runescape finding potato guide and map
Potatoes can be picked from fields across RuneScape. Members with level 1 farming can grow them from seed. They take 40 minutes to grow, grant 8 experience for planting and 9 experience for harvesting. Up to 10 potatoes can be stored in a sack.
The farm to the north-east of the east chicken farm in Lumbridge contains many potatoes that can be picked. There is also a potato field northwest of the western chicken farm in Lumbridge and one north of East Ardougne, across the road from the Farming shop. Frenita in Yanille sells them for 16gp. Additionally, players with 43 Construction may build a Teak larder in their kitchen to get a never ending supply of potatoes. Players can also purchase potatoes at the Farming shops after another player has sold there, but this is rare since those shops cycle their player stocks rather quickly. Note that since the Grand Exchange update, the Farming shops sell potatoes at GE prices (when they have potatoes) but will pay players only a starting payment of 11 coins for a potato, assuming the store has no potatoes in inventory – the payment per potato goes down gradually as the inventory increases.
Consumed raw, they heal only 1 hitpoint. However, members can cook them and get 15 cooking XP per potato and then put various toppings on the resulting baked potato to make it heal much more. Potatoes cannot be cooked on an open fire, the result is always a burned potato. All players can also use the potato as an ingredient in stew.
Money Making Guide
Making money off potatoes is something anyone can do, regardless of your skill experience or combat level.
Starting off Draynor Village, follow the road north until you get to a crossroads (the one with the lone Highwayman). Here you take the road east, towards Lumbridge. After some time you will encounter a potato field. Open the gate and pick 28 potatoes, then return it to the Draynor Village Bank.
An empty inventory will allow you to carry 28 potatoes and each potato is worth around 96 coins. When you get the hang of it, one trip back and forth between the potato field takes slightly less than 150 seconds, or 2 and a half minutes; assuming a little bit of slacking, let’s say it takes exactly 150 seconds.
This will give us a gold rate of: (3600x28x96)/150 = 64.512 coins/hour.
For comparison, an experienced level 68 miner (with a Rune pickaxe), will in the same time harvest around 500 iron ore (~50.000 gold/hour) or 140 gold ore (~70.000 gold/hour).
The pro of this money making strategy is that it can be done ANYONE, from a level 3 rookie with no experience whatsoever to a high-level veteran. Obviously, this can also be seen as a weakness; you don’t get any experience picking potatoes! Regardless, you will find yourself quickly making a lot of cash that can be spent on whatever you like best.
