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So You Want to Farm?
Turbo here from the RS Economist Blog. With that last post I have fielded quite a few questions, so here is a basic down and dirty guide to profitable farming from level 1 for you. Not a typical RS Blog Post, but I threw it up here for your reference.
Buy 24 potato seeds (96gp), 4 marigolds (66gp), and 10 compost (970gp). Buy any utensils you will need form the farmer.
Remove weeds from any farming plot and place in the compost bin. That is 12 weeds for 156 xp. Use the compost on all 4 plots and plant your potatoes and marigold for another 42xp. You will have made it up to level 3 at this point. Pay the farmer to look over your potatoes. It costs less than 200gp (compost) and the xp is well worth it.
Now the challenge is to set a goal. Do you want money? XP? Herbs for herblore? A good starting goal is 35 farming. At that level you can plant ranarr with relatively little chance of them becoming diseased and reap some huge profits.
The easiest route to 35 farming?
Plant at least 2 areas at a time for faster farming xp. It is passive training, so the most time is spent in preparation, and preparation for 2 areas is nearly the same as for a single one. Explorers ring for the Fally area and cammy tele for the catherby plot is an easy route for 2 areas.
What to plant
After harvesting your first crop, add another 3 potatoes to the compost bin and make compost. You should be making this every round for later use as payments, for your crops, or just to sell. You will now be at level 5. Plant two more areas with potatoes, and 2 marigolds. These are in demand for summoning, so it is better to pick them and plant again than to use them to protect your allotments. (Marigolds sell for almost 3k, payments only cost 180gp).
After harvesting your potatoes and marigolds again, you will be at level 10. Now it gets interesting. Guy some guam seeds. They are cheap enough that you can let them die at a higher rate. All crops tend to get diseased and die a lot more until you are at least 3 levels above the min to farm them.
At this point if you have the ectophial, you can start farming all 4 areas. Ecto to the port P, Cabbage tele to Fally, Cammy to Catherby and then run to the Ardo plot.
One trip to the 4 areas planting cabbage, marigold, and guam will net about 2,400xp, do that twice and you will be up to level 22.
Now you can plant sweet corn, a very profitable farming product. Seeds cost 455 (1365 an allotment), and the produce sells well for a profit. Make yourself some scare crows and you are good to go. Plant whatever herb seeds you can. Real money doesn’t come from those until you are level 29 and can do Harras without a reasonable chance they will die.
One more trip planting that will get you to 25. Repeat again twice and you are to level 30, and can start doing fruit trees. Start those at 27 if you pay for the gardener to watch them though. 3 more farming rounds or 8 apple trees will be at 35, and ready for some serious cash making opportunity.
Thoughts on farming
Super compost costs 500gp, Ingredients can be had in bulk from the GE for 100gp eacy, and no requirements to make it. Make it every round, if you don’t, then make normal compost every round. Running out of buckets? The RFD chest stocks them and Catherby has them in unlimited supply. At a free 135 xp per area, that adds up fast, not to mention the higher yields it gives you for allotments and herbs.
Ask away if you have any questions, or pm me in game and I will give y ou the tour. – kamakiri88
Can’t we just all get along?
You know that feeling, starting a new game. In most games, you start out with a tutorial which learns you the basics of the game. Okay, check, Runescape has that. After you’ve done that you can start with “the real deal”, the actual game. This is when you usually need help to learn everything, but somehow Runescape fails at this crucial part. Probably the reason why they introduced all those new helpers in Lumbridge not too long ago, and also many other things…arr
Noob Sponsorship
I know what your thinking, “Oh no what the heck is this…” Well it’s worse than that I guarantee it.
Noob Sponsorship is an idea that would solve various problems but first I will explain the concept. You find yourself a noob (lvl 3) and you sponsor him. For each level he gains you pay him 100 gold pieces. Now everyones reaction to this “What’s in it for me?”. Well nothing is the answer unless it makes you feel good, if your one of those people. However ever if a player gained 50 levels that’s only 5,000. Not so bad.
Runescape Addiction – My Story
Many people believe that MMORPGs such as Runescape and World Of Warcraft are more addicting than most drugs. I am a strong believer of this, although it is a lot easier to break a computer game addiction than it is to break a drug addiction, this post is to illustrate the addicting, and lively effects the game had on my life and the problems it has caused me. From buying and selling Runescape black market goods, to getting pk’d in the wilderness. My Runescape experience unleashed to the world in this exclusive post. I know The Runescape Blog has had articles about the addicting aspects of Runescape in the past, but this is ‘My Story’.
In a small unknown town a young computer nerd sat and waited for his teacher to arrive to class. What another kid in this young, future Runescape addict’s class said next, would be the birth of an addiction causing loss of time, life, money, and energy.
Farming: A Critical Look
So, I decided that I want to start taking critical looks at all of the skills of RuneScape.
My first will be Farming.
Farming is one of the hardest skills to train in RuneScape, as it takes much time and effort outside of Farming to get seeds, and then it takes much time and effort inside Farming to get levels. If you can get a high level in this skill, I respect you, as should the RuneScape community. That being said, I still feel as though the skill is useless.