Steel bar

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Steel bar
Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Values
Value	84 coins
High alch	50 coins
Low alch	33 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 128 Sacrifice: 512
Exchange	857 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	1.814 kg
Examine
Used in Smithing (20).
Exchange history
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Reclaim: 128
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High Alchemy value: 50Tradeable: trueLocation restriction: surfaceKept on death: reclaimableWeight: 1.814Exchange page: Exchange:Steel barBankable: trueLendable: falseBuy limit: 10000Disassembleable: trueIs members only: falseValue: 84Stacksinbank: trueLow Alchemy value: 33Item JSON: {"edible":"no","members":"no","stackable":"no","stacksinbank":"yes","death":"reclaimable","name":"Steel bar","bankable":"yes","gemw":{"name":"Steel bar","limit":10000},"equipable":"no","disassembly":"yes","release_date":"4 January 2001","id":2353,"release_update_post":"Runescape beta is now online!","lendable":"no","destroy":"Drop","highalch":33,"weight":1.814,"tradeable":"yes","examine":"Used in Smithing (20).","noteable":"yes"}Item name: Steel barRelease date: 4 January 2001Stackable: falseNoteable: trueItem ID: 2353

A steel bar is a bar of metal, refined through the Smithing skill by smelting an iron ore and a piece of coal in a furnace, requiring 20 Smithing and granting 3 Smithing experience. You can smelt steel bars 25% and 50% faster at 21 and 23 Smithing respectively. At 27 Smithing, you gain a chance (estimated 10%) of smelting an extra bar without using extra materials.

A steel bar can be forged on an anvil to create steel weapons and armour. A list of steel items that can be smithed from steel bars and the Smithing levels required can be found on the Smithing tables.

Smithing

Steel bar
Smithing level	20
Used with	Anvil, Furnace
Experience (per bar)
Smithing	75 XP
Equipment	5.85 XP
Experience (per ore)
Smelting	3 XP
Equipment	0.234 XP

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Smelting

Required materials:
Iron ore
Coal
- - - - - - - - - -
Production JSON:
{ "product": "Steel bar", "image": "[[File:Steel bar.png|link=Steel bar]]", "mats": [ { "name": "Iron ore", "quantity": "1", "image": "Iron ore.png" },{ "name": "Coal", "quantity": "1", "image": "Coal.png" } ], "skill": "Smithing", "level": "20" }

Steel bar

		-
3 XP		-		857
Requirements
Smithing level				20
Members only				No
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Iron ore	1	386	386
	Coal	1	105	105
Total price				491

Cost analysis

Method	Cost	Profit
Furnace	491	366
Superheat Item	908	-51
Blast Furnace	386	471

Drop sources

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For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Spirit impling	54	2 (noted)	Unknown
Spirit impling jar	N/A	2 (noted)	Unknown

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Planks, bars, and leather
Disassembly XP	0.6
Item quantity required	1
Material count	2
Base junk chance	?  78.0% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 78.0% 1 34 77.2 2 49 75.7 3 64 74.1 4 69 72.5 5 78 71.0 6 83 68.6 7 91 67.1 8 95 64.7 9 105 62.4
Possible materials
Often
Simple parts	75/100
Crafted parts	25/100

barsplanksPlanks, bars, and leathertabletabletabletable20? (edit)0.678?  78.0%

Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched.
See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information.

Reduction		Junk chance
None	1	78.0%
1	34	77.2
2	49	75.7
3	64	74.1
4	69	72.5
5	78	71.0
6	83	68.6
7	91	67.1
8	95	64.7
9	105	62.4

21table? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)notable{"mat_quantity":2,"xp":0.6,"category":"bars","junk":[78,77.22,75.66,74.1,72.54,70.98,68.64,67.08,64.74,62.400000000000006],"level":20,"item_quantity":1,"often":[{"name":"Simple parts","chance":75},{"name":"Crafted parts","chance":25}]}

Disassembly JSON: {"mat_quantity":2,"xp":0.6,"category":"bars","junk":[78,77.22,75.66,74.1,72.54,70.98,68.64,67.08,64.74,62.400000000000006],"level":20,"item_quantity":1,"often":[{"name":"Simple parts","chance":75},{"name":"Crafted parts","chance":25}]}

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • Reduced level requirement to smith iron, steel mithril, adamant and rune to 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 respectively.

Trivia

• Players commonly used steel bars to train the Smithing skill, despite being able to smith mithril bars or better, because it had the optimum traits of requiring only two ores, while mithril or better required several more pieces of coal. The Mining and Smithing rework changed this. The Rework also removed the possibility of obtaining noted bars in barrels.

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