Gold amulet crafting
Smelt gold bars into amulets and string them. Trains Crafting from level 8 and usually turns a small profit.
Gold amulets are the accessible end of Crafting profit. Buy bars, cast at a furnace with a mould, string with wool, sell. Nothing about it requires a high level.
Stringing adds meaningful value for almost no extra time, so selling unstrung amulets is usually leaving money on the table.
The gold bar price is the whole cost base, and it moves with Smithing demand rather than with Crafting demand. That disconnect is where the margin comes from and where it disappears.
It trains Crafting while it earns, which makes it a reasonable way through the early levels of a skill that is otherwise expensive.
What you actually do
- 1Buy gold bars and take them to a furnace with an amulet mould.
- 2Cast the amulets, then string them if you want the higher price.
- 3Sell and repeat when the buy limit resets.
Getting the most from it
- Stringing adds value and takes almost no extra time, so it is usually worth doing.
- This is a low-requirement Crafting method that works from an early level.
- The gold bar price is the whole cost base — watch it, because it moves with Smithing demand.
Similar methods
Blast Furnace gold bars
Smelt gold ore into bars at the Blast Furnace for the fastest Smithing experience in the game, at close to break-even cost.
- Est. GP/hr
- 0–300k
- Starting GP
- 2m
- Attention
- Hands-on
- Requirements
- 60 Smithing
Cannonball smithing
Turn steel bars into cannonballs. Slow experience, steady profit and one of the most AFK activities available.
- Est. GP/hr
- 150k–300k
- Starting GP
- 500k
- Attention
- Very AFK
- Requirements
- 35 Smithing
Cooking raw fish
Buy raw fish, cook it, sell it cooked. A simple processing loop that trains Cooking at the same time.
- Est. GP/hr
- 80,000–250k
- Starting GP
- 200k
- Attention
- Moderate attention
- Requirements
- 40 Cooking