OSRS Crafting Boost: Skills Pro Tips

Crafting is an essential skill in Old School RuneScape (OSRS), allowing players to create valuable items and gear. To excel in this craft, you need to know how to boost your Crafting level effectively. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the various methods and items that can give your Crafting a significant boost. Here’s what we’ll cover:

Methods Used for Crafting Boosts

Before delving into the specifics, let’s take a look at the key methods used to boost your crafting level in OSRS. Each method has its own unique source, level increase, and visibility.

1. Crafting Cape

• Level Boost: +1
• Visibility: Visible
• Effect: Activating the cape’s effect will increase the corresponding skill by 1.

2. Poison Chalice

• Level Boost: +1
• Visibility: Visible
• Effect: The Poison Chalice can have a variety of beneficial and disastrous effects.

3. Mushroom Pie

• Level Boost: +4
• Visibility: Visible
• Effect: Consuming a Mushroom Pie restores 8 Hitpoints per bite.

4. Spicy Stew (Orange Spice)

• Level Boost: ±0-5
• Visibility: Visible
• Effect: Depending on the type of stew, any skill can be randomly boosted or reduced by 0 to 5 levels.

OSRS Crafting Boost – How to Obtain

Now that we understand the boosts, let’s explore how to obtain each of them:

Crafting Cape

The Crafting Cape is a prestigious item that can be purchased for 99,000 coins from the Master Crafter inside the Crafting Guild. Players must have achieved level 99 crafting to be eligible for this purchase.

Poison Chalice

To obtain the Poison Chalice, head to the Coal Trucks west of Seers’ Village. You can obtain this unique cocktail for free from Stankers, a dwarven miner located in that area.

Mushroom Pie

Crafting Mushroom Pies involves a few steps:

1. Use pastry dough on a pie dish to create a pie shell.
2. Add a sulliuscep cap to the pie shell to make an uncooked mushroom pie.
3. Cook the uncooked mushroom pie on a range to create a Mushroom Pie.

Spicy Stew (Orange Spice)

To make Spicy Stew with an Orange Spice boost, you must have completed the Freeing Evil Dave subquest in Recipe for Disaster. Follow these steps:

1. Obtain a regular stew.
2. Acquire the necessary spices.
3. Get a cat (or hellcat) to chase the hell-rats.
4. Go to Evil Dave’s basement in the house west of the Edgeville bank.
5. Use a cat, preferably a wily one, to attack the hell-rat behemoths. They will always provide a 4-dose of the specific color spice they are guarding.
6. Add up to 3 doses of a color spice to the regular stew to get a spicy stew.

Skill Boost Range for Spicy Stew: -1 to +1: 1 dose -3 to +3: 3 doses -5 to +5: 3 doses

Locations of Each Spice:

• Red: Northern-most Room
• Orange: North-western Room
• Yellow: South-western Room
• Brown: Southern-most Room

Skills Affected by Spicy Stew:

• Red: Combat Skills (Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic)
• Orange: Production Skills (Crafting, Fletching, Runecrafting, Construction, Firemaking, Cooking)
• Yellow: Character Development (Agility, Hunter, Slayer, Thieving, Prayer)
• Brown: Resource Skills (Woodcutting, Farming, Fishing, Mining, Herblore)

With this comprehensive guide, you’ll be well-equipped to boost your Crafting skill in OSRS using these effective methods and items. Whether you’re aiming for Crafting mastery or just want to enhance your abilities temporarily, these boosts will help you on your journey.

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