F2P Money Making 2.0 - OSRS Hints & Tips

This video is a F2P Money Making 2.0 guide for OSRS! Updated to include an additional bonus method, as recommended by viewer! Watch it to gain insight and ideas on OSRS money making in F2P.
F2P Money Making 2.0 - OSRS Hints & Tips is Ironman friendly and contains methods that can be utilised by any type of account or experience level! Those just starting out in the F2P side of Old School Runescape probably stand to gain the most from watching this video. I've focused on safe and solo methods that do not require the GE, though those with access will be able to accelerate some of the methods/techniques through buying gems etc. UIM may struggle to follow this guide as the bank is used extensively.
That said, this guide is by no means the only way to make money in OSRS F2P, but mining gold/jewellery crafting (Method A) and farming ogresses’ at Corsair Cove (Method B) are definitely some of, if not the best money methods in F2P Old School Runescape.
F2P Money Making 2.0 - OSRS Hints & Tips is one of my OSRS Hints and Tips series, I’m currently working on an entire series to cover levelling/skilling/bossing in F2P. For any hardcore F2P players out there, I would love to get your feedback and any F2P tips you have so that I can include the best possible content in my videos!
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00:00 Video Intro
00:12 Set-up Skills, Targets & Useful Quests
04:16 Prep Step: Silver Symbols
07:34 Method A: Gold Jewellery
12:55 Method B: Farming Ogresses
13:25 Bonus Method: Ruby Rings
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[@fleemzy]

For non-ironmans, gold ore cost around 290 at GE and gold bars only 90. So if you dont care about smithing its is better selling ores to buy bars.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hello Fleemzy! Thats a great point! I get way to into HCIM mode, maybe i should look at a F2P Money Maker specifically for None-Irons? 🤔

[@fleemzy]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight It would be great ! Because when you dont have HA you need to make quite a lot of money to buy the runes to train magic and there is a lot of different ways to do so. I did it with lobster fishing and pizza cooking for exemple. Also, a lot of us want to make enough money to become a member for free.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah my ironman obsession blinds me at times 😅😬 I'll add it to my list!

[@morrisdennison8039]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight nap man I got 10 mil gold to throw around in F2P and flipping is drying out

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

Why sell when you can directly trade ore for bars AND gold?

[@izakduplessis8562]

man i just started this game.. had no idea what i missed all these years lol! many thanks for your content bro it helped! really starting to enjoy this game

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo Izak Du Plessis! Awesome feedback man than you! 👍👍👍 Glad the guides are helping and that you’re enjoying the game 😎 it’s a slow burn at times but it gets in your blood and it’s hard to escape 😂😂😂

[@nosleepforme2242]

For the silver part, it may be easier to use a chronicle to teleport right at the silver south of varrock, granted you may need to buy some pages. Once you've mined the ore, you can make holy symbols and tiaras with it at the furnace in edgeville. If youre a UiM or Ironman, you can then sell those to the general store there. Then use your chronicle and repeat. Every 20 minutes you can teleport to clanwars and go into the FFA portal to restore run energy.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Happy holidays Nosleep Forme! Thank you for the comment buddy! Man, I always forget about the mini-game teleports! Thats a good alternative, and the great thing about the chronicle is that you don't need any magic level to use it! Equally, theres no nasty scorpions near the varrock mine! 👍👍👍 Thanks again for the comment!

[@too_much_yosh7618]

where can I sell the symbols to other than the GE. cause I find that my symbols never sell on there.(btw I'm not an Ironman)

[@jeffgangaware5070]

Love the videos. Keep up the great work. Making steel bars you have backward in the video. It's 1 iron:2 coal

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Doh! Cheers for pointing that out! And thanks for the comments jeffgangaware5070, its much appreciated! Glad the videos are useful for you! 😀😀👍👍

[@YungValentine]

Bro when Ab-Soul said "Knew I might be on BET, now I think I might be E.T., creepy" That shit was hard

[@Petra999]

Lol

[@sketchylandbeast4378]

Thank you for making this.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

My pleasure Sketchylandbeast 👍 love the name and thank you for leaving a comment 😎👍

[@flavoredcement3584]

Obviously this is an older video but I think it's also worth mentioning that you can just walk from the crafting guild to falador's bank north of the mining guild to deposit your gold

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

You can, but the deposit box in part sarim is faster 😅 I tested the run times, I also tried the bank at Corsair Cove and I think the deposit box still wins! 😅

[@Demandeville]

The method ive been using im not sure the coins per hour or how fast it is but the flip ratio is pretty crazy if you buy fish bait from the grand exchange and use all the fishing bait then sell all the fish at the grand exchange you can take around 8k (optional) of fish bait or 2000 fish bait and turn it into almost 200k or around 180k

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thanks for the tip Demandeville! 😃 Ill definitely add it to my list as a potential method to check, 🤔 think I'm going to try and get a none iron money maker video this year 👍👍👍

[@billnye6291]

@14:25 all F2P accounts have to talk to the guy at the GE the enchant spell is members only.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah man, I messed that up 😢 Added it to my editing list for 👍when I update the video! Thanks for letting me know though bud! 👍👍👍

[@NovaCyn]

I know im late to the party but it's worth noting you can access high alc at 52 magic level by simply drinking a wizards mind bomb for a temporary +3 boost. The wmb costs only 3 coins in the pub in falador, and the boost lasts for long enough to alc a few times. This will also help you get exp toward the 55 magic when you don't need to fiddle with the drinks

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh yeah the WMB is definitely a useful tool! I’ll add it to the update list for the video 😁👍 Thanks for the comment and the tip NovaCyn! 👍👍👍

[@NovaCyn]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight It is definitely underestimated! Other utility spells like supreme heat and telegrab can also be accessed early, though I really do feel it's the early access to alch that is the main use. Thank you for the great content and its nice to see you're still engaging with comments even on old videos like this one. Osrs really does have a nice community I find.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thank you for commenting and supporting 😁👍 I try to answer all comments if I can 😅 Yeah there’s a solid fan base out these still 😅 most of us are ppl who came back from the good days days 😅

[@NovaCyn]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight same in my case. I came for the nostalgia and stayed for the community

[@haaduria32]

Smirking 35 to 40 u recommended steel scims, however for a ironman a steel sword is more worth out of your bar. Does take longer cause they require 1 bar instead of 2

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hello Haaduri! Thanks for the comment! I see what you mean you can sell the steel swords for more money than the steel scimitars for the same amount of XP! Good spot I’ll add it to the list for when I revisit this video 👍👍👍 thanks again for the tip!

[@thejohngalt7078]

A few things. 1. there are 7 gold rocks in crafting guild. 2. (not personally tested) i hear you can still high alc rings of forging when they are at 1 use left so instead of using it all, high alc at 1 use left to get the most money out of the ring. 3. also for the ring of forging, do note that the benefit is that you 100% iron instead of 50% iron which means the benefit isn't 28 iron bodies extra, it's 14 extra since without the ring you would make about 14 but with the ring 28. so the added benefit is an extra 14 bodies. while you do make a total of 28, the added profit isn't as high as what was mentioned. hope that line of thinking makes sense. 4. love the content. 5. When killing Ogresses, and using magic, do note the costs of runes as well into the equation. I personally use Fire Strike even at lvl 65 magic because the cost per strike is 10gp while the cost per blast is 196gp. strike max hit is 8 and blast max hit is 16. so while it takes longer, you save money on the casts. HOWEVER... does killing the Ogresses twice as fast with blast and the ability to high alc the drops make up for the added cost of the runes? I have not done that calculation yet. Bonus tip: don't forget that rune pic is 41 mining lvl to use. ;D

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hello TheJohnGalt! Love your feedback man 😁 Thank you! All your points are really well made and totally correct 👌 definitely adding these to my list for the V3 update in the future! It’s so easy to get hung up on random things and miss details when putting these together, so I do really appreciate you taking the time to write these down 👍👍👍

[@brandonallred3763]

Tried it with chaos runes and you just about break even with HA on the rune items you get, and I would balance it with all the nat and death runes I got back from them

[@jeffgangaware5070]

Crafting guild f2p does NOT allow you to use the bank or deposit box there

[@bubsadoozy]

at some point you'll have enough money to just do high alch and stay at the GE until you have the GP target you're after. Someone lent me 1.5m at the very beginning and I was able to do around 150k/hr. Which is now allowing me to buy more in one go.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh yeah fair, that’s true! Thanks 🙏 for your comment/tip 😁👍👍 I still need to do a general account F2P money maker 😅 this one’s still got a bit of a Ironman inclusion in mind which really limits your options. 150k/hr is good going 👌

[@EB-yu2ok]

Thanks for this video. If I might give you some advice: your animated logo is too distracting. During the whole video there is this nagging flickering in the left bottom corner. I would recommend slowing it down, making it smoother or making it static. Again, love the video, keep the content coming.

[@juhasztoma8702]

True!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Cheers E B! That's a fair comment i'll definitely look into it in the new year. Can do both a static or a slowed down version easy enough. 🤔 Seems like one for a channel poll!

[@e33d90]

Didnt even notice it

[@aldencordova2541]

Im doing a 1 99 at time locked on f2p, being an ironman, so once o start gaining exp on a skill, i cant gain exp in any other skill until i get 99 on that skill. So, i started with mining, am banking silver and iron(the goal its 230k silver and 100k iron, so i can get 96 smithing and 99 crafting). The problem im finding in this account its about money, its hard to gain money bc i cant sell ores(its exp), and thats the only thing i can harvest(at least before i get 99 at it and change the skill). I would like to lvl up next magic or smithing, bc smithing is locking crafting since i cant smelt the bars withour gaining exp, so its mandatory to lvl up smithing, but magic would be amazing, all those teleports and the overheat(specially this, would save me lots of gp with rings of forging, after some calculations, i will need to spend almost 2m to get those rings, since i cant craft the rubies i get) That being said, got any tips of how to make massives amouts of money with an account like that? The best way i found so far its picking up steel platelegs on wild and selling o al kharid, but its so slow and the problem is that there are lots of ppl who pick it up. Eventually i will need 15/18m to get magic to 99 without getting any hp exp, so i will need lots of gold either way. Any ideas are welcome haha, thanks for the content, your videos are really good!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thank you for the comment and the compliment brother it’s really appreciated! 😁👍 Ahh ok so I get you now, sorry that might have been my bad not reading your original comments and understanding it properly 🤔 So, that is a difficult path to gain money, steel legs runs are definitely one of if not the best option. I’d definitely consider smithing next as once you can smith you can make some good money, just smithing can be a pretty grindy skill versus mining. 🤔 the problem is all the other methods involve the GE or other skills 🤔 if you were desperate you could always sell some ore to the general stores but you will not get a good price 🤔 I think steel legs runs unfortunately are the best option here. 😅 if I think of anything else I’ll get back to you! Thanks again and good luck with the 99’s!! 😁👍

[@shrekrecker]

6:33 748 iron and 347 coal for steel scims?? is that right or are the numbers backwards

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Oh nooo!!! Yes that's a definite blooper on my part... Should be 748 coal and 347 iron... D'oh!! 😬😅

[@ketsuppi400]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight Yeah and it should also be 374 instead of 347...

[@HabboGotPwned123]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned before but at 4:30, you said the targets were: 34 Crafting, 40 Mining, and 40 Smithing But then at 7:21, it became 41 Crafting, 40 Mining, and 40 Smithing unless I'm missing something in between??

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh right sooo the initial stats are the minimum you need to do the method. So some people might have just randomly trained or have stats above those values, if so they can skip to the next section. However if you don’t have those stats and follow my advice/method (silver bars) following on from the last section (crafting leather). You end up mining 880 silver to get your mining to 40. If you process those into silver bars>silver symbols to sell, you will end up with higher stats, due to mining being a bit slower to level, thus you will end up with 41 crafting, 40 mining and 40 smithing. Hope that makes sense 😅👍👍

[@eliansalinas7022]

As of today, Pie Shells is still good. Currently Pie Shell costs 440, Pie Dish cost 243, Pastry Dough costs 60. Profit sits at 137 per Pie Shell. Happy grinding y’all!

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Not a bad method! I’m definitely planning on a full F2P money making guide, as this one’s a bit more Ironman focused! Thanks for the tip and the comment 😁👍👍👍

[@Marcus-xl9kr]

Another cow location is just outside of falador and i think the bank might be closer too

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo Marcus-xl9kr! Yeah! That’s a good point! I totally forget about the farm south of Falador! No pesky tollgate too! 👍 Thanks for the comment man 😁👍👍

[@seansloan7015]

Honestly just get crafting up to make Emerald Necklaces and do that.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah crafting is definitely the way to go in F2P if you want to generate some good income.

[@tobeymarquez7672]

hello i cant use the enchant thing for some reason

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo Tobey! Sorry I think this is a mistake on my part 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Only members can enchant rings 😅 you need to pay the guy in the GE to enchant the rings for you! Sorry 😓😬

[@muscadineman45pritchett82]

Is having a fishing alt worth ten bucks a month? I want to make money fishing sharks if I acualy take the time to get 90 fishing wil it be worth in the long run

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hmm good question I would check out this OSRS Wiki page: oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide/Catching_sharks it estimates profits of between 64-72k depending on your fishing level and equipment. So at current prices that’s like 100 hours to make a bond, so I’d say it’s only worth it if you have enough afk time to get that much fishing done. 🤔 Hope that helps man. If you can get a members character through to the members end game (easier said than done) there’s probably faster ways to make money but will require a lot of time investing 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@1ViewerVidz]

I wss doi g the jewlery method like 2 years ago lol

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah 😅 it’s not necessarily the newest method 😅 still one of the best though! 👌

[@megabyte5726]

how are you getting to the ogresses? where is feldrip?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

To get to Corsair cove you need to complete/start the quest ‘The Corsair Curse’. Once your on the island (boat leaves from Rimmington), head West and down the hole just outside the village but where the port is 👍

[@phlip024]

I just tried to enchant my ruby rings and apparently you have to be a member to do this now

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh that’s my bad I’m afraid 😢 you do have to be a member to enchant. 🤔 you can pay Merky Matt 250 coins to enchant one for you at the GE or if you aren’t an ironman buy ROF instead… Apologies this is on my corrections list for the video 👍 Thanks for the comment phlip024 👍👍👍

[@Roninkinx]

How do you have the blue sky?

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Hello HESH AtSeaLab, I play using the RuneLite client and it’s one of the built in plugins. I think it’s called ‘Skybox’ or ‘GPU Skybox’ you can set a permanent base colour or have it transition depending on the area. Hope that helps man! 👍👍👍

[@bradbastow7341]

Spent a mil+ on rubies & gold bars, got 1k RoF’s, time to mine

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Nice one Brad 👌 Should make a tidy profit 👌

[@chickenbiscuitbabyyewww9580]

You left out how to get your smithing up to twenty before being able to smelt iron bars, I collected a bunch of iron and bought a mithreal pickaxe and then tried to smelt and realized Im way far behind

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Ahh sooo the best way is to do ‘The Knight’s Sword’ quest. It will get you from level 1-29 smithing by the end. If you can use the GE you can buy the iron bars needed for the quest or you can kill dwarves in the mines or wildy and they drop iron bars 👍 hope that gets you through man 😁👍 good luck with the skilling!

[@chickenbiscuitbabyyewww9580]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight thanks very much man, I ended up just googling and figuring it out you probably mentioned it at the beginning of the video and I just missed it

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

No problem man! Glad you got sorted ✅ 👍👍

[@robcortese]

You can’t access the bank in the crafting guild as F2P

[@seansloan7015]

You can with 99 crafting..but I feel at that point you aren't watching these videos

[@robcortese]

@@seansloan7015 whaaaaa I can’t find that info anywhere online, everything says to access the bank you have to be a member. Do you have a source??

[@seansloan7015]

@@robcortese literally the game itself saying either be a member or get 99 crafting. Just like the cooking guild bank

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yeah this is true: oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Bank_Deposit_Box. Totally agree with Sean Sloan, if you have 99 crafting in F2P you should be able to make a tone of cash!

[@M0odez]

@@seansloan7015 sorry to burst your bubble but as someone who has both 99 cooking and crafting on f2p, you can't use either the cooking or crafting guild banks on f2p. For the crafting guild, you need be a member AND have 99 crafting (or hard diary)

[@EpicBunty]

dude farming ogresses just made me negative money. I just wanted a method of afk-levelling magic. the bolt spells are too expensive, and the ones below are very weak and slow. although i did once get a rune full helm drop but it was overall not worth at all... at least for money making.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo EpicBunty! I’m sorry to hear that 😢 I mainly use Ranged at the Ogresses just because my ranged was higher and arrows are cheaper than runes. Out of interest how high was your magic level? As a HCIM I definitely sat at them and used literally all my runes 😂 Wind Strike was embarrassing 🙈

[@EpicBunty]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight my magic must have been around 45 back then. but hey, at least i can afk train mage!

[@1337Meoww]

Benis :DD

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Cheers Vorcat12! Blessings to you too man 👍 thank you for leaving a comment 😎

[@thaimontana4140]

Or just flip fire rune packs in varrock, much better gp/hr if you’re not an iron man. No skill lvls required

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thai Montana great tip! Definitely one for a none-iron money making guide, that i think i should add to my to do list? 🤔

[@l0lan00b3]

Subbed but good lord is f2p gpphr horrible lol

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Thank you for the sub man! Much appreciated! 😀👍 Its definitely hardcore if you're aiming to try and max out F2P skills! For me, get to a point and then try out members its a much bigger and more expansive experience, but each to their own! 😬

[@megabyte5726]

I dont play old school but this all looks very low tier

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

How dare you sir!!! 😂 The graphics and grind is admittedly pretty low tier, but for a lot of players there’s a tone of nostalgia, the players are a great laugh to be around and the systems behind the game mechanics are pretty complex and to play the end game and high level content requires a lot of skill. Equally, the dev team are really good at taking player feedback and building and improving the game.

[@UIMPromoves]

Hey i appreciate your content but ya gotta leave the f2p its been done.

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo Bryan H! I hear you man! Don't worry i am working on P2P in the background all the time, just building my accounts up to get the P2P quests and content nailed. Hopefully to get somewhere near some end game content. I'm just trying to work on my branding/channel and editing and F2P seemed like the best place to start. And honestly its paid off, im just into my 3rd year on KZbin and all my stats are going in the right direction, so 100% whey more P2P content is coming soon! 👍👍👍 Thanks again for your comment and your feedback though man! Very much appreciated! Happy holidays and stay safe!

[@codybgaming1414]

Isn't it better just to sell ore or wood on the exchange shit I make like 200k every 5 hrs

[@TheLumbridgeKnight]

Yo codybgaming! Yeah for sure if you're a regular you can make a fortune selling resources or flipping items from the GE. I should have maybe made it more clear on the guide description i was thinking of ironmen and people just starting out with low skills or in game capital. It's a good point though and something that quite a few people have mentioned. So maybe i need to add a none-iron guide to my 'to do list'. Happy holidays and thanks again for the feedback and the comment! Stay safe! 👍👍👍

[@taekwon-do4life667]

@@TheLumbridgeKnight For me GE is just cheating. I started normal mode and after only second day of frustration with GE, i started hardcore Ironwoman. Yeah I know, I will die ofc and continue with normal iron man. But with simple marketing understandings, I was able to get 10millions in 6 hours trading at GE. GE is rly biggest bullshit. The game is so much better wtihout it.