RS Leatherworking Crafting Guide
How to Make Simple Goods from Leather in Runescape
Crafting may be one of the most difficult skills to level up in Runescape, but it is also one of the most diverse, even if the products that a player can make are not always the most useful. Leather working is a subset of crafting that allows players to create their own armor. More advanced crafting characters can continue their leatherworking efforts by crafting dragonhides.
Those who expect crafting to give them McGyver-like powers will be disappointed, but the armor that players can make using the leather working subset of the crafting skill can keep him in armor, make new armor for a starting character, or allow a Runescape character to make more durable replacements should his original set become lost.
Runescape Crafting Leatherworking Material
Runescape characters using the crafting skill should follow the Boy Scout motto by being prepared. Before making any attempt to make armor with the crafting skill, the character must first gather the necessary materials. Making leathewroking goods with the crafting skill does not require a player to go out and kill dragons until the highest crafting levels. Instead, a player must go out and slay dangerous cows that are threatening the populace of Runescape. The cow hides must be tanned before they can be used, and thread must be applied to the hides to produce the desired peices of armor. Runescape players can take a small comfort in knowing that hard economic times have not hit the game world and the prices of thread remain low.
Getting Hides Tanned for Crafting Use
Many people in the real world are better off not knowing the process used to tan leather. The same can be said for Runescape, but the process used to tan the cow hides is known only to the tanners and the video game programmers employed by Jagex. The role of a crafting character is simply to take the hide to a tanner and pay to have it tanned. The final step is applying thread to the hide to make the intended item.
Runescape Leatherworking Crafting Goods
Because some readers like the charts of what can be made, what level in crafting a Runescape character has to have to make them, and how much crafting experience is earned for each leatherworking attempt, a chart has been compiled from the Runescape Tips and Global Runescape websites:
- Leather gloves – Level 1, 13.8 experience
- Leather boots – Level 7, 16.3 experience
- Leather cowl – Level 9, 18.5 experience
- Lever vambraces – Level 9, 22 experience
- Leather chaps – Level 18, 27 experience
- Hard leather body – Level 28, 35 experience
- Leather coif – Level 38, 37 experience
- Studded leather body – Level 41, 65 experience
- Studded Leather Chaps – Level 44, 69 experience
The studs necessary for studded leather armor can be made using the smithing skill or purchased from another character. Runescape characters gain crafting experience for making the armor and then applying the studs for using leatherworking for studded leather pieces. Metal studs to make studded leather armor may be purchased from another character or made using the smithing skill.
Wrapping Up Runescape Leatherworking Crafting Considerations
Leatherworking can be a useful element of crafting used to make armor for low level characters or to sell the equipment to up and coming characters looking to upgrade their equipment. It is not the most profitable trade skill, but if a player is willing to make the effort and understand the Runescape economy, he can turn a profit.
Resources:
Global Runescape Crafting Guide
