Fastest Place to do Simple Things

It struck me today that a lot of people in runescape do really inefficient things just because they don't know any better.

I'm trying to write a guide about the fastest place to do simple tasks. This will be a simple guide for doing simple things. It will be a list. It will list a simple task and the best, fastest, and most efficient location in which to do that task.

I am not listing complicated tasks like merchanting, making friends, raising combat/skill levels, or playing minigames. I'm listing simple tasks like collecting snape grass, filling vials with water, mining clay, collecting seaweed, and so on and so forth.

I am compiling this guide with input from users of this forum. If you think you know a fast and efficient way of doing a simple task, please post it here and I'll credit you. If you think something on my list is wrong, post your correction, and if you're right, I'll change it and credit you. Likewise, if you want to know the fastest place to do something, please post your question here too.

If the list gets long enough, I'll move it (or ask a mod to move it) to the Archive of Wisdom.

The List:

Mining

• [*:335t12xv]Mining iron to keep: Fishing colony (swan song) (Nezikchened)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining iron to keep: Khazard mine (without swan song)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining iron to drop: Al-kharid (bashful)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining gold: Keldagrim (Malhavok)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining clay: Grand tree (Malhavok)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining pure essence: Magic guild (bashful)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining coal: Mining guild (Malhavok)
   
  [*:335t12xv]mining coal: coal trucks(snipersas)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining mithril:New Lumbridge mine (Malhavok)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Mining adamant:New Lumbridge swamp mine (Supermonk)

Collecting

• [*:335t12xv]Collecting seaweed: Rellekka shore with lyre tele
   
  [*:335t12xv]Collecting snape grass: waterbirth with lunar magic
   
  [*:335t12xv]Collecting flax:Lletya
   
  [*:335t12xv]Collecting flour in f2p:?
   
  [*:335t12xv]Collecting eggs in f2p:?

Chopping

• [*:335t12xv]Chopping magic logs:Lletya(Supermonk)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping maples: Behind seers bank (ragusprime)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping willows: draynor
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping willows, no bank: North east of Ardy mining spot (JoeDaStudd)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping willows for dropping: South of rimmington(Free Steel1)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping yews: Seers (bashful)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping oak: Seers/CW (bashful)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Chopping regular trees : North fally or north Yanille (bashful)

Altering items

• [*:335t12xv]Filling things with water: lumbridge basement
   
  [*:335t12xv]Spinning flax: Lumbridge (bashful)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Fill buckets with sand: Yanille
   
  [*:335t12xv]Cooking on a Fire: Rogue's Den (Malhavok)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Cooking on a range: Catherby (Multiple people)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Smith in bulk: Varrock
   
  [*:335t12xv]Smelt in bulk: Port Phantasmys

Various

• [*:335t12xv]Fletching bows: CW bank chest
   
  [*:335t12xv]Killing chickens: Champions Guild (jonas_berggren)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Fly Fishing: Shilo Village (deadpolkadots1)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Firemaking with banked logs: Yanille- down the side of the bank(Wizard111111)
   
  [*:335t12xv]Whatever YOU know how to do well: wherever (yournamehere)
   
  

If you have a NEW item for the list and want to make my job easier, copy this green stuff into your post and change the relevant information (include the "code" business):

[code][*][b]Whatever the task is[/b]: The place ([color=green]yourname[/color])

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If you are able to go inside the Champions Guild, then kill your chickens there. I've been there alot of time and I rarly see any other people. Then of course if you want to meet people, don't go there :

Mining Iron to Drop: Al-kharid

Spinning Flax: Lumbridge

Pure Essence: Magic Guild

Chopping Yews: Seers

Chopping Maples: Seers

Chopping Oak: Seers/CW

Chopping Regular Trees: North Falador/North Yanille

Fastest F2p Melee Xp per hour: Security Stronghold Spiders

F2p Runecrafting Xp: World 16 Air Crafters

Thanks for the input, um_bong0. But I think those are a bit too "complicated" for my list.

Raising skill or combat xp is really a subjective matter. I only want objective facts on this list. Anyone with a stopwatch can tell that varrock is the best place to smith (or at least until someone posts a faster place... :) ), but if I put down that spiders are the best place to train combat in f2p, many people will have different ideas.

Got anything simpler? I'd love to get your name on the list.

mining gold: keldagrim ( dwarf city)

mining clay: crafting guild

mine coal : mining guild

mine mithril : New Lumby mines

I thought about something like this myself, but was too lazy.Good Luck

Malhavok:

I've never mined gold in Keldagrim - is there a bank nearby?

I'm gonna put the nix on the crafting guild for clay - I can think of several clay mining places with closer banks.

Can you fill in any of the other question marks on the list?

Thanks for the support!

once you mind gold in keldagrim( actually in an abyss), you come out and a guy will bank your gold for a small cut.

you can mine 27 and bank 22 or 25 with Ring of Charos.

cooking fire: rogue's den

cooking range: catherby

mining clay: grand tree ( for banking clay)

crafting guild ( for making soft clay )

Hey, I use a good Iron source for keeping.

West of Falador, if you got the needed agility, you can jumo de wall, mine iron (3 rocks) and go back. It's really useful.

EDIT: In Zanaris there's a range near the bank too.

Mining Gold - Tzharr (sp)

Snape Grass - IMO this is taking boat to Waterbirth and walking to house in Relekka and getting slave to take it to bank, but I have never tried the tele method.

Iron for Powermining - What about Dorgeshunn mines? You can mine and sell to the Goblin to dispose of it easily. This is also not a bad method for banking iron.

Smithing - Yanille

Fly fishing - Shilo Village

EDIT

cooking juust about anything: rouges' den lobby

Updated.

I saw this thread earlier and I recently found out something.

With a decent defence level you can train any combat skill (str, att, def) by finding a weaker monster than you (30-40 levels weaker) thats very aggressive. You simply walk into their domain preferably have 5-10 monsters in the area, and stand their and let them attack you. While this is going on you get great exp and don't even have to pay attention to whats going on.

And can post in tipit like i do :-w

To get the monsters angry again just leave their area and walk back or if that doesn't work log out then back in.

Kilo - Even easier is to go to the desert wearing a god cape and let the bandits attack you for hours and hours. But many (including myself) consider this AFK training, and don't really like it.

However, this list is for simple things. I'm not listing the easiest way to gain combat/skill exp. I'm listing the most efficient way to get simple tasks done.

Thanks for your input anyway :wink: . Do you have any tricks involving simple tasks you think I should put up?

[*][b]Firemaking with logs already banked[/b]: Yanille- down the side of the bank([color=green]Wizard111111[/color])

Cutting Willows to keep: Draynor

Mining Adamant: New Lumbridge Swamp Mines

Cutting Magic Trees: Lletya with Crystal Teleport

Updated.

Collecting seaweed

Fishing Colony from Swan Song quest.

Iron to keep (IF swan song is done) at fishing colony mine

Iron to drop at fishing colony (long walk there but less crowded than Al Kharid)

It's basicly the same as Al Kharid (3 rocks around you, no movement) but less crowded. And a bank is inside the fishing colony for those who have done swan song.

Updated. More input please...

where good place to mine maples?

wouldent smithing be faster in yanille then varrock?

wouldent smithing be faster in yanille then varrock?

About the same actually. No noobs usually in Yanille though :