Contents:

• Introduction
• Smelting
• Forging
• Dwarven Stout

Introduction

Smithing consists of two things, smelting and forging. Smelting is melting raw ore into bars at a furnace, located in Falador, Lumbridge and Al-Karid. Forging is taking those same bars and hammering them into usable items such as weapons, armor, and even arrow tips. All the experience you get forging and smelting (both of which make a certain amount of xp, so you can do one without the other) goes towards your smithing level, which determines what you can forge and smelt.

To begin smithing, you will have to mine a little, since hardly anyone sells basic ores such as copper and tin and even iron. A good place to start smithing is Al-Karid. You can mine in the scorpion pit, then take your ore into the furnace just north of the bank to smelt, and then put your bars in the bank account. Then return to the scorpion to mine some more. You can follow this route as you mine copper and tin to get bronze, and iron.

After you have a large amount of bars (200) or more, you can start to smith the bars into useful items at one of Varrock's two locations. Always remember to smith the higher priced item for the number of bars used. Example, instead of smithing a dagger, smith a long sword which sells for more money then a dagger. Also, people will buy bronze and iron items in Varrock, sell them either to a store, or to other new players in Lumbridge.

Smelting

The first part of smithing is smelting, in which you melt your ores into metal bars. Most ores must be smelted along with another ore, except for iron, which has a 50% chance of being successful. To smelt an ore, you must go to a furnace. Click on the ore in your inventory, then click on the furnace, and you have a bar.

Bar	Level Required	Experience Gained	Ores Required
Bronze	1	6	Tin Ore, Copper Ore
Blurite	8	8	Blurite Ore
Iron	15	12.5	Iron Ore*
Elemental	20	7.5	Elemental Ore, 4 Coal
Silver	20	13.7	Silver Ore
Steel	30	17.5	2 Coal, Iron Ore
Gold	40	22.5	Gold Ore
Mithril	50	30	Mithril Ore, 4 Coal
Adamantite	70	37.5	Adamantite Ore, 6 Coal
Runite	85	50	Runite Ore, 8 Coal

*Iron ore has a 50% success rate of being smelted.

Forging

The metal bars you produced smelting can be hammered into different objects during the forging phase. To forge, click on the metal bar in your inventory and then click on the anvil so a menu of options to forge comes up. Some objects will use more than one bar, and if you do not have enough, the number will in red. If your smithing level is not high enough, then the name will be on black, click on it to find out the required level. the only two types of metal you can smelt but not forge are silver and gold, which after being melted into bars, are used in crafting.

This is the menu you get when you would like to smith an item. Items that are written in white you have the smithing level to make, items in black you don't. If the number of bars needed is green, you have enough in your inventory, but if it is red you need more bars.

This chart also illustrates the number of bars needed to make a certain type of weapon, as it is the same for every type of ore, from iron to rune.

Dwarven Stout

Need to smith something, but you need 1 more level to make it? No problem! Simply go the Falador bar, talk to the barmaid, and order a Dwarven Stout for 3 gp. When you drink the beer, your smithing and mining levels will temporarily go up 1 level. For smithing you can expect to need 2-4 Dwarven Stouts per trip to the anvils, depending on what you are something.