Pay-to-play Crafting training

This guide will help you train Crafting in various different ways. It will guide you from level 1 to 99. This guide is intended for members, but free players can also do some of these actions.

Jewellery making
Jewellery making is the ultimate goal of F2P crafting. Making amulets with gems consists of several steps, considering:
 * 1) Buy or obtain gem,
 * 2) Buy or obtain gold bar
 * 3) Cut the gem
 * 4) Smelt the gem and gold bar in a furnace,
 * 5) Use ball of wool on the amulet to string it,
 * 6) Sell it.

For jewellery other than amulets, step 5 is omitted, for pure gold jewellery, step 1 and 3 are omitted.

Buying or obtaining gems
Gems can only be obtained in a few ways for F2P players: Random events; purchasing from Grand Exchange, shops or players, monster drops, or the sapphire spawn in deep wilderness. Uncut gems can be cut for crafting experience, but cut gems are much cheaper. Below is a list of cost of buying uncut and cut gems at GE: Be noticed though, the cost of buying cut gems will mostly be compensated but buying uncut gems will cause major loss.
 * Uncut sapphire:
 * Uncut emerald:
 * Uncut ruby:
 * Uncut diamond:
 * Cut sapphire:
 * Cut emerald:
 * Cut ruby:
 * Cut diamond:

Various monsters drop gems, including flesh crawlers and lesser demons. It is speculated the Stronghold of Security has a significantly higher rate of random event, so an experienced fighter would choose to kill the flesh crawlers there for their gem drops and waiting for valuable rewards of random events. Uncut gems are always given as single unnoted item but noted gems are stackable notes, ranging from 2-5 gems. Please see the random events page for more details.

Unless a player is very strong in combat, the sapphire spawn in deep wilderness should not be collected. Should one take the risk, world hopping should be used.

Buying or obtaining gold bar
Gold bars can be obtained in two ways: smelting gold ore which needs 40 smithing or directly buying from GE. The current price of gold ore and gold bar is coins and coins each, which gives purchasers distinct advantage, since the difference in GE price is determined by so-called Goldsmithing for members. With goldsmithing gauntlets obtained from the quest Family crest, very large portion of smithing experience is gained, but this doesn't change the fact of major loss.

Cutting the gem

 * Sapphire
 * Requirement: 20 Crafting
 * Gain: 50XP


 * Emerald
 * Requirement: 27 Crafting
 * Gain: 67XP


 * Ruby
 * Requirement: 34 Crafting
 * Gain: 85XP


 * Diamond
 * Requirement: 43 Crafting
 * Gain: 107.5XP

A chisel is needed for cutting. Buying uncut gems for cutting is not worthwhile because though the experience is very fast, the power levelling cost is very high, up to 7 coins per XP. Using uncut gems from random events reduces the problem, though the theoretical loss is equal.

Smelting the jewellery
A close furnace should be chosen to mass-produce jewellery. An amulet mould, necklace mould or ring mould is brought along with equal number of gold bars and cut gems. A detailed experience table can be seen in the Crafting article. Rings require the lowest level to craft, necklaces give the best reward of cash, and amulets bears maximum experience and highest requirement, while carrying some inconvenience as stringing is needed.

A player can buy cut sapphires or emeralds, cosmic runes, and gold bars and smelt them into sapphire necklaces or emerald rings. Then they can enchant them and sell the finished games necklaces or rings of duelling for a profit, while gaining valuable crafting and magic experience.

Stringing amulets
Ball of wool can be bought at GE for coins each, or using spinning wheel to spin wool. Casual players can take advantage of Fred the farmer's farm, which sheeps inhabit the area and spawn of shears is available. The closest spinning wheel from the farm is on the first floor (British spelling) of the castle.

Enchanting
With sufficient magic level, amulets with gems installed can be enchanted, though it sacrifices a large portion of money for enchanting it, including cost of cosmic rune and decrease in value of amulet. It is not recommended to do so unless the amulet is for personal use.

Yaks
Make Yak-hide legs and Yak-hide bodies. please note, though the body armour requires 2 yak hides, making it more effective to just make Yak-Hide legs.