting items or bonus experience and assume that the best possible hatchet is being used for the stated Woodcutting level. Woodcutting is a gathering skill which typically involves collecting logs from different types of trees.

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