Farming training

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This guide describes the most effective methods to train the Farming skill. Farming is a gathering skill which involves the player planting seeds in Farming patches that are found throughout RuneScape. The planted crops then grow in real time through differing numbers of growth stages.

Once the crop(s) have become fully grown the player may check its health to claim experience, and begin harvesting the crop for resources. Plants may become diseased over the course of their growth and will die if the disease is not treated. To prevent crops from dying, gardeners may be paid to watch over some plants; noted items can be used to save inventory space and time. Some farming patches do not have a gardner nearby, meaning that it is up to the player themselves to take care of the plant. The player can reduce the crop's chance of dying by applying compost, supercompost or ultracompost. These three composts can also increase the yield of some crops. Most, if not all farming patches also have a tool leprechaun (or elves in the Tirannwn region) nearby, who can store some farming equipment and also note various produce for free.

As the majority of Farming experience is obtained from checking a fully grown plants' health, levelling the Farming skill is most commonly done via "farm runs". A farm run involves the player quickly visiting as many patches of a particular type as possible to check the health of fully grown crops, remove them and replant new crops in their place. Farming training typically involves farm runs of trees, fruit trees and other special trees once the ability to plant these has been unlocked.

Useful equipment

Urns

Name	Crafting level required to add nature rune	GE price of non-runed urn	Charges gained from	Experience required to fill	Experience gained for teleporting
Cracked farming urn	5	1,073	Check health and gathering up to and including level 12	1,100	220
Fragile farming urn	18	728	Check health and gathering up to and including level 30	2,500	500
Plain farming urn	40	1,063	Check health and gathering up to and including level 53	4,500	900
Strong farming urn	58	1,549	Check health and gathering up to and including level 72	5,500	1,100
Decorated farming urn	84	5,209	Check health and gathering up to and including level 120	7,000	1,400

Urns can be used to gain additional Farming experience while training. When held in the inventory, urns are filled as the player farms. Only base experience counts towards filling the urn. Full urns can be teleported away to receive additional experience. Only one urn is filled at a time, though players may own up to a total of 10 full urns. If a player owns 10 full farming urns they must teleport at least 1 away before they can fill more urns. Urns are only tradeable in their (nr), non-runed, forms. In order to use a farming urn the player must add a nature rune to it; this makes the urn untradeable.

Players who have at least level 24 Invention and who have completed Nomad's Elegy can discover how to make an urn enhancer. When in the player's inventory the urn enhancer grants 25% additional experience for teleporting a full urn. This effect costs 20 charges from the player's charge pack. Assuming the player purchases divine charges from the Grand Exchange, it would cost 623.99 coins to use the urn enhancer when teleporting an urn.

Supercompost, ultracompost and Fertile Soil

A bucket of supercompost or ultracompost may be used on a Farming patch prior to planting a crop. This increases the amount of produce that is yielded when harvesting the fully grown plant (such as herbs), as well as reducing the chance of the planted crops becoming diseased. The chance of a plant that has been treated with supercompost dying is ~14%, while for ultracompost it is 7%. A bucket of supercompost costs 3,665 coins and grants 26 Farming experience when it is used to treat a Farming patch, which is 34,159 coins for ultracompost. After using a bucket of supercompost on a Farming patch the player is left with an empty bucket, worth 292 coins. Players who do not wish to receive these buckets can turn on the option "destroy empty buckets when farming" in the Miscellaneous Settings tab of the Game Settings options. Otherwise, empty buckets can be stored with the tool leprechaun for future use. Up to 2,000 supercompost and ultracompost may be stored with and later withdrawn from a tool leprechaun.

Supercompost is obtained by placing specific produce into the compost bin (refer to the page for eligible produce), while ultracompost is obtained by placing dragon manure (the waste of adolescent and older dragons) in the compost bin. Because of the high price of ultracompost, it should only be used if the seed costs more than 14 buckets of ultracompost (the inverse of 7%) or 478,226; as very few seeds cost that much, supercompost is more viable for long-term training.

Players who are on the lunar spellbook can alternatively use the Fertile Soil spell to treat a targeted patch with supercompost. Casting Fertile Soil grants 18 Farming experience and 87 Magic experience.

Always compost unprotected patches; there is no point in composting protected patches since the planted crop will never die.

Rapid Growth

Those who have finished The Light Within and have unlocked the Rapid Growth spell should consider using it on all of their tree and fruit tree patches once a day, if they choose to not pay to protect it. Because it removes one chance of dying from disease, it can be worth the price of one cast if the price of protection is higher than that. E.g. a payment of 25 coconuts for a magic seed costs 241,100 coins and the runes to cast the spell cost 10,293 coins (by using 3 soul, 3 water, 3 nature, and 3 earth runes). For the costs of other ways to cast the spell, for instance by using combination runes, see Rapid Growth.

Scroll of life

A scroll of life can be used to unlock the ability to recover seeds from Farming patches. It can be bought for 10,000 Dungeoneering tokens and requires level 25 Farming and Dungeoneering to use. Its effect gives the player a 10% chance of receiving seeds back when removing dead or fully grown plants from patches, with the exception of flower and special patches. The player also gains a 5% chance of getting a seed back when clearing a tree or dead tree from a tree patch. Seeds recovered from fully grown patches are the same kind as those used to grow the plant, but seeds recovered from dead plants are a random seed of the same type that can be grown in that patch. The amount of seeds returned can be up to and including the number of seeds used to plant at the patch, e.g. up to 3 for an allotment patch.

Amulet of bountiful harvest

While wearing an amulet of bountiful harvest there is a chance that the player will conserve seeds while planting in an allotment patch. The amulet has 10 charges and can be bought from the Grand Exchange for 799 coins.

(Master) farmer's outfit

Name	Experience boost
Farmer's hat	1%
Farmer's jacket	1%
Farmer's legwear	1%
Farmer's cuffs	1%
Farmer's boots	1%
Set bonus	1%
Total experience boost	6%

Wearing components of the farmer's outfit gives a percentage increase in the amount of base experience that is earned when gaining Farming experience. There are five pieces in the set: the farmer's hat, farmer's jacket, farmer's legwear, farmer's cuffs, and farmer's boots. Components of the farmer's outfit can be won from Treasure Hunter or purchased from the Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza reward shop.

A better version is the Master farmer outfit, which includes the effects of the Farmer's outfit, if owned. It gives a 10% increase in harvesting crops from hops, herb and allotment patches. It also gives a 10% chance to gain bonus produce from fruit trees and bushes. Herbs are auto-cleaned on harvest for Herblore experience. When training at the Manor Farm this outfit provides 7% faster growth, it gives a better chance for positive traits and gives 10% more beans upon selling animals. It also allows the player to cast Rapid Growth twice per day, instead of one.

The set also provides teleports to Manor Farm, Morytania allotment patches, Herblore Habitat and the Gnome Stronghold. This is not free however, as the player needs to complete the respective diaries for the former two, and they have to supply the teleport item itself for the latter two.

Players who obtain the farmer's hat add-on as well as a farmer's hat can combine these items to create the modified farmer's hat. In addition to granting a 1% Farming experience bonus, the modified hat gives 3 daily teleports to the Morytania allotment patch. When the modified hat is worn it also gives a 2% chance of saving seeds as they are planted.

Capes of achievement

The Farming cape at level 99 Farming. When equipped, the cape gives a chance to instantly harvest all produce when harvesting from a farming patch.

The farming master cape at level 120 Farming. In addition to the 99 cape perks, the cape also notes the harvested crops automatically, automatically treats farming patches with supercompost and allows the player to increase the health and happiness of all of their player owned farm animals by 20% once per day.

Players who own a Gatherer's cape, max cape, completionist cape, or trimmed completionist cape may use the farming cape on one of these capes to give it the farming cape's perk.

Torstol incense sticks

Each potency level of torstol incense sticks provides a 0.5% increase to base XP gain. The potency level will increase every 10 minutes and will reach its maximum at level 4 (+2% to base XP). Overloading consumes 6 sticks but instantly provides the maximum potency.

Green Fingers Auras

Tier			Loyalty point cost		Chance of extra crop
			Individual	Cumulative
1		Greenfingers aura	5,000	5,000	3%
2		Greater greenfingers aura	16,000	21,000	5%
3		Master greenfingers aura	29,000	50,000	7%
4		Supreme greenfingers aura	61,000	111,000	10%
5		Legendary greenfingers aura	119,000	230,000	15%

Relic powers

Relic powers can be obtained through the Archaeology skill to unlock permanent passive buffs to assist in training Farming among other things. Only 3 relic powers with a combined energy cost of 500 or less can be active at one time.

Relic power		Effect	Level	Required relic(s)	Monolith energy	Chronotes
	Pharm Ecology	Your herb and mushroom patches no longer become diseased.	81	Queen Mab's Moonstone	150	3,000
	Inspire Effort	You will gain 2% more XP when training gathering skills.	117	Petasos	250	5,000

Supreme Growth Potions

Players who have spent a lot of time with the Player-Owned Farm may find themselves starting to amass a stockpile of Beans. These can be spent at the Farmers' Market on Supreme growth potions. These potions, when used on a growing plant on the allotment, rapid-grows the plant to become ready for harvest. There are six different types of potions, each with different costs:

Potion	Eligible patches	Bean cost
Supreme growth potion (sundry)	Mushroom, Allotment, Evil turnip, Hops	1,000
Supreme growth potion (leafy)	Herb, Flower, Cacti, Belladonna	1,000
Supreme growth potion (bushy)	Bush	1,200
Supreme growth potion (fruity)	Fruit tree, Calquat	2,400
Supreme growth potion (woody)	Normal, Elder, Spirit tree	4,000

The potions are only recommended to be used during a double experience event, to make the most use out of the cost. In addition, only fruity and sundry potions are worth buying for the best experience rates.

Summoning familiars

Summoning familiars can be used to boost your farming level or increase yield.

Familiar	GE cost of pouch	Summoning level required	Familiar duration (minutes)	Effect
Dreadfowl	258	4	4	Farming +1
Compost mound	831	28	24	Farming (+1 + 2% of level)
Stranger plant	2,447	64	49	Farming (+1 + 4% of level)
Giant ent	3,078	78	49	Improves yield when harvesting belladonna, cactus spines, bushes, or fruit trees

Active Methods

Manure mound (Level 1 - 9000 XP/Hr)

The Manure mound northeast of Granny Potterington's house at the Manor Farm and at Anachronia Dinosaur Farm can be continuously dug for 2.5xp per second. This is the fastest training method to level 15 (unlocking trees) taking 39 minutes 20 seconds to go from 1-15.

Seedicide (Level 7- 20,000 XP/Hr | Level 74 - 175,000 XP/Hr

Seedicide is an item which automatically destroys selected seeds dropped by monsters, in exchange for double the experience the player would gain from planting the seeds in a Farming patch. If the player does not have the level required to plant the seeds, however, no Farming experience will be awarded. It can be obtained through playing Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza, buying it from Stanley Limelight for 360 Thaler or purchasing from the Farmers' Market for 10,000 beans.

The seedicide is a good way to passively gain Farming experience without waiting for timed runs, and make some profit on the side.

There are several monsters that yield significant Farming experience gain through the use of seedicide. The most notable ones are turoths, which can yield up to 130,000-175,000 Farming experience an hour at level 74 Farming and require little to no attention to kill (method); aquanites, which can yield up to 160,000 experience an hour at level 91 Farming; and vyrelords, which are able to drop seeds worth approximately 90,000 to 120,000 experience an hour at level 74 Farming.

For lower levels, killing tortoises in the northern part of the Tree Gnome Stronghold can yield approximately 20,000 experience an hour at level 7 Farming and higher.

Foraging rumberry bushes (Level 86 - 30,000 XP/Hr)

There are several rumberry bushes on the south-western part of Tuai Leit in The Arc. The Arc can be accessed after completing the Impressing the Locals quest. Rumberry bushes can be harvested at level 86 Farming and give around 30,000 experience an hour. While harvesting from them players will gain rumberries and, on rare occasions, a rumberry seed. Players can be pricked by a thorn while foraging from the bushes: this interrupts the harvesting and causes the players to have to re-click the bushes.

Foraging mushroom clusters (Level 94 - 50,000 XP/Hr)

Mushroom clusters are a Farming resource that can be found in The Arc region after completing the Impressing the Locals quest:

The Islands That Once Were Turtles and Goshima - Level 90 Farming, 30,000 experience an hour at level 99 Farming with 700 chimes an hour. Yields 25-30 every 4-5 minutes with 1 minute replenish wait time. Randomly on some Uncharted Isles - Level 94 Farming, 50,000 experience an hour at level 99 Farming with 1200 chimes an hour. Limit is 100 a day for each cluster.

Completion of the Flag Fall miniquest allows the player to claim an uncharted isle and return to it; is also required to hunt clusters effectively. To find mushroom clusters on Uncharted Isles, the player must first gain some chimes from skilling in The Arc so that they can purchase the supplies required to voyage to Uncharted Isles. Supplies can be purchased from Rosie. When the player finds an Uncharted Isle with mushroom clusters then they can claim the island using a claim island flag. Once an uncharted isle is claimed the player may return to it for the price of 3 supplies per voyage: 5 supplies per day can be claimed for free from the box next to Rosie, capped at 10 days' worth of missed claims.

The mushroom clusters on Uncharted Isles can be harvested at level 94 Farming and yield 100 mushrooms before depleting. While harvesting the clusters players may be pricked by a thorn which deals damage and interrupts their foraging. Having a higher Farming level and using level boosts may reduce the chance of this occurring. At level 99 harvesting mushrooms grants an experience rate equivalent to 50,000 experience an hour. The harvested mushrooms can be sliced into sliced mushrooms and sold for more chimes, or be used as food for player-owned farm zygomites, and players have a 1/400 rate of finding zygomites while picking the clusters. The experience from harvesting mushroom clusters can further be bolstered by completing contracts given by Sojobo (contracts) on Waiko or via a Contract contact on an uncharted isle. Players may complete up to 3 contracts daily, and may purchase upgrades from Boni for a maximum of 7 daily contracts. Doing contracts, however, requires chimes to be able to reroll contracts until satisfactory Farming ones are assigned.

Tombshrooms (Level 109)

At level 109 Farming players can begin planting Tombshrooms. All Tombshrooms are harvested in one tick and are stackable, hence not much inventory space is required. With harvesting all at once, the base experience received is 9,032.4 regardless of how many are harvested since it is not received per item like other farming methods.

Steps to take

1. Rake patch to remove weeds if weeds are present.
2. Overload on Torstol incense sticks , activate the Brassica primer and activate your best Greenfingers aura.
3. Use spore on the patch.
4. Apply sundry potion and pick the tombshroom
5. Repeat immediately steps 3 and 4 until boosts run out.

• Master farmer's outfit - Benefits listed above.
• Decorated farming urns + Urn enhancer - Extra 1750 xp per 7000 base xp gained.

Boosts		Value per bean
Base	67.69
	Uncapped Potential (tier 1)	72.56
	Uncapped Potential (tier 2)	74.64
	Elite Morytania achievements completed	137.22
	Elite Morytania achievements completed Uncapped Potential (tier 1)	146.95
	Elite Morytania achievements completed Uncapped Potential (tier 2)	151.12
With above and gloomshroom zygomites chance	154.94
With above and harmony moss via perfect plus potion	155.46
With above and Tirannwn quiver 3 or 4	155.51

Patches

How to farm a patch:

Required items: 3 seeds per allotment patch or a sapling for a tree patch and teleports. Optional items: Supercompost/Fertile Soil and payments.

1. Rake patch to remove weeds, if weeds are present, OR, if seeds have been planted previously, remove dead/check health and harvest from fully grown plant. Harvested crops may be used on tool leprechauns to note them, to free up inventory space. Weeds can be automatically removed by the nearby gardener if the player has completed A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift and has opted for the feature.
2. Treat empty patch with supercompost (optional but highly recommended).
3. Use seeds or sapling on the patch
4. Pay farmer to watch crops (only for a few crops)

Allotments

There are 4 main allotments that contain 2 allotment patches, as well as a flower patch and herb patch. An additional single allotment patch is located at Taverley, that can only be used to grow potatoes. Head Farmer Jones will always protect this patch and potatoes never die. 3 seeds are required for each allotment patch. In addition to having the option of paying gardeners to look after them, allotment patches may be protected from disease and death if specific fully grown flowers are planted at nearby flower patches.

Level	Seed	Growth time	GP per patch	XP per patch	Protection		GP/XP (protected)
					Flower	Farmer
1	Potato seed	40 minutes (4 x 10 minutes)	-405 x 3	98 (8 for planting and 9 x 10 for harvesting)	Marigolds	2 buckets of compost -446	18.34
5	Onion seed	40 minutes (4 x 10 minutes)	-385 x 3	114.5 (9.5 for planting and 10.5 x 10 for harvesting)	Marigolds	Sack of potatoes -7,842	-28.2
7	Cabbage seed	40 minutes (4 x 10 minutes)	-356 x 3	125 (10 for planting and 11.5 x 10 for harvesting)	Rosemary	Sack of onions -3,543	5.26
12	Tomato seed	40 minutes (4 x 10 minutes)	-380 x 3	152.5 (12.5 for planting and 14 x 10 for harvesting)	Marigolds	2 sacks of cabbages -16,640	-71.01
20	Sweetcorn seed	50 minutes (5x10 minutes)	-438 x 3	207 (17 for planting and 19 x 10 for harvesting)	Scarecrow	10 x Jute fibres -13,660	-34.85
31	Strawberry seed	60 minutes (6x10 minutes)	-704 x 3	316 (26 for planting and 29 x 10 for harvesting)	None	1 x Apples (5) -3,966	-3.31
47	Watermelon seed	70 minutes (7x10 minutes)	-3,457 x 3	593.5 (48.5 for planting and 54.5 x 10 for harvesting)	Nasturtiums	10 x Curry leaves -28,090	-54.8
80	Snape grass seed	200 minutes (5x40 minutes)	-1,474 x 3	975 (175 for planting and 80 x 10 for harvesting)	None	15 x Dwellberries -60,690	-66.18
87	Sunchoke seed	200 minutes (5x40 minutes)	-560 x 3	303 (208 for planting and 95 x 1 for harvesting)	None	15 x Yanillian hops -11,610	-51.53
93	Fly trap seed	200 minutes (5x40 minutes)	-445 x 3	275 (225 for planting and 50 x 1 for harvesting)	None	15 x Cadava berries -22,950	-92.86

Experience gain and cost values are based on: Using buckets of supercompost to fertilise patches Obtaining a yield of 10 produce on average (1 for Sunchoke and Fly trap seeds) Paying a farmer to protect crops

Monetary gain and cost values are based on: Buying seeds and selling harvested crops at current Gold Exchange prices Buying Supercompost at current Gold Exchange price: 3,665 A 14% chance of dying if not protected

Patch location

Falador, south of Falador and north of Port Sarim	West of Port Phasmatys	North of Catherby	North of Ardougne	Taverley - single patch (potatoes only)
Cabbage-port using Explorer's ring 3 or better Draynor lodestone teleport Captain's log teleport Clan vexillum teleport to the Clan Camp at Falador	Modified farmer's hat teleport Ectophial Canifis lodestone teleport Fairy ring (code ALQ)	Catherby lodestone teleport Camelot teleport Modified botanist's mask	Teleport to allotment using Ardougne cloak 2 or better Ardougne lodestone teleport Teleport to Fishing Guild with Skills necklace	Taverley tablet Taverley lodestone teleport Slayer cape teleport
Elstan	Lyra	Dantaera	Kragen	Head Farmer Jones

Trees

There are 6 tree patches, although one requires completion of Plague's End.

Tree seeds cannot be directly planted into a tree patch. Instead, they must be added to a plant pot to create a seedling. The seedling can then be watered using a watering can or magic watering can. After approximately 5 minutes, the seedling will become a sapling which can be planted in a tree patch. After planting a sapling the player will be left with an empty plant pot. Players who do not wish to receive these plant pots can turn on the option "destroy empty plant pots when farming" in the Inventory tab of the Interfaces options. Seedlings and saplings are untradeable. Players wishing to reclaim tree seeds that have been put into plant pots can do so using the right-click "salvage seed" option on a tree sapling, though this has only approximately 75% chance of returning the seed.

Level	Tree	Growth time	GP per seed	XP per seed	Payment	GP/XP (no payments)	GP/XP (payments)
15	Oak tree	160 minutes (4 x 40 minutes)	389	481.3 (14 for planting; 467.3 for checking health)	1 basket of tomatoes 2,130	-9.24	-12.25
30	Willow tree	240 minutes (6 x 40 minutes)	370	1,481.5 (25 for planting; 1456.5 for checking health)	1 basket of apples 3,966	-3.12	-5.33
45	Maple tree	320 minutes (8 x 40 minutes)	6,393	3,448.4 (45 for planting; 3403.4 for checking health)	1 basket of oranges 12,825	-3.36	-6.59
60	Yew tree	400 minutes (10 x 40 minutes)	5,237	7,150.9 (81 for planting; 7069.9 for checking health)	10 cactus spines 60,150	-1.44	-9.63
75	Magic tree	480 minutes (12 x 40 minutes)	22,199	13,913.8 (145.5 for planting; 13,768.3 for checking health)	25 coconuts 241,100	-2.16	-19.15
119	Money tree	2880 minutes (72 x 40 minutes)	N/A	61,000 (1,000 for planting; 60,000 for checking health)	N/A	N/A	N/A

Experience gain and cost values are based on:

• A death rate of 14% without protection
• Using buckets of supercompost to fertilise patches

Patch locations

Lumbridge, north-east of Lumbridge Castle	Varrock, Varrock Palace courtyard	Falador, within Falador Park	Taverley, north of the lodestone	Tree Gnome Stronghold, west of Gnome Stronghold Agility Course	Trahaearn Clan district of Prifddinas
Lumbridge lodestone teleport Lumbridge Teleport	Varrock Teleport Spirit tree Ring of Wealth to Grand Exchange Varrock lodestone teleport	Modified Blacksmith's Helmet teleport to Artisans' Workshop Falador Teleport Skills necklace to Mining Guild Falador lodestone teleport	Taverley tablet Taverley lodestone teleport	Spirit tree in Tree Gnome Stronghold Grand seed pod Gnome glider	Crystal teleport seed to Trahaearn district Prifddinas lodestone teleport Spirit tree in Prifddinas
					Plague's End quest
Fayeth	Treznor	Heskel	Alain	Prissy Scilla	Eifion

Fruit trees

At level 27 Farming players can begin to plant fruit trees. There are 7 fruit tree patches, but 2 are quest locked.

Although the Anachronia fruit tree seeds grow significantly faster than the typical fruit tree seed (one cycle less), it is highly recommended to start with guarana seeds (requiring 107 Farming), as ciku seeds are extremely expensive due to their very few drop sources. Carambola seeds are even cheaper, but require 113 Farming.

Level	Tree	Growth time	GP per seed	XP per seed	Payment	GP/XP (no payments)	GP/XP (payments)
27	Apple tree	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes)	533	1,272.5 (22 for planting, 1,199.5 for checking health, and 8.5 x 6 for harvesting)	9 Sweetcorn 9,468	-1.1	-7.87
33	Banana tree	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes)	586	1,841.5 (28 for planting, 1750.5 for checking health, and 10.5 x 6 for harvesting)	4 baskets of apples 15,864	-1.54	-9.67
39	Orange tree	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes)	344	2,586 (35 for planting, 2,470 for checking health, and 13.5 x 6 for harvesting)	3 baskets of strawberries 4,827	2.8	1.21
42	Curry tree	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes )	422	3,037 (40 for planting, 2,907 for checking health, and 15 x 6 for harvesting)	5 baskets of bananas 11,460	3.93	0.42
51	Pineapple plant	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes)	879	4,791.7 (57 for planting, 4,605.7 for checking health, and 21.5 x 6 for harvesting)	10 watermelons 8,180	-0.34	-1.89
57	Papaya tree	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes)	854	6,380.4 (72 for planting, 6146.4 for checking health, and 27 x 6 for harvesting)	10 pineapples 6,120	6.44	5.62
68	Palm tree	16 hours (6 x 160 minutes)	23,395	10,509.6 (110.5 for planting, 10150.1 for checking health, and 41.5 x 6 for harvesting)	15 papaya fruit 116,625	2.5	-8.15
101	Ciku tree	13 hours and 20 minutes (5 x 160 minutes)	411,665	25,664.1 (471 for planting, 22,047 for checking health, and 1,048.7 x 3 for harvesting)	6 Zygomite fruit 33,804	-15.88	-14.83
107	Guarana tree	13 hours and 20 minutes (5 x 160 minutes)	19,224	32,767.01 (590.6 for planting, 28,157 for checking health, and 1,339.8 x 3 for harvesting)	11 Tombshroom 33,990	-0.3	-0.76
113	Carambola tree	13 hours and 20 minutes (5 x 160 minutes)	8,346	41,254.1 (811.4 for planting, 35,057.7 for checking health, and 1,795 x 3 for harvesting)	9 Dragonfruit 206,793	0.14	-5.5

Experience gain and cost values are based on:

• Farming 7 fruit tree patches
• A death rate of 14% without protection
• Using buckets of supercompost to fertilise patches

Patch locations

Location	Image	Teleports	Requirements	Farmer
Tree Gnome Stronghold, north of Gnome Stronghold Agility Course		Spirit tree in Tree Gnome Stronghold Grand seed pod Gnome glider	None	Bolongo
West of Tree Gnome Village maze		Spirit tree to Tree Gnome Village, squeeze through the railings into the maze and follow Elkoy out of the maze Fairy ring (code ciq) Use a ring of duelling to teleport to Castle Wars and then run north Teleport to the Yanille lodestone and travel north-west	None	Gileth
Catherby, east of fishing spots		Catherby lodestone teleport Catherby Teleport Gnome glider to White Wolf Mountain Camelot Teleport	None	Ellena
North of Brimhaven		Brimhaven Tablet Spirit tree, if the player has one planted in Brimhaven Take a charter ship to Brimhaven Karamja lodestone teleport	None	Garth
Lletya		Crystal teleport seed Tirannwn quiver 1 or higher Tirannwn lodestone teleport and go east	Started Mourning's End Part I or after completing part of The Prisoner of Glouphrie	Amaethwr
Herblore Habitat		Juju teleport spiritbag Witchdoctor mask	None	Zombie farmer
Meilyr Clan district of Prifddinas		Dungeoneering skillcape perk: Teleport to Gorago Hoardstalker resource dungeon Crystal teleport seed to Meilyr district Prifddinas lodestone teleport Tirannwn quiver 4 teleport to harmony pillars	Plague's End quest	Alfon

Other Trees

Level	Tree	Growth time	GP per seed	XP per seed	Payment	GP/XP (no payments)	GP/XP (payments)
72	Calquat tree	~21.5 hours (8 x 160 minutes)	415	12,516.6 (129.5 for planting, 12096 for checking health, and 48.5 x 6 for harvesting)	] 8 poison ivy berries 49,088	-0.19	-4.05
83	Spirit tree	58 hours 40 minutes (11 x 320 minutes)	Not tradable	19,501.3 (199.5 for planting and 19,301.8 for checking health)	5 Monkey nuts, 1 Monkey bar, 1 Ground tooth		-0.19	See below
90	Elder Tree	70 hours	84,182	23,463 (321 for planting and 23,142 for checking health)	25 morchella mushrooms 215,925	-4.34	-12.93
94	Crystal tree	Instant	Not Tradable	50,000 for planting, 15,000 daily	N/a	N/a	N/a

Experience gain and cost values are based on:

• Farming 1 calquat tree patch
• A death rate of 14% without protection
• Using buckets of supercompost to fertilise patches

At level 72 Farming players can begin planting calquat trees. The single calquat tree patch is found north of Tai Bwo Wannai. Players can get to the patch using a Tai Bwo Wannai Teleport or via the Karamja lodestone teleport and running south-east. Imiago the gardener can be paid to look after the calquat tree patch.

At level 83 Farming players can begin planting spirit trees. Spirit trees are grown from rare, untradeable spirit seeds that may be obtained from Managing Miscellania, bird's nests, the Motherlode Maw or as a drop from ganodermic beasts. At level 83 players can plant 1 spirit tree at time, at level 86 players can plant 2 spirit trees at a time, at level 89 players can plant 3 spirit trees at a time, and at level 114 players can plant 4 spirit trees at a time. The ability to plant 3 spirit trees at once is unlocked by talking to Glouron in the Crwys Clan district of Prifddinas after completion of the Plague's End and Prisoner of Glouphrie quests. The ability to plant 4 spirit trees at once also requires Apprentice Farmer rank (or higher) to be reached at the Farming Guild

At level 90 Farming players can begin planting elder trees. The single elder tree patch is located in the Crwys Clan district of Prifddinas - completion of the Plague's End quest is required in order to access the area. When the Voice of Seren is active in the Crwys district an elder tree growing in the elder tree patch has a chance of skipping growth stages and 20% more base experience is awarded for planting or checking the health of an elder tree. Players can get to the elder tree patch using a crystal teleport seed, the Prifddinas lodestone teleport, or the Spirit tree located in Prifddinas. Sior the gardener can be paid to look after the elder tree patch. Note that elder tree seeds cost significant money and gathering the seeds themselves can be significantly troublesome due to its scarce drop sources.

At level 94 a Crystal Tree can be grown. The acorn is an extremely rare drop from crystal implings, elven workers and fighters. One crystal acorn is obtained when entering the Max Guild and speaking to Challenge Mistress Heriau for the first time. The crystal tree patch is at the Tower of Voices in Prifddinas. This can be accessed by the Prifddinas lodestone teleport. Planting the crystal acorn instantly grants the player 50,000 Farming experience and creates a fully grown crystal tree. After this the player can check the crystal tree's health daily to harvest a crystal tree blossom and 15,000 Farming experience. This resets at 00:00 UTC. Because of the acorn's rarity, the player should never remove a crystal tree unless they have extra acorns on hand.

Patch locations

Location	Image	Teleports	Requirements	Gardener
On south-east side of Etceteria		Miscellania Teleport and go east to Etceteria Teleport to Miscellania with a ring of Wealth Fairy ring (code CIP Fremennik Province lodestone teleport and travel to Miscellania from Rellekka	None	Yulf Squecks
Port Sarim		Cabbage-port using Explorer's ring 3 or better Port Sarim lodestone teleport Captain's log teleport Clan vexillum teleport to the Clan Camp at Falador Draynor Lodestone teleport	None	Frizzy Skernip
Brimhaven		Brimhaven Tablet Spirit tree if planted in Brimhaven Take a charter ship to Brimhaven Karamja lodestone teleport	None	Praistan Ebola
Manor Farm		Ardougne lodestone teleport Manor farm teleport Skills necklace to Fishing Guild	Apprentice Farming Rank (or higher) at Farming Guild	Wilfred Butternut

Player-owned Farms

Player-owned farms are a very easy way to obtain farming experience. Albeit slower than conventional farming, raising animals is always guaranteed to provide experience unlike crops, as they will never die. Animals raised on the farm also provide valuable materials for Herblore and some provide perks worthwhile for specific encounters.

Both the Manor and Anachronia Dinosaur Farms provide players with some animals, such as chicken, sheep, cows, frogs and salamanders. The other animals will need to be obtained from killing, gathering or Adam Antite, although the latter is very unreliable for high leveled animals. It is important to get at least one breeding pair (a male and female) to raise animals. (Although similar gendered animals have a chance of adopting, breeding is faster and more consistent.) Non-ironmen players can also trade with others or use the Grand Exchange, but be warned that unchecked animals always come with only one trait.

Before starting the farm up, make sure to have an ample supply of food for the animals being raised on the farm. Each animal will only eat specific kinds of food and will not accept other foods they will not like. As the sections below assume the player is raising the best animals possible for each pen size, meat, fish, mushrooms and seed stocks will need to be maintained consistently.

Meat can be obtained quickly from the Fresh Meat shop in Oo'glog, requiring completion of As a First Resort... in order to access. This shop should cover all of the player's meat needs at both farms. Meat is used to feed dragons and dinosaurs. Dragons can also eat fish, but very few shops have ample supplies of fish on hand. Mushrooms can be gathered cheaply from the Eastern Lands with at least level 90 Farming; gorajian mushrooms are a faster, but more expensive alternative. These are used to feed zygomites. Seeds are usually gathered in mass from thieving, which should be used to feed salamanders. Chinchompas should be given the most cheapest food mixed with one of another food source to create the right food for them. Animals treat all food of that category as the same, so use the cheapest sources when feeding them.

There are four or five stages for animals; Egg > Child > Adolescent > Adult > Elder. The first stage of the animal never gives any experience, but the remaining ones do. At these stages, the player can check on the animal to collect experience and a few produce from them. Experience gained from animals are based on their happiness and health; the lower these two are, the less experience is obtained. Since the experience is gained upon collecting produce, the player may also opt to give the animal both delicious and medicinal honeycombs before collecting produce from the animal. The player can collect at any time, so there is no need to continually check on the animals after every growth stage.

Assuming the player is raising the specific animals listed below, only the zygomites and chinchompas do not have any egg form. The remaining animals do. Likewise, the "Old at Heart" trait is very beneficial as it increases the animal's aging rate, while the "Young at Heart" is a negative trait because it slows the animal's aging rate. Sullen is also negative as it reduces the animal's happiness at times, reducing experience gained. Giver and Taker are fairly mixed traits, as the experience gain/loss is relatively minimal for smaller animals.

The usage of decorated farming urns and urn enhancer is highly recommended for an additional +25% Farming experience. This is increased further depending on how often players check and cure their animals. Checking on animals also consumes any available bonus experience + other boosts (master farmer outfit, Wise 4%, clan avatar 6%, XP-boosting Aura, etc.) when curing.

Players can also muck animal waste for extra experience as they are raised. Dragon waste should be the only one mucked, as green provides 120 experience per action, and dragon provides 500. Mammal (chinchompa) waste only gives 20 experience per action and is considered to be negligible at higher levels. The waste does not affect animal stats. Dragon manure (the waste left behind by adolescent and older dragons) should be collected in a bucket, as it is an item used to create ultracompost.

While raising animals, it may prove to be useful to unlock the breeding capability for the small and medium Manor Farm pens and the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm's medium pen. Although this is far slower than normal breeding, it is cheaper than continually buying animals from the Grand Exchange or other players, especially when all of the animals are grown in the same time frame. This also allows the player to focus on large animals in the breeding pen for greater experience rates. In order for animals to raise children, they must be adults or elders.

Manor Farm

Players with level 17 Farming and level 20 Construction may start player-owned farm (POF), but to maximise the XP returns, players need at least level 92 Farming and 60 Construction.

• 2 Large Pens + Breeding Pen: 10 Dragons * 100,000 XP each * 1.25 = 1,250,000 XP/week
• 2 Medium Pens: 8 Zygomites * 40,000 XP each * 1.25 * 2x/week = 800,000 XP/week
• 2 Small Pens: 12 Chinchompas * 15,000 XP each * 1.25 * 4x/week = 900,000 XP/week

1,250,000 + 800,000 + 900,000 = 2,950,000 Farming XP per week from POF (maximum efficiency)

Anachronia Dinosaur Farm

Players with level 42 Farming and 45 Construction may expand into the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm. To maximise experience returns however, players need at least 119 Farming and 90 Construction. Note that animals on this farm grow significantly slower than those at the Manor Farm. Regardless, they still provide additional experience and generally better products to account for the slower raising and breeding time.

The small pen can be easily maintained at 102 Farming when raising salamanders. The salamanders will net more beans than the price required to purchase them, even as elders, so they should always be bought from Prehistoric Potterington unless the player desires other salamander breeds. These salamanders are always green salamanders with one trait.

• 2 Large Pens + Breeding Pen: 10 Pavosaurus rexes
• 1 Medium Pen: 4 Varanusaurs (any work)
• 1 Small Pen: 6 Salamanders

Alternative methods of gaining experience

Completing quests

Quest	Members	Experience reward	Farming requirement	Other requirements
Bringing Home the Bacon		350	14	14 Summoning 14 Construction
Perils of Ice Mountain		500	5	5 Hunter 5 Thieving 5 Construction
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Goblin generals		1,000	-
Spirit of Summer		2,000	26	19 Summoning 35 Prayer 40 Construction
Enlightened Journey		3,000	30	20 Firemaking 36 Crafting
A Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains		3,500	-
Dimension of Disaster: Curse of Arrav		4,000	-	61 Agility 64 Strength 64 Ranged
Grim Tales		4,000	45	52 Herblore 58 Thieving 59 Agility 71 Woodcutting
Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf		5,000	17	22 Cooking
Garden of Tranquillity		5,000	25
My Arm's Big Adventure		5,000	29	10 Woodcutting
Rum Deal		7,000	40	42 Crafting 47 Prayer 50 Fishing 42 Slayer
A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift		11,000	54	59 Magic 51 Thieving 37 Summoning 36 Crafting
The Branches of Darkmeyer		20,000	63	76 Woodcutting 70 Fletching 70 Magic 67 Slayer 64 Crafting 63 Agility
Rebuilding Edgeville		20,000	-
Back to my Roots		24,000	53	55 Agility 59 Slayer 72 Woodcutting
Total	115,350

Wilderness Warbands

Wilderness Warbands is a dangerous Distraction and Diversion that takes place in the Wilderness. The aim of the Distraction and Diversion is to infiltrate a camp occupied by god-following NPCs and loot supplies, which can then be exchanged with Quercus for experience. Players can gain Farming experience if they obtain and hand in Farming supplies. Players can gain between 49.5 at level 1, and 4,851.5 at level 99, Farming experience per supply that they exchange. Players can loot up to 25 Farming supplies while playing Wilderness Warbands, which grant between 1,237.5 and 121,287.5 Farming experience in total when given to Quercus. Players can calculate the exact amount of experience that they will receive, based on their Farming level and the number of supplies obtained, using the calculator on the Wilderness Warbands article.

Wilderness Warbands takes place every 7 hours. The Distraction and Diversion begins with a camp appearing in the Wilderness in one of 3 possible locations. A server-wide announcement will notify players of the camp's location when it spawns. Players can also find out the camp's location by talking to Quercus, who is located north-west of the Varrock Grand Exchange. Players must travel to the camp, avoid the sentries posted around its perimeter and sabotage the camp's god's beam, which is found in the centre of the camp. Successfully sabotaging the beam will result in NPCs allied to the invading players teleporting to the area to fight the NPCs guarding the camp. Players can also intervene in the fight if they wish. After all enemy NPCs have been killed, players can loot the tents in the camp to gain supplies. Each Wilderness Warband has 3 tents which contain supplies that grant experience in 3 of 5 possible skills (Farming, Mining, Construction, Herblore and Smithing). Players may loot up to 25 supplies from tents in the camp. Players may gain additional supplies by killing other players and taking any supplies that defeated players may have looted, as supplies are dropped upon death. Participating in looting tents will skull the player and cause them to become attackable by any other player, regardless of combat levels. Players cannot teleport out of the Wilderness while they have supplies in their inventory, and logging out while inside the Wilderness causes all supplies to be destroyed. Therefore, players must escape from the Wilderness by running out of the area. To avoid being killed by others while participating in Wilderness Warbands players are advised to join one of the dedicated Friends Chats for the Distraction and Diversion.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
02:00 UTC	06:00 UTC	03:00 UTC	00:00 UTC	04:00 UTC	01:00 UTC	05:00 UTC
09:00 UTC	13:00 UTC	10:00 UTC	07:00 UTC	11:00 UTC	08:00 UTC	12:00 UTC
16:00 UTC	20:00 UTC	17:00 UTC	14:00 UTC	18:00 UTC	15:00 UTC	19:00 UTC
23:00 UTC	N/A	N/A	21:00 UTC	N/A	22:00 UTC	N/A

Giant Oyster

Giant Oyster is a monthly Distraction and Diversion that can be completed by players who have finished the Beneath Cursed Tides quest. Players can return to Tutorial Island by speaking to Wizard Myrtle near the Wizards' Tower. Once in the area, harvest from the tasty looking seaweed to obtain delicious seaweed. While attempting to harvest the delicious seaweed the player will gain Farming experience, dependent on their Farming level, 30 times. Players can gain up to 2,322 experience per attempt, at level 99 Farming, giving a total of up to 69,660 experience for harvesting the Tasty looking seaweed 30 times. This activity can be completed in approximately 1–2 minutes.

Supply runs

The start of a supply run

Supply runs are a safe activity that take place on Mazcab every 12 hours (at midnight and noon game time). The activity begins with goebie supplies spawning at the supply rock near to Querci in Kanatah and is available until 25 minutes past the hour. Players may take up to 10 goebie supplies per day from the supply rock. Upon taking goebie supplies players become flagged for safe PvP and can be attacked by other players, with death resulting in the loss of all goebie supplies that the players are carrying. After obtaining goebie supplies players must travel north-west through the Nemi Forest to Otot, where the supplies may be exchanged for experience with Quercy. The player will be given a choice between two skills in which to gain experience: Agility or Crafting, Farming or Herblore and Hunter or Woodcutting. Different skills are offered on different worlds, so players may change worlds to find a world where the skill in which they wish to gain experience is offered.

Between 495, with level 1, and 48,515, with level 99, experience can be gained from exchanging 10 goebie supplies. Assuming the activity is completed in 5 minutes, experience is awarded at a rate equivalent to between 5,940, with level 1, and 582,180, with level 99, experience an hour.

Money-making using the Farming skill

Recurring methods

Recurring Farming money making guides

Method	Profit	Time	Effective Profit	Recurrence time	Experience
Farming lantadyme	533,000	5	6,401,000	80 minutes	6,238
Farming torstol	331,000	5	3,969,000	80 minutes	9,475
Farming avantoe	31,000	5	377,000	80 minutes	2,533
Farming fellstalk	746,000	5	8,957,000	80 minutes	12,723
Farming dwarf weed	919,000	5	11,027,000	80 minutes	7,909
Farming kwuarm	858,000	5	10,293,000	80 minutes	3359
Farming cadantine	319,000	5	3,825,000	80 minutes	4,945
Farming snapdragon	63,000	5	754,000	80 minutes	4,073
Farming irit	179,000	5	2,151,000	80 minutes	1,795
Farming toadflax	681,000	5	8,177,000	80 minutes	2,887
Farming wergali	382,000	5	4,578,000	80 minutes	2,204
Farming ranarr	250,000	5	2,996,000	80 minutes	1,253
Farming spirit weed	1,438,000	5	17,253,000	100 minutes	1,483
Picking cactus spines	158,000	2.5	3,793,000	75 minutes	None
Picking coconuts	601,000	4	9,018,000	270 minutes	1,494
Picking papayas	487,000	4	7,298,000	270 minutes	972
Farming morchella mushrooms	375,000	2	11,261,000	240 minutes	1,718
Picking a divine herb patch III	105,000	00:40	9,483,000	24 hours	3,010.8
Farming grapevines	208,000	4	3,115,000	80 minutes	14,780 8,400
Farming marigolds	45,000	3	904,000	20 minutes	222
Farming bloodweed	155,000	1	9,285,000	80 minutes	891.9
Farming arbuck	954,000	5	11,443,000	80 minutes	2,887
Raising frogs	43,000	1	2,560,000	12 Hours	500
Picking primal fruit	345,000	6	3,446,000	360 minutes (fruit and cactus regrow every 120 minutes)	Up to 86,227.4‬ at 116.
Raising rex dinosaurs	1,167,000	2	35,008,000	24 hours	120,407.4 from pavosaurus rex, see table below
Raising black dragons to adolescent	742,000	1	44,533,000	42 hours	150,000 Farming