Woodcutting

Woodcutting is a gathering skill. You chop trees for logs. Carpentry saws logs into planks, which many places need to be rebuilt. Cooking burns logs as fuel.

How to train

Start with Chop pine at level 1. New activities open as you level up: see the table below.
Tool: Copper axe (+15% speed, made with Carpentry). Better ones: Iron axe (+20%), Cobalt axe (+30%).
Potion: Forester's potion (+10% speed, made with Medicine).

Activities

Level	Activity	Makes	Sells for
1	Chop pine	Pine log	1
6	Chop birch	Birch log	2
12	Chop willow	Willow log	5
20	Chop oak	Oak log	8
30	Chop maple	Maple log	11
42	Chop ash	Ash log	14
55	Chop yew	Yew log	17
68	Chop elder	Elder log	20
82	Chop ironwood	Ironwood log	23
95	Chop whitebeam	Whitebeam log	26

"Sells for" is what one action's items sell for, at the level the activity opens, before bonuses. Every skill uses the same XP table: see Levels and XP.

Mastery

Each of the 10 Woodcutting activities has its own mastery level, from 1 to 99. Every completed action gives that activity mastery XP, and higher mastery makes the activity better (table below).

A quarter of that mastery XP (half once Woodcutting is level 99) also goes into the Woodcutting mastery pool, which holds up to 9,250,000 XP. You can spend pool XP on any Woodcutting activity: 1 pool XP gives 1 mastery XP. See Mastery for the exact numbers.

Each activity's own mastery

Activity mastery	Adds to that activity
10	+2% speed
20	+2% speed
30	+2% speed
40	+2% speed
50	+2% speed
60	+2% speed
70	+2% speed
80	+2% speed
90	+2% speed
99	+10 points high-quality chance, +50% rare drop chance

Pool checkpoints

While the pool is filled to a checkpoint or above, its bonus counts for every Woodcutting activity. If you spend the pool below a checkpoint, that bonus stops until the pool fills up again.

Pool filled	Pool XP	Adds to every activity of the skill
10%	925,000	+5% mastery XP
25%	2,312,500	+10% XP
50%	4,625,000	+25% rare drop chance
95%	8,787,500	+5% speed

Gear for this skill

Copper axe — +15% speed
Smoke hood — +8% speed
Timber sling — +1 item per action
Well-water flask — +10% XP
Iron axe — +20% speed
Cobalt axe — +30% speed, +1 item per action

Gear only helps while it is equipped. A high-quality piece gives 1.5 times the bonus, rounded down. See also every boost for Woodcutting.

Faster from rebuilt places

The hearth-yard — +5% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt
The capital — +5% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt

Story

Chop down trees for logs. Carpentry turns the logs into planks, shields, bows and arrows.