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Jagex and their updates..

Willows, maples and magic trees all have their uses, but what of the lesser known vegetation such as the hollow trees of Mort Myre or the arctic pines of the Fremennik isles? With this week’s update, we’ve taken a closer look at the Woodcutting skill, rebalancing experience for the less popular trees and cultivating some new forms of training, but it’s not just XP rates that we’ve been analysing…

Teak and mahogany trees now also have a special log or two up their sleeves, which are worth much more than their weight in gold to the right buyer! Choking ivy creepers have been seen clambering up the stone walls of RuneScape’s major cities and is much tougher to deal with than it looks. We’ve also tweaked arctic pine-splitting and put up some Prayer-refreshing hollow bark torches in the Haunted Woods, so get your hatchets out and your arms chopping!

Finally, the workers at the Lumber Yard are inviting high-level woodcutters to participate in 'Sawmill Training', where you can grab, slice and saw your way to greater experience. For more information on all of these changes, head over to the Woodcutting section of the Game Guide.

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New XP (F2P only):

Dead Tree, Normal Tree, Evergreen Tree = 25xp per log

Oak Tree = 37.5xp per log

Willow Tree = 67.5xp per log

Maple Tree = 100xp per log

Yew = 175xp per log

Has much changed?

EDIT: Sawmill Jobs:

The Sawmill is open for work experience to woodcutters of level 80 or above: as Jill puts it, "You do the work, you get the experience". Enter through the right-hand door at the front of the sawmill and you will meet Jill, who has a complete absence of workers and plenty of orders to fulfill.

Jill will direct you to the noticeboard, where you can choose from quick jobs and large jobs. As these imply, the large jobs will take a greater amount of time to complete but with a more impressive Woodcutting xp reward, while the quick jobs take a fraction of the time for a fraction of the xp. Once you have accepted a job by clicking the 'Accept' button, you are ready to start completing the order.

Your first task is to fill your inventory with logs from the stacks of logs to the north-west of the room. These are free to be used in the Sawmill but cannot be taken outside. You then take these logs to the conveyor belt hopper to the east, where they roll out on to the conveyor belt and get split by a spinning blade, falling into the plank stack at the end. As with the logs, these cannot be taken out of the Sawmill.

Fill your inventory with these planks, as they need to be converted into cut planks for your order. If you want to know how many cut planks of each specific type that you need, check the table in the top-left of your game screen. To cut your planks, click on the workbenches to the south of the room with a saw in your inventory. You may get a saw for free from the first room that you entered, or you can use a crystal saw to cut the planks slightly faster. Once you have clicked on the workbench, a small screen will open, offering four different types of cut:

Cut Plank Types Produced Difficulty Woodcutting Experience
Straight cut 1x Short plank
1x Long plank Simple 15
Diagonal cut 2x Diagonal-cut plank Medium 18
Tooth & groove cut 1x Tooth-cut plank
1x Groove-cut plank Very hard 25
Curve cut 1x Curved plank Hard 22


You will gain a small amount of experience for each completed plank, but the greater chunk of xp is saved for a finished order. You can tell if your order is finished by looking at the top-left of your game screen. Completed orders can then by given to Jill by right-clicking on her and selecting 'Finish job'.

Any excess cut logs can be regained from the wagon on the south side of the room, so you have a headstart on whatever order you choose to take on next!

Aren't those XP rates the same…?

Not sure. I got them from the Runescape Game Guide, which has been updated with everything mentioned, so there must be something different.

Yeah, those are the same XP values as before.

From: senrath
Yeah, those are the same XP values as before.

Meh, I'll check on the Game Guide again later to see if they've changed.

Richard.

Not to be off topic or w/e but.. :p
I fell for your sig Naum D:

The way they explain their updates is so… immature in a way.

From: Dr D. Dervish
The way they explain their updates is so… immature in a way.

Horrible choice of words.

Basically to sum up the update, some lesser known trees now sometimes give additional experience at random. You can work at the sawmill and the vines that climb up the walls are now better experience than willows. (by about 12%)

Bla bla…. New ways of training… bla bla… Not only experience rates… bla bla… special log or two… bla bla… ivy creepers… bla bla… pine-splitting… bla bla… prayer refreshment… bla bla… sawmill training… bla bla…

WTF did the update actually include?

Confirmation that they drop nests?

Teaks are faster than ivy arnt they?

what are these 'special logs worth in gold more then their weight' from teak and mahogany trees?

From: bionicle1800
what are these 'special logs worth in gold more then their weight' from teak and mahogany trees?

They're "special teak logs" and "special mahogany logs". You can either sell them to the sawmill operator (for 1.3k and 3.9k, respectively), or give him two of the same kind instead of paying him to cut your logs (of the same type as your special logs) into planks. Ie, you can trade him 2 special teak logs and 26 regular teak logs in exchange for 26 teak planks, instead of paying him 13k to cut those same 26 logs.