[Santa's Sack]

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.

Mod Trick
RuneScape Content Developer


In other news...

Hobgoblins were starting to feel a bit left behind in the looks stakes compared to their Bandosian brothers, so we've given them a graphical rework.

We've removed the doors to Edgeville's furnace to make it easier to use, but moved the furnace two squares further from the bank to maintain the balance. You will still need to have completed the necessary Varrock Achievement Diary tasks in order to use the furnace.

You might notice a small new feature has been added to the Friends List (the ability to move the line separating players’ names and online status). This feature is associated with the Display Names update, which we’re hoping to release later this year.

[Cuda666]

Great update! 5/5

[jim_jim_15]

I hate woodcutting :[

Out of the KB

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.

Ivy needs 68 Woodcutting and gives 332.5 xp

This post has been edited by jim_jim_15: 23 September 2009 - 10:00 AM

[yisliu]

Interesting update...
http://www.zybez.net...owtopic=1303313
A bit of self promotion. I thought it was so interesting that I wrote a guide about the ivies.

I personally think the exp is a bit too high but meh, I guess it does have its positives...making gaining levels even easier!

~yisliu

This post has been edited by yisliu: 23 September 2009 - 10:07 PM

[jim_jim_15]

Oh I guess that name thing has to do with changing names lol

This post has been edited by jim_jim_15: 23 September 2009 - 09:57 AM

[bone lord]

oh ye i am going to check out these update, looks nice ;D
(now lv80+ woodcutter get some new stuff)

-lord'

[Santa's Sack]

For the poll, is the lumberyard update only for members?

[Robinhoodrs]

Seems like a good update for all levels so far, going to check it out now.

[Simon shanks]

good update, like the edgeville furnace upate tho.

[jim_jim_15]

Andrew, on Sep 23 2009, 11:03 AM, said:

For the poll, is the lumberyard update only for members?

Yes since only members can get into lumberyard.

[The duck]

Jagex must have read my mind.
Last week I was thinking about a new high-level requirement dungeon, and it came.
Today I was thinking about an improvement to Woodcutting, and it came!

[dTwizy69]

Terrible, doesn't sound good at all, I already thought woodcutting was fast enough.

We'll see though

[CodyPwnzU]

Not fond of woodcutting, useless update for me.

[Rayan]

Where are those ivy's located exactly? Huge cities,say varrock?
I'm checking out the lumber yard right now

Edit:The ''minigame'' goes like this:You take a job,you take logs put them in the conveyor belt and they get turned into planks,then you saw them into the correct shapes you need for the job.

Edit:Completing an easy order rewards you with 5k exp,large order 10k exp

This post has been edited by Rayan: 23 September 2009 - 10:28 AM

[darkbubright]

i dont wc anyway o.O

[`Dave]

Hah, 99 woodcutting for the winnar!

[Find Emotion]

Just started chopping some ivy now... and it seems like insane experience.

[jim_jim_15]

So freaking bored in F2P :|

[Jioxas]

Today, Jagex released a woodcutting update for higher levels. I'm already 99. FML

This post has been edited by Jioxas: 23 September 2009 - 10:09 AM

[Jessy Uppal]

sweet update, not liking how it has become even faster though.

kids these days have it so easy..