Willows, maples and magic trees all have their uses, but what of the lesser known vegetation such as the hollow trees of Mort Myre or the arctic pines of the Fremennik isles? With this week’s update, we’ve taken a closer look at the Woodcutting skill, rebalancing experience for the less popular trees and cultivating some new forms of training, but it’s not just XP rates that we’ve been analysing...
Teak and mahogany trees now also have a special log or two up their sleeves, which are worth much more than their weight in gold to the right buyer! Choking ivy has been seen clambering up the stone walls of RuneScape’s major cities and is much tougher to deal with than it looks. We’ve also tweaked arctic pine-splitting and put up some Prayer-refreshing hollow bark torches in the Haunted Woods, so get your hatchets out and your arms chopping!
Finally, the workers at the Lumber Yard are inviting high-level woodcutters to participate in 'Sawmill Training', where you can grab, slice and saw your way to greater experience. For more information on all of these changes, head over to the Woodcutting section of the Game Guide.
Mod Trick
RuneScape Content Developer
In other news...
Hobgoblins were starting to feel a bit left behind in the looks stakes compared to their Bandosian brothers, so we've given them a graphical rework.
We've removed the doors to Edgeville's furnace to make it easier to use, but moved the furnace two squares further from the bank to maintain the balance. You will still need to have completed the necessary Varrock Achievement Diary tasks in order to use the furnace.
You might notice a small new feature has been added to the Friends List (the ability to move the line separating players’ names and online status). This feature is associated with the Display Names update, which we’re hoping to release later this year.
Teak and mahogany trees now also have a special log or two up their sleeves, which are worth much more than their weight in gold to the right buyer! Choking ivy has been seen clambering up the stone walls of RuneScape’s major cities and is much tougher to deal with than it looks. We’ve also tweaked arctic pine-splitting and put up some Prayer-refreshing hollow bark torches in the Haunted Woods, so get your hatchets out and your arms chopping!
Finally, the workers at the Lumber Yard are inviting high-level woodcutters to participate in 'Sawmill Training', where you can grab, slice and saw your way to greater experience. For more information on all of these changes, head over to the Woodcutting section of the Game Guide.
Mod Trick
RuneScape Content Developer
In other news...
Hobgoblins were starting to feel a bit left behind in the looks stakes compared to their Bandosian brothers, so we've given them a graphical rework.
We've removed the doors to Edgeville's furnace to make it easier to use, but moved the furnace two squares further from the bank to maintain the balance. You will still need to have completed the necessary Varrock Achievement Diary tasks in order to use the furnace.
You might notice a small new feature has been added to the Friends List (the ability to move the line separating players’ names and online status). This feature is associated with the Display Names update, which we’re hoping to release later this year.
Patch Notes
The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).
Graphical
Quests
Miscellaneous
The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).
Graphical
- Fixed some ground near the turoths in the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon.
- Fixed various animation issues when undertaking tasks on Miscellania and optimised the code at the same time.
Quests
- Fixed a sailing bug in the Regicide quest.
Miscellaneous
- Corrected the POH rooms available in the new advisor system.
- Repaired a building in the old tutorial.
- Improved the caret feature to better handle '<' and '>'.
- Display the correct chathead when conversing with Millie the miller.
- Stopped non-cat followers saying “miaow” and other such phrases.
- Corrected the examine messages when talking to Hotfuthand at the Grand Exchange
- Changed some core code to fail gracefully rather than cause the game client to crash.
- Sped up gem cutting to match their original behaviour.
- Certain gnome cuisine items should now have more flexibility price-wise.
- Corrected the advisor information for Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf.
- Lumbridge melee dummies will no longer be affected by the Zamorak spear’s special attack.
- Ensure players can only have one god cape at a time.
- Stopped players walking through the ropes in the combat training hall in Lumbridge
Lv 99 at willows only gets you about 1m nowadays. 
too bad i got 99 wc on my main already 
Without the sc hatchets, they would still get about 60-70k exp per hour, and thats only at 68. at 90-99, they probably would make closer to 75-90k per hour, and 150k-180k per hour with the sc hatchets. Alot of 99 woodcutters hate this update, including me, because they just made a somewhat-respectable 99, become a not as respectable 99. Some people are saying that this is going to triple or quadrouple the number of people with 99 woodcutting, in the next year alone.