As the title states, simply a thread to track my progress on my no trades account–largely for my own archival purposes and motivation. 
10-Feb-2025 Progress Report
Stats and Quests
Bank
Sans my trusty adamant pickaxe, red cape, and blue wizard hat. Gotta keep those on me at all times for bank space reasons…
Goals (in no particular order)
- Minimum 40 in all stats
- Access to the crafting guild
- Progress towards mining guild access
- 33 magic to complete Dragon Slayer
- Rune Pickaxe
- Rune Sword
Thoughts
Turns out it’s a lot harder to self sustain playing like it was 21 years ago! I’m having a blast though and have no intentions of stopping anytime soon.
The primary focus for me overall during the first few weeks is just exploring some nice routes for multi skilling to make the most of the distance I need to cover for some methods, as well as finding out of the way spots I can incorporate to have less competition for resources.
My main endeavour at the current moment is crafting, to get access to some less contested silver spots–and to do so I’m giving pottery a try.
The current route is to run down to the west varrock mine, grab the 3 silver rocks there, fill up on clay, grab 3 more silver rocks on the way out, and head to the cook’s guild, making my soft clay one-by-one, then spinning, firing, rinsing, and repeating. Honestly I should add grabbing some coal from barb to the mix… It’ll add up over time!
And when I get tired of that, I do a little runecrafting route in Falador:
Craft some Airs, kill some cows, bank, repeat. Runecraft, prayer, melee, and stored crafting XP all in one!
Who knows what the XP per hour of it all is or if its even any kind of “efficient”, but I’m having a blast trying out things I would never have before
TL;DR: Grinding towards crafting & mining guild, testing weird skilling routes, and having a blast playing like it’s 2004 again. No ragrets!
That being said, I have dipped my toe into some of the more… sweaty methods, and boy are they fun, just not all the time non-stop! Here’s an example of some fun fly fishing strats to net a good amount of fishing and cooking xp at the same time. Haven’t fully mastered it yet, but all in due time 
Signing off from mothership Gielinor, see you next time!
Which leads me to say I won’t be posting these daily as that would be a bit too spammy, I just felt like I made enough progress today with finishing all F2P quests that it was worth posting!
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! In the meantime though, I’ve been working on runecrafting Minds and Airs, since im going to need quite a few to unlock High Alch to properly cash in my steel.