Yew logs

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Yew logs

Also known as?	Yews
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	450 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 players must have level 60 Woodcutting 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 logs available to free players. One full inventory 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 they also tend to be crowded in free-to-play worlds. However, in memberss 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 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 people wanting to reach 99 Fletching. Due 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 450-470 coins.

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