OSRS Golem Crafting Guide: New Ironman Crafting Method

Introduction

Golem Crafting is the biggest thing to happen to the Crafting skill in years. It arrived with the Wyrmscraig island update on 29 July 2026, and it does something no other Crafting method has managed: it beats every single glassblowing method in the game while only asking for 60 Crafting.

I have spent a good number of hours on Wyrmscraig testing this since launch, and the thing that surprised me most is how good the gameplay loop actually feels. You mine some rocks, you carve a statue from four sides, you put a core into its chest, and a stone man stands up and hands you a gem. It sounds ridiculous when you write it down. In practice, it is one of the most satisfying skilling loops Jagex has ever shipped. However, unlocking the Wyrmscraig requires completion of the Fallen From Grace quest.

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Let's get into it.

What Is Golem Crafting?

Golem Crafting is a Crafting training activity located in Auchrie, the only village on the island of Wyrmscraig. You are helping the locals rebuild the stone guardians that used to protect the settlement. Mechanically, one "golem" is a four-step loop:

1. Mine sunstone from the Wyrmscraig mine (5 sunstone per Golem).
2. Click an empty plinth with 4 sunstones to place a golem base.
3. Carve the Golem from all four sides: north, east, south and west.
4. Insert a sunstone core into the front of it, together with one hunter fur, and it comes to life.

Each completed golem awards a flat 1,560 Crafting XP plus the XP value of the fur you clothed it with. It also drops a gem on the ground for you, and there is a rare chance for the Jeweller's chisel.

Why it matters more for Ironman   

Compare it to what you were doing before:

Golem Crafting does not obliterate Superglass Make on raw rate. What it does is remove every constraint: 60 Crafting, no Magic requirement, no Lunar Diplomacy, no seaweed to farm, and no Magic XP you might not want. If you have been stockpiling giant seaweed for the Superglass Make method, you can stop. So, in my opinion, it's a game-changing method.

Requirements for Golem Crafting

There are two layers of requirements here: the ones that get you onto the island, and the ones that let you do the activity efficiently once you are there.

Hard requirements

• • 60 Crafting: to perform the activity.
• • Completion of Fallen from Grace: the island's introductory quest. This is what unlocks Golem Crafting.
• • 53 Mining: to mine sunstones.

Fallen From Grace Quest requirements

The quest itself is where most of the hustle is:

• 62 Sailing (not boostable)
• 60 Crafting
• 53 Mining
• 47 Runecraft (not boostable)
• Completion of Pandemonium
• ~75+ Combat strongly recommended; there is a real boss fight at the end

Rewards: 10,000 Crafting XP, 12,500 Sailing XP, 5,000 Mining XP and 5,000 Runecraft XP, plus access to Golem Crafting, the repeatable Mad Angel boss, Mortimer the new Slayer Master, and a Necklace of Passage teleport straight to the island.

Hidden requirements nobody tells you about

These requirements are not listed in the quest infobox, and they will absolutely catch you out, to boost up your XP rates.

• • 48 Construction: to build the Wyrmscraig bank chest. Without it, there is no bank on the island, and this method becomes miserable.
• • 65 Crafting: to make a large fur pouch (28 furs). This is what lets you do five rotations between bank trips.
• • 60 Hunter + Sheep Herder: only if you plan to source furs from the island goats (mostly an Ironman concern).
• • 69 Hunter: for dashing kebbit falconry, which is the best realistic fur source for an Ironman.

How to Get to the Golem Crafting Area

Before the quest, the only way there is to sail. After the quest, you have proper teleports:

• Necklace of Passage (Recommended): Teleports you to Wyrmscraig, just west of the central camp. This is the one you will use for every trip, and it is unlocked by completing Fallen from Grace.

• Slayer Ring: Teleports directly into Wyrmscraig Cavern. Useful for Mortimer, not for Golem Crafting.
• Sailing: Set course for The Lonely Sea. Slow, but free.

From the Necklace of Passage arrival point, run east to Auchrie. The sunstone mine and the crafting plinths are close to each other, which is the whole reason this method flows so well; you are never running more than a few tiles between the mining and the Crafting.

This is the location of the mining area, from the place Necklace of Passage will teleport you.

Building the Bank Chest First (48 Construction)

Do not skip this. The Wyrmscraig bank chest turns the island from "awkward remote location" into one of the most self-contained skilling spots in the game: bank, furnace, anvil, range, loom and a water source all within a few tiles of each other. It is also the closest bank to a furnace in OSRS.

The location of the bank is in the following image, marked from the place Necklace of Passage will teleport you to.

To build it, you need:

• 48 Construction
• 1 sunstone crystal
• 2 lead bars
• 8 mahogany planks
• 32 mithril nails
• A saw and a hammer

The sunstone crystal is a guaranteed Mad Angel drop while the chest is unbuilt and you do not already own one, so the quest boss fight hands it to you after the completion of the quest. Building the chest gives 1,178 Construction XP.

The Full Golem Crafting Method, Step by Step

This is the core of the guide. Once you have this rhythm down, everything else is just for logistics.

Step 1: Mine 25 sunstones 

Each Golem eats 5 sunstones, 4 for the base and 1 for the core. A full inventory of 25 sunstones therefore makes exactly 5 golems, which is why the standard rotation is built around 25.

There are two ways to mine it, and they are not close in value:

• Sunstone rocks (recommended): 23 Mining XP per sunstone, or 28 with active momentum. 22 rocks on the surface, 5.6 second respawn.

• Sunstone monolith (AFK): never moves, but only 15 XP, and players have measured manual mining at 2.5-4× the collection rate. Use it if you want a genuinely relaxed session; do not use it if you care about XP/hr.

Step 2: Chisel 5 sunstone into cores

Use your chisel on a sunstone to create a sunstone core. Do 5 of them, leaving 20 sunstone in your inventory, exactly enough for 5 bases of 4 sunstones. Cores can be made ahead of time, so there is no reason to do this at the plinth. Do it while you are walking.

Without these sunstone cores, you won't be able to finish the Golem. So these are required to make the Golem.

Step 3: Shape the Golem from all four sides

Click an empty plinth. You need a chisel, a hammer and 4 sunstones in your inventory. Your character automatically places the base, then starts carving whichever side you are standing on.

Each side takes 20 ticks (12 seconds), so a full golem is 80 ticks (48 seconds) of carving, plus your movement time between sides. But you're doing it with tick manipulation; it reduces to 60 ticks or 36 seconds.

The order matters, and this is the part most people get wrong with their first few golems. You can only insert the core from the front of the Golem, not from the sides or behind. So, you want your carving path to finish at the front. Have a look at the following GIF to get a better understanding of the method.

I used the Increase Pitch Limit in Camera plugin to get this over-the-head point of view.

1. Start at the back (north) side.
2. Move to the east side.
3. Move to the west side.
4. Finish at the south side, the front, and insert the core from where you are already standing.

You can also mark the tiles for better movement, as in the following image I captured:

Alternate your starting side between golems so you are always walking a natural circle and always ending face-to-face. If you start at the top on one Golem, start at the bottom on the next. This saves you a full walk-around every single Golem, and across 58 golems an hour that is a lot of wasted ticks.

Step 4: Insert the core + fur

With the Golem fully shaped, click it while standing at its front. Your character inserts the sunstone core and automatically pulls one fur out of your fur pouch to clothe it. The Golem powers up, you get your Crafting XP drop, and it drops a gem on the ground.

You do not need to have loose furs in your inventory; the game pulls directly from an open fur pouch, which is what makes the 25-free-slots setup possible.

The full rotation

Putting it all together, with a large fur pouch and a gem bag:

1. Mine exactly 25 sunstones at the rocks, chaining momentum.
2. Chisel 5 sunstones into cores (20 sunstones left).
3. Build and complete 5 golems, picking up the gems into your gem bag.
4. Walk back to the mine and repeat.

A full large fur pouch carries 28 furs, which gets you five rotations, 25 golems, before you need to bank. That is roughly 30-35 minutes of uninterrupted training per bank trip.

Tick Manipulation Trick

You can use the tick manipulation trick to reduce the whole rotation from 80 ticks (48 seconds) to 60 ticks (36 seconds). Here it is: You need to click on the Golem right after the XP drop, and the next action will reduce to 3 ticks instead of 4 ticks, saving you ~12 seconds in total rotation. Spam clicking on the Golem will also reduce the ticks.

Experience Rates

You can expect to reach 160K XP/hr if you're actively mining sunstones; you can check the XP rates from my own session. I managed to reach 153K XP/hr while writing this guide.

If you AFK the mining with Monolith, you can reach around 100K XP/hr; that's the price of your relaxed sessions with this method: lower XP rates.

Recommended Gear & Inventory Setup

Because you are mining and crafting in the same loop, your gear setup is basically a mining setup. Nothing here boosts Crafting XP directly; every slot is either mining speed, extra sunstone, or extra gems.

Equipment

The Imcando hammer is the sleeper item: You need a hammer to build golem bases, and the chisel cannot be equipped. Equipping the Imcando hammer in the off-hand slot frees exactly one inventory slot, which is the slot your gem bag goes in (only if you want to collect gems). Without it, you choose between the gem bag and a spare inventory space every single trip. I had the following gear while making this guide.

Making the Large Fur Pouch

This is the most important thing to make; without it, you won't be able to perform 25 Golems (5 Trips) without going to the bank. The Large Fur Pouch stores 28 furs; you can make it at level 65 of Crafting. Follow the steps below to make it:

1. Take 4 Larupia Furs and use Needle and Thread to make it into a Small Fur Pouch; this requires 35 levels of Crafting.
2. Take 3 Graahk Furs and a Small Fur Pouch that we made; use needle and thread to make it into a Medium Fur Pouch.
3. Take 3 Kyatt Furs and a Medium Fur Pouch that we made; use needle and thread to make it into a Large Fur Pouch.

Inventory

• Large fur pouch: filled with at least 25 furs (28 is the cap)
• Gem bag: for the gems the golems drop and the gems you get while mining (not necessary if you're playing on main account)
• Chisel: cannot be equipped, so it always costs a slot
• Hammer: only if you do not have the Imcando hammer equipped
• 25 free inventory slots: this is the number that matters. If you cannot keep 25 free, you cannot do 5 golems per rotation, and your XP/hr drops accordingly.

Rewards from Golem Crafting

The best reward from the golem crafting method is its decent XP rates for Ironman Accounts compared to other crafting methods. Secondly, after carving the Golem, it hands you a random gem, and also there is a 1/315 chance of getting a Jeweller's Chisel.

You can make around 22500 GP/hr collecting gems with a gem bag. It's not that much money, but Jeweller's chisel is an interesting item to receive. It's an enhanced variant of a normal chisel, with two passive effects. It increases the success chance by 20% when cutting opals, jades, and topaz; the second is that it also has a 10% chance of cutting 2 gems at once when cutting any gem.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Turning up without furs. The fur is mandatory. No fur, no golem, no XP. This is the #1 misconception about the method.
• Bringing tatty furs. Tatty variants do not work and cannot even go in a fur pouch.
• Bringing combat furs. Bear fur, grey wolf fur, jaguar fur and plain "Fur" are all rejected. It must be Hunter fur.
• Ending your carve on the wrong side. You can only insert the core from the front. Finishing at the back means an extra walk every Golem. Follow exactly these steps marked on the tiles.

• Using a dragon or crystal pickaxe. Both can break momentum early. Rune pickaxe is currently better for active mining.
• Not keeping 25 inventory slots free. Fewer than 25 free slots mean fewer than 5 golems per rotation, which quietly costs you 20%+ of your XP rate.
• Sailing in on a sloop. It will not fit into the quest cave. Raft or skiff only.

FAQs about Golem Crafting

Is Golem Crafting the fastest Crafting method in OSRS?

It is the fastest method available at 60 Crafting, and it beats every glassblowing method in the game, including empty light orbs (~122,500 XP/hr at 87 Crafting). It does not clearly beat Superglass Make on raw rate, which runs 108k–153k Crafting plus 47k- 66k Magic, but Superglass Make needs 77 Crafting, 77 Magic, Lunar Diplomacy, and a giant seaweed supply. Golem Crafting needs none of that.

Do I really need furs for every Golem?

Yes. A golem will not complete without one. An early proposal had furs as an optional bonus, and a lot of older guides still repeat that; it changed before launch.

Which fur is best?

Moonlight antelope fur at 1,200 XP is the mathematical best, but dashing kebbit fur at 1,160 XP is the practical best for almost everyone, 1.5% less XP for a tiny fraction of the effort or cost. If you are under 69 Hunter as an Ironman, Wyrmscraig goat fur at 880 XP works fine; you are only giving up about 13%.

Can I AFK Golem Crafting?

Partially. Mining the sunstone monolith is a genuine AFK option, and the shaping actions are 15 ticks and 20 ticks without tick manipulation each, so it is far from click-intensive by OSRS standards. But the tick trick is where a fifth of your XP rate lives, and you cannot AFK that. The wiki puts the relaxed approach at around 100,000 Crafting XP/hr, which is still excellent for low-effort training.

Do I need the bank chest?

Not strictly, but you should build it. Without it, there is no bank on the island. With it, you get bank, furnace, anvil, range, loom and water within a few ticks, the closest bank-to-furnace in the game. It needs 48 Construction.

How much Mining XP do I get?

Roughly 5,500–6,500 XP/hr as a by-product. Sunstone rocks give 23 XP, or 28 with momentum. Do not treat this as a Mining method, as it is a crafting method.

Is the Jeweller's chisel worth grinding for?

If you are already training Crafting here, you will get it passively at around 1/315. It is not worth a dedicated grind on its own, but the 10% chance of cutting two gems at once applies to every gem you cut for the rest of the account's life, which adds up.

Does Golem Crafting make money?

A little. Roughly 22,500 gp/hr in raw gem value at 58 golems/hr, which usually more than covers your fur costs. Treat it as XP training that happens not to cost you anything, rather than a money maker.

Can I do this on a fresh account?

No. The 62 Sailing requirement is not boostable, and neither is 47 Runecraft, and you need Pandemonium completed on top. This is mid-to-late-game content by requirement, even though the activity itself only asks for 60 Crafting.

Final Thoughts

The 185k XP/hr being repeated across the internet is a ceiling, not a measurement. What you should expect is 120k-135k while you are learning it and 145k–160k once the tick trick becomes automatic. That is still the best thing available to a 60 Crafting account by a wide margin.

What I did not expect was how much I would enjoy it. The four-sided carve, the walk around the plinth, the moment the Golem stands up- it has a rhythm to it that most skilling methods do not. It also gives Hunter furs a real purpose for the first time since they were introduced, which is a lovely bit of design.

Give it a try. If you are on the fence about the Sailing grind to get there, this activity alone justifies it.