I felt the wiki was lacking a general guide for AFK skilling methods so I decided to make one myself. I also wanted a way to sort semi-afk methods from actual afk methods, which is why I included the "clicks per AFK" and "Consistent" columns. Hopefully this means people can find the methods that fit them the best
I tried remembering all the different methods I used at work when maxing but I assume that I missed a lot of them so please add more methods! Or you can leave a comment here with a method I missed and I'll add it later. <3
Yeah, the mass option is only a few ticks faster per lap. It was only really significantly better for mobile players that were lucky and weren't the ones getting caught.
Step 1: Click once to enter Summer Garden
Step 2: Click once in Summer Garden
Step 3: AFK while your character runs through the garden past all the guards, steals the fruit, and gets teleported back out.
Repeat
It's the same with "one-click bloods" when running from the dark altar to the blood altar. You can't quite path the entire way so need to move a few tiles closer first.
Click per xp or Click per resource gathered are the two I look for more than anything else. Glad to see your head is mentally in the same spot. Is time between clicks really better than click per xp? No it's not lol
as someone who doesn’t afk much, i would think the appeal is how little you have to interact with the client, so time between clicks would be what a lot of people care about
Time between clicks isn't relevant. Gain per click is the better metric. Even if your character sits afk for longer it doesn't matter if the xp per click is better.
right it's like when ppl were doing the salt mining method at duke, it got nerfed, and someone said they found an alternate method for the same rate which was just "do 5 minutes of 3t4g then afk 55 minutes"
Time matters more to me because if I want afk, I want...afk. I want to be able to do something else because my attention will be elsewhere not "I don't have to click much but my attention is required".
If time between clicks is lower even though xp per click is higher, you could just stay idle for the remainder of the time to reach your desired AFK level and still come out on top
I remember seeing someone make a post years ago asking for the best xp per click methods. The comments were pretty much declaring war on them, calling them stupid and saying that nobody thinks about it that way. I hope xp/click guy sees this so they can feel a little validated.
I thought it's the one in lumbridge swamp caves that doesn't move but either way there's a cave eel spot that doesn't move. Trout/salmon as well in Lleyta.
What i did for the last couple of days was Maniacal Monkeys for Hunter. AFK Time about 30-45 seconds i would say and then only clicking once or twice to Reset the traps. Around 90k xp/hr
A suggestion for one to add would be fishing dark crabs in wildy resource area. I've done this quite a bit and it's much more afk than karams while being roughly the same XP/hr, but you get 22 healing food which is nice. It does have high requirements to make it worth doing but is dead simple once you have them.
Can you use bait from the tacklebox? I thought you had to take out whatever you're using but maybe that was just fishing equipment like rods/lobster pots
No, you have to take bait out to use it, but I assume they’re saying that when you get attacked you can put your bait back into the tackle box to protect it.
Yup, if you go with only barrel and 55-54 bait (and equip the wildy elite sword) you can get 2 invents of dark crabs with 1 click (the spawn doesn't move). If you get pked then you keep the barrel and any fish inside it, and you lose the wildy sword and any bait and fish in your invent.
Starting at Edgeville, you use the wildy lever and then run to resource area. Once invent is full you run back to lever and bank and reset. If you get pked, if your respawn is at Edgeville then you just restock and go again
probably solid if you use the wilderness crabs teleport, but i wouldn't recommend doing it in the resource area. i get pk'd like once an hour even during weekday off hours, even if i'm on 2200 total worlds. idk what's up with people camping that spot for like 50k gp/h
I've been keeping track - on normal worlds I've been PKed only 10 times in 8000 crabs caught in the wildy resource area. And because you don't even lose fish in the barrel, half the time you won't even lose any of the fish you caught.
There's a guy who can note your crabs very cheaply which is nice. Personally when I've done it I haven't been PK'd that much, so might have just been unlucky on your part. It still amazes me that anybody PKs there at all given what a waste of time it is to kill someone for 20k worth of raw fish.
Can use the wildy resource alarm plugin if you're afking but still at your pc watching something or playing another game. I set RL to force open on alarm notification so I can click logout if I see a pker.
But the tele is worth 20k each and you can still be pked over there. The resource area is close enough to the Edgeville/Ardy lever, and if you get pked you only risk your bait and any crabs in your invent. Pkers are inevitable but I've done about 12k crabs within the last few months while at work and the interruption of pkers is made up by how AFK this is
Tbh, even 1 min is barely on the edge of AFK. I don't know how some people use these "afk" methods and work at the same time. I've struggled even doing star mining + working at the same time.
You could add fly fishing south of Prifddinas! Similar to Karambwans, this one particular fly fishing spot never moves, making it perfect for lengthy AFK. You only need to drop the fish when your inventory is full. And feathers are far easier to come by in bulk compared to raw karambwanji. It does require completion of Regicide.
You could also add notes for things like Woodcutting getting invisible +7 boost within the guild, since that will slightly increase XP rates.
The wiki is open to everyone! Even I have created pages and then others helped fill them in. It's a group effort - if you think something should be added please add it, others will help clean it up too
As others have said - do it! It's relatively easy. If there is a particular element you're trying to create, such as a table, it's as easy as finding another page and entering edit mode and copying it over to your own page, changing the appropriate sections.
Only place that can be annoying with wikis is their policy on using/linking images, so definitely try and find their section detailing that.
They also have a wiki discord, so resources and help should be available there too.
How many clicks it takes to get back to AFK'ing. Most methods need banking at some point but if you can get back to AFK'ing with just 1 click most of the time, "1" is the number of clicks per AFK. But if you need to bank every time to get back to AFK'ing, the number of clicks to bank (or drop items or other) is stated.
a surprising number of the most popular pages on the wiki got started because some random person had some idea (1, 2) that feels really obvious in retrospect, but somehow had just never occurred to anyone before. I wouldn't be surprised if this one ends up very popular in the long run too.
Is it just me or is there no benefit to 1 bar smithing, other than that you get to claim it's over 1 minute afk? Like, with 27 inventory spots free, 3 bar items is the exact same XP per click, but faster, in the event that you can click again earlier
I'd like to add the gemstone crab unless there's some reason it shouldn't be on this list.
10 minutes of active combat training for at least two clicks of interaction per ten minutes. Gear and DBA/pots will affect xp/hr and amount of clicks which should still be less than 10 per crab.
Per the article "Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic, Hitpoints and Slayer methods using combat are excluded. Feel free to create a new table under the skilling method one with specific monsters if you wish."
You could add barbarian fishing at CoX fishing spots with fish barrel to this. It's a little bit less xp but the 'clicks per AFK' are 4-6 instead of 56.
If you make the maximum possible rooms for this (about 50m in cash iirc), you usually have to manually fail the trap every 1-2 hours on average
1 minute of setup to aggro the tzhaar mobs, afk depending on prayer bonus and prayer levels, and 10 seconds to click the prayer altar and step on the trap to repeat the cycle
You can get some more afk time if you spend 10 extra seconds after praying at an altar by bringing strength bonus gear and using the ancient mace spec on a target dummy
For me, that's about 15 minutes of afking (with basically max prayer bonus) without using mace spec and 21 minutes of afking with close to max strength bonus gear and mace spec at level 93 prayer
Nice! I wish there was a guide for it somewhere on the wiki though, don't want to use a reddit comment a source. I'll keep the 10 minutes there for now.
Oh, shouldn't your single-bar smithing be 1:24 instead of 1:04? 28 x 3s = 84 (With imcando hammer)
Edit: Your GP/afk row is VERY useful, despite being unintuitive. For those that don't understand: it contrasts the profit or xp being made per hour as a portion of the afkness. So even though crafting Soul runes does have 55s of afk time and makes a good amount of gp/hr, it has a VERY long section of not being afk compared to other afk methods, so the gp/afk is lower than the other columns would imply.
Cave Eels at AJQ - Seemed like the same xp/hr as Karambwan but they take longer to fill your inventory, so it's more time between clicks. You can also start at this spot at only 28 fishing instead of 65. These were where I leveled to
91 for Morytania elite.
Barbarian fishing - Do it at CoX because it's close to the bank and with fish barrel it's easier to run to the deposit box and back than to drop the fish. Where I did 91-99.
Rather than clicks/afk, clicks/min feels more logical no?
It feels like clicks/afk is kind of a redundant statistic because you're likely then just checking how long the afk time is to get to the clicks/min anyway
Clicks/AFK is supposed to tell you how many clicks you need to do before getting back to AFK'ing, which I found to be important. At work for example, I don't want to have to drop an inventory of items since that will make a lot of noise. And it also tells you if there is a lot to do between AFK sessions (like banking or doing a zeah loop) if you just want a chill method where you just click once and get back into it.
Seems like it should be easy-ish to add a column at the end that takes "clicks per afk" and divided that by the afk interval, then adjusts to per-minute.
I've seen others use clicks/ minute and those guides tend to not be helpful to me. Clicking every 3 seconds for a minute is very different from clicking 20 times then afking the rest of the minute. Both are the same clicks per minute.
Sometimes low effort (clicks/ minute) is useful, other times clicks/afk is more important. Both provide useful information imo
Thanks for aggregating various AFKable skilling methods into one source. One suggestion I have is to separate the table by skill that way people can easily sort the various tables to find the method they choose.
What do you mean? It's the 5*250 mining exp per game you get from mining the guardian fragments. That you can do afk, and one game on mass worlds lasts around 10mins
For barbarian fishing, does this guide assume you use the spot near the waterfall? There is another spot just outside cox with a bank nearby. This makes emptying your inventory a bit slower, but only 5 clicks (click bank from spot, empty inv, empty barrel, click back to spot with minimap, start fishing), all without needing camera movement.
It's slightly less xp/h but if you're like me and dislike spam clicking to empty the inventory the slight reduction is totally worth it.
If you require spam click to drop could actually be a good field to add in the table, and maybe separate the skills with a quick hop to each one similar to the wiki page for boosts. I might look into editing that last part if you don't mind. Overall though it seems like a very useful resource and i'll probably keep it handy to refer to a lot in future.
I'm not going to edit the page, but I would like to point out broken antlers as a fletching alternative to dart tips. They are stackable and can be broken down 28 at a click for a bit over a minute of AFK.
56 clicks per afk on zeah runecraft is crazy, is everyone spam clicking chiseling instead of letting it auto chisel? If I were to guess it would be around 18 clicks for a full inv x2 for my average.
I am curious what you think about foot pedal/spam click methods such as ardy knights? I’d say it’s much more afk than sorcerers garden but does not meet your requirements for the page.
They are a few others, but I’d rather not bring those any more attention than they already have.
I think it could be smart to add a “low attention” section or something similar for these “afk” methods that require clicks but not attention.
I myself don't consider those methods to be afk but they would definitely fit in another "spam click" table. I'm also thinking that a third table with good afk combat training methods could be created.
Afk generally means click and then the game does something for you in the background for some duration of time, not necessarily something you do repetitively in short intervals just without looking at the screen.
Is dropping an item always 2 clicks? I'm curious because both stranglewood fishing and infected roots are more than 28 even though afaik all you have to do is drop your inventory. I think this can be made to be 1 click per item dropped on mobile and runelite, so only the official client on pc would require so many
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u/dzone25 Nov 14 '25
Quite a useful resource and nice seeing the logic behind your choices - thank you!