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ARTISAN • F2P + MEMBERS

Crafting

Treat Crafting as an account-unlock skill: jewellery, battlestaves, glass, and hides all have a place.

QUICK WIN

Set milestone targets around jewellery, quest, and cape teleports rather than arbitrary round levels.

UNDERSTANDING CRAFTING

Learn the system before you optimise the loop.

Crafting is a artisan skill with several viable routes. The best method is not automatically the one with the largest experience-rate number: startup time, travel, real input prices, useful outputs, and the amount of attention you can sustain all belong in the decision.

This guide treats levels as unlocks rather than a single uninterrupted race to 99. Use the route below as a strong default, then switch when a quest, diary, equipment upgrade, or account goal makes another method more valuable to you.

Crafting is a family of production systems rather than one loop: leather, jewellery, glass, pottery, gems, battlestaves, and dragonhide all use different inputs.

The output often has a high-alch floor but limited GE demand. Processing profit must include sale tax, nature runes if alching, and fill time.

Temporary boosts can reach jewellery, master-clue, and quest requirements before the permanent level.

Bank layout and one-click quantities materially affect high-volume methods such as glassblowing and dragonhide bodies.

LEVEL-BY-LEVEL METHOD FINDER

Set your level. Get the methods that apply now.

This is the working core of the guide: source-backed training sections filtered by current level and account type, with full rates, quantities, requirements, setup notes, and method tables kept beside their revision.

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LEVEL 1–20 • Members

Levels 1–20: Leather items

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From level 1 to 20, craft the highest-level leather item available. Leather currently costs 181 each and all items only require one leather to craft. In order to craft any leather items, you need a needle and some thread. Since each thread is good for around 5 uses, to get to level 20 with this method, you will need around 50 thread.

This will require a total of 215 leather, for a total cost of 38,915. Every leather item is created in 3 ticks (1.8 seconds), so the total creation time for all 215 leather items is 645 ticks (387 seconds).

REQUIREMENTS & SETUP

From level 1 to 20, craft the highest-level leather item available. Leather currently costs 181 each and all items only require one leather to craft. In order to craft any leather items, you need a needle and some thread. Since each thread is good for around 5 uses, to get to level 20 with this method, you will need around 50 thread.
This will require a total of 215 leather, for a total cost of 38,915. Every leather item is created in 3 ticks (1.8 seconds), so the total creation time for all 215 leather items is 645 ticks (387 seconds).

Level	Leather item	XP	needed	Total cost
1–7	Gloves	13.8	48	8,688
7–9	Boots	16.2	19	3,439
9–11	Cowl	18.5	21	3,801
11–14	Vambraces	22	34	6,154
14–18	Body	25	57	10,317
18-20	Chaps	27	36	6,516
Total	215	38,915	—	—

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LEVEL 1–99 • Members

Levels 1–83/99: Molten glass

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Blowing molten glass with a glassblowing pipe offers very slow experience rates, but it requires little attention and a low amount of capital. Most low-level items are not viable due to high cost, but certain higher-level ones, such as unpowered orbs, may be very cheap depending on the prices. Consider making money through other means and training with faster methods, such as cutting low-level gems.

REQUIREMENTS & SETUP

Blowing molten glass with a glassblowing pipe offers very slow experience rates, but it requires little attention and a low amount of capital. Most low-level items are not viable due to high cost, but certain higher-level ones, such as unpowered orbs, may be very cheap depending on the prices. Consider making money through other means and training with faster methods, such as cutting low-level gems.

Level	Item	XP	XP/h	GE Price	GP/XP	Buy	Sell	Diff
Buy	Sell	Diff	—	—	—	—	—	—
1	Beer glass	17.5	30,625	84	26	−58	−3.41	—
4	Empty candle lantern	19	33,250	84	5	−79	−4.16	—
12	Empty oil lamp	25	43,750	84	3	−81	−3.24	—
33	Vial	35	61,250	84	3	−81	−2.31	—
42	Empty fishbowl	42.5	74,375	84	51	−33	−0.78	—
46	Unpowered orb	52.5	91,875	84	59	−25	−0.48	—
49	Lantern lens	55	96,250	84	4	−80	−1.45	—
87	Empty light orb	70	122,500	84	Not sold	−84	−1.20	—

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Members • Members

Introduction

2 detailed notes

Crafting training methods usually cost money and require a lot of capital to buy the supplies needed. Prices of materials will fluctuate, so check the Grand Exchange prices before buying and selling them in large quantities.

REQUIREMENTS & SETUP

Crafting training methods usually cost money and require a lot of capital to buy the supplies needed. Prices of materials will fluctuate, so check the Grand Exchange prices before buying and selling them in large quantities.

Verify against Pay-to-play Crafting training, revision 15266704. Community reference material is attributed to the OSRS Wiki; this fan guide adds its own planning tools and route framing.

Members • Members

Starting off

1 detailed notes

There are plenty of quests that give Crafting experience upon completion, which allows the player to skip a lot of early Crafting training. If the player is going to complete them anyway, it is best to do as early as possible since the experience rewards benefit more at lower levels as the training methods are slower.

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Members • Members

Quests for Crafting experience

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Quest	Experience reward	Crafting requirement	Other requirements
Sheep Shearer	150	—	—
Goblin Diplomacy	200	—	—
Tower of Life	500	10	—
In Search of the Myreque	600	25	—
Misthalin Mystery	600	—	—
Dwarf Cannon	750	—	—
Animal Magnetism	1,000	19	18 , 30 , 35
The Golem	1,000	20	25
Making History	1,000	24	—
Tears of Guthix	1,000	20	49 , 20
Recipe for Disaster (Goblin generals subquest)	1,000	—	—
Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete subquest)	1,000	31 , 42 (if making your own Fishbowl)	—
Murder Mystery	1,406	—	—
Recipe for Disaster (Skrach Uglogwee subquest)	1,500	41 , 20	—
Cold War	2,000	30	10 , 30 , 34
Enlightened Journey	2,000	36	20 , 20 , 30
In Aid of the Myreque	2,000	25	15 , 7
Shades of Mort'ton	2,000	20	15 , 5
Observatory Quest	2,250	—	—
The Giant Dwarf	2,500	12	16 , 33 , 14
The Fremennik Trials	2,812.4	—	—
The Great Brain Robbery	3,000	16	30 , 50
Nature Spirit	3,000	18	—
The Slug Menace	3,500	30	30 , 30 , 30
Shilo Village	3,875	20	32 , 4
Getting Ahead	4,000	30	26
Elemental Workshop I	5,000	20	20 , 20
The Fremennik Isles	5,000	46	20 , 40 , 56
Death on the Isle	5,000	32 , 34	—
Cabin Fever	7,000	45	42 , 50 , 40
Enakhra's Lament	7,000	50	45 , 43 , 39 , 45
Elemental Workshop II	7,500	20	20 , 30
The Hand in the Sand	9,000	49	17
The Fremennik Exiles	50,000	65	60 , 60 , 60 , 55
Total	135,143	—	—

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FOUR EDITORIAL STARTING POINTS

Shortlisted routes with executable instructions.

Use the finder above for the complete method library. These four routes are the fan-guide shortlist: each includes its setup, repeatable sequence, realistic rate band, and most important failure point.

46–99 • LOW ATTENTION

Glassblowing

80k–140k XP/hr

BEST FOR

Sustainable mains and irons

ECONOMY

Low to moderate cost

LOCATION

Any bank

REQUIREMENTS

Molten glass, glassblowing pipe, product level

INVENTORY / LOADOUT

Pipe plus 27 molten glass

EXECUTION

Choose the highest sensible glass product for the account or market.
Blow full inventories automatically and bank with minimal movement.
For irons, calculate sand and seaweed sourcing time separately from processing.

20–99 • MEDIUM ATTENTION

Cutting gems

100k–500k+ XP/hr

BEST FOR

Buying fast bank XP

ECONOMY

Often high loss

LOCATION

Any bank

REQUIREMENTS

Chisel and uncut gems

INVENTORY / LOADOUT

Chisel plus 27 uncut gems

EXECUTION

Use the source-backed table to compare XP each and live loss.
Cut full inventories and sell a test batch of finished gems.
Limit exposure when gem prices move or finished volume is shallow.

63–99 • MEDIUM ATTENTION

Dragonhide bodies

250k–430k XP/hr

BEST FOR

Fast conventional Crafting

ECONOMY

High material loss; alch floor

LOCATION

Any bank

REQUIREMENTS

Needle, thread, three hides per body, tier level

INVENTORY / LOADOUT

Needle, thread, dragon leather

EXECUTION

Convert hides to leather or buy leather after pricing both routes.
Make bodies because three-hide actions reduce clicks per XP.
Sell or alch outputs only after including nature runes and time.

54–99 • MEDIUM ATTENTION

Battlestaves

200k–340k XP/hr

BEST FOR

Crafting plus Magic follow-up

ECONOMY

Spread-dependent with alch option

LOCATION

Any bank

REQUIREMENTS

Charged orbs and battlestaves

INVENTORY / LOADOUT

Equal orb and battlestaff stacks

EXECUTION

Price orb, staff, finished staff, and high-alch route separately.
Combine roughly 2,450 per hour with efficient banking.
Use the site's alch desk before deciding whether to sell or alch.

CRAFTING CALCULATOR

Turn a level goal into hours and materials.

Select a method for its realistic experience-rate band. Add XP and GP per action when you want an exact resource estimate for your chosen item.

Current levelTarget levelTraining methodXP per action optionalGP per action optional

XP REMAINING13,034,43113,034,431 total XP at level 99

ESTIMATED TIME93.1–162.9 hrAt 80,000–140,000 XP/hr

ACTIONS / UNITSAdd XP eachUse the optional field for exact materials

ESTIMATED BUDGETAdd GP eachGross inputs; resale and tax are not deducted

The level formula is exact. Time and budget are planning estimates: your equipment, banking, failures, attention, and live Grand Exchange prices determine the real result.

SETUP PROGRESSION

Upgrade the part that actually controls the rate.

Stage	Setup	Priority
Glass	Glassblowing pipe and molten glass	Product choice affects use and XP, not action speed alone.
Gems	Chisel and live price table	Buy a small batch before scaling.
Leather	Needle, thread, processed hides	Bodies reduce actions per experience.
Battlestaves	Orbs, staves, optional alch setup	Price the entire production and liquidation route.

THE ROUTE

From level 1 to cape

1–40

Quest XP, leather, and silver

Small batches unlock the useful early jewellery tiers.The opening objective is access, not perfect efficiency. Use quests and inexpensive equipment to compress levels where possible, and avoid over-investing in a method you will outgrow quickly.

40–63

Glass or battlestaves

Glass suits self-sufficient accounts; battlestaves are faster with market exposure.This is where the skill settles into a repeatable loop. Upgrade the parts of the setup that affect every action, measure a representative session, and keep travel or banking from becoming the hidden bottleneck.

63–84

Green and blue dragonhide bodies

Reliable bankstanding XP; calculate the live loss before buying.At the mid-game checkpoint, compare the fastest route with account progress, useful outputs, and attention. A slightly slower method can be more efficient overall when it also supplies quests, diaries, or another skill.

84–99

Higher hides or glass

Spend for speed or process gathered materials for a lower cash cost.Late-game training is a sustainability problem. Recheck prices and unlocks, alternate high-focus sessions with calmer ones, and choose a route you can repeat without turning the cape into a chore.

LOWER-INTENSITY ALTERNATIVE

Cutting gems is fast and simple, but price swings can make it unexpectedly expensive.

LEVEL REFERENCE

Milestones worth planning around

These are decision points, not instructions to stop. Boostable requirements and quest gates can change when an unlock becomes usable.

Level	Unlock	Why it matters
20	Sapphire jewellery range	Early teleports and utility begin to open.
40	Ruby jewellery range	Includes useful combat and teleport items.
55	Dragonstone ring	Starts high-level enchanted teleport jewellery.
63	Green dragonhide bodies	A common fast bankstanding method.
84	Black dragonhide bodies	The high-tier traditional hide method.
99	Crafting cape teleport	One of the closest repeatable bank teleports.

QUEST ROUTING

Let account progress do part of the grind.

Quest experience is most valuable when it skips slow early methods or opens a training system you will keep using.

QUEST 1

Goblin Diplomacy

A simple early Crafting reward.

QUEST 2

Elemental Workshop series

Provides Crafting and Smithing experience alongside unique equipment.

QUEST 3

Lunar Diplomacy

Unlocks Lunar spells that support large-scale glass production.

CHOOSE YOUR ACCOUNT

The route changes with the rules you play by.

MAIN ACCOUNT

Spend for the time you value

Mains should price complete routes, not single actions. Dragonhide bodies buy speed, glass offers steady experience with different sourcing, and battlestaves can connect daily rewards to alchemy.

IRONMAN

Optimise the whole supply chain

Glassblowing is central because sand and seaweed are renewable. Gems, hides, silver, and battlestaves remain useful side routes when the account naturally produces them.

FREE-TO-PLAY

Know the edge of the map

Free-to-play Crafting includes leather, pottery, silver, gold jewellery, and gems but lacks the strongest training loops and utility unlocks. Banking friction is a larger share of the rate.

REVISION-PINNED REFERENCE

The detailed tables behind the recommendations.

Pulled in one batch from the Old School RuneScape Wiki on August 2, 2026. Every table keeps its source page and revision so you can verify requirements or spot a later game update.

Levels 1–20: Leather items7 reference rows

Level	Leather item	XP	needed	Total cost
1–7	Gloves	13.8	48	8,688
7–9	Boots	16.2	19	3,439
9–11	Cowl	18.5	21	3,801
11–14	Vambraces	22	34	6,154
14–18	Body	25	57	10,317
18-20	Chaps	27	36	6,516
Total	215	38,915	—	—

Source: OSRS Wiki / Pay-to-play Crafting training • revision 15266704

Levels 20–62/77/99: Cutting gems7 reference rows

Level	Gem	XP	XP/h	# to next	Prices (GE)	Buy	Profit	Total profit
Buy	Profit	Total profit	GP/XP	—	—	—	—	—
20	Sapphire	50	139,000	106	229	−3	−318	−0.06
27	Emerald	67.5	187,650	156	485	−75	−11,700	−1.11
34	Ruby	85	236,300	355	1,105	−270	−95,850	−3.18
43	Diamond	107.5	298,850	1082	2,442	−799	−864,518	−7.43
55	Dragonstone	137.5	382,250	1216	15,155	−4,439	−5,397,824	−32.28
9520	−42,259,280	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Source: OSRS Wiki / Pay-to-play Crafting training • revision 15266704

Levels 1–83/99: Molten glass9 reference rows

Level	Item	XP	XP/h	GE Price	GP/XP	Buy	Sell	Diff
Buy	Sell	Diff	—	—	—	—	—	—
1	Beer glass	17.5	30,625	84	26	−58	−3.41	—
4	Empty candle lantern	19	33,250	84	5	−79	−4.16	—
12	Empty oil lamp	25	43,750	84	3	−81	−3.24	—
33	Vial	35	61,250	84	3	−81	−2.31	—
42	Empty fishbowl	42.5	74,375	84	51	−33	−0.78	—
46	Unpowered orb	52.5	91,875	84	59	−25	−0.48	—
49	Lantern lens	55	96,250	84	4	−80	−1.45	—
87	Empty light orb	70	122,500	84	Not sold	−84	−1.20	—

Source: OSRS Wiki / Pay-to-play Crafting training • revision 15266704

Levels 5–99: Crafting jewellery12 reference rows

Item	Crafting	XP/hour	Materials	Profit/Loss	GP/hour	HA Profit/Loss	Level	Exp
Level	Exp	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Opal ring	1	10	14,000	Silver bar Opal	480	672,000	202	—
Opal necklace	16	35	49,000	Silver bar Opal	431	603,400	202	—
Opal bracelet	22	45	63,000	Silver bar Opal	277	387,800	262	—
Opal amulet (u)	27	55	77,000	Silver bar Opal	251	351,400	112	—
Opal amulet	27	59	56,640	Silver bar Opal Ball of wool	235	225,600	67	—
Jade ring	13	32	44,800	Silver bar Jade	245	343,000	155	—
Jade necklace	25	54	75,600	Silver bar Jade	449	628,600	155	—
Jade bracelet	29	60	84,000	Silver bar Jade	168	235,200	170	—
Jade amulet (u)	34	70	98,000	Silver bar Jade	307	429,800	20	—
Jade amulet	34	74	71,040	Silver bar Jade Ball of wool	492	472,320	−25	—
Topaz ring	16	35	49,000	Silver bar Red topaz	−111	−155,400	−1,732	—

Source: OSRS Wiki / Pay-to-play Crafting training • revision 15266704

In-Place Training Methods6 reference rows

Level required	Method	Experience	Materials	Material cost	Product value	Profit / loss	GP/XP
18	Crafting leather chaps	27	Soft leather x 1	181	6	−175	−6.48
28	Crafting hardleather bodies	35	Hard leather x 1	182	10	−172	−4.91
20	Cutting sapphires	50	Uncut sapphire x 1	229	230	1	0.02
27	Cutting emeralds	67.5	Uncut emerald x 1	485	418	−67	−0.99
34	Cutting rubies	85	Uncut ruby x 1	1,105	852	−253	−2.98
43	Cutting diamonds	107.5	Uncut diamond x 1	2,442	1,676	−766	−7.13

Source: OSRS Wiki / Free-to-play Crafting training • revision 15260338

Commuter Training Methods5 reference rows

Level required	Method	Experience	Materials	Material cost	Product value	Profit / loss	GP/XP
8	Making bowls	33	Soft clay x 1	112	13	−99	−3.00
8	Smelting unstrung gold amulets	30	Gold bar x 1	88	130	42	1.40
23	Smelting tiaras	52.5	Silver bar x 1	105	90	−15	−0.29
50	Crafting Ruby Amulets	85	Gold bar x 1 Ruby x 1	940	1,082	142	1.67
56	Crafting Diamond Necklaces	90	Gold bar x 1 Diamond x 1	1,764	1,966	202	2.24

Source: OSRS Wiki / Free-to-play Crafting training • revision 15260338

Armour8 reference rows

Level	Product	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	8,688	288	−8,400
7–9	Leather boots	16.2	22,750	319	20 × Leather	3,620	860	−2,760
9–11	Leather cowl	18.5	25,900	389	21 × Leather	3,801	126	−3,675
11–14	Leather vambraces	22	30,800	749	34 × Leather	6,154	306	−5,848
14–18	Leather body	25	35,000	1,416	57 × Leather	10,317	627	−9,690
18–28	Leather chaps	27	37,800	7,301	271 × Leather	49,051	1,626	−47,425
28–99	Hardleather body	35	91,000	13,023,607	372,103 × Hard leather	67,722,746	3,721,030	−64,001,716
Total	13,034,431	451 × Leather; 372,103 × Hard leather	67,804,196	3,724,857	−64,079,339	—	—	—

Source: OSRS Wiki / Free-to-play Crafting training • revision 15260338

SOURCE PAGES

Pay-to-play Crafting training ↗revision 15266704
Free-to-play Crafting training ↗revision 15260338
Ironman Guide/Crafting ↗revision 15276671
Crafting ↗revision 15280041
Crafting/Level up table ↗revision 15284492

Reference tables are adapted with attribution from the community-maintained OSRS Wiki. Editorial recommendations, method walkthroughs, warnings, and calculators are original fan-guide material.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Crafting FAQ

What is the cheapest route?

It changes with inputs and whether outputs can be sold or alched. Glass is a common low-cost members route; exact economics must be priced at the time.

Why is 99 Crafting so popular?

Beyond the achievement, the cape provides an exceptionally convenient teleport close to a bank chest.

KEEP RESEARCHING

Game updates can change rates, requirements, and best methods. Check the community reference before a large purchase.

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