Free-to-play Crafting training Guide – OSRS

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

Until level 40, ultimate ironmen can mine clay in West Varrock mine, canoe up to Edgeville and use the well as a water source, then walk down 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).

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.

Levels 1–99

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

Armour

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	13,392	576	−12,816
7–9		Leather boots	16.2	22,750	319	20 × Leather	5,580	940	−4,640
9–11		Leather cowl	18.5	25,900	389	21 × Leather	5,859	168	−5,691
11–14		Leather vambraces	22	30,800	749	34 × Leather	9,486	340	−9,146
14–18		Leather body	25	35,000	1,416	57 × Leather	15,903	684	−15,219
18–28		Leather chaps	27	37,800	7,301	271 × Leather	75,609	3,252	−72,357
28–99		Hardleather body	35	91,000	13,023,607	372,103 × Hard leather	101,956,222	4,837,339	−97,118,883
Total					13,034,431	451 × Leather; 372,103 × Hard leather	102,081,772	4,843,287	−97,238,485

Pottery

This guide assumes all products are formed and fired.

Level	Product		XP per item	Experience needed	Materials needed	Material costs	Product value	Profit / loss
1–7		Pot	12.6	650	52 × Soft clay	5,616	1,196	−4,420
7–8		Pie dish	25	151	6 × Soft clay	648	252	−396
8–99		Bowl	33	13,033,630	394,959 × Soft clay	42,655,572	14,613,483	−28,042,089
Total				13,034,431	395,017 × Soft clay	42,661,836	14,614,931	−28,046,905

Gold jewellery

Level	Product		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	1,040	1,424	384	48.00	3.20
6–8		Gold necklace	20	27,000[1]	289	15 × Gold bar	1,950	2,805	855	57.00	2.85
8–20		Gold amulet (u)	30	40,500[1]	3,669	122 × Gold bar	15,990	19,680	3,690	30.00	1.00
20–22		Sapphire ring	40	42,000[2]	1,154	29 × Gold bar; 29 × Sapphire	11,600	14,355	2,755	95.00	2.38
22–24		Sapphire necklace	55	57,750[2]	1,404	26 × Gold bar; 26 × Sapphire	10,400	12,922	2,522	97.00	1.76
24–31		Sapphire amulet (u)	65	68,250[2]	7,805	120 × Gold bar; 120 × Sapphire	48,000	54,240	6,240	52.00	0.80
31–40		Emerald amulet (u)	70	73,500[2]	22,391	320 × Gold bar; 320 × Emerald	170,880	197,760	26,880	84.00	1.20
40–43		Ruby necklace	75	78,750[2]	13,115	175 × Gold bar; 175 × Ruby	163,625	190,750	27,125	155.00	2.07
43–56		Diamond ring	85	89,250[2]	184,040	1,573 × Gold bar; 1,573 × Diamond	2,834,546	2,974,543	139,997	89.00	1.05
56–70		Diamond necklace	90	94,500[2]	553,587	6,151 × Gold bar; 6,151 × Diamond	11,084,102	12,289,698	1,205,596	196.00	2.18
70–99		Diamond amulet (u)	100	105,000[2]	12,296,804	122,968 × Gold bar; 122,968 × Diamond	221,588,336	235,606,688	14,018,352	114.00	1.14
Total					13,034,431	131,506 × Gold bar, 175 × Sapphire, 320 × Emerald, 175 × Ruby, 129,719 × Diamond	234,303,353	249,524,575	15,221,222	115.75	1.17

Silver jewellery

Level	Product		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	8,094	6,106	−1,988	-28.00
23–99		Tiara	52.5	13,028,140	248,155 × Silver bar	28,289,670	30,771,220	2,481,550	10.00
Total				13,034,431	248,226 × Silver bar	28,297,764	30,777,326	2,479,562	9.99

Gems

Level	Product		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	28,665	28,350	−315	−3	-0.06
27–34		Emerald	67.5	175,000	10,494	155 × Uncut emerald	66,185	62,620	−3,565	−23	-0.34
34–43		Ruby	85	230,000	30,115	354 × Uncut ruby	340,548	284,970	−55,578	−157	-1.85
43–99		Diamond	107.5	290,000	12,984,092	120,783 × Uncut diamond	275,385,240	201,949,176	−73,436,064	−608	-5.66
Total					13,034,431	See above	275,820,638	202,325,116	−73,495,522

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	136	93	−43	−107,500
Gold amulet (u) Ball of wool	Gold amulet	210	179	−31	−77,500
Sapphire amulet (u) Ball of wool	Sapphire amulet	502	472	−30	−75,000
Emerald amulet (u) Ball of wool	Emerald amulet	668	677	9	22,500
Ruby amulet (u) Ball of wool	Ruby amulet	1,096	1,171	75	187,500
Diamond amulet (u) Ball of wool	Diamond amulet	1,966	2,019	53	132,500