AFK Training Methods

Banks: Demon tears

With log basket. A full 30-minute AFK — the logout-timer maximum.

Ironman: The longest true AFK in the skill. XP is poor, so treat it as a second-monitor method, not a grind.

Banks: Bass etc. (Stranglewood)

Quest: Secrets of the Ancients (partial)

Effectively zero XP — a 30-minute AFK for the drops.

Banks: Salvage

Sorting salvage; merchant shipwreck used for rates.

Ironman: A 30-minute AFK stretch — the crew does the work. Salvage value is iron-usable via the salvage trader.

Banks: Opulent salvage

Banking salvage instead of sorting; half the XP.

Ironman: A 30-minute AFK for Strength XP with zero supplies. Slow, but truly free.

Banks: Raw karambwanji

Quest: Tai Bwo Wannai Trio (partial)

Ironman: Stock thousands — they're the bait for karambwan fishing later. A 20-minute AFK at level 5 is absurd value for a fresh iron.

Banks: Raw anglerfish

With fish barrel; bank after every inventory.

Ironman: Anglers are the iron's overheal food for CoX, Inferno and hard PvM. 18 minutes AFK per click cycle while stocking them is elite.

Banks: Raw sharks

With fish barrel; bank after every inventory.

Ironman: The default iron food stock. 14+ minutes AFK per cycle.

Banks: Guardian fragments

Capped at 1,250 XP per round.

Ironman: Mining fragments between Guardians of the Rift rounds — you're there for runecrafting outfit/pouches anyway.

Requires a high-level POH setup.

Ironman: AFK Agility exists! XP is poor, but for a skill this click-intensive that's a gift.

Banks: Raw anglerfish

Without barrel banking; 9-minute cycles.

Banks: Raw monkfish

Quest: Swan Song

With fish barrel; bank after every inventory.

Ironman: The mid-game iron staple: solid XP, solid food, very AFK. Most irons live here from 62 to 82+.

Banks: Raw dark crabs

With fish barrel and elite Wilderness diary. Wilderness — HCIM beware.

Ironman: Great XP/AFK ratio and top-tier food, but it's the Wilderness Resource Area: bring nothing you can't lose. Hardcores should fish monkfish instead.

Clicking the rocks too early resets the 7.5-minute cooldown.

Banks: Cheese / butter

Cheese used for rates. Bottomless milk bucket makes it more AFK.

Banks: Stardust (soft clay via shop)

F2P players get half the XP and can't exchange stardust.

Ironman: Stardust buys the celestial ring — a mining-boost item irons can't get any other way. One of the best chat-while-you-train methods in the game.

Banks: House keys

Ironman: Fish here only to bank house keys for the Thieving burgling loop.

Consumes stamina potions.

Ironman: Stamina potions are precious on an iron — probably skip unless you're drowning in them.

Banks: Salts

Ironman: Low XP but a 5-minute AFK; only worth it if you want the salts.

Banks: Raw cave eels

With fish barrel. This spot never moves.

Ironman: Sneaky-good mid-level AFK: the static spot means zero repositioning clicks.

Banks: Infernal shale (crushed)

Rates assume the shale is crushed.

Banks: Rosewood logs

Ironman: Rosewood logs feed the high-level Construction repair-kit method — bank them instead of dropping.

Banks: Redwood logs

Ironman: Redwood logs are the standard fuel for forester's campfires (Firemaking) and redwood shields (Fletching 92+). One grind supplies three skills.

Banks: Raw karambwan

Quest: Tai Bwo Wannai Trio

With fish barrel.

Ironman: Karambwans are the 1-tick combo food every iron needs for raids and bossing. This grind pays for itself twice.

Banks: Ironwood logs

Ironman: Best AFK woodcutting XP from level 80 — beats redwoods until 92+.

Banks: Magic logs

Ironman: Slow XP, but magic logs are a real ironman bottleneck — magic longbows are a top alch-pipeline item and you'll want a stock for Fletching. See the money making guide.

Banks: Raw monkfish

Quest: Swan Song

Banks: Raw anglerfish

Port Piscarilius spots; spot moves unpredictably.

Redwood logs used for rates.

Ironman: Burns the log surplus your AFK woodcutting created. Far more AFK than a log-lighting run and competitive XP at high levels.

Banks: Camphor logs

Ironman: Camphor logs become camphor planks for the low-level repair-kit Construction method — an iron-friendly alternative to buying planks.

Banks: Sanctity (shade keys loop)

Quest: Shades of Mort'ton

AFK stretches vary between 1 and 15 minutes.

Banks: Pottery

Pot lids used for rates.

Ironman: Pairs with shooting stars: stardust → soft clay → AFK crafting XP.

Banks: Amethyst

With expert mining gloves.

Ironman: The classic iron ammo mine: amethyst → broad bolts, amethyst arrows and amethyst darts for the blowpipe. Every high-level iron ends up here.

Banks: Trout & salmon

Fly fishing used for rates.

Ironman: Early food for Wintertodt goes straight from here to the campfire.

Banks: Leaping fish (roe/caviar)

Also trains: Agility (5.2k/hr), Strength (5.2k/hr)

With fish barrel, at Mount Quidamortem.

Ironman: Passive Agility + Strength XP on the side, and cut fish yield roe/caviar for barbarian mixes. The Quidamortem spot is quieter than Otto's Grotto.

Banks: Yew logs

Ironman: Yew longbows are a core ironman alch item — bank the logs for the Fletching → high alch pipeline.

Banks: Enchanted jewellery

Skills necklace used for rates.

Ironman: Enchant the jewellery you actually teleport with — games necklaces, skills necklaces, rings of dueling from your own gold and gems.

Banks: Buckets of bloodwood sap

Loop alternates between 1:50 and 0:45 AFK stretches. Requires occasional inventory interaction to release letveks.

Banks: Coins & house keys

Ironman: Direct coins into an ironman's pocket plus house keys for burgling — a genuinely good early-mid iron money/XP combo.

Banks: Mahogany planks

Quest: Dream Mentor (Lunar spellbook)

Ironman: The iron Construction pipeline: your mahogany logs become planks AFK, at a fraction of the sawmill cash cost in clicks.

Banks: Gem bolt tips

Diamond bolt tips used for rates.

Ironman: Slow XP but turns your gem stack into diamond/ruby bolts — the ammo that carries irons through GWD and Zulrah.

Banks: Cooked food

Anglerfish used for rates; lower-tier fish cook slower XP-wise.

Ironman: For an iron this is never 'just XP' — you're converting your fishing bank into PvM supplies. Cook at the Hosidius kitchen or with cooking gauntlets to cut burns.

Banks: Nails / dart tips

Mithril nails used for rates.

Ironman: Point this at what you actually need: adamantite/dragon nails for Construction repair kits, dart tips for the blowpipe.

Banks: Cannonballs

Quest: Dwarf Cannon

With double ammo mould.

Ironman: The definitive iron AFK method: every cannonball you'll ever fire at Slayer gets smithed by you. Do it while watching anything.

Camphor repair kits; with plank sack and Amy's saw or imcando hammer.

Ironman: Finally a Construction method that isn't butler micromanagement — and it runs on camphor planks you chopped and plank-made yourself.

Superior dragon bones used for rates.

Ironman: Every bone is self-collected on an iron, so 'cost' means Vorkath/Hydra trips. Consider the Chaos Temple altar (50% double-bone chance) to stretch your supply — but that's Wilderness.

Banks: Mahogany logs

Ironman: Mahogany logs → plank make (Magic 86) → mahogany planks is the standard iron Construction pipeline. Fossil Island teaks/mahoganies with the log basket stack well.

Banks: Maple logs

Ironman: Maple logs are Kingdom of Miscellania fodder anyway — chop these only if you want the WC XP itself.

Banks: Daeyalt essence

Quest: Sins of the Father

Ironman: Daeyalt essence gives +50% Runecraft XP when crafted — mine it AFK now, and your future blood/soul rune grind shrinks dramatically.

Banks: Zulrah's scales

Quest: Regicide (partial)

Also trains: Cooking (31.5k/hr)

With Rada's blessing 4.

Ironman: THE iron reason to fish eels: Zulrah's scales charge the toxic blowpipe, serpentine helm and trident. If you PvM, you will need tens of thousands.

Banks: Onyx bolt tips & lava scale shards

With Rada's blessing 4. Requires fire cape or TzHaar task to access bank.

Ironman: Lava scale shards are an anti-venom ingredient and onyx bolt tips are endgame ammo — both painful to get elsewhere on an iron.

Banks: Crystal shards

Ironman: Crystal shards without Gauntlet runs or Zalcano — irons need them for divine potions, crystal gear and teleport seeds.

Banks: Valuables (direct coins)

Consumes house keys from pickpocketing / Civitas fishing.

Ironman: Alternate with wealthy-citizen pickpocketing: keys in, coins out. All value is iron-usable.

Banks: Blood runes

Also trains: Crafting (5.8k/hr), Mining (4.2k/hr)

Long gameplay loop; AFK stretches vary.

Ironman: Blood runes power barrage spells and charge the sanguinesti staff/scythe. Craft with daeyalt essence for +50% XP.

Banks: Soul runes

Also trains: Crafting (5.7k/hr), Mining (4.1k/hr)

Slightly less AFK than blood runes due to the altar run.

Ironman: Soul runes feed the Arceuus spellbook (thralls!) — a real iron sink.

Banks: Unpowered orbs / light orbs

Empty light orbs used for wiki rates.

Ironman: Make unpowered orbs instead: charge them at obelisks and attach to battlestaves — the other half of the iron alch pipeline.

Banks: Bowstrings / yarn

Cotton yarn used for wiki rates.

Ironman: Spin your Sorceress's Garden / farmed flax into bowstrings — Fletching on an iron eats every bowstring you can make.

Banks: Forester's rations

Ironman: Rations are the Forestry consumable — make your own instead of missing out during group events.

Banks: Battlestaves

With fletching knife; celastrus bark used for rates.

Ironman: Celastrus bark from your farm runs → battlestaves → attach orbs → high alch. A pillar of the ironman alch pipeline (see the money making guide).

Banks: Strung amulets

Quest: Dream Mentor (Lunar spellbook)

Also trains: Crafting (7.2k/hr)

Ironman: Strings your glory/fury/crafting amulet backlog without wool runs — irons always have a pile of unstrung amulets from gold + gem crafting.

Banks: Redwood shields

With fletching knife.

Ironman: Uses your banked redwood logs; shields alch poorly — this one is purely for XP.

Banks: Herb tar

Irit tar used for rates; needs swamp tar (buyable in bulk from shops).

Ironman: Only worth it with a big irit surplus — most irons want those herbs as super attacks/defences instead.

Banks: Sq'irk juice (farming XP)

Also trains: Farming (3k/hr)

Uses a one-click tile-marker route; costs beer glasses.

Ironman: Great semi-AFK thieving XP if you missed the Ardougne knight window — and irons can restock beer glasses from glassblowing.

Banks: Clean herbs

Ironman: Zero-cost XP for an iron: your grimy herb stack from Slayer and farm runs has to be cleaned anyway.

Banks: Anti-venom+ etc.

Anti-venom(4) used for rates.

Ironman: Pairs perfectly with sacred eel fishing: your Zulrah scales convert antidote++ into anti-venoms you'll actually drink.

Camphor repair kits; with Amy's saw and imcando hammer.

Banks: Assorted runes

Ironman: Not very AFK, but the random rune payout quietly stocks an iron's rune pouch — laws, cosmics, astrals and nats add up.

Banks: Monkey tails (damaged)

Quest: Monkey Madness II (partial)

Ironman: Not truly AFK, but it's the lowest-intensity good Hunter XP — and Hunter is a skill irons otherwise sweat through at birdhouses and black chins.

Banks: Barronite shards & deposits

With Charm of Mining.

Ironman: Best semi-AFK F2P-viable mining XP at low levels; shards unlock Camdozaal rewards.

Rosewood repair kits; with plank sack and Amy's saw or imcando hammer.

Ironman: Barely AFK, but the top Construction XP an iron can sustain from self-gathered rosewood.