OSRS Firemaking Leveling Guide

The best OSRS Firemaking route for most members is normal logs to 15, oak to 30, willow to 45, maple to 50, then Wintertodt to 99. Choose line fires if you want the highest experience rates, Forester’s Campfires for lower attention, or Wintertodt for experience plus rewards. Since Wintertodt now uses Warmth instead of Hitpoints, keeping a new account at 10 HP is no longer necessary.

Which Firemaking route should you use?

If this is an early account, use the OSRS beginner progression guide to balance Firemaking with quests and transport unlocks. A first 99 is optional; stopping at the level required for your next quest is often the better account decision.

Fast practical route: line fires from 1–99

Use a tinderbox on one log, move one tile and repeat in a long clear lane. The Grand Exchange, Varrock and other open bank-adjacent areas work, but avoid blocking objects and other fires. The table assumes the standard experience curve and current high-trade prices.

The full purchase is roughly 27.4 million gp at the recorded prices. Actual XP/hour falls with failed lights, banking, short lanes and missed inputs. White firelighter logs and tick-manipulated pyre-log creation can be faster at narrow level ranges, but they add setup and price risk; this route is easier to reproduce.

If the cost matters, stop line fires at 50 and move to Wintertodt. Players comparing legitimate currency options can review OSRS gold listings, but prices and availability do not change the safest in-game training method.

Levels 50–99: Wintertodt for XP and rewards

Wintertodt is a members skilling boss requiring 50 Firemaking. Official worlds 307, 309, 311 and 389 generally produce fast group rounds of about four minutes, followed by a fixed one-minute restart.

What changed with the Warmth system?

• Cold attacks reduce a separate Warmth meter instead of Hitpoints.
• Four warm items give the maximum clothing reduction.
• Food that heals at least 4 HP restores 35% Warmth; rejuvenation potions restore 30% per dose.
• Warmth regenerates naturally and reaches 0% only at the risk of death.
• Rewards are stored in the Reward Cart rather than individual supply crates.

This removes the old advice to keep an account at 10 Hitpoints. Bring a tinderbox or bruma torch, axe, knife if fletching, hammer, four warm items and enough Warmth recovery. You can make rejuvenation potions inside; Brew’ma assists accounts without Druidic Ritual.

Fast group-round loop

1. Light a brazier as the round begins.
2. Chop a full inventory of bruma roots.
3. Feed roots directly for better XP/hour, or fletch enough kindling when you need help reaching 500 points.
4. Relight and repair the brazier when required; avoid marked snowfall.
5. Finish with at least 500 points, then bank or restore supplies during the one-minute reset.

Estimated Firemaking rates rise from about 161,000 XP/hour at level 50 to 320,000 at level 99 in fast groups. The wiki estimates roughly 40 hours from 50–99 without fletching every root, or about 50 hours when fletching all roots. Ping, missed rounds and low activity reduce those figures.

Reward quality depends partly on relevant skill levels. Ironmen chasing seeds should compare the current OSRS Ironman seed sources rather than assuming Wintertodt is automatically best at every account stage.

Low-attention option: Forester’s Campfires

Add logs to a campfire beside a bank and let the action continue. Automatic tending burns roughly 665 logs per hour; actively confirming the next log can reach about 975. That gives these approximate ranges:

F2P and Ironman routes

Free-to-play

Use logs, oak, willow and maple, then choose maple for cheap training or yew for more XP per inventory. Forester’s Campfires work in F2P; Wintertodt, magic logs and redwood logs are members methods.

Ironman

Do not measure chopped logs as “free”—Woodcutting time is a real opportunity cost. Wintertodt can provide useful skilling supplies, but Reward Cart quality scales with relevant levels. Decide whether to claim rewards now or later based on what the account needs.

Firemaking efficiency tips

• Set a level goal tied to a quest, diary or unlock before committing to 99.
• Price the whole level segment, not one log. Magic and redwood costs dominate the fast route.
• Use a long east-to-west lane for line fires so the next tile remains clear.
• At Wintertodt, direct roots are faster XP when you will already reach 500 points; kindling gives more points per slot.
• Keep four warm items equipped. Extra warm pieces do not improve the clothing cap.
• Do not bank old supply-crate advice: the current system stores rolls in the Reward Cart.

OSRS Firemaking FAQ

What is the fastest conventional Firemaking method?

Individual line fires using the highest efficient log tier are faster than campfires and generally faster than Wintertodt. Tick-manipulated pyre-log creation can be faster in specific early levels but is less practical.

Is Wintertodt still better at 10 Hitpoints?

No. The October 2024 rework replaced Hitpoints damage with a separate Warmth meter, so high-HP accounts are no longer punished by the old scaling system.

Is 99 Firemaking profitable?

Wintertodt can return supplies and uniques, while ordinary log burning consumes logs. Profit varies with Reward Cart rolls and market prices; do not promise a fixed gp total.

Sources and update policy

Levels, experience values, training rates, Wintertodt mechanics and Reward Cart rules were checked against the current Old School RuneScape Wiki training and boss records. Log prices came from its live price API on August 26, 2026. Recalculate large purchases after Jagex updates or market swings.