What is woodcutting?

Woodcutting is a gathering skill that primarily involves chopping trees to obtain logs used in the Fletching and Firemaking skills. Players with a higher woodcutting level can chop down new types of trees and cut down trees quicker. As levels increase, players can use better hatchets which further increase the speed of cutting trees.

Woodcutting locations

The best places to train woodcutting are Seers Village, donator zone and the Woodcutting guild.

Seers village

Donator zone

If you are donator, type ::dz to go to the donator zone. Run to the east to find the trees.

Woodcutting guild

Go through the gates westbound. After that you will find all kind of trees. Beyond the magic trees you can climb up a ladder to find redwood trees.

Woodcutting supplies

All you need to start woodcutting, is a hatchet (other word for hatchet is axe). To get the basic axes in-game, either make them with the Smithing skill or get them as a drop from any monster. To get the rune axe, dragon axe, infernal axe and the 3rd age axe, spend your points at the woodcutting master shop as you can see further down this guide.

Hatchet	Image	Level
Iron hatchet		1
Steel hatchet		6
Black hatchet		11
Mithril hatchet		21
Adamant hatchet		31
Rune hatchet		41
Dragon hatchet		61
Infernal axe		61 (with 85 firemaking)
3rd age axe		61

It's also possible to buy the dragon hatchet and infernal hatchet at the skilling point store for respectively 50 and 500 skilling points. The infernal axe has the same cutting power as the dragon hatchet, but when using it, players have a 1/3 chance of receiving firemaking experience that a user would get for making a fire from the type of log the user is currently cutting. The 3rd age axe is the fastest axe.

Experience table

Logs Type	Level requirement	XP gained with all ironman modes
Logs	1	986
Oak Logs	15	1508
Willow Logs	30	2726
Maple Logs	45	4060
Mahogany Logs	50	5046
Yew Logs	60	6264
Magic Logs	75	10150
Redwood logs	90	15428

Woodcutting master

The woodcutting master can be found at Seers Village, woodcutting guild, member zones and some other places. The master can give you your skilling cape for free when you reach level 99. In addition, he can give you skilling tasks to obtain woodcutting points or money (you will also get participation points when you finish your task). Finally, you can see his master's shop where you can spend your woodcutting points.

1-99 walktrough

This is the suggested method for 1-99 woodcutting:

Name	Image	Levels
Logs		1-15
Oak logs		15-30
Willow logs		30-45
Maple logs		45-50
Mahogany Logs		50-60
Yew logs		60-75
Magic logs		75-90
Redwood logs		90-99

Useful items and boosts

Hourly bonus skill

The hourly bonus skill gives you 50% more woodcutting xp for 1 hour. Quest tab > the "i" icon > scroll down to see what the current hourly bonus skill is. Refresh the bonus skill to be sure you have the right one.

Watch the order of the hourly bonus skills to see when woodcutting is the hourly bonus skill.

Item/Boost	Effect	How to obtain?
Voting	Gives you 25% more woodcutting xp for 1 hour	When you redeem your vote, you will get a boost xp for 1 hour. See here how to vote
Lumberjack set	Gives you 30% more woodcutting xp	Get it from the woodcutting master for 3350 woodcutting points
Woodcutting cape	Gives you 20% more woodcutting xp	Get it from the skillcape store or the woodcutting master
Woodcutting hood	Gives you 5% more woodcutting xp	Get it from the skillcape store or the woodcutting master