WaysouthFarming for Gold on Runescape
August 15th 2008 00:38
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Nothing gives me quite as much satisfaction as farming up a couple million gold pieces worth of herbs. In Runescape, of course . . .
This guide will help you make money by training your farming skill in Runescape, and farming your little heart out. If you want to make the big money, you will need to use lots of different farming patches, so you will need a good magic level (to teleport everywhere).
To get started visit the three herb/allotment patches, one South of Falador, one North of Catherby and one North of Ardougne. If you are a noob, like I was once, you can run between catherby and ardougne, or stick to the easiest location, South of Falador. You will soon be a rich noob.
I do not pay the farmers to watch crops. If they die, I dig them up and plant more (it's only money after all, and some of the XP). But enough of semantics, let's get farming.
First: get your tools. Spade, Dibber, and rake are minimum. Also bring watering can, bucket of water, and a few compost. You also need your seeds, for your first few runs, just potato seeds. Later you will always bring herb seed, allotment, and flower.
The best time to farm is when you're about to log off. That way your crops grow while you're offline and you don't waste time standing around waiting. Take your tools and seeds, go to the farm patch. Rake off the weeds, use a compost, use a seed, and water them. Herbs do not need to be watered (starts at level 9).
Bag those taters!
So plant your initial potatoes at one or more patches, and then give them thirty minutes to grow. Harvest them. The potato seeds are practically free, the compost cost 25 gp, and you will dig up approximately 10 potatoes. Potatoes are currently selling for 70 in the Grand Exchange. A sack of 10 is over 800, and baked potatoes sell for a whopping 150 gp. And they were practically free to grow. Plus you get cooking XP if you bake them. Then you will be a rich noob farmer and cook. Your world is good.
After a few potato harvests you will have the level (2) to grow Marigolds. Marigolds are one of the hottest cash crops right now, since Summoning came out. The sell for 3,500 gp. They take 20 minutes to grow. You only get one per patch.
Now, farm three patches with potatoes and Marigolds, and you will be making about 27,000 gp per farm run. Every 20 minutes, and you can do something else in between while they grow.
Once you hit Level 9, you will plant an herb, two allotments, and one marigold in every farm patch (Catherby, Fally, Ardy, and one off by Port Phasmatys). Guams are your starter herb, and they sell for 450 gp each. All herbs take 70 minutes to grow. (so you should harvest your Marigolds in between). Allotments can continue to make money with potatoes, or you can grow some onions or tomatoes to break the boredom.
Sweetcorn
At level 20 you should switch to Sweetcorn in the allotments, for the cash and XP. Each corn ear sells for around 200 gp. You can also cook the corn which gives 110 cooking XP. you rich noob cook you! If you are an advanced cook, you can use your potatoes and corn, together with some Tuna to make the highest healing runescape food, Tuna Potatoes. Heals 20 and sells for 1,200 on the Grand Exchange.
Level 32 is where farming becomes 733t. Grow Ranarrs in your herb patch. Now you are rich, and can make the most popular potion in Herblore the Prayer Potion. Or just get rich selling the herbs. At level 33 if you would like to try fruit trees, you can grow Banana Tree. There is a fruit tree patch East of Catherby and on the NW point of Brimhaven (just a boat ride away from Ardougne). Bananas are about 70 each, and you can put them in a basket of five, and sell them for pretty good money.
As your level grows you will continue making fat coin off of farming. Your future fruit trees include Pineapple (200 each), Papaya (750) and Coconut (900). Herbs include the whopping Snapdragon which sells for 7,000 gp or more.
I hope you have enjoyed this romp through beginner farming. See you at the Catherby farm patch, where we will rake rake rake!
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