OSRS Woodcutting 1–99 Guide

Levels 1–15: Ordinary trees

Use nearby trees for the first levels. Banking every log is optional; a short opening is not worth a long detour.

1. Click a tree and move to another when it falls.
2. At 15, switch to a nearby oak. You do not need to travel across the map for an early tree.

The no-quest opening to 15 takes 97 successful chops before outfit or felling bonuses.

Chop ordinary trees until 15, then move to oaks. Use nearby trees; travelling a long way for these opening levels is not worthwhile.

Levels 15–35: Oak trees

A useful early tree with several logs between movements. It remains a sensible XP method through the low thirties.

1. Keep chopping the oak until it falls, then move to another nearby tree.
2. Continue to 35 for teaks, or switch to willows at 30 if their nearby bank and longer stretches suit you.

Gathering logs yourself still takes time. On a main, buying a Construction stack can be faster than forcing the Woodcutting route to supply every plank.

Stay with oaks until 35, then move to teaks for faster XP. For a quieter route, switch to willows at 30 instead.

Levels 35–65: Teaks without tick manipulation

Good ordinary XP before sulliusceps, with optional logs for Construction. This is the normal click-and-chop route.

1. Chop a teak and move to the next available tree when it falls. Keep the camera where both the trees and inventory are easy to reach.
2. Drop logs during gaps, or bank them if you need planks. The planner adds the banking time you enter when you keep the logs.

Forestry events are optional extra activities. The base chopping rate does not assume a fixed number of events will spawn.

At 65, switch to sulliusceps if you have completed Bone Voyage and want faster ordinary XP. You can stay at teaks to 99 if you prefer the simpler chopping or need the logs.

Levels 35–99: 1.5-tick teaks on Fossil Island

The fastest established teak technique. Start by keeping the three-tick rhythm for one inventory, then work on dropping without breaking it.

1. Start the herb-tar action, then click the adjacent teak and move between the chosen tiles on the three-tick rhythm. The arrangement can give two woodcutting rolls per cycle.
2. Drop logs on the spare parts of the cycle, then restart the same rhythm. If it breaks, reset cleanly instead of clicking faster at random.
3. When a planted tree falls, use the other until it regrows. Planted hardwoods use depletion rolls, so they behave differently from the timed trees elsewhere.

A clean demonstration can peak above a long session. The cited high-level reference reaches 235k with crystal felling equipment; use a lower pace while learning or when banking logs.

Levels 35–99: 2-tick teaks with attacking NPCs

A less demanding rhythm than 1.5-tick teaks once the attacking NPCs are positioned. The setup is part of learning the method.

1. Separate the two attackers until one hits on the first tick and the other on the third tick of a four-tick cycle. Stand between the teak trees.
2. Click a tree when the hitsplat arrives, then click the ground or drop a log on the following tick. Repeat without actually firing the bow.
3. Reset the attackers if their timing lines up. Bring appropriate healing and antipoison for the location.

Prifddinas rabbits cannot damage you. Birds can, especially at low Defence. An empty hunters’ crossbow with a shield is another way to reduce damage while keeping a suitable attack speed.

Levels 65–99: Sulliusceps

Fast ordinary chopping with movement around the Tar Swamp. Fossils are an important part of its value on an account still filling the museum displays.

Getting there

Complete Bone Voyage and go to the Tar Swamp in southwest Fossil Island. Unlock the nearby mushroom transport and fill the landing pit with ten mushrooms before relying on the rubber-cap shortcut.

Bring and unlock

Axe, rake, food, poison protection and a return teleport. Keep useful mushrooms for the bounce pit. A prayer book with the right equipment or an antidote can deal with poison.

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The six mushrooms are used in this order. Move on when yours falls, keeping food and a rake for the trip through the swamp.

1. Find the currently grown sulliuscep and chop it until it falls. Only one of the six locations is active for you at a time.
2. Move through the fixed sequence of locations, clearing obstacles as needed. Keep moving past tar monsters rather than standing in their attack range.
3. Drop ordinary mushrooms when safe, keeping fossils, numulite and sulliuscep caps if you want them. Refill the landing pit before using another damaging bounce.

A felling axe gives extra XP but also loses some fossils on its no-loot rolls. Use an ordinary axe if collecting fossils matters more. Your fossils can fill museum exhibits for XP lamps, then spare fossils can support Prayer training. That is a separate use of the output, not immediate Woodcutting profit.

Levels 77–99: Active bloodwood trees

A strong active option that alternates wounding trees with tapping their sap. It does not follow the normal log-chopping or felling-ration rules.

1. Click a tree with an empty bucket to start. Click your character twice to pull the axe back, then click the tree to chop.
2. Learn the two-tick wound cycle, then work on a second tree while the first bleeds. Add the third when the sequence feels comfortable.
3. Tap the other bleeding trees after their bars drain, then collect the filled buckets and place new empties. Every fully tapped tree awards 1,364 XP in total.
4. Bank or process sap without leaving unfinished trees if possible: teleporting away resets partial progress.

Sap is untradeable. Turning it into seeking arrows needs logs, feathers, arrows and extra processing time, so a sap quantity is not immediate GE profit.