With Gillianor Games Season 5 coming out this November, it’s time to stack up some serious OSRS gold to help fund one of the biggest prize pools the competition has ever seen. To make that happen, I reached out to three players from the upcoming season to uncover their most unusual moneymakers in Old School RuneScape. Their methods — plus a few of my own experiments — have led to some surprisingly profitable results. Let’s dive into what might be some of the strangest and most lucrative ways to make money in OSRS.
1. Djibouti’s Trading Stick Exploit — 3.5M GP per Hour
Our first tip comes from Josh’s In Gaming, who recommended checking out Djibouti’s shop in Tai Bwo Wannai. The shop’s twist? It doesn’t use coins — every transaction runs on trading sticks, the local currency of Karamja.
Normally, trading sticks sell for around 10 GP each on the Grand Exchange, a price that’s been stable for nearly a decade. This makes Djibouti’s store a goldmine if you pick the right items.
Enter the humble jade. Jades cost roughly 290 GP on the GE, but Djibouti buys them for 90 trading sticks, or 120 if you’re wearing Karamja gloves. At 10 GP per stick, that means each jade effectively sells for 1,200 GP — nearly 10x profit per item.
By buying around 6,000 jades per hour and selling them across worlds, you can turn a 1.93 million GP investment into 5.46 million GP, for a net profit of 3.5 million GP per hour.
The only catch? Trading sticks take time to sell due to their low daily trade volume. Still, with patience, this quirky “hop and shop” method is one of the most consistent high-profit tricks in the game.
2. Soul Rune Shop Flipping — 4.5M GP per Hour
Next up, C Engineer recommended a shop-based method that capitalizes on the recent soul rune price surge. Ever since Aether runes were added to OSRS, the price of soul runes has skyrocketed from 180 GP to over 410 GP each — a 130% increase.
Two rune shops stand out for profit:
- Magic Guild Store in Yanille
- Baba Yaga’s Magic Shop on Lunar Isle
Both sell soul runes starting at 300 GP each, with a minimal 0.1% price increase per purchase. Even after buying out the shop’s 250 rune stock, the price only rises to 374 GP — far below the 410+ GP GE value.
In just an hour of world-hopping, you can buy over 67,000 soul runes, spending 22.8M GP and selling them for 27.36M GP, netting an incredible 4.5M GP/hour. It’s one of the top three unusual money makers in OSRS right now — simple, fast, and surprisingly reliable.
3. Looting Gemstone Crab Ammo — 400K GP per Hour
SkillSpecs returned with another creative suggestion: looting ammo dropped by AFK players at the Gemstone Crab boss. Because players often ignore bolts, darts, and arrows, their accumulators don’t recover; you can make a steady profit simply by picking up what’s left behind.
During a one-hour test, I gathered rune knives, amethyst darts, and rune arrows, earning about 400K GP/hour — all by collecting other players’ “trash.” It’s low-effort, environmentally friendly (in RuneScape terms), and a fun passive way to make money while AFKing or chatting with friends.
4. Apple Mush Mayhem — 1M GP per Hour
One of the weirdest methods I’ve ever tried involves crafting Apple Mush — a byproduct of cider brewing. Using four cooking apples and a bucket at an apple press, you can create apple mush in a process that involves one of the longest animations in the game (a full 12 seconds per batch!).
While it seems like a novelty, Apple Mush sells for shockingly high prices on the Grand Exchange — up to 6,900 GP each. Producing about 150 buckets per hour, you can earn roughly 1M GP/hour.
It’s not a consistent or scalable method, but it’s easily one of the most amusing — and rarest — moneymakers out there.
5. Fire Remains Farming via Temple Trekking — 1.1M GP per Hour
Our final method comes from Temple Trekking, an activity many players overlook. By escorting Smitty Riich from Mort’ton to Paterdomus and selecting Route 3, you’ll always encounter five Fire Shades that drop Fire Remains, each worth over 6,000 GP.
By bursting them efficiently with magic and repeating the encounter, you can earn around 1.1M GP/hour in profits. It’s straightforward, repeatable, and offers a fresh twist on one of OSRS’s older pieces of content.
Final Thoughts: Unusual but Profitable
From shop exploits to social scavenging, these unusual methods prove that OSRS still has room for creativity — and serious profit — in 2025.
As we count down to Gillianor Games Season 5, every GP helps — and who knows? Maybe one of these weird, overlooked methods will fund the next big prize pool.
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