RuneScape/Skills/Smithing

Smithing is a skill where you can make armour and weapons yourself instead of buying them. It is also one of the most profitable skills in Runescape.

=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, you need certain levels to smelt ores into bars. Listed below is a smelting table with levels. "Lvl Needed" means level needed to smelt ores.

=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.