Ironman Guide/Smithing
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Smithing is a skill most efficiently trained by buying ores from Ordan, and smelting them at the Blast Furnace. A decent amount of experience also comes from smelting ores and forging bars obtained from monster drops. Alternatively, the Giants' Foundry minigame is a slower but cheaper and more accessible alternative training, and can be profitable.
Early training: Quests
Completing The Knight's Sword, Elemental Workshop I and II, The Giant Dwarf, Heroes' Quest and Pirate Pete subquest of Recipe for Disaster will grant a total of 30,982 Smithing experience, elevating a level 1 Smithing to level 37. 2 iron bars are necessary for The Knight's Sword; an iron bar spawn can be found west of the Graveyard of Shadows next to the bears in some trees in level 18 Wilderness. It is fairly safe going there for Hardcore and Ultimate Ironmen; be ready to log out if another player is spotted and make sure food and a teleport out are on hand in case of being attacked. A non-Wilderness method is by safespotting paladins in East Ardougne or killing dwarves.
- The Knight's Sword requires 10 , rewards 12,725 Smithing experience
- Sleeping Giants requires 15 , rewards 6,000 Smithing experience
- Elemental Workshop I requires 20 , 20 , 20 , rewards 5,000 Smithing experience
- Elemental Workshop II requires 20 , 30 , rewards 7,500 Smithing experience
- The Giant Dwarf requires 12 , 16 , 33 , 14 , rewards 2,500 Smithing experience
- Heroes' Quest requires
55 , 53 , 53 , 25 , 50 and a number of quests, rewards 2,257 Smithing experience - Freeing Pirate Pete (Recipe for Disaster) requires Another Cook's Quest, 31 , rewards 1,000 Smithing experience
Though Family Crest does not reward smithing experience directly, it allows access to the goldsmith gauntlets, which yield approximately 2.5x experience when smithing gold bars.
Fastest experience
Levels 15–30/40: Iron dart tips
At lower levels, mine iron ore in the South-east Ardougne mine, superheat them into iron bars while walking to the south-eastern bank in East Ardougne, teleport back with the Ardougne cloak 1 (or higher) and repeat (you can also walk to Port Khazard anvils and smith them there). Alternatively, buy the ores from Ordan and smelt them into bars in the Blast Furnace. Do this until enough supplies are made to get around level 50–55 Fletching. Smith the bars later into iron dart tips for early Fletching training. The darts can be used for early Ranged training or saved for luring monsters when training Slayer.
Levels 40–99: Blast Furnace
The fastest way to train Smithing from level 40 onwards is to buy gold ore from Ordan and smelt them into gold bars in the Blast Furnace whilst wearing goldsmith gauntlets. This can net more than 230,000 Smithing experience per hour. This is very expensive and should be done only once the player can afford it. Every 1 xp will cost 4 gp (not including payments to the workers).
As gold bars have limited uses, some players opt to make darts for ranged training or platebodies for gold.
Make sure there are 27 bars in the dispenser before starting, otherwise the animation for withdrawing bars will be cancelled and slow you down. Run to the south side of the dispenser to allow the bars to smelt so that you can take out 28. If the conveyor belt breaks, take out 1 bar on the way to depositing more ores. If there are 28 bars left in the dispenser you won't be able to deposit anymore. Wield ice gloves to withdraw bars and equip goldsmith gauntlets as soon as you withdraw bars. Buy from worlds until there's less than 28 ore left. You can bank more than 11,000 gold ore per hour if the Worlds are full, but 8,000–9,000 is more realistic, doing 3 inventories per World.
Alternatively, players can attain more than 300,000 Smithing experience per hour, but the experience rate varies heavily depending on stock/click speed. The difference between this method and the other is that you're dropping the bars you collect instead of banking them, and buying then using gold straight from the ore seller. Hop to a non Blast Furnace World, buy 2–3 inventories of ore, use them on the belt, hop to a Blast Furnace World again, collect and drop bars, and repeat.
Blast Furnace strategies
If short on money, making platebodies and casting High Level Alchemy on them can significantly reduce the cost per experience, at a significantly slower rate of experience per hour. Another alternative, making iron or steel darts, gives even less experience per hour but fletching the darts can be done while training agility or doing other activities involving walking, making it still relatively efficient. If money is no problem and fletching experience is obtained in different ways, smelting gold bars is the most efficient.
| Metal | Smithing level | xp per bar | Price per bar | |||
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Iron | 15 | 19 | 33 | 37.5 | 25 |
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Steel | 30 | 34 | 48 | 55 | 92 |
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Gold | 40 | N/A | N/A | 56.2 | 225 |
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Mithril | 50 | 54 | 68 | 80 | 377 |
Other methods
Levels 15/30–99: Giants' Foundry
The Giants' Foundry minigame is a slower, but cheaper and more accessible alternative to Blast Furnace. You can use your own metal bars or use unwanted metal equipment for this minigame. Using better moulds applicable to the player's Smithing level and buying the Smiths' Uniform would result in a higher profit/lower loss, higher experience rate, and more reputation points.
Warhammers are one of the cheapest sources of bars at all metal tiers when bought at shops, providing 2 bars each (behind only platebodies). The Cam Torum Blacksmith has the highest stock and is close to a bank, but requires Perilous Moons to be started. Alternative shops are Vigr's Warhammers (bank nearby) and Skulgrimen's Battle Gear (deposit with Peer the Seer after Fremennik Easy Diary), though their prices are slightly higher.
At Levels 15–30, players buy and melt bronze and iron equipment purchased from stores, notably platebodies, platelegs and plateskirts located in the stores in Al Kharid Ranael's Super Skirt Store. and Louie's Armoured Legs Bazaar. This results in a small profit. Note that these are more expensive than warhammers, but have greater stock available as the stores are next to each other.
By Level 30 onward, players can profit from buying and smelting iron and steel equipment purchased from these stores.
By Level 50, mithril can be smelted but the player may not be able to profit from smelting purchased steel and mithril equipment. However, claws are cheap and purchasing mithril claws from Jatizso's Weapons galore is recommended to reduce money loss and profit with non-purchased steel or adamant ( 70 ) items. It's also around this level when better moulds can be purchased for better overall rates.
From Levels 70–99, with the completion of Song of the Elves, buying and using mithril and adamant armour from Aneirin's Armour shop in Prifddinas is the best method for experience, but it will not profit. Alternatively from Levels 85–99, players can kill Zalcano for adamantite and runite drops and profit from those.
For hourly rates with optimal moulds requiring up to 81 Smithing, see Giants' Foundry/Strategies § Hourly rates. These rates also suggest that the player is not using the Smiths' Uniform (uniform will increase rates) and the time taken to acquire alloys will not be taken into account.
Levels 35+: Cannonballs
Cannonballs can be made after the completion of the Dwarf Cannon quest and they can be useful for certain Slayer scenarios. However, due to their slow forging speed of 4 cannonballs every 4.8 seconds with the regular ammo mould, it is recommended to purchase the double ammo mould from Giants' Foundry to double the production rate to 8 cannonballs every 4.8 seconds.
Regular ammo mould at the Edgeville Furnace:
- 2,160 cannonballs per hour
- 13,824 Smithing experience per hour
Double ammo mould at the Edgeville Furnace:
- 4,320 cannonballs per hour
- 27,648 Smithing experience per hour
Coal and iron ore can be quickly bought from Ordan at the Blast Furnace and smelt into steel bars for cannonballs. To get from 40 to 70 Ranged while primarily using a cannon for Ranged training, you'll need about 35,000 cannonballs, requiring 8,750 steel bars.
If you need a large quantity of iron and coal ores for smithing steel bars into cannonballs, it's more efficient to spend time earning money to buy ores from Ordan instead of directly mining them. If you can earn 200,000 coins per hour from Thieving or the Agility Pyramid, you can purchase around 4,000 iron ore or 1,400 coal from Ordan and bank at the nearby chest. Assuming you would normally mine and bank 1,000 ores an hour, this represents a significant increase in the number of ores you would be able to obtain.
Levels 70+: Zalcano
Once the player has access to Prifddinas, killing Zalcano is an excellent way of banking Smithing experience in the form of gold ore, or mithril ore/bars and adamantite ore/bars in addition of earning ~3,000 Smithing experience per hour while fighting her. The experience rates of the dropped ores/bars will be slower than simply buying gold ore; but the activity is effectively free money-wise, and is much more engaging.
Some recommended activities for the bars obtained from Zalcano:
- Giants' Foundry for more experience and profit from the bars from the commission rewards.
- Smithed into armour pieces such as platebodies and casting high-level alchemy on them for money.
- Turned into dart tips for the toxic blowpipe.
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