How do you make good amounts of money on the game “Runescape”, I’ve been playing it so long but I make like barely any money on it.
I have to admit, I don’t know much about RuneScape, but I do know that it’s a tremendously popular MMORPG (that is, massively multiplayer online role-playing game) with more than four million active players. That’s equal to the population of some small nations!
According to a nice backgrounder piece on Wikipedia, RuneScape is set in a medieval fantasy world, similar to “Guild Wars” or “EverQuest”, where players control character representations of themselves. As with most massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG), there is no overall objective or end to the game. Players explore, form alliances, earn gold coins, perform optional tasks, and complete quests for rewards and to build character’s skills.
A typical screen in RuneScape
During peak hours, it is common to see around 170,000 players online across the 115 international servers in 5 countries, with a peak in excess of 185,000 simultaneous logged-in players reached in early February 2006. Up to 2,000 players may be on one server at once, allowing a maximum of 230,000 online players at any one time. These servers are called “worlds” in RuneScape. These servers are located in the United States (79), the United Kingdom (18), Canada (6), the Netherlands (6) and Australia (6), making it the most popular online Java based game in the world. RuneScape is updated with roughly 4 main updates a month – creating updates on a weekly basis, with the addition of new skills, quests, areas of the map, items, or other details added to the imaginary world.
Very impressive, but let’s talk about how you can make money as a RuneScape character, since you already know the game pretty well, right?
According to some RuneScape experts, there are basically eight ways you can make money in the game:
- Thieving
- High alchemizing
- Mining
- Smithing
- Merchanting
- Dragon & giant slaying
- Fishing and RuneCrafting
Any of those sound appealing? 🙂
In terms of some specifics, this player suggests that thieves should do their best to pickpocket guards, especially if you’re at least a level 50 player. If you’d rather not mug guards, you can become at least a level 40 miner and sell coal that you’ve mined to the bank for a good profit.
Merchanting is what sounds most appealing to me (but I’m a business guy / capitalist!) and as a merchant, always haggle to get the best price on any goods you buy. Seems like good advice, doesn’t it?
If you want to just read a pretty random collection of money-making tips, check out Sal’s Money-Making Tips on the same site. There’s some humor in there too, with advice like “steal enough fur til you get enough fur.” Um, okay. An easier-to-read tips page can also be found on the Nexodyne Forums.
Another site well worth reading is RuneHQ, specifically its interesting Guide to Money Making. You’re definitely not alone in your quest!
Generally a Google search for Make Money Runescape produces over 800,000 matches, so there’s plenty of reading available for the avid player.
Hope that helps you out. Good luck moving up in levels and slaying those dragons!
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14Xerxes221, the site’s based, um, somewhere in the ether. Possibly just a bit south of Mordor or maybe in Al Kharid or similar. In any case, I know this: it’s running on Mountain Standard Time. So maybe it is Mount Doom after all.
Say where is this site manned or whatever? Like Texas? It’s currently 10:28 here in Buffalo, NY but the entry time on my screen says 8:28.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 4-6pm New York time. I play all year round.
Sup poor people. Level 70 on RS and here’s a good way to make money. U have to be a member to do this. U need to go to castle wars. Quickest way to do this is to get a ring of dueling from the grand exchange or make one and teleport to castle wars. This doesn’t require any specific levels. Go on either team doesn’t matter. U may have to wait for up to 20 minutes for a game to start. Went u start it doesn’t matter how many Timex u die. Go around collecting arrows on balconies and tunnels. One dragon arrow is about 1k. Go around like this till game ends. The amount of profit u get out of this depends on how much stuff u collect.My name on RS IS 14Xerxes221. I play on Fri, sat, Sunday at 4-6pm
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Me again. Lvl 65 on Runescape. buy a rune 2h for about 35000 and sell it back 1 day later for about 40000. My name on runescape is 14Xerxes221.
Hello everyone.
I am very disappointed at the amount of begging and potential scamming that has been posted here.
Money is easy to make, but varies in time if you want to make large amounts (Such as enough to purchase party hats)
I must also say that 99% of people who claim to sell money in-game or cheap memebership are scammers
I’m going to only speak about free-tp-play(non-members) moneymaking methods, as most memberships have little trouble getting money, and I haven’t actually bothered looking it up.
Mining/fishing have always been standard ways of making decent low-levelled cash. You could also further smith or cook the items for extra XP, although this will sometimes decrease profit.
A good way to make money from mining is to mine the coal/mithril in the dwarven mines resource dungeon (north of falador) and banking it at the bank deposit box (requires 15 dungeoneering from memory) and then selling it in large amounts to the grand exchange for a high price (depending on your level of patience) or to other players around runescape.
If you would like mining XP gain as well as money, you can join a clan and obtain a vex and a ring of kinship(from daemonheim) to teleport to rimmington and the daemonheim bank, respectively, to mine and bank iron.
The best free-to-play fishing spot is in east Karamja. You bring either a lobster pot or harpoon and fill your inventory with fish (and possibly cook them) then go south of the volcano to note uncooked fish and repeat.
There are many more better ways of obtaining money, such as from merchanting and flipping, but these are more for skilled players and there are more in-depth guides in the runescape wiki.
My runescape username is Kaherpus or Kaherpusa and I’d happily give anyone 10-20k as I know it’s very hard to make money if you begin with none at all.
One last piece of advice I could offer is that you must be very patient. Gathering materials and trading them takes a long time, but you must strive to make maximum profit.
there’s a good way to make money( membership required) its by killing jungle spiders,, sels about 1.7k each. located east of yanille if you check the map you can see a mini island there, you can aslo find jungle spiders at karamja near tai bwo wannai village. i hope this helps
Hi sir i need money can you give plz
Im a lvl 64 on RS and I make millions by collecting proboscis’s. You need to have completed the members quest jungle potion. U need a machete to cut down the jungle in karamja at two bai wannai. Occasionally u will be attacked by mosquitos. A group usually drops five probes. Each proboscis sells for over 9500gp!!!
Ok here is the best way of making money: Ready?
Ok here it goes:
I made 3million in one day (5 hours play)
You have to be a member. Go to Gnome tree and go north to the swamp. If you look on you map and look at the gnome tree, you’ll see it marked down as swamp.
Take the swamp toads and bank them. There is many of them and the respawn time is really fast. Just go to a quite world. You can sell each Swamp toad for 1000gp easily. Enjoy being a millionaire
hey i have a great way to make money steal from the grand exchange take the most worthless item you have put it on sell click custom price put 900,000,000 and thats how much it cost to sell warning this takes 7 to 30 days but less work
if u want to make good money another way for non-members is to do mining and fishing. spend a good 3 hard hours getting your mining to lvl 40 and go to karamja and mine the gold in the volcano. P.s go to a world with no players. Also if your a magicain (which i think migicians are cool) killing the demons there are excekllent practice. Im a lvl 19 magician trying to improve. Ad me, my name is “97Breakrune”
if your new to rs i reccomend going to the barbarian camp. If you go to the bridge, under there should be heaps of high lvl players fishing. if not go to world 1. Collect the SALMON these player drop. once u hav a full inventory go 2 the ge and sell the salmon. U make 1,227 every time. Its good if your a new player. its quite quick and easy…….just hit the run button. Also if your at least lvl 20 or above. Go to the museum in varrock. just around the museum there is a shaft tunnel. enter the tunnel and run all the way through to the red spiders den. they have eggs there worth 336 each. collect your whole inventory. sell at the ge for at least 12,000 each time.
u r wrong to make money u need to become a member,sell,fish and sell,cut down trees and sell,mine ore and sell or find money at goblin farm
Hey its Furry Demon and my money making guide requires a lot of money but the profit is massive so first of with 1m then buy 2500 oak logs for 39 gp each.Then with the rest of the money take it up to the saw mill and get it made into a oak play which is worth 400 gp and are awlways baught due to players wanting to level up construction