HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SMITHING!

Members' and Non-members' Skill.

Smithing is the end result of mining and one of the cornerstones of the RuneScape economy. Even the newest "n00b" can mine for free, smelt the ore for free, and then smith the metal for free into objects that may be sold on the open market or to other players. When first starting out, it's the easiest and fastest way to obtain armor, weapons and gold.

The Smithing Skill actually consists of two parts- smelting, the converting of raw ore into metal bars, and smithing, the making of objects from the metal bars. Both are quite simple in RuneScape

Mining for the ore will be covered in another Skill Guide, so here we will only be concerned with what to do after you've obtained some raw ore.

All ores except iron must have a second ore mixed with them at the time of smelting to produce a metal bar. Iron however, has only a 50% success rate in smelting. Approximately half of all iron ore you smelt will be impure and fail to produce a metal bar, being consumed in the process and leaving you with nothing! This happens on a random basis- you will not have an equal amount of failures each time you smelt iron. However, over a short period of time, it will even out to be 50%.

It should also be noted that the production of objects from gold and silver bars comes under crafting, not smithing, but the smelting of the metal from ores is a part of smithing and you will gain experience points in smithing for smelting those ores.

To smelt metal from ore, you must first locate a smelting furnace. Smelting furnaces are located in Lumbridge, Al Kharid, and Falador in the "Free World" and in East Ardougne, the Lost City, and on Entrana Island in the Member's Zone.

You must be holding the ore plus the correct number of any secondary ores required in your personal inventory. Simply approach the furnace and left-click on one of the ores to "use" it, and then left-click on the furnace. The game will automatically select the correct number of any secondary ores required from you inventory. The resulting metal bar will be deposited into your personal inventory.

Once you have smelted the ore into metal bars, you can sell the bars at any general store, the mining store in the Dwarven Mine (likely to get a better price), sell to other players on the open market, or smith them into objects- gaining more experience points in the process and adding to the profits from your labor.

For smithing you must first locate a smithy with an anvil. In the "free zone" the smithys are located north of Falador, south of Rimmington, inside the Dwarven Mine, and two in Varrock. In the member's area, they're located in West Ardougne, the Seer's Village, Hemenster, Port Kahzard, and a locked one in Yanille that you can enter if you can pick the lock. Note that there is no place where a smelting furnace and a smithy are located together! All the furnaces and smithys are marked on the World Map.

To smith an object you must have a hammer in your personal inventory as well as the metal bars you will be using. Hammers can be purchased in most general stores or picked up for free in the Dwarven Mine. They also spawn at several locations across RuneScape and are dropped by many slain creatures, especially dwarfs.

Once you're at the smithy, left-click on a metal bar in your inventory, and then left-click again on the anvil. A menu will appear in the upper left corner of the screen, asking you what you want to make. Just highlight and click the menu selections for the item you wish to make. If you don't have enough smithing experience points, it will tell you how many points you need to make that item.

There are various items you can smith (click the metal bars in the smelting table below to see a table for each type of metal) but they require various experience levels. However Anthrocat2 points out that you get the points based on the amount of bars consumed, not the item made. For instance, making three daggers, using one metal bar each, will give you the same number of experience points as making one battle ax, which requires three bars, but also a higher smithing level. So even though you may have a low smithing level, you can still advance your experience with just a little extra work. This table shows how that works:

Smelting Table
 

Metal Ore	Plus	Produces	Experience Level Needed To Smith	Experience Gained	Buying Price	Selling Price	Notes
one copper ore	one tin ore	one bronze bar	1	6.5
one iron ore	NOTHING	one iron bar	15	12.5			Iron has an approximate 50% success rate in smelting. It's not evenly distributed- sometimes you'll get five bars out of 20, and the next time only 2, but over time it evens out to 50%.
one silver nugget	NOTHING	one silver bar	20	13.5			Used only in crafting, but you get smithing points for smelting it.
one iron ore	two coal ore	one steel bar	30	17.5
one gold nugget	NOTHING	one gold bar	40	22.5			Used only in crafting, but you get smithing points for smelting it.
one mithril ore	four coal ore	one mithril bar	50	30
one adamantite ore	six coal ore	one adamantite bar	70	37.5
one rune ore	eight coal ore	one rune bar	85	50