Smithing

For information on training this skill, see Smithing training.

Smithing is one of several skills in RuneScape Classic. It allows players to make armour and weapons to sell to other players or to use for themselves.

Unlike Mining, Fishing and Woodcutting, which are gathering skills, Smithing is a production skill. It takes raw materials obtained from a gathering skill, in this case mining, and makes something else. It is popular because it can make a profit, and lets you provide equipment for you and your friends.

Smithing has two distinct parts: smelting, which is taking the ores from mining and turning them into metal bars, and forging, which is taking those bars and turning them into metal items.

Smelting
Once you've acquired all the ores you need, you need to smelt them into bars.

Furnace locations consist of:


 * North of the Al Kharid bank
 * In the center of Falador
 * East Ardougne
 * Entrana
 * Just north of Lumbridge
 * Shilo Village (requires 20gp fee)
 * First level of Underground Pass after the tiled traps
 * Zanaris
 * Wilderness Deadly Red Spider Ruins

The Al Kharid furnace is considered to be the most efficient because of its small distance from the bank.

Below is a table of bars, experience, and ores required:

* 100% when using Superheat item ** 33.5 experience when smelting a gold bar with the gauntlets of goldsmithing

Forging
Forging requires using a metal bar on an anvil with hammer in inventory.

Anvils are located at the following places:
 * Doric's hut north of Falador
 * Port Khazard
 * Seers' Village
 * Tai Bwo Wannai
 * Thurgo's Peninsula
 * Varrock (south of the west bank)
 * Varrock (Horvik's Armour Shop)
 * West Ardougne
 * Wilderness Bat house
 * Wilderness Spider ruins
 * Yanille

Steel
* Smithing cannoballs at a furnace requires a Cannon ammo mould from the Dwarf Cannon quest

Gold
* Smithing Golden Bowls requires the player to have started the Legend's Quest

Legendary Dragon Square Shield
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At level 60 smithing you can repair the Dragon Square Shield. You will need both the left square half, an extremely rare drop from various monsters, and the right square half, purchased from Legends' Guild store for 750,000 coins. Hammering the shield at an anvil gives 75 smithing experience.

Quests
The following quests give smithing experience rewards:
 * Tourist Trap - ability to smith dart tips and a choice of 2 x (Level + 1) * 150 XP
 * The Knight's Sword - UNKNOWN XP
 * Hero's Quest - 2257.5 XP
 * Legend's Quest - ability to smith Golden Bowls and a choice of 4 x 7650 XP

Trivia

 * Coal can be used on a furnace with iron ore in the player's inventory to smelt steel bars. This does not work with any other bar which requires coal.
 * Drinking a dwarven stout temporarily increases a player's smithing level by 1
 * The first player to gain 99 smithing was Bluerose13x.