Smithing

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This article is about the smithing skill. For information on training smithing, see Smithing training (F2P) (P2P).

The official world for Community Smithing Training is world 83 (P2P).

Smithing

Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members only	No
Minimum level for Hiscores	15 as of 12 Dec 2017
Players with 99	128,850 as of 4 Feb 2023
Players with 120	6,792 as of 4 Feb 2023
Players with 200M XP	1,854 as of 4 Feb 2023

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Smithing is an artisan skill through which players may create a wide variety of metal items from ore and metal bars. It is the companion skill of Mining, which generates all of the raw materials used in Smithing. Ores acquired from Mining are smelted into metal bars at furnaces, and then hammered into items at anvils. Many smithable items are useful in combat, quests, and the training of a number of other skills such as Crafting and Fletching.

The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 1,151,314) on the hiscores for Smithing is level 15. As of 04 February 2023, there are 128,850 current members that have achieved level 99 in Smithing. There are 6,792 current members that have achieved level 120 in Smithing.

Overview

Smithing is divided into two distinct processes: smelting ores into bars, and working the bars into various items. Both processes give Smithing experience.

Smithing equipment

To get bonus experience, you can wear:

• Blacksmith's outfit
• Goldsmithing gauntlets (gold bar smelting only)
• Brawling gloves (Smithing)

To get boosts to smithing speed or success rate, you can wear:

• Varrock armour (increased speed, for bars does just affect the Edgeville furnace)
• Ring of forging (100% iron bar smelting)

To save materials, you can wear or unlock:

• Modified blacksmith's helmet
• Scroll of efficiency

Smelting ores

A player smelting ore in a furnace.

Ores obtained from the Mining skill can be refined into metal bars at any furnace in RuneScape. The extreme heat exposure and pressure of a furnace is enough to melt the valuable metals contained within the various ores, separate them from the rock, and pool them into bars, which are extracted from the furnace as the final product.

For most metals, the smelting success rate is 100%; it is impossible to "fail" a smelting attempt, and so a certain number of ores will always result in a certain number of bars. Iron is the only exception; since it takes only one iron ore to create an iron bar, there is a chance that the iron ore will be too impure to refine, and will be lost, resulting in no bar or experience gained. The chance of a successful forging of iron is 50% at level 15 Smithing, the minimum level for smelting iron ores, and increases incrementally as Smithing levels rise until it reaches an 80% chance of success at 45 Smithing. The chance of successfully smelting iron can also be increased to 100% by wearing a ring of forging, smelting the ore with the Superheat Item spell, or smelting the iron at the Blast Furnace minigame.

Closest bank locations

For free players, the closest furnace to a bank is the furnace in Lumbridge. Not only is there an anvil next to it, there is a bank chest in the Combat Tutor area that is only a few steps away.

For members, the furnace in Shilo Village is the closest to a bank, but requires the completion of the quest Shilo Village for access.

The closest furnace to a bank that has no requirements is the one in Lumbridge.

Other notable furnaces include the one on Neitiznot, in Port Phasmatys, and in Edgeville, but each has a requirement. Access to the Neitiznot furnace requires you to be past a certain part of The Fremennik Isles, the Port Phasmatys furnace requires Priest in Peril, and the Edgeville furnace requires that the easy Varrock Tasks be completed.

Smelting ores into bars - table

Take note that coal plays a significant part in the process of smelting ores, as it is required for all standard metals above iron in increasing quantity, in addition to the applicable metal ores.

Product	Level	Primary ore	Secondary ore	Experience	Notes
Bronze bar	1	1 Copper ore	1 Tin ore	6.2	The weakest smithable metal.
Blurite bar	10	1 Blurite ore	--	8	Used only to make blurite crossbow limbs and bolts.
Iron bar	10	2 Iron ore	--	12.5	Has a variable success rate. (3/5~ chance)
Elemental bar	20	1 Elemental ore	4 Coal	7.5	Members only. Used for creating various elemental, mind and body gear during the Elemental Workshop quest series.
Silver bar	20	1 Silver ore	--	13.7	A Crafting metal. Used to create various silver items.
Steel bar	20	1 Iron ore	2 Coal	17.5
Gold bar	40	1 Gold ore	--	22.5 (56.2)1	A Crafting metal, more valuable than silver, used to create various gold items (but not coins).
Mithril bar	30	1 Mithril ore	4 Coal	30	The lightest smithable metal.
Adamant bar	40	1 Adamantite ore	1 Luminite	37.5	The heaviest smithable metal.
Obsidian bar	80	12 Obsidian shards	--	50	Can only be made after The Brink of Extinction quest.
Rune bar	50	1 Runite ore	1 Luminite	50	The strongest refinable metal.

¹ Goldsmithing gauntlets increase the experience earned from smelting gold ore.

Forging items

A player forging metal bars into items at an anvil.

For a comprehensive list of smithable items, see this article.

The bars created from smelting ores can be taken to any of the many anvils scattered across RuneScape, and with a hammer, worked into a variety of items. Depending on the item in question, multiple bars of the same metal may be needed to create the item, up to five bars at once for platebodies. Simpler items, such as hatchets, require only one bar.

A set amount of Smithing experience is awarded per bar, regardless of the item created. For example, a mithril dagger only requires one mithril bar to make, and gives 50 Smithing experience. Mithril platelegs require three bars and give 150 experience when smithed, three times that of a mithril dagger. Therefore, with respect to experience earned, the specific items created from certain bars do not matter. However, since all items take the same amount of time to smith, concentrating on items which use multiple bars will result in faster experience.

For both free players and members, the closest anvils to a bank are the three anvils just south of Varrock's west bank.

Smithing and other skills

Mining

The Mining skill can be used to gather all the resources required to train Smithing, including metal ores and coal. This can significantly increase the amount of time required to train Smithing, but could also result in significant profit and Mining experience. (By contrast, simply buying all the ores and/or bars needed to train Smithing will save time, but can be very expensive depending on the resources purchased and their quantity.)

Crafting

Smithing is used to create silver bars and gold bars, both of which can be used to train the Crafting skill. One popular way of training Smithing is to smelt gold ore into gold bars with goldsmithing gauntlets, which leads to a large supply of leftover gold bars which can be made into jewellery for Crafting experience.

Crafting can also be used to increase Smithing experience, by making smelting urns using 2 soft clay and a fire rune, when smelting ores into bars.

Fletching

Several items created through Smithing can be used to train Fletching, such as darts, arrowtips, crossbow limbs, and unfinished crossbow bolts.

Magic

At 43 Magic, the Superheat Item spell becomes available, which allows players to smelt ores into bars without need of a furnace. This spell could potentially make Smithing training more efficient, as travel to and from a furnace becomes unnecessary. Superheat Item grants full Smithing experience for smelting the ores, as well as Magic experience, making it a possible way to simultaneously train both skills. The downside is the nature rune requirement for the spell, which increases the overall cost of training using Superheat Item.

It is possible to combine Mining, Magic and Smithing by mining ores, casting Superheat Item to turn them into bars (thus freeing up inventory space for more ores), banking the bars, and repeating.

Another spell frequently used in conjunction with Smithing is High Level Alchemy, which converts items into coins. Players will often "alch" items smithed from metal bars for Magic experience or profit. When training in this manner, it is generally best to smith items with higher High Alchemy values, as dictated by the table below.

High level alchemy values (coins)

Item	Bars	High alch / Specialist store price						Value per bar
sort	sort	Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune	Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune
Dagger	1	6	21	75	195	480	4,800	6	21	75	195	480	4,800
Hatchet	1	9	33	120	312	768	7,680	9	33	120	312	768	7,680
Mace	1	10	37	135	351	864	8,640	10	37	135	351	864	8,640
Medium helmet	1	14	50	180	468	1,152	11,520	14	50	180	468	1,152	11,520
Sword	1	15	54	195	507	1,249	12,480	15	54	195	507	1,249	12,480
Scimitar	2	19	67	240	624	1,536	15,360	9.5	33.5	120	312	768	7,680
Longsword	2	24	84	300	780	1,919	19,200	12	42	150	390	959.5	9,600
Full helmet	2	26	92	330	858	2,112	21,120	13	46	165	429	1,056	10,560
Square shield	2	28	100	360	936	2,304	23,040	14	50	180	468	1,152	11,520
Battleaxe	3	31	109	390	1,014	2,496	24,960	10.33	36.33	130	338	832	8,320
Warhammer	3	36	134	499	1,294	3,213	24,900	12	44.67	166.33	431.33	1,071	8,300
Chainbody	3	36	126	450	1,170	2,880	30,000	12	42	150	390	960	10,000
Kiteshield	3	40	142	510	1,326	3,264	32,640	13.33	47.33	170	442	1,088	10,880
Two-handed sword	3	48	168	600	1,560	3,840	38,400	16	56	200	520	1,280	12,800
Platelegs/Plateskirt	3	48	168	600	1,560	3,840	38,400	16	56	200	520	1,280	12,800
Platebody	5	96	336	1,200	3,120	9,985	39,000	19.8	67.2	240	624	1,998	7,800

Dungeoneering

Main article: Dungeoneering/Smithing

With the release of the Dungeoneering skill, Smithing experienced a boost in popularity, as all but the very strongest melee weapons and armour of Daemonheim can be created with a high enough Smithing level. Melee is widely used in Dungeoneering, leading to a demand for players with high Smithing levels who can create powerful equipment for use in dungeons. Some players have gathered together to form Dungeoneering Smithing clans, who are willing to assist others in acquiring specific items.

Blast Furnace

Main article: Blast Furnace

The Blast Furnace is a minigame located in Keldagrim that closely involves the Smithing skill. Players work together to operate a large furnace with which to smelt ores. While using the Blast Furnace, all bars steel and up have their coal requirements halved, and iron ore has a 100% chance of smelting into iron bars. The official Blast Furnace server is World 58.

Artisans Workshop

Main article: Artisans Workshop

The Artisans Workshop is an area located in Falador where players can train Smithing in different ways. All Smithing in the workshop requires Ingots, which are similar to Bars but are not interchangeable. Items such as Burial armour, Ceremonial Swords and Cart Tracks. Players can also earn Respect, a type of currency used to buy rewards including cosmetic and ammo carrying capacity changes to the Dwarf multicannon.

Other uses of Smithing

A player using the Smithing skill to forge a dragon platebody.

• Smithing is used to repair equipment at an armour stand in a player-owned house. The cost of repairing the equipment is lowered by a percentage determined by Smithing level divided by 2. For example, at 50 Smithing, Barrows equipment will cost 25% less to repair on an armour stand, as opposed to Bob of Bob's Axes or the squire at the Void Knights' Outpost, both of whom charge full price. A Smithing level of 100 (obtained by using boosts such as operating a Smithing cape) reduces the repair cost by 50%.
• Levels 20, 40, 60 and 80 Smithing are required to make class 2, 3, 4 and 5 equipment and tools in Stealing Creation, respectively.
• 60 Smithing and completion of Legends' Quest are required to combine a shield left half and shield right half into a dragon square shield.
• 70 Smithing is needed to forge the royal crossbow.
• 70 Smithing is needed to repair the ladder in level 38 Wilderness that leads to the Burthorpe beacon, used in the All Fired Up minigame.
• 80 Smithing is required to combine the three godsword shards into a godsword blade.
• 85 Smithing is required to attach sigils to blessed spirit shields, along with 90 Prayer and completion of Summer's End.
• 85 Smithing is required to create a full set of obsidian armour.
• 90 Smithing is required to combine a draconic visage and anti-dragon shield to produce a dragonfire shield.
• 90 Smithing is required to make attuned crystal equipment.
• 90 Smithing is required to unlock the ability to smith Tetsu armour in the Player-owned ports Distraction and Diversion.
• 92 Smithing is required to unlock the ability to smith the Tetsu katana and Tetsu wakizashi in the Player-owned ports Distraction and Diversion.
• 92 Smithing and completion of While Guthix Sleeps are required to forge the ruined dragon armour lump, ruined dragon armour slice and ruined dragon armour shard into a dragon platebody, using a blast fusion hammer at the Dragon Forge.
• Smithing is one of the skills used in the ancient effigies Distraction and Diversion. Additionally, as the assist system can be used with Smithing, players can earn up to 30,000 Smithing experience per day assisting others with their effigies.
• Smithing has become more useful as a skill due to its implementations into minigames such as Stealing Creation and skills such as Dungeoneering.

Money making

Main article: Money making guide/Skilling

Also, for a table showing profits made smithing certain items, see Smithing/Smithing tables

Temporary boosts

Main article: Temporary skill boost

• A dwarven stout will raise Mining and Smithing by 1 level.
• A mature dwarven stout will raise Mining and Smithing by 2 levels.
• A god banner will raise Smithing by 2 levels.
• An orange spicy stew can temporarily raise Smithing by up to 5; however, it can also decrease it by up to 5.
• Using the 'Boost' option on a Smithing cape will boost Smithing by 1 level, although 99 Smithing is required.
• The dwarven delight from the Valentine Squeal of Fortune boosts Mining and Smithing by 2 levels.
• The almond toffee from the Valentine Treasure Hunter boosts Smithing by 3 levels.

Cape of Accomplishment

A player wearing a Smithing cape (t) and performing the Skillcape emote.

Upon reaching 99 Smithing, players may buy the Smithing Cape of Accomplishment from Thurgo in his house near Mudskipper Point for 99,000 coins.

Smithing is currently ranked #17 out of 26 among skills in which players have level 99. This makes it somewhat rare, possibly due to the large investment of time and/or money required to train the skill.

Skilling pet

Main article: Smithy

Like all skills, there is a skilling pet obtainable from training this skill. The pet for the Smithing skill is called Smithy.

Trivia

• In the early days, Smithing was considered one of the best skills for making money. As such, Jagex deliberately kept anvils and furnaces far away from each other in an attempt to prevent people from levelling Smithing too quickly. However, this practice has often been considered obsolete ever since banks were able to hold items.
• For a time after the release of RuneScape 2 through around 2006, the in-game skill guide for Smithing had a tab for smithing black equipment, although this is not possible.
• On 5 November 2007, the Smith-X option was released. This allowed more than 10 items to be forged on an anvil at a time.

Smithing Level up

The sound that plays after gaining a Smithing level.

File:Smithing.ogg

• On 8 March 2011, Smithing had a large update which presented ceremonial swords, burial armour, cannon repair and track making.
• During the January 2011 RuneFest meet, Mod Mark stated that the long-awaited Smithing skill revamp had not been started, and most probably would not start development for quite some time due to the busy schedules of the development team. Smithing did have a large update on 8 March 2011, but it was not the expected revamp. An update was started in 2016, but was delayed until 2017 to account for some new designs and player feedback. It has since been pushed back further and is currently scheduled for sometime in 2018 after a player opinion poll was released on the topic.

See also

• Quest experience rewards - Smithing
• Free-to-play Smithing training, a guide to training Smithing for free-to-play players
• Pay-to-play Smithing training, a guide to training Smithing for pay-to-play players
• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Smithing
• Smithing/Level up table
• Smithing/Smithing tables
• Smithing Calculators
• Wikipedia:Metalworking
• Wikipedia:Smelting