Ironman Guide/Woodcutting

Woodcutting is a skill trained simultaneously with Firemaking in the lower levels. At higher levels, bank the logs necessary for Construction training. Otherwise the skill is trained as normal.

Ironman training is not substantially different from normal, however a large amount of mid-level experience comes from Wintertodt.

Axes up to adamant can be purchased at Lunami's Axe Shop in Auburnvale. This can be accessed either through fairy ring AIS or via the Quetzal Transport System if Twilight's Promise has been completed.

The rune axe is purchasable at level 60 Woodcutting from the Woodcutting Guild, but can be obtained earlier as a drop from tree spirits if the player has access to fairy rings using code BKQ.

A dragon axe can only be obtained as a rare drop from one of the Dagannoth Kings, or as a very rare reward from the Wintertodt reward cart or extra supply crate.

The Lumberjack outfit provides a passive 2.5% woodcutting xp bonus and is considered worthwhile to obtain if planning on achieving 99 Woodcutting. It can be obtained relatively quickly from Temple Trekking, but is also purchasable from the Forestry Shop.

The Log basket obtained from the Forestry shop can hold up to 28 logs. With a Sturdy harness and Forestry kit, it can be combined into a Forestry basket. This functions similarly to the Fish barrel, allowing you to store more logs before needing to bank. The log basket is useful for storing logs needed for deadfall and pitfall traps.

Forestry events can spawn passively while training on most types of trees, excluding certain tree types such as regular/burnt trees, hollow trees, player-grown trees, the blisterwood tree, and trees within the Woodcutting Guild. These Forestry events give a wide variety of rewards such as Farming, Construction, Fletching, Hunter, Thieving XP, Seeds and Egg nests alongside additional Woodcutting XP and Anima-infused bark. Anima bark used at the Forestry shop can be used for Sawmill vouchers or Twitcher's gloves to grant additional planks and bird nests, respectively.

From level 1, players will only be able to chop regular trees. It's strongly recommended to complete Monk's Friend to skip most of these levels, and use log spawns to train Firemaking.

At level 15, players can chop and burn oak trees until level 35. Burning teak logs only requires 35 , but it's best to stick with oaks until chopping teaks becomes available. A good location to cut and light fires is by Effigy at the Tower of Life; standing in between the adjacent oak trees.

At level 35, teak trees can be chopped and burned until players are eligible for Wintertodt at 50 Firemaking. An easy to find teak tree can be found south-west of Castle Wars, which is fast to get to with the minigame teleport. A patch of several teak trees can be found south of Civitas illa Fortis, requiring only Children of the Sun to access.

Getting at least level 60 Woodcutting from Wintertodt is recommended, as players can simply buy a better axe from the Woodcutting Guild and do not have to spend time killing monsters.

With tick manipulation, chopping teak trees is the best Woodcutting experience in the game. Without manipulation, Sulliusceps becomes better experience at 65. Since large quantities of teak planks are useful for construction training, it's recommended to make the logs into planks immediately.

The most efficient route for this is to teleport to a player-owned house and use a servant to make the planks. After sending him off, a mounted digsite pendant can be used to quickly get back to the teak trees on Fossil Island.

Ape Atoll is another option for teak trees since it's a shorter run. Monkey Madness II makes the monsters unaggressive there, otherwise a greegree is necessary. The Ape Atoll Teleport on the Arceuus spellbook can be used to get there quickly, or a house portal.

Sulliusceps on Fossil Island are a good source of non-tick manipulated experience, around 100,000–110,000 Woodcutting experience per hour. They're also a source of unidentified fossils, which are useful for the displays on the bottom floor of the Varrock Museum.

Being in the Tar Swamp, players training here will have to contend with Tar Monsters. Equipment with Ranged defence is recommended, since prayers will be negligibly effective against these monsters. Players with high hitpoints and/or ample food may opt to wear other gear such as Graceful or the Lumberjack outfit as these offer relevant benefits as well. It's recommended to bring 9 mushrooms to fill the mud pit at the start, which allows safe passage to the beginning of the swamp. Without, the mud pit can deal upwards of 50 damage.

With 72 Sailing players can cut Ironwood trees on Sunbleak island gaining around 80,000–100,000 experience per hour with a dragon axe. This increases beyond 110,000 experience per hour with a crystal felling axe and Forester's rations. A bank chest space is available nearby, which requires 70 Construction to build in order to bank on the island. There are a total of 14 ironwood trees that can be cut. Although Forestry events commonly spawn on the island, participating in them generally lowers experience rates closer to 70,000-90,000 experience per hour. While not as AFK as redwoods, the Anima-infused bark gained from Forestry events can be particularly useful for Iron accounts as it can be used to purchase Sawmill vouchers to reduce the cost of training construction.

Alternatively, with 80 Farming players can plant Ironwood saplings on Fossil island, although the longer distance to a bank, and longer respawn times, means experience rates are likely to be lower.

Chopping redwood trees is the best passive method of training. Players can expect more than 60,000 Woodcutting experience per hour, with very large periods of AFK downtime. Natural spawns can be found in the Woodcutting Guild. Redwood saplings can also be grown in the Farming Guild, but this is not recommended for training Woodcutting, as this prevents the growth of new redwood trees for Farming experience and the Woodcutting Guild provides an invisible +7 boost to Woodcutting.

It is also possible to use tick manipulation for redwoods in the Farming Guild, which is the most efficient method overall if the redwood logs are then later burnt for Firemaking while multiskilling, for example while Stealing Artefacts.

The most efficient teleports to redwoods are Xeric's talisman to the lookout, Rada's blessing to the Kourend Woodland, or a skills necklace.

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