WOODCUTTING - GUIDE
Purpose
This guide will help you navigate the skill Woodcutting.
The purpose of this guide is to get to 100 Woodcutting with a fresh new character. Along the way, you will get quite a few levels in Brewing, Farming and combat. Also optionally Crafting/Firemake.
Start
You find yourself starting the game with a Bronze axe, so lets cut some trees!
I hope you are ready to cut a lot of these!
Once you have around 100 Logs you should have hit level 10 wc (Woodcutting) and be ready for your first axe upgrade. If you /yell to people in game, you should be able to trade your 100 Logs for an Iron axe. this will make your chopping a litte faster.
Farmer Slaughter
The next axe is level 20 wc, so lets go for some of our side quest that we will be doing a LOT in this guide. Head to some Farmers and kill them for their seeds. What we really want here but cannot use yet is Green leaf seeds (a 1/40 drop). They are a key ingredient in wc potions, which we will be making a ton of!
You will die to Farmers fairly quickly but will re spawn at full Health nearby and be slowly increasing your max hit points as you level up Health. Also bury all the bones you get by clicking on them, this will help you get more Worship levels, allowing you to run more frequently and eventually get the teleport abilities. You can get a boost by completing the Sewer doll quest which will reward you with 10 Large bones.
Farming
For now though, most drops are great, Immediately plant some mushroom seeds. At level 5 you can start planting Dotted leaf seeds and level 10 for Green leaf seeds. There is a second farm in the jungle past the maze puzzle and a third farm which may be worth unlocking later in Mystic Vale but it will require grinding 500 Sand and 50 Iron bars, also level 20 in Farming.
Once you have some crops going, go back to cutting trees. At level 10 you can cut some ak for better logs and more xp. keep planting and killing farmers for seeds when you can.
Upgrading Axes
At level 20 you will need a new axe, the silver one. you should have enough logs by now to easily Trade for one with someone. You can also now chop Willow trees, which will be the best xp for a while now.
By now you should have a good quantity of mushrooms/leaves so you should sell some logs to buy a Shovel from Sad Jack in the fishing shop, then go to the beach and dig up some Sand, then go to the Forge to smelt it into Glass, and craft the glass into Vials
With the vials you can start making combat Potions to level up your Brewing. You will need to get to level 12 Brewing to get to what we really want; Woodcutting potions!
Woodcutting potions will give you double logs and double xp for the duration. They are essential for leveling up Woodcutting since they cut leveling time in half.
The main problem with making a lot of wc pots is the Green leaf as they are a fairly rare drop, especially the seeds. They are a big bottle neck for Brewing so many players will not be inclined to sell them. So that will mean killing loads more Farmers!
Keep brewing [Woodcutting potion|wc pots]] and also combat pots just to keep leveling Brewing. When you use a potion it lasts 5 minutes + 1 for every 2 brewing levels you have, so it is advisable to not use the Potions until around level 15-20 so that you at least get 12.5 minutes for each potion.
Now you should be at level 30 Woodcutting and looking for the Gold axe, this should be easy to trade for again for a few hundred logs. Also, you can cut the Maple tree now! It is not worth it for xp but maybe for better logs to trade with. You will also need 100 Maple boards later if you want to access the Mangrove trees.
So, still chopping Willow trees, occasionally switching to killing Farmers and checking on your farms now and again to make more Potions. You should have a Brewing level of 15+ by now and running wc potions whenever you can while chopping trees.
This will become a careful balance of dividing your time between chopping trees and grinding for Green leaf seeds. It may become too much to always have potions running but try to have them going as much as you can.
The nests you will be slowly collecting can be used overnight to plant trees and level your Farming for more mushrooms/leafs per harvest.
When you hit level 40 you can chop bamboo, but ignore it. Bamboo is terrible xp compared to other trees and the 'logs' have no function. Go chop 1 if you want for the achievement.
Keep chopping willow....
Once you hit level 50 you will be ready for the Promethium axe! By now you should have several thousand wood chips. A promethium axe costs 1,250 Woodchips along with the ore. It should be a fair trade to offer someone 2,500 chips to make the axe for you.
You can now chop mangrove. You will need 100 Maple planks and 500 Nails to repair the bridge to get to them. They will be more valuable to trade with but willow is still far better for xp. So keep hitting that willow tree and level up some more!
Keep demolishing those Willow trees!
Now you should be at level 65. Time for another axe upgrade. You can probably once again trade double chips for it which you should easily have. The Titanium axe uses 2,500 chips. For a better chance at a deal, get some coin and take your chips to the kiln and turn them into 50 Charcoal which you can offer to trade for the axe. This will cost you 60k coin, so you may want to try trading some of your logs/nests/chips with other players for coin.
You now have the ability to chop Haunted trees. Same as the mangrove, they are not good for xp, but the logs are valuable, good for Crafting and Firemaking.
Keep cutting the willow for xp until around level 75, this is where the maple actually becomes better for xp from now on. Switch to the Maple tree for the last 25 levels and keep those Potions running!
Just keep chopping that maple for another 25 levels...
Congratulations! you are now level 100 in Woodcutting!
You can use the giant amount of logs you have now to level up Crafting or Firemaking. You could even try to sell them for some coin.