Smithing

Smithing
Also known as	Smith
Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members only?	No
Players with 99	15,588 as of 20 April 2019
Players with 200M XP	99 as of 20 April 2019

Smithing is a production skill where a player crafts useful metal items from raw materials. Smithing is considered one of the most profitable skills as players can make excellent profits from selling their bars. Because of this, smithing is also one of the more popular skills. Smithing actually incorporates two distinct processes. The first, Smelting, is the process of taking raw ore obtained from the Mining skill and thrusting it into a warm furnace until it becomes firm and shiny. The title process, Smithing, is the process in which the player repeatedly bangs the bars with a hammer until it becomes a metal item using an anvil.

Smelting

For a list of furnaces, see Furnace

Smelting is the process of extracting a metal bar from a metal ore. Ore can be obtained using the Mining skill. To obtain a metal bar, a player must use an ore of the desired metal on a furnace. Some metals require different kinds of ore, and smelting some metals require coal to be added to the furnace to raise the furnace's temperature.

Players can perform the smelting action by two different ways. One way is to use one of the ores for a bar on the furnace. Other required ores are automatically added to the furnace from the player's inventory. The other way, faster for bulk smelting, 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.

When smelting just a few ore, it can be faster to choose the 'Smelt 5' or 'Smelt 10' options, as bars will be smelted until the player runs out of ore.

Smelting using Magic

With level 43 Magic, players can smelt bars using the Superheat Item spell. Doing so grants the same amount of smithing experience, and has a few advantages:

• The player can emerge from a mine with a full inventory of bars, instead of a full inventory of ores which will smelt into only a fraction of the bars.
• The player receives both Smithing and Magic experience.
• The player saves time by not having to commute between a bank and a furnace.
• The player is granted a 100% success rate in smelting iron ore.

Success rate

All metals have a 100% success rate with the exception of Iron. As a balance to iron bars only requiring one ore, the smelting of iron ore using a furnace may sometimes fail. This success rate is raised to 100% under the following conditions:

• The iron is being smelted using the Superheat Item spell.
• The player has a Ring of Forging equipped.
• The iron is smelted in the Blast furnace mini-game

Smelting table

Name		Ores required	Smithing level required	Smithing experience gained	Notes
	Bronze	x1 x1	1	6.2	Lowest tier metal.
	Blurite	x1	8	8	Members only. Requires completion of The Knight's Sword quest.
	Iron	x1	15	12.5	Smelting iron ore at a furnace may sometimes fail. See smelting iron ore.
	Silver	x1	20	13.7	A Crafting metal. Used to create various silver items.
File:Elemental bar.png	Elemental	x1x4	20	7.5	Members only. Used in the Elemental Workshop I and Elemental Workshop II quests.
	Steel	x1 x2	30	17.5	The most average metal.
	Gold	x1	40	22.5 (56.2)	A Crafting metal, more valuable than silver, used to create various gold items (but not coins).
	Mithril	x1 x4	50	30	The lightest smithable metal.
	Adamantite	x1 x6	70	37.5	The heaviest smithable metal.
	Rune	x1 x8	85	50	The strongest smithable metal, also considered to be the most profitable bar in the game.

For a list of anvils, see Anvil

Smithing is the process by which players craft a metal item out of one or more metal bars.

Smithing is always done at an anvil. When a player uses a metal bar on an anvil, a dialog is shown in which the player selects which item to forge. The player can either click the item to smith one such item, or may right-click on the item and select a higher quantity of items to smith.

Note: Once a player has selected a quantity of items to smith, the player's character will only cease smithing once the quantity is filled, the player has run out of bars, or the player is attacked.

For players attempting to raise their smithing skill, it is recommended that players first have a large number of bars in their bank, thus allowing fast experience as only trips between a bank and an anvil are needed.

Different smithing levels are required to make different items. For the required levels for all items, see Smithing table.

Smithing table

Below is a table with information about Smithing and what players can create. It is important to note that Black armour and weapons cannot be smithed.

As is standard, items which can only be smithed by Members are italicized.

If you are wondering about how to find experience, take experience for 1 bar and multiply it by the number of bars you're using. For example, a Bronze Platebody is 62.5 exp using 5 bars. 1 bar is 12.5 exp, so go 5 x 12.5= 62.5. Works for all types, from Bronze -> Runite.

Bronze

Bronze smithing table

Item	Level	Experience	Bars	Notes
Dagger	1	12.5	1
Axe	1	12.5	1
Mace	2	12.5	1
Medium Helmet	3	12.5	1
Sword	4	12.5	1
Bronze Wire	4	12.5	1
Dart Tips	4	12.5	1	1 bar makes 10.
Nails	4	12.5	1	1 bar makes 15.
arrowtips	5	12.5	1	1 bar makes 15.
Scimitar	5	25	2
Crossbow limbs	6	12.5	1
Longsword	6	25	2
Full Helmet	7	25	2
Throwing Knives	7	12.5	1	1 bar makes 5.
Square Shield	8	25	2
Warhammer	9	37.5	3
Battleaxe	10	37.5	3
Chainbody	11	37.5	3
Kiteshield	12	37.5	3
Claws	13	25	2
Two-handed Sword	14	37.5	3
Platelegs	16	37.5	3
Plateskirt	16	37.5	3
Platebody	18	62.5	5

Iron

Iron smithing table

Item	Level	Experience	Bars	Notes
Dagger	15	25	1
Axe	16	25	1
Mace	17	25	1
Iron Spit	16	25	1
Medium Helmet	18	25	1
Sword	19	25	1
Dart Tips	19	25	1	1 bar makes 10.
Nails	19	25	1	1 bar makes 15.
arrowtips	20	25	1	1 bar makes 15.
Scimitar	20	50	2
Longsword	21	50	2
Full Helmet	22	50	2
Throwing Knives	22	25	1	1 bar makes 5.
Crossbow limbs	23	25	1
Square Shield	23	50	2
Warhammer	24	75	3
Battleaxe	25	75	3
Oil Lantern Frame	26	25	1	Used to see in dungeons.
Chainbody	26	75	3
Kiteshield	27	75	3
Claws	28	50	2
Two-handed Sword	29	75	3
Platelegs	31	75	3
Plateskirt	31	75	3
Platebody	33	125	5

Steel

Steel smithing table

Item	Level	Experience	Bars	Notes
Dagger	30	37.5	1
Axe	31	37.5	1
Mace	32	37.5	1
Medium Helmet	33	37.5	1
Sword	34	37.5	1
Dart Tips	34	37.5	1	1 bar makes 10.
Nails	34	37.5	1	1 bar makes 15.
arrowtips	35	37.5	1	1 bar makes 15.
Cannonballs	35	25.5	1	1 bar makes 4.
Scimitar	35	75	2
Crossbow limbs	36	37.5	1
Longsword	36	75	2
Steel Studs	36	37.5	1	Used for crafting studded leather armour.
Full helmet	37	75	2
Throwing Knives	37	37.5	1	1 bar makes 5.
Square Shield	38	75	2
Warhammer	39	112.5	3
Battleaxe	40	112.5	3
Chainbody	41	112.5	3
Kiteshield	42	112.5	3
Claws	43	75	2
Two-handed Sword	44	112.5	3
Platelegs	46	112.5	3
Plateskirt	46	112.5	3
Platebody	48	187.5	5
Bullseye Lantern	49	37.5	1	Used to see in dungeons.

Mithril

Mithril smithing table

Image	Item	Level	Experience	Bars	Notes
	Dagger	50	50	1
	Axe	51	50	1
	Mace	52	50	1
	Medium Helmet	53	50	1
	Sword	54	50	1
	Dart Tips	54	50	1	1 bar makes 10.
	Nails	54	50	1	1 bar makes 15.
	Arrowtips	55	50	1	1 bar makes 15.
	Scimitar	55	100	2
	Crossbow limbs	56	50	1
	Longsword	56	100	2
	Full helm	57	100	2
	Throwing Knives	57	50	1	1 bar makes 5.
	Square Shield	58	100	2
	Warhammer	59	150	3
	Mithril Grapple	59	50	1
	Battleaxe	60	150	3
	Chainbody	61	150	3
	Kiteshield	62	150	3
	Claws	63	100	2
	Two-handed Sword	64	150	3
	Platelegs	66	150	3
	Plateskirt	66	150	3
	Platebody	68	250	5

Adamant

Adamant smithing table

Item	Level	Experience	Bars	Notes
Dagger	70	62.5	1
Axe	71	62.5	1
Mace	72	62.5	1
Medium Helmet	73	62.5	1
Sword	74	62.5	1
Dart Tips	74	62.5	1	1 bar makes 10.
Nails	74	62.5	1	1 bar makes 15.
arrowtips	75	62.5	1	1 bar makes 15.
Scimitar	75	125	2
Crossbow limbs	76	62.5	1
Longsword	76	125	2
Full Helmet	77	125	2
Throwing Knives	77	62.5	1	1 bar makes 5.
Square Shield	78	125	2
Warhammer	79	187.5	3
Battleaxe	80	187.5	3
Chainbody	81	187.5	3
Kiteshield	82	187.5	3
Claws	83	125	2
Two-handed Sword	84	187.5	3
Platelegs	86	187.5	3
Plateskirt	86	187.5	3
Platebody	88	312.5	5

Rune

Rune smithing table

Item	Level	Experience	Bars	Notes
Dagger	85	75	1
Axe	86	75	1
Mace	87	75	1
Medium Helmet	88	75	1
Sword	89	75	1
Dart Tips	89	75	1	1 bar makes 10.
Nails	89	75	1	1 bar makes 15.
arrowtips	90	75	1	1 bar makes 15.
Scimitar	90	150	2
Crossbow limbs	91	75	1
Longsword	91	150	2
Full Helmet	92	150	2
Throwing Knives	92	75	1	1 bar makes 5.
Square Shield	93	150	2
Warhammer	94	225	3
Battleaxe	95	225	3
Chainbody	96	225	3
Kiteshield	97	225	3
Claws	98	150	2
Two-handed Sword	99	225	3
Platelegs	99	225	3
Plateskirt	99	225	3
Platebody	99	375	5

Tips

• The closest furnaces to a bank are the Port Phasmatys furnace and the Neitiznot furnace, Al-Kharid's furnace for free player or Falador's furnace.
• It is often more efficient to break up the tasks of mining, smelting (unless superheating), and smithing, rather than try to mine 28 ores, smelt them, and then smith them (although in Al Kharid the furnace is on the way to the bank).
• The anvils located nearest a bank on the Void Knight Outpost, Yanille (just south of the bank), and Varrock (just South of the Western Bank). To reach the Void Knights' Outpost island, talk to the squire South of the Port Sarim dock. There are multiple anvils on this island, located 10 or so seconds (walking) from the bank - this is extremely quick, if smithing bars into weapons, armour, etc.

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, but only if they mine the ores themselves.

Using the spell 'High Level Alchemy' (also known as 'high alching'), a player can make a great profit. When a player high alchs a steel platebody, they receive 1,200 coins. So if a player has 100 steel plates, and they have enough runes to high alch the plates, then they've just made 120,000 coins. The only con is that high alching 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 make to general stores, as these stores give players low prices. Instead, they should high alch them. If their magic level is not high enough, then players should sell what they made to other players. It is highly recommended that players do not use the weaker 'Low Level Alchemy' spell, as this spell gives players a much smaller amount of coins than they would receive from high alching.

Generally, the best things to use high-alchemy on are either swords or plate bodies - these items yield the most coins per bar (the exception is rune). There is a full high-alchemy table below.

At smithing level 40 with crafting level 6 and a necklace mould, gold necklace can be made at the same furnace in which gold ores are smelted into gold bars. Grum's jewellery shop in Port Sarim buys a gold necklace at 315 coins if his inventory is zero; the price decreases 9 coins for each gold necklace he has, dropping to 45 coins at an inventory of 30 or more. Selling to a general store gives only 180 coins or less. High alching (270 coins) using nature runes (street price 300+ coins) may be a poor value unless a player is able to runecraft natures (level 44 runecrafting and members-only).

Item	Level	High-Alchemy Value	Value per Bar	Value per Ore
Iron Sword	19	54	54	54
Iron Platebody	33	336	67.2	67.2
Steel Sword	34	195	195	65
Steel Platebody	48	1200	240	80
Mithril Sword	54	507	507	101
Mithril Platebody	68	3120	624	125
Adamant Sword	74	1248	1248	178
Adamant Platebody	88	7680	1536	219
Rune Sword	89	12480	12480	1387
Rune 2h Sword	99	38400	12800	1422

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: 1 to 5 coins
• Copper/Tin Ore: 5 to 10 coins
• Iron Ore: 50 to 100 coins
• Silver Ore: 100 to 200 coins
• Coal: 150 to 250 coins
• Gold Ore: 250 to 600 coins
• Mithril Ore: 350 to 500 coins
• Adamant Ore: 1,200 to 1,600 coins
• Rune Ore: 11,000 to 13,000 coins

Bar prices

• Bronze Bar: 20 coins
• Silver Bar: 150 to 300 coins
• Iron Bar: 150 to 250 coins
• Steel Bar: 650 to 800 coins
• Gold Bar: 200 to 400 coins
• Mithril Bar: 800 to 1,000 coins
• Adamant Bar: 2,000 to 2,400 coins
• Rune Bar: 13,000 to 15,000 coins

Training

Free-play training

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

• Level 1 to 29 - buy 2 iron bars from a higher level smith then do The Knight's Sword quest, it gives 12,750 Smithing experience, granting many levels to a low-level smith.Or you can smith bronze at Al-Kharid.
• Level 20 to 30 - Smelt and sell silver bars at Al-Kharid.
• Level 29 to 40 - Smelt and smith iron. However, this will be very slow.
• Level 40 to 68 - Smelt and sell or craft gold bars at Al-Kharid. This is also a good way to make money.
• Level 30 to 68 - Smelt and smith steel. Players are recommended that they smith steel plates and then high level alchemy them for a great profit.
• Level 68 to 99 - Smelt and smith mithril. This will be very long and boring, though mithril plates give great xp as well as a great amount of coins 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 relatively easy to obtain, plus the smithing experience from the plates is great.

Members Training

Members tend to train smithing using different methods to non-members.

• Gold ore is superb experience if you have the Goldsmith Gauntlets from the Family Crest quest. Wearing the Goldsmith Gauntlets while smithing gold bars will give you 56.2 experience per bar made, or 1574 experience per trip to the furnace. Comparison to Bronze: 25 experience, Iron: 350, Silver: 378, Steel: 157.5, Mithril: 150, Adamant: 150, rune: 150, all per trip to the furnace. It is very easy to find people selling Gold Ore on the RuneScape forums, and even when you do, you'll struggle to sell gold bars in quantity. The price of gold ore can be extremely high in large quantities, because of the speed of the experience.
• Blast Furnace is a very good way to level smithing. Buy the ores, make mithril bars using the blast furnace, smith them into mithril platebody and high alch the plates. You will roughly break even in the sense that you don't have to bank for coins no matter how long you keep doing this.
• Cannonballs are slow, and worse experience than any other steel smithing, but you can make a serious profit from them. Generally cannonballs sell for 150-200 each, whereas steel bars sell for 500-600 each and you can also buy the iron/coal instead and make the bars for 350 each. There are a lot of buyers for cannonballs who are training Slayer.
• Adamant axes - need to train Woodcutting and not just Smithing? Good. Go and cut trees by loads of newbies, a great place to do this is cutting willow by draynor bank. While you are there, sell adamant axes for 2,000 coins each (costs roughly 1,600 to make the bars if you buy the materials). 2,000 each is a bargain price for adamant axes, and you may find some equipment traders who buy lots off you at once (in which case, you may want to do something like a "buy 10, get 1 free" policy - you get more axes off your hands and you are still selling for a profit of 200 coins per bar). Sometimes the market can be very slow, but sometimes you'll find 2 equipment traders at the same time and get rid of 70 in one go. Accept cash mostly or a good barter deal (e.g. 150 willow logs worth 3-4.5,000 coins). Warning: You may/will saturate the market, so don't do this too often! If you can, try and source a load of rune hatchets cheaply to sell at the same time.
• Rune axes - Similar to adamant, go and cut by loads of other woodcutters - not necessarily newbies. While you are there, sell rune axes for 17,000 coins each, and 15,000 coins each (or even cheaper) in bulk. People training for a high woodcutting level often buy loads, and equipment traders are easier to find when you're selling rune hatchets.
• Selling bars on the forums - It's slow experience, but if you want to, make some bars and sell them on the forums. Do NOT price yourself out of the market, there's plenty of others using this trick - put up a reasonable minimum bid price and be prepared to sell for that price.
• Arrows - are slow but good experience, and you may be able to break even on arrows. However, you'll have a lot of competition - it's generally easier to sell the cheaper arrows like iron or steel rather than mithril. Of course, these are far lower experience per bar, and from your point of view, a waste of feathers and logs! It's also a lot of trading work - getting feathers, normal logs, making the headless arrows, etc.
• Throwing Knives and Darts - Can be extremely profitable to do, many extremely high level smiths make money on Iron Knives rather than cannonballs, because it's easier to source large amounts of iron than coal, and the experience per hour rate is roughly the same.
• Studded bodies - Here you make studs out of all your steel bars (350 coins each), combine it with a leather body (101 coins each), runecraft a nature (31 coins each) and high-alch. This is extremely heavy on nature runes which means that you'll be spending all your time runecrafting rather than smithing. However, it's very good smithing, craft, runecraft and magic xp - four skills which are very tough to raise, and you make 28 coins (or less) per alched body. It's a lot of time and effort to go to.
• Mining the ores, buying the coal - Here, you mine the mithril or adamant yourself, buy the coal, and high-alch the platebodys. You will need high levels for this, and you just about break-even on mithril, and make money on adamant.
• Spending on fast experience - Here, you make the bars, then make plates, then alch them. This will lose you serious money, but is fast smithing xp (even more if you buy the bars rather than make yourself). Assuming you runecraft your own natures, you will lose: Steel Plates: 3000 coins per plate (16 coins per xp), Mith Plates: 5500 coins per plate (22 coins per xp), Addy Plates: 11000 coins per plate (+35 coins per xp).

Experience per ore used

This compares how much experience is earned for the number of ores used. Gold using the members Goldsmith's gauntlets is first with 56.2 xp; iron is second with 37.5 xp.

The Keldagrim blast furnace minigame requires only half the number of coal for steel, mithril, adamant and rune smelting and iron smelts 100% without the Ring of Forging.

Experience per ore

Ore	Number of ores	Total exp	Exp per ore	Blast furnace exp per ore
Bronze	2	19	9.5	9.5
Iron	1 (50% success)	18.8	18.8	37.5
Iron	1 + Ring of Forging	37.5	37.5	37.5
Steel	3	55	18.3	27.5
Gold	1	22.5	22.5	22.5
Gold	1 + Goldsmith Gauntlet	56.2	56.2	56.2
Mithril	5	80	16	26.7
Adamant	7	100	14.3	25
Rune	9	125	13.8	25

High alchemy table

The items listed below are the ones most players use in high alchemy.

Item	Bars	High alch / Specialist store price						Steel value/bar
		Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Addy	Rune
Dagger	1	6	21	75	195	480	4,800	75
Axe	1	9	33	120	312	768	7,280	120
Mace	1	10	37	135	351	864	8,640	135
Medium helmet	1	14	50	180	468	1,152	11,520	180
Sword	1	15	54	195	507	1,249	12,480	195
Scimitar	2	19	67	240	624	1,536	15,360	120
Longsword	2	24	84	300	780	1,919	19,200	150
Full helmet	2	26	92	330	858	2,112	21,120	165
Square shield	2	28	100	360	936	2,304	23,040	180
Warhammer	3	28	103	384	996	2,472	24,900	128
Battleaxe	3	31	109	390	1,014	2,490	24,960	130
Chainbody	3	36	126	450	1,170	2,880	30,000	150
Kiteshield	3	40	142	510	1,326	3,264	32,640	170
Two-handed sword	3	48	168	600	1,560	3,840	38,400	200
Platelegs/Plateskirt	3	48	168	600	1,560	3,840	38,400	200
Platebody	5	96	336	1,200	3,120	9,984	39,000	240

Temporary boosts

• A Dwarven Stout will raise mining and smithing by 1. It can be bought in Falador, is a common drop from dwarves, and can be bought in several places in members areas, as well as brewed using the Cooking skill.
• A Mature dwarven stout will raise mining and smithing by 2. You receive 2 as a reward for completing the Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf, and it can be brewed by using the Cooking skill.

Quests

• The Knight's Sword - 12,750 XP
• Elemental Workshop I - 5,000 XP
• Elemental Workshop II - 7,500 XP
• Devious Minds - 6,500 xp

Trivia

• In the early days, smithing was considered one of the best skills for making money. As such, Jagex kept anvils and furnaces far away as an attempt to prevent people from levelling smithing too quickly. However, this practice has often been considered obsolete ever since banks were able to hold items.
• In early 2001, smithing had very different requirements. For example, players needed level 96 smithing to make steel plates rather than 48.

See also

• Wikipedia: Smithing
• Wikipedia: Smelting