Burial equipment

For the training method removed after the Mining and Smithing rework, see Burial armour (historical).

Burial Forges in the eastern half of the Artisans' Workshop

Burial equipment is a type of item introduced in the Mining and Smithing rework. Making a burial version of an item consumes a maximally upgraded item and produces experience only. Upon completion of the Smithing operation, the item is automatically removed from the inventory. This makes the process an "expensive, no reward, high experience" method of training.

Burial equipment can only be made from adamant equipment and higher. Burial equipment is made at a Burial Forge and Burial Anvil in the Artisans' Workshop; a normal anvil and forge cannot be used. Making a burial item consumes the item but does not require additional bars. Note: You must repair an item back to its tradeable state to be able to use it for burial.

A warning message about the item being destroyed is shown before starting to smith a burial item. This can be toggled off permanently.

Experience

Due to the way upgrades work, the following applies to all tiers of metal from adamant to elder rune and all burial items in those tiers.

In terms of speed, making burial equipment requires half the progress as applying the maximum upgrade for that item while still giving the same experience. For example, making an elder rune two hand sword + 5 from an elder rune two hand sword + 4 grants a total of 64,000 experience. Making the +5 sword into an elder rune burial two hand sword also grants 64,000 experience.

This is very efficient in terms of materials. If one were to buy bars, make items, upgrade them to the maximum, and finally make a burial item, they would gain 50% more experience per item (and per bar) than just making and upgrading the item to the maximum. Of course, this comes at the cost of receiving no items in return.

Burial sets

A player finishing a set of burial armour.

Burial sets can also be made at a burial forge and anvil. A burial set is a single Smithing operation that combines the operations of making a burial helmet, body, legs, gauntlets, and armoured boots from the associated upgraded equipment pieces. While it is not necessary to smith sets instead of individual pieces, burial sets take the same amount of progress to complete as the sum of doing each item individually, but give an additional 5% base experience. This bonus can be further increased by unlocking Solemn Smith from the Artisans' Workshop, stacking the bonus up to 10%.

Level	Metal	Progress required	XP for individually burying a set	XP per burial set
				Base	Solemn Smith I	Solemn Smith II	Solemn Smith III	Solemn Smith IV	Solemn Smith V
40	Adamant	3,000	4,080	4,284	4,324.8	4,365.6	4,406.4	4,447.2	4,488
50	Rune	4,320	11,520	12,096	12,211.2	12,326.4	12,441.6	12,556.8	12,672
60	Orikalkum	5,040	16,800	17,640	17,808	17,976	18,144	18,312	18,480
70	Necronium	6,720	48,000	50,400	50,880	51,360	51,840	52,320	52,800
80	Bane	7,560	67,200	70,560	71,232	71,904	72,576	73,248	73,920
90	Elder Rune	9,600	192,000	201,600	203,520	205,440	207,360	209,280	211,200

The items in the set require 12 bars to make at standard quality, which is doubled for every level of upgrade applied after that. Adamant's maximum is +2, so the quantity is quadrupled. Thus when prepared from scratch, between 48 to 384 bars (Adamant burial set to Elder rune burial set respectively) are required for a fully upgraded set, ready to become finished into a burial set.

Respect

Respect is earned - as usual - at 1% per 10,000 experience gained, but unlike regular smithing, for burial smithing the total is awarded as a lump sum after the item is finished. This is important to consider when the earned respect will increase your total sum over 100%, as any excess will be lost.

For example having 85% respect and completing an elder rune burial set would total 85% + 20.16% = 105.16%, but the maximum respect you can have is 100%, forfeiting 5.16% respect.

List of burial equipment

Adamant

• Adamant burial 2h sword
• Adamant burial armoured boots
• Adamant burial battleaxe
• Adamant burial chainbody
• Adamant burial claws
• Adamant burial dagger
• Adamant burial full helm
• Adamant burial gauntlets
• Adamant burial kiteshield
• Adamant burial longsword
• Adamant burial mace
• Adamant burial med helm
• Adamant burial off hand battleaxe
• Adamant burial off hand claws
• Adamant burial off hand dagger
• Adamant burial off hand longsword
• Adamant burial off hand mace
• Adamant burial off hand scimitar
• Adamant burial off hand sword
• Adamant burial off hand warhammer
• Adamant burial pickaxe
• Adamant burial platebody
• Adamant burial platelegs
• Adamant burial plateskirt
• Adamant burial scimitar
• Adamant burial set
• Adamant burial square shield
• Adamant burial sword
• Adamant burial warhammer

Rune

• Rune burial 2h sword
• Rune burial armoured boots
• Rune burial battleaxe
• Rune burial chainbody
• Rune burial claws
• Rune burial dagger
• Rune burial full helm
• Rune burial gauntlets
• Rune burial kiteshield
• Rune burial longsword
• Rune burial mace
• Rune burial med helm
• Rune burial off hand battleaxe
• Rune burial off hand claws
• Rune burial off hand dagger
• Rune burial off hand longsword
• Rune burial off hand mace
• Rune burial off hand scimitar
• Rune burial off hand sword
• Rune burial off hand warhammer
• Rune burial pickaxe
• Rune burial platebody
• Rune burial platelegs
• Rune burial plateskirt
• Rune burial scimitar
• Rune burial set
• Rune burial square shield
• Rune burial sword
• Rune burial warhammer

Orikalkum

• Orikalkum burial 2h warhammer
• Orikalkum burial armoured boots
• Orikalkum burial full helm
• Orikalkum burial gauntlets
• Orikalkum burial kiteshield
• Orikalkum burial off hand warhammer
• Orikalkum burial pickaxe
• Orikalkum burial platebody
• Orikalkum burial platelegs
• Orikalkum burial set
• Orikalkum burial warhammer

Necronium

• Necronium burial 2h greataxe
• Necronium burial armoured boots
• Necronium burial battleaxe
• Necronium burial full helm
• Necronium burial gauntlets
• Necronium burial kiteshield
• Necronium burial off hand battleaxe
• Necronium burial pickaxe
• Necronium burial platebody
• Necronium burial platelegs
• Necronium burial set

Bane

• Bane burial 2h sword
• Bane burial armoured boots
• Bane burial full helm
• Bane burial gauntlets
• Bane burial longsword
• Bane burial off hand longsword
• Bane burial pickaxe
• Bane burial platebody
• Bane burial platelegs
• Bane burial set
• Bane burial square shield

Elder rune

• Elder rune burial 2h sword
• Elder rune burial armoured boots
• Elder rune burial full helm
• Elder rune burial gauntlets
• Elder rune burial longsword
• Elder rune burial off hand longsword
• Elder rune burial pickaxe
• Elder rune burial platebody
• Elder rune burial platelegs
• Elder rune burial round shield
• Elder rune burial set

Update history

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• patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • From adamant, items which have been upgraded to the maximum for that metal can be taken to the Artisans' Workshop and made into burial equipment. This destroys the item but gives the fastest possible XP/hr.