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Tanning cowhide
Requirements Tanning hides
Skills

None

Items

4,000,000+ coins recommended

Quest

None

Other

None

Results
Profit Experience gained
6,649,000 per hour

None

Inputs Outputs

60,000 x Cowhide Cowhide (32,820,000)
12 x Portable crafter Portable crafter (550,968)
180,000 x Coins Coins

60,000 x Hard leather Hard leather (40,200,000)

Hard leather is used to train Crafting in free-to-play, and it is in reasonable demand. Because it must be tanned before it can be crafted, tanning cowhide into hard leather can be quite profitable at times.

To tan hard leather with maximum efficiency, deploy a portable crafter near a bank or bank chest (for example, near the bank chest in Combat Academy), make a preset with 28 cowhide, and load it. Then right-click the crafter and choose Tan Leather. Additionally, you can use portable crafters on the one already deployed to increase its duration by five minutes per crafter.

Because the price difference between hides and leather can be fairly small, it is important to buy the hides for a low price and sell the leather for a high price; you can lose out on up to 50% of the profit if you are not patient. Test the profit by buying one hard leather and one cowhide, making sure that the prices are good enough that you will make a decent profit. If you run out of cowhides, you may buy some more, but if you don't wish to spend money but you do have at least 45 Magic, you may use the Chain ability to kill more cows at once. This method makes players take less time killing cows and increases their profit per hour. Using an air mindspike or an air staff would make this process more profitable because casting air spells such as Wind Bolt or Wind Blast only requires air runes and a magic weapon.

Tanning soft leather instead is a good alternative if the price of hard leather is not high enough. While hard leather is usually more expensive (currently Hard leather 670 vs. Soft leather 672), soft leather is often easier to sell on the Grand Exchange.

To get the fastest tanning speed you need to make sure to be on the lowest ping world. Method: Zoom in and adjust your camera so the portable crafter and the bank would be next to each other. Now load your bank preset by pressing a key then instead of closing the bank interface, click on the portable. Next: press space and at the same time click on the banker. This way you don't need to wait until the bank or tanning interface opens up and can tan with little to no delay. At it's peak, it is possible to tan over 6,600 hides per portable crafter, or nearly 80,000 per hour.


Due to constantly changing prices on the Grand Exchange, some information in this article may or may not be current.
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