Gleason's Gielinor Guide

This guide outlines the best methods and alternative options for training the Crafting skill in free-to-play.

Quests that reward Crafting experience

Sheep Shearer: 150 Crafting experience
Goblin Diplomacy: 200 Crafting experience
Misthalin Mystery: 600 Crafting experience

Completing all of these quests will provide enough experience to level up Crafting from level 1 to level 8.

Potter's wheel, spinning wheel and furnace locations

Barbarian Village has a potter's wheel medium distance to closest bank (West Varrock bank). No clay rocks or water source nearby.

Varrock south-west mine to Varrock west bank is a good place to mine clay.
Waterpump (Falador) to Falador west bank is the closest water source to a bank. Water fountain in centre of Varrock square to Varrock west bank is also a good water source close to a bank.

Lumbridge bank to the spinning wheel downstairs is a good combination for a bank plus spinning wheel.

Edgeville has the furnace closest to a bank for crafting silver or gold. Al Kharid bank to a furnace is a decent location for a relatively short distance between bank and furnace, for crafting silver and gold.

Upon reaching Crafting Level 40, the Crafting Guild has no bank nearby, but contains clay rocks, a water source , a potter's wheel, and a pottery kiln. The crafting guild also has two spinning wheels. A flock of wool-producing sheep can be found just a short walk north of the guild.

Ultimate Ironman

At level 23 Crafting and with 20 Mining and Smithing, ultimate ironmen can mine silver ore at the Al Karid Mine, teleport to the Lumbridge cow field using the Cowbell Amulet and then craft tiaras at the Lumbridge furnace. Players can then sell tiaras to the Lumbridge General store for a modest profit, and walk back to the mine. This method can yield 1409 exp per run with 27 open inventory slots.

Until level 40, ultimate ironmen can mine clay in West Varrock mine, then walk to the water fountain and fill up buckets of water to turn clay into soft clay. Then return to Barbarian Village wheel and kiln, then boat back down to Champions' Guild/West Varrock mine. Yields 650–720 experience per run, depending on the amount of open inventory spaces.

After level 40, use the Crafting Guild. Mining and smelting gold, crafting them into jewellery to sell at Grum's Gold Exchange. is a good way to make money while training Mining, Crafting and Smithing as an Ultimate Ironman.

Common training methods

In-Place Training Methods

These methods do not require any moving, and thus can be performed at the Grand Exchange or in a Bank (assuming you have already gathered the necessary resources).

Level required	Method	Experience	Materials	Material cost	Product value	Profit / loss	GP/XP
18	Crafting leather chaps	27	Soft leather x 1	219	9	−210	−7.78
28	Crafting hardleather bodies	35	Hard leather x 1	182	8	−174	−4.97
20	Cutting sapphires	50	Uncut sapphire x 1	206	172	−34	−0.68
27	Cutting emeralds	67.5	Uncut emerald x 1	416	313	−103	−1.53
34	Cutting rubies	85	Uncut ruby x 1	1,011	724	−287	−3.38
43	Cutting diamonds	107.5	Uncut diamond x 1	2,455	1,580	−875	−8.14

Commuter Training Methods

These methods require the player to move from place to place. The most common of which is moving back and forth between bank and a furnace. For the purposes of crafting jewellery, Edgeville furnace is the closest furnace to a bank.

Level required	Method	Experience	Materials	Material cost	Product value	Profit / loss	GP/XP
8	Making bowls	33	Soft clay x 1	122	20	−102	−3.09
8	Smelting unstrung gold amulets	30	Gold bar x 1	67	140	73	2.43
23	Smelting tiaras	52.5	Silver bar x 1	139	90	−49	−0.93
50	Crafting Ruby Amulets	85	Gold bar x 1 Ruby x 1	791	1,039	248	2.92
56	Crafting Diamond Necklaces	90	Gold bar x 1 Diamond x 1	1,647	1,917	270	3.00

Levels 1–99

Players are encouraged to change between training methods as necessary as the cost of certain methods fluctuates over time.

Armour

Level		XP per item	XP/Hour	Experience needed	Materials needed	Material costs	Product value	Profit / Loss
1–7	Leather gloves	13.8	18,900	650	48 × Leather	10,512	240	−10,272
7–9	Leather boots	16.2	22,750	319	20 × Leather	4,380	960	−3,420
9–11	Leather cowl	18.5	25,900	389	21 × Leather	4,599	105	−4,494
11–14	Leather vambraces	22	30,800	749	34 × Leather	7,446	272	−7,174
14–18	Leather body	25	35,000	1,416	57 × Leather	12,483	627	−11,856
18–28	Leather chaps	27	37,800	7,301	271 × Leather	59,349	2,439	−56,910
28–99	Hardleather body	35	91,000	13,023,607	372,103 × Hard leather	67,722,746	2,976,824	−64,745,922
Total				13,034,431	451 × Leather; 372,103 × Hard leather	67,821,296	2,981,458	−64,839,838

Pottery

This guide assumes all products are formed and fired.

Level		XP per item	Experience needed	Materials needed	Material costs	Product value	Profit / loss
1–7	Pot	12.6	650	52 × Soft clay	6,344	832	−5,512
7–8	Pie dish	25	151	6 × Soft clay	732	132	−600
8–99	Bowl	33	13,033,630	394,959 × Soft clay	48,184,998	7,899,180	−40,285,818
Total			13,034,431	395,017 × Soft clay	48,192,074	7,900,144	−40,291,930

Gold jewellery

Level		XP per item	XP/Hour	Experience needed	Materials needed	Material costs	Product value	Profit	Profit / item	GP/XP
5–6	Gold ring	15	20,250^[1]	124	8 × Gold bar	536	1,176	640	80.00	5.33
6–8	Gold necklace	20	27,000^[1]	289	15 × Gold bar	1,005	2,520	1,515	101.00	5.05
8–20	Gold amulet (u)	30	40,500^[1]	3,669	122 × Gold bar	8,241	17,220	8,979	73.00	2.43
20–22	Sapphire ring	40	42,000^[2]	1,154	29 × Gold bar; 29 × Sapphire	6,931	12,267	5,336	184.00	4.60
22–24	Sapphire necklace	55	57,750^[2]	1,404	26 × Gold bar; 26 × Sapphire	6,214	11,518	5,304	204.00	3.71
24–31	Sapphire amulet (u)	65	68,250^[2]	7,805	120 × Gold bar; 120 × Sapphire	28,680	47,160	18,480	154.00	2.37
31–40	Emerald amulet (u)	70	73,500^[2]	22,391	320 × Gold bar; 320 × Emerald	121,600	195,840	74,240	232.00	3.31
40–43	Ruby necklace	75	78,750^[2]	13,115	175 × Gold bar; 175 × Ruby	138,425	174,300	35,875	205.00	2.73
43–56	Diamond ring	85	89,250^[2]	184,040	1,573 × Gold bar; 1,573 × Diamond	2,590,731	2,939,937	349,206	222.00	2.61
56–70	Diamond necklace	90	94,500^[2]	553,587	6,151 × Gold bar; 6,151 × Diamond	10,130,697	11,791,467	1,660,770	270.00	3.00
70–99	Diamond amulet (u)	100	105,000^[2]	12,296,804	122,968 × Gold bar; 122,968 × Diamond	202,528,296	229,704,224	27,175,928	221.00	2.21
Total				13,034,431	131,506 × Gold bar, 175 × Sapphire, 320 × Emerald, 175 × Ruby, 129,719 × Diamond	214,023,882	243,078,784	29,054,902	220.94	2.23

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 At 1,350 items per hour
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 At 1,050 items per hour

Silver jewellery

Level		XP per item	Experience needed	Materials needed	Material costs	Product value	Profit / loss	Profit / item
16–23	Unstrung symbol	50	3,545	71 × Silver bar	9,869	4,828	−5,041	−71.00
23–99	Tiara	52.5	13,028,140	248,155 × Silver bar	34,493,545	22,333,950	−12,159,595	−49.00
Total			13,034,431	248,226 × Silver bar	34,503,414	22,338,778	−12,164,636	−49.01

Gems

Level		XP per item	XP/Hour	Experience needed	Materials needed	Material costs	Product value	Profit / loss	Profit / loss / item	GP/XP
20–27	Sapphire	50	145,000	5,260	105 × Uncut sapphire	21,630	18,060	−3,570	−34	−0.68
27–34	Emerald	67.5	175,000	10,494	155 × Uncut emerald	64,480	48,515	−15,965	−103	−1.53
34–43	Ruby	85	230,000	30,115	354 × Uncut ruby	357,894	256,296	−101,598	−287	−3.38
43–99	Diamond	107.5	290,000	12,984,092	120,783 × Uncut diamond	296,522,265	190,837,140	−105,685,125	−875	−8.14
Total				13,034,431	See above	296,966,269	191,160,011	−105,806,258

Players have been observed cutting gems with the help of banknotes to make training more efficient. It requires the player to convert non-stackable uncut gems into notes from a bank. Then use the noted uncut gems on the bank/teller to receive gems for cutting; cut the resulting un-noted uncut gems with a chisel. Deposit cut gems into a deposit box; un-note more uncut gems from the noted uncut gems stack in inventory via bank/teller; repeating this process until the desired level is reached. Corsair Cove is a great place for this method because the bank and deposit box are 2 ticks away from each other, reducing time spent walking and manually depositing/withdrawing items to and from the bank. This method actually helps to offset the loss of potential experience per hour by cutting less expensive gems due to all the entities required for cutting being in such close proximity.

Miscellaneous

For the purposes of crafting jewellery, Edgeville furnace is the closest furnace to a bank.

Stringing Amulets

Combining a ball of wool with one of many types of unstrung amulets. This action can be performed anywhere, requires no skills or equipment, and is very fast (only takes two ticks). Each amulet strung awards 4 crafting experience, regardless of what is being strung. When near a bank, it is possible to string 2500 amulets per hour, awarding 10,000 XP. Also, the Grand Exchange can make this a profitable endeavor:

Stringing Amulets Profitability
Inputs	Output	Input Cost	Output Cost	Profit Per	GP/Hour
Unstrung symbol Ball of wool	Unblessed symbol	130	75	−55	−137,500
Gold amulet (u) Ball of wool	Gold amulet	202	136	−66	−165,000
Sapphire amulet (u) Ball of wool	Sapphire amulet	455	414	−41	−102,500
Emerald amulet (u) Ball of wool	Emerald amulet	674	680	6	15,000
Ruby amulet (u) Ball of wool	Ruby amulet	1,101	1,102	1	2,500
Diamond amulet (u) Ball of wool	Diamond amulet	1,930	2,035	105	262,500

Free-to-play Crafting training