Woodcutting Guide

Introduction

Woodcutting is a skill used to chop logs from trees. These logs may be used for firemaking, fletching, or possibly construction. Simply click on a tree to chop it down. However, you will need to have the necessary hatchet in your inventory and a minimum woodcutting level.

If you are just starting out in Woodcutting you may want to pay a visit to Roddeck the Advisor in the building just east of the Lumbridge General Store to learn about the different kinds of trees and hatchets. You can get a free Bronze Hatchet from Bob’s Brilliant Axes and a free tinderbox from the Lumbridge General Store.

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Tools

Hatchets

Hatchets are the primary tool for woodcutting. The better your hatchet, the higher your chance of getting logs from the tree.

Pic	Name	WC Lvl	Cost to Buy	Notes
	Bronze Hatchet	1	20gp	You get this from tutorial isle, can be bought at Bob's axes in Lumbridge.
	Iron Hatchet	1	400gp	Can be bought at Bob's axes in Lumbridge.
	Steel Hatchet	6	500gp	Can be bought at Bob's axes in Lumbridge.
	Black Hatchet	6	2,000gp	Can not be smithed.
	Mithril Hatchet	21	1,500gp	-
	Adamant Hatchet	31	3,000gp	-
	Rune Hatchet	41	20,000gp	-
	Dragon Hatchet	61	-	Obtained by killing Dagannoth Kings in the Waterbirth Island Dungeon.
	Inferno Adze*	61	-	Reward for lighting all 14 beacons in the Beacon Network (after the All Fired Up quest.)

* Note: When cutting with the Inferno Adze some logs will be burned. You will still receive the woodcutting experience along with firemaking experience. You will not receive the logs.

Machetes (members only)

Machetes are members items and can only to be used on Karamja for cutting through jungle vegetation. They are mainly used for the Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up mini game, but one is needed to get into the Kharazi Jungle on Karamja as well.

Pic	Name	WC Lvl	Cost to Buy	Notes
	Machete	1	60gp	Can be bought at Shilo Village and Tai Bwo Wannai Village general stores.
	Opal Machete	1	600 Trading Sticks	Can be bought at Gabooty's Co-op in Tai Bwo Wannai Village. Safta Doc can also make these is exchange for gems but Gabooty is a cheaper option.
	Jade Machete	1	1,200 Trading Sticks	Can be bought at Gabooty's Co-op in Tai Bwo Wannai Village. Safta Doc can also make these is exchange for gems but Gabooty is a cheaper option.
	Red Topaz Machete	1	2,400 Trading Sticks	Can be bought at Gabooty's Co-op in Tai Bwo Wannai Village. Safta Doc can also make these is exchange for gems but Gabooty is a cheaper option.

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Trees and Bushes

There are several types of trees all over the RuneScape world, the grey rows in the table below indicate members only varieties.

Type	Level	Tool Required	Exp	Info
Normal Tree	1	Hatchet	25	This is what everybody starts on. This gives the only type of logs that can be used to fletch arrow shafts. Regular trees are also seen around the world in three other different varieties. 'Dead' Trees, 'Dying Trees,' and 'Evergreen' Trees. They give the same Exp as normal trees except some dead trees in the wild give charcoal instead of logs.
Achey Tree	1	Hatchet	25	Part of the Big Chompy Bird Hunting Quest. Find more details in our Chompy Hunting guide.
Light Jungle	10	Machete	32	Cut in Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up area to earn favour for trading sticks. While cutting you will often be attacked by many enemies from the mini game.
Oak Tree	15	Hatchet	37.5	The next step up from normal, these can be used to gain xp. A popular choice for making planks to train Construction.
Medium Jungle	20	Machete	55	Cut in Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up area to earn favour for trading sticks. While cutting you will often be attacked by many enemies from the mini game.
Willow Tree	30	Hatchet	67.5	The most common tree apart from normal. Used by many players for firemaking and fletching as it is not too hard to obtain and there is a good market for their logs.
Dense Jungle	35	Machete	80	Cut in Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up area to earn favour for trading sticks. While cutting you will often be attacked by many enemies from the mini game.
Teak Tree	35	Hatchet	85	Generally used to make planks for Construction. They can be found in Tai Bwo Wannai tree grove* Kharazi Jungle Ape Atoll near Uzer south of Castle Wars Mos Le'Harmless Miscellania** Occasionally while cutting teaks, you will get a special teak log. Bring this to the sawmill and sell it for 1.3k gp, or exchange 2 of them for a full inventory of teak planks.
Maple Tree	45	Hatchet	100	Not a green tree! There are plenty of these around Seers' village, especially north towards the Fremennik Province. Although these trees only appear on p2p worlds, the logs can be traded and burned on f2p worlds.
Hollow Tree	45	Hatchet	82.5/357.7*	These are only found east of Canifis in the Haunted Woods. If you get bark from cutting this tree, you get 357.7 experience. The bark can not be used for fletching. Use the bark on a torch in the Haunted Woods (along with a tinderbox) to get good firemaking experience. Bark is also used to make Splitbark Armour for Magicians.
Mahogany Tree	50	Hatchet	125	Generally used to make planks for Construction. They can be found in Tai Bwo Wannai tree grove* Kharazi Jungle Ape Atoll Mos Le'Harmless Miscellania** Occasionally while cutting mahogany trees, you will get a special mahogany log. Bring this to the sawmill and sell it for 3.9k gp, or exchange 2 of them for a full inventory of mahogany planks.
Arctic Pine Tree	54	Hatchet	140.2	These are found on the Island of Neitiznot in the The Fremennik Isles quest
Eucalyptus tree	58	Hatchet	165	Used during the As a First Resort quest. Close to a bank, but surrounded by wolves and ogres; making it hard to train here.
Yew Tree	60	Hatchet	175	A good tree to cut down if you want to make money, for fletching and the best available for f2p players.
Clinging Ivy	68	Hatchet	332.5	Earns fast experience points. Cutting it does not produce items in your inventory (such as logs.) However, a bird’s nest may still randomly fall while cutting. Ivy can be found growing on walls in the following cities: Varrock Palace, north side near yews and southeast near Tree farming patch Falador, outside north wall and outside south wall Taverley, southeast East Ardougne, outside east wall of church Yanille, outside north wall Castle Wars, outside south wall
Magic Tree	75	Hatchet	250	The rarest of trees - they even sparkle! Hard to chop down but very profitable for fletchers. Seers' Village, south Sorceror's Tower Tree Gnome Stronghold Mage Training Arena Lletya, southwest

* The Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up tree grove costs 100 trading sticks to enter. It contains 4 Mahogany and 9 Teak trees.
** Once you have completed the Royal Trouble quest, these trees are a kingdom resource. You cannot keep any logs you cut and the xp is negligible, but you can choose to collect them from your investment.

Some types can only be reached via a certain quest.

Cursed Trees and Roots
Type	Level	Tool Required	Exp	Info
Cursed Willow Roots	37	Hatchet	15	Can only be cut in the Spirit plane after the Summer's End quest. To get to these after the quest, you will have to collapse the cave in the regular world with a pickaxe and then go to the Spirit plane and cut them.
Cursed Magic Tree	82	Hatchet	275	Can only be cut in the Spirit plane after the Spirit of Summer quest

The Cursed Trees/Roots can only be cut after either the Spirit of Summer quest or Summer's End quest.

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Bird's Nests (members only)

While woodcutting, a bird's nest will occasionally drop out of the tree and land next to you. If you pick up the nest and search it, it might contain some useful or valuable items, such as rings and seeds for farming. Other possible loot includes raven eggs, and red, green or blue birds' eggs. These eggs can be incubated and raised as pets for those with higher levels of the Summoning skill. Once empty, the nest can be crushed using a pestle and mortar for use in the Herblore skill.

As well as normal woodcutting you can also obtain nests from Managing Miscellania and by killing the Giant Mole then trading its mole skins and claws with Wyson the Gardener. Nests obtained from Wyson can also contain normal seeds and herb seeds or be empty.

Jagex says that you can increase your odds of getting a bird's nest while Woodcutting by wearing a strung rabbit's foot which requires level 24 Hunter to wear and level 37 Crafting to make.

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Canoes (members only)

If you are a member, as your woodcutting level increases you will be able to build better and better canoes to travel along the River Lum. This river travels all the way from Lumbridge to Level 35 Wilderness. There are four types of canoes, each one being progressively better than the previous one. Detailed information about travelling using the canoes can be found in the Canoe Section of the Getting Around Guide.

Shown below are the canoes and the level required to carve them as well as the experience given for cutting and carving them.

Canoes
Pic	Lvl	Canoe Name	Exp
	12	Log	30
	27	Dugout	60
	42	Stable Dugout	90
	57	Waka	150

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Woodcutting Stumps (members only)

Woodcutting stumps are located in Neitiznot on the Fremennik Isles. They are currently only used to craft and cut arctic pine logs.

Stump Crafting
Pic	Name	Level	Materials needed	Tool Req.	Exp.
	Fremennik Round Shield*	56	2 Arctic Pine Logs 1 Rope 1 Bronze Nail	Hammer	34(crafting)
	Split Log	56	1 Arctic Pine Log	Hatchet	43.5

* You must have reached a certain point in The Fremennik Isles quest to learn how to make round shields. For more stats, see our combat guide.

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Training and Locations

The table below some suggestions for both f2p and p2p players regarding how to train and where to train at different levels.

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Sawmill Jobs (Members only)

The Sawmill is connected to the south-east corner of the Lumberyard in Varrock, directly east of the Sawmill Operator's shed.

Experienced Woodcutters can earn fast experience working at the Sawmill by completing various Sawmill Jobs. Level 80 Woodcutting and a saw are required. Free saws are available from a crate at the Sawmill. A crystal saw works faster, provides double experience for cutting planks, and no charges are consumed in the process.

Operating the sawmill is fairly straightforward, but for more specific information, see our detailed instructions. For every job you complete, you earn a bonus of Woodcutting experience (over 4K xp for a quick job, over 8K xp for a large job), on top of the experience you gain from cutting up the individual planks along the way!

Workbench May Cut from One Plank
Name	Short plank + Long plank		*Two* Diagonal-cut planks	Curved plank	Tooth plank + Groove plank
Picture
Experience using Saw	15		18	22	25
Experience using Crystal Saw	30		36	44	50
Difficulty	Simple		Medium	Hard	V. Hard

• • Note: You may ruin a plank (or half of a combination) at the workbench, because each type of cut has a difficulty assigned. If you ruin one of the planks, you will not get any experience, even if you successfully cut the other plank. Nothing can be done except make a new plank and try again.

Limitations

• You cannot enter the Sawmill by boosting to level 80 using regular/Mature Axeman's Folly.
• Logs, planks and cut planks cannot be removed from the area.
• Familiars are not allowed, not even in your pack.
• Everything in the cart is submitted when you finish a job - so you should withdraw your extras for the next job. While inspecting the cart, click to remove cut planks. You can also click cut planks in your inventory to store them in the cart.
• With the exception of Diagonal-cut planks, the cart can only store up to 63 of each type of plank. The cart can store up to 127 Diagonal-cut planks. If you have 63 of one type -- or 127 of Diagonal-cut planks -- stored, and continue to cut more of that type, they will begin to appear in your inventory instead.
• If you leave the area you will lose any logs, planks or cut planks in your inventory. If you log out while in the area, upon logging back in you will spawn outside of it, and all of the logs, planks, or cut planks in your inventory will have been removed.

Detailed Instructions

As you go east from the building out into the work area, you will see a Job Board on the building's outside wall. Choose a Quick or a Large job. Once you have selected a job, a small task list reminder showing your progress will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the game window.

To do your job, proceed clockwise around the area:

• Get logs from the stacks of logs.
• Place them in the Conveyor belt hopper (holds up to 63).
• Remove the planks (two per log) from the plank stack at the end of the conveyor belt.
• Go to a workbench and select the plank shapes you want to cut to meet your job list. A saw is required!
• Cut planks are automatically deposited into the cart.

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Skill Boosts (members only)

Several items are available to boost your woodcutting. All experience boosting items listed below are stackable. Below is compilation of all of them.

The Stealing Creation minigame offers two helpful axes that can be purchased with 20 Stealing Creation points a piece.

Stealing Creation Hatchets
Pic	Name	Experience Increase	Information
	Volatile Clay Hatchet	2.2x	Obtained at random from the Volatile tool. Requires Level 40 woodcutting. Disintegrates after the charges of the tool fall to 0% or after reassigning the tool ten times.
	Sacred Clay Hatchet	2x	Obtained by choosing the transform option on the Proto-tool. Requires Level 40 woodcutting. Disintegrates after the charges of the tool fall to 0%.

If you complete the Seers' Village Achievement Diary easy, medium, and hard tasks you can use the following headbands to boost your woodcutting. Note: Seers' Headband 2 and 3 can only be used in Seers' Village and on Maple trees to receive the boost.

Seers' Village Achievement Diary Headbands
Pic	Name	Information
	Seer's headband 1	Gives a chance to recieve two logs when cutting normal trees.
	Seer's headband 2	Gives an extra log or two when cutting normal trees. Grants 10 more xp when cutting maples in Seers' Village.
	Seer's headband 3	Gives an extra log or two when cutting normal trees. Grants 10 more xp when cutting maples in Seers' Village.

Summoning offers several familiars to aid your woodcutting. Below is a table listing all of them.

Woodcutting Familiars
Summon Level	Pic	Familiar	Abilities	Scroll
33		Beaver	Does not fight Forages logs and planks Acts as knife in Fletching Boosts Woodcutting +2	Multichop: Cuts up to three logs from nearby tree
78		Giant Ent	Fights (level 137) Controlled Forages oak logs Converts pure essence to earth/nature runes Increased yield when harvesting fruit trees, belladonna, bushes and cactus	Acorn Missile: Deals up to 11 damage on up to 3 opponents; chance of acorn drop
80		Hydra	Fights (level 141) Ranged	Regrowth: Use on farming tree stump to instantly regrow tree

Lumberjack clothing is a possible reward from the Temple Trekking/Burgh de Rott Ramble mini game.

Lumberjack Clothing

The Lumberjack outfit consists of four pieces: hat, shirt, legs and boots. The outfit is untradable and can be stored as a set in the costume room of your player owned house. You gain extra woodcutting experience, per item cut, for each piece of the outfit you wear, with an additional bonus for wearing the complete outfit. The experience for each log (when wearing the full outfit) is listed in the table below.

Some types can only be reached via a certain quest.

Members can brew Axeman's folly and drink it to enhance woodcutting.

Pic	Name	How to Obtain	Use
	Mature Axeman's Folly	Brewed by the player, using the Cooking Skill. Requires 49 cooking to brew from 1 oak root.	Temporarily increases woodcutting skill by 2 levels. Also lowers attack and strength by 3 and heals 1 hitpoint.
	Axeman's Folly	Brewed by the player, using the Cooking Skill. Requires 49 cooking to brew from 1 oak root.	Temporarily increases woodcutting skill by 1 level. Also lowers attack and strength by 3 and heals 1 hitpoint.

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Cape of Achievement (members only)

Once you have mastered the skill and reached level 99 you may want to buy yourself a Woodcutting Cape from Wilfred. He can be found amongst the trees north of the entrance to Falador. Refer to the Achievement Capes guide for more details.

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Credits

Original Guide by: SideWind3r

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Last Updated By: SerpentEye

Last updated: 04-Jan-2010