Theoatrix's 1-99 Crafting Guide (OSRS)

Theoatrix
Feb 1, 2019
10 min read

Updated: Apr 29

Whats going on guys, my name’s Theoatrix and welcome to my updated crafting guide…

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Changes To Crafting

There has been some changes to the skill since my last guide…

June 2023: Jagex introduced mixed hide armour
September 2024: Jagex added Hueycoatl

Why Train Crafting

Crafting is one of the more important skills in old school, where training unlocks a range of jewellery and equipment.

You need level 55 crafting to be able to make the slayer helmet, and you need 75 crafting to make slayer rings.

You also need 75 to be able to make the divine rune pouch, rewarded from the tombs of amascut.

For ironmen, crafting is an essential skill, for the creation of armour, and especially for jewellery.

Items like the games necklace, ring of dueling, amulet of glory, and more, can all be made with crafting and magic.

A range of notable quests also have a crafting requirement including sins of the father and dragon slayer 2.

For the quest cape, you need 70 crafting, which is the requirement for monkey madness 2. For the achievement diary cape, you need 85 crafting to create a magic pyre ship.

You can boost with a mushroom pie which gives a +4 crafting level boost.

With that, you can craft items you havent unlocked yet to speed up your xp rates, or ironmen can use these pies to make armour and jewellery 4 levels early.

Low Level Training

Now ill take you through the best low level training pathways for crafting. There are 4 different methods that i recommend from level 1.

Questing (Low Level)

Questing is probably the most efficient way to level up, if youre going for the quest cape, where you can complete the murder mystery quest to go from 1 to 9 crafting.

There are a range of other quests that give a crafting reward, where death on the isle gives a notable 5 thousand experience.

Cutting Opals (Low Level)

For those wanting to train crafting normally, the fastest way to level up is by cutting opal gems. To do this, you use a chisel on an uncut opal, which you can buy off the grand exchange.

To go from level 1 to 20, you should buy 500 uncut opals since there’s a chance of crushing these when cutting. Going from 1 to 20 is going to take under 10 minutes, and the cost is minimal. For your reference, the xp rate at a low level is about 20k xp per hour cutting opals.

Leather Crafting (Low Level)

An alternative crafting training method from a low level, which is also the fastest low level crafting xp in free to play, is crafting leather items.

This involves starting with leather gloves at level 1, all the way up to leather bodies at level 20. You need 217 leather to reach 20, and is currently going to cost 70k.

To make leather items, you use a needle on regular leather, while having thread in your inventory. Above, im using a threadless needle, which is rewarded from the Death on the Isle quest. This removes the need to use thread, and is nice to have.

Stringing Amulets (Low Level)

Stringing amulets with balls of wool is a profitable way to training from level 1.

Doing this, you can get 10k xp per hour, and in particular, ruby and dragonstone amulets are quite profitable to make.

Fastest Methods

Alright, now im going to cover the fastest ways to 99 crafting. Unlike most skills, these fast methods aren’t overly expensive.

Crafting has become a lot cheaper over the years, and has even become profitable.

I’m going to cover 3 fast training pathways.

Gem Cutting (Fast Methods)

Gem cutting is the fastest way to level from 1 until level 77 crafting, and is quite cheap with the lower level gems.

Here is the complete pathway to 99 cutting the best viable gems.

After opals, you start on sapphires at level 20, and work your way up the standard gemstones.

Dragonstones are extremely expensive though, costing nearly 500 mil to reach 99, so instead, you can stick to cutting emeralds, rubies or diamonds all the way to 99, for fast xp rates, and some short AFK times.

Cutting emeralds is very cheap, but rubies are a good one too since theyre fast, and you can get 99 at a cost of only 30 mil. I would strongly recommend against doing dragonstone cutting, and stick to the lower level gems to save money.

Battlestaves (Fast Methods)

Another fast, and a more cost effective way to train your crafting, is by making battlestaves. You unlock the first one at level 54 crafting, then it goes from water, to earth, fire and air, at 66.

Your xp rates scale from 240 to 330 k xp per hour, and overall its going to take under 40 hours to reach 99.. However.. Air battlestaves are quite expensive in comparison to the others, so with that, you can stick to either water or earth battlestaves to save money.

With water battlestaves, you currently make a profit of around 3 mil getting 99, which is very minimal, but its still profit. It takes 50 hours with waterbattlestaves, but only 42 hours with earth battlestaves. So for a higher xp rate, you can spend a couple of mil instead of making a profit.

Battlestaves are made by combining charged orbs with a regular battlestaff. So you withdraw 14 of each, and use them on eachother, then you craft all 14 and repeat.

D'hide Bodies (Fast Methods)

The fastest way to train your crafting at a high level, is by making dragonhide bodies. At level 63 you can start on green dhide bodies, and it goes up to blue, red then black dhide. Doing the best body you can all the way to 99, its going to take under 35 hours from level 63.

However… it is going to cost over 200 mil, mostly due to the massive loss when making black dhide bodies.

So with that, you can once again stick to one type of dragonhide all the way to 99, like doing green dhide bodies, it will take 40 hours for 99, and at a cost of 20 mil.

Blue dhide bodies arent too bad either, but green is the cheapest. So i mentioned earlier that gem cutting is the fastest xp until level 77… well at 77 you unlock red dhide bodies which are faster than cutting dragonstone.

To make dhide bodies, you use dragonleather on a needle and thread, and then you select to create your full inventory.

Alternative Methods

Now lets move into the alternative methods section, where i show some AFK methods and a few other fast methods.

Glassblowing (Alternative Method)

First up, one of the most afk crafting methods in the game, is glassblowing. For every inventory that you make, you can afk for about 50 seconds.

However, the xp rates are quite low in comparison to the fastest methods.

Pretty much every glassblowing method doesnt cost a lot of money, usually under 20 mil to reach level 99.

Unpowered orbs and light orbs are particularly cheap, although theres not a huge difference.

To make glass items, you use a glassblowing pipe on molten glass. Then you select to create your full inventory, then you can go afk.

Cutting Amethyst (Alternative Method)

Once you reach level 83 crafting, you can start cutting amethyst.

It ranges from bolt tips, through to dart tips at 89, although the xp rates for all of them are the same, at around 160k per hour. The method involves just using a chisel on regular amethyst, then you craft the inventory at the same speed as cutting gems.

In terms of cost, arrowtips and dart tips are generally pretty cheap, and sometimes even can be profitable. I would stay away from bolt tips and javelin heads since they have far lower trade volumes on the grand exchange.

Profit Methods

Alright now lets go through the profitable crafting methods. And ill be showing jewellery, drift nets, mixed hide and hueycoatl armour.

Silver Jewellery (Profit Method)

Currently, you can make nearly 1 mil gp per hour crafting silver topaz amulets. These are unlocked at level 45 crafting, and is one of many pieces of silver jewellery that brings in a profit.

Jewellery like opal necklaces, which are commonly enchanted to become dodgy necklaces, and theres jade amulets, used to make the amulet of chemistry, and more which bring a lot of profit.

For these methods, you bring a mould to the furnace with silver bars and gemstones, then you just click the furnace to open the crafting interface. The afk interval for one inventory of silver jewellery is 25 seconds, which is not that bad for a profitable and decently fast method.

Gold Jewellery (Profit Method)

Gold jewellery is another profitable crafting method, where crafting any piece of gold with a gemstone is usually going to be profitable. Things like sapphire necklaces, emerald rings, and ruby amulets are all in high demand, and give decent xp per hour.

Although, gold jewellery really becomes profitable once you reach dragonstone, where currently, making dragonstone bracelets will earn you over 30 mil on your journey to 99, while giving over 150k xp per hour.

Drift Nets (Profit Method)

Now another fairly profitable crafting method is unlocked at level 26, where you can make drift nets out of jute fibres. This is done at a loom, which you can find one near a bank on fossil island.

You get a maximum of 60k xp per hour doing this, while profiting over 500k, so doing this from 26 to 99 will bring in 130 mil in profit, but will take 200 hours. Theres a fairly decent afk interval with drift nets too, about 25 seconds.

Mixed Hide (Profit Method)

As I mentioned at the start, jagex introduced mixed hide armour to the game in 2023. Well with that, making it can be a highly profitable money maker depending on the grand exchange. You can make the top, legs, boots or cape, for very high xp rates, while profiting a lot.

To make mixed hide armour. You combine a mixed hide base with certain furs. You obtain mixed hide bases within the hunter guild, or you can also buy them off the grand exchange.

Overall, making mixed hide bodies is the most profitable right now, but im not sure how long that will last. And one thing to keep in mind with this method, is that it costs a lot of money to buy the supplies for most of these, so you do need a lot of starting capital.

Hueycoatl (Profit Method)

The final profitable method i want to talk about is hueycoatl armour. This is made with a needle and thread, used on hueycoatl hides. After monitoring the profitability, they seem to remain consistently profitable to craft, but there can be challenges with buying enough hides and selling them quickly.

To be able to afford the supplies to get 99 crafting this way, you need over 20 billion gp. But you can definitely do this method incrementally.

Hueycoatl bodies actually give a higher xp rate than black dhide bodies, over 500k xp per hour.

Overall, with mixed and hueycoatl hide armour, its important to always double check the profitability of the methods with the live grand exchange prices. They can be very profitable, but you can also lose money in some cases.

AFK Training

I want to briefly show the afk aspect of crafting.

Purely gold or silver jewellery lets you afk for 50 seconds
Jewellery with gemstones takes 25 seconds
Glassblowing lets you afk for 50 seconds per inventory
Cutting gemstones or amethyst is 32 seconds
Crafting drift nets at a loom gives 26 seconds of afk time
Battlestaves are 17 seconds
D'hide bodies take 16 seconds

Overall, most crafting methods have some afk aspect to them.

But in terms of a combination between afk time and xp per hour, cutting gemstones like rubies or emeralds gives a good balance.

Ironman Crafting

As an ironman, crafting works a little differently. The majority of your time is spent gathering the supplies that you need, and only a smaller portion of time is spent actually crafting.

There are a variety of ways ironmen can gather supplies. Charter ships provide the essentials for glass blowing. And theres also sandstone mining, seaweed farming, the shilo village gem mine, or thieving tzhaars for gems.

The best way to train from a low level is completing quests. Quests like murder mystery and elemental workshop are a great way to boost through the slow early levels.

Once you reach level 10 you can start making bowstring out of flax. This can be done in camelot, where you can pick the flax and spin it nearby.

If youre a keen quester, then theres about 10 different quests you can do that have minimal requirements.

Doing all of those quests will get you from level 1 to 35 crafting, skipping most of the slow early levels.

Some of your low level crafting could also be done at the guardians of the rift minigame, where you passively gain 3 to 5 k crafting xp per hour.

The most common method to 99 crafting on an iron is glassblowing at charterships.

This involves buying seaweed and buckets of sand from charter ships and using the superglassmake spell, and banking.

Making jewellery is another common way for ironmen to train crafting, where you can get a lot of gold bars from buying gold ore at the blast furnace.

Gems can be obtained in the early game from places like the wintertodt, and at higher levels, the shilo village gem mine is a great source of gems.

There is also battlestaves for ironmen, where with completion of varrock achievement diaries, you can purchase battlestaves from zaff. You can also get battlestaves from pvm, or also from planting celastrus trees.

To get the powered orbs, you need to get them from pvm or you can also make them for some magic experience.

F2P 1-99 Crafting

And to finish, this video wouldnt be complete without explaining free to play crafting.

Crafting is fairly quick in free to play if you have the money, since cutting gems is available.

And there are 3 quests that give crafting xp in free to play, which can give you a small boost from a low level, or is particularly useful for free to play ironmen.

In free to play, you can string amulets with balls of wool, and stringing amulets like ruby ones can bring in some profit while giving decent xp from level 1.