Yew logs

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Yew logs
Released	25 March 2002 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Values
High alch	96 coins
Low alch	64 coins
Store price	Not sold
Exchange	264 coins (info)
Buy limit	12,000
Weight	2 kg
Examine
Logs cut from a yew tree.
Exchange history
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Yew logs are logs obtained from cutting yew trees, which require at least level 60 Woodcutting for players to cut. They give 175 experience when cut with an axe. Players can burn these logs with the Firemaking skill at level 60. They give 202.5 experience when burned.

Yew logs can also be made into bows, stock, and arrow shafts using the Fletching skill. When the log is cut into a Yew longbow (u) at level 70, it yields 75 experience. Cutting a Yew shortbow (u) at level 65, will give 67.5 experience. Stringing the unstrung bows will give the same experience as for cutting them.

One full inventory of yew logs gives exactly 4,900 Woodcutting experience. Yew tree locations are relatively few and scattered and also tend to be very crowded. Players would need to cut 72,919 yew logs to go from 60 to 99 Woodcutting. However, yew logs are obtained at a slow pace from 60 to 74. Yew logs are obtained at a decent rate starting from level 75 Woodcutting.

Yew logs can also be used to travel to Castle Wars on the Balloon transport system, costing 10 logs on the initial trip, and 1 log for every trip following that.

Experience from logs

• Each log gives 175 Woodcutting experience when cut (Woodcutting level 60 required). When wearing the full Lumberjack outfit, each log gives 179.5 experience when cut.
• Lighting a log gives 202.5 Firemaking experience (Firemaking level 60 required).
• Making an unstrung yew shortbow gives 67.5 Fletching experience and 67.5 additional experience when adding bow string (Fletching level 65 required).
• Making an unstrung yew longbow gives 75 Fletching experience and 75 additional experience when adding bow string (Fletching level 70 required).
• Making a full yew stock gives 50 Fletching experience (Fletching level 69 required).
• Making a yew shield requires two logs and gives 150 Fletching experience, or 75 experience per log (Fletching level 72 required).

Dropping monsters

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
King Black Dragon	276	150 (noted)	2; Common
Skeleton brute	132	1	2; Common
Skeleton warlord	132	1	2; Common
Zulrah	725	35 (noted)	2; Common
Giant Mole	230	100 (noted)	2; Common (5/64)
Angry barbarian spirit	166	1	3; Uncommon
Ferocious barbarian spirit	166	3	3; Uncommon
Skeleton hero	149	1	3; Uncommon
Skeleton thug	132	1	3; Uncommon
Vampyre Juvinate	54; 59; 64; 90; 119	5	3; Uncommon
Swamp Crab	55	1	5; Very rare

Yew logs and the economy

Yew logs are usually in high demand from players who are trying to train Fletching. The value of yew logs is mainly driven by the High Alchemy value of Yew longbow (768 Coins), which will pay almost completely for the yew log and the Nature rune needed to alchemise them. These logs are also currently the highest level of logs available to Free-to-play players and as such, cutting them can be a good way to make money as a free-to-play player.

Many players consider yew logs to be the best way to make money with Woodcutting. Although magic logs are worth more per log, they are much slower to obtain than yew logs. At 99 Woodcutting, a player can look to easily gain over 400 yew logs per hour.