Runescape 3 Crafting Guide, 1-99 Both Fast & Cheap Methods

It doesn't matter whether you're playing OSRS or RS3. Crafting is going to be a difficult and costly skill to level up.

Getting to the max level in crafting on RS3 isn't just time-consuming. It's going to be a long and expensive journey, but luckily, we're here to help you out. We've got the best crafting guide for RS3 that maxes out your skill as efficiently and as cheap as possible.

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Why Train Crafting In RS3?

Crafting is one of the oldest skills in Runescape 3. Aside from it being a max cape requirement, there are a few reasons why you might want to consider training this skill.

First of all, most of the methods used to train this skill are either semi-afk or fully afk, meaning you can do whatever side activity you want to do while training this skill. You want to gain experience while working or perhaps you want to finally binge that show you have been saving for a while, then this is the skill to train while doing those!

Secondly some of the methods are actually profitable so you can turn them into afk money making methods if you choose to do so. Also you can make urns using this skill which can't be bought (finished version) on grand exchange. There is a urn for almost all skills on Runescape 3 and they provide extra experience to the player while doing that certain skill.

Lastly, most of the high-end gear and weapons in the game require you to have a certain crafting level to craft/combine them. Some of these items are tradable but buying the raw materials and turning them into the finished product will be cheaper and some of them aren't even tradable so you will need that crafting level to make them.

Aside from all these there are a number of quests which have a crafting requirement. So if you are looking to complete them (which some of them are almost essential for ones account) or if you want to get that juicy quest cape, you might want to get the following quests done:

• Gunnar's Ground - Crafting level 5
• Observatory Quest - Crafting level 10
• The Giant Dwarf - Crafting level 12
• The Great Brain Robbery - Crafting level 16
• Animal Magnetism - Crafting level 19
• Creature of Fenkenstrain - Crafting level 20
• Elemental Workshop 1 - Crafting level 20
• The Golem - Crafting level 20
• Shades of Mort'ton - Crafting level 20
• Shilo Village - Crafting level 20
• Tears of Guthix - Crafting level 20
• In Aid of the Myreque - Crafting level 25
• One Small Favour - Crafting level 25
• Smoking Kills - Crafting level 25
• Cold War - Crafting level 30
• Shadow of the Storm - Crafting level 30
• The Slug Menace - Crafting level 30
• Lost City - Crafting level 31
• The Darkness of Hallowvale - Crafting level 32
• Haunted Mine - Crafting level 35
• Missing My Mummy - Crafting level 35
• Enlightened Journey - Crafting level 36
• A Fairy Tale 3, Battle at Ork's Right - Crafting level 36
• The Fremennik Trials - Crafting level 40
• Swan Song - Crafting level 40
• Elemental Workshop 4 - Crafting level 41
• Rum Deal - Crafting level 42
• Toktz-Ket-Dill - Crafting level 43
• Cabin Fever - Crafting level 45
• The Fremennik Isles - Crafting level 46
• Legacy of Seergaze - Crafting level 47
• The Hand in the Sand - Crafting level 49
• Enakhra's Lament - Crafting level 50
• Legends' Quest - Crafting level 50
• In Pyre Need - Crafting level 52
• Some Like It Cold - Crafting level 56
• Kindred Spirits - Crafting level 60
• Lunar Diplomacy - Crafting level 61
• The Branches of Darkmeyer - Crafting level 64
• Rocking Out - Crafting level 66
• Love Story - Crafting level 67
• Do No Evil - Crafting level 68
• The Void Stares Back - Crafting level 70
• Plague's End - Crafting level 75
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat - Crafting level 76
• The Light Within - Crafting level 80
• Sins of the Father - Crafting level 85
• Jed Hunter - Crafting level 91

As you can see there are a LOT of quests which have a crafting requirement and if you are looking to complete all the aerial tasks in the game, you will need to have at least 98 crafting (that task can be done via boosting as well).

Helpful Items and Tools

Before we dive right into the training methods, we must first talk about the items. Because in the long run these items will make you train in the best way possible. If you are already familiar with the items please skip to the next heading. But to make it easier for you, here's a little table to check out:

Artisan's  Outfit

This outfit can be bought from the stealing creation reward shop for 500 stealing creation points. Each piece provides a +1% crafting experience boost when worn. Wearing the full set gives an extra +1% bonus experience boost.

• Artisan's bandana - +1% Boost
• Artisan's top - +1% Boost
• Artisan's legs - +1% Boost
• Artisan's gloves - +1% Boost
• Artisan's boots - +1% Boost
• Set bonus - +1% Boost

Modified Artisan's Bandana

Can be bought from the stealing creation reward shop for 100 stealing creation points. In addition to its experience bonus. This item also provides teleports to the crafting guild 3 times per day. You can right click on the item to claim free clay every day and lastly it provides a 5% chance to save one piece of leather.

Portable Crafter

This item can be bought from other players using trade or grand exchange or you can get it randomly as a reward from treasure hunter. You can place this item down near a bank and use it to train your crafting. Using this station will provide you with:

• 10% base experience bonus
• 10% chance to save a hide or clay per item crafted
• 5% chance of gems barring onyx and hydrix

You can also use this item to tan hides.

Scroll of Dexterity

This item can be bought from the Dungeoneering reward shop for 20K Dungeoneering tokens and requires level 60 Dungeoneering and Crafting. Using this item permanently unlocks a passive ability. This passive ability has the chance to save one material when crafting items that require 3 or more of the same material.

Brooch of the Gods

This is an skilling off-hand, that will provide you with the following benefits while using a portable crafter:

• The chance of saving hides or soft clay when using a portable crafter increases to 20%.
• The chance of saving gems when using a portable crafter increases to 10%.

Torstol Incense Stick

Consuming each one of these sticks will provide an additional increase to your base Crafting experience. It is recommended to overload with these to get the maximum experience increase instantly, which is 2%.

Sacred Clay Needle

This is yet another item from the Stealing Creation minigame. This item can be bought for 20 Stealing Creation points. It grants 24,450 bonus Crafting experience upon use.

Crafting Potion

This item can temporarily boost your crafting level by 3, allowing you to craft items that are above your Crafting level.

Dwarven Army Axe

Provides +3 base experience when crafting items from leather, hard leather and soft clay.

Inspire Genius

This is an Archeology relic power that can be unlocked at level 118 Archeology. When active it will provide you with a bonus 2% experience.

Crafting Cape/Crafting Master Cape

After reaching level 99/120 you can purchase skill mastery capes which provide the following bonuses:

• Provides unlimited thread.
• 0.75% chance to cut all the gems of the same type in your inventory. ( The first gem that triggers the capes effect can also trigger the portable crafter and crystal chisels effect, however the rest of the gems that are cut with the capes effect lose out on the chance to be saved by a portable crafter and be duplicated by a crystal chisel.)

Artificer's Measure

This is an untradable item requiring level 99 Crafting, 102 Archeology and level 40 Dungeoneering to craft. Using this item will provide the following perks:

• The activation chance of the scroll of dexterity, is multiplied by 1.25.
• If the scroll of dexterity activates, you will gain a buff providing you a 0.5% experience boost to Crafting and Construction. This buff can stack 10 times for a total of 5% experience boost. Buff lasts for 5 minutes but can be refreshed with each trigger.
• You receive a 5% chance to duplicate any manufactured items while glassblowing and forming urns. This bonus is also applied when you are crafting flasks, crystal flasks or ogre flasks.

1-99 and Beyond Crafting Training

Depending on what you want to achieve, any crafting method can be trained all the way up to 200M Crafting experience. I will list the best methods and their benefits below so pick and choose the best ones that suit your time and bank! Here's a quick table for easy leveling. Read on if you want a more in-depth guide:

Levels 1-46+ Molten Glass

Molten glass is an item that can be crafted into various items using a glassblowing pipe. If you are an iron man you can craft molten glass by combining a bucket of sand and soda ash in a furnace. Always choose the latest craftable option you have unlocked.

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Starting at level 46 Crafting  you can craft unpowered orbs. Which can also be sold at a decent profit since they are used for crafting staves.

Average Unpowered Orb Experience - 91K EXP/H

Full Focus Unpowered Orb Experience - 120K EXP/H

Levels 1-77+ Pottery and Jewellery

Compared to other training methods this method is slow but cheap. You can craft a variety of different items from jewellery to urns. Most of them will make you a decent bit of profit while training. Use the table below to pick your training method:

Level 20+ Cutting Gems

Compared to other methods this method is really fast and expensive. If you are filthy rich and just want to get the fastest experience rates out there, start cutting gems starting at level 20. Here is a list of gems and their experience rates per hour, assuming that you are focused enough to cut 4000 gems per hour. Keep in mind that you can crush opal, jade or red topaz. So if you are looking to make profit from them as shown below you should start cutting them at level 89 Crafting or above.

• Level 1 Crafting: Opal - 60K Experience per hour/-244K Profit per hour
• Level 13 Crafting: Jade - 80K Experience per hour/2,5M Profit per hour
• Level 16 Crafting: Red topaz - 100K Experience per hour/376K Profit per hour
• Level 20 Crafting: Sapphire - 200K Experience per hour/-276K Profit per hour
• Level 27 Crafting: Emerald - 270K Experience per hour/-116K Profit per hour
• Level 34 Crafting: Ruby - 340K Experience per hour/-84K Profit per hour
• Level 43 Crafting: Diamond - 430k Experience per hour/-608K Profit per hour
• Level 55 Crafting: Dragonstone - 550K Experience per hour/-3.9M Profit per hour
• Level 72 Crafting: Onyx - 670K Experience per hour/-182M Profit per hour
• Level 79 Crafting Hydrix - 790K Experience per hour/2.8B Profit per hour

Obviously doing onyxies or hydrixies for a full hour is unrealistic and impossible. So your experience rate per hour caps at dragonstones.

Level 24-80+ Stringing Amulets

This method of training your crafting is an unpopular one. It involves buying unstrung amulets on grand exchange and combining them with a piece of wool. At level 80 magic, you can cast String Jewellery spell to automatically string all your amulets in your inventory.

Level 54+ Crafting Battlestaves

This method is a really fast way to train your crafting but it requires stockpiling the item that you want to craft. So before commencing this method make sure to stock the required components in your bank over a long period of time. You can buy up to 1K battlestaves on the Grand Exchange every 4 hours. Here are the battlestaves you can craft and their respective experience per hours:

• Crafting level 54: Water battlestaff - 220K Experience per hour
• Crafting level 58: Earth battlestaff - 247K Experience per hour
• Crafting level 62: Fire battlestaff - 275K Experience per hour
• Crafting level 66: Air battlestaff - 302K Experience per hour

Level 63+ Dragonhide Armour

Starting at level 63 Crafting, you unlock a really popular method to train your crafting. This method is really fast but expensive. Check the table below to find the suitable item for your account.

Levels 75+ AFKing Harps

This method of training is completely different then all the other methods and this one is the most AFKable method out of all them, requiring little to no attention to your game. Just look and click every once in a while to not log off :D. To do this method you need to have access to the elven city of Prifddinas. This method will also yield a small amount of construction experience as well. 

• EXP/H: 50K

Other Ways To Train Crafting

Enchanting Jewellery

After crafting your amulets you can choose to enchant them as well. These items become significantly more valuable when enchanted and this process will also yield a decent amount of magic experience.

Signs of Porter

You can convert your necklaces(up to dragonstone) into signs of the porter, if you have the required divination level to do so. Keep in mind that Signs of porter are not tradable.

Crafting Spider Silk

If you have a high level account you can choose to farm corpse spiders for invention components. These spiders drop a lot of spider silk and thread on the ground, you can easily pick all of them up using area loot and craft them into armour. This method is completely free but slow.

Weaving, Clan Citadel

You can use the loom in your clan citadel (tier 5 or higher) to gain some crafting experience. This is free and a relatively quick method. The experience you gain scales with your crafting level but with higher levels of crafting you can expect to get 120K-200K experience each week.

Grinding Sandstone with Telekinetic Grind

This method solely depends on how fast you are, making this a really click intensive method. For this you will need to have the quest Lunar Diplomacy completed with level 89 magic to cast the telekinetic grind spell. You should also stockpile sandstone by trading other players before doing this method. You can get up to 400K experience per hour using this method.

Max Out Grinding Now

Even with this guide, it's going to take a while and a lot of RS gold to get crafting to 99. You're going to need a lot of this leveling know-how if you're planning on doing major tasks like the Group Ironman challenge in RS3.

FAQs

What's the fastest way to train Crafting from level 1 to 99 in RS3?

The fastest way to train Crafting in RS3 is to use high-XP methods with minimal bank interaction. A popular fast route is:

• Levels 1-54: Crafting leather items or cutting gems (sapphire → diamond).
• Levels 54-63: Green d'hide bodies.
• Levels 63-71: Blue d'hide bodies.
• Levels 71-84: Red d'hide bodies or battlestaves.
• Levels 84-99: Black d'hide bodies or elder battlestaves (very fast, expensive).

For ultra-speed:

• Use portable crafters.
• Activate bonus XP or Double XP Live.
• Equip Artisan's outfit (+6% XP).
  
  

With protean hides on DXP or pulse cores, players can skip huge level brackets nearly instantly.

How much does it cost to get 99 Crafting in RuneScape 3?

The cost depends entirely on the method chosen:

• Gem cutting (fast): ~150-300M GP from 1-99.
• Battlestaves (mid): ~100-180M GP.
• Dragonhide bodies (efficient): ~70-120M GP, depending on GE prices.
• Protean hides (DXP): Free if earned, otherwise ~200k+ GP/ea.

Cheapest options involve:

• Daily battlestaves from Zaff (after Varrock Hard Tasks).
• Dungeoneering Crafting (no GP cost).
• Utilizing bonus XP and portable skilling setups.

Tracking market prices weekly helps minimize cost. Consider waiting for DXP Live to reduce GP per XP significantly.

Can you profit while training Crafting in RS3?

Yes, but only with specific methods. Most fast routes cost GP, but these methods can profit or break even:

• Jewelry Crafting: Make emerald/amethyst rings or dragonstone necklaces during good GE margins.
• Unstrung symbols: Occasionally profitable.
• D'hide Bodies: Sell for minimal loss, or slight profit with GE monitoring.
• Urn Crafting (strongly profitable): Create decorated urns, especially during Portables rotation.
• F2P Options: Crafting gold amulets or hard leather bodies can offer small gains.

Profit requires effort in GE flipping or supply buying. Efficient Ironmen can also profit by crafting runespan urns or using kingdom resources.

What are the best items to craft at each level milestone?

Here's a milestone path optimized for XP and accessibility:

• 1-20: Leather gloves → hard leather bodies.
• 20-54: Cut gems (emerald → diamond) or craft urns.
• 54-63: Green d'hide bodies (very fast, accessible).
• 63-71: Blue d'hide bodies or battlestaves.
• 71-84: Red d'hide bodies or black d'hide if affordable.
• 84-99: Black d'hide bodies, elder battlestaves, or full protean hides on DXP.
  
  

Bonus Note: Always check for Double XP weekends and stack bonuses like the Artisan's outfit, Wise aura, and pulse cores for best effect.

Are there any Crafting training boosts or XP multipliers I should use?

Absolutely! XP stacking is the key to Crafting success. Here are essential boosts:

• Artisan's Outfit: +6% XP across 5 pieces.
• Portable Crafter: ~10% more XP + chance to save materials.
• Pulse Cores: Flat XP buff and burst bonus XP.
• Bonus XP (BXP): Passive double XP when earned from events or daily challenges.
• Double XP Live: Best time to use protean items, urns, and d'hide.
• Skilling Urns: Adds +20-25% passive XP; always keep one active.
• Wise Aura (from Loyalty Store): 2.5-3% extra XP/hour depending on tier.

Stacking all of the above can easily double or triple XP efficiency, saving hundreds of millions in GP.

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