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Crafting is a great skill. It is a very profitable skill, and has lots of things to do. There are a few basic items you will need, so here is a list and refer to it if you don't know what the item is or if you don't know where to get it:

Chisel - A tool used in cutting gems. You can buy one at the general store for one gold.

Needle - A tool used in leather making. These are stackable. You can buy one at either crafting shop for one gold coin.

Thread - Used in leather making. These are stackable. You can buy one at either crafting shop for one gold coin.

Bucket - Used for filling sand. You can buy one at the general store for two gold coins.

Jug - To be filled with water, for softening clay. You can buy one at the general store for one gold coin.

Any mold - Used to make Jewellery. You can buy each of them at either crafting shop for five gold coins.

Cow hide - Used in making leather. To get one, kill a cow (level-8, found south of Varrock, just north of Lumbridge). They will always drop one.

Ball of wool - Used in stringing Jewellery. To get one, first go to the general store and buy some shears. They cost one gold coin. Then go find some sheep (there is a big field of them just West of Lumbridge) and use the shears with a sheep. After a few tries, or maybe on your first try, you will get some wool. Now find a spinning wheel (there is one in Barbarian Village, and there is also one in Falador next to the armor shop) and use the wool on the Spinning Wheel to recieve a Ball of Wool.

 

Glass

Glass crafting is a member's-only feature. You can craft three items with glass: Beer Glasses, Vials, and Orbs. Beer glasses have no use. Vials can be filled with water and used for Herblaw. Orbs are used to make powered Battlestaffs. Below are the specific instructions on how to make molten glass, and then how to make glass items:

  1. Get a bucket 
  2. Go to Entrana Island (go to Port Sarim and don't bring any weapons or armor and talk to the monks of Entrana) (everything else that you need for glass crafting is on Entrana (but bring your bucket)
  3. Get some seaweed, four spawn on the Northwestern part of the island.
  4. Go to the range found just North of the boat and use the seaweed with the range. The seaweed will turn to 'Soda Ash'
  5. Use your bucket with the sandpit found just outside the room with the range in it. Your bucket should now be full with sand.
  6. Now go to the room next to the one with the range in it, there should be a furnace in it.
  7. Use either your bucket of sand or your soda ash on the furnace
  8. This will combine the two items, and will turn them into 'Molten Glass'

To craft molten glass into an item you will need a 'Glass Blowing Pipe'. You can find one of these in the house with the range. Use the glass blowing pipe and the molten glass together and then choose what you would like to make at the top left corner of your RuneScape window. Here is the glass crafting chart:

Item Crafting Level Required Crafting Experience for Molten Glass Crafting Experience for Item Total Crafting Experience
Beer Glass 3 20 17.5 37.5
Vial 33 20 35 55
Orb 46 20 52.7 72.7

 

Making Elemental Battlestaffs

Elemental Battlestaffs are great. They have two uses: a weapon and an unlimited source of elemental runes of one kind. To make an elemental Battlestaff you will need the following items:

  • A Battlestaff (can be bought at the Varrock Staff Shop for 7000 gold coins only on Members servers)
  • A glass orb
  • 3 cosmic runes
  • 30 elemental runes of the elemental Battlestaff you want it to be (ex. 30 fire runes if you want a fire Battlestaff)

 

Powering Orbs

To make an elemental Battlestaff, you must have a powered orb first. To power an orb you need the runes and the glass orb. Look on the chart below for the location of the obelisks, and the magic level required.
Note: To cast the spell click on the spell in your magic list then click on the respective obelisk, ex. to charge an air orb, go to the air obelisk, click on the spell in your magic list then click on the obelisk

Type of powered orb Picture of powered orb Magic level needed Runes needed Location of obelisk
Water
56 3 Cosmic & 30 Water In the members' only dungeon, in the Black Dragon (level 200) room there is a ladder, go up the ladder and it will be next to you
Earth
60 3 Cosmic & 30 Earth Found in the low-level wilderness dungeon (in the Edgeville dungeon), past the Black Demons (level 156) near Chronozon (level 121)
Fire
63 3 Cosmic & 30 Fire In the members' only dungeon, past the Black Dragons (level 200) to the West of the Black Dragons in a little room with lava
Air
66 3 Cosmic & 30 Air Found in the low-level wilderness dungeon (in the Edgeville dungeon), where the Black Demons (level 156) are there is a little room with a ladder to the North, go up the ladder and you will be standing next to it

 

Attaching orbs to Battlestaffs

To attach a powered orb to a Battlestaff just use the powered orb with the Battlestaff. If your crafting level is high enough your orb will go on the top of your Battlestaff. Below is the table of crafting-level requirements. THESE ARE ACCURATE.

Type of Elemental Battlestaff Picture of Elemental Battlestaff Crafting level required Experience for attaching orb
Water
54 100
Earth
58 112.5
Fire
62 125
Air
66 137.5

 

Enhancing Elemental Battlestaffs

You can get your elemental Battlestaff enhanced. To get your Battlestaff enhanced you must have done the Scorpion Catcher quest. If you have done it, go back to Thormac the Sorcerer with 40,000 gold coins and your Elemental Battlestaff Talk to him and tell him that he said he would enhance your Battlestaff for you. Select the Battlestaff you want and it will become a great weapon. It will now have stats better than a Rune Long Sword!! It will give +50 Weapon Aim, +50 Weapon Power, and +19 Magic in Equipment Status.

 

Pottery

Pottery is probably the worst part of crafting because it gives low experience, it's a tedious and boring part, and is not significantly profitable. Nonetheless... it is a part of crafting so it must be explained. Pottery is a lot like glass crafting (if you have seen that section yet you'd understand). Below are the instructions for making pottery:

  1. Mine a clay ore
  2. Get a jug
  3. Fill the jug with water
  4. Use the clay ore with the water-filled jug to make soft clay
  5. Go to a potters wheel (located in Barbarian Village or for members there is one in Ardougne)
  6. Use the soft clay with the Potter's Wheel
  7. Choose what you would like to make at the top left corner of your RuneScape window
  8. Use the unfired clay item on the Pottery Oven
Item Crafting level required Experience for spinning Experience for firing Total Experienced Gained Used for...
Pot 1 6.25 6.25 12.5 Carrying flour
Pie Dish 4 15 10 25 Cooking pies
Bowl 7 10 15 25 Cooking stew
Note: These values are ACCURATE!

 

Leather

Leather is an easy way of getting crafting experience. It is easy, but not very profitable. Here are the steps for getting leather:

  1. Get a cow hide 
  2. Go to a tanner (found in Al Kharid or in the Crafting Guild if you can get in)
  3. Make sure you have one gold coin for every cow hide that you have
  4. Talk to the tanner and say "Here are some cow hides, can I buy some leather?"
  5. He will exchange all of your cow hides for one leather, and will also take one gold per hide.

To make an item from leather get a needle & thread. Use the needle in your inventory with a cow hide. Then select what you want to make at the top left corner of your RuneScape window. Your crafting level will determine what you can make.

Item Crafting level required Experience given Armor plus when worn
Gloves 1 13.75 2
Boots 7 16.25 1
Armor 14 25 6
Studed Leather Armor 41
Note: All values are ACCURATE! I checked them myself

 

Gold Jewellery

Jewellery is a huge part of crafting. Your crafting level determines what gems you can cut, and what gems you can use and what you can craft. To craft gold Jewellery do the following:

  1. Get a gold bar (mine a gold nugget (you need level 40 mining) and then use it with a furnace (you need level 40 smithing to make it into a bar)
  2. Get a gem if you want the piece of Jewellery to have a gem in it
  3. Cut the gem if it isn't already cut
  4. Get the mold for the kind of Jewellery you want (ex. necklace mold if you want to make a necklace)
  5. Use the gold bar with the furnace and select what you want to make.
    Note: You need the mold for what you want to make in your inventory

Below is a great table of all of the craftable items. Also remember that anything marked in teal means it is for members only.

Gem Cutting level required Gem Cutting Experience Crafting level for ring Ring crafting experience Crafting level for necklace Necklace crafting experience Crafting level for amulet Amulet crafting experience
No gem (just gold) none none 5 15 6 20 8 30
Saphire 20 50 8 40 10 55 24 65
Emerald 27 67.5 18 55 24 60 30 70
Ruby 34 85 34 70 40 75 50 85
Diamond 43 107.5 42 85 56 90 70 100
Dragonstone 55 137.5 55 100 72 105 80 150
I collected the experience values myself. So they should be correct. Thank you Ltangel for the exp for the Dragonstone Necklace!

 

Amulets and their special powers

Amulets are special because they can be worn, and act like a weapon or a piece of armor, or both! To enchant an amulet cast the spell on the amulet. But first, you must string the amulet. Get a ball of wool, and use the ball of wool with the amulet to string it. Then find the right spell and cast it on the amulet. Gold amulets cannot be enchanted. Once Dragonstone amulets are enchanted, they can also be enhanced at the Fountain of Hero's in the Hero's Guild. To enhance a Dragonstone Amulet, it must first be enchanted. Then bring it to the Hero's Guild and right click on it and click use, then click on the Fountain of Hero's (a fountain in the Hero's Guild on the main floor on the West side). Below is the enchanted amulet table:

Name of Amulet Picture of Amulet Magic level needed Runes needed Effect when worn
Saphire Amulet
7 1 Water, 1 Cosmic +7 Magic
Emerald Amulet
27 3 Air, 1 Cosmic +7 Armor
Ruby Amulet
49 1 Cosmic, 5 Fire +10 Weapon Power
Diamond Amulet
57 1 Cosmic, 10 Earth +6 Weapon Aim, +6 Weapon Power, +6 Armor, +6 Magic
Dragonstone Amulet
68 1 Cosmic, 15 Earth, 15 Water +3 Armor, +10 Weapon Aim, +6 Weapon Power, +3 Magic, +3 Prayer
Dragonstone Amulet (enhanced at the Hero's Guild)
68 1 Cosmic, 15 Earth, 15 Water

++3 Armor, +10 Weapon Aim, +6 Weapon Power, +3 Magic, +3 Prayer, Can be rubbed to teleport to Edgeville, Al Kharid, Draynor Village, or Karamja, also higher chance of getting a gem when mining

 

Silver Jewellery

There is only one thing you can craft with silver initially: a Holy Symbol of Saradomin (Unholy Symbol of Zamorak requires the completion of a Quest). You need a level 16 crafting to make one. It gives 50 crafting experience per Holy Symbol. These are used to make your prayer last longer. To make a Holy Symbol of Saradomin you will need to get a bar of silver. Do the following things to get one:

  1. Find a silver rock (there is one located in the Southwest Varrock mine) and mine it
  2. You will need a level 20 mining
  3. Go to a furnace and use the silver nugget with the furnace to smelt it
  4. If you have a level 20 smithing you will be able to smelt it into a silver bar

Now, get a Holy Symbol mould at a Crafting Shop for five gold coins. Go back to the furnace and use the silver bar with the furnace. It will ask you what you would like to make. Click 'Holy Symbol of Saradomin' at the top left corner of your RuneScape window. You will now notice that you cannot wear it yet. That's because it does not have a string. Get a ball of wool, and use the ball of wool with the Holy Symbol. Now you can wear the Holy Symbol but it does not give any prayer bonus. To get your Holy Symbol to make prayers last longer by having a +8 prayer in equipment status, you must get your Holy Symbol enhanced. Go to Brother Jered in the Cleric's Guild, and talk to him. If you have the strung Holy Symbol with you, he will ask you if you want him to 'Bless' your Holy Symbol. This is free, but you must be able to get into the Cleric's Guild (level 31 prayer required). In case you don't know where the Cleric's Guild is, it's in the Monastery. Go to the East wing of the Monastery and go up the ladder.

 

Flax

Flax is probably the fastest way of gaining crafting experience. It is used to spin bow-strings. But you must know, it is a member's-only feature! All you have to do is go up to a flax plant (there is a large field just West of Catherby, next to the beehives, there are also plants in the Tree Gnome Stronghold-Right next to the bank!) and right click on a flax plant and click 'pick flax'. Just like wheat, flax never runes out. Once you have enough flax, find a spinning wheel and use the flax with the spinning wheel. Flax gives 15 crafting experience for every one you spin.

Tip: If you want to do a lot of flax picking the best way is to pick a lot (like 100 or even more) and go to Falador because there is a spinning wheel close to the bank. Go to the Southeast Falador bank and go to the building just West of the bank, it contains the spinning wheel.

 

Wool

Get some wool from a sheep by using shears on it. Spin the wool into a ball using the wool on a spinning wheel. This will give you 2.75 xp.
The items shears looks like this:

 

Capes

It is possible to change the color of capes by using certain dyes on them. Dyes can be bought from the Witch, Aggie, in Draynor Village.

To make an orange dye and cape: Mix yellow dye with red dye and then apply to any color cape. You will gain 3 experience for this.
To make a green dye and cape: Mix yellow dye with blue dye and then apply to any color cape. You will gain 2 experience for this.
To make a purple dye and cape: Mix red dye with blue dye and then apply to any color cape. You will gain 3 experience for this.
How to make a red cape: Just apply a red dye to any color cape. You will gain 2 experience for this.
How to make a blue cape: Just apply a blue dye to any color cape. You will gain 2 experience for this.
How to make a yellow cape: Just apply a yellow dye to any color cape. You will gain 2 experience for this.

 

Shilo Village Gem Rocks

This is a members only feature. If you have completed the Shilo Village quest you will have access to some gem rocks. They give you fatigue, and there is a bed nearby, but you must pay 35 gold pieces to use it. Mining each gem yields 50 mining experience. Below is a chart of the gems and the experience received when you cut them with a chisel. You can also crush these gems with a pestel and mortar, though it yields no crafting experience. This is a picture of the crushed gemstone:

Gem Experience gained from cutting Picture of gem uncut Picture of gem cut
Opal 15
Jade 20
Red Topaz 25

 

Unholy Symbols of Zamorak

After you finish the Observatory Quest,go to the Zamorak Worshipping Site north of it. Talk to the Spirit of Scorpius for an Unholy Symbol Mould (You can get them unlimited times). Use it with a Silver Bar on a Furnace and select "Unholy Symbol of
Zamorak". It gives 50 Experience. After stringing it (Normal procedure) head back to the Spirit of Scorpius to make him bless it. It gives +1 Aim,+1 Power,+1 Armor and +6 Prayer in your equipment status when worn.

 

Crafting Guild

The crafting guild has almost everything for crafting. It is located west of Port Sarim, north of Rimmington. It is open on both the members only servers and the freeplay servers. You need a level 40 crafting to enter. You also need to be wearing a brown apron. You can buy one in the clothing shop in Varrock. Below is a detailed list of everything in and around the crafting guild:

Outside:

  • Gated area for cows (level 8)
  • Sheep

Inside (main floor):

  • Master Crafter
  • Pottery Oven
  • Potter's Wheel
  • Jug spawn
  • Amulet Mould spawn
  • Chisel Spawn
  • Hammer spawn
  • 15 rocks (the five rocks in the South contain gold, the five middle rocks contain clay, and the five rocks in the North contain silver)
  • Ladder to the second floor

Inside (top floor):

  • Tanner
  • Spinning Wheel
  • Sink
  • Necklace Mold spawn
  • Holy Symbol Mold spawn
  • Shears spawn
  • Emergency Escape Ladder (brings you to where the cows are)
  • Ladder to main floor

Note: There is no furnace or ring mould spawn in the crafting guild.