Contents

Crafting main page: Introduction, Masters Degree, What I did
Crafting page 1: Tools, Stealing Creations needle, Dungeoneering, Dying capes, Pottery, Spinning, Weaving
Crafting page 2: Leather, Snakeskin, Dragonhide, Glassmaking, Battlestaves
Crafting page 3: Gems, Jewellery of gold, Silver jewellery & items
Experience from quests.

Leather

The rangers best ... friend? Maybe not, but it's the ideal armour for any ranger, and also a good income for crafters.

There are four types of leather:

• Soft leather - made from cowhide
• Hard leather - made from cowhide
• Snakeskin - made from snakehide
• Dragon leather - made from dragonhide

Cowhide is the easiest to obtain. There are several cow fields around RuneScape, and two of them (Lumbridge and East Ardougne) are relatively close to a tanner.

Snakeskin can be obtained from killing snakes during Tai Bwo Wannai Clean-up or killing giant snakes during Temple Trekking. To get hides from a giant snake, use a knife on it. The amount of hides obtained varies.

Dragon leather speaks for itself. Killing green, blue, red or black dragons result in getting a piece (or three if you kill brutal green dragons) of hide in the same colour as the dragon.

Take the leather to a tanner to have it tanned. There are six places where you can have your hides tanned; Al Kharid, Burthorpe, Canifis, Crafting guild, Range guild and Varrock. My personal favourite is Burthorpe because it seems to be closest to a bank (chest). Al Kharid is the best tanner to go to for Free-to-Play.
Use a needle with thread in your inventory to craft the armour of your choice. One reel of thread lasts four uses. If you have added a needle to your toolbelt just click on the tanned hide and follow the instructions on the screen.

Item	Cost of tanning
→ Cowhide (soft leather)	0 coin
→ Cowhide (hard leather)	3 coins
→ Snake hide (regular)	15 coins
→ Snake hide (Giant snake)	20 coins
→ Green dragonhide	20 coins
→ Blue dragonhide	20 coins
→ Red dragonhide	20 coins
→ Black dragonhide	20 coins

Soft, Hard and Studded leather

The most basic armour are made from soft leather. Not exactly the most stylish kind, but it serves well for beginning rangers. As for crafters, this is where you can gain most of your lower levels. It's fast and not too costly. The only challenge is finding available cows to kill.

The only difference between hard and soft leather is that hard leather cost more to tan, and the armour is a tad bit better than the soft version. Hard leather armour is only available as hard leather body.

Studs can be attached to both leather body and leather chaps. Making studs requires a smithing level of 37. You can also buy them from other players. Just use the studs with the armour to get the studded version.

Item	Level required	Xp gained	Members only
Leather gloves	1	13,8	No
Leather boots	7	16,3	No
Leather cowl	9	18,5	No
Leather vambraces	11	22	No
Leather body	14	27	No
Leather chaps	18	27	No
Hard leather body	28	35	No
Coif	38	27	Yes
Studded body	41	40	Yes
Studded leather chaps	44	42	Yes

Snakeskin (members)

Snake skin is obtained from killing snakes during Tai Bwo Wannai Clean-up or using a knife on a dead giant snake during Temple Trekking. The different parts require a whole lot more snakeskin than dragonhide armour requires dragon hides; which will make anyone wonder if it's worth it. That is up to each crafter to decide.

Item	Level required	Amount of hides required	Xp gained
Snakeskin boots	45	6	30
Snakeskin vambraces	47	8	35
Snakeskin bandanna	48	5	45
Snakeskin chaps	51	12	50
Snakeskin body	53	15	55

Dragonhide (members)

The most sought after armour to craft. Note that all types of hides costs 20 coins (in Al Kharid) no matter what colour they are, so the most profit will come from black dragonhide.

Item	Level required	Amount of hides required	Xp gained
Green d'hide vamb	57	1	62
Green d'hide chaps	60	2	124
Green d'hide body	63	3	186
Blue d'hide vamb	66	1	70
Blue d'hide chaps	68	2	140
Blue d'hide body	71	3	210
Red d'hide vamb	73	1	78
Red d'hide chaps	75	2	156
Red d'hide body	77	3	234
Black d'hide vamb	79	1	86
Black d'hide chaps	82	2	172
Black d'hide body	84	3	258

Spiked vambraces (members)

Kebbit claws can be added to leather and dragon vambraces once you reach level 32, and gives 5-6xp. The claws are obtained from killing wild kebbit in a deadfall trap (Hunter) or bought from other players. Use the claws on the vambraces and voila, you have spiked vambraces; which add +2 strength bonus to your stats.

My thoughts on leather

This is where to start. Collecting cow hides serves as a way for newcomers to work on their fighting as well as getting material. This is how you get from Crafting level 1 to 30 relatively quickly.
As soon as you learn to make a new type of armour you should switch to the new one. Keep selling the parts you don't want to get money back.

Snakeskin is not something I would do if I started crafting all over. It takes quite a lot of time before you have a decent amount of hides to make a piece of armour. This is, in my opinion, something you should do to get 2-3 sets for yourself and friends. Not level crafting.

Dragonhide is definitely something to go for. But there's the time vs money factor. If you want to level quickly then you have to buy your hides. This is however not a way to make money.
If you are like I am, then you should kill the dragons yourself and either sell the armour you make, or alch it. Blue, black and brutal greens are the only dragons I recommend killing. The first two are rather easy to get to, though rather popular. The brutal green is a nasty beast which require high level skills to kill. Basic green dragons are located in the very inhospitable pk-friendly area The Wilderness, and shouldn't be attempted by people with low combat skills or those who value their items. There is however a safer multi-combat area in the Chaos tunnels with four green dragons. This spot is unfortunately very popular; and there's also baby black dragons which can cause rather good damage.

As for red dragons... if you need a set, go ahead. But just like the basic green ones, the red are located in a remote place (Brimhaven Slayer Dungeon) not that easy to get to. It also costs 875 coins to enter the dungeon. Not profitable and a waste of time.

Spiked Vambraces are for fun only. I never spent too much time on mass-producing them.

Glass making (members)

Up until the release of the Varrock Achievement Diary in 2007, glass making was tedious, boring and time consuming. Then came the option of buying seaweed from the salesman Arhein at the docks in Catherby.
With a personal stock of 80 pieces a day for a total price of 160 coins, it is now quite easy to work on glass making.

The main material needed are sand and seaweed. Sand can be collected from sandpits located in Yanille, Rellekka, Zanaris, Dorgesh-kaan, Shilo Village and on Entrana, If you have completed the Hand in the Sand quest, then you may use the service of Bert in Yanille. He provides 84 buckets of sand each day, with a time span of roughly 24 hours counting from the last time you collected. He can be found in the small house next to the sandpit.

Seaweed can be collected from the shores of Rellekka, Entrana, Waterbirth Island and Karamja north and west coast. They can also be found on the banks of the river flowing through Shilo Village, collected from the spawn points in Piscatoris Fishing Colony (req. completion of Swan Song quest) or gained from big net fishing. Some monsters also drop seaweed and edible seaweed.
Last but not least, as stated further up, Arhein keeps a personal stock of 80 pieces, which can be collected every day, with a time span of 24 hours counting from the last time you collected.

Seaweed can be replaced by Swamp weed (dropped by Cave crawler, combat 96) or Kelp (found in the underwater area discovered during Recipe for Disaster).

1. Cook the seaweed on a fire or range to get soda ash.
2. Keep both Bucket of sand and Soda ash in your inventory and use one of the material on a furnace to get Molten glass.
3. Use the Glassblowing pipe on the Molten glass and choose what you would like to make from the menu.

Item	Level required	Xp gained
Beer glass	1	17,5
Candle lantern	4	19
Oil lamp	12	25
Oil lantern*	26	50
Vial	33	35
Fishbowl	42	42,5
Unpowered orb	46	52,5
Bullseye lantern lense	49	55
Empty lightorb	87	70
Dorgeshuun light orb**	87	104

*Made by adding an Oil lantern frame to an Oil lamp.
**Made by adding Filament to an Empty lightorb. 'Xp gained' does not include making the Empty lightorb.

Potion flasks (members)

With an update 7 January 2012 came potion flasks. To make the flasks you'll need red sandstone. It can be mined north of Oo'glog with level 81 mining. Only 50 bits can be mined each day. Take the red sandstone to Rutmir in Oo'glog (requires quest 'As A First Resort...'). Use his special machine to get robust glass. Craft the flasks with the use of a glassblowing pipe.

Potion flask	Level required	Xp gained
	89	100

My thoughts on glass making

This is the start of a lovely friendship. Despite what people say, this IS the most endurable and easiest way to get crafting experience once you have reached level 33. Make vials to sell or keep for personal use when making potions. Once you get to level 46 it's Unpowered orbs all the way. In combination with some magic and battlestaffs, you will get a total of 210 experience for making an Air battlestaff.

When it comes to Dorgeshuun light orbs... don't! Just don't. They give less crafting experience than what you get for a complete Air battlestaff, and they are certainly not worth it from the Firemaking aspect either. It will take about an hour to replace 30 lamps. That's 30.000 Firemaking xp. Burning Maple logs the traditional way, wihout fire ring or fire gloves, for an hour will give over 140.000 xp.

Potion flasks only have positive aspects in my opinion. The only downside (50 per day per player) is negated by one of the upsides. They give the same amount of experience as Infernal urns, but are faster to make. Given their limited production and durability they could be a good income source because there would be a constant demand. They hold 6 potion doses instead of just 4.

Battlestaffs (members)

There is no escaping that making battlestaffs is THE most time consuming aspect of crafting. You will need patience and determination to keep it up. But then it all depends on how you go about it.
The simplest way is to take a charged orb (fire, earth, water or air) and attach it to the orbless battlestaff. Viola! Done. But if you are a true crafter, please keep reading.

Battlestaffs can be purchased from Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle, Mage Arena and Zaff in Varrock.
Baba Yaga has a stock of 20 battlestaffs, which restock slowly. Her price depends on the current market price at the Grand Exchange.
The Mage Arena trades them in exchange for Pizzaz points (1 Telekinetic, 2 Alchemist, 20 Enchantment & 2 Graveyard).

Zaff has a personal stock of 8, 16, 32 and 64 battlestaffs a day. The amount you can purchase is determined by your level of achievement of the Varrock Achievement Diary and which type of Varrock armour you are wearing. If you haven't started the diary you will only be able to buy 8 battlestaffs. His stock refills at midnight, Greenwich time (unlike Bert's and Arhein's).

Battlestaffs can also be obtained as monster drops.

Varrock Diary Achievement	Amount of battlestaffs
Completed no tasks or not wearing any Varrock armour	8
Completed 'Easy' tasks and wearing Varrock armour 1	16
Completed 'Medium' tasks and wearing Varrock armour 2	32
Completed 'Hard' tasks and wearing Varrock armour 3	64

Charging orbs

Once you have made the desired amount of Unpowered orbs it's time to get them charged. There are four different obelisks where to do this. The Fire and Water obelisks are located in and above Taverley Dungeon while Earth and Air are located in and above Edgeville Dungeon.

Choose what kind of charge you want and withdraw 30 of the corresponding elemental rune, or wield a staff of the same element, and 3 Cosmic runes per spell/orb. Cast the spell on the obelisk and you're good to go.

Spell	Magic level required	Runes required per orb
Charge Water Orb	56	30 Water 3 Cosmic
Charge Earth Orb	60	30 Earth 3 Cosmic
Charge Fire Orb	63	30 Fire 3 Cosmic
Charge Air Orb	66	30 Air 3 Cosmic

Attaching

This is very simple. Just use the charged orb with the battlestaff.

Item	Level required	Xp gained	Item effect
Water battlestaff	54	100	Replaces the need for Water runes when using spells
Earth battlestaff	58	112,5	Replaces the need for Earth runes when using spells
Fire battlestaff	62	125	Replaces the need for Fire runes when using spells
Air battlestaff	66	137,5	Replaces the need for Air runes when using spells

My thoughts on battlestaffs

By far the best way to level crafting. I really recommend making these from scratch without buying any material (except battlestaffs). It will take time (level 84-99 in 9 months; 1080 staffs a week) but it's definitely worth it. Being self-sufficient it's possible to make a profit of 1300 coins per staff (price of seaweed not deducted). This includes making your own runes for charging orbs and high alchs.
448 battlestaffs/week = 94.080xp = 582.400gp profit