Longest AFK Methods in 2026 (OSRS)
- Theoatrix
- 30 minutes ago
- 7 min read
What's going on guys, my name's Theoatrix and today I'm going through the longest AFK methods in 2026 for Old School Runescape.
Guide Outline
If you would prefer to watch a video-version of this guide, I have linked that below. Otherwise, continue scrolling to read the written-version of this guide.
Introduction
Jagex recently increased the AFK limit to up to 30 minutes at a time, meaning any of the methods that relied on the logout timer have improved.
And Jagex has slowly added more 30 minute AFK methods and I'll show all of those in this video, with new ones like infernal roots, Stranglewood fishing, and more.
In this video, I'm going from the most AFK to least, but every method in this video will let you safely go away from your computer for a few minutes at least.
30 Minute Methods
So starting off, lets talk about the 30 minute AFK methods, and currently there are 4 of them.
Salvaging
With sailing, you can set up 2 crewmates to salvage on your ship, and with a big enough cargo hold its possible to afk for 30 minutes at a time. While the XP rates are pretty low, it is the most relaxed and AFK way to train your sailing, maxing out at nearly 40k XP per hour.
Jagex did nerf this method by around 30 percent a few weeks after sailings release, although its still decent considering you can now afk for 30 minutes at a time.
Infected Roots
With the release of the new delve boss, doom, Jagex introduced a 30 minute afk woodcutting method, infected roots. While chopping these roots, you get demon tears, and these are used to upgrade the Avernic treads, to charge the Eye of Ayak, or to create the confliction gauntlets, so they are quite useful.
Normally, you can AFK at infected roots for around 20 minutes at a time, but if you use an infernal axe and a log basket, you can easily AFK for 30 minutes, for the full logout timer. With that, you can expect to get only 9k woodcutting XP per hour, which is obviously quite slow, and much better AFK methods exist for woodcutting like redwood and rosewood trees.
But, the one upside to infected roots is the potential profit you can make; you make around 200k an hour if you sell the demon tears, and if you were to go just from 98 to 99 woodcutting here, you'd profit 27 mil.
Stranglewood Fishing
With Varlamore part 3, we received a 30 minute AFK fishing method known as Stranglewood fishing. When you unlock this method, you can AFK for up to 30 minutes at a time, but with a higher fishing level your inventory fills after about 20 minutes.
Overall, you get 750 fishing XP per hour here, which is horrendous, BUT you can get yourself a 1 in 660 drop of the loop half of moon key piece, or there's even a 1 in 500 thousand chance of getting a chromium ingot drop, which is one of, if not , the most valuable thing you can obtain from a fishing spot.
Blast Furnace Pump
And the final 30 minute AFK method is using the blast furnace pump, and this one is commonly used to train pures, where it gives strength XP without any hit points experience.
On world 302, there's always someone shovelling coal to keep this method alive, which means with just 1 click you can AFK for 30 minutes to gain 6k strength XP. Overall, that's 12k strength XP per hour, which isn't great but its the best method that doesn't give hit points XP.
5-10 Min AFK Methods
Duke Mining
Now a method that used to have a super long AFK interval was Duke mining, where mining the salt deposits could let you AFK until you logged out.
The new AFK time here is 5 minutes, and overall you get about 10k mining XP per hour. So that's 12 clicks an hour for 10k mining XP, which actually isn't that bad, but there are better methods out there.
Blast Furnace Pedals
Now, within the blast furnace, there's another method where its possible to AFK for 5 minutes at a time, and that is using the pedals for agility XP.
Pedalling lowers your run energy, so with an extended stamina potion, and a ring of endurance, the maximum time you can AFK for is 5 minutes and 15 seconds. Overall, this gives 6k agility XP per hour, which is very slow, and I really wouldn't recommend doing that for XP.
POH Agility
But there's actually an even more AFK agility training method out there, and that is AFK player owned house agility.
This is where you maintain the aggression of a Tzhaar ranger in your house’s dungeon, and you constantly run through floor traps automatically, gaining agility XP. This method lets you AFK for 5 to 10 minutes at a time but only if you have a low agility level. At higher levels, you'll make it all the way through the obstacles, and you don't get sent back to the start, which stops the method from working.
Overall, you can get 1k to 10k agility XP per hour doing this, which is pretty slow, and I really wouldn't recommend this method above level 50.
AFK Combat
So far in this video I've spoken mostly about skilling methods. But combat is arguably the most AFK activity in the game, mainly because resetting the AFK is easier. See, at places like splashing, bandits and the nightmare zone, you literally just have to wiggle your mouse and you’ve reset the AFK.
Bandits
Bandits in particular are my favourite for melee combat training method, where you can log in and out freely, and you don't take much damage with justiciar or Guthans. I got 200mil defence XP at bandits, and I just had to wiggle my mouse every 20 minutes, and 20 minutes is the longest you can AFK any combat method, where your character automatically stops attacking after 20 minutes of no activity.
Nightmare Zone
Some players do prefer to go to the Nightmare Zone for AFK training, and I agree that the XP rates can be higher here due to powerups and overloads, except its slightly less AFK than bandits. If you go AFK for too long in the nightmare zone you end up outside and you have to re enter a dream. Whereas with bandits, if you log out, you can log in again and you're instantly back in combat.
Splashing
Splashing is probably THE most AFK combat method in the game. Resetting is literally just wiggling the mouse, and you don't need to watch your health, eat food, watch prayer, or anything like that. For the highest XP rates, you should aim to get a harmonized nightmare staff since it attacks 1 tick faster than the other staves.
Kraken Splashing
And to supercharge your splashing, you can splash on Kraken while its underwater, and this gives the full amount of magic experience for what you would have hit. This requires a Kraken slayer task to do, so you need 87 slayer, but in my opinion, splashing on Kraken is the best AFK magic training method in the game.
AFK Slayer Methods
Speaking of combat, the slayer skill has quite a few long AFK methods where there are 4 main ways to AFK your slayer.
Aggressive Task
The most AFK is fighting an aggressive task monster, where they stay aggressive for 10 minutes at a time, then you have to run out of view to reset the aggression.
Goading Potions
There’s also goading potions, mixed with prayer regeneration potions, and this allows you to AFK for 6 minutes at a time on any slayer task.
Cannoning
Or there's using your cannon, which can let you AFK for around 3 minutes but sometimes longer if you have combat achievements completed.
Multi-Combat
And lastly, probably the least AFK way to train slayer, but it's still AFK, is where you attack multiple monsters in a multi-combat area, then you let your character defeat them slowly while you AFK.
AFK Skilling Methods
In terms of the longest AFK times for viable skilling methods, shooting stars is one of the first things that comes to my mind.
Shooting Stars
Where you can AFK for 7 minutes per star tier, with a maximum of 9 tiers per star. Its possible to get around 30k mining XP per hour here at higher levels, but Jagex has introduced some new updates and changes that make some of the other AFK mining methods better than shooting stars. Like the introduction of calcified rocks is an AFK method with higher XP rates, and Jagex also altered the motherlode mine.
AFK Fishing
Now, fishing is usually a pretty AFK skill. But there's a few ways to make it even more AFK, and in particular I'm talking about using fishing spots that never move. This means you can just click them once, and your inventory will completely fill before you need to click again.
The most AFK no moving fishing spot is fishing for rainbow fish near Prifddinas. Here, you can AFK for up to 5 minutes, and sometimes even longer if you have a low fishing level. As a whole though, I wouldn't recommend training at rainbowfish, but it could be considered a bit of a money maker. At this same spot though, you can also fish for trout and salmon, and this is actually a great way to train fishing, with 2 minute AFK intervals, and decent XP rates. This fishing spot is slightly south of Prifddinas and you don't need to complete or even start song of the elves to use this spot, you just need to start regicide.
But, if you want more XP per click, while still getting decent XP rates, I would personally recommend fishing for cave eels. There's a spot near Dorgeshkaan that never moves, and since eels give more XP than trout and salmon, you'll get more XP per inventory. To fish here, you need to complete the Death to the Dorgeshuun quest.
And of course, fishing for karambwans with a fish barrel is another super AFK method, with 3 minute AFK intervals, particularly great for ironmen.
AFK Woodcutting
And when I think of the longest AFK methods, there's 1 more method that comes into mind, and that is woodcutting.
Both redwood and rosewood trees deplete after 4 and a half minutes of cutting, which is a very long afk time, and they both provide decent XP rates. Magic trees and the new ironwood trees are another excellent option, both with a 4 minute chop time.
When comparing rosewood trees to redwoods, they have similar chop rates and XP rates, and it is possible to bank the rosewood logs with your boat. Although, in the first place, you do need at least 79 sailing to be able to chop the new trees. You can plant the trees in a farming patch to chop them, but those trees have a 1 in 8 chance of being cut down instead of being on a 4 and a half minute timer.
Anyways, those were the longest AFK methods in 2026. If you learnt something today, be sure to leave a like, and I hope you enjoyed the guide. Thanks for reading.