Pay-to-play Firemaking training

This article gives tips about training the Firemaking skill.

1-tick creating pyre logs offers the fastest experience up to level 30. Pyre logs can be created without tick delay by holding down 1 or space and rapidly using sacred oil on logs. This requires completion of the Shades of Mort'ton quest. Pyre logs can be created at level 1, even if the logs would require a higher level to burn. Without tick manipulation this method offers much lower rates and is only viable as a potential money making method.

It is recommended to create redwood or rosewood pyre logs, as they have demand for cremating urium remains and they give the highest experience per log. Prices may vary, and re-selling other pyre logs than redwood or rosewood might be difficult. Check trade volume and actual prices in the Grand Exchange before attempting this method.

With decent banking and accurate clicks, players can create 4,600 pyre logs per hour when 1-ticking. This translates to 92,000 experience per hour with redwood or rosewood logs. Without tick manipulation, players can only create 1,470 pyre logs per hour (29,400 experience per hour with redwood or rosewood logs).

Burning logs is one of the fastest ways to train Firemaking. The best place to do this is at the eastern part of the Grand Exchange. The area has a lot of empty space and the bank is only one tile away from an area a log can be burned. When correctly timed, the player can move to another square in between lighting the logs, which allows the player to burn the logs in any formation. With fast enough banking and accurate clicks, it is possible to keep lighting the logs tick-perfectly every 4 ticks. Having noted logs in the inventory and unnoting them at the banker is recommended over using the bank interface.

An easier but a slower alternative is to simply burn logs in a row from east to west. The best place to do this is at Varrock: use Varrock Teleport, light the logs from the fountain and bank at the Varrock west bank. Alternatively, use Camelot Teleport and bank at Seers' Village.

The table below assumes 1,485 logs are burned per hour. Coloured logs offer the fastest experience rates for levels 1–30 as they are guaranteed to be lit successfully. See Calculator:Firemaking/Logs for a detailed gp/xp analysis of the logs that can be burned at each level, including burning logs from sailing.

Alternatively, at level 92, players can burn 24,318 rosewood logs to reach level 99. This will save about 5,601,204 compared to reaching 99 with redwoods, at the cost of an additional four hours.

Money spent in total, when not using coloured logs: −27,956,294

Burning logs on a forester's campfire is a low-effort alternative to the faster methods. Choose a location where a campfire can be lit right next to a bank, such as the Grand Exchange, Rogues' Den, or the Crafting Guild. Burning an inventory of logs takes around 150 seconds.

Experience rates and costs are shown in the table below. The first log added to the campfire takes 6 ticks to burn, and the following logs take 9 ticks. Allowing the logs to continue to be added to the campfire automatically results in roughly 665 logs burned per hour, while tending to the campfire manually while holding down spacebar results in up to 975 logs per hour.

Total money spent with this method: −27,956,294

To reduce cost, the more expensive logs like hardwoods and magic logs can be skipped over, resulting in this alternative progression:

Total money spent with this method: −19,778,831

Subduing Wintertodt from level 50 Firemaking onwards is a slower, but profitable and low-effort alternative to burning logs. It also grants passive Woodcutting experience from chopping the bruma roots, and the Pyromancer outfit, which increases Firemaking experience by 2.5%. The fastest way to gain Firemaking experience from Wintertodt is to be on an official World (307, 309, 311, 389), which have fast games that usually last around 4 minutes. Light a brazier as soon as the round starts, chop bruma roots until you have a full inventory and burn them in the brazier. Fix and relight the brazier if needed. Fletching the bruma roots into kindlings is only recommended when the player would not meet the 500-point mark for the extra experience gained at the end of the round. Otherwise, bruma roots should not be fletched into kindlings as this significantly hampers experience rates.

Players can gain extra experience in between rounds by doing other activities during the downtime, such as burning logs, fletching darts or making jugs of wine.

Experience rates scale depending on the player's level. It takes around 600 rounds and 50 hours (assuming an average kill length of 4 minutes and a 60 second pause) to get from level 50 to level 99 Firemaking if you fletch every log, and about 500 rounds and 40 hours if you do not.