Iron bar



An Iron bar is a bar of refined iron ore. Players can make it with the Smithing skill at level 15 by using an iron ore on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience.

When a player smelts iron ore, there is a 50% chance that the ore will be too impure to yield an iron bar. When this happens, the iron ore disappears and the player is granted no Smithing experience. This specific of 50% success rate is only for level 15 smithing or lower. When you hit level 16 smithing, you will have a 51% chance, level 17 will have a 52% chance, etc. But When you get to level 45 smithing, you have an 80% chance of successfully making the bar. 80% is the highest success rate, unless you use something from the next list:

To get 100% chance of smelting an iron bar: An iron bar can be smithed on an anvil through the Smithing skill to create iron weapons and armour, granting 25 Smithing experience per bar used. A list of iron items that can be smithed from iron bars and the Smithing levels required can be found here. They can also be found in Smithing Iron in the RuneScape manual.
 * Wear a Ring of Forging while smelting iron ore, or
 * Cast Superheat Item on an iron ore.
 * Use the Blast furnace to smelt the iron ores

Iron bars are also a very good source of money as a player only needs to buy iron ore and smelt it for double profit, considering you use a blast furnace or ring of forging.

Iron bars are also the tertiary ingredient in infusing Iron minotaur pouches for the Summoning skill.

The iron bar has a 80% chanc eof sucsecfully smithing an iron bar if their smithing is over 45

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