Pay-to-play Smithing training

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See also: Free-to-play Smithing training

Members have the advantage of access to more materials for training Smithing than free players. With the right methods and a bit of increased training time, members are able to make money while smithing. For tables showing profit versus experience made by smithing certain items, see Smithing/Smithing tables.

Although some methods are cheaper than others, Smithing is generally either very expensive or very slow, depending on whether you buy or collect your materials.

Useful items

Blacksmith's outfit

Wearing components of the blacksmith's outfit gives a percentage increase in the amount of Smithing experience gained. There are five pieces in the set: the headwear, chestpiece, legwear, gloves, and boots. Components of the Blacksmith's outfit can be won from Treasure Hunter. It is also purchasable at the Artisans' Workshop for 50% respect per piece. If all pieces of the set are worn, the player gains an additional set bonus of 1% bonus experience. The blacksmith's helmet can be modified with a blacksmith's helmet add-on to create a modified blacksmith's helmet, which offers 3 teleports to the Artisans' Workshop daily.

Name	Experience boost
Blacksmith's helmet	1%
Blacksmith's top	1%
Blacksmith's apron	1%
Blacksmith's gloves	1%
Blacksmith's boots	1%
Set bonus	1%
Total experience boost	6%

Urns

Urns can be used to gain additional Smithing experience while training. When held in the inventory, urns are filled as the player smelts ore. Only base experience gains count towards filling the urn. Full urns can be teleported away to receive additional experience, equivalent to 20% of the Smithing experience gained while filling the urn. Only one urn is filled at a time, though players may own up to a total of 10 full urns. If a player owns 10 full smelting urns, they must teleport at least one away before they can fill more urns. Urns are only tradeable in their non-runed (nr) form. In order to use a smelting urn, the player must add a fire rune, making the urn untradeable and stackable. Urns are only filled when smelting, they are not filled when smithing bars at an anvil.

Name	Crafting level required to add rune	GE price of non-runed urn	Charges gained from	Type of bar	Experience required to fill	Experience gained from teleporting
Cracked smelting urn	4	986	Bars at level 1	Bronze bars	200	40
Fragile smelting urn	17	936	Bars up to and including level 20	The above, plus: blurite bars, iron bars	312.5	62.5
Plain smelting urn	35	846	Bars up to and including level 50	The above, plus: steel bars, silver bars, mithril bars, adamant bars, gold bars, rune bars	750	150
Strong smelting urn	49	291	Bars up to and including level 70	The above, plus: orikalkum bars, necronium bars	1,250	250
Decorated smelting urn	80	4,800	Bars up to and including level 99	The above, plus: bane bars, elder rune bars	2,000	400

Perfect juju smithing potions

When the perfect juju smithing potion's effect is active, the player has a 5% increased chance for double progress when smithing. Each dose of the perfect juju smithing potion lasts for 1 hour. The potion can be bought from the Grand Exchange or created by adding harmony moss (costing 10,709 coins) to a juju hunter potion (3) (costing 16,122 coins) with level 82 Herblore.

Name	GE price
Perfect juju smithing potion (1)	6,248
Perfect juju smithing potion (2)	11,119
Perfect juju smithing potion (3)	25,718
Perfect juju smithing potion (4)	62,662

Torstol incense sticks

Each potency level of torstol incense sticks provides a 0.5% increase to base XP gain. The potency level will increase every 10 minutes and will reach its maximum at level 4 (+2% to base XP). Overloading consumes 6 sticks but instantly provides the maximum potency.

Hammer-trons/augmented crystal hammers

Players with at least level 22 Invention can discover how to create hammer-trons. This also unlocks the ability to create augmented crystal hammers by using augmentors on crystal hammers. A tool gizmo may be added to an augmented hammer to give it perks. The following perks may be useful to players training Smithing:

Recommended perks

Perk Icons	Perks	Effect
	Tinker 4	8% chance of making double progress.
	Rapid 4	Heat is lost twice as fast, but progress is earned 20% faster.

Possible perks

Name	Effect	Number of ranks
Rapid	Heat is lost twice as fast, but progress is earned 5-20% faster.	4
Tinker	2-8% chance of making double progress.	4
Breakdown	0.8-4.8% chance to give the same components that would have been gained for disassembling the item, with the item remaining intact.	6
Wise	When equipped, +1% per rank additional experience, up to 50,000 XP per day.	4

To use an augmented hammer's perks, the player must have charges in their charge pack. Use of an augmented crystal hammer costs at most 0.31 divine charges from the player’s charge pack per second. This cost can be reduced by researching charge drain improvements or by adding the efficient perk to the item.

Brawling gloves (Smithing)

Smithing brawling gloves, obtainable from revenants, the Chaos Elemental and the rare drop table, provide a steady source of bonus Smithing experience based on "charges". Outside of the Wilderness, the gloves provide an additional 50% experience, but when used anywhere at or above level 47 Wilderness, the gloves give an additional 300% bonus experience instead.

Even though they will conflict with the blacksmith set, they still provide more experience. As the gloves are dependent on charges, they are best used with rune ceremonial swords or dragonfire shields for the most experience (the latter can be done in the Wilderness for very high experience rates, but extremely risky); should either option be unfeasible, protean bars can be used instead.

Other useful items

• The Smithing cape's perk provides the effect of whenever an unfinished Smithing item is reheated, the next strike generates +5 base progress. This stacks with both the autoheater item and the Superheat spell, providing increased bonuses.
• Players with level 118 Archaeology can activate the Inspire Genius relic power at the mysterious monolith for a 2% experience increase to Smithing.
• A dose of powerburst of masterstroke may be sipped every 2 minutes to multiply smithing progress by 10 for each of the next 4 hammer swings (within 30 seconds). You get xp/progress so this can speed up smithing considerably. This does not apply to protean bars.
• The Superheat Form curse makes smelting 0.6 seconds faster, while low and medium heat items act as medium and high heat items respectively while smithing. The grace of the elves necklace halves the drain rate of prayer points of Superheat Form while worn.
• The smithing autoheater automatically sets the heat back to 30% when reaching 0%, at the cost of 5 coals.
• The advanced smithing autoheater overheat mode automatically sets the heat back to 60% when reaching 0%, at the cost of 50 coals.
• The luminite injector give all players inside the Artisans' Workshop an additional +1 progress to their bar per swing. This is usually active on World 70 Artisans' Workshop.
• The scroll of efficiency has a 2% chance per bar to refund that bar when Smithing.
• The Morytania legs 2 or higher double the speed at which you smith cannonballs in Port Phasmatys.
• The Varrock armour 2 and higher have a chance to increase progression and smelt two ores at once.
• The smelting gauntlets automatically send your smelted bars to the metal bank.
• The sacred clay hammers give 23,450 bonus xp when claimed as a reward in Stealing Creation.
• The Gofannon amulet from the What's Mine is Yours quest offers up to 183,500 bonus experience by finishing the subsequent miniquest chain, Doric and Boric tasks.
• The Orthen furnace core makes Superheat Form curse require no prayer points (effect superior to that of Grace of the elves). It has also other bonuses which effectively give another 5% increase of experience in Smithing.

Level-up guide

This guide looks at the fastest and most efficient ways of levelling up to 99. Assuming all bars are purchased from the Grand Exchange and the methods in this guide are used, the total absolute cost will be -173,661,985 coins, if you decide to sell the platebodies made from bars bought on the GE then the final cost of 1-99 will be -31,465,072.84 coins. Many of the items produced can be sold on the Grand Exchange or converted using High Level Alchemy to partly return on the investment.

Maximum Heat is reliant on Smithing and Firemaking. At Level 99 Smithing and Firemaking, players have a maximum heat of 894.

Maximum Heat = 300 + (3 x Smithing level) + (3 x Firemaking level).

Levels 1-30

The amount of experience required is 13,363.

The Knight's Sword will award you 12,725 experience to level 29 (10 Mining required).

For the additional 638 experience, you will require 18 steel bars to smith Steel platebodies + 1.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -17,820 coins, or -12,402 coins to purchase iron ore and coal to smelt into bars at a furnace.

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
18 x Steel bar	17,820	Steel platebody + 1	13,633.2	-4,186.8

Levels 30-40

You will need to gain 23,861 experience and will require 199 mithril bars to smith Mithril platebodies + 2.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -190,642 coins, or -134,922 coins to purchase mithril ore and coal to smelt into bars at a furnace.

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
199 x Mithril bar	190,642	Mithril platebody + 2	249,774.85	59,132.85

Levels 40-50

You will need to gain 64,109 experience and will require 377 adamant bars to smith Adamant platebodies + 2.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -960,973 coins, or -766,818 coins to purchase adamantite ore and luminite to smelt into bars at a furnace.

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
377 x Adamant bar	960,973	Adamant platebody + 2	843,933.35	-117,039.65

Levels 50-60

You will need to gain 172,409 experience and will require 719 rune bars to smith Rune platebodies + 3.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -2,319,494 coins, or -2,159,876 coins to buy runite ore and luminite to smelt into bars at a furnace.

If you want to level faster at a higher cost, buy Rune platebodies + 2 and upgrade to Rune platebodies + 3.

Total profit/loss if buying +2 and upgrading to +3 then selling on GE: -2,271,644.55 coins

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
719 x Rune bar	2,319,494	Rune platebody + 3	1,891,689	-427,805

Levels 60-70

You will need to gain 463,885 experience and will require 1326 orikalkum bars to smith Orikalkum platebodies + 3.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -9,454,380 coins, or -9,030,060 coins for orichalcite ore and drakolith to smelt into bars at a furnace.

If you wish to level faster but at a higher cost, buy Orikalkum platebodies + 2 and upgrade to Orikalkum platebodies + 3.

Total profit/loss if buying +2 and upgrading to +3 then selling on GE: -9,832,389.45 coins

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
1326 x Orikalkum bar	9,454,380	Orikalkum platebody + 3	4,852,132.35	-4,602,247.65

Levels 70-80

You will need to gain 1,248,441 experience and will require 2497 necronium bars to smith Necronium platebodies + 4.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -21,204,524 coins, or -20,777,537 coins to purchase necrite ore and phasmatite to smelt into bars at a furnace.

If you wish to level faster but at a higher cost, buy Necronium platebodies + 3 and upgrade to Necronium platebodies + 4.

Total profit/loss if buying +3 and upgrading to +4 then selling on GE: -25,008,984.41 coins

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
2497 x Necronium bar	21,204,524	Necronium platebody + 4	14,996,513.81	-6,208,010.19

Levels 80-89/90

You will need to gain 3,360,264 experience and will require 4080 bane bars to reach level 89 or 4800 bane bars to reach level 90 to smith Bane platebodies + 4.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -50,375,760 coins, or -50,494,080 coins for banite ore to smelt into bars at a furnace.

If you wish to level faster but at a higher cost, buy Bane platebodies + 3 and upgrade to Bane platebodies + 4.

Total profit/loss if selling platebodies +4 upgraded from +3 on GE (to level 90): -53,244,000 coins

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
4800 x Bane bar	59,265,600	Bane platebody + 4	35,960,520	-23,305,080

Levels 89/90-99+

At this point you have 2 ways to level.

From 89 to 99

Smelting corrupted ore will require 51,201 corrupted ore to reach level 99. Each corrupted ore gives 160 Smithing experience; 192 Smithing experience with the Voice of Seren active in the district. 1,500 corrupted ore can be used in one hour, equating to 240,000 experience an hour; increasing to 288,000 experience an hour with the Voice of Seren effect, and 345,600 experience an hour using urns with Voice of Seren.

This may be a more time-consuming method than others due to the need to mine the untradeable ore. The time mining the ore would need to be taken into consideration when looking at experience/hour rates.

If you wish to use this method to bridge the 504,037 experience gap between 89 - 90 you will require 3,151 corrupted ore or 2,625 while the Voice of Seren is active.

From 90 to 99+

You will need to gain 7,688,099 experience and will require 7,688 elder rune bars to smith elder rune platebody + 5. Average experience rates are around 200k an hour, depending on activity and heat levels. Smithing from elder rune platebody through to elder rune platebody + 5 will take around 45 minutes, again depending on activity and heat levels.

Purchasing the bars from the Grand Exchange will cost -108,047,152 coins, or -100,051,632 coins for runite ore, dark animica and light animica to smelt into bars at a furnace. High-alching the platebodies + 5 produced from the bars may result in a profit, or at the very least cover most of the costs of Smithing training.

If you wish to level faster but at a higher cost, purchase platebodies + 4, upgrade them into platebodies + 5 and then use these on a Burial Forge for a total of 160,000 experience per platebody. 48 platebodies + 4 and 3,840 elder rune bars would be required to achieve level 99 and if purchased from the Grand Exchange this would currently cost 136,844,688 coins.

The fastest method to achieve 90 - 99 Smithing is to purchase 96 platebodies + 5 and use them on a burial forge and anvil at a cost of 222,143,232 coins. Using these on the burial forge will destroy the items.

Smithing a full set of Elder rune + 5 armour is a requirement for the It Should Have Been Called Aetherium achievement, requiring 384 Elder bars. It could be worth factoring this into your training to ensure that the time/XP is not wasted once you hit 99 Smithing, assuming unlocking Masterwork equipment is desired. This is a requirement to obtain the Completionist cape.

Total profit/loss if selling platebodies bought at +4 and upgraded to +5 on GE: -108,763,577.5 coins

Bar Type	Bars GE Price	Platebody	Platebodies GE Price	Profit/Loss
7688 x Elder rune bar	108,047,152	Elder rune platebody + 5	111,187,315.6	3,140,163.6

Burial Smithing

Using armour on a burial forge and anvil will result in some of the best Smithing experience available.

• Burial smithing is twice as fast for the same amount of experience for creating the item.
• Only the highest tier of the item is available for use on a burial forge and anvil.
• Although there is no additional bar cost, the item is destroyed in the process.
• Experience rates can far exceed 1 million experience/hour depending on which item you use.
• Smithing a full burial set grants 5% extra xp than smithing each part of the burial set individually.

You can also create an elder rune burial set at 90 Smithing, currently granting the best experience rates. Combining an elder rune full helm + 5, elder rune platebody + 5, elder rune platelegs + 5, elder rune gauntlets + 5 and elder rune armoured boots + 5 for a total of 192,000 experience per set. The cost per set currently totals -5,995,890 coins if all the items are purchased from the Grand Exchange.

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 fastest and most expensive method to level smithing is to find the highest levelled armour that you can smith and then buy the fully upgraded full helm, platebody, platelegs, gauntlets, and armoured boots from the Grand Exchange and use them to create burial sets at a burial anvil and burial forge.

This method will take approx 169 burial sets and cost -375.8M in total from level 40 to 99.

The fastest and most expensive method of levelling Smithing

Item	Progress needed	Smithing XP	GP/XP	XP per 2 tick (Full Heat)	XP/h (Full Heat)	GP Loss per burial set if buying max upgraded from GE	Burial sets per 10 levels	Total cost per 10 levels
Adamant burial set	3,000	4,284	-27.93	28.56	85,680	-119,649	15 (to level 50)	-1,794,735
Rune burial set	4,320	12,096	-23.06	56	168,000	-278,927	15 (to level 60)	-4,183,905
Orikalkum burial set	5,040	17,640	-24.15	70	210,000	-425,989	27 (to level 70)	-11,501,703
Necronium burial set	6,720	50,400	-29.85	150	450,000	-1,504,365	25 (to level 80)	-37,609,125
Bane burial set	7,560	70,560	-25.65	186.66	560,000	-1,809,592	48 (to level 90)	-86,860,416
Elder rune burial set	9,600	201,600	-29.74	420	1,260,000	-5,995,890	39 (to level 99)	-233,839,710
Total							169 (from level 40-99)	-375,789,594

Free alternatives

These are some alternative methods for training Smithing that are free of cost.

Clan Citadels

The Clan Citadel can offer a furnace (provided that the clan the player is in has one), which provides constant and free Smithing experience while doing their cap rate. As players maximise their caps every week to a fealty rank of 3, they will get an extra experience bonus when skilling in the citadel. Depending on the player's fealty rank and cap limit, they can reach to upwards of 342k Smithing experience per week, more with various bonuses. However, the furnace requires charcoal from the kiln and regular/precious ore from the mine in order to function properly.

Protean bars

Protean bars, obtainable from Treasure Hunter, are a free source of Smithing experience. While the time it takes to "smelt" the bars is considerably slower, it does provide a large amount of experience at no cost to the player.

These bars are especially useful in the Wilderness when paired with Smithing brawling gloves at the lever to the Mage Arena, as the brawling gloves will provide the most bonus experience after level 50 Wilderness.

Completing quests

Main article: Quests/Experience rewards § Smithing

Quest	Members	Experience reward	Smithing requirement	Other requirements
Doric's Task I		250	10	N/A
What's Mine is Yours		400	5	N/A
Doric's Task II		500	20	N/A
Doric's Task III		750	30	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete		1,000	N/A	31 Cooking
Doric's Task IV		1,500	40	N/A
Heroes' Quest		2,257	N/A	53 Cooking 53 Fishing 25 Herblore 25 Defence (Black Arm gang only) 50 Mining
The Giant Dwarf		2,500	N/A	12 Crafting 16 Firemaking 33 Magic 14 Thieving
Doric's Task V		5,000	50	N/A
Between a Rock...		5,000	50	30 Defence 40 Mining
Elemental Workshop I		5,000	20	20 Mining 20 Crafting
Devious Minds		5,000	65	50 Runecrafting 50 Fletching
Cabin Fever		7,000	50	42 Agility 45 Crafting 40 Ranged
Elemental Workshop II		7,500	30	20 Magic
Doric's Task VI		8,000	60	N/A
Elemental Workshop III		8,500	33	33 Defence 20 Mining
Hero's Welcome		10,000	67	60 Divination 67 Mining 62 Slayer
Defender of Varrock		10,000	54	51 Agility 51 Hunter 59 Mining
Doric's Task VII		12,000	65	N/A
The Knight's Sword		12,725	N/A	10 Mining
A Clockwork Syringe		18,000	74	50 Dungeoneering 61 Slayer 62 Construction 65 Summoning 74 Thieving 76 Defence
Doric's Task VIII		20,000	70	N/A
The Void Stares Back		20,000	70	80 Magic 78 Attack 78 Strength 71 Firemaking 70 Construction 70 Crafting 55 Summoning 25 Defence
Rocking Out		25,000	69	60 Agility 63 Thieving 66 Crafting
Kindred Spirits		25,000	60	60 Agility 60 Crafting 60 Herblore
Love Story		40,000	68	77 Magic 68 Construction 67 Crafting
King of the Dwarves		50,000	70	68 Mining 77 Strength
Birthright of the Dwarves		100,000	82	80 Mining 85 Strength
Total		402,882

Money making using the Smithing skill

Smithing money making guides

Method	Profit	Skill	Experience	Members
Smelting silver bars	532,000	20	3,360
Smelting bane bars	2,355,000	80 (89 recommended)	41,000
Smithing cannonballs	734,000	35	30,208
Smelting orikalkum bars	2,017,000	60 (65 recommended)	25,400
Smelting iron bars	735,000	10 (19 recommended)	4,000
Smithing rune knives	1,085,000	60	33600
Smelting steel bars	800,000	20 (27 recommended)	6,000
Smelting rune bars	1,089,000	50 (57 recommended)	20,000
Smelting bronze bars	592,000	1 (9 recommended)	2,000
Smelting mithril bars	752,000	30 (37 recommended)	10,000
Smelting necronium bars	2,040,000	70 (77 recommended) 91 (recommended for Superheat Form)	51,000
Smelting adamant bars	1,540,000	40 (47 recommended)	13,700
Smithing steel ingots	-860,000	20 (23 recommended)	5,600
Smelting gold bars	889,000	40 91	13,986
Smithing rune arrowheads	742,000	50 (51 recommended)	21,600
Smithing mithril spears	964,000	55	16,800
Smithing rune bolts (unf)	605,000	50 (51 recommended)	21,600
Smelting elder rune bars	4,571,000	90 (94 recommended) 91 (recommended for Superheat Form)	78,000
Smithing elder rune armour set + 5	702,000	90
Smithing rune dart tips	1,010,000	50 (51 recommended)	21,600
Smithing glorious bars	2,990,000	99	13,513.50
Smithing adamant dart tips	1,351,000	40 (49 recommended) High recommended 91 optional, if using Superheat Form	22,440
Smithing Masterwork armour	2,551,000	99 70 strongly recommended for the advanced smithing autoheater 91 for Superheat form 102 if using the Orthen furnace core, strongly recommended for infinite super-heat form	1,525
Smithing elder rune + 5 items	1,533,000	90 (99 recommended) 91 (recommended for Superheat Form) 76+ boosted to 93 (recommended for 'Ancient tools' blueprint and perks) (optional) 95+ (for extreme invention potion for invention boost)	422,400 (with powerburst of masterstroke and level 99+ Smithing)