Money Making Schemes

Nagesh answers:

With the addition of the G.E (Grand exchange) earning money in runescape is a lot easier than it was before.

People will often tell you to go pk or something, but honestly, the things that will help you are your skills.

Personally, I like Woodcutting, but here is an explanation on which skills can help you make money.

COMBAT
Killing creatures is one of the most popular methods used to make money in RuneScape. Also in non-member worlds, the style of killing even the most basic creatures can have profits. For example, beginners at combat in RuneScape can kill Chickens or Cows. The feathers from the Chickens can be sold for 5-15gp each, to Fletchers and Fishers. Cow Hides can be sold to Crafters who use it to level the Crafting Skill, and sell their crafted armor to Rangers.

COOKING
Cooking is a difficult skill to make money off of, mainly because raw food generally sells for higher prices than cooked food. One of the only ways to make money with this skill is to fish your own fish and then cook and sell them.

CRAFTING
Besides Smithing, Crafting is the only other skill that players can use to make a variety of armor with. Out of the armors available to be made (Leather, Snakeskin, and Dragonhide), the Dragonhide yields the most profit. Out of the Dragonhide, you can make three items: Vambraces, Chaps, and a Body. It can be sold as a set (all three items together), or individually. Usually, the body sells more than the vambraces or chaps.

FISHING
The best way for free-to-players to make money with the Fishing skill is on Karamja. Since they can only fish up to Swordfish, these fish along with Lobsters and sometimes Tuna are the best healing fish in the Free-to-play world. Fish that can only be caught using a Harpoon or a Lobster pot can only be fished by free-to-players in the Wilderness or from the dock on the northern shore of the Karamja island.To get to Karamja, head over to Port Sarim with 60gp (boat ride costs 30gp each way) and either a Harpoon or a Lobster pot and talk to Captain Tobias, Seaman Thresnor, or Seaman Lorris to get transport to Karamja. Once there, walk west down the path past the house until you see a hole in the fence. Walk north following the path and you will come out of the banana trees near a dock. If you see a General Store you have gone too far west. Fish until your inventory is full then return to the bank. You can cook the fish if you want, but most people won’t light a fire near the dock to save inventory space. Raw Tuna sells for 100-300gp each, Raw Lobsters sell for 250-300gp each and Raw Swordfish sell for 200-400gp each.

GRAND EXCHANGE
You can do the method of merchant-ing…and remember to follow the saying that guides merchants in life “Buy low, Sell high” I don’t recommend this–you can usually make only 10% profit, and you should have at least 1m gold to start

MINING
-Gold Ore Method: It may be slow but it is EXTREMELY profitable! Mining is one of the best ways to make money long-term.
-Iron Ore Method: Iron ores sell really well as well. For non-members, the best place to mine them are in south west/east varrock. It’s the closest mining spot to the bank.
-Coal: You’ve hit the jackpot. They sell for high prices, and are always in demand! It’s one of the easiest and fastest way to make money…and they take only 30 seconds to respawn. Dwarven mines have a lot of coal rocks — but there are mobs there so wear armor. If you have 60 mining or more, you can mine in the Mining Guild, which has no monsters but a lot of coal rocks!
Mithril Ores: They can sell for up to 400 gp each. The Mining Guild has a lot of rocks, but there is a lot of competition. Southwest of the Lumbridge Swamp has Mithril Rocks, but they are far from the bank…but there are barely anyone there.
Adamant Ores: They sell for 1k-2k each. But they are harder to mine, and I do not recommend this.
Rune Ores: This makes more than most of the other skills. They can sell up to 12k each! You can make 1 million gp every hour, believe it or not. However, for F2P the only place with Rune rocks are in the Wilderness level 46 (so bring your armor!)

PLAYER KILLING
So how do you become a successful player killer? You must be smart while in the Wild. You have to be aware of everyone and everything around you at all times if you expect to be successful. It may be a good idea to bring another trusted player or two with you into Bounty Hunter. This is a much safer way to travel than alone.

How do you decide whether or not you would like to fight another player? Whether or not you choose to attack a player will depend on various factors. Look at that person’s items. If the player has valuable goods with him, attacking him will be more enticing. If you use the Protect Item Prayer you will save one item even if you are killed.

While in the fight, when you eat and drink is very important. Assuming you have brought good food and potions, you will have to time them accordingly. It

Nagesh answers:

I can’t tell you what you want to know, but gee, when you find out how to do it, please let me know.

Nagesh answers:

There are two options, depending whether you have just started or have reasonable skill levels.

1. Mine ores and sell them, especially coal and gold.
2. Collect ashes, it might seem strange but obviously someone has hacked a rich players account and set him to buy 10 million GP worth of ashes at Min price.

Nagesh answers:

Get members.

Mine pure essence.
Requirements:
30 mining (easily obtained)
rune mysteries quest completed (very easy)

Nagesh answers:

There’s many ways to gain large amounts of cash, 1 method would be fishing sharks which requires 76 fishing and lots of patience, you can gain about 150k an hour.

Another method is Runecrafting(RCing), probably the most profitable skill in Runescape, At 82 RCing you could make over 700k an hour! 91 over 1m an hour.

You could also try Woodcutting, yews are around 100k an hour and magics 200k an hour.

Hunter can bring in 150k-200k an hour 63+ with Red Chinchompas

For the Combat people out there, killing dragons can very profitable. Green one’s are about 400k, I think blue’s are about the same.

Slayer is also another Combat skill and very profitable but requires you to be a high level in it, at 80+ slayer i believe you can make over 500k an hour(sorry, this may not be accurate as I don’t slay much).

Another way to earn money that doesn’t require any skills is Merchanting. You could try it with a clan such as “2lum”, “Cash Cream”, or “Wefightge”(the only ones I know of) Just don’t get caught with the items their merchanting after they dump them. If you don’t feel comfortable with a clan you could try solo merchanting. Its debatable which method is better. The more cash you invest, the more you make (or loose if your items you merchant fails) so I can’t really give you an hourly gain of cash.

Hope this helps! =)