Is it possible to get rich off of farming and HOW? I only ever did trees for quest requirements so I have 63. I don't feel like RCing because when I came back i saw natures were like 130 each...bleh.

 

 

 

 

edit: for double xp weekend should I plant all my trees the day before and then itll just give me 2.7x exp when I go check them?

Is it possible to get rich off of farming and HOW? I only ever did trees for quest requirements so I have 63. I don't feel like RCing because when I came back i saw natures were like 130 each...bleh.

 

Farm herbs. Check seed and actual heb prices to see which ones are most profitable. Generally, the good ones are the higher levelled ones: ranarr, snapdragon, toadflax kwuarm in no particular order.

 

edit: for double xp weekend should I plant all my trees the day before and then itll just give me 2.7x exp when I go check them?

 

If you are in no hurry, I'd plant them well ahead (2days or so) not checking health before BXPW. Sometimes, a tree takes a lot longer than the usual time to grow. To be on the sure side, plant well ahead, pay farmers if you want to.

Is it possible to get rich off of farming and HOW? I only ever did trees for quest requirements so I have 63. I don't feel like RCing because when I came back i saw natures were like 130 each...bleh.

 

Farm herbs. Check seed and actual heb prices to see which ones are most profitable. Generally, the good ones are the higher levelled ones: ranarr, snapdragon, toadflax kwuarm in no particular order.

 

edit: for double xp weekend should I plant all my trees the day before and then itll just give me 2.7x exp when I go check them?

 

If you are in no hurry, I'd plant them well ahead (2days or so) not checking health before BXPW. Sometimes, a tree takes a lot longer than the usual time to grow. To be on the sure side, plant well ahead, pay farmers if you want to.

 

 

 

Okay, thanks. Also, is killing creatures for seed drops worth the time or should I exclusively buy them..?

Is it possible to get rich off of farming and HOW? I only ever did trees for quest requirements so I have 63. I don't feel like RCing because when I came back i saw natures were like 130 each...bleh.

 

Farm herbs. Check seed and actual heb prices to see which ones are most profitable. Generally, the good ones are the higher levelled ones: ranarr, snapdragon, toadflax kwuarm in no particular order.

 

edit: for double xp weekend should I plant all my trees the day before and then itll just give me 2.7x exp when I go check them?

 

If you are in no hurry, I'd plant them well ahead (2days or so) not checking health before BXPW. Sometimes, a tree takes a lot longer than the usual time to grow. To be on the sure side, plant well ahead, pay farmers if you want to.

 

 

 

Okay, thanks. Also, is killing creatures for seed drops worth the time or should I exclusively buy them..?

 

Buy em, most seeds are <200gp, and the expensive ones are rare enough that they aren't worth grinding

I always buy my seeds, getting the high-level seeds from monsters can take a lot of time. You still make money from herb farming, so to me it seems like a waste of time to kill monsters for the seeds.

Also, if you really want to profit from farming, Juju Farm pots are AWESOME!!!

Do snaps, buy the seeds farm em all, pick and sell. Make sure to use supercompost, and magic secatures. Snaps give 120k profit in 5 minutes

I think 120k can only be achieved with juju hunting potions (if it even gets that high)

As of 11th august without jujus snaps are about 35k profit per patch so 140k or 175k

and with jujus it's about 50k profit per patch

 

[spoiler=My Python code (BIG)]

#!/usr/bin/env python

# scrape_runescape.py

import string
import urllib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re

def build_search_url(item_name):
 quoted_item_name = '"' + item_name + '"'
 params = urllib.urlencode({'query': quoted_item_name, 'price': 'all', 'members': 'yes'})
 the_url = "http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/results.ws?%s" % params
 return the_url

def grab_web_page(url):
 f = urllib.urlopen(url)
 return f.read()

def extract_item_price_info(item_name):
 url = build_search_url(item_name)
 s = grab_web_page(url)
 soup = BeautifulSoup(s)
 t = soup.find('table', id="search_results_table")
 rows = t.tbody.findAll('tr')
 for r in rows:
   cells = r.findAll('td')
   display_name = str(cells[1].a.string.lstrip())
   if (display_name == item_name):
     price = str(cells[2].string)
     price_change = str(cells[3].span.string)
     return (display_name, price, price_change)
 return (display_name, "not_found", "not_found")

def decode_price_string(price_string):
 price_string = price_string.replace(",", "")
 price_string = price_string.replace(".", "")
 price_string = price_string.replace("k", "00")
 price_string = price_string.replace("m", "00000")
 return int(price_string)

def build_clean_herb_name(herb):
 clean_herb_name = "Clean " + herb
 return clean_herb_name

def build_herb_seed_name(herb):
 herb_seed_name = herb.capitalize() + " seed"
 return herb_seed_name

def calculate_per_patch_profit(price_clean_herb, price_herb_seed):
 profit = (price_clean_herb * (6.5 * 1.43)) - (price_herb_seed *0.9+ 700)
 return profit
#Put your produce multiplier here      ^ Jujus, etc. Remove the *0.9 above if you do not have a scroll of life. change the 700 to however much you pay for super compost.              
def format_results(results):
 format_string = "%10.2f\t%s\t%d\t%d\t%5.2f\t%10.2f\t%10.2f"
 for result_tuple in results:
   result_string = format_string % result_tuple
   print result_string

herbs = (
 "ranarr",
 "kwuarm",
 "avantoe",
 "toadflax",
 "snapdragon",
 "cadantine",
 "lantadyme",
 "torstol"
 )

def main():
 results = []
 for herb in herbs:
   clean_herb_name = build_clean_herb_name(herb)
   herb_seed_name = build_herb_seed_name(herb)

   (display_name_clean_herb, price_string_clean_herb, price_change_string_clean_herb) = extract_item_price_info(clean_herb_name)
   (display_name_herb_seed, price_string_herb_seed, price_change_string_herb_seed) = extract_item_price_info(herb_seed_name)

   price_clean_herb = decode_price_string(price_string_clean_herb)
   price_change_clean_herb = decode_price_string(price_change_string_clean_herb)
   price_herb_seed = decode_price_string(price_string_herb_seed)
   price_change_herb_seed = decode_price_string(price_change_string_herb_seed)

   price_clean_herb_yesterday = price_clean_herb - price_change_clean_herb
   price_herb_seed_yesterday = price_herb_seed - price_change_herb_seed

   profit_per_patch_today = calculate_per_patch_profit(price_clean_herb, price_herb_seed)
   profit_per_patch_yesterday = calculate_per_patch_profit(price_clean_herb_yesterday, price_herb_seed_yesterday)
   percentage_profit_increase = 100.0 * (profit_per_patch_today - profit_per_patch_yesterday) / profit_per_patch_yesterday

   profit_today_per_four_patches = profit_per_patch_today * 4.0
   profit_today_per_five_patches = profit_per_patch_today * 5.0

   results.append((profit_per_patch_today, herb, price_clean_herb, price_herb_seed, percentage_profit_increase, profit_today_per_four_patches, profit_today_per_five_patches))
 results.sort()
 results.reverse()
 format_results(results)


main()

 

Btw it needs Beautiful Soup to run you will probably need version 3.2.0

Read the comment under def calculate_per_patch_profit to customize it

It takes about 10 minutes to run because Jagex bottle necks it.

Then copy and paste the results into a spread sheet, they go;

1 Patch, Herb, Herb price, Seed Price, Profit change today, 4 Patches, 5 Patches