Runescape Skill - Woodcutting Guide

The Basics

On Tutorial Island, you learn how to cut trees by clicking on a regular tree with a Bronze Axe in your inventory (or equipped). This yields a set of regular logs, which has various uses such as creating a fire or fletching a bow. The tree also disappears for a short while until it "respawns" or grows back.

Once you start cutting trees such as oak and higher, you'll be able to swing more often and obtain more logs before the tree disappears. The higher your woodcutting level and the better your axe, the quicker you will obtain logs.

Hatchets

There are nine different types of woodcutting hatchets, each with its own level requirements to use. The better the hatchet, the faster you will be able to chop down trees.

Woodcutting Hatchets
Picture	Hatchet	Woodcutting Level
	Bronze	1
	Iron	1
	Steel	6
	Black	6
	Mithril	21
	Adamant	31
	Rune	41
	Dragon	61
	Inferno Adze	61

Inferno Adze: The Inferno of Adze is a reward from the minigame All Fired Up. It requires 61 woodcutting, 92 firemaking and 41 mining to wield, and is the equivalent of a dragon woodcutting axe and a rune pick axe. The item can be used as a mining pick axe, as well as a woodcutting axe. When woodcutting, there will be a 25.6% chance of burning the next log you cut and receive Firemaking experience.

Machetes

Machetes are mainly used to chop through the Jungle Brush on Karamja Island. There are no requirements to use these, but the types of brush you can cut will require you to have a specific Woodcutting level (those are included below).

To get these, you can either buy them from Gabooty in Tai Bwo Wannai with Trading Sticks, or you can have them made by Safta Doc if you bring him the materials.

Machetes
Picture	Machete	Required Materials
	Regular	None
	Opal	· 300 Trading Sticks · 3 Opals cut/uncut · 1 Gout Tuber Plant
	Jade	· 600 Trading Sticks · 3 Jades cut/uncut · 1 Gout Tuber Plant
	Red Topaz	· 1200 Trading Sticks · 3 Red Topaz cut/uncut · 1 Gout Tuber Plant

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Trees

Throughout RuneScape there are 21 types of trees to be cut, with the exception of the Kharidian Cactus. Rare trees (those which require 35+ Woodcutting) are marked with a  icon on your in-game map to help you locate them.

Trees
Picture	Logs	Tree	Woodcutting Level	Woodcutting Experience	Locations & Special Uses
		Tree	1	25	Throughout RuneScape
		Dead	1	25	Draynor Manor, the Wilderness.
		Achey	1	25	Castle Wars, Feldip Hills. Used in the Big Chompy Bird Hunting Quest.
		Scrapey	1	25	Only found during Trouble Brewing. It's worth noting that unlike other level 1 trees, the Scrapey Tree has multiple logs.
	-	Kharidian Cactus	1	10	Found in the Kharidian Desert, and cut with a Knife.
		Light Jungle	10	32	Tai Bwo Wannai
		Oak	15	37.5	Throughout RuneScape
		Medium Jungle	20	55	Tai Bwo Wannai
		Willow	30	67.5	South of theLegend's Guild, Draynor Village,Rimmington,Lumbridge, around Seer's Village.
		Teak	35	85	Tai Bwo Wannai, Mos Le' Harmless(through the Cave of Horrors), Ape Atoll, South-west of Castle Wars, Kharazi Jungle, Uzer.
		Dense Jungle	35	80	Tai Bwo Wannai
		Dramen	36	-	Entrana Dungeon; used to make Dramen Staffs in the Lost City Quest. Also used to get Cinnamon during Recipe for Disaster: Part 8 Sir Amik Varze
		Swaying	40	1	Only found in Rellekka; used to make Lyres.
		Maple	45	100	Seers' Village, Miscellania, around Rellekka. Currently, there are not any in freeplay, but free players can buy them off the Grand Exchange for firemaking.
		Hollow	45	82.5	Swamp east of Canifis to make Splitbark Armor.
		Mahogany	50	125	Tai Bwo Wannai, Mos Le' Harmless (Through Cave of Horrors), Ape Atoll, Uzer.
		Arctic Pine	54	40	Neitiznot island (during the Fremennik Isles quest). Used to make Fremennik shields
		Dream	55	37	Found only in Dreamland during the Lunar Diplomacy Quest.
		Eucalyptus	58	165	West of Oo'Glog
		Yew	60	175	South of Camelot, south of Falador, Edgeville, Seers' Village, behind Varrock Castle.
		Magic	75	250	Tree Gnome Stronghold, south of Seers' Village, near the Ranging Guild, in the Mage Training Arena, southwest of Lletya.
	-	Cursed Magic	82	275	The Spirit Realm. Requires the completion of the Spirit of Summer quest and is accessed through the village portal.

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Canoes

Canoes are yet another way to get from place to place in RuneScape, and they allow you to travel up and down the River Lum. There are currently 4 types of canoes players are able to make; the higher the level, the better. One of the destinations (the one in the wilderness) can lead to 30+ wild, so be careful when choosing!

Canoe Stations:

• Lumbridge
  
• Champions' Guild
  
• Barbarian Village
  
• Edgeville
  

To travel by canoe, just visit any of the above four areas. Chop the Canoe Tree and choose the 'Shape Canoe' option. The better the canoe, the farther it will go.

Each type of canoe requires a particular Woodcutting level to make, and gives a certain amount of experience:

Canoes
Canoe	Woodcutting Level	Woodcutting Experience
Log	12	30
Dugout	27	60
Stable Dugout	42	90
Waka	57	150

For more detailed information on canoes, please see the Canoe Guide.

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Helpful Equipment

Lumberjack Clothing

Lumberjack clothing, when worn, will give a woodcutting bonus: you will receive more experience per log than usual. The clothing is obtained during the Temple Trekking minigame and is rather hard to get. You will need 44 woodcutting to wear these clothes.

Rabbit Foot Necklace

While wearing this necklace, your chances of receiving a birds' nest are significantly increased. So if you're going for 99 woodcutting, this would be ideal! This necklace is made by catching a rabbit and then using a ball of wool on it to obtain a Strung rabbit Foot.

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Other Features

Bird Nests

Sometimes while while chopping a tree, a bird's nest might fall out. When searched, you may find seeds ranging from acorns to magic tree seeds. Other rewards include Summoning eggs, which can be put into in incubator and hatched. Nests can also be used with a pestle and mortar and turned into a 'crushed birds' nest' which can be used to make a saradomin brew.