Crafting is a free-to-play (F2P) skill in Old School RuneScape, and even though the training methods are more varied and profitable for members, it's one of the skills that F2Ps can efficiently train. For an ironman, crafting is one of the more grindy skills since it also involves obtaining the materials, but it takes work to make it as an F2P ironman.
OSRS Crafting F2P Training
Even if you’re F2P, you can make leather armour and pottery. The first option is not viable because it is costly, and the second is slow and expensive. However, as an F2P player, you can profit extensively by training Crafting and making gold and silver jewelry.
OSRS Best F2P Method for Crafting
A viable training method requires you to arm yourself with jewelry molds, gold bars, and cut gems, such as Sapphires and Diamonds, along with a lot of patience. Head to the Edgeville furnace, as it is conveniently located near a bank. Here, you can produce 13 pieces at a time, except for the pure gold ones, which can be produced in batches of 27. Buy your supplies ahead of time so you don’t have to run back and forth from the GE.
Levels 1 to 20
Craft Leather gloves to reach level 5, then make 8 Gold rings and 15 Gold necklaces to level 8. At level 8, start making Gold amulets until level 20.
| Item | Materials |
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| Leather glove |
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| Gold ring |
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| Gold necklace |
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| Gold amulet |
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Levels 20 to 40
Make 29 Sapphire rings, 26 Sapphire necklaces, 120 Sapphire amulets, then 320 Emerald amulets to reach level 40.
| Item | Materials |
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| Sapphire ring |
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| Sapphire necklace |
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| Sapphire amulet |
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| Emerald amulet |
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Levels 40 to 70
Make 175 Ruby necklaces, 600 Diamond rings, 973 Ruby amulets, and 6151 Diamond necklaces to reach level 70.
| Item | Materials |
|---|---|
| Ruby necklace |
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| Diamond ring |
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| Ruby amulet |
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| Diamond necklace |
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Level 70 to 99
From level 70 to 99, you’ll need to make over 100k Diamond amulets. They’ll bring you a profit of around 4 mil.
| Item | Materials |
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| Diamond amulet |
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Members
If you’re a member, there are many reasons why you should train your crafting, from quests to achievement diaries and unlocking better training methods. Almost every level will give you access to something new, so there is a lot of motivation to train this skill.
Achievement Diary Milestone
- Level 10: Elite Ardougne Diary
- Level 23: Easy Fremennik Diary
- Level 30: Medium Kourend & Kebos Diary
- Level 38: Elite Kourend & Kebos Diary, Medium Lumbridge & Draynor Diary
- Level 40: Medium Falador Diary
- Level 55: Hard Desert Diary
- Level 70: Hard Lumbridge & Draynor Diary
- Level 84: Elite Morytania Diary
- Level 85: Elite Kandarin Diary
Quests Milestones
- Level 12: The Giant Dwarf
- Level 16: The Great Brain Robbery
- Level 19: Animal Magnetism
- Level 20: Creature of Fenkenstrain, Elemental Workshop I, The Golem, Shades of Mort'ton, Shilo Village, and Tears of Guthix
- Level 25: In Aid of the Myreque and One Small Favour
- Level 30: Cold War, Shadow of the Storm, Slug Menace, Getting Ahead
- Level 31: Lost City
- Level 32: Darkness of Hallowvale
- Level 35: Haunted Mine
- Level 36: Enlightened Journey
- Level 40: Family Crest, The Fremennik Trials, and Swan Song
- Level 42: Rum Deal
- Level 45: Cabin Fever
- Level 46: The Fremennik Isles
- Level 48: A Taste of Hope
- Level 49: The Hand in the Sand
- Level 50: Enakhra's Lament and Legends' Quest
- Level 55: Beneath Cursed Sands
- Level 56: Sins of the Father
- Level 61: Lunar Diplomacy
- Level 62: Dragon Slayer II
- Level 65: The Fremennik Exiles
- Level 70: Monkey Madness II
General Training Methods for OSRS Craftings
Craft Leather Items
Leather items are worth doing from levels 1 to 20 to skip these levels quickly, especially if you don’t like questing. You will need the leather, a needle, and a stack of thread for the process. The method involves withdrawing the leather, crafting the items, depositing the crafted materials, and keeping the thread and needle in your inventory.
D’hide Bodies
The method is very similar to leather items, but you will use dragon leather for much faster XP instead of leather. The method becomes viable at level 63, but is not profitable, so you will lose GP.
📌Note: It is viable to train using this method up to level 99 if you have the GP to spend.
Cutting Gems
An even faster method relies on cutting gems. You will need a chisel in your inventory to do 27 at a time.
- Level 20: Sapphire
- Level 27: Emerald
- Level 34: Ruby
- Level 43: Diamond
- Level 55: Dragonstone
📌Note: While this method is fast, it's not profitable, and you'll ultimately lose GP.
Molten Glass
This is the most Ironman-friendly method, as the materials for making molten glass are easily obtainable in large quantities compared to other crafting materials.
As an ironman, you must first make the molten glass from buckets of sand and seaweed and then use a glassblowing pipe on the molten glass to craft various objects and get even more crafting XP.
📌Note: The method is slow but reliable, and for regular players, it can be profitable at level 46 with unpowered orbs.
Cutting Amethyst
If you grinded your mining level to 91, you will have unlocked a profitable method to train your crafting skill that goes hand in hand with mining the Amethyst yourself. Most Amethyst products will bring you a profit, and they are stackable, so you won’t need to bank. Instead, you’ll craft and then go back to mining.
- Level 83: Amethyst bolt tips
- Level 85: Amethyst arrow tips
- Level 87: Amethyst javelin heads
- Level 89: Amethyst dart tips
Shades of Morton Minigame
An AFK way to skip some crafting levels is by engaging in the shades of Morton minigame and building the temple. You will need a few supplies, such as a Flamtear bag, hammer, bracelet, timber beam, limestone bricks, and swamp paste. The XP gain is slow, but you can make a profit.
Cutting Semi-precious Gems
This can become quite a profitable method to train your crafting at higher crafting levels. Unlike the regular gems, you have a chance to destroy these gems and obtain crushed gems instead.
📌Note: At higher levels, though, the likelihood of being unsuccessful when cutting them decreases, so you'll be able to make a good profit by cutting these gems:
- Jade: Profitable from level 7
- Opa: Profitable from level 35
- Red Topaz: Profitable from level 77 onwards
Questing
You can also obtain a fair amount of Crafting XP by questing since 33 quests provide crafting XP, and this can be huge if you’re trying to reach a higher level, specifically to be able to access a specific method:
- Sheep Shearer
- Goblin Diplomacy
- Tower of Life
- In Search of the Myreque
- Misthalin Mystery
- Dwarf Cannon
- Animal Magnetism
- The Golem
- Making History
- Tears of Guthix
- Recipe for Disaster (Goblin generals subquest)
- Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete subquest)
- Murder Mystery
- Recipe for Disaster (Skrach Uglogwee subquest)
- Cold War
- Enlightened Journey
- In Aid of the Myreque
- Shades of Mort'ton
- Observatory Quest
- The Giant Dwarf
- The Fremennik Trials
- The Great Brain Robbery
- Nature Spirit
- The Slug Menace
- Shilo Village
- Getting Ahead
- Elemental Workshop I
- The Fremennik Isles
- Cabin Fever
- Enakhra's Lament
- Elemental Workshop II
- The Hand in the Sand
- The Fremennik Exiles
