Ironman Crafting Guide

Requirements

• 77 Magic (boostable)
• 61 Crafting (Lunar Diplomacy quest requirement, unboostable)
• 23 Farming (for giant seaweed patches)
• Lunar Diplomacy quest completed

How It Works

Superglass Make converts buckets of sand + seaweed/soda ash into molten glass without a furnace. The spell produces bonus glass beyond what the raw materials would normally yield - this is what makes it so powerful.

Bonus Glass Production

Extra molten glass appears on the ground when your inventory is full. Picking it up maximises your yield. The best setup uses giant seaweed with pickup.

Step 1: Gathering Giant Seaweed

Farm underwater seaweed patches on Fossil Island (accessible by diving from Fossil Island). Requires 23 Farming. Growth time: ~40 minutes.

• - Yield per patch with ultracompost: 15-34 giant seaweed
• - Yield with ultracompost + Attas seed (76 Farming): 44+ giant seaweed
• - Magic secateurs do not affect yield
• - Typical run across all patches with ultracompost: ~50 giant seaweed

Seaweed spore sources: random spawns on the seabed while diving, Lobstrosities, ammonite crabs, and Mairin's Market (20 mermaid's tears each).

Step 2: Gathering Buckets of Sand

Best method: mine sandstone at the Quarry (Desert, west of Bandit Camp), grind it at the Sandstorm grinder, and collect noted sand from Drew. Drew stores up to 25,000 empty buckets and 25,000 buckets of sand. Collection costs 50 gp per bucket.

Mining rate: ~2,000-3,500 buckets/hr normal; ~4,000-6,000 buckets/hr with tick manipulation.

Alternative: Bert in Yanille gives 84 free buckets of sand daily after The Hand in the Sand quest (49 Crafting, 17 Thieving).

Step 3: Casting Superglass Make

Optimal inventory: 3 giant seaweed + 18 buckets of sand + runes. Use a staff of air or smoke battlestaff to free up rune slots.

1. Withdraw 3 giant seaweed and 18 buckets of sand
2. Cast Superglass Make
3. Pick up any overflow molten glass from the ground
4. Bank and repeat

Step 4: Blowing the Glass

Use a glassblowing pipe on molten glass to produce glass items. The item you blow determines your Crafting XP.

XP Rates

Requirements

• 62 Sailing to reach Wyrmscraig (not boostable)
• Q Fallen From Grace: 62 Sailing, 60 Crafting, 53 Mining, 47 Runecraft, and Pandemonium
• 60 Crafting for the activity itself
• 48 Construction to build the island bank chest (optional, but it makes the island self-contained)
• -- Chisel, hammer (the Imcando hammer works off-hand), pickaxe, and a fur pouch

How It Works

1. Mine sunstone in the Wyrmscraig mine. Mining individual rocks builds momentum, which raises your success chance and gives a chance at a second sunstone when you move to a new rock within 5 ticks. The sunstone monolith is the AFK option, at a lower rate.
2. Click an empty plinth with a chisel, a hammer, and 4 sunstones to start a golem.
3. Carve all four sides. Each side takes 20 ticks (80 total, plus movement), or 15 ticks (60 total) if you click on the tick of each XP drop or spam-click. Carved sides leave debris on the ground, so you can see which are done.
4. Use a chisel on a sunstone to make a sunstone core, then insert the core together with one Hunter fur. That completes the golem for the Crafting XP and an uncut gem.

The fur is mandatory. Tatty furs and combat-drop furs do not work, and furs are used straight from a fur pouch.

XP per Golem by Fur

Every golem gives a base of 1,560 Crafting XP plus the fur's value. All furs work at 60 Crafting; the Hunter level only matters if you catch them yourself.

The last column mirrors the wiki table, which assumes 58 golems per hour and notes that 65-70+ is possible with high efficiency. Treat it as a ceiling, not a typical pace. The wiki recommends dark kebbit fur for ironmen because dark kebbits have a higher catch rate and collect faster.

XP Rates

Golem Crafting beats every glassblowing method (empty light orbs top out around 122,500 XP/hr and need 87 Crafting) and overlaps with Superglass Make on raw rate. Its edge is that nothing gates it except the quest and a fur supply.

The No-Banking Rotation

Sunstone is untradeable, does not stack, and weighs 2.5 kg each. Every golem uses 5 (4 for the base, 1 for the core). Carry a large fur pouch with at least 25 furs, an empty gem bag, and a chisel, and keep 25 inventory slots free. Then:

1. Mine 25 sunstone.
2. Chisel 5 of them into sunstone cores.
3. Craft 5 golems. Since 12 August 2026 the gems go straight into your gem bag.
4. Return to the rocks and repeat.

A full large fur pouch lasts five rotations (25 golems) before you need to bank. Start carving on the east or west side and leave north for last so you can chisel the core and insert it from the same tile.

Recommended Gear

• - Rune pickaxe if you are actively mining for momentum (the wiki notes momentum fails often with higher-tier pickaxes); otherwise your best pickaxe
• - Imcando hammer (off-hand), so it sits beside the pickaxe and frees an inventory slot
• - Expert mining gloves and Varrock armour for extra sunstone
• - Prospector outfit, plus a charged amulet of glory for better gem rolls from sunstone rocks
• - Large fur pouch, gem bag, chisel

Rewards and the Jeweller's Chisel

Each completed golem gives one uncut gem: sapphire 15/23, emerald 5/23, ruby 2/23, diamond 1/23. All of them are more Crafting XP once cut.

The unique is the Jeweller's chisel at 1/300 (confirmed by Jagex on 12 August 2026). It is untradeable and works as a normal chisel with three extras: +20% success chance when cutting opals, jades, and red topaz; guaranteed success on opals at 62, jades at 71, and red topaz at 76 Crafting; and a 10% chance to cut two gems at once from any gem, including dragonstones and zenytes.

Golem Crafting vs Superglass Make

Pick Golem Crafting when the goal is Crafting levels with the least setup. Pick Superglass Make when you also want the Magic XP and the glass products. The island, the quest, and Goat Hunting are covered in full in the Wyrmscraig ironman guide.