Motivation for woodcutting
By Steve on Aug 22, 2007 | In Farming, Wood cutting | 3 feedbacks »
Chopping trees is not very exciting! OK to me cutting trees is not very exciting.
I went from level 89 to 92 woodcutting in one go recently, the way I could stay focused and continue chopping was to give myself a second reason to chop trees.

I like farming I am currently level 81 the last level I got was primarily from planting trees, although xp for planting trees is not as fast as xp from planting the allotments you can get large increases from a little work.
My main target from chopping trees was to get tree seeds from the birds nests that fall out of the tree, I put on my full lumberjack, dragon axe and rabbit foot necklace, the rabbit foot necklace is supposed to increase the amount of birds nests from trees.
I set up camp by the willows at Draynor, I can chop magic trees and yew trees but you get so many more nests from willows and oaks that I decided to stay there, I suspect you get more nests because you can chop a lot more logs in the time it takes for a yew or magic log.
Basically I would chop the trees and bank logs when full I would watch the ground for birds nests, every time a nest falls out I would pick it up look in the nest, it there was a tree seed I would put it in my bank when my inventory was full, if it was a ring I would drop it for the low level players to pickup and use or sell if they wanted.
I only got 1 birds egg, a red one, no one knows what use they will have but they have no use at the moment, the only time Jagex will give them a use is the update after I drop them.
Birds nest are like most things on Runescape very random sometimes you can get 2 or 3 in an inventory of logs, you may also go several loads of logs and no nests.
When chopping you can chat to your friends to pass the time and a new pastime I started playing was report the autoer, at the willows at Draynor there are 2 dark wizards, these dark wizards are often attacking the autoers that pass, autoers are normally level 3 with no skills except woodcutting, autoers are there to make real life money for the owner of the accounts, this is spoiling the game for good players who don't like to cheat and unless they are stopped will make the game unplayable, every time I saw the wizards attacking someone level 3 with the default character look I would report them for macroing, this is sometimes difficult because many of them have the same name but a different number after them.
There are level 3's out there that are genuine players, do not worry if you report them by accident, Jagex have an automated system that watches reported bots and will ban if found to be an auto's, if they are not an auto they will not be banned.
Jagex can ban these bots but they must be reported so report everyone you see and lets stop them destroying the game.
Another way to keep yourself focused is to give yourself a target, set yourself a target like 1000 logs then when you get that set it for 2k logs and increase the target when you reach it, you can set yourself a target like 10k but progress will be slow and you may give up before reaching it, 10 targets at 1k intervals is easier than one 10k target, you may set a target as your next wc level or a certain xp level, set your target and set your mind on getting it and all levels are achievable.
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That's a pretty darn good effort for one just one sitting.
I am not sure how long it took in hours but it took a few days playing regularly, I work throughout the day and get to play an hour or two in coffee and lunch breaks, I also play all evening when watching TV with the misses, my friends kept pming and asking if I was still chopping regularly and my reply was normally yes.
I am wondering if you thought I meant constantly without a break in which case it would be a massive feat, having said that I injured my arm earlier and couldn't lie down or sleep for 3 days, I couldn't move without a great deal of pain so I just played Runescape constantly as it was the only way I could get comfortable, that time I did get from 85 to 88 in 1 sitting, except for the normal human necessities. I also got 3 fire making levels burning the magic logs I cut.
The 89 to 92 was gained over a few days and was without a break for other skills in Runescape.
And BTW im back chopping willows again something about them keeps me coming back, I must have reported 30 auto's yesterday but only got 4 nests and 2 seeds.
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