RS3 Crafting Guide - Rune Fanatics (2024)

Crafting is an essential skill to train in RuneScape 3 because it offers a range of must-needed features. Most notably, I trained crafting till level 75 to access Prifddinas, a high-tier city full of activities. Afterward, invention was released, requiring level 80 crafting. This elite skill incorporates divination, smithing, and crafting into one skill.

I highly recommend training the skill, especially if you’re an ironman, since your resources are limited and crafting provides needed items. For example, you can create amulets, rings, ranged, and magic armor with crafting.

This page will showcase the best training methods for crafting. We’ll include the fastest, most profitable, and F2P guides. Also, we’ll discuss which items you want to use to gain experience boosts and save material.

Bottom Line Up Front

I’ve made this section for those who don’t have the time to read through the guide. Nevertheless, I still recommend reading through it to gain the most useful information.

First of all, you’ll want to buy all the items to train crafting, such as a glassblowing pipe, moulds, chisel, thread, and needle. Then decide the training style you want to go for – fastest or most profitable?

To train crafting quickly, the best option is to cut gemstones at any bank. Quickly remove them from the bank using a preset and cut them. Afterward, bank them and repeat the process. This method is costly since cut gemstones are valued lower, and sometimes they will get destroyed depending on your crafting level.

The money-making method is mainly creating various necklaces and jewelry. If you want to know the profits precisely, you’ll need to continue reading the guide to find out. Here is a numbered list of the items you’ll want to create to make money when training.

1. Bowstring
2. Sapphire Necklace
3. Emerald Necklace
4. Ruby Necklace
5. Dragonstone Ring
6. Dragonstone Necklace
7. Decorated Runecrafting urn

If you’d like to find out more information like the best items to use, quests to complete, and training methods, carry on with the guide.

Items Needed For Crafting

Crafting is a skill that requires using various items to create armors, jewelry, and weapons. Before starting your journey to level 99 or 120, you’ll want to obtain these items:

• Chisel
• Glassblowing Pipe
• Shears
• Thread
• Buckets
• Materials

The materials needed will vary depending on the training method you use. If you decide to cut gems, all you’ll need is a chisel. However, if you want to make glass, you’ll want a glassblowing pipe, sand, and soda ash.

Recommended Items For Crafting

Although the grind to level 99 crafting is much quicker than OSRS, you’ll still spend dozens of hours training the skill. Therefore, I highly recommend getting these items because they’ll boost your XP and save materials when creating items.

Artisan’s Outfit

The artisan’s outfit is clothing that awards players with extra experience while training crafting. Each piece will give a set amount of experience, and the whole kit gives a bonus of 1%. The outfit is obtained from the Treasure Hunter MTX feature in RuneScape. This means you may struggle to acquire each piece as the chest odds are low.

Modified Artisan’s Bandana

The artisan’s bandana is a piece of the crafting outfit that gives extra XP when crafting. It can be upgraded to the modified artisan’s bandana, which gives various bonuses that help reach level 99 crafting. Take a look at the benefits:

• 5% chance to save a piece of leather when crafting.
• Players can acquire soft clay from the bandana once per day. The amount varies depending on how many pieces of the outfit you have. Players with less than 4 pieces will get 21 soft clay, and the full set gives 35.
• 3 daily teleports to the crafting guild.

Tool Belt

The tool belt is your best friend when training crafting because it stores essential items like moulds and tools. Before training the skill, you should acquire most moulds, a chisel, a needle, and a glassblowing pipe. All of these items can be attached to your tool belt for convenience.

Inspire Genius

If you have 118 archaeology, you can activate the Inspire Genius relic power that provides 2% extra experience for crafting.

Crafting Potion

The crafting potion is made by combining clean wergali and frog spawn in a vial of water, requiring 42 herblore. It temporarily boosts your crafting level by 3, letting you create items that are out of your level range.

Portable Crafter

One of the best additions to RuneScape is the portable skilling items like the crafter. This item can be deployed almost anywhere in Gielinor and lets you craft on it with an experience boost. Ideally, you want to put the portable crafter near a bank so you can quickly deposit and receive items. This is perhaps the best item for crafting since it tremendously boosts experience rates. Take a look at what it can offer:

• Crafting opportunities from any location.
• 10% experience boost
• 10% change to save material
• Tanning hides

Scroll of Dexterity

The scroll of dexterity can be obtained from the dungeoneering reward shop for 20,000 tokens. When your character reads the scroll, it will permanently unlock its passive ability that saves material when crafting. Depending on the material, the percentage chance of saving items varies.

Torstol Incense Sticks

Torstol incense sticks give 0.5% XP increase upon use and will increase its effectiveness every 10 minutes until you receive 2% extra-base experience. However, you can consume 6 sticks instantly to receive the max XP boost without a waiting period.

Artificer’s Measure

The artificer’s measure is a skilling item that offers crafting and construction benefits when equipped. The item requires level 99 crafting and 102 archaeology to use, so this item is for those going for level 120 crafting. When equipped in your off-hand, it will give these benefits:

• If you have the scroll of dexterity, it will increase the chances of it working. When it does activate, the player receives a 0.5% bonus experience for 5 minutes, and it can stack up to 5% bonus XP.
• While glassblowing and creating urns, there is a 5% chance to double the item.

Brooch of the Gods

This item synchronizes well with the portable crafter by increasing its effectiveness. It increases the chance of saving hides and soft clay by 10%. Also, you’ll acquire a 5% to 10% chance of saving gems when cutting them.

RS3 Crafting Quests

RuneScape features 220 quests that will take you on fun adventures with awesome rewards. Some of these quests give crafting experience upon completion, which you can use to your advantage by finishing them. This way, you won’t have to train the skill directly while receiving experience. It’s perhaps the best method of quickly gaining experience to skip past the lower levels.

Moreover, quests are a fundamental part of the RuneScape experience; without them, you won’t get access to new locations and monsters to slay. During your RuneScape playthrough, you’ll want to complete these quests anyway, so you’ll be killing two birds with one stone.

Beginner Friendly Crafting Quests

First, let’s start with the easier quests since most players can complete them. They have low stat requirements and short durations.

Complete these quests as you progress through the game. If you do not meet the requirements, don’t worry as you can always come back later and finish them.

Advanced Crafting Quests

Now, let’s move on to the advanced quests you can complete once you have progressed enough in RuneScape. I highly recommend completing these quests while grinding till level 99 crafting because it offers variety. If you get bored or want a change of scenery, you can start these quests for fun and earn crafting experience.

Where To Train Crafting

RuneScape features dozens of locations where you can train crafting. However, most locations are undesirable since they are far from banks or do not provide a significant advantage for training there. While I was on my journey to level 99 crafting, I looked at multiple YouTube videos, guides, and blogs to find the best places to train the skill, and here are my top picks.

Furnace

The Furnace is mainly used to create jewelry by melting metal bars and using moulds. The overall best spots to train are:

• Shilo Village
• Edgeville
• Artisan’s Workshop
• Lumbridge

Spinning Wheels

• 2nd floor of Lumbridge Castle
• Burthorpe
• Seer’s Village

Looms

• Burthorpe
• Falador
• Prifddinas

Potter’s Wheel and Pottery Ovens

• Burthorpe
• Varrock
• Crafting Guild
• Prifddinas

Tannery

• Portable Crafter
• Varrock
• Crafting Guild
• Al Kharid
• Taverley

How To Train Crafting

Crafting is a very simple skill to understand because there isn’t a significant learning curve. In most cases, you’ll need to combine two items to create a piece of equipment. For example, using a thread and needle on green d’hide can make various ranged armor.

On the other hand, some crafting techniques require using a furnace or spinning wheel to create specific items. The RuneScape leveling page will showcase how to create items if you get confused.

RuneScape 3 P2P 1-99/120 Crafting Guide

First, we’ll cover training methods for those with RuneScape membership. If you are not a member, I advise buying it or saving up for a bond because these training methods are significantly faster or more profitable than F2P.

Fastest RuneScape 3 Crafting Guide

The fastest way to train crafting is by cutting gems. Unfortunately, this method is very expensive as some gems are worth less once cut. Nevertheless, you can stick to lower-tier gems that generate decent hourly profit. Most players can cut roughly 4k gems per hour, so our numbers will be based on this information.

I advise cutting the next tier gem once you reach the required level, regardless of the increased chance of destroying them. The only gems you’ll want to avoid are Onyx and Hydrix since they are too expensive.

If you find cutting gems too expensive you can combine mining and crafting together by going to the Al Kharid mine. This location hosts a few gem rocks you can mine and cut afterward. Once you gain the crafting experience, you can drop the gems and continue mining. This method requires having level 55 mining.

Profitable RuneScape 3 Crafting Guide

If you’re on a budget and want to make the most gold while training, you can use the following methods. Unfortunately, reaching level 99 crafting will take much longer due to the reduced experience rates per hour. However, you will make millions in the process, which helps buy combat gear or materials for other skills.

F2P RuneScape 3 Crafting Guide

Free-to-play players have limited training methods they can use as most items are members only. Therefore, you’ll have to make do with lower experience rates and limited resources. Here’s how to efficiently train the skill on F2P worlds:

Alternative F2P RuneScape 3 Crafting Methods

Now I’ll show you some alternative training methods that you can do on free worlds. This will not be from levels 1 to 99, so you’ll have to use the previous guide to help you reach the level requirements.

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Summary

That concludes this level 1-99/120 crafting guide. We have provided the best training methods for free-to-play and member players so every gamer can find something useful. I recommend cutting gems, specifically rubies, because you’ll generate millions of GP by the time you reach level 99. Also, you can stay at the Grand Exchange since you only need a bank to train when cutting gemstones.

However, if you want to reach level 99 the fastest, then cutting diamonds and dragonstone are the best options, but they are extremely costly.

Remember, when starting your journey to level 99 crafting, you’ll want to use all the bonuses you can to make the process smoother. Definitely go for the crafting outfit and the archaeology relic to gain 2% extra experience. We hope you learned something new, and if you have any questions, feel free to leave them below.

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