OSRS Crafting Guide 1-99 (2026): Fastest, Cheap, AFK and F2P

Quick summary

• Quest skip: Sheep Shearer (150 XP) and Murder Mystery (1,406 XP) take you from 1 to 11 with no skill requirements (OSRS Wiki).
• Fastest: leather to 20, gems to 62, battlestaves to 77, then d'hide bodies to 99. That's about 31 hours from 20 to 99 by our arithmetic from the wiki's rates. It costs a lot.
• Cheaper fast option: green and blue d'hide bodies from 63 are about as fast as battlestaves and need much less capital (OSRS Wiki).
• Low effort: glassblowing 1-99 is about 116 hours by our arithmetic. Golem crafting (60+) and Superglass Make (61+, Lunar) are mid-speed alternatives.
• Costume needle: from the Costumer in Aldarin after Death on the Isle. It lets you make 9 d'hide bodies per inventory instead of 8.

This OSRS Crafting guide covers members' Crafting from 1 to 99, with a free-to-play section near the end. XP rates and item counts come from the OSRS Wiki's Crafting training page, checked on October 28, 2026, and the F2P methods from its free-to-play Crafting page. It's about Old School RuneScape, not RuneScape 3. 99 needs 13,034,431 XP, and every hour estimate is our arithmetic on the wiki's rates.

Pick your route

Route	Levels	Methods	Time (our arithmetic)	Trade-off
Fastest	1-99	Quests to 11, leather to 20, gems to 62, fire then air battlestaves to 77, red then black d'hide bodies	About 31 hours from 20	The most expensive route. Battlestaves tie up lots of capital
Fast, less capital	1-99	Same, but green d'hide bodies at 63 and blue at 71 instead of battlestaves	About 31 hours from 20	Similar speed; the wiki says much less capital
Low attention, cheap	1-99	Glassblowing (drift nets 26-46 optional)	About 116 hours	Slow, but cheap and easy
Mid-speed, Wyrmscraig	60-99	Golem crafting	About 69 hours (high intensity) to 128 hours (low intensity)	Needs Fallen From Grace. Also trains Hunter
Profit-leaning	61-99	Superglass Make, then blow the glass	About 83-118 hours of casting	Needs 77 Magic and Lunar Diplomacy. Trains Magic too
Lamps	52-99	Fixing goblin lamps in Dorgesh-Kaan	About 99-144 hours	Also gives Firemaking XP

Hours divide the XP for each bracket by the wiki's XP/h figure for that method. They assume you keep going without breaks. Real sessions are slower.

Quests that give Crafting XP

All quests together give 135,143 Crafting XP (OSRS Wiki). These are the ones most worth doing early:

Quest	Crafting XP	Crafting requirement (wiki)	Other requirements
Sheep Shearer	150	None	None (F2P)
Murder Mystery	1,406	None	None
Animal Magnetism	1,000	19	Slayer 18, Ranged 30, Woodcutting 35
The Golem	1,000	20	Thieving 25
Making History	1,000	24	None
Shades of Mort'ton	2,000	20	Herblore 15, Firemaking 5
The Giant Dwarf	2,500	12	Firemaking 16, Magic 33, Thieving 14
Nature Spirit	3,000	18 (as listed)	None
Shilo Village	3,875	20	Agility 32, Smithing 4
Elemental Workshop I	5,000	20	Smithing 20, Mining 20
Death on the Isle	5,000	None	Agility 32, Thieving 34
Elemental Workshop II	7,500	20	Magic 20, Smithing 30
Cabin Fever	7,000	45	Agility 42, Smithing 50, Ranged 40
Enakhra's Lament	7,000	50	Firemaking 45, Prayer 43, Magic 39, Mining 45
The Hand in the Sand	9,000	49	Thieving 17
The Fremennik Exiles	50,000	65	Slayer 60, Smithing 60, Fishing 60, Runecraft 55

Do Death on the Isle early. It gives 5,000 Crafting XP and unlocks the costume needle you'll want for d'hide bodies later.

Step 1: 1-11 with two quests

1. Sheep Shearer (F2P). Bring 20 balls of wool, or shear sheep north of Lumbridge and spin upstairs in Lumbridge Castle. You get 150 XP, enough for level 2.
2. Murder Mystery. Talk to the guard at Sinclair Mansion north of Seers' Village. You get 1,406 XP, taking you to 11. The two quests together give 1,556 XP, and level 11 needs 1,358 (our arithmetic).

Step 2: 11-20 with leather

You need a needle, thread and leather. Each item takes 3 ticks to make (OSRS Wiki).

Levels	Leather item	XP	Items needed from 1 (wiki)
1-7	Gloves	13.8	48
7-9	Boots	16.2	19
9-11	Cowl	18.5	21
11-14	Vambraces	22	34
14-18	Body	25	57
18-20	Chaps	27	36

From 1 it's 215 leather in total, per the wiki. After the quest skip, you only need the rows from 11. Each thread lasts several items, so bring a stack.

Step 3: 20-62 cutting gems

Use a chisel on uncut gems at a bank. The wiki assumes 2,780 gems an hour, or 275 more with a Jeweller's chisel.

Level	Gem	XP	XP/h	XP/h (Jeweller's chisel)	Gems (our arithmetic)
20	Sapphire	50	139,000	152,750	About 106 to 27 (wiki)
27	Emerald	67.5	187,650	206,210	About 156 to 34
34	Ruby	85	236,300	259,675	About 355 to 43
43	Diamond	107.5	298,850	328,410	About 2,640 to 62
55	Dragonstone	137.5	382,250	420,060	Optional, much more expensive

Our arithmetic: 20-62 takes about 1.2 hours. The wiki suggests sticking with diamonds to 62 because dragonstones cost far more. Onyx is faster still, but the wiki calls it not viable because of cost and supply. You can sell the cut gems or keep them for jewellery and gem bolt tips, which our Fletching guide turns into some of the fastest Fletching XP in the game.

Step 4: 62-77, battlestaves or green/blue d'hide

Option A: battlestaves. Use an elemental orb on a battlestaff. The wiki assumes 2,450 an hour, or up to 2,625 with perfect banking.

Level	Battlestaff	XP	XP/h	Staves (our arithmetic)
54	Water	100	245,000	—
58	Earth	112.5	275,625	—
62	Fire	125	306,250	About 1,300 to 66
66	Air	137.5	336,875	About 7,120 to 77

That's about 3.4 hours for 62-77 by our arithmetic. With Varrock Diary tiers done, Zaff sells you a daily stock of noted battlestaves for less than the GE price. You can high-alch the finished staves to recover part of the cost (OSRS Wiki). The orbs themselves start as unpowered orbs from glassblowing, which Magic players charge at the elemental obelisks, so a glassblower has a steady buyer.

Option B: green and blue d'hide bodies. Green bodies from 63 (186 XP) and blue from 71 (210 XP) give similar rates to fire and air battlestaves and need much less capital, per the wiki. 63-77 is about 3.3 hours by our arithmetic: about 2,400 green bodies to 71, then about 3,150 blue bodies to 77.

Step 5: 77-99 with d'hide bodies

Each body needs 3 leather of the matching dragonhide.

Level	Body	XP	XP/h (8 per inventory)	XP/h (9, costume needle)	XP/h (tick manipulation)
63	Green	186	313,410	317,130	331,638
71	Blue	210	353,850	358,050	374,430
77	Red	234	394,290	398,970	417,222
84	Black	258	434,730	439,890	460,014

Our arithmetic: 77-84 takes about 6,300 red bodies and 84-99 about 39,100 black bodies, about 26.6 hours with the costume needle. The black bodies alone need about 117,000 tanned hides.

Step by step:

1. Get the costume needle from the Costumer in Aldarin after Death on the Isle. Without it you need thread and fit 8 bodies per inventory.
2. Turn on deposit lock in the bank so "Deposit inventory" keeps the needle.
3. Withdraw 27 leather and make 9 bodies. Bank and repeat.
4. Optional: buy untanned hides and cast Tan Leather (Lunar) to save some cost, per the wiki's self-tan column.
5. Tick manipulation (the wiki describes using a gnome at the Gnome Stronghold bank) adds about 5%, but needs a second account and constant attention.

Low-attention routes

Glassblowing (1-99). Use a glassblowing pipe on molten glass at a bank. The wiki assumes 1,750 items an hour.

Levels	Item	XP	XP/h
1-4	Beer glass	17.5	30,625
4-12	Empty candle lantern	19	33,250
12-33	Empty oil lamp	25	43,750
33-42	Vial	35	61,250
42-46	Empty fishbowl	42.5	74,375
46-49	Unpowered orb	52.5	91,875
49-87	Lantern lens	55	96,250
87-99	Empty light orb	70	122,500

That's about 116 hours from 1 to 99 by our arithmetic. From 26 to 46, crafting drift nets at Fossil Island's Museum Camp (loom and bank chest) gives about 60,000 XP/h, which the wiki says beats glassblowing until unpowered orbs at 46. Spinning and weaving with flax, hemp and cotton is another Fossil Island option: weaving cotton bolts from 73 gives up to 150,150 XP/h (OSRS Wiki).

Golem crafting (60+). After Fallen From Grace, mine sunstone on Wyrmscraig, shape a golem at a plinth (chisel, hammer, four sunstones), then finish it with a sunstone core and a fur. The wiki gives about 100,000 Crafting XP/h at low intensity (plus about 28,000 Hunter XP/h; see our Hunter guide), and over 185,000 at high intensity with good furs and fast clicking. That's about 69-128 hours from 60 to 99 by our arithmetic.

Superglass Make (61+). You need 77 Magic and Lunar Diplomacy. Each inventory uses 3 giant seaweed and 18 buckets of sand, with a smoke battlestaff or an air staff with a tome of fire. The wiki gives 108,000-153,000 Crafting and 46,800-66,300 Magic XP/h at 600-850 casts an hour, including blowing the glass.

Goblin lamps in Dorgesh-Kaan (52+). Each fixed lamp gives 500 Crafting and 500 Firemaking XP, plus a 2,500 XP bonus in both skills every 50 lamps. The wiki gives up to 130,000 Crafting XP/h if you make your own light orbs, or about 90,000 while you're learning.

Amethyst (83+). Chiselling amethyst into tips gives 60 XP each and 165,000 XP/h, usually at a small loss. Our Mining guide covers mining the amethyst yourself, and the Fletching guide covers using the tips.

Fishing crane repair (30+). In Port Piscarilius, each repair gives 4 × your level in both Crafting and Construction. It's slow but cheap; see our Construction guide.

Jewellery shortlist

At a furnace with gold or silver bars and the right mould. Smelting your own bars trains Smithing at the same time (our Smithing guide). The best furnace-to-bank spot is Wyrmscraig (Fallen From Grace), then Prifddinas (Song of the Elves). The wiki assumes 1,400 gem-and-bar items an hour.

Level	Item	XP	XP/h
7	Gold bracelet	25	40,000
23	Sapphire bracelet	60	84,000
30	Emerald bracelet	65	91,000
42	Ruby bracelet	80	112,000
58	Diamond bracelet	95	133,000
74	Dragonstone bracelet	110	154,000
80	Dragonstone amulet (u)	150	210,000

Jewellery is slower than gems and bodies, but it's a good use for gems you've cut yourself. You can enchant the pieces with Magic afterwards.

Train Crafting in free-to-play

Free-to-play players can't make battlestaves, d'hide bodies or golems, but they still have a workable route, per the OSRS Wiki's F2P page:

Levels	Method	Notes
1-8	Sheep Shearer (150), Goblin Diplomacy (200) and Misthalin Mystery (600)	The three F2P quests together reach level 8
8-20	Leather items, then leather chaps at 18	Fastest low-level F2P XP
20-99	Cutting sapphires, emeralds, rubies and diamonds	In-place at any bank; a small loss per gem
6+	Gold and gem jewellery at the Edgeville furnace	Slower, but several items sold for a small profit at late-October 2026 prices

Example: a free-to-play player with 30 Crafting and little gold can alternate: cut sapphires and emeralds while the price is low, and smelt gold necklaces or sapphire necklaces at Edgeville when they want to make money back. Check prices before you buy in bulk, because the margins are small and move.

Ironman and returning players

Ironmen. Collect cowhides and dragonhides yourself, then tan them at a tanner or with Tan Leather. Glassblowing with sand and seaweed you collect yourself, then Superglass Make, is the classic ironman route. Golem crafting gives uncut gems and Hunter XP too. Cut gems from Mining and Slayer feed jewellery and bolt tips.

Returning players. Three things changed:

1. The costume needle (Death on the Isle) gives 9 bodies per inventory.
2. Golem crafting on Wyrmscraig is a new 60+ method.
3. Spinning and weaving with Sailing-era materials is a new mid-level option.

Wyrmscraig is now the best furnace for jewellery.

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FAQ

What is the fastest way to get 99 Crafting in OSRS? Do the quests to 11, make leather items to 20, cut gems to 62, make battlestaves (or green and blue bodies) to 77, then d'hide bodies to 99. That's about 31 hours from 20 by our arithmetic with the wiki's rates.

What's the cheapest way to train Crafting? Glassblowing. It's about 116 hours to 99 by our arithmetic. Drift nets from 26 to 46 are faster, and the wiki says they can turn a profit.

Where do I get the costume needle? From the Costumer in Aldarin after Death on the Isle. It lets you make 9 d'hide bodies per inventory instead of 8.

Battlestaves or d'hide bodies at 62? The wiki says green and blue bodies match fire and air battlestaves and need less capital. Compare prices on the day.

Which quests give the most Crafting XP? The Fremennik Exiles (50,000), then The Hand in the Sand (9,000) and Elemental Workshop II (7,500). All quests together give 135,143.

How do I train Crafting in free-to-play? Do Sheep Shearer, Goblin Diplomacy and Misthalin Mystery for level 8, make leather items to 20, then cut gems or make gold jewellery at Edgeville (OSRS Wiki).

Related guides

• OSRS hub
• OSRS Sailing guide 1-99
• OSRS money-making guide
• OSRS Fletching guide 1-99
• OSRS Hunter guide 1-99
• OSRS Construction guide 1-99
• OSRS Mining guide 1-99