Fire Making

Firemaking is a seriously undervalued skill in RuneScape. It is mocked, called 'free skill total filler', some people suggest removing it. After all, they have not been initiated into the joys of firemaking and therefore cannot grasp it. Firemaking is enjoyable, amusing, and it looks good at parties.

To make a fire, you need two things, a 'Log' from one of the three regular trees of RuneScape and a Tinderbox. The three trees are the 'Leafy Tree' which is round, the 'Pointy Tree' which appears to be a stunted pine. And 'Dead Tree's which can be found in the wilderness and a few other places. In order to get the logs, you must have a hatchet. Hatchets come in all metal types and they DO effect your chances of successfully cutting down a tree. The Tinderbox can be purchased for a few gold pieces in any general store.

Once you have everything you need, drop the logs on the ground, then use the tinderbox with them. Your chance of succesfully lighting a fire is based on your Firemaking level.

Around level 40-50 you will stop failing to light fires completely! And about the same time in woodcutting you will stop missing trees (with a good axe, anyway). If you have a decent connection to the RS servers at that time, you can try to build BIG fires. This is one of the funnest parts of the skill. All fires last approximately 1 minute so you will have to work fast. But as long as you have high firemaking and a good connection you should be able to make upto 20 fires at once. Make sure to lay the logs out first.

And, in fact, there are at least TWO places where firemaking is very useful! Draynor Village and Karamja. In Draynor, if you want to cook some raw lobster from certs you just bought, cut down one of the 'Dead Tree's and light it. Repeat as necesary. If you need cooked lobster certificates, try bringing your lobster pot, gp, axe, and tinderbox to Karamja. Then chop down one of the 3 normal trees growning on the Island (f2p). Now you can catch 25 lobsters and cook them all, if you burn some then you can go get another log and keep repeating the process until you have all 25. Which happens to be the highest number the certers will let you do at one time.

Firemaking can be leveled anywhere there are many trees close together. But the preferred area is the Forest near Draynor Village. Around Varrock will work well too though. For lower-levels I liked cutting down and lighting every tree on the montain that leads to the Chaos monastery. This usually got me a level every time and helped me pass the time while the Chaos Monk's curses wore off.