Runescape Skill Guide

Introduction

Crafting is a very usefull skill. You can make Pots, Ranged Armour, Magic Staffs, Ring, Amulets, Bowstrings and a lot more! There are a lot of items in crafting. You can buy them at crafting shops all over runescape located in: Al-Kharid, Rimmington and Marim on Ape Atol (members only).

Crafting Guild Guide

With pottery you can make pots, bowls and dishes. Before you can start pottery you’ll need clay, bucket of water and must be near a pottery wheel and pottery oven. Great locations are: Barbarian Village, Crafting Guild, Ardougne (members only) and Rellekka (members only).

Once you got all items and are on a good location start crafting the pots, bowls or dishes.

-Start with using the water on the clay to make soft clay.
-Use the soft clay on the Pottery Wheel.
-Finish with using the unfired object on the Pottery Oven. If you have low crafting lvl it could crack.

Picture	Name	Level	Exp for Spinning	Exp for Firing	Total Exp Earned	Members Only?
	Pot	1	6.25	6.25	12.5	no
	Pie Dish	7	15	10	25	no
	Bowl	8	18	15	33	no
	Plant Pot	8	20	17.5	37.5	yes
	Pot Lid	25	20	20	40	yes

Leather and Dragonhide armour is used for ranging armour. There are four types of leather: soft leather, hard leather, dragonhide and snakeskin.

Items used for making leather items:

Picture	Name	Location	Use
	Cowhide	Cows drop it (cows can be found northeast of Lumbridge and near Crafting Guild)	Making soft leather and hard leather items
	Snake skin	Bush Snakes from the Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up mini game and Giant Snakes from the Temple Trekking mini game	Making Snakeskin armour
	Dragonhide	Dropped by Dragons	Making Dragonhide armour
	Needle	Sold in crafting shops	Required for making all leather items
	Thread	Sold in crafting shops	Required for making all leather items

Tanning

Before you can use your hides for crafting leather items they need to be tanned. You can tan your hides at Al Kharid, the Crafting Guild and Canifis.

Here are the prices for tanning:

Soft Leather

Making soft leather items is one of the basic types of crafting. This is great way to start crafting. To get soft leather you need to tan cowhides.

Items Required: Soft Leather, Needle and Thread.

Soft leather items:

Picture	Crafting level required	Item	Experience Points Gained
	1	Leather Gloves	13.8
	7	Leather Boots	16.3
	9	Leather Cowl	18.5
	11	Leather Vambraces	22
	14	Leather Body	27
	18	Leather Chaps	27
	38	Coif	37

Hard Leather

Hard Leather is a more advance type of crafting than soft leather. Hard leather armour can be used as a fair ranging armour if you can’t afford better.

Items Required: Hard Leather, Needle, Thread (and Studs for studded items).

Hard leather items:

Picture	Crafting level required	Item	Experience Points Gained
	28	Hard leather body	35
	41	Studded body	40
	44	Studded leather chaps	42

Snakeskin Armour (members only)

Snakeskin Armour is a special ranging armour that requires 30 ranging to wear. Snakeskin is required to craft this armour you can obtain snakeskin by killing bush snakes in Tai Bwo Wannai cleanup mini game (Jungle Potion must be completed) or by cutting it from a Giant Snake in Temple Trekking mini game.

Items Required: Snake leather*, Needle and Thread.
*see how much for each items in the table.

Snakeskin items:

Picture	Crafting level required	Item	Amount snake leathers required	Experience Points Gained
	45	Snakeskin Boots	6 Snake leathers	30
	47	Snakeskin Vambraces	8 Snake leathers	35
	48	Snakeskin Bandanna	5 Snake leathers	45
	51	Snakeskin chaps	12 Snake leathers	50
	53	Snakeskin body	15 Snake leathers	55

Dragonhide Armour (members only)

Crafting dragonhide armour requires dragonhides. You can obtain dragonhides at the following monsters:

Green Dragonhide:
-Green Dragon

Blue Dragonhide:
-Baby Blue Dragon
-Blue Dragon

Red Dragonhide:
-Baby Red Dragon
-Red Dragon

Black Dragonhide:
-Black Dragon
-King Black Dragon

Items Required: Dragon Leather*, Needle, Thread.
*The appropriate color and amount see table for details.

Dragonhide items:

Picture	Crafting level required	Item	Dragon leather required	Experience Points Gained
	57	Green dragonhide vambraces	1 green dragon leather	62
	60	Green dragonhide chaps	2 green dragon leather	124
	63	Green dragonhide body	3 green dragon leather	186
	66	Blue dragonhide vambraces	1 blue dragon leather	70
	68	Blue dragonhide chaps	2 blue dragon leather	140
	71	Blue dragonhide body	3 blue dragon leather	210
	73	Red dragonhide vambraces	1 red dragon leather	78
	75	Red dragonhide chaps	2 red dragon leather	156
	77	Red dragonhide body	3 red dragon leather	234
	79	Black dragonhide vambraces	1 black dragon leather	86
	80	Black dragonhide chaps	2 black dragon leather	172
	82	Black dragonhide body	3 black dragon leather	258

Spiked Vambraces (members only)

At level 32 crafting you can use kebbit claws on your vambraces to give them an extra 2+ strength bonus.

There are a lot of spinning wheels in runescape. The most popular locations are: Falador, Seers Village (p2p), Tree Gnome Village (p2p) and Crafting Guild.

Picture	Name	Level	Items Needed	Use	Exp Earned	Members Only?
	Ball of Wool	1	Wool	Strining Amulets	2.5	no
	Bowstring	10	Flax	Strining Bows	15	yes
	Crossbow String	10	Sinew	Strining Crossbows	15	yes
	Crossbow String	10	Tree Roots	Strining Crossbows	15	yes
	Magic String	19	Magic Roots (Obtained by digging up a magic tree through use of the farming skill)	Stringing Nature Amulets	30	yes

Bowstrings (members only)

Bowstrings can be made very fast. But you need to know how to do it.

1-Start at the flax field south-east from Seers Bank. Pick a full inventory of flax.

2-Go to the spinning wheel north-west from the flax field. Go up in the house and spin your flax to bowstrings.

3-Go to Seers Bank and bank your bowstrings. Go back to the flax field to repeat the process.

Weaving helps you store your farming products. With the use of a sack you can carry a lot more crops than normally. There are only two loom locations; Falador and Elf Camp.

Picture	Name	Level	Items Needed	Use	Exp Earned	Members Only?
	Strip of Cloth	10	4 Balls of Wool	None	12	yes
	Sack	21	4 Jute Fibre	Storing harvested products	38	yes
	Basket	36	6 Willow Branches	Storing harvested products	56	yes

With Jewellery you can make rings, amulets and necklaces.

Gold Jewellery

Before you can craft gold jewellery you need to have gold bars made in mining. Use a gold bar on a furnace and choose the one you want to make. You need to have the appropriate mould. If you want to make Gem Encrusted Jewellery you need to have a cut gem in your inventory.

Cutting gems

Gems make the Jewellery a lot better and worth more (gems can also be used to make bolts better). Use a chisel on a gem to cut it.

Magic gemstones:

Picture	Crafting Level Required to Cut	Gem	Experience Points Gained
	20	Sapphire	50
	27	Emerald	67.5
	34	Ruby	85
	43	Diamond	107.5
	55	Dragonstone	137.5
	67	Onyx	167.5

Semi precious gemstones (members only) :

Once completed the Shilo Village Quest you can mine semi preciouse gemstones. The gem mine is located in the north west part of the village.

Note: Semi preciouse gemstones can be crushed during cutting.

Picture	Crafting Level Required to Cut	Gem	Experience Points Gained
	1	Opal	15 (3.8 when crushed)
	13	Jade	20 (5 when crushed)
	16	Red Topaz	25 (6.3 when crushed)

Rings

Members can make enchanted rings and wear them for interesting bonuses. Rings don’t have any purpose in free to play. You need to have a ring mould to make rings.

Picture	Crafting Level Required to Make	Ring	Experience Points Gained	Use when enchanted
	20	Sapphire Ring	40	Ring of Recoil - 10% Damage inflicted on you is hit back. -max of 40 hit uses
	27	Emerald Ring	55	Ring of Dueling - You can use this to teleport to Duel Arena or Castle Wars. -max of 8 teleports.
	34	Ruby Ring	70	Ring of Forging - 100% chance to smith iron ores to iron bars. -140 uses.
	43	Diamond Ring	85	Ring of Life - When you have less then 10% (not when you have no hitpoints) off your total hitpoints you’ll teleport to your respawn point. -1 use.
	55	Dragonstone Ring	100	Ring of Wealth - Chance of receiving rare drops from monsters is increased. -Unlimited uses.
	67	Onyx Ring	115	Ring of Stone - Changes user to stone any action other than chatting will result in turning back. -Unlimited uses.

Necklaces

Necklaces don’t have any purpose except for Burthorpe Games Room Necklace and Necklace of Binding. You need to have a necklace mould to make necklaces.

Picture	Crafting Level Required to Make	Necklace	Experience Points Gained	Use when enchanted
	22	Sapphire Necklace	55	Games Necklace (m) - Allows you to teleport to the Burthorpe games room. -8 uses.
	29	Emerald Necklace	60	Necklace of Binding (m) - 100% chance of making combined runes. -8 uses.
	40	Ruby Necklace	75	x
	56	Diamond Necklace	90	x
	72	Dragonstone Necklace	105	x
	82	Onyx Necklace	120	x

Amulets

Amulets give stat bonuses when enchanted. They are great for training crafting. You need to have an amulet mould to make amulets.

Picture	Crafting Level Required to Make	Amulets	Experience Points Gained	Use when enchanted
	24	Sapphire Amulet	65	Amulet of Magic - 10 magic bonus
	31	Emerald Amulet	70	Amulet of Defence - 7 defence bonus
	50	Ruby Amulet	85	Amulet of Strength - 10 strength bonus
	70	Diamond Amulet	100	Amulet of Power - 6 attack, defence and strength bonus
	80	Dragonstone Amulet	150	Amulet of Glory - 10 attack bonus; 6 strength bonus; 3 defence and prayer bonus; 4 teleport charges; increase change of getting gems while mining
	90	Onyx Amulet	165	Amulet of Fury - 10 attack bonus; 15 defence bonus; 8 strength bonus; 5 prayer bonus

Silver

With silver you can craft tiaras, symbols, sickles and lightning conductor. It requires a mould to craft silver jewellery.

Follow these steps to make silver jewellery (note you need to have a mould in your inventory):
-Use a silver bar on a furnace (good furnace locations).
-Then select the silver item you want to make in the menu.

Picture	Crafting Level Required to Make	Item	Experience Points Gained	Required Quests
	16	Holy symbol	50	none
	17	Unholy symbol	50	Observatory Quest
	18	Silver sickle	50	Nature Spirit
	20	Lightning conductor	50	Creature of Fenkenstrain
	23	Tiara	52.5	none

Symbols

You can string symbols by using a ball of wool on the unstrung version of the object. You can make a ball of wool by using a pair of shears on a sheep to get wool. Then you need to string wool to get a ball of wool.

Sheep are located at the make over mage and the farms at Lumbridge (farm and chicken farm).

The making of Elemental Battlestaves is a very complex way of crafting. It requires high level crafting and magic.

To start you need an unpowered orb which can be made from molten glass see the glassmaking part for more info.

Now you need to power the orb. You need to go to that location and cast the ‘charge’ spell. This can be done in the following locations:

Note: Making battlestaves requires a charge orb spell that can only be used at normal magic mode.

To finish you need to use the charged orb on a basic battlestaff. A basic battlestaff can be be bought from Zaff’s Staffs in Varrock, Baba Yaga on Lunar Isle or the Magic Guild in Yanille.

Picture	Crafting level required	Item	Experience Points Gained
	54	Water battlestaff	100
	58	Earth battlestaff	112.5
	62	Fire battlestaff	125
	66	Air battlestaff	137.5

If you have completed the Scorpion Catcher quest Thormac the Sorcerer can upgrade your elemental battlestaffs to mystic staves for 40,000 coins.

With glassmaking you can make glass orbs, laterns, vials and beer glasses. For glassmaking you need a glassblowing pipe, seaweeds and empty buckets.

You can make glass objects with the following process:
-Go to Entrana. (don’t take armour)
-Fill your buckets with sand at a sand pit by using the bucket on it. (Sand pits can be found on Entrana directly west of the boat)
-Use seaweed on range to get soda ash.
-Have both soda ash and bucket of sand in your inventory and use soda ash on a furnace to make molten glass.
-Use glassblowing pipe on molten glass to make any glass items:

Picture	Crafting level required	Item	Experience Points Gained
	1	Beers Glass	17.5
	4	Candle Lantern	19
	12	Oil Lamp	25
	26	Oil Lantern	50
	33	Glass vial	35
	42	Fishbowl	42.5
	46	Glass Orb	52.5
	49	Bullseye Lantern Lens	55

It’s possible to change the color of your normal cape by dyeing it. Witch Aggie sells dyes. Aggie lives in an house in draynor. Purple dye respawns south-west of East Ardougne outside the wall. You can buy pink dye from Betty in Port Sarim for 20gp each after you’ve completed the quest Hand in the Sand.

The following dyes can be bought from Aggie (for every dye you buy you need to pay 5 gp extra).

Picture	Color	Level	Items Needed	Exp Earned when used on cape	Members Only?
	Red	1	3 Bunches of Redberries	2.5	no
	Blue	1	2 Woad leaves	2.5	no
	Yellow	1	2 Onions	2.5	no

You can combine dyes to get other colors.

Picture	Color	Combine with	Exp Earned when used on cape	Members Only?
	Orange	Red and Yellow	2.5	no
	Purple	Blue and Red	2.5	no
	Green	Blue and Yellow	2.5	no

Once you’ve completed the Priest in Peril quest and have 15 crafting then you can make snail helmets.

You can obtain Myre Shells in the Mort Myre swamp by killing the Blamish Snails. Take a Chisel and use it on the Myre Shell to make a Snail shell. You’ll get 32.5 crafting exp by doing this.