OSRS Crafting Guide: From Basics To 99 (2024)

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One of the best things about Old School Runescape is that you can enjoy the game whichever way you choose. You can be a brave warrior slaying monsters and other players. You can even live life as a humble craftsman. If the simple yet productive life is the life for you, then you definitely want to check out this OSRS crafting guide.

Before we discuss the faster crafting methods and best training methods to train Crafting, you should first understand what this skill is for. Having a better idea of what Crafting is will help you fully grasp the essence of this skill and why it's one of the core skills to master in OSRS.

What Is OSRS Crafting?

Crafting is a skill in OSRS that lets you create all sorts of items. You can either use these items yourself or use them for trade. Because of the utility of most of the items you can craft in Runescape, Crafting has become one of the core skills that players can't live without. Unfortunately, mastering the skill takes some time too.

Once you reach level 40 in Crafting, you can head to the Crafting Guild northwest of Rimmington. This gives you access to an array of bonuses and benefits that will make Crafting even more useful on your end. You can open up a ton of opportunities for getting rich in OSRS with Crafting.

Crafting helps you create items that are useful for various purposes. Aside from making a profit, you can use Crafting to create gear that will help you out in combat.

Before we talk about how you can start to train Crafting, let's first talk about what you can actually create.

Is Crafting Profitable OSRS?

It is. However, you'll be walking a long and expensive journey before you get there. The goal is to reach 99 first. Since you're mostly going to be buying your materials for crafting, you'll have to spend a lot of money along the way.

Once you reach 99 however, you'll have a lot of earning capacity through your Crafting abilities.

Types of Crafting In Osrs

This part of the OSRS Crafting guide is dedicated to helping you understand exactly what it is that you can create in the game. Whether you're looking for a small profit or even making diamond amulets, this part of the guide has you covered.

Before anything else, while the Crafting skill is accessible to non-members, some items are going to require a membership before you can craft them.

Glass

Glass-making is a subcategory of crafting. To be able to handle glass, you'll need to get the following equipment and raw materials needed for this discipline.

1. Glassblowing Pipe - This is the most important tool you'll need for glass making. You can get it from various places in the game. The easiest would be in respawn points on Entrana and Hemenster. You can also get it in the stores in Dorgesh-kaan and the Piscatoris Fishing Colony.
   
2. Buckets of Sand - You can get this from various sand pits but we suggest looking for it on Yanille, Dorgesh-Kaan, Zanari, Prifddinas, and Rellekka. To get sand, you'll need an empty bucket.
3. Soda Ash - You can make this by burning seaweed, swamp weed, and even giant seaweed. You can burn these on a range or fire. The good thing is that you don't need any level with any skill to do this. You can get the raw materials from fishing with a big fishing net. Another quick source of it is two spawn points inside the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. Ideally, you want the giant seaweed as it gives you 6 soda ash.
4. Molten Ash - Once you have all these ingredients and equipment, use a bucket of sand, soda ash, and any furnace to create molten ash.

Aside from this method, you can also use the spell Superglass Make to turn the ingredients into molten glass. The downside of this is that the buckets will not be returned to your inventory. On the other hand, you can get 10 Crafting experience per each bucket of sand that you use. This will also result in around 1-10 more molten glass.

Tip: One of the most taxing parts of glass-making is getting buckets of sand. You can make this easier by first completing The Hand in the Sand quest. An NPC named Bert can deliver 84 buckets of sand to your bank once a day for free.

Spinning

Spinning refers to making raw materials like threads or hair and turning them into something more useful. For this, you'll need a spinning wheel. While there are lots of spinning wheels in OSRS, the favorite of many is the one below the bank in Lumbridge Castle.

Weaving

This is a similar crafting technique to Spinning. The difference is that instead of a spinning wheel, you'll be needing a loom to weave the raw materials together.

Pottery

Pottery lets you turn soft clay into a variety of items using a potter's wheel. Once you've made what you wanted, you'll then proceed to use a pottery oven. You can get soft clay simply by mining it. Once you have clay, you'll then need to use it with either a bucket of water or a jug of water.

Weaponry

Yes, you can create certain weapons through Crafting. Although the choices are pretty limited, these can still be pretty helpful when you want access to certain weapons and don't have the coins but you do have the materials needed.

For the arrow bolds, you'll need a furnace with a bolt mold to create it.

Armor

Just like with weapons, you can also make armor with crafting. There are lots of options when it comes to creating new armor through this skill. We're going to divide the armor per material needed.

Leather

Leather crafting will require two important items - a needle and a thread. The good news is that both items can be purchased from the Rimmington or Al Kharid Crafting shops. You'll also need some cowhide tanned to create regular leather. To create leather, you'll need to visit the Al Kharid Tanner.

Dragonhide

If you want better armor, then you need to start making dragon hide armor. The best way to farm them would be to kill dragons but this is slow and challenging. Unfortunately, you need to get a membership to have access to this item line.

Snakeskin

You can get snakeskin simply by taking snake hides to tanning stations. You can get hides from bush snakes, hoop snakes, and more. You'll need 15 coins to teach each his and you'll then need a needle and a thread.

Yak hide

To get yak hides, you'll first need to start the Fremennik Isles quest. You don't need to finish it though. Once started, you can kill yaks to get their hides. You can then turn the hides into armor pieces in the isle.

Snelms

If you head to Mort Myre, you can find snails that drop shells whenever they're killed. You can then use a chisel on these shells to create snelms. You can get pointed and rounded snelms while farming.

Crab

You can craft crab armor at the beginning segment of the quest, Recipe for Disaster. Specifically, you can start doing so after you're able to free Pirate Pete as part of the quest. You can get the materials from the giant crabs you can fight in the quest. You'll need a chisel on the items they drop.

Xerician robes

This is a special armor set that you can craft using Xerician fabric. These are acquired from Lizardmen as loot drops. You can also get them from Stone Chests.

Splitbark

This is another set of magic armor. It's crafted by crafting bark and fine cloth. Barks are acquired from chopping hollow trees. On the other hand, you can get fine cloth from a minigame called Shades of Mort'ton.

Jewelry

Jewelry is one of the most essential pieces of equipment you can make in OSRS. You can enchant these items with magical properties that will make your character even more powerful. Here's what you can make from jewelry crafting. To create jewelry, you'll need a lot of patience.

The process starts with mining gem rocks, which in itself, requires a few levels of mining.

Gems

You can cut gems using a chisel. Keep in mind that you can fail when cutting semi precious gems too. You'll receive a crushed gem if you fail which will then be useless. On the other hand, rarer gems don't fail when being cut.

Silver Jewelry

Silver jewelry can be created by using cut semi precious gems, combined with silver bars. You'll also need the mold of the jewelry to create it.

Gold jewelry

This is the same as silver jewelry with the exception that you're going to use gold bars.

OSRS: 1-99 Crafting Guide

OSRS Crafting Training Tips

Crafting is arguably one of the toughest skills to train in OSRS. Aside from being very time-consuming, it often requires a lot of coins too. To give you a little more boost when it comes to training, here are a few tips to consider.

1. Use Items That Give Temporary Boosts

There are a few items that will give your Crafting skill a temporary boost. Here's what you should get when training.

• Crafting Cape - This increases your Crafting by 1 level. Most importantly, however, it gives you unlimited teleports to the Crafting Guild.
• Poison Chalice - Can increase your Crafting by 1. It can also provide a few beneficial and harmful effects so be careful.
• Mushroom Pie - Gives you 4 bonus Crafting. Can also heal you by 8 hit points per bite.
• Spicy Stew - Gives you up to 5 Crafting depending on the type of stew you make.

2. Use The Grand Exchange

As tiring as it can be to train, Crafting training is also one of the most versatile to do. You can refer to the Grand Exchange and see which materials are currently in-demand and those that aren't. If leather is cheaper for example, shift to leather crafting temporarily so it's littered on the wallet.

3. Don't Do It One Go

Getting to level 99 in Crafting can be very exciting. Once you hit that cap, it's going to be easy to start making more coins in the game. As enticing as that sounds, don't rush it. Take a break every once in a while. Crafting constantly can be very tedious. You might grow sick and tired of it, and then give up if you try to rush the process.

4. Consider A Membership

While Crafting is a free skill, a lot of its contents are locked behind a membership. If you want to get the most out of your OSRS journey, getting a membership should definitely be up for consideration. It is, especially if you want to be a master Craftsman.

OSRS F2P Crafting Training Guide

Leveling your Crafting skill is honestly challenging if you're a F2P player. Still, if you want to save money and try one of the fastest crafting methods available, then we've got you covered.

Levels 1-99

There are a few ways to level up your Crafting. It's advised to adjust and change accordingly as you progress. With this guide, we're focusing on helping you reach level 99 through armor crafting, jewelry crafting, and armor crafting.

Before anything else, you should focus on doing these three quests first, to give you a bit of a boost.

1. Sheep Shearer - This is one of the initial quests that was made available in Runescape. All you need to do here is to help Farmer Fred shear his sheep. Speak to Fred near his farm house north of Lumbridge.
2. Goblin Diplomacy - To begin this quest, speak to General Wartface or General Bentnose in Goblin Village. The quest is pretty easy as you'll just need to help the goblin tribe settle their issues.
3. Misthalin Mystery - You can begin this quest by speaking to Abigaile or Hewey near the fishing spot on the southeast corner of Lumbridge Swamp.

Finishing these three quests will reward you with enough XP to get your Crafting to level 8. It's going to be a big boost before you train Crafting.

Armor Crafting

Leather Armour

If you're having trouble getting the raw materials for this method, you can get it from the grand exchange. Of course, it's going to be very expensive to get all of these. This isn't one of the most profitable methods out there but it's one of the easiest because the materials are easy to get.

Pottery

An alternative method would be to choose pottery to get to 99. It's going to feel tedious but it's also easy. Keep in mind that in the chart below, all products are already formed and fired.

Gold Jewelry

If you want a method that's more profitable but requires a lot more work, then you should consider this F2P OSRS crafting technique that focuses on gold jewelry only.

OSRS P2P Crafting Training Guide

If you want a reliable crafting boost, you're going to have to become a member of OSRS. You can basically get double the XP rate compared to F2P methods. Aside from making leveling significantly easier, you'll also have access to more items to craft. Some of them are more profitable too. Without further ado, here's the most optimized way to level up your Crafting as a P2P player.

Levels 1-20: Leather items

P2P leveling starts out similarly to how you would when it comes to F2P crafting. Again, if you want a quick boost to level 8, make sure to do the quests above.

Up until level 20, leather items are the best items to craft for leveling. Aside from being easy to find, the materials needed for this build are also a lot cheaper than others.

In total, this part of Crafting training will require 217 leather. That's around 32,700 coins.

Levels 20-62/77: Cutting gems

Level 20 onwards until level 77 can be a bit of a slog. Although you have a ton of options available, you should stick to one leveling method to be more concise. If you're going to choose one, you might as well go for cutting gems as it offers the next XP per hour. The only downside to this is that it can be very expensive considering how pricey dragonstones can be.

If you're having trouble, we recommend going up until level 60 or 66 and then shift towards battlestaves.

Levels 54-77/99: Battlestaves

Again, this is going to be a good alternative to getting to 77 or even 99 if cutting gems is too expensive for you. The downside is that you'll need a lot of early capital to get the initial items for this build. Once you do get through that challenge, getting to 99 is going to be a breeze.

Levels 63/77-99: Dragonhide bodies

Once you reach level 77, you can shift towards using dragonhide bodies to get more XP. Start with green dragonhide bodies at level 63. This offers a steady and optimized approach to level 99 in Crafting.

Quests That Give Crafting Experience

Aside from the three above, there are a lot of other quests that reward you with XP to Crafting. You can also net a handful of other useful rewards by doing these quests. These are the quests you should look for when leveling up your Crafting.

As you can see, most of these quest require membership skills to actually complete. The rewards for doing them are worth it though.

Become A Master Craftsman

Becoming a Craftsman in OSRS is lucrative but we're lying if we say that it doesn't take a lot of work. It's going to be one of the longest journeys you'll make in OSRS but at the end of the road is riches that even your bank can't handle.

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