Money making guide/Smithing (F2P)

Overall, smithing is not incredibly good for money making in the short term, but good if a player sticks with it long enough. In addition to players buying bars because smithing experience is earned faster at the anvil rather than at the furnace, bars of all types are also tertiary ingredients for Summoning, which has increased the demand for most types of bars above and beyond their smithing potential. There is also a small demand for steel bars due to their use in Construction. Due to the relatively low prices for smithable weapons and armour, smithing items isn't recommended to make money, with few exceptions. {| class="wikitable" !Effectiveness!!Smithing level requirement!!Members only?!!Details!!Other requirements
 * Level 1||No||To start off, mine or buy copper and tin ore and make them into bronze bars, which sell for coins each. Copper ore costs  coins each and tin ore costs  coins each. Profit potential at beginning levels is low because of the limited demand for bronze bars, and even less demand for bronze equipment. After the bars are smelted you must choose between selling the bars outright (for a profit of  coins per bar, assuming there are any buyers), or smithing the bars into equipment, which gives faster experience but causes a loss in money invested on the skill.
 * Level 15||No||Players can mine or buy iron ore and smelt the ores into bars, which sell for approximately coins each. Free players must endure the 50% chance that iron ore will be too impure to smelt; members can counter this by equipping a ring of forging.
 * Level 22||Yes||Another expansion on the method above is that you can buy the iron ore in the Grand Exchange for coins each. Forge it in Edgeville using the Varrock Armour and ring of forging. This will give you a profit of  per bar, or roughly 120,000 coins an hour, along with about 10,000 Smithing experience per hour.||Completion of easy tasks in Varrock Achievement Diary
 * Level 30||No||Smithing steel bars becomes an option. Steel bars sell for around coins each. If iron ore and coal are purchased, the profit becomes approximately  coins per bar. For members with Varrock armour, it takes about one minute to retrieve the ore from the Edgeville bank, run it to the furnace, smelt it, and return it to the bank, while free players can smelt them in Al Kharid or Falador, with similar time. At nine bars per trip, you can make about  coins and 7,398 experience per hour.
 * Level 35||Yes||Smithing cannonballs, although fairly slow, gives decent profit. Cannonballs sell for about coins each (4 cannonballs per bar) and are in high demand due to the number of people using cannons. Buying the bars and smithing cannonballs to sell gives a profit of  coins per bar. You gain a decent profit every time you smith steel bars into cannonballs. You can make even more money if you start out with the raw materials used for making steel bars, as opposed to buying the bars themselves. It is advisable that you smith in a furnace near a bank like the furnace in Al-Kharid, Port Phasmatys, or Edgeville while wearing Varrock armour. || Dwarf Cannon completed
 * Level 50||No||Mithril bars sell for coins each. If the materials (one mithril ore and four coal per bar) are purchased, you can earn up to  coins per bar. With Varrock armour it takes about one minute to retrieve the ore from the Edgeville bank, run it to the furnace, smelt it, and return it to the bank. At five bars per trip, you can make about  coins and 9,000 experience per hour.||55 Mining (optional)
 * Level 60||Yes||Unfinished steel bolts and unfinished iron bolts can be smithed at the Blast Furnace very quickly, resulting in fast Smithing experience as well as the money made on the side. Bring either iron or mithril ore (noted), along with coal (noted) and some coins, to world 58, where Ordan the dwarf will unnote them so you can put them in the Blast Furnace while people are operating it.
 * Level 68||Yes||Mithril platebodies can be smithed at the Blast Furnace, and then high alched for minimal profit/minimal loss. You will lose money if you buy all the materials, but if you mine the mithril ore and coal yourself, you will make coins per platebody.||55 Magic, 55 Mining
 * Level 70||No||Adamantite bars sell for coins eah, and require one adamantite ore and six coal per bar. Purchasing the materials then selling the bars gives a profit of  coins per bar. Members can also use the Blast Furnace to cut the coal requirement per bar in half, bringing the profit up to  coins per bar. If players have Varrock armour, it takes about one minute to retrieve the ore from the Edgeville bank, run it to the furnace, smelt it, and return it to the bank.  At four bars per trip, you can make about  coins and 9,000 experience] per hour.
 * Level 99||YES||You can buy some fully depreciated barrows equipment in GE.Then teleport to Lumbridge and find bob to repair. And fly back to GE. Remember to wear smithing skillcape, you will get 50% cash discount. 10k+ profit for a repaired item.|-
 * Level 50||No||Mithril bars sell for coins each. If the materials (one mithril ore and four coal per bar) are purchased, you can earn up to  coins per bar. With Varrock armour it takes about one minute to retrieve the ore from the Edgeville bank, run it to the furnace, smelt it, and return it to the bank. At five bars per trip, you can make about  coins and 9,000 experience per hour.||55 Mining (optional)
 * Level 60||Yes||Unfinished steel bolts and unfinished iron bolts can be smithed at the Blast Furnace very quickly, resulting in fast Smithing experience as well as the money made on the side. Bring either iron or mithril ore (noted), along with coal (noted) and some coins, to world 58, where Ordan the dwarf will unnote them so you can put them in the Blast Furnace while people are operating it.
 * Level 68||Yes||Mithril platebodies can be smithed at the Blast Furnace, and then high alched for minimal profit/minimal loss. You will lose money if you buy all the materials, but if you mine the mithril ore and coal yourself, you will make coins per platebody.||55 Magic, 55 Mining
 * Level 70||No||Adamantite bars sell for coins eah, and require one adamantite ore and six coal per bar. Purchasing the materials then selling the bars gives a profit of  coins per bar. Members can also use the Blast Furnace to cut the coal requirement per bar in half, bringing the profit up to  coins per bar. If players have Varrock armour, it takes about one minute to retrieve the ore from the Edgeville bank, run it to the furnace, smelt it, and return it to the bank.  At four bars per trip, you can make about  coins and 9,000 experience] per hour.
 * Level 99||YES||You can buy some fully depreciated barrows equipment in GE.Then teleport to Lumbridge and find bob to repair. And fly back to GE. Remember to wear smithing skillcape, you will get 50% cash discount. 10k+ profit for a repaired item.|-
 * Level 68||Yes||Mithril platebodies can be smithed at the Blast Furnace, and then high alched for minimal profit/minimal loss. You will lose money if you buy all the materials, but if you mine the mithril ore and coal yourself, you will make coins per platebody.||55 Magic, 55 Mining
 * Level 70||No||Adamantite bars sell for coins eah, and require one adamantite ore and six coal per bar. Purchasing the materials then selling the bars gives a profit of  coins per bar. Members can also use the Blast Furnace to cut the coal requirement per bar in half, bringing the profit up to  coins per bar. If players have Varrock armour, it takes about one minute to retrieve the ore from the Edgeville bank, run it to the furnace, smelt it, and return it to the bank.  At four bars per trip, you can make about  coins and 9,000 experience] per hour.
 * Level 99||YES||You can buy some fully depreciated barrows equipment in GE.Then teleport to Lumbridge and find bob to repair. And fly back to GE. Remember to wear smithing skillcape, you will get 50% cash discount. 10k+ profit for a repaired item.|-
 * Level 99||YES||You can buy some fully depreciated barrows equipment in GE.Then teleport to Lumbridge and find bob to repair. And fly back to GE. Remember to wear smithing skillcape, you will get 50% cash discount. 10k+ profit for a repaired item.|-
 * Level 99||YES||You can buy some fully depreciated barrows equipment in GE.Then teleport to Lumbridge and find bob to repair. And fly back to GE. Remember to wear smithing skillcape, you will get 50% cash discount. 10k+ profit for a repaired item.|-