Smithing is a production skill which players can use to create various items and bars. There are various ways to train smithing from afk methods to money making ones or really efficient exp methods which yield up to 380k exp per hour, which is one of the fastest exp rates in the entire game.
To start off, smithing offers a lot of different ways for a player to make money. The higher your smithing level is the more methods you will have access to.
Secondly a decent number of quests in old school runescape requires smithing to complete. Some of these quests are necessary to complete for one's account, should they want to participate in the end game content. The quests that require smithing are:
To get a quest cape you will need at least level 70 smithing.
Lastly if you want to complete all the achievement diaries in the game, you will need at least level 91 smithing.
This smithing guide will have 5 sections:
Useful Items and Unlocks
Ice gloves are a necessary item to have for the fastest exp route and for some money making methods using smithing. It’s mainly used to collect your bars from the blast furnace. If you have the Heroes’ Quest completed you should have this item in your bank. If you haven't completed the quest, worry not it is not a requirement for getting the gloves. You only need 50 mining and a pickaxe to go below White Wolf Mountain and kill the Ice Queen to get her gloves.
Goldsmith Gauntlets unlocks the fastest exp method in the game for smithing, so it’s necessary to get if you are looking to do the efficient route. To get this pair of gauntlets you will need to complete the Family Crest quest. After the quest completion, bring your steel gauntlets alongside 25k coins to Avan, who can be found in the Al Kharid mine to exchange it for Goldsmith Gauntlets.
Coal bag is not a necessary item to get, however it’s highly recommended for you to have, if you are going to be making metal bars using the blast furnace. Having this item will greatly increase your metal production rates. You can obtain this item from the Prospector Percy’s Nugget Shop for 100 golden nuggets. ( which can be found in the motherload mine )
To use the blast furnace, place a full inventory of iron ore onto the conveyor belt. After placing your ores, equip your ice gloves to take your bars from the bar dispensary. Bank at the nearby chest and repeat the process. ( If you don’t have Ice gloves you will need to use a bucket of water on the dispensary every time, which will slow down your progress. )
Equip your goldsmith gauntlets and have the ice gloves in your inventory. Fill the remaining 27 spots in your inventory with gold ores and place all of them on the conveyor belt. Wait until you see the exp drop to equip your Ice gloves if you equip them too early you will not get the bonus exp effect from your goldsmith gauntlets. With your ice gloves equipped, withdraw all your bars from the dispensary and repeat this process. This method yields up to 380k exp per hour but also costs around 1 mil per hour. In total doing this method will cost you around 52m gold.
If you are not looking to get the fastest exp rates out there, blast furnace is quite profitable. Any bar you create using the blast furnace is profitable ( except gold bars obviously ). The higher the tier of the bar the more profit you are going to make. For this method the coal bag is NECESSARY and ice gloves will speed up the process significantly. ( The money you make from this changes in accordance to the G.E prices, the prices that I will display can change. )
Profit/Hour: 330k
Profit/Hour: 648k
Profit/Hour: 686k
Profit/Hour: 837k
Profit/Hour: 1.3m
This method is the slowest and the most afk method of all smithing training methods. To do this you will need to complete The Dwarf’s Cannon quest. After the quest, get yourself an ammo mould and fill the rest of your inventory with steel bars and head to Edgeville to start smithing them into cannonballs. You can double your exp and profit by getting a double ammo mould from the Giant’s Foundry. ( Prices are according to the current G.E prices )
Exp/Hour: 13,824
Profit/Hour: 121k
Exp/Hour: 27,648
Profit/Hour: 242k
Giant’s Foundry is a minigame that you can access after completing the quest Sleeping Giants. To summarise the minigame you will be taking smithing commissions and creating those said commissions to receive rewards.
You can start training in the foundry, starting at level 15 however it’s not recommended to start so early.
The recommended level to start using the foundry is level 81 smithing as you will have access to adamant and mithril. If you start doing foundry at level 81 you can expect about 160k - 190k exp per hour and 40k - 100k profit per hour.
This is a very high end method that yields a lot of profit and it is recommended to people that are going for 200m smithing. To start this you will need at least level 95 smithing.
Exp/Hour: 210k
Profit/Hour: 448k
Exp/Hour: 210k
Profit/Hour: 510k
Exp/Hour: 210k
Profit/Hour: 514k
This part assumes you followed the efficient guide to level 40. This method is for people that don’t want to lose as much money but also want to do a fast and easy method.
Exp/Hour: 200k
Profit/Hour: -576k
Exp/Hour: 240k
Profit/Hour: -349k
Goodluck grinding!
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