Pay-to-play Smithing training

Members can train Smithing using different methods than non-members. However, free to play training suggestions can also be used.


 * Gold ore is very fast experience while wearing goldsmithing gauntlets from the Family Crest quest. Smelting it while wearing the goldsmithing gauntlets will result in 56.2 experience per bar made, or 1,574 experience per full inventory trip to the furnace. It is very easy to find people selling gold ore on the RuneScape forums and the Grand Exchange. However, the price of gold ore can be rather high in large quantities, because of the speed of the experience, and gold bars sell for much less although they have high liquidity. Gold ore currently costs coins and a gold bar currently sells for  coins per bar.


 * The Blast Furnace, found in the dwarven capital city of Keldagrim, is a very good way to level smithing because half the amount of coal is used for smelting certain bars than at a normal furnace, and iron has a 100% chance of succeeding in smelting iron ore. Many things can be smelted here, but high alchable items and/or stackable items are preferred, because they will not result in immediate banking.


 * Mithril bolts
 * By purchasing mithril ore and twice the amount of coal from the grand exchange. Players can unnote their ores from Ordan for a small price, use the blast furnace, and make the bolts from the nearby anvils. It has been rumoured to grant up to 30k of smithing experience per hour, while making a profit.
 * Mithril platebody
 * Using the same method as above, but alching the bodies made, you can gain up to 70k experience an hour while using a Sacred clay hammer. However, the cost is roughly 1gp per 1.06xp using the hammer.

It is suggested player head for world 58 for either method, as that is the official Blast Furnace world.


 * Cannonballs are slow and worse experience than any other steel smithing, but there is profit from them. Four cannonballs are made per steel bar, and the price of 4 cannonballs is coins more than a steel bar. If you buy iron ores and coal, you make  coins per steel bar you smelt. Cannonballs are often in high demand by those who are training Ranged and/or Slayer.


 * See the Cannonball smithing calculator for latest profit calculations using Grand Exchange Market Watch prices.


 * Selling bars on the forums - Because it does not require filling the inventory with coal, melting iron ore into iron bars and then smithing the iron bars into other iron items provides better smithing experience than other metal ores. Players can make iron bars and sell them on the forums. Because more smithing experience is gained from smithing bars into items than from smelting ore into bars, selling bars is slower at gaining experience than smithing the bars into items. Furthermore, there is a 50% chance that each iron ore will fail to be smelted if a Ring of Forging is not worn.


 * Throwing Knives and Darts - This is done by buying iron ore, using rings of forging to make them into bars (or buying iron bars), and smithing them into Iron knives and Iron darts to sell. A player can make money by starting from ore, and almost break even by starting from bars.

Tip: Obtaining morphic tools and transforming them into sacred clay hammers will double the amount of experience you receive for creating items. There is no bonus experience for smelting. After about 64000 total experience a fully charged hammer is used up and crumbles to dust.

Generally smithing bolts is the least expensive way of smithing bars, but is a lot slower than platebodies.