Iron bar

Iron bar
Detailed
Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	Yes, Animal Magnetism
Quest item	Yes, Animal Magnetism
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
High Alchemy	16 coins
High Alchemy	16 coins
Low Alchemy	11 coins
Low Alchemy	11 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	1,053 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	1.8 kg
Examine	It's a bar of iron.
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An Iron bar is a bar of refined iron ore. Players can smelt it with the Smithing skill at level 15 by using an iron ore on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience.

When a player smelts iron ore, there is a 50% chance that the ore will be too impure to yield an iron bar. When this happens, the iron ore disappears and the player is granted no Smithing experience. This specific of 50% success rate is only for level 15 smithing or lower. At level 16 smithing, there is a 51% success rate, level 17 will have a 52% rate, etc. But when you get to level 45 smithing, you have an 80% chance of successfully making the bar. 80% is the highest success rate, unless you use the 100% list:

To get 100% chance of smelting an iron bar:

• Wear a Ring of Forging while smelting iron ore, or
• Cast Superheat Item on an iron ore.
• Use the Blast furnace to smelt the iron ores

An iron bar can be smithed on an anvil through the Smithing skill to create iron weapons and armour, granting 25 Smithing experience per bar used. A list of iron items that can be smithed from iron bars and the Smithing levels required can be found at Smithing/Smithing tables. They can also be found in Smithing Iron in the RuneScape manual.

It may be more profitable to sell iron ore instead of making it into bars, since the release of Artisan's Workshop increased the demand for ore.

Iron bars are also the tertiary ingredient in infusing Iron minotaur pouches for the Summoning skill.

This item is a 100% drop from Iron dragons, five at a time.

Dropping monsters

Levels 1 to 24

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

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Levels 25 to 49

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Skeleton (Lumbridge Catacombs)	11	1	Common
Thug	10	1	Common
Corpse archer	13	1	Uncommon
Corpse mage	15	1	Uncommon
Crawling corpse torso	7	1	Uncommon
Dwarf	7; 10; 11; 20	1	Uncommon
Skeleton mage	16; 83	1–2	Uncommon
Pirate	23; 26; 57	2	Rare
Skoblin	14; 15	1	Rare
Dragith Nurn	20	1	Unknown
Mountain dwarf	20	1	Unknown
Warped bat	12	1	Unknown
Warped fly	5	1	Unknown
Warped rat	9	1	Unknown

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Levels 50 and above

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Rockslug	29	1	Common
White Knight	36; 38; 39; 42	1–2	Common
Black Guard	25; 48	1	Uncommon
Pirate	23; 26; 57	2	Rare

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References

• Grand Exchange Database - Current price

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Iron dragon	189	5	Always
Paladin	62	1	Common
Skeleton mage	16; 83	1–2	Uncommon
Pirate	23; 26; 57	2	Rare
Elite Khazard guard	95	1; 3	Unknown