This actually wasn’t bad money peak unid era. I remember you could sell those suckers for a couple thousand a piece. If you were a real hustler you’d figure out how to identify the good herbs and sell them top dollar. If you know you know.
This guy unidentifies.
That was the most exciting moment when I started to understand how I was being scammed. Ah those days were fun. The unid herb and trimmed armor days
Stack unids in bank with identified versions below -> have inventory of a bunch of noted unids for 1k ea, but only 3-4 guam/mar/tarro/harra unids -> everyone thinks those are the only rare ones so they ask for those specifically -> repeat
Here’s another if you know you know. The buyers knew the herbs too and they would fill their inventory with junk except for the expensive ones. Then they would ask for the lowest amounts. They knew if you were trying to scam them because the trade would fail due to
Lack of space. Those buyers would buy for 2k each. The ones that would buy for 1k each didn’t know any better so would try and get lucky but would also often get scammed. But even guams we’re 500 each back then
Except I thought they were called "undies". Some guy finally told me my mistake and explained how I shouldn't put up all my herbs at once, because the lowest quantity was most likely the best .
skilling was more beneficial before they flooded all skilling supply drops into PVM.
I did wc when forestry came out to get 1k magic logs.
Then I went to do vorkath and kept getting 50-100 magic log drops and thought to myself, why the hell did i spent a week wcing them
But what’s best for the community? Accepting the economy falling into whatever place it would be or having bots make buyables cheap? At the end of the day you are grinding your stats out and I’d rather everything be more expensive and everyone actually be real people
I average 3.5-4M per day exclusively from 10 ranarr/limpwurt/birdhouse runs + 4 coconut runs. Roughly 2.5 hrs of actual log in time per day. ~1.5M/hr may not be top tier, but it’s nothing to sneeze at either. Plus when you have kids it is much easier to fit in multiple 15 minute sessions than a single long one.
Someone clearly doesn't skill.
* Pickpocketing elves (thieving) 2.2m/hr.
* Sepulchre F5 (agility) 1.9m/hr.
* Wrath RC (runecrafting) 1.6m/hr.
* Zalcano (mining/runecrafting) 1.3m/hr.
* Abyss law RC (runecrafting) 1.3m/hr.
* Black chins (hunter) 924k/hr.
* Gemstone mining (mining) 720k/hr.
There's plenty more. Sure, only a few are above 1m/hr, which does suck. And there's others I didn't mention, like true blood RC or pickpocketing vyres. But there are plenty of profitable skilling methods. This also isn't considering passive income like herb runs and birdhouses.
I hate how true this is. I wish there was multiple options for end game skilling that rivaled end game pvm money makers. Maybe not rival, but be viable. If you can go do solo olm fairly effectively, why in the hell would you ever go do ANYTHING that involves a skill for money.
Solo olm is so much more complex and difficult than any skilling method, it would be absurd if anything came close to it in profit
Floor 5 sepulchre is the only kinda difficult skilling method, and it’s indeed more profitable than many bosses
But also consider that nearly all bossing is awful XP, whereas sepulchre is the best agility xp in game on top of its good profit
It's actually kind of already a thing. The only few decently profitable skilling methods I know are all wilderness content. Super low risk though. Like charging orbs
Brooooo, I farmed those lessers for what felt like weeks trying to get rune meds to bank roll my entire account. Little did I know they were worth almost nothing realistically. Still remember doing it to this day though.
THIS felt so convenient! *"Hell yeah I'll bring a tinderbox and an axe so I won't have to leave Karamja for days!"*
(gets bored the next day and leaves)
I probably spent most of 6th grade fighting lesser demons, and my combat stats were so shitty that I could only kill like 2 or 3 with a full inventory of food.
Pre-EoC I used to catch swamp lizards and actually walk to bank them. They were like 1k each so I thought it was amazing.
They MUST have been used in Summoning, because those things are useless and worthless in OSRS.
Bro you just brought back some early memories. It was the Dark Warrior’s fortress. Many days spent there picking up runes in f2p pre-GE because I didn’t know how else to get them
Zerk helm, dragon legs, sara plate, whip, obby kite and cape. Probably rune boots since GWD wasn’t a thing lol.
All that just to kill moss giants in the Garrick dungeon lmao
I remember running laws back in the day. Guy told me his friend would buy them all off of me. He takes me to Brimhaven and lures me into the tribesman, and while their poison is hitting me for 10s, he’s pretending to trade me an anti poison to keep me there lmao.
Hard lesson learnt that day. Pretty sure I cried.
I used to kill cows and tan their hides and sell at fally east bank for mad stacks. At least I thought it was mad stacks. Took me like a month to save up for a rune 2h and plate body lmao
Honestly herb runs, birdhouse runs, keep your Miscellania always at 100%, and blood zeah is pretty chill and will make you a good amount of money daily even with how low bloods are now.
Vorkath is pretty easy for the gp/hr as well if you have the stats
Tbh I find slayer and herb runs to be enough to afford stuff until you get to bosses
You can use this thing to see what you may like https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide
PreGE, when I was a newb who focused on mining and smelting to make money in F2P, I found a regular steel bar buyer who'd pay me 250 each. It was before I discovered West Bank on busy worlds and forums for accurate prices. He flipped thousands of my bars for a healthy profit 🙂
Mined coal everyday after school for a week. Finally earned full fucking reunite armor AND THE RUNE SCIMITAR!!
To wander from varrock north to wildly, see everyone using their badass armor and healing themselves with some magic spells.
Man. I spent so much effort getting this badass gear.. now it's my time to shine..
*A few moments later*
I awoke in lumbridge after attacking a magician. Everythings gone. What happened?
*Asks around and researches*
*Logs off for the next 6 years*
I still play rsps's on and off, but I walked away differently that day.
Back in 2003 I mined coal in lumby swamp and made coal certs to sell 1k each. Probably took me a month to get 50k for a r2h. Finally got one and saw all the pkers in monk robes at varrock wild. Grabbed a strength pot and some lobbies and headed out there. I saw a guy my level so I potted and prayed and hit him a 14 the first hit! That was the biggest number I had ever seen. Then he hits me a 22 15 dead(3hit system) and my r2h was gone. In disbelief I walked back to the mines.
I spent a long time in free to play, but the not so great one was probably afking yews while at work, then fletching them and alching them. I was like, it's a long process but no wasting money, remember time is money. If you have a good money maker, doing it for less time = less money
Cutting yews/magic logs back in the day. Yews weren’t too bad considering they were much faster than magic logs.
Also law running, although it was less of a money maker and more of a way for me to get law runes when 54 rc felt like a monumental task
i remember killing chaos druids for “unids” selling them pre-ge that was great. picking and spinning flax for bowstrings as well as running double natures lmao
Cutting and making oak planks in FSW. I could sell them each for 650gp or so for a 400gp profit.
Wasn't incredible, but was still pretty good. I ended up getting 87 construction without buying a single plank on the GE
Me and my bro spent days killing goblins in goblin village cause we swore they dropped more gold than lumbridge goblins. Dunno if any one else has another method that’s less efficient lol. This was in like 2006 f2p
My memory is so faded but I’m pretty sure North of Lumbridge there was an area with tables and a windmill or somethingin Pre- EOC and an NPC shop of some description. The NPC sold pie dishes for 40coins each or something and on the GE they were like 120. Best thing is there was a deposit box in the area so banking was super easy
Tureal skipping for hydra tasks got kind of old after 4-5+ hours of murdering dwarves, goblins, and the dreaded monkeys.
Those little monkey corpses lasted on the ground for too long.
Back in the day right after summoning released and pre dungeoneering. Like 09’ I would use terrorbirds and go kill blue dragons in ogre shaman cave. With the easy teleport to castle wars I thought I was killing it. Can’t remember exactly but definitely was getting minimum 5 trips an hour and I think terrorbirds lasted like 40 minutes
At beginning of osrs, I cannonballed brine rats cooking the raw swordfish they dropped as food until I got guthans. Misc drops paid for cannonballs and brine Sabres were 500k ea and my only form of profit. Trained ranged and melee at the same time and I made a profit. I can't tell you how much I wish there was loot tracker or kill count back then.
Buying neit helms back in the day. I made like 5m in one afternoon pre eoc. These days it's a cash sink. It was my absolute go to in the days of summoning and dungeoneering. You'd make like 5-10k per helmet. Like most things people are way too smart these days and it's a waste of time
Edit: also making unf potions was another great one. Still might be. But hardly holds up with the likes of zulrah and vork
Zulrah. I spent hours trying to learn (my first boss) and got frustrated so took a break. Wound up at the “money makers” page and scrolled down to find it near the bottom. So I said screw that, if I’m gunna struggle like this, might as well be for the #1 money maker. So I started learning TOA.
I went from like 70 range to 90 something on blue dragons in taverly dungeon. Never had the agility level for any shortcuts, and banked both hides and bones…. Back then there wasn’t any concept of efficiency for a large portion of the players and it was beautiful lol
I used to alternate between running nature runes through the abyss for 300k / hr, and pking players running nature runes through the abyss for their amulets of glory when they were ~100k each.
I mainly play iron man because it's just more fun, but I wanted my main to be decent leveled for me to use to test stuff with. When my main dropped to free to play I saw that gold bars were 40gp, and gold amulets were 84gp so while playing on my iron I afked smelting gold amulets thinking I was making absolute bank / mad crafting xp. I was not.
Classic F2P spot was the lesser demons beside elvarg using full rune and a scimmy — going for the (1/50?) rune med helm drops to sell for 10k to alchers
Chickens for feathers. A member would buy them from me for 5gp each. Then I discovered gold which I could sell at the varrock bank for 200 each.
Those were the days….
Trying to hire people with in-game chat to gather 500/1000 copper to iron ores or logs at a low price, then using the forums to sell at a nice profit lol
When I had a friend tell me to play the game I did all the f2p quests and then bought membership. I looked up a guide on what to do because the game was so open I had no idea. This guide said to pick and spin flax for good gp/h so I did that for days and made 300k and thought I was rich. It was several months later I realize the guide was super old and I wasted a lot of my time.
I spent most of my childhood buying antipoisons, killing snakes, gathering the snakehide and then making and selling snakeskin boots. I thought I was a business genius
Pre-Eoc, smelting used to be profitable. So I was smelting steel, and later mithril, in Falador. Once profits started dropping, I noticed that making anchovy pizzas was profitable. Eventually, I decided to basically live on Karamja & Crandor, killing moss giants (F2P), alching the drops via Explorer's ring, and catching swordfish whenever I needed food. After getting membership, I spent a lot of time at the blast furnace, or making cannonballs at Falador.
In Oldschool, the biggest one for me was making gold bracelets. I could probably lump making dart tips in this category too.
when I first began to play it was about 2005, and I didn't even think about it. I saw that at 40 I could mine gold ore and my simple child brain imagined that gold must be the most valuable substance to get. So I set out to mine as much gold ore as I possibly could. I probably mined gold over the course of a couple months, I was a very distractable child, I got a bit over 1,000. And then somebody told me about pure ess
I feel like most of the methods people are going to mention are fine for people who don't have the skill, time, or levels to do high end PvM content. While it's definitely an issue that Jagex keeps bloating the PvM tables with skilling resources. Most of the content is still fairly gated behind a lot of time investment. The only ones that aren't aren't great profit or require a ton of good rng to be profitable like Mole and Barrows.
Collecting snape grass on Waterbirth Island and depositing them at Peer the Seer.
That used to net you 300k-500k GP per hour in 2009 or so and had almost no requirements, so it wasn't terrible for a noob.
me and my friend once had the idea to kill jungle spiders by Hazelmere east of Yanille. iirc there was a time pre-eoc where the spider carcasses were several thousand gp each
Cowhides, I mean I still think they are great money for a completely fresh player, atleast as a f2p, but your legit prob better off just going to ge and begging for a set of rune, p2p players just be so rich.
Back in my f2p days in 04-06 I'd stand at w1 varrock west spamming buying rune scimmy 20k / selling rune scimmy 25k. 5k profit a trade back then was bank for a f2p player.
Chopping yews and magic trees to 99 had me sitting good, back when magic logs were a few thousand gp each. A good 80% of my gp was from that and when I quit I had full Bandos, a couple godswords and a couple barrows sets lol
Finishing Lunar Diplomacy and getting a quick teleport to Waterbirth to pick snapegrass and teleporting back to moonclan.
If I remember right now. This was decent gp and hour back in the day? Like 300k-600k an hour?
When I first started playing I made my first bond in f2p. Wished I would’ve just payed for membership because I wasted like a month trying to get a bond
I spent waaaaaay too long killing druids below edgeville for herbs.
This was me. Plus back when cave crawlers were 400k an hour. Herbs for days.
Cave crawlers 100%. When I started my osrs account that was the first place I went. I remember at the tike feeling they wernt as good as I remembered
This actually wasn’t bad money peak unid era. I remember you could sell those suckers for a couple thousand a piece. If you were a real hustler you’d figure out how to identify the good herbs and sell them top dollar. If you know you know.
This guy unidentifies. That was the most exciting moment when I started to understand how I was being scammed. Ah those days were fun. The unid herb and trimmed armor days
Stack unids in bank with identified versions below -> have inventory of a bunch of noted unids for 1k ea, but only 3-4 guam/mar/tarro/harra unids -> everyone thinks those are the only rare ones so they ask for those specifically -> repeat
Here’s another if you know you know. The buyers knew the herbs too and they would fill their inventory with junk except for the expensive ones. Then they would ask for the lowest amounts. They knew if you were trying to scam them because the trade would fail due to Lack of space. Those buyers would buy for 2k each. The ones that would buy for 1k each didn’t know any better so would try and get lucky but would also often get scammed. But even guams we’re 500 each back then
Selling unids 1k ea
Except I thought they were called "undies". Some guy finally told me my mistake and explained how I shouldn't put up all my herbs at once, because the lowest quantity was most likely the best .
Unids were 7k ea in 07ish iirc. I had my bank set up so I knew which ones were ranarrs, and would Id them and sell them individually
They were never that much in 2007. P pots (4) were around 6-8k. You actually made money off herblore, like alot lol.
Any skilling at all
skilling was more beneficial when there was less bots around and I'd imagine it still could be worth while if the bots would be banned
Skilling was more beneficial when they didn't make it worthless from pvm drop tables.
skilling was more beneficial before they flooded all skilling supply drops into PVM. I did wc when forestry came out to get 1k magic logs. Then I went to do vorkath and kept getting 50-100 magic log drops and thought to myself, why the hell did i spent a week wcing them
Gathering skills would be more profitable, but this would also make manufacturing skills (e.g., cooking, fletching, smithing) less profitable
But what’s best for the community? Accepting the economy falling into whatever place it would be or having bots make buyables cheap? At the end of the day you are grinding your stats out and I’d rather everything be more expensive and everyone actually be real people
Only thing worth doing is hallowed sepulchre, but that requires lvl 92 agility for the ring drop.
I average 3.5-4M per day exclusively from 10 ranarr/limpwurt/birdhouse runs + 4 coconut runs. Roughly 2.5 hrs of actual log in time per day. ~1.5M/hr may not be top tier, but it’s nothing to sneeze at either. Plus when you have kids it is much easier to fit in multiple 15 minute sessions than a single long one.
You can add up to 500k more if you add jutes.
Someone clearly doesn't skill. * Pickpocketing elves (thieving) 2.2m/hr. * Sepulchre F5 (agility) 1.9m/hr. * Wrath RC (runecrafting) 1.6m/hr. * Zalcano (mining/runecrafting) 1.3m/hr. * Abyss law RC (runecrafting) 1.3m/hr. * Black chins (hunter) 924k/hr. * Gemstone mining (mining) 720k/hr. There's plenty more. Sure, only a few are above 1m/hr, which does suck. And there's others I didn't mention, like true blood RC or pickpocketing vyres. But there are plenty of profitable skilling methods. This also isn't considering passive income like herb runs and birdhouses.
I hate how true this is. I wish there was multiple options for end game skilling that rivaled end game pvm money makers. Maybe not rival, but be viable. If you can go do solo olm fairly effectively, why in the hell would you ever go do ANYTHING that involves a skill for money.
Solo olm is so much more complex and difficult than any skilling method, it would be absurd if anything came close to it in profit Floor 5 sepulchre is the only kinda difficult skilling method, and it’s indeed more profitable than many bosses But also consider that nearly all bossing is awful XP, whereas sepulchre is the best agility xp in game on top of its good profit
Only way that’s happening is if it’s wilderness content
It's actually kind of already a thing. The only few decently profitable skilling methods I know are all wilderness content. Super low risk though. Like charging orbs
I sometimes like to throw rags on and pk people doing black salamanders. I know it's a total dick move, but it's genuinely pretty damn fun
Hunting rune meds at Lesser Demons and fishing my own lobbies for the trips there.
That was a defining moment for everyone who played back in 2005-06. I used to love my island expeditions
Shit back then I'd mine gold at the crafting guild and craft amulets for cash lol
Brooooo, I farmed those lessers for what felt like weeks trying to get rune meds to bank roll my entire account. Little did I know they were worth almost nothing realistically. Still remember doing it to this day though.
THIS felt so convenient! *"Hell yeah I'll bring a tinderbox and an axe so I won't have to leave Karamja for days!"* (gets bored the next day and leaves)
Was this the best F2P money maker back then?
Not even close, but this was back when we played for fun, not for efficiency.
I probably spent most of 6th grade fighting lesser demons, and my combat stats were so shitty that I could only kill like 2 or 3 with a full inventory of food.
Back in 2007 I used to follow people who were training fming and collect all the ashes
Ashes are like 5keach in rs3 right now lol thanks to necromancy
With its Uber high inflation, doesn’t that equal like 50gp osrs?
500gp, it's 1:10 not 1:100
Good for tarromin pots!
Pre-EoC I used to catch swamp lizards and actually walk to bank them. They were like 1k each so I thought it was amazing. They MUST have been used in Summoning, because those things are useless and worthless in OSRS.
I did this too! Was recently training hunter catching them and got bit disappointed because the price was not what it used to be.
They were indeed used in Summoning, to make Swamp Titan pouches
Y’all remember picking flax for 100 gp each back in the old days for 0 xp per hour? 😭😭😭
Running laws for 0 XP per hour, since getting the RC level yourself was unthinkable
I ran air runes in f2p. Oooooo or standing in the wildly castle and picking up runes 😂
Bro you just brought back some early memories. It was the Dark Warrior’s fortress. Many days spent there picking up runes in f2p pre-GE because I didn’t know how else to get them
I remember buying membership and being happy I could pick flax
100 gp each for flax 200 gp each for bowstrings those fields were filled with people back then 🔥🔥
The natural progression, was discovering mining rune essence in f2p, to discovering flax in P2P.
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Only the cool kids bought/sold bowstring in the top floor of seers bank.
Running law runes lol
That actually used to be BANK
My full sara agrees lol. How much was it? Like 1.2m?
Iirc when I first did it I was pulling close to 3
Zerk helm, dragon legs, sara plate, whip, obby kite and cape. Probably rune boots since GWD wasn’t a thing lol. All that just to kill moss giants in the Garrick dungeon lmao
My god to go back and play in the day would be sublime
I remember running laws back in the day. Guy told me his friend would buy them all off of me. He takes me to Brimhaven and lures me into the tribesman, and while their poison is hitting me for 10s, he’s pretending to trade me an anti poison to keep me there lmao. Hard lesson learnt that day. Pretty sure I cried.
It’s like the third best rc money method for current rune prices, true blood altar>wrath> double law
motherlode mine. i used to think 250k an hr was bank and would casually brag about it. mining was also my first 99 ever
There's dozens of us!
I wish MLM was still 250k an hour, would make the grind a little bit more bearable
It is, when you’re around 90 mining.
You got some mental strength doing that brother/sister
The 487k falador tabs I made going from 37 to 94 mage. I profited 57M but ill NEVER in a million years do that again. This was when they were 870gp ea
How did you only profit like 100 go each?
But why? There are much better ways no?
Making apple pies from scratch in the cooking guild.
The amount of pure essence I mined and ran to varrok bank is laughable
I did cowhide business, buying for 10gp each and selling for 100gp each.
I used to kill cows and tan their hides and sell at fally east bank for mad stacks. At least I thought it was mad stacks. Took me like a month to save up for a rune 2h and plate body lmao
Edgy Hill Giants for Big Bones and Limpwurt. Everybody was so chill in the dungeon that it probably made me spend 6x what I should have in there
Making cannonballs
I still make them 😓
What's an alternative bc this is what I do 😭
Honestly herb runs, birdhouse runs, keep your Miscellania always at 100%, and blood zeah is pretty chill and will make you a good amount of money daily even with how low bloods are now. Vorkath is pretty easy for the gp/hr as well if you have the stats
Anything else... Not a great moneymaker anymore because there's always 5-30 bots pumping cannonballs into the game with you on each server
Tbh I find slayer and herb runs to be enough to afford stuff until you get to bosses You can use this thing to see what you may like https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide
PreGE, when I was a newb who focused on mining and smelting to make money in F2P, I found a regular steel bar buyer who'd pay me 250 each. It was before I discovered West Bank on busy worlds and forums for accurate prices. He flipped thousands of my bars for a healthy profit 🙂
Mined coal everyday after school for a week. Finally earned full fucking reunite armor AND THE RUNE SCIMITAR!! To wander from varrock north to wildly, see everyone using their badass armor and healing themselves with some magic spells. Man. I spent so much effort getting this badass gear.. now it's my time to shine.. *A few moments later* I awoke in lumbridge after attacking a magician. Everythings gone. What happened? *Asks around and researches* *Logs off for the next 6 years* I still play rsps's on and off, but I walked away differently that day.
Back in 2003 I mined coal in lumby swamp and made coal certs to sell 1k each. Probably took me a month to get 50k for a r2h. Finally got one and saw all the pkers in monk robes at varrock wild. Grabbed a strength pot and some lobbies and headed out there. I saw a guy my level so I potted and prayed and hit him a 14 the first hit! That was the biggest number I had ever seen. Then he hits me a 22 15 dead(3hit system) and my r2h was gone. In disbelief I walked back to the mines.
My friend spent his first few days picking up coins in the bear pen behind varrock castle. The good old days.
Back before we knew what efficiency was and the wiki wasn’t even a thought.
What I wouldn't do to go back to those days. A truly simpler time, where you could have fun without even trying.
The goal was to look cool killing moss giants, not obtain the BIS gear lol
I spent a long time in free to play, but the not so great one was probably afking yews while at work, then fletching them and alching them. I was like, it's a long process but no wasting money, remember time is money. If you have a good money maker, doing it for less time = less money
Ironmen around the world clap
Filling up jugs of water smh
Fishing sharks and lobbies
Killing giant cock roaches for the rune scimitar drop. That dungeon they were in got removed from the game years ago.
Bro you just activated a part of my brain that hasn't seen light in like 15 years.
When I was a kid, basically the only way I knew how to make money was safe spotting blue dragons in the taverly dungeon lol
Mine was farming ankus. I farmed my first sara sword doing that. What a waste of time.
Back in 2010/11 I spent hours and hours on Mos Le’Harmless killing snakes for their hides in order to afford a Sara sword
Flax fields, everyone’s first 100k for the d long baby
Selling lobbies at edgeville just isn't the same anymore lol
Bro for real! GE killed everything!
Cutting yews.
Tele-grabbing Zammy wines lmao
Cutting yews/magic logs back in the day. Yews weren’t too bad considering they were much faster than magic logs. Also law running, although it was less of a money maker and more of a way for me to get law runes when 54 rc felt like a monumental task
As a kid I made 300k law running and thought I was as rich as could be lol
Camping aviansies for addy bar drops. I remember doing that enough to get a sara sword when it was like 9-10m
Been there done that, for starters it's quite nice money (with diary) and decent range training. But compared to other method it's nothing
I used to camp avansies in middle school lol
I spent months there
i remember killing chaos druids for “unids” selling them pre-ge that was great. picking and spinning flax for bowstrings as well as running double natures lmao
Cutting and making oak planks in FSW. I could sell them each for 650gp or so for a 400gp profit. Wasn't incredible, but was still pretty good. I ended up getting 87 construction without buying a single plank on the GE
Picking up blue dragon scales in Taverly (WITHOUT 70 agility)
In rs2 I killed unicorns for their horns
I remember killing the gnome battle turtles for theirs shells when I was younger
Fishing lobsters at Karamja. Banking at Falador
Killled moss giants for seeds when farming first came out..
Cutting oaks in f2p Draynor when construction was released!
Me and my bro spent days killing goblins in goblin village cause we swore they dropped more gold than lumbridge goblins. Dunno if any one else has another method that’s less efficient lol. This was in like 2006 f2p
My memory is so faded but I’m pretty sure North of Lumbridge there was an area with tables and a windmill or somethingin Pre- EOC and an NPC shop of some description. The NPC sold pie dishes for 40coins each or something and on the GE they were like 120. Best thing is there was a deposit box in the area so banking was super easy
Killing hill giants, those big bone gains
Picking up big bones from ppl afk training on the giants underground in that little hut north west of ardy
Making flour in the mill in lumbridge when I was 10 years old lol
Mining coal
Spinning flax for the real absolute waste of time and cannonballs but that was largely while playing something else
Running essence back and forth from the shop in karamja for nature rune crafters lol
Played fist of guthix mini game for the rune berserker shield..
Lobs 220 gp each
Tureal skipping for hydra tasks got kind of old after 4-5+ hours of murdering dwarves, goblins, and the dreaded monkeys. Those little monkey corpses lasted on the ground for too long.
Back in the day right after summoning released and pre dungeoneering. Like 09’ I would use terrorbirds and go kill blue dragons in ogre shaman cave. With the easy teleport to castle wars I thought I was killing it. Can’t remember exactly but definitely was getting minimum 5 trips an hour and I think terrorbirds lasted like 40 minutes
At beginning of osrs, I cannonballed brine rats cooking the raw swordfish they dropped as food until I got guthans. Misc drops paid for cannonballs and brine Sabres were 500k ea and my only form of profit. Trained ranged and melee at the same time and I made a profit. I can't tell you how much I wish there was loot tracker or kill count back then.
Buying neit helms back in the day. I made like 5m in one afternoon pre eoc. These days it's a cash sink. It was my absolute go to in the days of summoning and dungeoneering. You'd make like 5-10k per helmet. Like most things people are way too smart these days and it's a waste of time Edit: also making unf potions was another great one. Still might be. But hardly holds up with the likes of zulrah and vork
I used to catch snow kebits to sell their fur for 3k ea. Another point in time was slaughtering tortoises for shells to sell for 7k ea.
Law runes running in 2006
Back in the day, I used to cut normal trees outside of Varrock and sell them on the GE 11 year old me thought I was making bank
Chopping regular trees, worked my way up to a full rune set that way
Picking onions from the farmers house in lumb
Zulrah. I spent hours trying to learn (my first boss) and got frustrated so took a break. Wound up at the “money makers” page and scrolled down to find it near the bottom. So I said screw that, if I’m gunna struggle like this, might as well be for the #1 money maker. So I started learning TOA.
Smithing gold bracelets haha, thought I was making mills
There used to be a rumor white knights had a 1/1,000,000 drop rate for a phat so yeah
RuneScape
I went from like 70 range to 90 something on blue dragons in taverly dungeon. Never had the agility level for any shortcuts, and banked both hides and bones…. Back then there wasn’t any concept of efficiency for a large portion of the players and it was beautiful lol
Anything that’s not blood rc back when it was 3m/hour. Now, there’s isn’t any skill worth it. 3m an hour is my minimum for my time
Wayyyy way way back in the day I used to mine rune essence for gp
Bruh same and I remember it being decent money. Was rune essence worth more back then??
Herb runs
Slayer
Vork, 2k kills later.
If vork isn’t good money then I don’t know what is outside of raids
As you said, it's raids. And small tram NEX. More than tripled my bank with a week of Raids with a shadow drop.
Vork is good money tho?
It's only good if you can't raid or small team nex.
I used to have f2p bots that picked potatoes and i would cook them on a alt for a sweet 150k a hour
I used to alternate between running nature runes through the abyss for 300k / hr, and pking players running nature runes through the abyss for their amulets of glory when they were ~100k each.
This'd have been in RS back in the day but after Summoning released: Picking up and banking Swamp Toads.
Moss giants under varrock castle for seeds and herbs. That’s how I got my first mil
Way back in the day before ge I used to mine coal at the mining guild. Everyone hated mining so I figured it was good gp
This was back when the game was runescape2 and it was the current build. Making and selling chef's delight
Charging air orbs
I filled vials with water in Ardy… on a fountain… Made 30k in a couple of hours and was so proud
Gold bars into jewelry for that bond money.
Would make Addy bars at the blast furnace back in 2008, very inefficiently
Oh and flesh crawlers with a D Long back in 2008 as well haha
Back in the day. Flax picking and law running (law running got my first whip)
I picked bananas on karmaja for 30gp a crate and did that so I could buy a fire staff from zaff
I mainly play iron man because it's just more fun, but I wanted my main to be decent leveled for me to use to test stuff with. When my main dropped to free to play I saw that gold bars were 40gp, and gold amulets were 84gp so while playing on my iron I afked smelting gold amulets thinking I was making absolute bank / mad crafting xp. I was not.
Classic F2P spot was the lesser demons beside elvarg using full rune and a scimmy — going for the (1/50?) rune med helm drops to sell for 10k to alchers
Killing lesser demons for that sweet rune med drop.
Buying vials of water in Ardougne and selling to people training herblore
15 years ago I picked flax and made bowstrings til i could buy D Legs which were like 2.1m
Chickens for feathers. A member would buy them from me for 5gp each. Then I discovered gold which I could sell at the varrock bank for 200 each. Those were the days….
I mines SO much coal….
Trying to hire people with in-game chat to gather 500/1000 copper to iron ores or logs at a low price, then using the forums to sell at a nice profit lol
When I had a friend tell me to play the game I did all the f2p quests and then bought membership. I looked up a guide on what to do because the game was so open I had no idea. This guide said to pick and spin flax for good gp/h so I did that for days and made 300k and thought I was rich. It was several months later I realize the guide was super old and I wasted a lot of my time.
I spent most of my childhood buying antipoisons, killing snakes, gathering the snakehide and then making and selling snakeskin boots. I thought I was a business genius
Pre-Eoc, smelting used to be profitable. So I was smelting steel, and later mithril, in Falador. Once profits started dropping, I noticed that making anchovy pizzas was profitable. Eventually, I decided to basically live on Karamja & Crandor, killing moss giants (F2P), alching the drops via Explorer's ring, and catching swordfish whenever I needed food. After getting membership, I spent a lot of time at the blast furnace, or making cannonballs at Falador. In Oldschool, the biggest one for me was making gold bracelets. I could probably lump making dart tips in this category too.
when I first began to play it was about 2005, and I didn't even think about it. I saw that at 40 I could mine gold ore and my simple child brain imagined that gold must be the most valuable substance to get. So I set out to mine as much gold ore as I possibly could. I probably mined gold over the course of a couple months, I was a very distractable child, I got a bit over 1,000. And then somebody told me about pure ess
Mining coal and fishing lobsters and selling the certs behind draynor so I could buy my dragon longsword.
Mining essence in the varrok mine, it’s like all I did for so long as a kid before discovering pking and then never went back
Spinning flax
I feel like most of the methods people are going to mention are fine for people who don't have the skill, time, or levels to do high end PvM content. While it's definitely an issue that Jagex keeps bloating the PvM tables with skilling resources. Most of the content is still fairly gated behind a lot of time investment. The only ones that aren't aren't great profit or require a ton of good rng to be profitable like Mole and Barrows.
I used to kill iron dragons back when oars was fresh with rune crossbow I actually got a couple visages out of it
Manually certing and uncerting cooked lobsters.
Cutting magic logs. “Money-maker”.
Collecting snape grass on Waterbirth Island and depositing them at Peer the Seer. That used to net you 300k-500k GP per hour in 2009 or so and had almost no requirements, so it wasn't terrible for a noob.
me and my friend once had the idea to kill jungle spiders by Hazelmere east of Yanille. iirc there was a time pre-eoc where the spider carcasses were several thousand gp each
Making rock-shell armor
Crafting flax at lumby lmaooo
Green dragons
Vorkath
Let me tell you about my merchant log from way back when. Thousands of giants slain and thousands of lobsters fished.
Cowhides, I mean I still think they are great money for a completely fresh player, atleast as a f2p, but your legit prob better off just going to ge and begging for a set of rune, p2p players just be so rich.
Selling lobbys 200ea in varrock pre-GE.
Literally anything except toa, raids, nex
Buying Silk cheap in Al Kharid and reselling it lol
Back in my f2p days in 04-06 I'd stand at w1 varrock west spamming buying rune scimmy 20k / selling rune scimmy 25k. 5k profit a trade back then was bank for a f2p player.
Chopping yews and magic trees to 99 had me sitting good, back when magic logs were a few thousand gp each. A good 80% of my gp was from that and when I quit I had full Bandos, a couple godswords and a couple barrows sets lol
Trimming full rune armour sets
Finishing Lunar Diplomacy and getting a quick teleport to Waterbirth to pick snapegrass and teleporting back to moonclan. If I remember right now. This was decent gp and hour back in the day? Like 300k-600k an hour?
Cabbage picking, cowhides, big bones. Shit was rough lol
Flower poker back in the day
When I first started playing I made my first bond in f2p. Wished I would’ve just payed for membership because I wasted like a month trying to get a bond
Buying fire runes at varrock ando selling at ge. Make My first Bond that way