Smithing Skill Guide

The smithing skill is used to convert ores, obtained by mining, into weapons and armour. Many players find that making equipment and selling it to shops and other players is a good way to make money. Smithing has two stages: smelting and smithing. Smelting converts your ores into bars. This is done at furnaces. To convert your ore into bars select an ore in your inventory then left click on a furnace. If you want to smelt several lots of ore at once, left clicking on the furnace will bring up a list of metals. Right click on a metal to select the quantity you want to make.

Ores / smithing levels chart

You will need different combinations of ores and different smithing levels to make each bar. Some of these requirements are shown below. There are even more bars to make at higher levels.

Bar	Ores required per bar	Level required
Bronze	1 Tin ore, 1 Copper ore	1
Iron	1 Iron ore (50% chance of success)	15
Silver	1 Silver ore	20
Steel	2 Coal, 1 Iron ore	30
Gold	1 Gold ore	40
Mithril	4 Coal, 1 Mithril ore	50
Adamant	6 Coal, 1 Adamantite ore	70
Runite	8 Coal, 1 Runite ore	85

Forging items

You will need a hammer which can be bought from any general store.
To convert your bars into armour and weapons you must forge them at an anvil.

Select a bar from your inventory, then select an anvil. You will be given a screen to decide what sort of equipment you would like to make. You will be shown how many bars are needed to make types of object. If this is written in green then you have enough bars to make the item, if it is written in red then you do not.



The name of the objects will be written in black or white. If the name is written in white then you have the smithing level required to make it. If it is written in black then you do not.

Select what you would like to make and provided you have the required smithing levels and number of bars, your object will be made.

The smithing levels required to forge a metal type are the same as those required to smelt it. However at the levels given you will only be able to forge the most basic items in that metal (mostly daggers). A few levels past these base smithing levels you will be able to make a wider variety of things. For example at smithing level 4 you will be able to make bronze short swords. The gold and silver bars are not used to smith weapons instead they are used in the crafting skill.

The following is a table showing at what level you can forge various items.

Item	Level Requirement to Smith
	Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune
Dagger	1	15	30	50	70	85
Axe	1	16	31	51	71	86
Mace	2	17	32	52	72	87
Medium helm	3	18	33	53	73	88
Short sword	4	19	34	54	74	89
Nails	-	-	34	-	-	-
Throwing dart tips (After completing Tourist Trap)	4	19	34	54	74	89
Wire	4	-	-	-	-	-
Cannonball	-	-	35	-	-	-
Arrowheads	5	20	35	55	75	90
Scimitar	5	20	35	55	75	90
Longsword	6	21	36	56	76	91
Item	Level Requirement to Smith
	Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune
Studs	-	-	36	-	-	-
Full helm	7	22	37	57	77	92
Throwing knives	7	22	37	57	77	92
Square shield	8	23	38	58	78	93
Warhammer	9	24	39	59	79	94
Battle axe	10	25	40	60	80	95
Chainbody	11	26	41	61	81	96
Kiteshield	12	27	42	62	82	97
Claws (After completing Death Plateau)	13	28	43	63	83	98
Two-handed sword	14	29	44	64	84	99
Platelegs	16	31	46	66	86	99
Plateskirt	16	31	46	66	86	99
Platebody	18	33	48	68	88	99