Crafting
Ironman AIO has four Crafting methods. Glass blowing is the one to use from level 1 on an ironman: it buys the sand and soda ash with coins, makes its own molten glass and blows it into the best item for your level. Bow strings costs nothing but time, since it picks its own flax. Gem cutting and Soft leather use up gems, cowhides and leather you already have in the bank.
To add a task, pick Crafting in Setup, set a level range (From and To) and choose a method. Every method ends when you reach the To level. Crafting has no location or item picker: each method chooses its own spots and the best item for your level. On a free-to-play account, Glass blowing and Bow strings wait with “Glass blowing needs membership” (or Bow strings); Gem cutting and Soft leather run as usual.
| Method | Crafting level | What you need |
|---|---|---|
| Glass blowing | 1 | Membership, coins for sand and soda ash (at least 10 to start) |
| Bow strings | 10 (the task doesn’t check it) | Membership; it picks its own flax |
| Gem cutting | 20 | Uncut gems in the bank |
| Soft leather | 1 | Leather or cowhides in the bank, a few coins |
| Any (per account) | 1 | As the methods it picks |
Methods
Section titled “Methods”Glass blowing
Section titled “Glass blowing”Makes molten glass from scratch and blows it.
- Plan. It works out how many items it has to blow to reach your goal, counting the XP from making each molten glass as well. Molten glass you already own is used first.
- Soda ash. Seaweed in your bank is cooked into soda ash on the fire next to the Port Khazard bank chest.
- Buy. It buys the buckets of sand and soda ash still missing from the Trader Crewmember on the Port Khazard dock, hopping worlds if the shop runs low. It also buys a glassblowing pipe there if you don’t own one.
- Smelt. It makes molten glass at the Edgeville furnace, 14 at a time.
- Blow. It blows the molten glass into the best item for your level (table below) and banks what it makes.
Each account has its own buying habit: some buy the supplies for the whole goal in one go, others buy enough for 150 to 600 molten glass at a time and come back for more.
| Crafting level | Item blown |
|---|---|
| 1 | Beer glass |
| 4 | Empty candle lantern |
| 12 | Empty oil lamp |
| 33 | Vial |
| 42 | Empty fishbowl |
| 46 | Unpowered orb |
| 49 | Lantern lens |
| 87 | Empty light orb |
If it needs to buy something and you own fewer than 10 coins, the task waits. See Money.
Bow strings
Section titled “Bow strings”Spins flax into bow strings (15 XP each) at the spinning wheel upstairs in Seers’ Village.
- Flax. It uses flax from the bank first. Bales of flax are unpacked. When the bank has none, it picks flax at the flax field near Seers’ Village and fills the inventory before spinning.
- Bow string spool. If you own one, it carries it and empties it when it’s full.
- Banking. The bow strings go to the bank, ready for Fletching.
The task works out how many bow strings your goal needs and stops picking once it has enough.
Gem cutting
Section titled “Gem cutting”Cuts the uncut gems in your bank with a chisel. It takes the best gem you can cut first:
| Crafting level | Gem |
|---|---|
| 20 | Sapphire |
| 27 | Emerald |
| 34 | Ruby |
| 43 | Diamond |
It buys a chisel from the Lumbridge general store if you don’t own one. It doesn’t gather gems. When you have no uncut gems left that your level can cut, the task is skipped and the plan moves on.
Soft leather
Section titled “Soft leather”Crafts leather armour from soft leather with a needle and thread, always the best item for your level:
| Crafting level | Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | Leather gloves |
| 7 | Leather boots |
| 9 | Leather cowl |
| 11 | Leather vambraces |
| 14 | Leather body |
| 18 | Leather chaps |
| 38 | Coif (members only) |
- Leather. It uses soft leather from the bank. Cowhides are tanned into soft leather by Ellis in Al Kharid for 1 coin each. Each account has its own tanning habit: tan everything it needs first, tan a few inventories at a time, or tan one inventory at a time.
- Needle and thread. It buys a needle and enough thread (one per five items) from Rommik’s Crafty Supplies in Rimmington if you don’t have them.
When there’s no leather or cowhides left, or not enough coins for tanning, thread or a needle, the task is skipped and the plan moves on. Cowhides can come from a Combat task on cows with banking turned on.
Any (per account)
Section titled “Any (per account)”Any (per account) uses Glass blowing up to around 10-16, then a mix of mostly Glass blowing with some accounts spinning bow strings from 10. Each account gets its own mix, the same every run. See Account seeds.
Planning tips
Section titled “Planning tips”- When the Setup screen adds missing requirements for a quest, it adds Crafting as a Glass blowing task.
- Glass blowing turns coins into XP, so check your coin supply before a long goal.