Pay-to-play Smithing training

Members have the advantage of access to more materials for training Smithing than free players. With the right methods and a bit of increased training time, members are able to make money while smithing. Members also have access to areas with less of a distance between the furnace and the bank, such as Port Phasmatys and the Trahaearn section of Prifddinas. For a table showing profits versus experience made by smithing certain items, see Smithing/Smithing tables. Although some methods are cheaper than others, Smithing is generally either very expensive, or very slow, depending on whether you buy or collect your materials.

Useful items

 * The Blacksmith's outfit gives a 6% experience boost.
 * The Scroll of efficiency has a chance to return a bar when smithing items that cost 3 bars or more.
 * The Goldsmith gauntlets from Family Crest provide significantly increased xp when smelting gold bars.
 * The Morytania legs 2 or higher double the speed at which you smith cannonballs in Port Phasmatys.
 * The Portable forge has a 10% chance of saving each of the bars you are using and can be placed near some banks.
 * The Sacred clay hammers give 23,450 bonus xp when claimed. They are obtained from Stealing Creation.
 * The Varrock armour 2 and higher have a chance to make you smith items faster and make you smelt double ores.
 * The Gofannon amulet from the What's Mine is Yours quest offers up to 183,500 bonus experience by finishing the subsequent miniquest chain, Doric and Boric's tasks.

Level 1-30
There are various methods to get level 1-29 in Smithing but the fastest is to complete the quest The Knight's Sword. Then train to level 30 by smithing iron 2H swords.

Expensive/fast method
Smith iron gear with Iron ingot iii in the Artisans Workshop. You should get about 90K xp/hr. You can get 10% bonus experience by making a specific type of equipment but you will no longer be able to AFK. In total you need 201 ingots to get to level 45 if you don't get any bonus experience.

Cheap/slow method
Smelt steel bars in a location that has a furnace and a bank close to eachother such as Edgeville. In total you should need 637 iron ores and 1274 coal. Need good inventory setup and approximate experience per hour here.

Expensive/fast method
Continue to smith iron equipment with Iron ingot III in the Artisans Workshop as you did from levels 30-40.

Cheap/slow method
Smelt gold bars wearing the Goldsmith gauntlets from Family Crest. This can be done until level 99 and yields around 68K xp/hr.

Alternative
Smelt gold bars by using the Superheat Item spell on gold bars. While this costs more money it is significantly faster smithing experience while providing magic experience as well.

Expensive/fast method
Smith steel equipment with Steel ingot III in the Artisans Workshop. You should get about 150K xp/hr. You can get 10% bonus experience by making a specific type of equipment but you will no longer be able to AFK. In total you need 600 ingots to get to level 60 if you don't get any bonus experience.

Cheap/slow method
Smelt gold bars wearing the Goldsmith gauntlets from Family Crest. This can be done until level 99 and yields around 68K xp/hr.

Alternative
Smelt gold bars by using the Superheat Item spell on gold bars. While this costs more money it is significantly faster smithing experience while providing magic experience as well.

Expensive/fast method
Smith mithril equipment with Mithril ingot III in the Artisans Workshop. You should get about 170K xp/hr. You can get 10% bonus experience by making a specific type of equipment but you will no longer be able to AFK. In total you need 1149 ingots to get to level 70 if you don't get any bonus experience.

Cheap/slow method
Smelt gold bars wearing the Goldsmith gauntlets from Family Crest. This can be done until level 99 and yields around 68K xp/hr.

Alternative
Smelt gold bars by using the Superheat Item spell on gold bars. While this costs more money it is significantly faster smithing experience while providing magic experience as well.

Expensive/fast method
Smith adamant equipment with Adamant ingot iii in the Artisans Workshop. You should get about 220K xp/hr. You can get 10% bonus experience by making a specific type of equipment but you will no longer be able to AFK. In total you need 6423 ingots to get to level 88 if you don't get any bonus experience.

Cheap/slow method
Smelt gold bars wearing the Goldsmith gauntlets from Family Crest. This can be done until level 99 and yields around 68K xp/hr.

Alternative
Smelt gold bars by using the Superheat Item spell on gold ores. While this costs more money it is significantly faster smithing experience while providing magic experience as well.

Expensive/fast method
Smith adamant equipment with Adamant ingot III in the Artisans Workshop. You should get about 220K xp/hr. You can get 10% bonus experience by making a specific type of equipement but you will no longer be able to AFK. In total you need 15227 ingots to get to level 99 if you don't get any bonus experience.

Alternative
Smith Adamant platebodies at an anvil close to a bank. This gives about 360K xp/hr using bank presets and a Pack yak beast of burden. This method has a faster xp rate but is not AFK. You need to smith 27676 Adamant platebodies to get to level 99 if you don't get any bonus experience.

Cheap/slow method
Smelt gold bars wearing the Goldsmith gauntlets from Family Crest. This can be done until level 99 and yields around 68K xp/hr.

Alternative

Smelt rune bars by using the Superheat Item spell. Providing 110k xp/hr and a lot of money.

Alternative
Smelt gold bars by using the Superheat Item spell on gold ores. While this costs more money it is significantly faster smithing experience while providing magic experience as well.

Alternative
Smelt Corrupted ore at any furnace. This yields about 220K xp/hr but this doesn't take the time needed to get the ores into consideration. You can get the ores by mining Seren stones (requiring 89 mining) or by opening the Crystal chest located with the Iorwerth Clan (you get it more often during the Iowerth Voice of Seren).

Free alternatives
These are some alternative methods that are free or could even yield profit.

Cannonball method
Cannonballs are slow and give worse experience than any other steel smithing (roughly 13,000 experience/hour). They used to be frequently made since they used to turn a significant profit, however, there are better money makers in game now than there used to be. While wearing Morytania legs 2 or higher, the speed of making cannonballs in Port Phasmatys furnace is doubled so it is possible to reach around 25/28k experience per hour and more profit.

Clan Citadels
The Clan Citadel can offer a Furnace (provided that the clan the player is in has one), which provides constant and free Smithing experience while doing their cap rate. As players maximize their caps every week to a fealty rank of 3, they will get an extra experience bonus when skilling in the citadel. Depending on the player's fealty rank and cap limit, they can reach to upwards of 342k Smithing experience per week, more with various bonuses. However, the Furnace requires charcoal from the Kiln and regular/precious ore from the Mine in order to function properly.

Completing quests
Main article: Quest experience rewards - Smithing Some quests grant Smithing experience. Refer to the main article for more details.