Easy ways to make money for kids

In your attempt to become filthy rich through very few hours of work by runecrafting, you have decided to read this guide. Firstly I will begin by telling you what will be needed on your journey to F2p bliss.

What You Will Need

This section will be the same whether you are combat level 3 or 126. Firstly, you will need to complete the Rune Mysteries quest. This is a fairly simple quest which requires nothing from you. After completing this quest, you will be able to access the rune essence mines by teleporting from Aubury in Varrock or Sedridor in the Wizard’s Tower basement.

Items needed to runecraft –

• Tiaras (depending on which kind of runes you wish to craft) Air tiara is recommended
• Pickaxe (any kind)
• Friends willing to help you level up (not necessary but makes training a lot faster)

Step 1: Acquiring Rune Essence

Get your pickaxe out and unequip all your other items and store in bank (allows you to run for longer periods). Go to Varrock east bank and bank your entire inventory. Go directly south of the bank and teleport to mines through Aubury. Head to one of the huge mounds of essence and mine until your inventory is full. Head back out and bank your essences. Repeat this until you have the amount of essences you want, or until you get bored of doing this. Remember, training skills should be fun!

Step 2: Transforming Rune Essences to Runes

As a beginner, air runes are the first runes you will be able to craft. The altar is just south of Falador and west of Draynor. They are one of the easiest runes to make, as the altar is in plain view, and near-enough to the Falador east bank. Equip your air tiara, or if you don’t have one, take your air talisman out of your bank. Fill the rest of your inventory with rune essences. Again it would be wise to unequip and store all weapons/armor so that you can run longer. Run from Falador east bank to the altar and turn essence to runes. Run back and deposit. Once you can make more than a few airs per essence, it will be wise to walk from Falador, to the altar, and then teleport back to save time.

Air crafting is the easiest and most profitable method of runecrafting on f2p servers. In order to maximize experience, you can meet some of your friends in Falador bank and give them 27 rune essences each. They should follow you to the altar and after you craft runes from the essences in your inventory, you can then trade them half the amount of air runes, e.g., if you make 27 air runes per 27 rune essence, give them 14 air runes every time they give you rune essences. This way you all make a profit because you get much more experience than if you were to do it for yourself. Eventually, you will be able to make more than one air rune per essence. That is where you start making money. Keep doing this over and over and eventually, at only level 44 runecrafting, you will be making 1232 air runes by using only 28 rune essences! This would entail huge profits, making you rich in no time.

Runecrafting at early levels will be tedious work but made less easier if you use my “friends” method.

It makes no sense in f2p to runecraft minds/earths/fires/waters/bodies since there is almost no way that they can help you earn money when compared to crafting air runes when time and amount of runes per essence is considered.

Hope you enjoyed this guide and if you continue crafting runes for one month at 3 hours a day with 2 friends, you will be level 66 runecrafting in no time!! (This means almost 2k airs with only 28 rune essences!)

Happy Runecrafting!

Runescape free to play money making can be hard at first, but rest assured, there are plenty of ways for you to make lots of gold.

My best tip is to have a good f2p skill. Fishing and woodcutting are both exellent choices.

Woodcutting is a very popular and profitable skill for free players. It’s fast and easy to raise, and when you get to level 60 woodcutting, you can cut yews. These sell for around 450gp each, and do’t take too long to collect. To quickly raise your woodcutting level, cut willows at draynor village. They give very fast xp, so good that even on members they are the preffered speedy training method.

Fishing is another skill you can use to make money as a free to play runescaper. It can be trained fairly quickly, and you can sell lobsters for 250-350gp a piece. You need only level 40 fishing to catch them. The fastest way to train fishing to 40 is by fly fishing. You can start fly fishing at lvl 20 fishing, and you will need a fly fishing rod and some feathers, which can be bought from the fishing store in port sarim. When you’re ready to catch your lobsters, take the boat from port sarim to karajma and head down to the wharf. There is often a lot of people fishing there, so it can be a fun and social activity.

Investing is a good way to make money, but you will need at least a little bit of capital first. Think carefully about items that will likely go up in price. There are many items whose price fluctuates a lot. It’s best not to put all your eggs in one basket. Buy up a good number of several different items. Wait, and watch the grand exchange for the right time to sell, and then harvest your profits.

It’s also important when selling on the grand exchange to always try to sell things at the highest price. Even if it doesn’t sell straight away, leave it there for a while. If that fails, move onto a little cheaper, and leave it there. And so forth. Never be impatient and just sell at lowest, unless you’re certain the price is about to drop a fair bit.

There are also various things you can buy from stores and then sell on the grand exchange for a profit. Cheese and other cooking items, eye of newt from the magic shop, etc. Buy as many as you can afford, and then sell on the GE. It’s a sure way to increase your bank balance.

Killing the giant cockroaches in the dungeon near the stronghold of security is another way to make some cash. These drop rune scimmys and rune square sheilds, which can be sold for a good price.

It’s important to avoid spending your hard earned money as much as possible. Fish your own food, make your own stuff, as much as you can. You’ll never get rich if you’re unnessessarily eating into your bank balance all the time.

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Merchanting, as many of you know, is the most effective moneymaking method. It is quite easy for members to merchant, but rather difficult for nonmembers to do it. In my 3 years of playing Runescape, I have found a couple of different ways for nonmembers to merchant. They have made me a very successful Runescape player and have since acquired many rares.

The only kind of merchanting I will discuss is a very profitable one of runes. When you log in to World 1 and walk around Varrock, you might see people yelling out, “Selling 6k deaths 290 each.†You might ask yourself as to how they have acquired all those runes. It really is simple: either buying them from other players at lower prices or buying them straight from shops. Buying them from other players can sometimes be fruitful, but constantly dealing with noobs and scammers can get annoying. That’s why I have opted to go for the shops.

There are two rune-selling shops in the F2P world: south of Falador and mid-Varrock. Each stocks 250 each of death runes and chaos runes. That is, if nobody has already bought them yet. That’s where you come in! The most effective way to buy the runes is set up a noob account or an account you’ve previously had and drop trade 1/3-1/2 of your money to them.

Yes, I know this is against the rules, but as a nonmember you’re gonna need every advantage you can get. Have the noob account go to the Varrock shop and have your main stop in the Falador shop. Now the fun part:

1. Go on late at night or very early in the morning
2. Click on a very un-busy world (not the most un-busy) and log in to your main
3. Buy all the chaos and death runes in the Falador shop
4. Log out
5. In the same world, log in to your noob account
6. Buy all the chaos and death the shop has
7. Log out and choose a new world
8. Repeat

Do this until you run out of money. Your main and noob should run out of money at around the same time. Then, drop trade all runes and remaining money to your main. This way is most effective since you don’t need to mess with the “You have just logged out of another world††kind of crap, which doubles your speed of buying. Once you have all your runes, go to Varrock World 1 and sell all your runes at 5-10 gp than the other guy. The best is to stand right next to him and yell it.

To be most effective, yell “Selling ____ Chaos ___ each. (Name).†Depending on how much you started with and how much you sold the runes for, you usually end up with a 130-150% yield of your money. This may not seem like much, but consider this: Starting out with 500k, you get 750k. Do it again, you get 1125k. And so on.

This strategy helped me make millions and used to own a mask set + green mask + Santa. (But then I sold them and I am sad because they are worth so much more now).

Hope I helped!

An extremely easy and effective way to make money on Runescape is by merchanting, which is basically a process in which a player generates an income through buying low and selling high. More specifically, in this guide, I will cover the basic of Shop Surfing, which is essentially the same as merchanting, but less dependant on player-to-player trades.

Shop surfing can be done at several locations, with different results at different times of day. While the process is EXTREMELY easy, it is often a matter of when and where the best opportunities are available. Over time, I have found that the following locations are best for the following type of shop surfing:

Varrock General Store – General Items:

World:Any highly populated world in which players are constantly selling items to the General Store.Strategy: Impressive profits can be turned here through the buying of various items such as Runes (of all types), Ore (preferably mithril and up), food, limpwurts, potions, and various other player made / gathered items that are generally not sold in other stores. It is highly recommended that you have at least 50,000gp before venturing into this investment. Adament Ore as well as Feathers, for example, can be bought from a general store for a fraction of its market value (causing a great return on your investment).

Varrock Rune Shop – Runes:

World: Any lowly populated world in which their are few players located in the rune shop.Strategy: When runes are in low demand at the shop, prices for Air, Fire, Water, and Earth Runes can often reach as low as half of the market value (the value at which you can sell an item to another player. Therefore, the more runes that you can purchase at below-market price, the great your profit when you sell to other players.

As simple as it may sound, the process is even easier and exponential more profitable if you are a Member, due to the increased number of rune shops at which you can surf. F2P players on the other hand, will no doubt begin to get frustrated as they find that others, including bots, have already looted the Rune Shops and General Stores.

In this guide I will give you hints and tips on money making, merchanting, and becoming a millionaire! I’ve personally tried all of these and know what they all work! prices will be current as of 6-13-07. In this guide I’ll explain how to make over 900k at level 3! Follow the instructions in my guide and you’ll be a millionaire in no time.

Merchanting overview: Merchanting can be your best friend if you know how to do it. The rule to making a profit while merchanting is very simple: Buy Low, Sell High. There are many other rules you need to follow in order to successfully merchant.

1. Be firm with your prices! Don’t drop your prices because you’re not selling, eventually you will.
2. Be friendly! No one wants to buy from someone that just called them a noob.
3. When buying, try to get the seller to lower the price. haggle with him. If he’s firm, then just pay the full price.
4. Spell with proper grammar. No one wants to buy from someone saying “S311ing 41r run35 lawlz” just type like a normal Person.
5. It helps to listen to music or browse forums or something while you’re merchanting. Merchanting can be pretty boring, so have something to do while you’re doing it so you don’t go crazy from boredom.
6. It takes money to make money. Don’t be afraid to spend all your money on the items listed in this guide. It’ll definitely be worth it in the long run.
7. Always make your typing bright and nice looking. When I’m buying or selling, I always write: Cyan:wave2:Selling xxxxxx, xxxx ea!!===lacrosse fan (my in game name) so it’s not just that same old boring yellow type, people can see who I am, what I’m selling, and for how much.
8. ALWAYS HAVE A CALCULATOR OPEN. Whether it’s your computer calculator or your real life calculator it doesn’t matter, but always have one ready.

Without further ado, here’s my Runescape f2p money making guide!

Air Running:

• 0-100k
• Difficulty: Low
• Time: Long
• World(s): 16
• Rating:7/10
• Requirements: Rune mysteries Quest, Air talisman/tiara

On world 16 near Falador bank, you’ll see a bunch of people running around together. Why? because they’re running to the air temple and back. Air running is a pretty popular thing, because it’s a way to get 2k for free.

All you need is an Air talisman (or tiara), 25 UNNOTED essences, and a lot of patience. What you do is you get 25 unnoted essences, and rune to the mysterious ruins (follow someone to get there if you don’t know how) and use your talisman with it. it’ll teleport you. After you get teleported, look around for someone that is saying “Open” or “Open 2k” and trade them. put up your 25 unnoted essences and he’ll put up 2k cash and 25 noted essences.

Accept and you’ll have 2k and 25 unnoted essences. Run back to the bank and deposit your 25 essences, and withdraw them back out unnoted, and run back to the mysterious ruins. Find someone else (or the same person) saying open, trade them your unnoted essences and you’ll get 2k and 25 noted essences. Run back, unnote them and repeat until you have 100k. Air running takes a long time but is a foolproof method of getting money.

Feathers:

• 0-100k
• Difficulty: Low
• Time: Medium
• World(s): Any
• Rating: 6/10
• Requirements: None

What you do to is you go to the chicken coop near lumbridge, or in the champions guild (32 Quest Points required) and start killing chickens, they probably won’t even cause any damage on you, regardless of your level, and pick up ALL the feathers they drop. They drop 5-15 feathers almost every time, but occasionally they won’t drop any.

After you get about 5k feathers (should take about 30 minutes to an hour) go to the Runescape forums, and look around for a thread saying “buying feathers 7-10 ea”. Since you’re f2p you won’t be able to post, but you can still read the threads and sell to the people buying feathers, add them to your friends list and tell them you’re selling your feathers. If you got 5k feathers like I said, the very least you should sell them for is 35k, or you could go to Varrock world 1 and say you’re selling feathers 7-10 ea, that works too.

After you’ve sold your feathers you will hire other people to get the feathers for you. Just go to the lumbridge Chicken Coop and tell the people there you’ll pay 3 gp per feather, hire about 5-10 people there and tell them to sell you the feathers every 1k. so 5 people selling you 1k feathers for 4 ea is 20k. now you sell those 5k feathers for another 35k, bringing your total to 45k. Repeat until 100k.

Eyes of Newt:

• 6k-400k
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• Difficulty:Easy
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• Time:Long
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• World(s):Any
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• Requirements: Some money to buy eye of newts

Eye of newts can be a huge money maker but it takes a lot of time. First go to the Draynor bank.Have some money and go to the Port Sarim magic shop. Buy 27 eye of newts for 3 gp each then store them in the bank. Once you have 2k eye of newts or more try to sell them in the Runescape forums. This will take some time but you can sell them for gp each, thus making a 197 gp profit on each eye of newt!While the eyes of newt might seem like it could make you rich, it is one the most incredibly long and boring ways to merchant.

Rune Merchanting

• 100k-200k
• Difficulty: Low
• Time: Medium
• World(s): 1-5
• Rating: 8/10
• Requirements: None

Congratulations you made your first 100k! Now with that 100k you can go to Varrock and start merchanting rune items, like scimitars, 2h’s, Full helms and plate bodies. Personally I like 2h’s and full helms, you can buy a rune scimitar for 20k and sell it for 25k. rune 2h for 45k and sell for 50-55k. rune plate bodies for 50k and sell for 55-60k, and full helms for 18-20k and sell for 25-36k.

I’ve tried all these, and in my experience, it’s easiest to buy rune full helms for 20k and selling for 25k. With your first 100k, I recommend buying 5 rune full helms for 20k ea and selling for 25k ea. After you’ve sold all your full helms you should have 125k, and with that you can buy 6 rune full helms for 20k ea. Do so, and resell for 25k ea. That’ll bring you to 150k. Buy 7 rune full helms 20k ea and sell for 25k ea. That’ll bring you to 175k. You know what you can buy with that much? That’s right! FULL RUNE!

With your 175k buying full rune for 165-175k. and sell for 180-200k. It’ll be hard to sell for 200k, or 190k for that matter. so try to sell for 180k. Do that until you have 200k, and then you can choose to do one of two things: Rune merchanting (as in air runes, waters, fires, etc..) or my favorite f2p money maker of all time: Lobster Merchanting.

Lobster Merchanting:

• 200k-1000k+
• Difficulty: Low
• Time: Short
• World(s): 1-5
• Rating: 10/10
• Requirements: None

This is by far my favorite method of making money in Runescape, Lobster Merchanting! With your 200k (from Rune item merchanting) go to world 1 Varrock in front of the bank (past where you buy runes, in the big field) type “Buying 1k Lobs, 200k!” and you should get them relatively quick. After you buy the lobs, walk to Edgeville bank, and switch to worlds either 3 or 5, and say “Selling lobs 220 ea!!!===your game name” and you’ll get a lot of trades pretty fast, as soon as the trade screen comes up put up all your lobsters.

Normally, the person will put up 22k (enough for 100 lobsters) but sometimes they’ll buy up 44k (200 lobs) 66k (300 lobs) or sometimes even 88k (400 lobs). Sometimes, if you’re lucky the person will put up 25k for 100 lobsters, because that’s there normal price for buying 100 lobsters, and they don’t want to mess up their amount of money. So if someone puts up 25k, they’ll want 100 lobsters. You’ll sell the lobsters pretty quickly, and after you sell them all you should have 220k. Not that big of a profit NOW.
But keep doing that (or any of the other methods listed in this guide) until you have 400k. At 400k you can buy 2k lobsters, and sell for 440k. 40k profit? Nice! Keep merchanting lobsters until 780k, or you can keep going forever to get as much money as you want.

Rune T/G Merchanting:

• 780k-1400k+
• Difficulty: Medium
• Time: Long
• World(s): 1-5
• Rating: 7/10
• Requirements: None

Congratulations, you now have enough money to buy full rune t!! You can either quit here, or you can continue on and make even more money! Ok now. With your 780k, go to the left of Varrock West bank, and at the top left corner, you’ll see people buying and selling full rune t/g. With your 780k (you can with 750k, but it’s MUCH harder) say “Buying full rune t”. After you’ve bought your full rune t, say “Selling full rune T” and you’ll get a lot of trades. Only accept if they offer 840k or more. After you’ve sold it, re-buy for 780k, and sell for 840k (or more).

From here and you could start merchanting phats and other rare stuff like or just continue merchanting using my ideas.

(Note all the prices may and could suddenly change, be aware of that.)

Woodcutting- If you wish to woodcut, then I suggest get your woodcutting over 70 to 75 by cutting willows and then go chop some yews. Yew logs sell for 459 coins each,(sometimes higher or lower) and are almost always in high demand by players training Fletching, Firemaking and Magic. It is very efficient, but this method is popular, so be careful of other people who has higher woodcutting level.

Fishing- Fishing Lobster, Tuna or Swordfish is a great way to sell, despite the going to Karajama and back. The only free-to-play spots at which to catch lobsters are a fishing spot on Karamja and in the Wilderness. If you have an explorer ring, it would allow the process to be faster. If you are fishing lobsters on Karamja you can sell the lobsters at the Karamja general store for a reasonable price. There is also another way to not leave the island but note your fishes, just go west of the Karajama general store and you should see a person named Stiles, who will note your fishes for free.

Mining- You should mine iron, coal, gold, mithril, adamant, and runite. They are the ores that will get you fast money. For gold, you should go to the crafting guild which has 7 rocks. For mithril, and coal, you should mine at the mining guild. For adamant, you should go west of Lumbridge swamp or Al-Kharid. Runite, I suggest that you get a high combat level before you go mine it. It is really good money, but only available in the wilderness.

Combat- You should get a high combat level first before you go. About level 60+, if you are not then train on Hill Giants, which is a pretty good money, because of the big bones and limpwurt roots. You can also try Cockroach Soldiers if you have high combat level. If you are low on food, sometimes you can go to Barbarian village to get some trout or salmon by the power-fishers or you can go heal at the Monastery, which is free. If you are 90+, then you can go to the Wilderness volcano and attack the Greater Demon which drops various of rune items.