Crafting

Crafting
Released		8 May 2001 (Update)
Members		No
Type		Production
Statistics
Players with 99		254,256 as of 1 August 2026 - update
Players with 200M XP		619 as of 4 August 2026 - update

Crafting is a skill that allows players to create items such as jewellery, pottery, and armour for use or for trade.

The Crafting Guild is located north-west of Rimmington and can be entered at level 40 Crafting while wearing a brown apron.

Spinning is the process of turning raw materials such as wool into balls of wool, or flax into bow strings, by using a spinning wheel. A popular and convenient spinning wheel is located below the bank in Lumbridge Castle.

Weaving is a similar process to spinning, taking various raw materials and making a finished, usable product. Instead of a spinning wheel, weaving uses a loom to process the materials.

Pottery is the art of turning soft clay into various objects using a potter's wheel, followed by using the shaped clay with a pottery oven. Soft clay is obtained by mining clay, then using it with an object containing water, such as a bucket of water or a jug of water.

To begin leather crafting, players need a needle and thread, normally purchased from the Al Kharid or Rimmington Crafting shops, and some cowhide tanned into leather. In a free-to-play world, this means visiting the tanner in Al Kharid until players are able to enter the guild. Tanning costs 1 coin per ordinary leather, 3 coins for hard leather, and 20 coins for dragonhide. There is also a more expensive tannery available to Members in Canifis.

The cattle field east of Lumbridge is a convenient spot for leather crafters and is easy to get to, but it is normally largely populated. Another convenient location to obtain cowhide in a free-to-play world is to the west of the Crafting Guild, where there are many more cows together in a smaller place, allowing faster kills. For Members, there is a field of cows north of Ardougne and west of the Legends' Guild, which is fairly close to a bank and very rarely occupied by players.

Note: 1 spool of thread can make up to 5 pieces of leather armour.

This Members-only part of the Crafting skill is extremely similar to normal leather crafting, except that:

• 20 are paid to tan one piece of hide.
• Only vambraces, chaps, shields, and bodies can be made.
• High Level Alchemy is better cast on dragonhide bodies or vambraces rather than chaps, for their difference in coins received.
• Killing dragons for their hides is slow but profitable. Buying dragonhides is faster, though price is far higher than the high-alchemy value.
• Players may attach kebbit claws to any vambraces to make spiked vambraces, giving them a +2 Strength bonus and granting 6 Crafting experience.

Snakeskins are made by tanning Snake hides, which can be found by killing bush snakes (on Mos Le'Harmless), Hoop Snakes (in the Tar Swamp), or on Karamja (during the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup activity) or swamp snakes (during the Temple Trekking activity). They can be tanned for 15 each, and then crafted using a needle and thread.

After starting The Fremennik Isles quest, players can kill yaks to obtain yak-hides and make them into Fremennik armour pieces. The yak hides need to be cured for 5 to become craftable. It is not advised to make bodies for experience because it costs an extra hide for the same return.

In the Mort Myre swamp, there are snails that drop shells when killed. Using a chisel with these shells will create snelms. Snelms come in two varieties: pointed and rounded.

After beginning the portion of Recipe for Disaster quest to free Pirate Pete, players can craft crab armour. The materials are dropped by the giant crabs encountered during the quest. They can be crafted using a chisel.

Xerician robes is a set of magic robes obtainable by crafting Xerician fabric, which can be obtained as a drop from Lizardmen or loot from Stone chests.

Splitbark armour is a set of magic armour obtainable by crafting bark and fine cloth. Player can obtain bark from chopping a hollow tree and fine cloth from the Shades of Mort'ton minigame.

Mixed hide armour is a set of ranged armour obtainable by crafting with various furs. The furs can be attained through Hunter or purchased from a shop.

Hueycoatl hide armour is a set of ranged armour obtainable by crafting each piece with Hueycoatl hide, which can be obtained as a drop from the Hueycoatl boss in Varlamore.

Glass making will require the following items:

• A glassblowing pipe. They can be obtained from various places, including respawn points on Entrana and in Hemenster or the stores in Dorgesh-Kaan and the Piscatoris Fishing Colony.
• Buckets of sand. There are sand pits in Yanille, Rellekka, Dorgesh-Kaan, Zanaris, Prifddinas, and Entrana. Use an empty bucket with a sandpit to get a bucket of sand. If The Hand in the Sand quest has been completed, Bert can be asked to deliver 84 buckets of sand to the bank once per day free of charge. He must be asked each time either by talking to him in person or via the Astral Contact spell, however he will deliver the sand to your bank automatically each day with the completion of the elite Ardougne Diary. Finally, you can get buckets of sand from the Sandstorm which resides west of the quarry in the desert. Here, you can put sandstone from the nearby quarry into the grinder to get sand, which can be retrieved from Drew nearby who you must first give empty buckets to, from which you can then get buckets of sand for 50 gold/bucket.
• Soda ash is made by burning seaweed, swamp weed or giant seaweed (which will give 6 soda ash) on a range or fire (with no experience in any skill). There are a number of seaweed spawning on Entrana, near the Rock Crabs in Rellekka, and on Karamja. Seaweed can also be fished using a big fishing net. There are two quick spawns inside the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. Additionally, seaweed and soda ash can be bought from Trader Stan's Trading Post for 5 coins each. Giant seaweed can be harvested from a seaweed patch at 21 Farming after planting a seaweed spore.

With all of the ingredients in the inventory, use a bucket of sand and soda ash in a furnace to create molten glass.

Note: The Lunar spell Superglass Make also can be used to convert soda ashes/seaweeds and buckets of sand into molten glass. Buckets will not be returned, as the spell destroys them completely. Using this spell yields 10 Crafting experience for each bucket of sand used, rather than the 20 normally obtained by using a furnace. However, this will also make between one and ten extra molten glass.

Use the glassblowing pipe with the molten glass to blow various items.

Entrana is a good place to blow glass, as it has respawns for glassblowing pipes and seaweed and has a sand pit, a range and a furnace.

Dorgesh-Kaan also has a sandpit next to a furnace. Molanisks, which can be found just south of the city, drop swamp weed, a suitable substitute for seaweed. There is also a range just to the east of the furnace, making Dorgesh-Kaan an effective place to blow glass. For further Crafting experience one can add a cave goblin wire to a light orb. Cave goblin wire can be stolen from a machine next to the furnace in Dorgesh-Kaan (level 44 Thieving required and 22 Thieving experience gained). Adding the wire gives 104 Crafting experience (level 87 Crafting required).

For those who already have their raw materials in the bank, Edgeville is the best location to glassblow, as it has one of the closest furnaces to a bank at a distance of 14 tiles with no requirements to use. Neitiznot has both a clay oven (for burning seaweed) and a clay forge for glassmaking within one click of a bank chest, and is only slightly worse than the Edgeville furnace at 15 tiles from a bank. Note that Neitiznot is only accessible to those who have completed The Fremennik Trials.

In order to fill oil lamps with lamp oil, use a piece of swamp tar on a lamp oil still with an empty oil lamp in the inventory. There are 2 stills in Gielinor: the scientists house in Rimmington and the lamp stall in Dorgesh-Kaan.

Gems can be cut with a chisel. Cutting semiprecious gems (opal, jade and red topaz) will sometimes fail and the player will receive a crushed gem instead. Uncut sapphire or rarer gems cannot fail to be cut and will always result in a cut gem.

Crafting silver jewellery is done by using cut semiprecious gems, the mould of the jewellery item, and a silver bar into a furnace.

Crafting gold jewellery is done by using cut gems, the mould of the jewellery item, and a gold bar into a furnace.

Crafting weaponry is done by combining battlestaves with charged orbs or by creating Silver bolts (unf) in a furnace with a bolt mould.

A silver bar and the appropriate mould is required to craft one of these items:

A clockwork and the appropriate logs with a chisel and hammer are required to craft these items:

Upon completing any of the following quests, players may choose to allocate experience to Crafting. These rewards usually come in the form of items, such as lamps or books, and are independent of any experience rewards directly received for completing the quest.

• In RuneScape Classic, there was briefly a skill that had very little use called Tailoring, which was trained by crafting and tanning leather. It was removed and re-added as an addition to the skill today of Crafting.

• Crafting/Experience table, a list of all Crafting experience sources
• Crafting/Level up table, a list of all requirements and unlockables within the Crafting skill

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Gathering	Farming Fishing Hunter Mining Woodcutting
Production	Cooking Crafting Fletching Herblore Runecraft Smithing
Utility	Agility Construction Firemaking Sailing Slayer Thieving
Proposed skills	Artisan Warding Taming Sailing (2015 proposal) Shamanism
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