Yew logs
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| Also known as? | Yews |
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| Members only? | No |
| Quest item? | No |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 94 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 64 coins |
| Destroy | Burn or drop |
| Store price | 63 coins |
| Exchange price | 445 coins update |
| GE Database | Look up price |
| Examine | Logs cut from a yew tree. |
| Weight | 2 kg |
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Yew logs are logs obtained from cutting yew trees, which requires at least level 60 Woodcutting for players to cut. They give 175 experience when cut with a regular hatchet, 350 experience when cut with a Sacred clay hatchet, and 385 when cut with a Volatile clay hatchet. Players can burn these logs with the Firemaking skill, and they give 202.5 experience when burned. Members can also use these logs for Fletching. They are the best type of logs available to free players as they are a good way to make money. One full inventory of Yew logs gives exactly 4900 Woodcutting experience (9,800 with sacred clay hatchet. 10,780 with volatile clay hatchet). Yew tree locations are relatively few and scattered and some also tend to be crowded in free-to-play worlds. However, in members' worlds there is a much better chance to find an unpopulated location.
Yew logs can also be used to travel to Castle Wars on the Balloon Transport System.
Yew trees were also popular targets of macroing programs due to the large profit their logs attract when offered for sale. These macros could be commonly found being used in F2P worlds, especially south of Falador, north of the Varrock Castle, the forest between Lumbridge and Draynor Village, and south of Melzar's Maze.
[edit] Yew logs and the economy
Yew logs are in high demand due to players wanting to reach 99 Fletching. Thanks to Jagex's mass ban on macros, a large gap has been left in the supply chain. Thus, yew logs have begun increasing in price, as the demand frequently surpasses the supply on the Grand Exchange. The value of yew logs is mainly driven by the high alchemy value of Yew longbows (768 coins), which will pay almost completely for the yew logs and the nature runes needed to alchemy them, assuming you supply your own bowstrings.
With the advent of the Grand Exchange, trading Yew logs became easier, but much more competitive. Yew logs began to rise in price as buyers offered higher than their median fair market value on the Grand Exchange. This rapid climb led to the Grand Exchange price adjustment, which attempted to quell the price of them.
When the Trade and Drop update occurred on 10 December 2007, yew-cutting bots were nearly eliminated from the game. This caused the price of yew logs to drastically rise in the days immediately following. However, when many people began selling at the lowest possible price, the yew log market crashed, causing a sudden price drop of more than 100 coins. Later, yew log prices began to rise again, eventually reaching an all-time high of 520 coins each in July 2009. The yew log price now remains steady at around 440-470 coins, however, their prices are still extremely volatile.
[edit] Trivia
- Yew logs reached its all-time high peak of 500 GP on 18 November, 2009, and shortly dropped to 450~460 GP the subsequent day after.
| Regular logs |
Logs • Achey • Oak • Willow • Teak • Maple • Mahogany • Arctic pine • Eucalyptus • Yew • Magic |
| Cursed logs | |
| Pyre logs |
Pyre logs • Oak pyre • Willow pyre • Teak pyre • Maple pyre • Mahogany pyre • Arctic pyre • Eucalyptus pyre • Yew pyre • Magic pyre |
| Other logs |
Dream logs • Split logs • Windswept logs • Blue logs • Green logs • Purple logs • Red logs • White logs • Special teak log • Special mahogany log |
