How to Get Rich Easily in "RuneScape"

Being rich opens up more opportunities for RuneScape players.

In "RuneScape," you can survive without money as a new character, but once you reach higher levels, money will be more of a necessity than an option. You're going to need money in order to advance in the game. You need thousands, sometimes millions, of gold pieces to buy armor, weapons, runes, food, ores and more. Fortunately, you can earn money easily in the "RuneScape" world. You will make more money if you have high skill levels, yet even a level 3 player can earn money with ease.

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Instructions

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  Chop trees for regular logs and store them in your bank. Head to the Grand Exchange and sell the regular logs for 50 gold pieces each after collecting 100 to 500 of them. For 500 regular logs, you will earn 25,000 gold pieces. Get your woodcutting level high enough to chop yew and magic trees for more earning potential.
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  Go to the pen in Lumbridge or Falador and kill the cows. Collect their cowhides and bank them. Once you collect 100 to 500 cowhides, sell them for 150 gold pieces each. Turn the cowhide into leather (180 gold pieces) or hard leather (200 gold pieces) for extra profits.
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  Complete the "Rune Mysteries" quest in order to gain access to the Essence Mines. Buy a pickaxe and go the Essence Mine located in Varrock. Mine rune essence or pure essence and bank about 100 to 500 of them. Sell the rune essence for 25 gold pieces and the pure essence for 150 gold pieces. You will mine pure essence randomly, and will harvest rune essence most of the time.
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  Kill chickens in Lumbridge or Falador. You can kill these chickens quickly, since they have very low hitpoints. Collect the bones and 5 to 15 feathers per chicken. Sell the bones for 80 gold pieces and the feathers for 12 gold pieces each.
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  Mine iron ore and coals and make them into steel bars using a furnace. Buy or mine iron ore and mine twice as many coals. For example, if you mined 500 iron ore, you would get 1,000 coals. Sell the steel bars for 718 gold pieces each.

Tips & Warnings

The value for each item is as of April 2011. The prices for each item fluctuate every day, usually only by a few gold pieces. Check the Grand Exchange, which is located on the "RuneScape" website, for up-to-date prices.

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