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 receive from mining. Second, players can then use the bars they receive 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. Once you are done smelting the required ore a single bar will be made.

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

To smith, players need to find anvils. Anvils are labeled 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 xp 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.

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 have finished the Ghosts Ahoy quest. If they have 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.

Free to play training
Here is a way a free player can raise their smithing level. Smelt and smith bronze. Smelt and smith iron. However, this will be very slow. Smelt and smith steel. Smelt and smith steel. Players are recommended that they smith steel plates and then high level alchemy them for a great profit. Smelt and smith steel. Smelt steel bars. This is a very steady process, and should be done at furnaces such as the Al-Kharid furnace. At the time of writing this, you can make things faster by buying both the iron and coal needed, and still make money when you're done.
 * Levels 1 to 18
 * Levels 18 to 48
 * Levels 30 to 48
 * Levels 48 to 99
 * Levels 48 to 68
 * Levels 68 to 99

If you want to, you may also smelt and/or smith mithril. It will cost more money, but you can also make some money, as with the steel. If you wish to smith mithril, smith platebodies, and high alch them. This generates profit, as it costs only 1 nature rune per platebody, and if you use a fire staff, then there's no need to spend money on fire runes.

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.

Related Links
These links are related in some way to smithing.

Skills

 * Mining skill guide.

Quests
These quests give smithing xp upon completion.


 * Heroes Quest - 2,257.5 xp.
 * The Giant Dwarf - 2,500 xp.
 * The Tourist Trap - 4,650 to 9,300 xp, or 9,300 to 18,600 xp.
 * Between a Rock... - 5,000 xp.
 * Elemental Workshop - 5,000 xp.
 * Devious Minds - 6,500 xp.
 * Cabin Fever - 7,000 xp.
 * Legends Quest - 7,650 or up to 30,600 xp.
 * One Small Favour - 10,000 to 20,000 xp.
 * The Knight's Sword - 12,725 xp.
 * Recipe for Disaster - 20,000 xp, plus 1,000 xp if the player had done a side quest, involving them saving Pirate Pete.