Money making guide

This page lists every way of making Gold that the wiki knows about, with an estimated gold per hour for each, so they can be compared side by side. It works the way the [https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Money_making_guide Old School RuneScape wiki]'s money-making guides work: each method has its own page, and this table is built from those pages.

Nothing here is official, and every number on this page is editable by anyone. Where a method shows an em dash instead of a figure, nobody has recorded a rate for it yet — filling one in takes a couple of minutes and needs no special permission. See Wiki:Money making guide/Editing guide.

Gold per hour

Method	Gold/hour	Skill	Category	Intensity	Location
Mining iron nodes	—	Mining	Gathering	Low	Overworld ore nodes, including around Neo-Tilus
Fishing schools	—	Fishing	Gathering	High	Neo-Tilus, Virelda and Minamoto
Foraging wild plants	—	Foraging	Gathering	Low	Wild plant nodes across the overworld
Farming produce	—	Farming	Gathering	Low	Homestead and Apartment farming plots
Hacking nodes	—	Hacking	Gathering	Moderate	Robotic hacking nodes
Smelting iron bars	—	Crafting 1	Artisanal	Low	Furnace
Brewing potions to sell	—	Chemistry	Artisanal	Low	NPC vendor beside the bank
Cooking food to sell	—	Cooking	Artisanal	Low	Apartment Kitchen
Gearforging gear to sell	—	Gearforging	Artisanal	Moderate	Specialised Crafting Stations
Commissioner quests	—	—	Contracts	Moderate	Pioneer's Guild
Virelda Outskirts dungeon chest	—	—	Dungeons	Moderate	Virelda Outskirts
Virelda Arena	—	—	Dungeons	High	Virelda Arena
Selling produce to NPC vendors	—	—	Vendor	Low	NPC vendors
Selling resources to other players	—	—	Vendor	Moderate	PixelBay, in-game chat and the Discord server

Reading the table

Click a column heading to sort. The Gold/hour column sorts on the real number behind the display, so 1.2K and 150 order correctly, and methods with no rate yet sort to the bottom.
"manual" beside a method means the figure was typed in by hand rather than worked out from item values.
Item prices come from each item's Sell Value as recorded on its own page. If one is wrong, correct it once on that item's value page and every guide using the item follows.
The rows are cached. If a figure here looks older than the guide page, purge this page.
Prices and rates are estimates contributed by players. Test a method with a small sample before committing an evening to it.

How the numbers are worked out

Each guide records what one action produces and consumes, and how many of those actions fit in an hour:

gold per hour = ( what you get per action × its sell value ) × actions per hour
              + gold received directly × actions per hour
              − ( what it costs per action × sell value ) × actions per hour

A method with no actions per hour cannot have a gold-per-hour figure, which is why the table shows an em dash rather than a guess. Anything that cannot be modelled from items at all — player-to-player trading, for instance — can carry a hand-entered figure instead, flagged "manual" in the table.

The one shared assumption lives on Template:Money making guide/constants: vendors are currently taken to pay an item's full listed Sell Value. If that turns out to be wrong, changing it there re-prices every guide at once.

Adding a method

Start the page with the box at Wiki:Money making guide/Add a method. It gives you a skeleton with every field commented.
Fill in what you know. Blanks are fine — a guide that names the right activity, skill and items but has no rate yet is still useful, and it joins Category:Money makers missing a rate so someone can finish it.
Add one line for your guide to Template:Money making guide/list so it appears in the table above.

The full field reference is on Template:Money maker, and there is a worked example in the editing guide.

Where the gaps are

These are the queues, and they are the fastest way to help:

Category:Money makers missing a rate — no actions-per-hour figure yet. Play for an hour, count, type the number in.
Category:Money makers with a missing item value — a guide names an item whose Sell Value nobody has recorded. One number on one page fixes it.
Category:Money makers needing verification — figures nobody has checked in game.
Category:Money makers with a manual profit — hand-entered figures that could be modelled properly.

Other ways to get Gold

Not everything is a repeatable money maker. Quests pay out once, achievements pay on completion, and the Gold page lists where the currency comes from in general.