Free-to-play Crafting training

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This article is about the free-to-play guide. For the members' guide, see Pay-to-play Crafting training.

Crafting can be trained to 99 in free-to-play but doing so can be notably slow or expensive.

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Scroll of Dexterity

The Scroll of dexterity is a non-members upgrade, purchasable from the Dungeoneering Rewards Shop for 20,000 Dungeoneering tokens. It requires 60 Crafting and 60 Dungeoneering. It provides a chance to save a hide when crafting an item that requires three or more hides. This can significantly reduce the cost per hour of high-level training.

Experience per hour

This section shows the maximum possible experience per hour and the potential costs for certain training methods. The last column shows the possible profit/loss per experience point, based on the info on the left.

Method	Amount/hr	Exp/hr	Material costs	Sell for	Profit/Loss	gp/exp
Gold necklaces	1,568	31,360	1,610,336	1,886,304	275,968	8.8
Unstrung gold amulets	1,568	47,040	1,610,336	520,576	-1,089,760	-23.17
Hard leather shields	1,620	58,320	1,375,380	1,308,960	-66,420	-1.14
Diamond rings	1,428	121,380	5,796,252	5,650,596	-145,656	-1.2
Woodcutting urns	392	31,360	624,064	522,536	-101,528	-3.24
Strong mining urns	392	33,398.4	624,064	982,744	358,680	11.44
Strong smelting urns	392	41,552	624,064	114,072	-509,992	-16.26
Ruby necklaces	1,428	107,100	2,985,948	4,523,904	1,537,956	14.36
Diamond necklaces	1,428	128,520	5,796,252	8,546,580	2,750,328	21.4
Unstrung diamond amulets	1,428	142,800	5,796,252	7,412,748	1,616,496	11.32
Uncut diamonds	2,968	319,060	13,097,784	8,998,976	-4,098,808	-12.85
Green dragonhide bodys	1,440	267,840	6,017,760	5,905,440	-112,320	-0.42
Green dragonhide shields	1,440	357,120	8,023,680	7,299,360	-724,320	-2.03
Blue dragonhide bodys	1,440	302,400	9,737,280	7,440,480	-2,296,800	-7.6
Blue dragonhide shields	1,440	403,200	12,983,040	9,131,040	-3,852,000	-9.55

Current prices

• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Crafting
• Calculators#Crafting

General notes

• All jewellery smelting should be done at the
  1. Lumbridge furnace using the bank chest in the Lumbridge Market immediately to the west.
  2. Or at the Artisans' Workshop, located in the south-east corner of Falador which has its own bank chest.
• Completing Family Crest, a members-only quest, allows storage of gold bars in the metal bank, which significantly speeds up jewellery smelting, and this benefit is kept on f2p. However, as it still requires membership to complete the times below would not take it into consideration.

Level 1-22 - Spinning flax

Spin flax into bowstring for 15 xp each. This can be done on a spinning wheel. The best place to do this is in Lumbridge Castle, on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US], very close to the bank above. Spinning flax is simple, and requires low investment and attention. It consistently turns a moderate profit, and is a decent fallback option when higher-level options aren't working out. Can be done for free in Burthorpe. Flax is near the Farming trainer using the spinning wheel near the loom in the crafting area.

• Experience needed - 5,624
• Flax needed - 375 (alternatively, buy 392 to do 14 full inventories)
• Time - 17 minutes
• Flax cost = 66,000
• Bowstring = 160,500
  • Total profit = 94,500 (252 each)

Level 22-27 - Sapphire necklaces

Make sapphire necklaces, which grant 55 experience each. 75 need to be made. Significantly more profitable and faster xp, but more volatile market and dependent on larger investments. Requires Quest Family Crest to deposit gold in metal bank.

• Experience needed - 4106
• Gold bars needed - 75
• Sapphires needed - 75
• Time - 4 minutes 15 seconds
• Gold bars cost = 77,025
• Sapphires cost = 41,475
• Sapphire necklaces = 121,307
  • Total profit = 47,047 (1,001 per necklace)

Level 27-29 - Emerald rings

Make emerald rings, which grant 55 experience each. 42 need to be made.

• Experience needed - 2,301
• Gold bars needed - 42
• Emeralds needed - 42
• Time - 2 minute 15 seconds
• Gold bars cost = 43,134
• Emeralds cost = 71,484
• Emerald rings = 141,540
  • Total profit = 26,922 (641 per ring)

Level 29-34 - Emerald necklaces

Make emerald necklaces, which grant 60 experience each. 137 need to be made.

• Experience needed - 8,193
• Gold bars needed - 137
• Emeralds needed - 137
• Time - 7 minutes 30 seconds
• Gold bars cost = 140,699
• Emeralds cost = 233,174
• Emerald necklaces = 534,711
  • Total profit = 160,838 (1,174 per necklace)

Level 34-40 - Ruby rings

Make ruby rings, which grant 70 experience each. 243 need to be made.

• Experience needed - 17,000
• Gold bars needed - 243
• Rubies needed - 243
• Time - 7 minutes 14 seconds
• Gold bars cost = 249,561
• Rubies cost = 258,552
• Ruby rings = 686,961
  • Total profit = 178,848 (736 per ring)

Level 40-43 - Ruby necklaces

Make ruby necklaces, which grant 75 experience each. 175 need to be made.

• Experience needed - 13,115
• Gold bars needed - 175
• Rubies needed - 175
• Time - 5 minutes 12 seconds
• Gold bars cost = 179,725
• Rubies cost = 186,200
• Ruby necklaces = 554,400
  • Total profit = 188,475 (1,077 per necklace)

Level 43-56 - Diamond rings

Make diamond rings, which grant 85 experience each. 1,573 need to be made.

• Experience needed - 133,701
• Gold bars needed - 1,573
• Diamonds needed - 1,573
• Time - 50 minutes
• Gold bars cost = 1,615,471
• Diamonds cost = 4,769,336
• Diamond rings = 6,224,361
  • Total profit = -160,446 (-102 per ring)

Level 56-99 - Diamond necklaces

Make diamond necklaces, which grant 90 experience each. 142,783 need to be made.

• Experience needed - 12,850,391
• Gold bars needed - 142,783
• Diamonds needed - 142,783
• Time - 127.5 hours
• Gold bars cost = 146,638,141
• Diamonds cost = 432,918,056
• Diamond necklaces = 854,556,255
  • Total profit = 275,000,058 (1,926 per necklace)

Other methods

Level 29-99 - Hard leather shields

Hard leather shields grant 36 experience each. Making 361,734 of them is needed to reach level 99 from level 29. Note that the amount of thread used may vary slightly from player to player.

• Experience needed - 13,022,400
• Hard leather needed - 361,734
• Thread needed - 90,435
• Time - 183 hours
• Hard leather cost = 307,112,166
• Thread cost = 1,627,830
• Hard leather shields = 292,281,072
  • Total profit = -16,458,924

Level 27-99 - Cutting uncut emeralds

Cutting gems yield fast experience, but at a high cost. Cutting 192,959 emeralds is needed to reach level 99 from level 27.

• Experience needed - 12,850,391
• Uncut emeralds needed - 192,959
• Time - 42 hours
• Uncut emerald cost = 252,678,036
• Emeralds = 205,572,666
  • Total profit = -47,105,370

Level 43-99 - Cutting uncut diamonds

Although uncut diamonds grant 107.5 experience each, cutting them is extremely expensive. Cutting 120,783 of them is needed to reach level 99 from level 43.

• Experience needed - 12,984,092
• Uncut diamonds needed - 120,783
• Time - 23 hours
• Uncut diamonds cost = 533,015,379
• Diamonds = 366,214,056
  • Total profit = -166,801,323

Level 64-99 - Green dragonhide shields

Green dragonhide shields grant 248 experience each. Making 50,917 of them is needed to reach level 99 from level 64. This is a fast but expensive training method.

• Experience needed - 12,627,416
• Green dragon leathers needed - 203,668
• Time - 35.6 hours
• Green dragon leathers = 283,709,524
• Green dragonhide shield = 258,098,273
  • Total profit = -25,611,251

Level 72-99 - Blue dragonhide shields

Blue dragonhide shields grant 280 experience each. Making 43,340 of them is needed to reach level 99 from level 72. This is fast but also a very expensive method.

• Experience needed - 12,135,174
• Blue dragon leathers needed - 173,360
• Time - 30.1 hours
• Blue dragon leathers = 390,753,440
• Blue dragonhide shield = 274,818,940
  • Total profit = -115,934,500

Gem rocks

Mining gem rocks offer several options to train Mining along with Crafting while not requiring any investments other than a pickaxe.

Common gem rock

Common gem rocks randomly yield uncut opal (can be cut at 1 Crafting), uncut lapis lazuli (1), uncut jade (13), and uncut red topaz (16). No Mining level is required but a higher level and a better pickaxe speeds up mining. Cut opals, jade and red topaz are worth more on the Grand Exchange, but you will fail resulting in the useless crushed gem too often to turn a profit buying uncut gems. Always cut lapis lazuli first, as they cannot be crushed, and the xp gained from them may give you a higher level thus lowering the crush chance on other gems. While lapis lazuli are untradeable, keep them as they can later be made into lapis lazuli rings for 3,279 coins profit per ring at 11 Crafting.

Uncommon gem rock

Uncommon gem rocks randomly yield uncut sapphire (can be cut at 20 Crafting), uncut emerald (27), and uncut ruby (34). 20 Mining required (27 Mining unlocks emeralds, 35 for rubies); a higher level and a better pickaxe speeds up mining. These gems cannot be crushed.

A test at 36 Mining finds you can gain about 12000 Crafting xp per hour if you cut and drop sapphires (due to their low value) and bank the rest. You also gain about 18000 Mining xp, 130 uncut emeralds and 90 uncut rubies per hour.

A gem bag (costs 2000 Dungeoneering tokens, which can take a long time to obtain for beginners) can be used to hold 100 uncut gems total, from sapphire to diamond (although it requires 25 Crafting along with 25 Dungeoneering to obtain, so it takes only 2 more levels to cut emeralds).

A test at 46 Mining finds you can gain about 26000 Crafting xp per hour if you cut and drop sapphires and emeralds, and banking rubies. You also gain about 24000 Mining xp and 140 uncut rubies per hour. If you can and wish to cut and bank all 3 types of gems, it results in about 28400 Crafting xp, as well as 18200 Mining xp, 250 sapphires, 128 emeralds, and 85 rubies per hour. Experience would be even faster if you cut and drop all gems, but it would be more click-intensive.

Precious gem rock

Precious gem rocks are similar, but yield uncut diamond (43 Crafting) instead of sapphire. 43 Mining required to mine diamonds from them, and as Al Kharid resource dungeon is the only f2p mine with these rocks, 75 Dungeoneering is also required to get to them. While higher levelled, they are slower Crafting xp because they are mined much more slowly. However, they give slightly faster Mining xp and requires less walking.

If using a gem bag and banking with Archaeology journal, tests at 75 Mining and with a rune pickaxe +3 with moderate attention shows the following results. As the gem bag only holds uncut gems, this assumes you mine and bank all uncut gems, then cutting them in one go, and averages it per hour. Gem types are random and calculated based on currently known drop rates.

	Uncommon	Precious
Trip time (mine & cut)	8.5 minutes	18.5 minutes
Mining xp/hr	36825	46219
Gem/hr	896	411
Crafting xp/hr	55776	33188

This can change significantly if you choose to cut and drop or fletch certain gems, or keep diamonds to sell, depending on market or your preferences.

Crafting Guild

The Crafting Guild can be entered with 40 Crafting. It contains gold rocks, silver rocks, clay rocks, a water source, several potter's wheels for making unfired clay items, a pottery oven for firing them, a spinning wheel for spinning wool into balls of wool, and a Tanner who tans cowhides for a price. Additionally, a cow field is located immediately west of the Crafting Guild, and a flock of sheep can be found north of the Crafting Guild.

Players have everything they need here to make urns (clay rocks, a water source, a potter's wheel, and a pottery oven). Making Strong smelting urn (nr) (49 Crafting required) and banking them at the nearby Clan Camp makes very little money, but is by far the most xp in making urns. There is a bank deposit box in the guild itself, but it is only available to members upon the completion of the Falador hard achievements.

This amounts to 1512 experience per inventory, or about 25000 xp per hour. Slightly slower Crafting xp per hour and less profitable compared to mining gems from uncommon gem rocks and cutting them, although clay rocks are easier to mine especially at lower Mining and/or stamina levels.

Dungeoneering training

Training within Daemonheim is an alternative method of training Crafting. This method costs nothing outside Daemonheim, but its effectiveness depends on the player's ability to gather coins in Daemonheim.

A semi-experienced player (≥30 Dungeoneering) can expect to go from 1 to 31 Crafting raiding less than five small dungeons using the method below. This especially benefits any players who have neglected Crafting (but not many other skills, which Dungeoneering depends on).

Generally, players should craft protoleather bodies, available at 9 Crafting, because ranged hides don't require time on a spinning wheel. Although experience per hide increases according to the level requirement of armour crafted, a higher tier hide will yield significantly less experience per coin.

The idea is to buy protomastyx hide and thread and craft the hides into protoleather bodies (consuming 5 hides and 1 thread per body). This method will yield 99.5 experience for 1,690 coins spent in dungeon, counting the five hides (2,100 coins) and one thread (10 coins) used minus refund (420 coins) by selling the body. 8,500 coins are needed to craft 10 protoleather bodies, at least 20 empty inventory space is recommended to allocate for 4 bodies per inventory, and if desired, players can free spaces to make 25 slots for crafting 5 bodies.

The fastest way to quickly earn Crafting experience without gaining from other skills, is to start a dungeon at the highest floor and largest size possible, kill a small number of monsters near the Smuggler and take piles of coins (and sell other loots including food) from them, which approximately equals to 1/3 of total coins possibly gained throughout the whole floor. Use up the pile of coins to train Crafting and quit the floor quickly; this will yield much faster experience compared to training after completing the whole floor.

To prolong this method on a tight budget, if you have level 55 Magic and level 44 Runecrafting, you can craft nature and fire runes and then cast High Level Alchemy on the protoleather bodies. This method consumes more time but yields extra Magic experience. High Level Alchemy gives 840 coins instead of 420 per body, but minus 50 coins per essence (if bought) unless runes are looted or crafted from found essences. Using this method will allow you to craft 1 extra body (1320-1386 coins compared to 1690 per 5 bodies) for every 5-6 bodies alchemised. A salve orb (unlocked at 8 Crafting) can be made from one salve cloth and one thread (for a one-time investment of 430 coins). This is a cheap alternative to staff or wand, and all three kinds of item provide infinite supply of fire runes for Alchemy spells.

Quests for Crafting experience

Main article: Quest experience rewards § Crafting

Quest	Members	Experience reward	Crafting requirement	Other requirements
Goblin Diplomacy		200	N/A	N/A
Gunnar's Ground		300	5	N/A
Tower of Life		500	N/A	10 Construction
Fur 'n Seek		500	N/A	25 Slayer
In Search of the Myreque		600	N/A	25 Agility
Dwarf Cannon		750	N/A	N/A
Animal Magnetism		1,000	19	18 Slayer 30 Ranged 35 Woodcutting 15 Thieving
A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift		1,000	36	59 Magic 54 Farming 51 Thieving 37 Summoning
The Golem		1,000	20	25 Thieving
Making History		1,000	N/A	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Goblin generals		1,000	N/A	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete		1,000	N/A	31 Cooking
Tears of Guthix		1,000	20	49 Firemaking 20 Mining
Murder Mystery		1,406	N/A	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Skrach Uglogwee		1,500	N/A	41 Cooking 20 Firemaking
Cold War		2,000	30	10 Hunter 34 Construction 30 Agility 15 Thieving
Enlightened Journey		2,000	36	20 Firemaking 30 Farming
In Aid of the Myreque		2,000	25	7 Magic 15 Mining
Shades of Mort'ton		2,000	20	5 Firemaking 15 Herblore
Observatory Quest		2,250	N/A	N/A
The Giant Dwarf		2,500	12	16 Firemaking 33 Magic 14 Thieving
The Fremennik Trials		2,812	40	25 Fletching 40 Woodcutting
The Great Brain Robbery		3,000	16	30 Construction 50 Prayer
Nature Spirit		3,000	N/A	N/A
The Slug Menace		3,500	30	30 Runecrafting 30 Slayer 30 Thieving
Shilo Village		3,875	20	32 Agility
Legacy of Seergaze		4,000	47	20 Construction 29 Agility 31 Slayer 35 Mining 40 Firemaking 49 Magic
Elemental Workshop I		5,000	20	20 Mining 20 Smithing
Dimension of Disaster: Demon Slayer		5,000	N/A	N/A
The Fremennik Isles		5,000	46	20 Construction 40 Agility 56 Woodcutting
Cabin Fever		7,000	45	42 Agility 50 Smithing 40 Ranged
Enakhra's Lament		7,000	50	45 Firemaking 13 Magic
Elemental Workshop II		7,500	N/A	20 Magic 30 Smithing
Dimension of Disaster: Curse of Arrav		9,000	N/A	61 Agility 64 Strength 64 Ranged
The Hand in the Sand		9,000	49	17 Thieving
Elemental Workshop IV		9,000	41	39 Runecrafting 39 Thieving 40 Defence 42 Smithing
TokTz-Ket-Dill		10,000	43	50 Attack 50 Construction 41 Mining 45 Strength
In Pyre Need		11,556	52	55 Firemaking 53 Fletching
The Void Stares Back		20,000	70	80 Magic 78 Attack 78 Strength 71 Firemaking 70 Construction 70 Smithing 55 Summoning 25 Defence
The Branches of Darkmeyer		20,000	64	76 Woodcutting 70 Fletching 70 Magic 67 Slayer 63 Farming 63 Agility
Rocking Out		25,000	66	60 Agility 63 Thieving 69 Smithing
Kindred Spirits		25,000	60	60 Agility 60 Herblore 60 Smithing
Do No Evil		40,000	68	50 Ranged 64 Construction 70 Magic 70 Thieving
Love Story		40,000	67	77 Magic 68 Construction 68 Smithing
Ritual of the Mahjarrat		40,000	76	77 Agility 76 Mining
Some Like it Cold		40,000	56	65 Fishing 50 Construction 50 Thieving
Plague's End		50,000	75	75 Agility 75 Construction 75 Dungeoneering 75 Herblore 75 Mining 75 Prayer 75 Ranged 75 Summoning 75 Woodcutting
The Light Within		90,000	80	80 Agility 80 Divination 80 Herblore 80 Prayer 80 Slayer 80 Woodcutting
Total		520,749