Fishing & Cooking F2P GUIDE
1-30 Evil Bob fishing random events
1-5 Shrimp
5-20 Sardines & herring
20-99 Trout & Salmon
40-99 Lobsters
50-99 Swordfish
7-99 BIM Fishing
Method #1: 3t fish 3.5t cook (EHP)
42,500 XP/HR
57,000 XP/HR
Description:
3 tick fish using eating, and then spawn snow once you’re around 4 or 5 fish left. Then, you want to pick up snow 7 times and spawn snow again on your 8th fishing roll. After that you want to pick up snow once and eat once. Snow should spawn again, and repeat the process until you’re out of inventory space.
Afterwards you want to cook on the fire, but you recook every 2 fish. This is because your 2nd fish will always be a 3 tick as apposed to 4 tick.
Example:
Method #2: Cook+Eat Fishing, Erie Fishing
85,000 XP/HR
114,000 XP/HR
2,700 XP/HR
1,600 XP/HR
Description:
This method involves lighting a fire within 1 tile of a fishing spot and using cooked fish to start a 3t cycle. Raw fish are cooked in the same 3t cycle. Trout+salmon success rates never reach 100%, so when the player does not catch a fish they must use leather crafting to start a 4t cycle. This method is the most efficient method for Cooking on all f2p account types. Even for regs it saves around 250 hours, or even as much as 300 hours if you use alts to light fires, over doing wines and only doing snow+leather fishing.
The alt fire rate is approx +3k fishing +4k cooking per hour, but you don’t get any wc + fm xp of course. You’d lose out on 4.8m fm xp and 2.8m wc xp (~44 reg ehp, ~57 iron ehp), so there isn’t a huge total difference.
More info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p5xclvOtEJh0PKL7C5jb30tU8-GMkDzday4laH0l0EI/edit
Example:
Method #3: Snow+Leather 3.06t Fishing
95,000 XP/HR
Description:
Snow from a snowglobe is used in combination with leather crafting to create near-perfect 3t fishing. Alternate between spawning snow on the 6th attempt and the 7th attempt. Every other snow cycle you will need to do one 4t with leather crafting. This means one 4t every 17 fish.
Example:
Method #4: 3t Fish 2t Cook
58,000 XP/HR
78,000 XP/HR
Description:
Drop all but one of your raw fish while standing at the fire in Barbarian Village. Click the fire, then as soon as the cooking animation starts, pick up a fish. When your character stands back up, click the fire again. Repeat until you’ve cooked all your fish.
Fishing works the same as always. See the description under “3t fish 3.5t cook” for more info on how to most effectively 3t fish using snow.
Example: