RuneScape/Skills/Smithing

Smithing is a skill where players can make armour and weapons themselves instead of buying them. Smithing is considered one of the most profitable skills in RuneScape as players can make excellent profits from selling their bars. Because of this, smithing is also one of the more popular skills.

Smithing involves two things. First, players have to smelt the ores they recieve from mining. Second, players can then use the bars they recieve from smelting on some anvils to make items.

= Smelting =

Smelting in RuneScape is when a player puts ores in a furnace and produces a bar. This bar can then be smithed into an item.

In order to smelt, players first of all need ores. Ores can be obtained from mining rocks. Once a player has the amount of ores the want, they can then smelt them.

To smelt an ore, players need to find a furnace. When they've found a furnace, a player can then smelt in two different ways. One way is to use their ores on the furnace and produce one bar at a time slowly. The other way, and much faster way, is to click on the furnace, right-click on the ore they want to smelt, click on 'Smelt X', and then type in how many they want.

Free to Play Furnaces
Below is some information about furnaces available in the free worlds. There are only four furnaces on free servers. Of these furnaces, the Al-Kharid furnace and the Falador furnace are recommended.

Pay to Play Furnaces
Below is some information about furnaces available in the member worlds. Members can use the four furnaces on the free servers or use the other seven furnaces in the member parts of RuneScape.

Smelting Table
When a player has found a good furnace, they can then smelt their ores. However, players need certain levels smithing levels to smelt ores into bars.

= Smithing =

Smithing is where the player uses their bars they recieved from smelting their ores and smith them into items, usually armour or weapons.

To smith, players need to find anvils. Anvils are labbelled on a player's mini-map, which is in the top right corner of the game's window. An anvil is shown on the mini-map as a small anvil with a circle around it. It is recommended that players smith their bars by having many bars in their bank. Doing this allows players to get faster exp then mining ores, smelting the ores, and then hammering the bars.

It is recommended that both free players and members use the anvils south of Varrock's west bank.

To smith a bar, players have to use the bar with the anvil. A menu will then pop up and ask them what they want to make. If a player right-click's on the picture of what they want to make, they can select how much of the item they want to make. Different smithing levels are required to make different items.

Below are tables with information about smithing and what players can create. It is important to note that black armour and weapons cannot be smithed.

Rune Smithing Table
= Smithing and Smelting Tips =


 * Players should always use a furnace that is close to a bank. For free players, they should use Al-Kharid's furnace or Falador's furnace. For members, they should use Port Phasmatys' furnace if they are done the Ghosts Ahoy quest. If they are not, then they should use East Ardougne's furnace, Falador's furnace, or Al-Kharid's furnace.


 * For smelting, it is recommended that players mine as many ores as they want and bank them all, not mine 28 ores, smelt them, and then smith them. This way, a player can go from a bank to a furnace, smelt their ores, and then go back to the bank and repeat. This is much faster than mining and smelting then banking.


 * For smithing, it is recommended that players smelt all of their ores and then smith their bars. This is much faster than smelting 28 ores and then smithing 28 ores.


 * For anvils, both free players and members are recommended to use the anvils south of Varrock's west bank. These anvils are right beside the bank, and smithing bars and be very fast if a player goes from the bank to the anvils, smiths their bars, goes back to the bank, and repeats.

= Making Money =

If a player's magic level is 55 and their smithing level is 48, then they can make a great amount of money.

Using the spell 'high level alchemy', a player can make a great profit from using the spell (using the spell is also known as 'high alcing', pronouncing the 'c' as a 'k') on steel plates. When a player high alcs a steel platebody, they recieve 1,200 gp. So if a player has 100 steel plates, and they have enough runes to high alc the plates, then they've just made 120,000 gp. The only con is that high alcing can be slow and boring, and the player has to have enough runes to cast the spell.

It is not recommended players sell what they made to general stores, as these stores give players cheap prices. Instead, they should high alc them. If their magic level is not high enough, then players should sell what they made to other players. Players are strongly recommended that they dlo not use the weaker alchemy spell, 'low level alchemy', as this spell gives players a very small amount of gp than they would recieve from high alcing.

Selling Bars and Ores
If a player just wants to sell their bars or ores they get from mining, then these prices are what they should follow. However, players must remember that these prices can change over time.

Steel bars are the recommended bars to sell, as many players make steel plates to level up their smithing level, so there is a large demand for these bars. The best places to sell or buy bars is in Falador and Varrock.

Ore Prices

 * Clay Ore: 1 to 5 gp


 * Copper/Tin Ore: 5 to 10 gp


 * Iron Ore: 50 to 100 gp


 * Silver Ore: 200 to 400 gp


 * Coal Ore: 120 to 200 gp


 * Gold Ore: 120 to 200 gp


 * Mithril Ore: 300 to 500 gp


 * Adamant Ore: 700 to 1,000 gp


 * Rune Ore: 10,000 to 12,000 gp

Bar Prices

 * Bronze Bar: 20 gp


 * Silver Bar: 150 to 300 gp


 * Iron Bar: 150 to 200 gp


 * Steel Bar: 400 to 600 gp


 * Gold Bar: 150 to 250 gp


 * Mithril Bar: 700 to 1,000 gp


 * Adamant Bar: 1,500 to 2,000 gp


 * Rune Bar: 10,000 to 15,000

= Free to Play Training =

Here is a way a free player can raise their smithing level.


 * Level 1 to 18 - Smelt and smith bronze.


 * Level 18 to 48 - Smelt and smith iron. However, this will be very slow.


 * Level 30 to 48 - Smelt and smith steel.


 * Level 48 to 99 - Smelt and smith steel. Players are recommended that they smith steel plates and then high level alchemy them for a great profit.


 * Level 48 to 68 - Smelt and smith steel.


 * Level 68 to 99 - Smelt and smith mithril. This will be very long and boring, though mithril plates give great exp as well as a great amount of gp from high alcing the plates.

Many players prefer to make steel plates to level up their smithing level. This is great as the ores to make steel are easy to obtain, plus the smithing experience from the plates is great.