Runescape's Color of Gold [Money-Making Guide]

[Renette]

Welcome to this thread. The whole purpose of this thread is to put more gold in the pockets of guild members. What this thread IS NOT is a guide on how to raise stats to the levels required.

How can you help? If you have a way to make money that isn't listed, post your idea [along with the quest or minimum skill required] as literate as possible, with as much detail as possible.

One rule - please don't quote entire posts that are linked from the main list or have suggestions or guides in them. The purpose of this rule was to cut down on duplication of ideas in the guild.

If you would like to elaborate on an idea, please DO refer to which method you're referencing.
 

[Renette]

Last updated: 08/14/09.

08/17/09 - added skilling tips, additional combat suggestions.
08/14/09 - added more gathering ideas, combat suggestions.
08/13/09 - added gathering raw materials.


Free to Play Money Making Tasks

Collect Raw Materials

Combat

Skilling for Cash

Pay to Play Money Making Tasks

Collect Raw Materials

Combat

Skilling for Cash

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Free to Play - Collect Raw Materials

Bones [no skill] - Sometimes when people kill enemies, very often they'll leave the bones on the ground. Just pick them up and store them in the bank.

Pots of Flour [no skill]
Step One - Purchase pots from a general store. Stores close to a bank - Lumbridge and west Falador.
Step Two - Collect wheat from fields.
Step Three - Travel from the bank to a flour mill located between Lumbridge and Draynor OR inside the Cooking Guild near Varrock [level 32 cooking + chef's hat req'd for entry]. Deposit wheat into the grinder on the third floor.
Step Four - Fill pots with flour at the flour mill from either Grand Exchange bank or west Varrock bank.

Eggs [no skill]
Respawns near chicken - two respawns are located at the farm south of Falador and at the chicken farm across from the cows between Lumbridge and Al Kharid.

Buckets of Milk [no skill]
Step One - Purchase buckets from a general store.
Step Two - Travel with buckets in inventory to a field with a milking cow in it. There is one located at the field between Lumbridge and Draynor as well as at the farm south of Falador [quick teleport - Lumbridge ring 3].

Produce [no skill]
Going to any of the farms around Runescape, you can pick produce that you can bank for money.
Potatoes - south of Varrock/north of Al Kharid. [most recommended]
Cabbage - south of Falador [quick teleport - Lumbridge ring 3].
Onions - Rimmington/southwest of Falador.

[Added 8/14]

Eyes of Newt [no skill]
Purchased for 3g from Maggie in Port Sarim (south of Falador). Can be banked at either Draynor Village or Falador. Contributed by: ?? through CC on Runescape.

Raw Meats [no skill]
Includes chicken, beef, rat, and bear. The best place to collect raw meat would be the farm and pasture between Al Kharid and Lumbridge where people are training {chicken and beef}. They often leave the raw meat and bones while collecting cow hides and feathers. Warning: collecting rat and bear meat is a medium combat requirement because the targets are aggressive towards low levels. Contributed by: Cosplay-4TW.

Additionally Cows can be found north of the Lumbridge windmill, Contributed by Airazor, page two.

Bananas [no skill; 60g for travel fare to and from Karamja]
Picked at the Karamja plantation. Contributed by fur_fighter by PM.

Feathers [combat req'd - low risk]
Chickens [combat level 3] drop 5-15 feathers fairly often. Feathers stack in one inventory space, allowing you to gather raw chicken and bones in the other spaces. You can either cook the chicken to continue to hunt feathers at the farm longer, or bank all for the payout. Locations: Farm between Al Kharid and Lumbridge, farm south of Falador, farm between Draynor and Lumbridge.

Cowhide [combat req'd - low risk]
Dropped by cows [combat level 7]. Locations: Between Al Kharid and Lumbridge, south of Falador [at the farm and near the Crafting Guild]. Cows are not aggressive, but for the lower levels could pose a hazard with their high defense. ** Double your money - by going to Al Kharid and having your hide tanned into hard leather for 3 gold, the price jumps about 50 gold.

Limpwurt Roots [combat req'd - medium+ risk]
Kill hobgoblins [combat level 28, south of Falador], cockroach drones [combat level 8, south of Edgeville], or hill giants [combat level 28, Edgeville Dungeon]. Contributed by: fur_fighter by PM.

Red Spiders' Eggs [combat req'd - medium+ risk]
Collected at the Karamja Volcano, Varrock's sewers, or Wilderness spider nest. Deadly red spiders [combat level 34] are aggressive; not recommended for level 3 players. Contributed by: ?? through CC on Runescape.
 

[Renette]

Pay to Play - Collect Raw Materials

Pay to Play

Flour [no skill] - easy.
Step One - Stores close to a bank - Catherby, Piscatoris Colony [Swan Song quest req'd], Burgh de Rott [quest req'd], Lumbridge basement bank/store [Recipe for Disaster quest req'd]. Lumbridge basement bank/store has some pots of flour for sale.

Step Two - Fill pots with flour at the Sinclair Manor north of Seers [Murder Mystery quest req'd].

Swamp Toads [no skill] - easy. Go to the swamp in the Tree Gnome Stronghold swamp northwest of the Big Tree and collect them from the respawns. Contributed by: superevis678.

[Added 8/14]

Bananas [no skill]
Purchased from the charter traders. Bring baskets to store 5 bananas at a time. Charter locations near banks - Catherby, Port Phantasym [Priest in Peril quest req'd, ?? quest recommended], and Port Sarim [near Draynor/south of Falador]. Contributed by fur_fighter by PM.

Baskets/Empty Sacks [no skill]
Purchased from farm stores for one gold, holds 5 fruit (basket) or 10 vegetables (sack). Sells for the lowest price on the GE with patience.

Eyes of Newt [combat req'd; Tower of Life quest - medium+ risk]
After finishing the quest, you can bring feathers to one of the altars and summon a Newtroost [combat level 19] to kill. It will drop unnoted Eyes of Newt [1-17]. The tower of Life is located south of Ardougne and nearest the south bank.

Red Spiders' Eggs [combat req'd; Tower of Life quest - medium+ risk]
After finishing the quest, you can bring sardines [3g in fishing shops] to one of the altars to summon a Spidine [combat level 42]. It will drop unnoted red spider eggs [2-10].

Unicorn Horns. [combat req'd - medium+ risk]
Obtained by killing unicorns [both regular and black]. Some locations are south of Edgeville, between Catherby and Seers Village, and in the Relleka province. Contributed by: fur_fighter through PM.

Optional ways to obtain unicorn horns: Use of the fairy ring BIS [Fairy Tale 2 quest req'd] and killing the two unicorns in the Ardougne pen, or by taking cowhides to the Tower of Life and killing Unicows [combat level 25]. The monster drops 2-4 unicorn horns per kill.

Raw Meats [Priest in Peril quest req'd]
Raw bear, beef, and chicken can be purchased at Rufus' meat shop next door to the Canafis bank.

Raw Bird Meat [As a Last Resort quest req'd]
After the quest, raw bird meat can be purchased at the meat store next door to the [Spa Resort] bank.

Yak Hides [Fremennik Isles quest req'd]
More details of this method. Quick locale - page one. Contributed by I Kuro I.

Buckets of Milk [Swan Song quest or Recipe for Disaster quest req'd]
Can be purchase at the Lumbridge basement bank/cooking supply chest. Also located here are pots of cream and pats of butter. Buckets of milk are also available in unlimited supply at Piscatoris colony.

Eggs [Fremennik Trials quest req'd, Fremmy boots 1 req'd ]
Eggs can be purchased from Sigmund the merchant and deposited with Peer the Seer into your bank.

Vials & Vials of water [Fremennik Trials quest req'd, Fremmy boots 1 req'd ]
Vials and Vials of water can be purchased from Sigmund the merchant and deposited with Peer the Seer into your bank.

Additionally - [Lunar Diplomacy quest req'd] With a steam staff equipped, money, and astral runes in your inventory, purchase empty vials of water, spell them to be filled with water and deposit with Peer.

Produce [Royal Trouble req'd OR low farming req'd]
Best used with sacks purchased from farming stores. Purchase cabbage, onion, and potatoes from the green grocer in the courtyard and put in the sacks. You can sell the cabbage and onion as farm payments [recommend the cabbage for this], and keep the potatoes to cook.

Additionally - If you're farming the crops, when you harvest, you can use the produce on the leprechaun to turn the items into notes so you can continue harvesting.
 

[Renette]

Cosplay-4TW

Unfortunately even for a newbie this isn't an efficient way to make money. The Produce, Bucket of Milk, Eggs, and Pot of Flour is too much effort wasted for a tiny amount.

I'd suggest for a Newbie (Lvl 3) to pick up raw beef and bones near the gate to Al Kharid. These items are at least 60gp+ and there's a lot of it since no one picks it up.

Thank you for your suggestion. I was going from memory in thinking up ways for low level free to play players to gain money. The current market price of potatoes is around 90 gold each - considering all you have to do is pick the potato from the ground, it's an effortless 2.5k per trip versus the average 2.2k you'd get from 14 raw beef and 14 bones.  

[OHKO Bunny]

Kuro Method (Tripple your money!)
Its P2P

Please, I really don't want this to leave the guild, I'm trusting you guys.

This triples your money, and you can make a good amount of money very quickly.
Ok, First you need to have finished the Fremmy isles quest. bring like, 5k to the girl in the food place in Jatizo and tell her you will pay her back. Once you do, you open a secret shop where all you have to do is talk to her, and say "yes please". Now, yak hides can be bought at her for a mere 50 gold, and sell for around 150. You make 100 gold every time. Now, I can get 1k hides ever 15 mins, so that's a good 400k profit an hour. The supply is unlimited and the store and bank are right next to each other!

My biggest fear is that if this gets out, the prices will drop due to more supply.  

[Renette]

Making Money with Combat

Monster drops are sometimes good ways to raise money. Depending on your combat level, method, and your opponent, it could be a low to high risk of death. ANYTHING you kill can be considered a way of making money.

Really, really general guide to killing monsters - armour and weapons are recommended, as well as food. Depending upon the monster, the drops vary widely.

In member worlds, monsters and NPCs drop additional things to the F2P drops - two of the most notable ones are herbs and clue scrolls.

Possible Opponents in F2P

> Guards [located in the cities of Falador and Varrock]
> Hobgoblins [south of Falador, near Crafting Guild] *
> Cockroach drones [south of Edgeville] *
> Moss giants [Varrock sewers] *
> Hill giants [location needed] *
> Ankou [last level, stronghold of security] *
> Lesser demons [Karamja volcano]

* Contributed by fur_fighter

Possible Opponents in P2P
> Slayer specific monsters [difficulty depending upon your combat level - examples are banshees, brine rats, bloodvelds, and abyssal demons]. ~
> Dust devils. Slaying Guide. !
> Dragons - blue, green, red, black, steel, iron, and mithril
> Black demons
> God Wars Dungeon monsters - Aviansies
> Chaos druids [level 13], Members/Taverly and Yanille dungeons ~
> Armoured zombies [level X], Wilderness Chaos altar [Defender of Varrock quest req'd] ~
> Tzhaar [Karamja volcano, inside the cave] ~
> Barrows [Slayer dart and Verac's method * mentioned. If someone would write out the exact steps they use, that would be great]. ~


~ Contributed by a forgotten death eater
* Contributed by: Kail Ritsukia
! Contributed by: lizzardoffire, page two  

[OHKO Bunny]

The quest is fremminik isles.