RuneScape Player Owned Farm Moneymaking: Collector

RuneScape players can unlock the collector farmhand for 2,500 beans. This farmhand will hold up to 30 unchecked baby animals bred in the breeding pen, and uses 10 beans per animal collected.

The input for this farmhand will be 10 beans per unchecked. The output will be whatever animals are grown in the remaining two slots of the breeding pen, and whatever value the unchecked animals are. Since animals maintain their current breeding times, it is possible for a lower animal to be more profitable than a higher animal, because it breeds faster.

Average breed times (From RuneScape Wiki): This is the average number of breed ticks needed to average one baby, multiplied by the number of minutes between each tick. Traits like Studly will increase percentage of breeding, which in turn will lower these averages. Nonetheless, 24 hours, divided by the times below, indicate the yield per day.
Rabbit:           ~12 minutes    ~120/day (will need to be emptied 4x)
Chicken:        ~2 hours          ~12/day
Chinchompa: ~4.75 hours     ~5/day
Sheep:            ~4 hours          ~6/day
Spider:           ~6.5 hours       ~3.7/day
Zygomite:    ~13.33 hours     ~1.8/day
Cow:            ~8 hours            ~3/day
Yak:           ~12.5 hours         ~1.92/day
Dragon:      ~22.5 hours        ~1.07/day

Due to fluctuating grand exchange values, the profit of any given animal, and any given breed of animal, varies. Some animals are more in demand than others; green dragons for example, versus black dragons, have completely different spawn areas. Gloomshroom zygomites, contrasted with daemoncap zygomites, are far easier to find as they can be found in mushroom patches whereas daemoncap ones aren't. Zygomites, being a high level medium pen animal, may have higher demand than yaks, a medium level high pen animal. Therefore, this metric only gives you a tool with which to work with.

To gage the input costs, multiply the third column, babies per day, by 10, to determine how many beans you will need. With the exception of rabbits, a single chinchompa sold daily is more tan sufficient to supply the beans needed.

In short, the collector adds variance to how players make money off their farm. While it ties up a pen and reduces the number of checked animals bred and grown, it allows instead for animals to be sold on the grand exchange, as opposed to having to sell to another player directly.


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