RSorder – Best Methods to Earn 1B GP Without Burning Out

Becoming a billionaire in Old School RuneScape isn't just about grinding monsters or skilling for hours—it's about understanding the game's economy, tracking updates, and using market trends to your advantage. Whether you're just starting or pushing toward your first billion, this guide walks you through money-making strategies for every stage of your account.

Reading Game Updates — The #1 Way to Make Your First Billion

The single most powerful tool for making massive OSRS gold is simply reading the game updates. Prices swing wildly around new content releases, and early adopters can make absurd amounts of money.

When a new boss or activity launches, day-one drops often sell for inflated prices. Farming these immediately can make you tens or even hundreds of millions in the first few days.

Updates also affect markets indirectly. When a new training method is released, or an item gets buffed, anything consumed or required by that update usually spikes in value. A great example was the release of Yama: pineapple pizzas doubled in price because players rushed to prepare for the new fight.

Even patch notes can spark huge profits. When Jagex announced magic equipment changes, a wide range of staves, robes, and spell components surged in value. Similarly, when the community realised there would be no League event this year, players invested in discontinued League items—twisted canes skyrocketed more than 10x.

However, speculative investing comes with risks. Never dump all your GP into one item, and always factor in Grand Exchange tax, which can turn “profit” into an actual loss if margins are too tight.

Speculation also includes investing in potions, food, or supplies when a new boss is announced. Even skill-related expansions—like Sailing—have caused items such as copper ore to spike.

These methods all require starting capital. Before you can make billions off updates, you'll need your first 10 million.

Earning Your First 10 Million GP

A 10 million GP foundation is a major milestone that unlocks better money-making methods, helps you upgrade your gear, and gives you room to invest.

If you're starting as a free-to-play player, progress can feel slow. While F2P money makers exist, they're repetitive and low-profit. A faster solution is using the RS3 mobile app, where you can buy cheap short-term membership—1-day, 3-day, or 7-day packages. On Android, a 1-day membership costs just 99 cents, and even a single day massively increases your earning potential.

If you remain F2P, you can still follow free methods, but members' options are exponentially better.

Best Member Methods for Your First 10m

1. Looting in High-Kill Areas
In places like the Catacombs of Kourend, players often leave valuable stackable drops behind at Dust Devils or Nechryaels. On PvP worlds, abandoned ammunition and loot piles easily stack into hundreds of thousands per hour.

2. Crafting & Enchanting Silver Jewellery
This is one of the most reliable, requirement-free money makers:
  • Burning amulets → 2m+ GP/hour
  • Expeditious bracelets and Bracelets of slaughter → 1m+ GP/hour

3. Creating Crystal Keys
Combining the loop and tooth halves of keys is currently over 3m GP per hour. This can change fast, so always check GE prices.

4. Processing Items for Profit
Many items can be “processed” for solid margins:
  • Poisoning dragon knives
  • Breaking down bracelets of ether
  • Creating redwood pyre logs (requires only Shades of Mort'ton) → ~800k/hour
  • Tanning cowhides → ~400k/hour

5. Low-Level Clue Scrolls
Even at early-game stats:
  • Easy clues → ~40k average
  • Medium clues → ~160k average

6. Passive Skilling While You Play
Doing herb runs early on, training profitable skills, and completing recurring tasks will build your GP without focused grinding.

Once you reach 10m, you can begin working toward your first 100m.

How to Earn Your First 100 Million GP

Once you're established, your focus shifts to more consistent, higher-tier methods.

1. Take Advantage of Game Updates
Right now, the endgame delve boss Doom can earn up to 50m GP per hour. This shows how incredibly profitable updated content can be. To prepare for Doom, work toward obtaining a Tormented Synapse and eventually crafting a Scorching Bow. Doom is difficult and requires strong stats, but it's currently the fastest path to a billion GP.

2. Profitable Skilling
Training skills become a huge income source:
  • Thieving Vyres → 2m+ GP/hour
  • Black chins → ~750k/hour
  • Runecrafting, Hunter, and other skills also earn consistent profit.
If you only choose one, Thieving is currently the strongest.

3. Slayer — The Long-Term Moneymaker
Slayer unlocks some of the best GP rates in the game:
  • Arax (lvl 92 Slayer) → 5m+ GP/hour
  • Vardorvis (boss task) → 7m+/hour
There are many slayer creatures and bosses that pull in millions consistently.

4. Corrupted Gauntlet
CG requires no gear and minimal cash investment. Once mastered:
  • 4m+ GP/hour, even with average RNG
  • Aim for 80+ combat stats and complete Song of the Elves.

5. Massing Nex
With only a dragon crossbow, you can join mass Nex groups:
  • 5m/hour, though drops take time.

6. High-Level Bossing & Raids
  • Chambers of Xeric → 8m/hour
  • Theater of Blood → Very strong profit
  • Tombs of Amascut → Lower than before, but still viable

7. Recurring Passive Money Makers
These stack up over time:
  • Herb runs → 2m/hour depending on herbs
  • Managing Miscellania → ~70k/day (~2.1m/month)
  • Buying battle staves → ~120k/day
  • Kourend diary dynamite → 34k/day

8. High-Level Clue Scrolls
If you're chasing rare items:
  • Master clues → 1m+ average
  • Elite clues → ~400k average
Very RNG-heavy, but potentially life-changing.

9. Using Alt Accounts
Great for AFK income:
  • Rune dragons
  • Brutal black dragons
  • Skeletal Wyverns
  • Dagannoth Rex
  • Watch sentinels
Alts also help with flipping. Buying items like Zulrah scales on cooldown across multiple cheap OSRS Accounts multiplies profits.

Final Advice — Don't Force It

Ironically, the less you obsess over making GP, the faster it tends to stack. Do activities you enjoy, train profitable skills, and build your account naturally. Burnout kills progress far faster than bad RNG.