Introduction to Money Making

Money is key to everything in RuneScape, from buying armour to trading with other players. In this guide, we cover some quick methods of getting money as a new player in RuneScape.

Introduction

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Money can be used to buy so many items available in RuneScape - items used for combat, training skills, or just to look cool and fashionable. So, how can you make money while you’re still finding your footing?

Generally, money making methods can be split up into; combat (killing monsters, selling their loot), gathering items through skilling (gathering items to sell, such as ores), and creating items through skilling (making new items out of ingredients).

Items can be sold to shops, or other players, but it is recommended to make your way to the Grand Exchange[runescape.wiki] in Varrock and sell your hard-earned loot there to get maximum profit.

Here are some tried and tested methods to earn some cash in your early days...

Non-combat methods

Picking potatoes[runescape.wiki] is an easy way to start building up your cash pile as you start the game. This method just involves collecting - simple as picking potatoes, banking them, and selling them! There are many potato fields around RuneScape, but the best one to start with is just north of the Lumbridge cow pen. Pick potatoes until your inventory is full, run to a bank, bank them, rinse and repeat.

Another good method while starting out is shearing sheep[runescape.wiki]. Shears are needed for this method, which can then be used on sheep to give you wool. The sheep pen in Taverley, and nearby bank in Burthorpe, is a great location for this method. You can also choose to spin your wool[runescape.wiki] at a spinning wheel, turning them into balls of wool, to increase your profit and train your Crafting skill at the same time.

Mining ores are a core way to earn money, whatever stage you’re at in the game, with tons of ores to choose from. As you level up your Mining skill, this will allow you to mine even more expensive ores for more profit. Starting out, you can mine copper ore[runescape.wiki], or clay[runescape.wiki], then iron ore[runescape.wiki], working your way up to adamantite ore[runescape.wiki], and finally, runite ore[runescape.wiki]. Upgrading your pickaxe when possible will also help you gather maximum ores for more money.

Combat methods

At lower combat levels, it’s good to start off by killing chickens[runescape.wiki]. Chickens can be found on farms all over Gielinor, where they drop raw chicken and feathers, as well as laying eggs in various spawn points.

Once you’ve reached around level 10 combat, you can try moving on to killing cows[runescape.wiki]. Cows drop raw beef, cowhide, and bones. All of these drops can be sold to earn a pretty penny early on in the game - make sure to keep an eye out for any drops left behind from your fellow ‘scapers too!

At slightly higher combat levels, killing adolescent white wolves[runescape.wiki] is a good way to increase your profit-making. These wolves can be found on the eastern side of White Wolf Mountain, where they drop wolf bones and wolf meat. Once your inventory is full, you can quickly bank your loot at the nearby Taverley bank.

Lastly, if you’ve reached a mid-high combat level, killing spellwisps[runescape.wiki] is the way to go. Spellwisps are magical creatures that live just by the Wizards’ Tower, and commonly drop a wide range of magic-themed loot, as well as guaranteed (and valuable) impious ashes. Their magic loot drops vary from all sorts of runes, to full wizard robes, to talismans.

As you level up your combat, you’re going to want to fight harder monsters to gain more expensive loot. Killing bosses and training Slayer are arguably the best ways to earn money in RuneScape - see our PvM Guide for more information on how to get involved.

Conclusion

None of these tickle your fancy? Or do you need something higher-levelled? Don't worry about it. There's a dozen ways to make money in RuneScape, and it's not just limited to the methods above, or even the methods that a lot of people know. Almost anything can generate money, from mining and selling ores to spending all your time killing goblins.

We've got a comprehensive list of viable money making guides[runescape.wiki] over at the RuneScape Wiki, where you can also find more information about anything else you may need to know about RuneScape.

Good luck grinding those coins!

[TLO]

if u wanna make money on rs3, buy bond with $ and then sell it ingame its like 100 million GP

[crash fan razer63]

i remember making quite a bit mass-mining pure rune essence, not to mention it trains the mining skill while i was doing it.

[Barbas_]

@kadmiop22 Aside from legendary pets, which gain levels and have skills and you need RuneCoins to buy, no other pet does that. Followers that you summon with the Summoning skill are able to attack. Also, to buy a home you need to be a Member

[kadmiop22]

how much money do you need to buy a home?? Apart from that, i had a pet , a cat which i get it free but i think it didn't attack or gained experience and levels. why?

[Stunt Monkey]

Someone claimed they were making around 2 miilion gp every hour just killing chicken and selling Raw Chicken adn Feathers. I thought they were making it up, but sure enough I tried it and made about 600,000 gp in only 30 minutes.

[Meegu]

i've noticed that weapons sell really well at the grand exchange! made a lot of my money there by selling copper 2h swords.

[burger boy]

i find that simply making armour and selling it works pretty well, plus while mining the ore you can get a ton of geodes and sell the crafted gems from them for quite a bit. another surprising one is eggs, they practically sell like solid gold.

[Obixium]

Here is a easy (and quite effective) way to get money.
1 - Finish the burthorpe tutorial. If you don't want the levels gained from it, an effective way to get rid of the levels is, on tutorial island, say "I am an experienced player." Off the burthorpe lodestone, start chopping down trees. Get to level 15 woodcutting, banking the logs you get at the burthorpe bank. Grab 28 logs, light one, then right click a log and Use the log on the fire. This gains more xp. After that, wait for the fires to turn into ashes. Pick up those ashes, and run to the GE. Sell them, and with the money you get buy some arrow shafts, mainly 1000 of them. Then run to lumbridge (or teleport) and with 6000 gp buy 1000 feathers. Start fletching on the spot.
2 - With those headless arrows, run back (or teleport) to the GE and sell them. They will go for around 200K. After that, continue fletching but buy your materials off the GE. Remember that feathers have a 4 hour period of a max 10,000 buy limit.

[Fyre]

Headless arrows are also pretty good for starting off.

[420noscope]

Git Stonks ^^^