OSRS P2P Firemaking Training Guide: Leveling 1-99

The Firemaking skill is fairly quick to train. It can be trained by lighting fires and other objects, or through minigames like the Shades of Mort’ton, or by playing the Wintertodt minigame. Firemaking gives players the ability to light different tiers of logs. Better tiers of logs are unlocked as a player’s firemaking level goes up, allowing them to get better experience rates per hour.

Quests for firemaking experience

These quests should be completed to get the best experience rates when starting; they have little to no requirements and can be completed quickly.

• The Giant Dwarf: This quest gives 1,500 firemaking experience. It requires 16 firemaking, 12 crafting, 33 magic, and 14 thieving.
• Enlightened Journey: This quest gives 4,000 firemaking experience. It requires 20 firemaking, 20 quest points, 30 farming, and 36 crafting.
  
  

Other quests, such as Heroes' Quest, Making Friends with My Arm, and Enakhra's Lament, have more requirements but award firemaking experience upon completion, so if you have the requirements, you should complete them to get the best experience rates when starting.

Fastest Methods to Train Firemaking

Burning logs: Level 1–99

Burning logs is the fastest method of training firemaking in OSRS. When starting, it takes longer for players to burn one log, but as their firemaking level goes up, they will be able to burn logs much faster, which increases their experience rates. Lighting logs can be timed correctly to allow players to move to another square between lighting the logs, allowing them to burn logs in any formation they want.

If this method is done quickly and with accurate clicks, players can keep lighting logs tick-perfectly every 4 ticks. Burning logs can also be done easily by lighting the log in a row from east to west at the Grand Exchange or the location south of the Varrock west bank.

Experience rates from Burning Logs

  Up to 1485 logs can be burned per hour if done correctly. Here are the experience rates to expect when burning different types of logs:

•   At Level 1, burn Logs, this gives 70,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 15, burn Oak Logs, which gives 80,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 15, burn Willow Logs, which gives 110,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 35, burning Teak logs gives 138,000 experience per hour
•  At Level 42, burning Arctic logs gives 185,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 45, burning Maple logs gives 200,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 50, Burn Mahogany logs, which give 230,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 60, the Burn Yew log gives 300,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 75, Burn Magic logs give 450,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 90, burning redwood logs gives 520,000 experience per hour
  
  

Costs of Burning Logs

Since this is one of the fastest methods, it is also one of the most expensive to carry out. 

Here are the costs of burning logs to 99 firemaking.
 

•   Burning Logs costs 175,000 GP per hour 
•   Burning Oak Logs costs 45,000 GP per hour
•   Burning Willow Logs costs 360,000 GP per hour
• Burning Teak logs costs 130,000 GP per hour
• Burning Arctic logs costs 430,000 GP per hour
• Burning Maple logs costs 41,000 GP per hour
• Burning Mahogany logs costs 313,000 GP per hour
• Burning Yew logs costs 220,000 GP per hour
• Burning Magic logs costs 1,500,000 GP per hour 
• Burning Redwood logs costs 1,300,000 GP per hour
  
  

In total, burning logs from level 1 to 99 firemaking costs around 28.5M GP

Alternative Methods Of Training Firemaking

Wintertodt

Fighting the Wintertodt is one of the best alternatives for training firemaking. It gives good experience rates and offers construction, fletching, and woodcutting experience in a passive way. Players can also get different rewards for doing the Wintertodt minigame, which is quite useful for Ironman accounts. Although similar to a boss, the Wintertodt is a like a minigame type of fight, and dying would result in the loss of items (gravestone) and hardcore account status. 

The mechanics of the minigame are quite simple and are thoroughly explained in our Wintertodt guide. It will show you everything you need to get the best experience rates and rewards when fighting the Wintertodt.

 

Requirements for Wintertodt

•   50 Firemaking
•   Warm clothing: this is necessary to reduce the damage from Wintertodt
•   Rejuvenation Potion: can be found inside the minigame at the entrance
  
  
  

Experience rates at the Wintertodt

You should anticipate the experience rates indicated below if you choose the quickest experience technique and only fletch when necessary:

These are the experience rates you may anticipate if you fletch the majority of the Bruma roots to 99:

Profits from doing the Wintertodt Minigame

Not only is Wintertodt a good alternative based on the experience rates, but it is also quite profitable. Players can get logs, dragon axe, gems, ores, herbs, seeds, fish, and other rewards from obtaining more than 500 points from the Wintertodt. 

  Based on grand exchange prices, the rewards turn into a profit of 200,000 GP every hour.

Profitable Methods Of Training Firemaking

Creating Pyre logs

Creating Pyre logs is a profitable method of training firemaking and has no requirements. It can be done by simply using sacred oil potions on logs; this action has no in-game delay, and as a result, the creation speed is the same as the click speed, which is why creating Pyre logs is click-intensive when trying to maintain optimal experience rates. Using this method is not sustainable due to the click intensity, so players are advised to use this method until 50 firemaking and then use other methods to continue training above that level.

Tip: To get better experience rates, players should always use a sacred oil (4) on logs, even if they require fewer than 4 doses. Only the required dose of Sacred oil will be used, but the player will get more than a 50% increase in experience rate.

Requirement for creating Pyre Logs

•   Shades of Mort’ton quest
  
  

Experience rates when creating Pyre logs

  Your accuracy, click speed, and the type of Pyree logs you make determine experience rates when creating Pyre logs. Here are the experience rates to expect when making different types of Pyre logs:

•    When making Regular and Oak Pyre, players should expect experience rates of 27,000 per hour.
•   When making Willow, Teak, Arctic, Maple, or Mahogany Pyre, players should expect experience rates of 33,000 per hour.
•   When making Yew, Magic, or Redwood Pyre, players should expect experience rates of 43,000 per hour.
  
  

Profit of creating Pyre logs

The cost or profit from creating pyre logs depends on the type of pyre log created. 

Here are the costs of making different pyre logs:

•   At Level 1, do Logs, which gives 1,048,000 profit per hour
•   At Level 15, do Oak Logs; this gives 772,000 profit per hour
•   At Level 15, do Willow Logs. This gives 985,000 profit per hour
•   At Level 35, do Teak logs; this gives 1,238,000 profit per hour
•   At Level 42, do Arctic logs; this gives -1,700,000 loss per hour
•   At Level 45, do Maple logs; this gives 1,149,000 profit per hour
•   At Level 50, do Mahogany logs; this gives -230,000 loss per hour
•   At Level 60, do Yew logs; this gives 1,300,000 profit per hour
•   At Level 75, do Magic logs; this gives 800,000 profit per hour
•  At Level 90, do Redwood logs; this gives 700,000 profit per hour 
  
  

AFK method of training firemaking

Burning logs on a Campfire

Players who want to train their firemaking with minimal effort (AFK) can burn logs on Forester’s campfire that you can do yourself by burning a log; however, it is quite expensive. A forester’s campfire is a fire that can be created by using logs on an existing fire. This is an alternative method of burning logs that grants only one-third (⅓) of the firemaking experience from burning the logs with the method above.

The best location to set up a forester's campfire for training firemaking is close to a bank so that more logs can be quickly obtained. Examples of these locations are the Grand Exchange, Rogues’ Den, and the Crafting Guild. Players can start to burn logs on a campfire at any firemaking level.

Experience rates from Burning Logs on a Campfire

  Here are the experience rates to expect when burning logs on a campfire:

•   At Level 1, burn Logs, this gives 19,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 15, burn Oak Logs, which gives 19,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 15, burn Willow Logs, which gives 60,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 35, burn Teak logs, which give 70,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 42, burn Arctic Logs, which gives 80,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 45, burn Maple Logs, which gives 90,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 50, burn Mahogany Logs, which gives 105,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 60, burn Yew Logs, which gives 190,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 75, burn Magic Logs, which gives 220,000 experience per hour
•   At Level 90, burn Redwood Logs, which gives 250,000 experience per hour
  
  

Costs of Burning Logs on a Campfire

The costs below might be similar to burning logs with the method above. However, the experience rates from burning logs on a campfire are much lower; therefore, players would spend even more when training with this method.

•   At Level 1, burn Logs, this costs 145,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 15, burn Oak Logs; this costs 100,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 15, burn Willow Logs; this costs 110,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 35, burn Teak logs; this costs 380,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 42, burn Arctic Logs; this costs 630,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 45, burn Maple Logs; this costs 20,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 50, burn Mahogany Logs; this costs 700,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 60, burn Yew Logs; this costs 390,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 75, burn Magic Logs, which costs 1,400,000 GP per hour
•   At Level 90, burn Redwood Log; this costs 750,000 GP per hour
  
  

Conclusion

Firemaking is one of the skills that has been in OSRS since the game's release, so it might seem simple, and while it is, Jagex has tried to make it a bit more dynamic with minigames like Wintertodt. Depending on your preferences and/or time and money constraints, among other things,  If you have extra money, I recommend burning logs and choosing the log type that matches your Firemaking level for more XP per hour. If you don't want to spend a lot of money and still reach level 99, the Wintertodt minigame is for you. You can try the other methods, and when you get bored of the main methods, you can switch to these to avoid burnout. You can choose the path that suits you best to reach level 99 and show off your cape throughout the world of OSRS.