Money Making Guides?

[Nobark]

Hey I'm a returning player reliving some childhood nostalgia, there's like no information I can find about repeatable methods to get gold, I'm looking to make at least like 50k to 100k an hour through a method that doesn't require combat or waiting to sell to a player, run a personal shop, or list on the Marketplace. the more AFK the better as I play Runescape while I play this.

I'm looking to find something repeatable I can do that involves gathering supplies and being able to sell them to NPC shops, or craft them into items I can sell to NPC shops. If you are looking for an example I'll use Runescape as one, theres a shop you can buy uncut gems from cut the gems then sell them back to the shop for a bit of profit. I'm looking for stuff like this.

Things I've tried.

Early game tailoring, loses money making clothes. making thread tho is super profitable, need to wait for a buyer tho

Cutting Firewood, Profitable, but I crashed the price on the Market. x D

Early game fishing. Also Crashed the price, plus takes wayyyy to long to sell the fish if it sells at all.

Early game cooking, took all that fish that never sold and make it into plates, this loses heaps of money.

I also Tried pet expeditions, which I got lucky and rolled an item worth 1.5m but it took a whole night to sell and way under market value.

Basically I've just been throwing ♥♥♥♥ at a wall and can't find anything repeatable. please help I'm broke and the lack of info on the wiki is crazy.

I promise once I find out what is and isn't profitable I'll write a money making guide myself with everything for the Noobs.

[Ninisty]

Tailoring/Crafting - Obsolete mostly unless you're crafting end-game gear. Chances are you'll fetch more money just by selling the materials rather then the finished product at the auction house.

Firewood/Materials - It's less about crashing the market and more about the weekday/weekend swings. Firewood and other basic materials are used for heavy commercing and sell more on the weekend then they do the week day.

Cooking - Made redundant by some NPC shops that sell food that can be used to making catering dishes.

The only real trial by fire to make money is to get lucky. Via dungeon drops in Rundall/Alby Hard Mode or Tech Dungeon Hard Mode. That or drop real $$$$ and sell VIP Bundle / Reforges / Enchant Protects.

But let's be real, if you want to make a solid amount of money. You need to do (Elite) Shadow Wizard. You can find parties for these on Friday/Saturday. If you have shadow mission crystals; use them, those help. Sell any materials you're not using. Even if it's a meager item worth 5k-10k, it'll add up, just keep selling on the auction house. Completing missions and the growth guide will give you reforging tools. Use these to enhance your tools like fireaxe or pickaxe to increase gathering speed and rate. Your homestead is a gold mine. Plant herbs, put down wood cutting blocks. Cobweb stump. Just sell it all.

Complete your generations and get Phantasmal Sight tech card. This will speed up your gathering opportunities by 2000%

[Proboscis]

You wanna make 50-100k per hour without combat or trading? Good luck brother.

[z99o]

I dont think theres any practical way that isn't selling materials to players. In the limited pool of items you can farm and process with low effort, once you have something that sells well to NPCs, Selling them to players becomes so profitable you might as well wait for a buyer.

My AFK farm is the "Cobweb Economy" where you sit in the Tir Chonaill graveyard with dolls that pick up cobwebs. After you fill your inventory, check market prices of materials crafted from cobwebs like silk and tough thread then make whatever sells the highest. Right now Tough Thread is what I'm farming. Its selling at around ~5k a piece but it usually sells slower than Silk. Fortunately it stacks to 100, so I dont need to use all my market slots like with Silk. One nice thing about this method is that is scales well. As you get more money, you can buy more cobweb bags, which lets you AFK longer before you have to craft. If I cared to optimize it, I could get maybe 1M worth of thread in an hour, but otherwise I can make ~300-400k. Again, this is theoretical gains, since I would have to wait for buyers, and introducing so much volume will tank the price. Another selling method I've not tried is to sell full bags of thin thread/silk. You can only do this with a personal shop and it requires a 300k gold investment for each one, but you can sell 100 instead of 10 at a time.

Checking out all the other basic material farms, you can find good low effort money makers. There are a variety of resources where you just need to click and look away. Off the top of my head, Milk, Wool, Poison (if you have a snake), Mushrooms, Shyllien, Mining and Herbs. Think about processing them too! You may have crashed the firewood market, but did you crash the fine firewood market? Nothings as hands off as cobwebs though. Not sure which ones are truly the best, but people seem to not want to share what they're doing as to not crash the price of their "super secret money maker". You've noticed that the market is easily crashable by one person, so its best to make a list of these farms and cycle as the market fluctuates.

One thing that DOES involve NPC selling is Fynni pet whistles. If you have 4 cages, you can get about 100k every 12 hours if you do A rank pet whistles. Sometimes people even sell those whistles for less than what you get from trading it in! The items you can buy with the acorns you get from whistles are also sellable to players.

Another weird money maker is duplicating ingots. If you have an Arat Crystals and Holy Water, you can craft 10 ingots with 1. If one HW + Arat = 15k, and one ingot sells for 3000 gold, then you get almost 2x back at 27k. Of course, you'll need to pay attention to which ingots are in demand, but as long as the materials are cheap, its free money. One downside of this method is that the alchemy UI is really annoying and depending on which ingot and what skills you have, there may be a failure rate.

One speculation I have, is that you might be able to AFK farm certain monster field spawns for cooking ingredients and leather with pets on auto-attack, same method as cobwebs. Dugald Aisle raccoons come to mind. Some of the NX store dog pets can pick up items, so you may be able to leverage that as well (if you're going to be AFKing for 100s of hours, you might as well pay $10 to optimize it). I tried this out, but it seems that the drops are pretty poor and pet AI will stop working if the player is idle. There may be some sort of exploit to keep the AI active.

A mistake I made when farming leather was not knowing about the "Ingredient Hunting" skill, which is an insanely stupid skill that passively gives you a high chance of any enemy dropping leather and cooking ingredients, and I had no idea about Phantasmal Sight until now, so I guess I'll have fun doing the incredibly tedious generation quests <.< .

As Ninisty said, Shadow Wiz Elite is the most meta way to farm money while still being accessible to low-mid progression players. If you're willing to be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, you can leech off those parties. Since everyone is trying to speedrun, they might not even notice that you're not contributing lol.

[LuckyToShoot]

100k/hr without waiting for long to sell to other player AND afk-ish method, that's asking for a lot in mabi lol. Runescape has a somewhat healthy economy where certain goods that can reliably obtained can also be reliably sold within. But I am afraid mabi lacks common items that people need in bulk, and it's just pretty difficult to sell bulk items in mabi in general, because people can undercut, and even when selling bulk items, there's usually less than 15 transaction for those items each day and you have to compete with a good amount of players for bulk items that actually make decent money. Iron ingots are highly competitive, you'll prolly only see 5-10 stacks sold each day and people will undercut you if you don't keep an eye on the price every 15min, hillwen ore frags same thing basically, idk how well hillwen alloy sell anymore, but i used to be able to sell like 2 stacks of those stuff a day for like total of 4mil ish each day cause people needed it for erg. Your best bet is really just get lucky on a drop in cromm, glenn or tech hard.

Things that other people mentioned above is pretty decent as well, but again most of them you either crash the market, or even if you don't there's only really 5-20 transaction each day for those items and you will compete with other players to undercut eachother unless u really keep an eye on AH every 15min, which get tedious when u sell a large variety of items.

[z99o]

Originally posted by LuckyToShoot:

...people will undercut you...

I try to find products where the people undercutting are just dumping half a stack or two, because you can just wait for one guy to scoop them up for the minimum price to go back to normal. It's generally better with the less common materials, but right now is a pretty bad time to sell stuff like leather materials since the study event gives them in droves.