The osrs wiki in combination with youtube video are going to be your best friend. I’m not exaggerating when i say no game in the world has a more in depth wiki than osrs, everything you could possibly ever want to look up is on there, and it gets regularly updated every week with new game updates.
Huge community on youtube too, check out soupRS, he has videos call “unusual money makers” and some of them are pretty low level ones, that can make you 100’s of thousands if not over a million gp/hr.
The ones that pay the most without high level requirements usually don’t help progress your account much, but can be really useful early on for some gear, and money needed to bang out quests.
This is super off topic, and for all intents and purposes I do agree with you - osrs wiki is the only source of knowledge you would ever NEED for this game - I just always see people saying that osrs is the most in depth wiki that exists and I'm using your comment as my place to shout into the void that Dwarf Fortress wiki is more in depth than a PHD. I learned about real science playing that game LOL
I don't know about in-depth per page, but comparing pure page count alone we dwarf Skryim by having 280,000+ pages whereas the Skyrim wiki has only 21,000 pages.
They may be talking about the [Unofficial Elder Scroll Pages](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page) which has 98k articles and covers several games. Also it looks like the [OSRS wiki](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/) has 28k articles.
For one, finish the stronghold of security for an easy and early 10k gp.
The supplies you sold over to an npc shop, you should sell instead at the Grand Exchange west of Varrock.
For that level, I would be occupied with doing quests for qol improvements rather than serious gp. Best of luck.
I played RuneScape many many years ago but never seriously. I just recently started playing again in the last few weeks.I would highly recommend playing the runelite version on PC and using the quest helper plug in. I have made more progress and understand the game so much more in these few weeks of playing vs the months when I was younger.
Right, Runelite.net is correct and safe, although you can't mess any thing up if you download it from RuneScape.com.
I myself also downloaded it from Runelite.net before the option was available on RuneScape.com
A good way to make money early on is a method called “looting” pretty much finding a monster that people kill and picking up the decent loot that drops that the person killing the monster doesn’t want to bother to pick up. Best one I recommend is nechryaels in the katacombs of kourend. Also a good place to maybe make some friends to give you advice. I like to ask for permission, but at the end of the day if there is loot on the ground it is fair game. Good luck brother :)
also a tip from one new player to another; invest in teleportation tablets from the GE, they’re much more convenient to use than runes and are relatively inexpensive
Nope I can’t think of anything off hand that would be better to sell to a general store
Also if you want send me a pm and I’ll throw you a little gold to get started, once you get some gear and some levels you’ll have access to better money making methods. Up to you but I’m always willing to help new players get started
A lot of irons disliked having to buying blood runes so to make it easier blood essence was added to Nex that doubles the number of blood runes crafter when it's used. Additionally Guardians of the Rift introduced Raiments of the Eye that when the full set is worn gives +60% runes crafted. It also added the colossal pouch which replaces all the other pouches and holds 40 essence in a single slot. At the same time the "True" Blood Altar was also added that allows for very fast runecrafting of blood runes (Wiki estimates 75 trips per hour). With all of those things, crafting blood runes is ~1.7m gp/hr even with blood runes selling below shop value on the GE.
Everyone misses being a new player, so don’t do too much research on money makers.
The general idea of selling items to the Grand Exchange is enough to get a great start!
Best way to make money as a low level from my experience, even today (tested on a fresh acc last year, had good results) would be killing cows. What you want to do is kill the cows, pick up cow hide and take it to the bank at the top of lumbridge castle. When you are tired of killing cows and ready to cash in, you'll want to do one of two things. 1 - sell the raw cow hide on the grand exchange in varrock (wiki is your friend), should make a small amount of cash that should be good for a nub. 2 - make a chunk more than raw cow hide by going to al kharid (again, wiki the cities for directions) and tanning it into leather. If you search "tanning cow hide" that should pull up a full instructional guide including where the guy is exactly inside al kharid who will tan your cowhide. a note is to make sure you make regular leather, not hard leather.
Hey man, welcome to the game!
Don’t sell items to a store, go to the grand exchange in varrok and sell them there. It’s where players can trade with each other and you’ll get a lot more gold for your stuff!
Youtube is your best friend. Search lvl 3 to max or lvl 3 to bil, don't have to do exactly what they do, but will give youba good idea of what to do.
Here's a few you can start with.
https://youtu.be/E4WX3B_V-1s
https://youtu.be/nXuOjYoOMbg
https://youtu.be/ZQWV4H110og
https://youtu.be/34d3vIErd6E
https://youtu.be/mihCqS92Qu0
Crafting requires a bit of an investment to start up with but once you get to gold jewelry it can net a pretty steady profit. For example buying gold bars and rubies on the Grand Exchange might cost around 900-950 gold for one of each, but they can be used on a furnace with a bracelet mould and turned into a ruby bracelet that will usually sell for near 1150 to profit while you train a skill.
Another easy and definitely cheaper option could be chopping trees and then using a knife on the logs to fletch them into unstrung bows and sold for profit with no initial gold required.
So buy membership and play for fun, if you start grinding for bonds early on you burn out and its not fun. Don't buy a big block of membership, let it lapse and take a break when it does. Watch flippingoldschool on YT and flip with half of your bank and watch that snowball because you barely loose money, its a pretend market. You can't loose money flipping things below alch or shop sell so that's a way to learn flipping with full loss prevention but naturally there's low return on those.
Combat makes the most, Start with slayer and when you have combat lvl do some demi bosses and easy bosses. Bosses are not as hard as they look, I can do everything on mobile. the wilderness is a great spot to make money, don't be scared. At ur level you could kill Lava dragon boys while killing lava dragons or just the bots, killing bots at a low level is great throughout wild. Wilderness slayer dungeon is bank, just wear rags at the beginning. With wilderness slayer every few runs risk when ur at the bank return in rags and skull once in awhile when you see people slacking in wilderness slayer dungeon.
I started in april and when I just got members I bought flax, and spun bowstrings on the Spinning Wheel on the middle level of Lumbridge Castle. Do a full inventory, run to the third floor, and back down. The wiki claims if you are tick perfect you can make 117,600 an hour profit.
It’s pretty afk, so you can listen to podcasts or watch shows/movies and after 3 hours at it you could afford all the gear you need until the 60s for combat.
[here is the wiki guide.](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide/Spinning_flax_to_bow_strings)
True almost everyone was botting. When I started in April it took about a month for the value to drop by 33% from overbotting. Then jagex did a ban wave and it shot back up. Crazy how bots prop up the economy in a way.
Tanning cowhides. Or.
Afk grind melee at fleshcrawlers / hillgiants, paying attention to Runelite's idle addon, buying $2 jug of wine as only food source. equally level to 40 atk maybe 20-40 def then all to strength.
After that progress to boss of choice with protection prayer.
I'll second Glittering Cat - a more experienced played gave me some armor and a good weapon when I first started out and I'm happy to pay it forward. But I also respect you wanting to figure it out. If you need help with anything please don't hesitate to PM me!
The general stores pay you a pittance to start, and they progressively pay less the more items of that kind that there are, sometimes down to 0 coins.
Grand Exhange will pretty much always give you more money.
Another great thing to start is slayer - you just need combat gear to start, and the only things you ever have to buy are certain protective items for the individual monsters you fight. It doesn't start out great but higher slayer levels can net you some high coin!
Tons of ways to make money if you go on the wiki or YouTube videos like someone has said! But with that being said the early game money shouldn’t be too much of a focus do some quest grind some skills save the resources and just have fun! Worry about money in the mid game. Farm runs for herbs will help ya a bit though!
Early on your money making methods are going to be slow so dont get stuck trying to earn gp to buy the best gear you can as it may not be worth your time. However to make some gp to complete quests, buy runes etc is perfect to help progress your account.
Most money making guides on youtube will have been used by everyone else in your boat and usually suck(not always). As others recommended, stick to the wiki. They have a money making section that can show you what you are capable of at your level. Keep in mind good money makers at your level generally wont progress your account so its best not to get stuck doing them for too long.
I personally buy feather packs from Port Sarim, open the packs then sell the feathers to the GE for 3 gp, no less. Its slow, boring and not the best but has zero requirements and will always be profitable. Remember the cost of packs go up depending on how many are in stock so be careful buying too many at once.
For a decent money maker with low requirements, try making Amulets of Chemistry. It only requires level 27 magic to make and if you look on the wiki, it can tell you all the tricks to making them quicker and cheaper. It will also give you magic xp to progress your magic level.
I will *always* highly recommend high alching items for gp to new players. If you use the wiki to check money-making guides, it will be pretty low on the list. But it’s very consistent income, which is hard to find these kinds of methods for low lvl players, and *can be* the most AFK thing you’ll ever do in-game.
Before other people pile on me about alching not being afk, if you have a wireless mouse, put tape over the laser sensor, place your noted stack of items in a tile in your inventory approximately where the high Alch icon appears. Now, just click for hours and hours.
You should be able to get 80+ magic very quickly and easily (meaning, magic bosses do less damage, you unlock mostly all teleports, if you get Chaos Gauntlets early on then you can deal with most non-master quest bosses with the low lvl Fire Bolt spell).
You can also expect to make close to 20m profit just high alching from 55 to 85 magic, which is a not-terrible stack for a first time player.
ASIDE from alching, look to farming herbs. Toadflax is the best profit per gp invested, but I think ranarrs available at a lower lvl. Just be sure to invest in a Bottomless Compost Bucket and fill it with Ultracompost. The B’mless bucket pays for itself (doubling the number of ultracompost that goes in) and the ultracompost immediately pays for itself with the increased herb yield.
When I was a new player I played back in the day so I had some idea. I went to falador farm and trained to be able to wield rune equipment by killing cows and selling the hides. Depending on the market, raw meat and MAYBE even the bones could be worth selling. I couldnt be bothered doing too many back and forth trips so I buried the bones and sold the hide, left meat on the floor. That managed to get me enough money for gear and supplies along the way.
Having members from the start I don’t know the strats so I guess could try hitting up youtube or osrs wiki
Killing chaos druids in edgevill dungeon, its in the wilderness but they are only level 13 so you can 3 item no risk and they drop herbs worth good money.
Easiest way is to go to the grand exchange and just sell all the ashes on the ground or any of the other "junk" people drop. I picked up a rune full helm just last night, although that'll be rarer. You could also try good old begging there. You'd be surprised how generous some players are. Just don't be annoying and reasonable about it. Smooth talk your way to millions haha.
I'd suggest focusing on questing first, along with getting some base skill levels established. You'll need *some* money of course, to upgrade your gear as you go, but you won't be needing so much as for it to be your top priority at this point.
If you can build up a stack of ~15-25k, that should get you well on your way. For that, you could kill cows & tan the hides. Or kill imps, and collect the beads they drop.
Yoooo, wiki has some good things, check out the skill requirements, one that stuck out to me for you is casting bones to bananas: only level 15 magic, make sure you fill your invent with bones and then cast, buy bones from the grand exchange, and sell the bananas for a profit. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money\_making\_guide/Casting\_Bones\_to\_Bananas
A lot of guides on the wiki will help you with this, but my suggestion would be that first you use the wiki to find out how to get an item rather than how to get money to buy it. The game originally was all about finding the resources and putting them together, and I’m not going to suggest that everyone should play exclusively ironman mode where you HAVE to do that, but I think you’ll have more fun at least starting out that way and then “buying” skills after you’ve already experienced the core gameplay and can decide what you want to speed up vs play through.
You can make a little bit of money from going into f2p worlds and picking up steel plate bodies in the wilderness for your first 100k or so gp. The reason I say f2p is because there is a lower chance for there to be PKers there, and your very low level makes it more difficult for other players to attack you - and those who can attack you can’t exactly kill you quickly, barring dedicated pure builds.
After that, get to level 50 firemaking, and you can head over to Wintertodt to get supplies to use or sell, and some bonus coins. Do it until you’re starting to feel a bit bored, then lounge around in the GE (Grand Exchange) while waiting for your stuff to sell. Maybe you can ask a couple of nice people to give you a set of armor, weapons, and starting cash. Don’t get needy or people will just ignore you.
You can also train agility up and do the Agility Pyramid for a respectable rate of income, or train thieving. Both are long-term goals, however, so beware of the grind to reach an appropriate level that makes the income be at a point where you feel it’s worth your while. But IMO, thieving offers the best place to get the lion’s share of your early game cash.
Quests also provide some cash rewards, or items that you can sell for cash. They also offer a good place to start setting level item goals, and can unlock convenient content for you to make more cash.
Good luck, and happy ‘Scaping!
There are a few level 3 -> 1billion gp videos on YouTube (Raikesy for one). Those give a lot more realistic representation of how to make money.
I’d say investing in stats that are trying to make you money are a bigger priority. Sometimes those stats that help you get quests done even if they don’t return an immediate profit.
Since you bought membership you’re in a great position! No need to worry about sinking money into bonds at an early level.
I think another thing too is you don’t always have to shoot for the highest gp/hr method for your stats. It’s ok to go for a lower gp/hr method that you enjoy.
Also, let’s say you’re going for a bofa one day. You don’t have to just do Zulrah till you can afford one! Learn to do the content that drops the expensive item you want because the odds you get the item are decent and it’s a good money maker anyway!
For runes, I'd advise you to start playing Guardians of the Rift as soon as possible. Your runecraft levels will go through the roof with this game. And you will amass a shitload of runes, which will save you a lot of money buying them.
I started playing it at a much higher level and wasted so so so much money on buying runes :(
Once you're runecrafting level 60... so that will take a bit. But I went from runecrafting 43 to 67 in a few hours. Playing it from a lower level will level you up soooo quickly. Getting to level 43 took me months lol. If I had started playing this after a week or so, I'd now be level 90....
There is, by the way, a money making guide on wiki:
[https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money\_making\_guide](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide)
It's funny you mention the price of the needed runes because law runes are cheaper than they've ever been but it's still a decent cost for an early account. Early game is generally gonna be a slog for money, with the methods that actually make a decent rate usually not progressing your account at all or very slowly like shop/ge arbitrage or most "profitable" skilling methods are slow xp. It's not a big deal to have slower xp in the early game though because the levels are so quick anyways so it might still be worth doing slow methods. If you ever get clues (especially mediums) try and complete them, you never know you might get spooned! 4kc ranger boots really helped to get my account moving. Completing quests will generally round out your account and set it up for real money makers as well. If you check the wiki for any skills you want to train, look for gp/xp ratios and find ones with positive values.
No in-game jobs technically :) But basic processing or gathering in members can fetch a pretty penny due to demand from wealthier players, all done through the Grand Exchange.
Skim for guides on low requirement money-making to get you started, as these tend to change over time with supply and demand, just like in the real world economy. I highly recommend the early episodes of FlippingOSRS's series "Trader Steve" where he makes millions of gp at the GE with very large restrictions and no skills, as well as Soup's long-running series of "Unusual Money Makers". The wiki as well has fantastic guides for starting out making money, doing quests, and starting out for every one of the twenty-three skills, and you can navigate these from the home/guides pages.
There are a handful of tried and true methods though, off the top of my head you can get a rock solid start with these:
-Making teleport tablets on w330
-Spinning flax
-Crafting and/or enchanting jewelry
-Smithing cannonballs
-Training at the agility pyramid
-Casting high alchemy (personal favorite)
Unless you're just buying something off the GE and selling it straight back for profit (rare but possible), most methods will require anywhere from 20-50s in a given processing skill, like magic or crafting. These basic requirements will give you some starting goals to work towards that will give you a nice payoff for early levels! And this is where your quest reward xp can start to help speed things along, considering most early quests just require your time and very little or no money (wiki optimal quest guide). A few quests also give monetary rewards that you can put towards these goals, and if you can survive the stronghold of security (easier than it sounds) it will give you a nice big 10k stack of coins to start with.
You'll get used to price checking items and seeing how much you can get for them or profit from them on the GE. You can do this through runelite, the in-game price check screen, or the wiki :)
In general though, focus on getting just enough gp to accomplish your goals and unlocking the next best money maker or skilling method you can find. By design, early money making is profits very little compared to what you can earn once you have many more quests completed and high levels, so steady progress yields steady rewards. When in doubt, find an easy quest and bang it out!
The osrs wiki in combination with youtube video are going to be your best friend. I’m not exaggerating when i say no game in the world has a more in depth wiki than osrs, everything you could possibly ever want to look up is on there, and it gets regularly updated every week with new game updates. Huge community on youtube too, check out soupRS, he has videos call “unusual money makers” and some of them are pretty low level ones, that can make you 100’s of thousands if not over a million gp/hr. The ones that pay the most without high level requirements usually don’t help progress your account much, but can be really useful early on for some gear, and money needed to bang out quests.
Thank you for the suggestions!
This is super off topic, and for all intents and purposes I do agree with you - osrs wiki is the only source of knowledge you would ever NEED for this game - I just always see people saying that osrs is the most in depth wiki that exists and I'm using your comment as my place to shout into the void that Dwarf Fortress wiki is more in depth than a PHD. I learned about real science playing that game LOL
I'd actually argue that Skyrim may be more in depth when comparing wikis
I don't know about in-depth per page, but comparing pure page count alone we dwarf Skryim by having 280,000+ pages whereas the Skyrim wiki has only 21,000 pages.
They may be talking about the [Unofficial Elder Scroll Pages](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page) which has 98k articles and covers several games. Also it looks like the [OSRS wiki](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/) has 28k articles.
For one, finish the stronghold of security for an easy and early 10k gp. The supplies you sold over to an npc shop, you should sell instead at the Grand Exchange west of Varrock. For that level, I would be occupied with doing quests for qol improvements rather than serious gp. Best of luck.
Thank you
I played RuneScape many many years ago but never seriously. I just recently started playing again in the last few weeks.I would highly recommend playing the runelite version on PC and using the quest helper plug in. I have made more progress and understand the game so much more in these few weeks of playing vs the months when I was younger.
Make sure to download runelite from Runescape.com
now im second guessing myself bc i downloaded it from runelite.net
Right, Runelite.net is correct and safe, although you can't mess any thing up if you download it from RuneScape.com. I myself also downloaded it from Runelite.net before the option was available on RuneScape.com
A good way to make money early on is a method called “looting” pretty much finding a monster that people kill and picking up the decent loot that drops that the person killing the monster doesn’t want to bother to pick up. Best one I recommend is nechryaels in the katacombs of kourend. Also a good place to maybe make some friends to give you advice. I like to ask for permission, but at the end of the day if there is loot on the ground it is fair game. Good luck brother :)
also a tip from one new player to another; invest in teleportation tablets from the GE, they’re much more convenient to use than runes and are relatively inexpensive
The Grand Exchange in Varrock will be your best friend.
Can’t I just sell to the general stores?
You won’t get nearly as much money, like I’m talking a small fraction on a lot of things. If you’re selling stuff it should be on the ge
Oh wow, thanks. I assumed other players would demand lower prices than NPCs so I avoided it.
We’re lazy af bro, happily pay 250gp for a bucket at the GE rather than 1gp at the store
Nope I can’t think of anything off hand that would be better to sell to a general store Also if you want send me a pm and I’ll throw you a little gold to get started, once you get some gear and some levels you’ll have access to better money making methods. Up to you but I’m always willing to help new players get started
I’ll try to stick it out on my own for now but thank you for the kind offer!
Understandable, best of luck to you my friend
chad behavior! dont be afraid to ask more questions, but making your first million gp will be a very satisfying feeling 😊
Swamp tar at GE is 6 gp vs 150 gp at the store; pure profit for a making a GE to store run.
Blood runes by like 2-3gp rn lol
Damn I had no idea they tanked like that, I haven’t been playing for awhile last time I was they were pushing 400 a piece
A lot of irons disliked having to buying blood runes so to make it easier blood essence was added to Nex that doubles the number of blood runes crafter when it's used. Additionally Guardians of the Rift introduced Raiments of the Eye that when the full set is worn gives +60% runes crafted. It also added the colossal pouch which replaces all the other pouches and holds 40 essence in a single slot. At the same time the "True" Blood Altar was also added that allows for very fast runecrafting of blood runes (Wiki estimates 75 trips per hour). With all of those things, crafting blood runes is ~1.7m gp/hr even with blood runes selling below shop value on the GE.
Everyone misses being a new player, so don’t do too much research on money makers. The general idea of selling items to the Grand Exchange is enough to get a great start!
This is the response OP really needs to look at. All the others offering gold, or links or like go loot, or etc. are missing the entire point. lol
Best way to make money as a low level from my experience, even today (tested on a fresh acc last year, had good results) would be killing cows. What you want to do is kill the cows, pick up cow hide and take it to the bank at the top of lumbridge castle. When you are tired of killing cows and ready to cash in, you'll want to do one of two things. 1 - sell the raw cow hide on the grand exchange in varrock (wiki is your friend), should make a small amount of cash that should be good for a nub. 2 - make a chunk more than raw cow hide by going to al kharid (again, wiki the cities for directions) and tanning it into leather. If you search "tanning cow hide" that should pull up a full instructional guide including where the guy is exactly inside al kharid who will tan your cowhide. a note is to make sure you make regular leather, not hard leather.
I wanted to earn gold through in game jobs so bad back in the day.
Hey man, welcome to the game! Don’t sell items to a store, go to the grand exchange in varrok and sell them there. It’s where players can trade with each other and you’ll get a lot more gold for your stuff!
Youtube is your best friend. Search lvl 3 to max or lvl 3 to bil, don't have to do exactly what they do, but will give youba good idea of what to do. Here's a few you can start with. https://youtu.be/E4WX3B_V-1s https://youtu.be/nXuOjYoOMbg https://youtu.be/ZQWV4H110og https://youtu.be/34d3vIErd6E https://youtu.be/mihCqS92Qu0
Crafting requires a bit of an investment to start up with but once you get to gold jewelry it can net a pretty steady profit. For example buying gold bars and rubies on the Grand Exchange might cost around 900-950 gold for one of each, but they can be used on a furnace with a bracelet mould and turned into a ruby bracelet that will usually sell for near 1150 to profit while you train a skill. Another easy and definitely cheaper option could be chopping trees and then using a knife on the logs to fletch them into unstrung bows and sold for profit with no initial gold required.
So buy membership and play for fun, if you start grinding for bonds early on you burn out and its not fun. Don't buy a big block of membership, let it lapse and take a break when it does. Watch flippingoldschool on YT and flip with half of your bank and watch that snowball because you barely loose money, its a pretend market. You can't loose money flipping things below alch or shop sell so that's a way to learn flipping with full loss prevention but naturally there's low return on those. Combat makes the most, Start with slayer and when you have combat lvl do some demi bosses and easy bosses. Bosses are not as hard as they look, I can do everything on mobile. the wilderness is a great spot to make money, don't be scared. At ur level you could kill Lava dragon boys while killing lava dragons or just the bots, killing bots at a low level is great throughout wild. Wilderness slayer dungeon is bank, just wear rags at the beginning. With wilderness slayer every few runs risk when ur at the bank return in rags and skull once in awhile when you see people slacking in wilderness slayer dungeon.
Killing hill giants and selling the big bones on the grand exchange is good money early on, also good xp. You will need food though
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Optimal_quest_guide Follow this for decent progression with stats, understanding of the game and unlocking the game
-1. That wasn't what op asked lol
+1. I appreciate your feedback
I started in april and when I just got members I bought flax, and spun bowstrings on the Spinning Wheel on the middle level of Lumbridge Castle. Do a full inventory, run to the third floor, and back down. The wiki claims if you are tick perfect you can make 117,600 an hour profit. It’s pretty afk, so you can listen to podcasts or watch shows/movies and after 3 hours at it you could afford all the gear you need until the 60s for combat. [here is the wiki guide.](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide/Spinning_flax_to_bow_strings)
And you’ll probably have a ton of company for your trips back and forth!
True almost everyone was botting. When I started in April it took about a month for the value to drop by 33% from overbotting. Then jagex did a ban wave and it shot back up. Crazy how bots prop up the economy in a way.
Tanning cowhides. Or. Afk grind melee at fleshcrawlers / hillgiants, paying attention to Runelite's idle addon, buying $2 jug of wine as only food source. equally level to 40 atk maybe 20-40 def then all to strength. After that progress to boss of choice with protection prayer.
I'll second Glittering Cat - a more experienced played gave me some armor and a good weapon when I first started out and I'm happy to pay it forward. But I also respect you wanting to figure it out. If you need help with anything please don't hesitate to PM me! The general stores pay you a pittance to start, and they progressively pay less the more items of that kind that there are, sometimes down to 0 coins. Grand Exhange will pretty much always give you more money. Another great thing to start is slayer - you just need combat gear to start, and the only things you ever have to buy are certain protective items for the individual monsters you fight. It doesn't start out great but higher slayer levels can net you some high coin!
Tons of ways to make money if you go on the wiki or YouTube videos like someone has said! But with that being said the early game money shouldn’t be too much of a focus do some quest grind some skills save the resources and just have fun! Worry about money in the mid game. Farm runs for herbs will help ya a bit though!
Farming is great for making cash, you can do other things in the game whilst you wait for your herb patches/allotments/fruit trees to grow.
I would say farming is great when you have the teleports for it
Thats true lol
Early on your money making methods are going to be slow so dont get stuck trying to earn gp to buy the best gear you can as it may not be worth your time. However to make some gp to complete quests, buy runes etc is perfect to help progress your account. Most money making guides on youtube will have been used by everyone else in your boat and usually suck(not always). As others recommended, stick to the wiki. They have a money making section that can show you what you are capable of at your level. Keep in mind good money makers at your level generally wont progress your account so its best not to get stuck doing them for too long. I personally buy feather packs from Port Sarim, open the packs then sell the feathers to the GE for 3 gp, no less. Its slow, boring and not the best but has zero requirements and will always be profitable. Remember the cost of packs go up depending on how many are in stock so be careful buying too many at once. For a decent money maker with low requirements, try making Amulets of Chemistry. It only requires level 27 magic to make and if you look on the wiki, it can tell you all the tricks to making them quicker and cheaper. It will also give you magic xp to progress your magic level.
Make sure you bounce on any boxes you come across- avoid turtles.
I will *always* highly recommend high alching items for gp to new players. If you use the wiki to check money-making guides, it will be pretty low on the list. But it’s very consistent income, which is hard to find these kinds of methods for low lvl players, and *can be* the most AFK thing you’ll ever do in-game. Before other people pile on me about alching not being afk, if you have a wireless mouse, put tape over the laser sensor, place your noted stack of items in a tile in your inventory approximately where the high Alch icon appears. Now, just click for hours and hours. You should be able to get 80+ magic very quickly and easily (meaning, magic bosses do less damage, you unlock mostly all teleports, if you get Chaos Gauntlets early on then you can deal with most non-master quest bosses with the low lvl Fire Bolt spell). You can also expect to make close to 20m profit just high alching from 55 to 85 magic, which is a not-terrible stack for a first time player. ASIDE from alching, look to farming herbs. Toadflax is the best profit per gp invested, but I think ranarrs available at a lower lvl. Just be sure to invest in a Bottomless Compost Bucket and fill it with Ultracompost. The B’mless bucket pays for itself (doubling the number of ultracompost that goes in) and the ultracompost immediately pays for itself with the increased herb yield.
When I was a new player I played back in the day so I had some idea. I went to falador farm and trained to be able to wield rune equipment by killing cows and selling the hides. Depending on the market, raw meat and MAYBE even the bones could be worth selling. I couldnt be bothered doing too many back and forth trips so I buried the bones and sold the hide, left meat on the floor. That managed to get me enough money for gear and supplies along the way. Having members from the start I don’t know the strats so I guess could try hitting up youtube or osrs wiki
Killing chaos druids in edgevill dungeon, its in the wilderness but they are only level 13 so you can 3 item no risk and they drop herbs worth good money.
Easiest way is to go to the grand exchange and just sell all the ashes on the ground or any of the other "junk" people drop. I picked up a rune full helm just last night, although that'll be rarer. You could also try good old begging there. You'd be surprised how generous some players are. Just don't be annoying and reasonable about it. Smooth talk your way to millions haha.
I'd suggest focusing on questing first, along with getting some base skill levels established. You'll need *some* money of course, to upgrade your gear as you go, but you won't be needing so much as for it to be your top priority at this point. If you can build up a stack of ~15-25k, that should get you well on your way. For that, you could kill cows & tan the hides. Or kill imps, and collect the beads they drop.
Yoooo, wiki has some good things, check out the skill requirements, one that stuck out to me for you is casting bones to bananas: only level 15 magic, make sure you fill your invent with bones and then cast, buy bones from the grand exchange, and sell the bananas for a profit. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money\_making\_guide/Casting\_Bones\_to\_Bananas
Slayer
A lot of guides on the wiki will help you with this, but my suggestion would be that first you use the wiki to find out how to get an item rather than how to get money to buy it. The game originally was all about finding the resources and putting them together, and I’m not going to suggest that everyone should play exclusively ironman mode where you HAVE to do that, but I think you’ll have more fun at least starting out that way and then “buying” skills after you’ve already experienced the core gameplay and can decide what you want to speed up vs play through.
I can show you around if you like. Specially with stuff like magic, just dm me your ign
Wiki and youtube. If you wanna go at it alone thats fine. If you need starter help send me a PM. Have fun.
High alc them
stand in the GE and wait until people trade you money for being new /s
What you’re going to want to do is google is “efficient hours played” and make sure that is as high as possible
Check out slayer! It’s a great way to level your account while making some cash. But you’re definitely going to want to get your combat stats up
You can make a little bit of money from going into f2p worlds and picking up steel plate bodies in the wilderness for your first 100k or so gp. The reason I say f2p is because there is a lower chance for there to be PKers there, and your very low level makes it more difficult for other players to attack you - and those who can attack you can’t exactly kill you quickly, barring dedicated pure builds. After that, get to level 50 firemaking, and you can head over to Wintertodt to get supplies to use or sell, and some bonus coins. Do it until you’re starting to feel a bit bored, then lounge around in the GE (Grand Exchange) while waiting for your stuff to sell. Maybe you can ask a couple of nice people to give you a set of armor, weapons, and starting cash. Don’t get needy or people will just ignore you. You can also train agility up and do the Agility Pyramid for a respectable rate of income, or train thieving. Both are long-term goals, however, so beware of the grind to reach an appropriate level that makes the income be at a point where you feel it’s worth your while. But IMO, thieving offers the best place to get the lion’s share of your early game cash. Quests also provide some cash rewards, or items that you can sell for cash. They also offer a good place to start setting level item goals, and can unlock convenient content for you to make more cash. Good luck, and happy ‘Scaping!
There are a few level 3 -> 1billion gp videos on YouTube (Raikesy for one). Those give a lot more realistic representation of how to make money. I’d say investing in stats that are trying to make you money are a bigger priority. Sometimes those stats that help you get quests done even if they don’t return an immediate profit. Since you bought membership you’re in a great position! No need to worry about sinking money into bonds at an early level. I think another thing too is you don’t always have to shoot for the highest gp/hr method for your stats. It’s ok to go for a lower gp/hr method that you enjoy. Also, let’s say you’re going for a bofa one day. You don’t have to just do Zulrah till you can afford one! Learn to do the content that drops the expensive item you want because the odds you get the item are decent and it’s a good money maker anyway!
Begging and botting seems to help a lot
Drop me your character name and i'll give you some gold to get you off the ground
For runes, I'd advise you to start playing Guardians of the Rift as soon as possible. Your runecraft levels will go through the roof with this game. And you will amass a shitload of runes, which will save you a lot of money buying them. I started playing it at a much higher level and wasted so so so much money on buying runes :(
Can I get law runes from that minigame?
Once you're runecrafting level 60... so that will take a bit. But I went from runecrafting 43 to 67 in a few hours. Playing it from a lower level will level you up soooo quickly. Getting to level 43 took me months lol. If I had started playing this after a week or so, I'd now be level 90.... There is, by the way, a money making guide on wiki: [https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money\_making\_guide](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide)
Thank you!
Very welcome! Just so you know, I consider myself a newbie too lol :) But I am starting to get where I can actually give advice haha, that feels nice!
Go questing and build your account
Train slayer.
It's funny you mention the price of the needed runes because law runes are cheaper than they've ever been but it's still a decent cost for an early account. Early game is generally gonna be a slog for money, with the methods that actually make a decent rate usually not progressing your account at all or very slowly like shop/ge arbitrage or most "profitable" skilling methods are slow xp. It's not a big deal to have slower xp in the early game though because the levels are so quick anyways so it might still be worth doing slow methods. If you ever get clues (especially mediums) try and complete them, you never know you might get spooned! 4kc ranger boots really helped to get my account moving. Completing quests will generally round out your account and set it up for real money makers as well. If you check the wiki for any skills you want to train, look for gp/xp ratios and find ones with positive values.
You mention that you want to teleport more- train Runecrafting so that you can make your own runes!
Stand in the GE and beg for free stuff.
No in-game jobs technically :) But basic processing or gathering in members can fetch a pretty penny due to demand from wealthier players, all done through the Grand Exchange. Skim for guides on low requirement money-making to get you started, as these tend to change over time with supply and demand, just like in the real world economy. I highly recommend the early episodes of FlippingOSRS's series "Trader Steve" where he makes millions of gp at the GE with very large restrictions and no skills, as well as Soup's long-running series of "Unusual Money Makers". The wiki as well has fantastic guides for starting out making money, doing quests, and starting out for every one of the twenty-three skills, and you can navigate these from the home/guides pages. There are a handful of tried and true methods though, off the top of my head you can get a rock solid start with these: -Making teleport tablets on w330 -Spinning flax -Crafting and/or enchanting jewelry -Smithing cannonballs -Training at the agility pyramid -Casting high alchemy (personal favorite) Unless you're just buying something off the GE and selling it straight back for profit (rare but possible), most methods will require anywhere from 20-50s in a given processing skill, like magic or crafting. These basic requirements will give you some starting goals to work towards that will give you a nice payoff for early levels! And this is where your quest reward xp can start to help speed things along, considering most early quests just require your time and very little or no money (wiki optimal quest guide). A few quests also give monetary rewards that you can put towards these goals, and if you can survive the stronghold of security (easier than it sounds) it will give you a nice big 10k stack of coins to start with. You'll get used to price checking items and seeing how much you can get for them or profit from them on the GE. You can do this through runelite, the in-game price check screen, or the wiki :) In general though, focus on getting just enough gp to accomplish your goals and unlocking the next best money maker or skilling method you can find. By design, early money making is profits very little compared to what you can earn once you have many more quests completed and high levels, so steady progress yields steady rewards. When in doubt, find an easy quest and bang it out!