Steel bar

Steel bar
Detailed
Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
High Alchemy	60 coins
High Alchemy	60 coins
Low Alchemy	40 coins
Low Alchemy	40 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	959 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	1.81 kg
Examine	It's a bar of steel.
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A Steel bar is a bar of steel. It can be created through the Smithing skill at level 30 by using an iron ore and 2 pieces of coal on a furnace, granting 17.5 Smithing experience, or by using the magic spell Superheat Item.

Dropped By

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

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Uses

A steel bar can be forged on an anvil to create steel weapons and armour, granting 37.5 Smithing experience per bar used. A list of steel items that can be smithed from steel bars and the Smithing levels required can be found here.

Steel bars are also used in construction and earn 20 experience per bar.

Players who own a dwarf multicannon will also need steel bars (along with an ammo mould in the inventory) to make cannonballs, which are tradeable and thus can be bought also for around 269 coins. Use a steel bar on a furnace to make four cannonballs per steel bar, giving 25.6 Smithing xp per bar.

Steel bars can be a very good F2P money-making method, depending on the price of the steel bar compared to its raw materials at the Grand Exchange. This method can a profitable way to train free-to-play Smithing of level 30+. Ever since the Free Trade update, the price of Steel Bars has dropped, making this method of money-making very dependent on the fluctuations of the market.

Players commonly use steel bars to train the Smithing skill, despite being able to smith mithril bars or better, because it has the optimum traits of requiring only three ores, and gives a decent amount of experience. However, those looking for experience should smelt silver bars as silver bars only need one ore, so a whole inventory of silver ore will give you 380 experience when smelted, while a whole inventory of the steel bar ingredients (1 iron ore, 2 coal) only gives you 157.5 experience. It takes 25 seconds to make a full load of 9 iron and 18 coal into 9 steel bars.

It is one of the most popular metal bar being smelted as it was able to give 200+ profit per bar even with superheat smelting. After free trade returned the price of steel bar return to balance and this method is no longer possible.

Steel bars are also the tertiary ingredient in infusing Steel minotaur pouches.

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

See also

• Steel Items that can be smithed.

References

• Grand Exchange Database - Current price

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Steel Dragon	246	5	Always
Moss Giant	42	1	Common
Black Knight	33	1	Common
Fire Giant	86	1	Common