Gold bar

A Gold bar is a bar of refined gold created through the Smithing skill at level 40 by using a gold ore with a furnace, by casting Superheat item on a gold ore, or by completing the "Goblin Diplomacy" quest. This normally gives 22.5 Smithing experience per bar, but if the Goldsmith gauntlets from the Family Crest quest are worn, the experience is boosted to 56.2 per bar.

Gold bars cannot be made into weapons and armour as other bars can. Instead, the primary use of gold bars is to create jewellery with the Crafting skill. To craft gold bars into jewellery, players must use a gold bar on a furnace with the proper mould in their inventory. If players wish to craft jewellery with gems inset, they must also have the gems in their inventory.

Apart from jewellery, gold bars can be used to create Gold helmets, which are used in the Between a Rock... quest to access Dondakan's mine, and Gold bowls which are used in the Legends' Quest. Despite their name, Gold leaves used in Construction cannot be made by players in any way, and can only be purchased from the Stonemason in Keldagrim. Likewise, gold bars cannot be used to make gold trimmed armour or gilded armour.

Levels 1 to 24

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Levels 25 to 99

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Levels 100 and above

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Value
A gold ore is worth coins, while a gold bar is worth  coins. Thus, buying a gold ore and smelting it into a gold bar, then selling it, results in a loss of 0 coins. Despite the loss involved, many players buy gold ores and smelt them, especially while using the Goldsmith gauntlets, as an efficient method of training Smithing - doing this results in more exp when smelting rune bars, but much faster and cheaper. Alternatively, Gold bars can be bought and made into gold bracelets, necklaces or amulets for a profit.

Starting at level 6 crafting, gold necklaces can be made, which sell for a profit of 0 over the price of a gold bar. This is one of the few means of gaining experience that creates a profit, and is available from a low level.

Gold bars are commonly used as "merch items", being bought in large numbers and sold later once they are worth more.

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