RuneScape Money Making Guide Mining Iron

Iron is often used to gain mining experience in RuneScape. It is mined quickly and the respawn is short. Currently iron ore sells for 94 gold and looks like it will be rising soon. Quick gathering and decent money lead to large amounts of gold. Here’s the right way to do it.

If you have read my other guides you probably know noticed I’m all about getting money without doing a lot of work. I let others do the hard work and I rake in the profits. Iron is no exception. Iron is well known as the best F2P mining experience. Players are always at iron locations swinging their picks at the rocks. Most of these players powermine, which means dropping the ore instead of banking. Here’s where I come in.

I go to a crowded world. Yes I said crowded. Typically you want to go to a low populated world to train mining, but we’re making money. I like al-kharid because there are many iron rocks and usually lots of people powermining. Simply walk to the mine, pick up all of the iron laying on the ground and walk to the bank. Rinse and repeat. I have done this many times and 9/10 trips there is enough iron just sitting there for me to pick up and walk right back. The rare occasion where I don't get a full inventory instantly I just mine a few rocks of my own. Lots of different choices so pick your favorite (gold, silver, coal, iron). I get loads and loads of iron like this very quickly.

Now it's time to make money. You can sell the iron or process it to make even more money. You can buy coal and make steel bars to get that smithing level up. After the price of coal you’ll net about 200 gold per bar instead of the 100 gold for the iron ore. You could superheat the ores which cuts into your profit because of the nature rune cost, but gives you magic and smithing experience.

So use what works for you. Let others do the work and you take the money. Let us know how it goes and if you have any other favorite locations.

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RuneScape Money Making Guide Beefy Bill

Cows are a common monster to train on in RuneScape. You'll always find people killing them in Lumbridge. The drops aren't bad, hides and beef, but there is no bank close. So the drops just sit there and the money never comes. Raw beef is 58 coins and cowhides are 112 coins. It doesn’t seem like much, but you kill cows quickly and the two are dropped everytime. If there was a bank close you could bank and quickly make millions. Here’s where Beefy Bill comes in.

Beefy Bill is located in the cow area north of Lumbridge. It's just North of the windmill and south of the Varrock East mines. Bill is near a wagon and has a few things for sale. To be honest, I've never actually checked what he sells because I have no interest in buying things for him. I only care about his wagon and how it can bring items to my bank. If you give him items he will take them to the bank for you. That's right, no more walks to the bank to deposit your loot. Just give them to Bill and he'll do the walk for you.

He doesn't take just any items, but he will take cowhides and beef. Conveniently these are the two things that cows drop every time. Even better there are plenty of cows nearby. Now you can kill the cows and actually bank the drops quickly. Beefy Bill makes it possible to get that easy combat experience and make money doing so. Simply kill the cows nearby, pick up the hides and beef and use them on Beefy Bill. The items leave your inventory and end up in your bank. Nothing is ever free of course. Beefy Bill will take 10% of the items as a service fee.

What? I’m not paying him to bank for me!!! Hold on a second. Remember, people usually leave the items on the ground because the bank is too far. Paying 10% is not much considering your walk to the bank is gone. You'll easily make that 10% and more in the time it would take you to walk to a bank. And besides, 10% isn't much. If you come to Bill with 10 hides and 10 beef he will take 1 of each. That’s 9 hides and 9 beef instead of the 0 you had before. In money terms that is 1008 gold for 9 hides and 522 gold for the beef. A total of 1530 gold instead of ZERO. You can go one step further and tan the hides before selling. This will bring the price of the hide from 112 gold to 135 or so. A little extra cash for not much more time.

If you haven’t done so already pay Beefy Bill a visit, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Take a look at a few of my other money making techniques:

High Alch your way to Millions

Clay, the Hidden Money Maker

Flipping 101 - Learn How to Flip and pull in the Millions

RuneScape Money Making Guide Gold and Ashes

Last I checked, ashes were selling for 59 gold in the GE. 59 gold for ashes, are you crazy? No joke, it was 59 gold and from the looks it should keep rising. People use ashes to train their herblore so there are always willing buyers. Plenty of buyers plus an easy resource to obtain results in profits for you.

Head to a crowded world and go to a place where people like training firemaking. I like the Grand Exchange as there are always at least 2 or 3 people lighting fires here. Other favorites are the Fist of Guthix area and West Varrock. If it has at least 2 or 3 people lighting fires you're in a good spot. Anything less and you'll be standing around waiting and that doesn't bring in the money.

The process is easy. Pick up the ashes as they appear and put them in the bank. If you picked a good location there will always be ashes on the ground waiting for you. Remember, about 60 gold each and rising. I’ll save you the trouble and do the math for you. 60 x 28 = 1680 gold. That's 1680 gold per inventory. The bank run to deposit them is nothing since you are already right next to a bank. That’s 1680 gold in a matter of 20-30 seconds with no skill requirements needed. What are you waiting for? Go get yourself some money.

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High Alchemy - Train Magic and Earn Millions

Clay, the Hidden Money Maker

Flipping 101 - A Guide Showing the Right Way to Flip and Earn Millions

Runescape Make Millions Using Jugs, Clay and Vials

I tend to look online often for different ways to earn money in runescape. I like my millions and I like to see it grow more. I found many sites talking about vials. You buy and empty vial, fill it with water and sell it in the GE for money. This can make you millions, but what about clay or jugs? They can make you millions too.

Using water to make money is taking one item (vials, jugs, clay, etc.) and using it on the water source. After a few seconds your inventory is full of a new item (vial of water, jug of water, soft clay) which is worth more money. It takes no skills and is a quick process. Everyone always talks about filling vials, vials make you millions, well let's run the numbers and see what really works.

We'll start with quantity. All of the items are basically the same speed. You have a load of 28, walk to the nearest water source and presto, you have the end product. There is no winner in using the items on the water source, so let's look at getting the items. Vials and clay buy quickly on the GE. People like jugs for making wine and I always have a hard time buying jugs. You'll see in a minute, filling jugs is the best money maker, so you'll have to decide if the time waiting to buy them is worth it.

• Vials, the common item. An empty vial costs 27 gold and a filled one sells for 42 gold. That's 15 gold profit per vial. Not to bad since it takes less than a second to fill one.
• Clay, my favorite. Clay costs 35 gold and soft clay sells for 61 gold. That's 26 gold profit, almost double what vials get you. So why does no one talk about doing clay instead of vials??? Why would you ever fill vials instead of soften clay? Even if you want the vials of water for herblore, soften the clay and use the profits to buy the vials.
• Jugs, good, but hard to get. Jugs cost 46 gold and a jug of water sells for 77 gold. 31 gold profit and the winner. But they are harder to purchase so it's a little iffy at times.

I like clay, it's quick to buy and sell and gives almost twice what vials give you. Go buy some clay and try it yourself. You can even try selling it for a little over asking price, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Be sure to let us know what you sold for and how much profit you have.

Check out some of my other guides for more tips:

• High Alch Your Way to 99 Magic and Earn Millions
• A Side by Side comparison of RSBot vs. RSBuddy
• Make Millions Training Firemaking

RuneScape Fist of Guthix Bots FOGRunner

The rewards you can get from RuneScape’s Fist of Guthix (FOG) minigame are so diverse it’s hard to not want them all. Everything from gloves that give you extra experience while fishing, rune crafting and better herb drops, gauntlets to improve your defense and strength and the best F2P magic armor. To buy these rewards you need FOG tokens which are earned during the game. The process can be tedious as tokens come fairly slow. To get the rewards and not spend the time, try out a bot.

If you’ve read my past article where I compare RSBot and RSBuddy you’ll remember both bots have their pros and cons. For the most part it comes down to the script itself and in FOG RSBot is the winner by far. I've looked in the RSBuddy archives but have not found a decent FOG script. There are a couple in the "Alpha" stages, but nothing comes close to matching the one written by TerraBubble on RSBot. He wrote an amazing script called FOGRunner which plays the Fist Of Guthix minigame better than most humans.

When you first load the script you are hit with a variety of options, don't worry you can save them so you only do it one time. You choose when to use the teleorb, to use bandages, to try and find an opponent who runs, etc. All of the things you would expect from a Fist of Guthix bot. Where it really shines though is the combat. You have total control over what types of combat your character will use. Want to start with full rune training strength? Every 3rd game switch to mage and equip your combat robes? Pick a random combat style each game? You can do that and more. You choose when to switch, what to switch to and even what gear to wear for each combat style.

On defense you have the same options. Is your opponent using magic? Equip your magic gear. If he's using range equip the appropriate items. The script will switch gear, and does a good job, depending on your opponents combat style. You even have a whole section on prayers. Use quick prayers, defense prayers, attack enhancing prayers. Use whatever prayers you like.

The variety of options are great, and remember you can save them when you're done. The script plays the game extremely well. I was using it the other day and it played 22 games for me. I won 19 and lost 3. That goes down as a success in my books. If you haven't done so already take a look at the script and give it a shot, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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• Flipping 101 - Learn the secrets to making millions of gold in only 15 minutes a day
• Clay, the Hidden Money Maker - Learn how to turn clay into millions of gold
• Botting 101 RSBuddy vs. RSBot - Learn which bot is right for you in this side by side review.

RuneScape Cooking Guide, Make Money Cooking

I was working on my cooking level today and the worst thing possible happened. I ran out of lobsters to cook!!! My purchase was taking some time at the Grand Exchange so I decided to go catch my own fish. I grabbed my lobster pot, hopped on a boat and walked over to the docks in Karamja. Of course there are bots here, but it's fishing so it's ok. After a few minutes I learned it's better than OK, the bots are fantastic.

If you don't know about Stiles, learn about him. Stiles will take your cooked or uncooked fish and note them for you. If you aren't familiar with noting items, it works as follows. You catch a load of 27 lobsters and have a full inventory. Normally you'd walk to a bank, deposit, head back and fish again. Noting takes out the need to walk to the bank, and Stiles is closer than a bank in Karamja. You take those 27 lobsters and he turns it into a nice stackable item in your inventory. Those 27 slots are now one slot with 27 noted lobsters. As you note more fish they just keep stacking so you could have a stack of 5000 noted lobsters, all in one inventory slot. Deposit them at a bank when you're all done and they are just like normal lobsters.

So back to cooking. I noticed lots of people powerfish at karamja. This means they fish a load of lobsters, tuna or swordfish and just drop them. This lets them skip the process of walking to Stiles to bank and gives them faster exp. To you it means free fish. Pick up the fish, starting with the most expensive. Grab the swordfish, then the lobsters, then the tuna. Walk to stiles to get them noted and head back. When you return there will be more fish on the ground.

If you're like me you aren't a tuna fan. Sure they give good cooking exp, but i'd rather have lobsters and swordies in my inventory since they are more money. This is where cooking comes in. Remember, stiles notes cooked fish as well. Bring your tinder box and a hatchet so you can start a fire on the docks. There is always tuna to grab, but lobster and swordfish might take a minute or two to show up. While you wait, grab the tuna, cook it, then drop it. You are getting the good cooking exp without having to walk or buy anything. You can even cook the lobster and swordfish right there, drop the burnt and just fill up with cooked fish. Stiles will note them and you are all set.

You can get thousands of fish and loads of experience this way. A bit slower, but just as busy, is the barbarian village. People drop the salmon and trout so you could pick it up, cook and bank in edgeville. Don't let those resources go to waste when they are begging for you to take them.

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RuneScape - High Alchemy, Make Money Training Magic

Training magic in RuneScape requires runes and runes cost money. Sure you can buy staffs to supplement the runes, but you are still spending money each time you cast a spell. To some losing money is not a big deal, to others losing money is a show stopper. I'm in the latter group. I like to watch my pile of cash grow in the bank, not shrink. Read on to see how I make money with magic.

Getting to lvl 55 magic is key. There are various guides from casting the first level wind strike, to Fist of Guthix to super heating to get you to this level. You'll spend some gold getting here, but once you do you are home free. Because now you can cast High-Level Alchemy.

The spell costs 5x Fire Runes and 1x Nature Rune and each casting gives you 65 exp. The first step is getting a fire staff. It costs 1,500 gold and is mandatory for casting this spell since it brings the cost down to 1x nature rune. Every item has a high-alch price and the basic formula for success is: Item Price + Nature Rune '" High-Alch Price = Profit.

A few tips before we start talking about making that profit go up:

• Keep an eye on Nature Rune prices and buy them when they are low (you'll use them so don't worry about having too many).
• Buy items at low prices. It might take an hour or two for the purchase to go through, but a few coins on thousands of items add up.
• There are limits in the grand exchange so buy items when you can.

There is a great website, click here, that lists items and the profit you will make alching them. It does the hard-work of taking the cost, adding in the nature rune price and doing the calculations for you so you can profit profit profit. I visit that site daily and buy items. Many have limits of 100 per every four hours so I just stock up then alch them later for my profit. The buy price might change but the alch price doesn't so it doesn't hurt to buy now and alch later. You'll notice things like rune platelegs and rune kiteshields tend to give nice profits for F2P, just buy at the right time. Of course P2P has better profits, but that's the case for most anything in RuneScape.

A trick I've been doing recently is alching gold necklaces. Let's take a look at the formula above and see how we do, Item Price + Nature Rune '" High-Alch Price = Profit

• Gold Necklace: 126 gold
• Nature Rune: 120 gold (I bought 100k at 120 gold when prices were low)
• High Alch: 270 gold

That gives me a profit of 24 gold per necklace. It doesn't seem like much, but here's the trick. I made my own necklaces. Gold bars are always for sale since people train smithing with gold. Don't buy gold ore, bars are way cheaper. You can get them for around 100 gold each, less on the forums. I bought 10k gold bars at 100 gold each. Crafted them into gold necklackes (crafting level 6 required) giving me 20 exp crafting each. I then alched all 10k necklaces for a profit of 50 gold each. To save you the trouble of calculating, that's 500k profit!!!! And I got magic and crafting experience.

I keep myself well stocked on gold necklaces with the method above and alch them to train magic. I visit the above mentioned site to see what high profit items are available and buy them in the GE (remember those pesky buy limits). While I wait for the buy to go through, or wait until I can buy more, I alch the necklaces. I get to watch my pile of gold grow and grow and get free magic exp while I do it.

Have any special items you alch? Share them with us so we can join in on the profits.

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• Flipping 101 - How to Flip Effectively
• RSBot vs. RSBuddy, Which Bot is Better?