Woodcutting Guide

To get onto the official RuneScape Hiscores, players need a Woodcutting level of 60 (279,895 Exp.) (as of 18-5-2009).

In order to cut a tree, you will need to have a hatchet, also known as a axe. You cannot however, use BATTLEaxes to cut down trees.

There are 10 different types of axes- Bronze, Iron, Steel, Black, Mithril, Adamant, Rune, Clay (m)(Stealing Creation), Dragon(m) and the Inferno Adze(m).

Members can also make canoes, which are used to travel on the River Lum, which goes from Lumbridge all the way to level 35 Wilderness. However, a certain woodcutting level is needed to carve the canoe tree into certain types of canoes. Canoes are useful when wanting to go from Edgeville to Lumbridge, etc.

How to make canoes

Lumbridge: On the east side of the river near the house where Goblins respawn.
Champions Guild: On the east side of the river west of the wheat field.
Barbarian Village: South of the eastern bridge on the east side of the river.
Edgeville: On the east side of the river near the guard post.

When the player has found a canoe tree at one of these stations, he/she can cut the tree down. (Only level 12 required to chop down the tree.) The player then has to click on the fallen tree and select what type of canoe he/she wants to make. When the player has made the canoe they want, he/she then can click on the canoe to push it in the river. When in the river, the player can then click on the canoe and select where he/she wants to go.

Canoes can only go to a certain number of stations away. Higher level canoes can go farther than the lower level canoes.

Log 12 Woodcutting Reguired. 30 XP Given. Can travel to one station away from where the player made it.
Dugout 27 Woodcutting Required 60 XP Given. Can travel up to two stations away from where the player made it.
Stable dugout 42 Woodcutting Required, 90 XP Given Can travel up to three stations away from where the player made it.
Waka 57 Woodcutting Required 150 XP Given Can travel to any station, including the Wilderness. (The only one that can travel to wildy.)

If the player is a member, a bird nest may fall out of the tree. Wearing a rabbit foot necklace gives you a better chance of getting a Bird nest drop. When you searches it, they will be given a a plain gold or a sapphire, emerald, ruby, or diamond ring; a red, green, or blue bird's egg (can be hatched in an incubator with 70 summoning); a raven egg (can be hatched in an incubator with 50 summoning); or a tree seed that can be used for farming. (The tree seeds can be worth up to 200k!) The empy nest can be crushed with a pestle and mortar to be worth about 1k. (Please note unsearcheds nests are not tradeable.)

I. Axes/Hatchets

1. Bronze axe: lvl 1

2. Iron axe: lvl 1

3. Steel Axe: lvl 6

4. Black axe: lvl 6

5. Mithril axe: lvl 21

6. Adamant axe: lvl 31

7. (Members) Sacred Clay Hatchet

8. (Members) Volatile hatchet

9. Rune axe: lvl 41

10. (Members) Dragon axe: 61

11. (Members) Inferno Adze

(After all fired up, with 92 firemaking)


II. Trees and where to go.

1. 1-15 Normal Trees, Behind Lumbrige Castle

2. 15-30 Oak Trees, South of the bank in Dranor

3. 30-60 Willow Trees, Same as oaks

4. 60-75 Yew Trees, Below flax feild in Seers village

5. 75-99 Magic Trees, Above duel arena, Mage training arena