Money making guide/Collecting

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Collecting methods

All guides • Collecting • Combat • Processing • Skilling • Recurring • Free-to-play

Method	Hourly profit	Skills	Category	Intensity	Members
Delivering food in Gnome Restaurant	1,455,000	42 61	Collecting	High
Buying monkey nuts	862,000	None	Collecting	Low
Making weapon poison(++)	675,000	82	Collecting	High
Stealing cave goblin wire	454,000	44	Collecting	High
Planting mithril seeds	430,000	None	Collecting	Low
Collecting climbing boots	352,000	Decent recommended	Collecting	High
Collecting mort myre fungi	345,000	Decent recommended	Collecting	Low
Stealing from Rogues' Castle chests	345,000	84 43+ strongly recommended	Collecting	High
Looting ogre coffins	265,000	High agility recommended	Collecting	Moderate
Picking bananas	244,000	None	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting red spiders' eggs	222,000	Decent and recommended 25 recommended for Protect Item	Collecting	Low
Collecting black scimitars from Ardougne Castle	211,000	61	Collecting	Low
Collecting fish food	185,000	None	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting jangerberries	179,000	10	Collecting	Low
Collecting snape grass	175,000	72 recommended	Collecting	Low
Collecting planks	164,000	None	Collecting	Low
Buying team capes	154,000	None	Collecting	Low
Collecting red spiders' eggs (free-to-play)	143,000	69+ recommended	Collecting	Moderate
Buying iron ore	139,000	60 for access to Mining Guild	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting wine of zamorak	122,000	33 20+ recommended 500 total level	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting monk's robes	119,000	31 Prayer required	Collecting	Low
Collecting cosmic runes	119,000	Decent and recommended 43 recommended for protection prayers	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting anti-dragon shields	113,000	High recommended to have increased running energy restoration.	Collecting	High
Collecting anti-dragon shields (free-to-play)	105,000	None	Collecting	Moderate
Buying bronze bars	102,000	None	Collecting	Low
Collecting steel platebodies	88,000	Decent and recommended 43 recommended for Protect from Melee 25 for Varrock Teleport	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting ashes	86,000	30	Collecting	Low
Collecting tinderboxes	84,000	None	Collecting	High
Buying jug packs	82,000	None	Collecting	Low
Collecting bronze pickaxes	82,000	None	Collecting	High
Collecting and tanning cowhide	71,000	None	Collecting	Low
Collecting chaos runes	71,000	Decent recommended 25 to teleport to Varrock	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting wine of zamorak (free-to-play)	62,000	37	Collecting	Low
Buying kebabs in Al Kharid	59,000	None	Collecting	High
Shearing sheep	59,000	None	Collecting	Low
Collecting iron ore	53,000	None	Collecting	Low
Stealing Wydin's bananas	49,000	None	Collecting	High
Collecting spades	44,000	None	Collecting	Moderate
Buying ale from the Rising Sun Inn	44,000	None	Collecting	High
Collecting big bones from the Bone Yard	42,000	Decent and recommended 25 recommended for Protect Item	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting garlic	42,000	None	Collecting	Moderate
Collecting beer glasses	34,000	None	Collecting	Low
Picking potatoes	25,000	None	Collecting	Low
Buying from Wydin's Food Store	23,000	None	Collecting	High
Getting infinite money	19,000		Collecting/None	High

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