Ironman Guide/Crafting

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Crafting is a skill that Ironmen typically train through glassblowing, due to its low cost and availability. Many pieces of important jewellery require Crafting, such as teleportation jewellery and amulets of glory.

Early training: Quests

Main article: Quest experience rewards § Crafting

Do quests that give Crafting experience for early levels. Elemental Workshop I and II will net a total of 12,500 Crafting (and Smithing) experience, with relatively low skill requirements. Alternatively, glassblowing on Entrana using the local seaweed and sand can provide a source of free Crafting experience for both new and experienced players alike.

General tips and information

Glassblowing

Gathering buckets of sand and farming seaweed

One of the most common ways of training Crafting is to gather buckets of sand and farm giant seaweed for blowing molten glass. This method becomes viable once the player has completed Lunar Diplomacy and has level 77 Magic for the Superglass Make spell.

Compared to buying soda ash and regular seaweed, the benefits include:

  • Seaweed spores spawn frequently on the ground near the seaweed patches, requiring very little investment into getting them.
  • With ultra compost, around 50 giant seaweed per run can be collected. Contrary to popular belief, magic secateurs do not affect the yield.[1]
  • Superglass make can be cast directly on the giant seaweed, cooking it into soda ash is not required.
  • Superglass make gives roughly 60% bonus molten glass with giant seaweed, and processes the entire inventory in one cast.
The Bandit Camp Quarry, home of Sandstone

The fastest way of getting buckets of sand is to mine sandstone in the Quarry and grind it using Sandstorm just west of the mine. Noted empty buckets can be given to Drew at the grinder. Players can then claim noted buckets of sand from Drew after grinding sandstone, with each piece of sandstone ground providing a different amount of sand depending on the size of the piece. Drew charges 50 coins per bucket.

Players may also collect buckets of sand by casting teleport home to Yanille and filling buckets at the sand pit north of the Home Portal. Alternatively, upon completion of the quest Song of the Elves, players gain access to a sand pit in Prifddinas which is a few steps away from the north bank. These methods require less effort than mining sandstone, but are significantly slower.

Completing The Hand in the Sand quest allows the player to claim 84 free buckets of sand daily from Bert.

Players can farm giant seaweed by planting seaweed spores in seaweed patches in the underwater area of Fossil Island. Harvesting these seaweed patches grant a large amount of giant seaweed, one of which is equivalent to six normal seaweeds.

Lobstrosities drop large quantities of seaweed spores.

Large quantities of seaweed spores can be obtained by killing lobstrosities in the underwater area of Fossil Island. They can only be damaged by a brine sabre, a trident of the seas, magic secateurs, or by using Magic. They can be easily safespotted from inside an air bubble. Upwards of 100 spores per hour can be collected using this method.

Players can also collect seaweed spores on the seafloor that spawn next to the farming patches. This can provide anywhere from 10–50 spores per hour.

If players plan on doing drift net fishing, another method for collecting spores is to do Underwater Agility and Thieving for a Merfolk trident, gathering seaweed spores as they spawn. Collecting seaweed spores while grinding for the Merfolk trident should give the player enough spores to last for the duration of their account.

Completing Fossil Island Wyvern tasks for their seaweed spores is also recommended.

Once supplies have been collected, players can withdraw 18 buckets of sand and three giant seaweeds before casting Superglass Make to create molten glass. Blow the molten glass into the highest-tier glass item available for Crafting experience.

Trader Stan's Trading Post

Charter ship method

The charter ship method offers high Crafting experience per hour and does not require any banked supplies. The downside is that there usually is some competition for stock.

Buy buckets of sand and seaweed (or soda ash) from any Trader Crewmember, cast Superglass Make and make the highest-tier glass item available on the spot. Sell the glass items or drop them, hop worlds and repeat. This method will grant approximately 65,000–70,000 experience per hour with lantern lenses and 85,000–90,000 experience per hour with empty light orbs, depending on stock.

For best results, use this method in ports that are less popular. Areas like Port Tyras (requires Regicide), Brimhaven dock, and Mos Le'Harmless have a better chance of being stocked. Popular ports such as Port Khazard or Catherby are more frequently sold out, resulting in far less experience per hour.

Jewellery

Making jewellery not only gives good crafting experience, but it also provides valuable items to alch for profit or sell to stores such as Grum's Gold Exchange or Davon's Amulet Store. They also provide useful teleport locations and item effects when enchanted. To make jewellery you must first obtain either gold bars or silver bars. It is recommended to also use gems in jewellery for more coins and crafting experience. Gold bars can be used to make sapphire, emerald, ruby, diamond, dragonstone, onyx, and zenyte jewellery. Generally, bracelets provide the best alch profit while amulets provide 5 experience more as well as 4 experience for stringing them at the cost of less alch profit.

Gold bars can also be used alone to make jewellery. It is recommended to either craft them into gold bracelets for alching or gold tiaras for better experience. Players can use around 1,400 to 1,700 gold bars per hour from running to and from the Edgeville furnace or the closer Prifddinas furnace.

Silver bars can be used to make opal, jade, and red topaz jewellery. Getting lots of these gems nearly exclusively comes from mining gem rocks. See the money making guide mining gemstones for how to do this efficiently. When using silver bars alone, it is recommended to make either tiaras for future Runecrafting experience or silver bolts (unf) for future Fletching experience.

Obtaining Gold and Silver

TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store in Mor Ul Rek

Buying Gems in Mor Ul Rek

This method becomes viable once the player has obtained a fire cape and accrued approximately 3,200,000. Players can acquire Tokkul by selling chaos runes to TzHaar-Mej-Roh's Rune Store, then use the Tokkul to purchase gems from TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store.

  • If using chaos runes and Karamja gloves to earn Tokkul it is a 4:1 ratio for chaos runes to sapphires. This method can reliably earn around 40,000–50,000 Crafting experience per hour and produces usable items as opposed to other training methods.

Gems from Shooting Stars

Stardust is obtained by mining the Crashed star. Stardust is used as currency at Dusuri's Star Shop that can be used to purchase the Bag full of gems for 300 Stardust. This is a non intensive/afk training method that provides decent mining experience alongside collecting gems.

Experience rates vary greatly based on level, the tier of pickaxe used, and time spent locating stars. If mining consistently, players can expect between 22,000 and 32,000 experience per hour, and 600–1000 stardust per hour. This equates to be around 80–120 gems per hour.



Other methods

Crafting battlestaves

Charging orbs and crafting battlestaves offers relatively decent Crafting experience and good profit.

Players who have completed task sets of the Varrock Diary can buy noted battlestaves daily from a barrel near Zaff for 7,000 coins each. They all have to be bought at once, so a sizeable stack of coins is necessary. Starting at 15 with the easy tasks, each task set doubles the number of battlestaves that can be purchased per day.

Players can also get battlestaves from various bosses and monsters, such as Zulrah, Vorkath, The Gauntlet, Alchemical Hydra and Skeletal Wyverns. Water orbs can be obtained as a common drop from Moons of Peril.

Orb Items needed Procedure
Air orb Grab 81 cosmic runes and 27 unpowered orbs, run to the Air Obelisk, charge the orbs and teleport to Edgeville with an amulet of glory. If Edgeville respawn is unlocked, use rings of returning in a PvP World instead. You can also go through the Ferox Enclave Dungeon followed by using the Soul Wars Portal to get to Edgeville using the ring of dueling's Ferox Enclave teleport.
Fire orb There are a few possible methods to get there:

It is possible to charge the orbs faster by manually casting Charge Orb on the obelisk, one by one.

References

  1. ^ Note, magic secateurs do not work when farming Giant seaweed in Seaweed patches nor harvesting from a Flower patch unless it is a Limpwurt plant.
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