RuneScape/Skills/Smithing

= Introdcution =

Smithing is a skill where players can make armour and weapons themselves instead of buying them. It is also one of the most profitable skills in RuneScape as well as one of the most popular.

Smithing involves two things: smelting the ores players receive from mining and smithing the bars received from smelting.

=Smelting=

First of all, you need to have ores. To get ores, you need to mine (see Runescape's mining skill). Using the ores you have, you must then use them on a furnace to smelt the ores into bars. There are 12 furnaces located throughout Runescape, but only 4 are for free players.

Free Furnaces
Listed below are furnaces available for free players.

Members Furnaces
Listed below are furnaces available for members. Free players cannot use these furnaces.

Smelting Table
When you've found a good furnace, you must then smelt your ores into bars. This can be done by either using the ores with the furnace, or clicking on the furnace and indicating how many bars you want, which is much faster than always clicking on your ores and then on the furnace.

However, players need certain levels smithing levels to smelt ores into bars.

=Smithing=

Now that you have your bars, you will need a hammer and an anvil. Hammers can be bought from General Stores and anvils are found across Runescape. It's faster if you smelt all your ores and then smith them, instead of smelting 28 ores and then smithing them. However, you need levels to smith items.

Use your bars with the anvil. A menu will pop up and ask you what you want to make. If you right click, you can smith 5 or 10 of what you want. When you smith, your character will hammer the bar on the anvil and produce your item.

A good spot to smith is in Varrock. At the west bank, just south of it is a house with anvils. Here you can quickly take out your bars from the bank, smith them with your hammer, and then bank them and repeat.

List below are tables with information about levels needed to produce weapons and armour.

=Bronze Table=

This is a table with information about making bronze items.

=Iron Table=

This is a table with information about making iron items.

=Steel Table=

This is a table with information about making steel items.

=Mithril Table=

This is a table with information about making mithril items.

=Adamant Table=

This is a table with information about making adamant items.

=Rune Table=

This is a table with information about making rune items.

=Ore Prices=

Please note that these are rough prices and are not exact. Prices may change over time.


 * 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=

Please note that these are rough prices and are not exact. Prices may change over time.


 * Bronze Bar: 20gp


 * 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 1,000gp


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


 * Rune Bar: 13,000 to 15,000

=Making Money=

If your magic level is 55 (see Magic) and your smithing level is 48, then you can easily make money from smithing.

All you have to do is make steel plates and then high level alchemy them. Each steel plate you high level alchemy gives you 1200 gp. Since steel plates are easy to make, this is easy money. However, you need to have many nature runes if you want to do this.

It is not recommended that you sell what you made to General Stores, as they give you cheap prices. Instead, high level alchemy them. If your magic level is not 55, then you have no choice but to either sell to stores or to players.

You can also sell your bars or ores for a profit. Coal and iron are always in demand, so these ores can give you good money. Steel bars are always in demand too, and selling them gives a great profit.

=Training=

There isn't really a good way to train smithing. However, many players prefer to make steel plates, as they are easy to make and give good exp. This is a good way to get your smithing all the way to level 99.