Smithing

For a list of all requirements and unlockables within the Smithing skill, see Smithing/Level up table.

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Smithing
Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Type	Artisan
Max. level	110
Statistics
Minimum level to be ranked	15 (as of 30 Apr 2026)
Players with 99	245,238 (as of 30 Apr 2026)
Players with 120	31,164 (as of 30 Apr 2026)
Players with 200M XP	10,819 (as of 30 Apr 2026)
with 99	21,755 (as of 30 Apr 2026)
with 120	854 (as of 30 Apr 2026)
with 200M XP	292 (as of 30 Apr 2026)

Smithing is an artisan skill through which players smelt ores into metal bars, and forge these bars - and other materials - into various items. Both smelting ores and forging items give Smithing experience. Many smithable items are useful for combat, quests, and training other skills like Crafting and Fletching. It is the companion skill to Mining which ores are typically gathered through for smelting.

Players can bring ores and forging resources in their inventory for smelting and forging. However, players are encouraged to instead use the metal bank to store ores, metal bars and molten glasses (but cannot store other materials) and use them conveniently. Do note that the metal bank accepts deposits that are noted - allowing for larger quantities to be stored conveniently - as well as from an ore box.

Smelting bars

A player smelting ore in a furnace

Ores can be smelted into metal bars at a furnace (not to be confused with a forge). Interacting with a furnace opens the Smelting interface. The interface displays the amount of resources (ores, casting metals and glass, metal bars etc.) currently stored in the metal bank.

Players can select the type of bar they wish to create by either clicking on the bar's corresponding ore (under Core Ores) or the bar itself (under Ore Smelting). The player's selection will be reflected on the rightmost side of the interface, covering the requirements as well as the materials involved. Additionally, players can control quantity, with limits dependent on current inventory space (0–28) or the equipping of smelting gauntlets (up to 60 via Make-X, and all bars will be automatically deposited into the metal bank). Without smelting gauntlets, newly smelted metal bars will be stored in the player's backpack. If the gauntlets are owned, blacksmith's gloves (from the blacksmith's outfit) may be worn instead and will provide the same benefit as the gauntlets.

Generally, metal bars are smelted from two different ores, exceptions being iron, silver, gold, bane, elder rune, primal, and platinum (see below). Compared to forging items, smelting ores rewards relatively small Smithing experience.

Product	Level	Smelting XP	Materials	Total ore cost	Profit
Bronze bar	1	1	1 × Copper ore 1 × Tin ore	1,263	961
Iron bar	10	2	2 × Iron ore	1,448	879
Silver bar	20	3	1 × Silver ore	1,079	1,095
Steel bar	20	3	1 × Iron ore 1 × Coal	959	621
Mithril bar	30	5	1 × Mithril ore 1 × Coal	1,351	800
Gold bar	40	7	1 × Gold ore	1,050	1,009
Adamant bar	40	7	1 × Adamantite ore 1 × Luminite	3,341	918
Rune bar	50	10	1 × Runite ore 1 × Luminite	4,347	861
Orikalkum bar (m)	60	13	1 × Orichalcite ore 1 × Drakolith	7,689	1,121
Necronium bar (m)	70	17	1 × Necrite ore 1 × Phasmatite	9,821	780
Bane bar (m)	80	21	2 × Banite ore	10,574	493
Elder rune bar (m)	90	26	1 × Rune bar 1 × Light animica 1 × Dark animica	15,139	547
Primal bar × 5 (m)	100	31	1 × Novite ore 1 × Bathus ore 1 × Marmaros ore 1 × Kratonium ore 1 × Fractite ore 1 × Zephyrium ore 1 × Argonite ore 1 × Katagon ore 1 × Gorgonite ore 1 × Promethium ore	130,605	−6,135
Platinum bar (m)	104	33	1 × Platinum ore	8,941	3,000

In addition to smelting bars from ores, certain bars can be created by smelting other bars such as those involved in masterwork smithing and Necromancy. Corrupted ore can also be smelted, but doesn't produce any items as a product.

Smelting speed

At a given bar's base level requirement, smelting takes 5 ticks (3 seconds). At specific Smithing levels unique to each bar type for core metals, the time is reduced first to 4 ticks (2.4 seconds) and then further to 3 ticks (1.8 seconds) according to the following table.

Members who have access to the Superheat Form prayer can activate it to further reduce the duration by 1 tick (0.6 seconds).

Bar	Level required for base smelting speed
	5 ticks (3s)	4 ticks (2.4s)	3 ticks (1.8s)
Bronze bar	1	2	5
Iron bar	10	14	17
Steel bar	20	21	23
Mithril bar	30	31	37
Adamant bar	40	46	48
Rune bar	50	53	56
Orikalkum bar (m)	60	61	65
Necronium bar (m)	70	75	77
Bane bar (m)	80	86	89
Elder rune bar (m)	90	91	94
Primal bar (m)	100	101	106

Double bar chance

At specific Smithing levels unique to each bar type, players unlock a 10% chance of smelting an extra bar for it. Extra bars do not grant additional Smithing experience, and will be automatically deposited to the player's metal bank. When this occurs, the message You manage to make 1 extra bar! It has been sent to your metal bank. appears in the chatbox and also as a popup message. When smelting primal bars, which are made in batches of five, the message will instead be: You manage to make 5 extra bars! They've been sent to your metal bank..

Players who have access to the following can further increase their chances:

• Modified blacksmith's helmet: +1%
• Varrock armour: Increased chance of smelting double bars for all core metals (except primal bars), with increase varying by bar smelted. Completing the New Varrock easy achievements allows the player to enjoy the armour's benefits without having it equipped.

Product	Level	Level to unlock 2x bar chance
Bronze bar	1	9
Iron bar	10	19
Silver bar	20	N/A
Steel bar	20	27
Mithril bar	30	38
Gold bar	40	N/A
Adamant bar	40	47
Rune bar	50	57
Orikalkum bar (m)	60	62
Necronium bar (m)	70	74
Bane bar (m)	80	81
Elder rune bar (m)	90	92
Primal bar (m)	100	103
Platinum bar (m)	104	N/A

Forging items

A player forging metal bars into items at an anvil.

For a comprehensive list of forgeable items, see here.

In Smithing, items (in some cases degrading) are forged at an anvil with a hammer (typically stored in the tool belt). Most of the process will be spent here, with zero to either one or more quick trips to a forge to help speed things. Interacting with either an anvil or a forge opens the Smithing Interface. Selecting a material (on the leftmost side) displays its corresponding forging options (listed in the middle). Begin Project creates an unfinished smithing item in your inventory. If done at an anvil, the forging process begins automatically; if done at a forge, the message Your unfinished item is at full heat: [Item]. Use the anvil. will appear, encouraging the player to proceed to an anvil.

During the forging process, a progress meter (blue; starts at 0%) and stored heat meter (yellow; % dependent on Smithing level and metal type) appears above the player. To completely forge an item, the progress meter has to be filled to 100%.

Heat

Main article: Heat

Heat determines progress speed; more heat, faster progress. Every strike (2 game ticks) fills the progress meter (left to right) while depleting 10 heat from the meter (right to left). For optimal forging, be sure to maintain desired heat levels by reheating the item at a forge.

Heat (un-bonused)	Progress multiplier	Progress per strike	Time taken from full heat (with Rapid perk)
High (67%–100%)	$\times 2$	20	N/A
Medium (34%–66%)	$\times 1.6$	16	40.8s (20.4s)
Low (1%–33%)	$\times 1.3$	13	80.4s (40.8s)
Zero (0%)	$\times 1$	10	120.0s (60.0s)

Metal	Level (to work)	Level for faster heating	Level for creation w/ full heat	Level for fastest heating	Bonus +50 heat	Bonus +100 heat
Bronze	1	3	6	7	4	N/A
Iron	10	12	16	18	11	15
Steel	20	22	28	26	24	29
Mithril	30	35	36	39	32	33
Adamant	40	42	41	44	43	45
Rune	50	54	59	58	52	55
Orikalkum (m)	60	67	63	69	64	66
Necronium (m)	70	73	76	78	71	79
Bane (m)	80	82	87	85	84	88
Elder rune (m)	90	93	98	96	95	97
Primal bar (m)	100	104	108	107	102	109

The percent heat at which a progress multiplier transition occurs, e.g. High to Medium heat, is split into thirds of the unbonused heat. Past certain levels for each bar, +50 and +100 heat bonuses are applied on top of the base heat percentages. For example, with level 100 Smithing and 100 Firemaking, the maximum heat is 900, meaning that you would transition to medium heat at 600 out of 900, or 66%. If the +100 heat bonus is unlocked, you would still transition to medium heat at 600, but it would be out of 1000, or 60%. Refilling from 0-100% heat takes 6 ticks. For each type of bar, this decreases to 4 ticks and then 2 ticks, at certain Smithing level milestones. Players can also cast the Superheat Item spell on the unfinished smithing item to reheat it by 33% in 2 ticks without interrupting their smithing progress.

The maximum heat value in an item is dependent on a player's Smithing level as well as their Firemaking level. Temporary skill boosts which cause a visible increase in the player's Firemaking level are accounted for in the calculation of heat.

$MaximumHeat=300+(3\times Smithinglevel)+(3\times Firemakinglevel)$

There are also material bonuses, which raise the player's maximum heat value and vary based on the player's Smithing level and the material they are working with. The bars in the table below can either be worked on with no bonus, +50 heat, or +100 heat. The exception being bronze which can only receive a bonus of +50 heat. The level needed for a certain bonus can also be met by boosting the player's Smithing level if they do not meet the requirement; examples of boosting the player's Smithing level are found lower on this page. Once the player's Smithing level falls below the required level for the bonus, the maximum heat will lower, even if the player is working on an unfinished smithing item at the time.

The smithing auto-heater can be used to help maintain low levels of heat; as it automatically refills 30% of a player's maximum heat every that time that heat is depleted. This uses five coal per refill, which is taken from the player's inventory or ore box. Superheat Form can be used in conjunction with this to maintain medium heat.

Players who have access to the Artisans' Workshop can utilise the effects of luminite injectors (+1 progress/hammer strike) while strictly inside the workshop.

Generally, duration and experience are multiplied by the amount of bars used in an item's creation; creating two boots (2 x 1 bar) provides the same amount of experience as creating one helm (1 x 2 bar), with minimal differences in duration.

Temporary skill boosts work to start an item. If the boost does not last for the entire time when creating the item, progress will be halved as long as the player's Smithing level is lower than the level required to create the item.

Experience and progress values

The bar cost for an item has a direct effect on the total progress that the player is required to make, and the experience that is gained from doing so. While smithing an item the anvil is struck every 2 ticks, and each strike grants progress based on the player's current heat. Upon each strike 10 heat is lost and experience is gained. The amount of experience gained is uniform throughout the process. Once the required amount of progress has been made, the finished item is created.

The maximum boost to progress swings, assuming one is working on elder rune items, can be attained by having:

• Smithing cape's reheat perk (+5 base progress)
• Careless 5 perk (+5 base progress)
• An active luminite injector (+1 base progress)
• 99 Smithing (+1 base progress)
• A high heat value (x2.0 base progress)
• Double progress chance (max of 34.4%):
  • Rapid 4 perk (+20%) (+22% from equipment level 20 bonus)
  • Tinker 2 perk (+4%) (+4.4% from equipment level 20 bonus)
  • Perfect juju smithing potion (+5%)
  • Upgraded Varrock armour 4 (+2%) (double progress chance on all bar percentages from recent armour levels)
  • Crystal hammer (+1%)
  • Powerburst of masterstroke (multiplies smithing progress by 10 for the next 4 hammer swings within 30 seconds)

The average progress that can be made with all maximum boosts (excluding powerburst) in 1 hammer swing of 2 game ticks (1.2s) is:

Without the Smithing cape's reheat perk:

$BaseProgress(10+5+1+1)*HeatValue(2.0)*DoubleProgressBonus(100+22+4.4+5+2+1)\mathrm{\%}=45.696/hit(2,284.8/min)$

With the Smithing cape's reheat perk via diligent casting of Superheat Item every 2 ticks on the heated item:

$BaseProgress(10+5+5+1+1)*HeatValue(2.0)*DoubleProgressBonus(100+34.4)\mathrm{\%}=59.136/hit(2,956.8/min)$

Level	Metal	Experience gained per bar	Experience gained per bar with smelting	Progress required per bar (base item)	Experience per hit (base item)	XP/hit (+1)	XP/hit (+2)	XP/hit (+3)	XP/hit (+4)	XP/hit (+5)	XP/hit (burial)
1	Bronze	15	16	100	3.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
10	Iron	40	42	200	4.0	5.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
20	Steel	75	78	300	5.0	6.2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	Mithril	120	125	400	6.0	7.5	12.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	Adamant	170	177	500	6.8	8.5	13.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	27.2
50	Rune	240	250	600	8.0	10.0	16.0	26.7	N/A	N/A	53.3
60	Orikalkum (m)	350	363	700	10.0	12.5	20.0	33.3	N/A	N/A	66.7
70	Necronium (m)	500	517	800	12.5	15.6	25.0	41.7	71.4	N/A	142.8
80	Bane (m)	700	721	900	15.6	19.4	31.1	51.9	89.1	N/A	178.2
80	Obsidian (m)	700	750	900	15.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
90	Elder rune (m)	1,000	1,026	1,000	20.0	25.0	40.0	66.7	114.3	200.0	400.0
100	Primal (m)	1,400	1,406.2	1,100	25.5	31.8	50.9	84.8	145.3	254.5	509.1

All experience per hit in the above table is based on 10 progress per hit. The experience per hit is the same for all items if the metal type and upgrade tier is the same. An orikalkum pickaxe +1 and an orikalkum platebody +1 will both give 12.5 experience per hit. The total experience to produce these items remains based on the total bars used.

Due to the variation in progress and experience, some lower level items have higher experience rates. For example, creating a burial necronium item of any type will give more experience per hit and therefore more experience per hour than producing any elder rune +4 item from its +3 counterpart.

Different metals gain +1 base progress per swing at certain levels. These levels are listed in the following table.

Metal	level for extra base progress
Bronze	8
Iron	13
Steel	25
Mithril	34
Adamant	49
Rune	51
Orikalkum	68
Necronium	72
Bane	83
Elder rune	99
Primal	105

Upgrading smithed equipment

The smithing interface of an anvil with the available upgrade tiers of a rune full helm shown in the top right.

Regular items created through Smithing are "base items". Base items can be upgraded a number of times, dependent on the metal tier/type.

Level	Metal	Number of upgrades
1	Bronze bar	0
10	Iron bar	1
20	Steel bar	1
30	Mithril bar	2
40	Adamant bar	2
50	Rune bar	3
60	Orikalkum bar (m)	3
70	Necronium bar (m)	4
80	Bane bar (m)	4
90	Elder rune bar (m)	5
100	Primal bar (m)	5

Each upgraded item is created from the previous version and a number of bars. The number of bars required is dependent on the type of item being upgraded. An upgraded item's tier is increased by 1, and the repair costs (when applicable) will increase proportional to the number of bars, but the levels required to use the item remain the same. To upgrade an item, bring the previous version to a forge (along with the needed bars in then inventory or metal bank). Click the forge to bring up the smithing interface and select the metal and item being upgraded. At the top of the item information panel on the right, select the appropriate upgrade tier. For a base item, such as an adamant full helm, "+1" should be selected. For a "+1" item, instead select "+2", and so on. Then start smithing by clicking "Begin Project".

Starting an upgraded item on an anvil will attempt to rework the item at 0% heat. Before reaching the level required to create items of a given metal at full heat (see table above), a forge should be used to start and heat the item before using it on an anvil.

A final upgrade tier, called "Burial", is described in the next section.

	Bars required						Cumulative bar cost
	Base	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	Base	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Gauntlets, boots, spears, hastae, crossbow limbs, ranged ammunition, nails and hatchets	1	1	2	4	8	16	1	2	4	8	16	32
One-handed weapons (main-hand and off-hand), helmets, shields, pickaxes, ore boxes and mattocks	2	2	4	8	16	32	2	4	8	16	32	64
Platelegs, plateskirts	3	3	6	12	24	48	3	6	12	24	48	96
Two-handed weapons	4	4	8	16	32	64	4	8	16	32	64	128
Platebodies, chainbodies	5	5	10	20	40	80	5	10	20	40	80	160
Full armour sets (no shield, no weapon)	12	12	24	48	96	192	12	24	48	96	192	384

Upgrading equipment requires a differing amount of progress from the base item, while requiring more bars, meaning more experience per hour.

	Base	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
Percentage of progress required	100%	80%	100%	120%	140%	160%
Percentage of XP/hit	100%	125%	200%	333%	571%	1,000%

Creating burial equipment

Main article: Artisans' Workshop

At level 40 Smithing, players will unlock the ability to create burial equipment at the Artisans' Workshop using adamant equipment or above. Once a piece of smithed equipment is fully upgraded to its highest tier, it can be heated and reworked at a burial anvil into burial equipment. This destroys the equipment whilst using no extra materials and providing the same experience as upgrading the item to the highest tier.

Armour can also be made into a complete set by selecting burial armour in the Smithing interface of the anvil, providing the cumulative experience of creating each item individually. To create a burial set, the upgraded full helm, platebody, platelegs, gauntlets, and armoured boots must be in the inventory.

Masterwork armour

Main articles: Masterwork armour and Trimmed masterwork equipment

With level 99 Smithing and having made Elder Rune Armour—Full Helm +5, Platebody +5, Platelegs +5, Gauntlets +5, Armoured Boots +5—players can create tier 90 degradable power armour called masterwork armour. The process of creating the armour is complicated and time consuming, and gives only token experience as it is not intended to be a training method for the skill. Masterwork armour can only be made after completing the achievement It Should Have Been Called Aetherium - making a full set of elder rune equipment + 5. Upgrading all single pieces from +4 to +5 will unlock this achievement. The achievement is a requirement for the completionist cape.

1. Combine one of each regular bar to smelt concentrated alloy bars.
2. Combine five concentrated alloy bars to create enriched alloy bars.
3. Ten enriched alloy bars can be combined to create immaculate alloy bars.
4. Immaculate alloy bars are then folded 1,000 times on an anvil to produce glorious bars.
5. Glorious bars can be smithed to produce masterwork plates.
6. The masterwork plates are then smithed into curved masterwork plates.
7. Curved masterwork melee plates are then smithed into untempered masterwork armour pieces.
8. Untempered masterwork melee armour pieces are then smithed into masterwork armour pieces.
9. Masterwork melee armour pieces can be combined with leather to create lined masterwork armour pieces.
10. Lined masterwork melee armour pieces are combined to create unfinished masterwork armour pieces such as unfinished masterwork boots, unfinished masterwork gloves, etc.
11. Masterwork rivets, made from steel bars, are then added to unfinished masterwork armour pieces to create riveted versions such as unfinished riveted masterwork boots.
12. Finally, the unfinished riveted masterwork armour pieces, such as the unfinished riveted masterwork boots, can be smithed into completed masterwork armour pieces, for example masterwork boots.

Masterwork armour can be upgraded to tier 92 trimmed masterwork equipment, which can further be augmented and/or custom-fitted. This is done by adding masterwork armour trim; which is created from elder rune bars and the components obtained from melting down Torva armour and malevolent armour pieces. Trimming is quicker than creating masterwork armour, but still requires level 99 Smithing as well as the completion of the quest While Guthix Sleeps.

Armour spikes

Main article: Armour spikes

At level 90 Smithing players can create armour spikes from elder rune bars. Armour spikes are consumable items that can be stored in the ammo slot or inventory. Each time that the player is attacked by an enemy on an adjacent square, damage is dealt. The amount of damage dealt is dependent on the player's Smithing level.

Beneficial equipment

The following items provide additional experience or other beneficial effects when smelting bars or smithing equipment.

Smelting

• Ring of forging: reduces the number of iron ores needed to make a bar from 2 to 1
• Modified blacksmith's helmet: +1% double bar chance when smelting
• Superheat Form: reduces the time it takes to smelt a bar by one tick
• Smelting gauntlets: smelted bars are automatically deposited into the metal bank; up to 60 bars can be smelted at a time in the Make-X interface instead of 28

Smithing

• Perfect juju smithing potion: +5% chance of double progress when smithing
• Powerburst of masterstroke: For the next 4 hammer swings, your smithing progress is multiplied by 10.
• Crystal hammer: +1% chance for double progress when smithing any core metal
• Smithing cape perk: whenever reheating an unfinished smithing item, the next strike generates +5 base progress
• Scroll of efficiency: Upon finishing smithing an item, there is 2% chance for every bar required to make the item of that bar being refunded
• Smithing auto-heater: Consumes 5 coal to automatically replenish 30% heat to an unfinished smithing item
• Advanced smithing auto-heater: Consumes 50 coal to automatically replenish 60% heat to an unfinished smithing item.
• Superheat Form: Increased progress multipliers at low and medium heat thresholds
• Orthen furnace core: The Superheat Form curse uses no prayer points. The scroll of efficiency effect has a 25% increased chance to occur. If the Breakdown perk activates the player gains the Furnace Core buff which grants 5% increased experience for 5 minutes.

Both

• Smithing urns fill up as the player smelts bars or smiths items; they can then be teleported away to receive additional experience.
• Blacksmith's outfit: up to 6% additional Smithing experience, dependent on the number of outfit pieces equipped (5 pieces at 1% each plus a 1% bonus for wearing the entire set)
• Brawling gloves (Smithing): 50% extra experience (75% with Infernal Puzzle Box at tier 4)
• Varrock armour: increased chance of smelting double bars; chance of a strike granting double progress when smithing. With the New Varrock easy achievements completed, it is no longer required to wear Varrock armour to receive its mining, smithing, or smelting benefits.

Invention perks

• Rapid: 5% per rank (20% at rank 4) chance to double progress while smithing, but heat is lost twice as fast
• Tinker: 2% per rank chance (8% at rank 4) to make double progress while smithing
• Breakdown: 0.8% chance per rank (4.8% at rank 6) while smithing of obtaining the same components that would be gained if the item were disassembled, whilst keeping the item
• Fortune: 0.1% chance per rank (0.3% at rank 3) to duplicate a completed item, sending it to the bank/metal bank; this applies while smelting and smithing
• Careless: 10% per rank (50% at rank 5) increased base progress per strike while smithing, but reduces heat by an additional 10% per rank (50% at rank 5)

Blast Furnace

Main article: Blast Furnace

The Blast Furnace is a minigame located in Keldagrim that closely involves the Smithing skill. Players operate a large furnace with which to smelt ores. Its benefit is the ability to smelt bars from iron to rune without using secondary ores such as coal or luminite.

Artisans' Workshop

Main article: Artisans' Workshop

The Artisans' Workshop acts as a social hub and guild for the Smithing skill. It contains conveniently located anvils and forges for Smithing training and can benefit from luminite injectors which grant additional smithing progress per swing to every player smithing in the Workshop. The eastern part of the building forms the guild, which has a level 40 Smithing requirement to access. It contains a bank chest as well as burial anvils that can be used to make burial equipment. 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 a high experience but expensive method of training. The best use of this is to create burial armour sets; this is often considered the best Smithing training method available for experience (and therefore is often chosen as a relatively fast method to earn respect in the Workshop).

Smithing at the Workshop earns respect, but smelting (including corrupted ore) does not allow for any earning of respect.

Other uses of Smithing

A player using the Smithing skill to forge a dragon platebody.

• Smithing is used to repair equipment at an armour stand in a player-owned house.
• Class 2, 3, 4 and 5 equipment and tools are created through Smithing in the Stealing Creation minigame.
• 60 and completion of Legends' Quest are required to combine a shield left half and shield right half into a dragon square shield.
• 70 is needed to forge the Royal crossbow.
• 70 is needed to repair the ladder in level 38 Wilderness that leads to the Burthorpe beacon, used in the All Fired Up minigame.
• 80 is required to combine the three godsword shards into a godsword blade.
• 80 is required to create a full set of obsidian armour.
• 80 is required to use the Invention skill.
• 85 is required to attach sigils to blessed spirit shields, along with 90 and completion of Summer's End.
• 90 is required to combine a draconic visage and anti-dragon shield to produce a dragonfire shield.
• 90 is required to make attuned crystal equipment.
• 90 is required to unlock the ability to smith Tetsu armour in the Player-owned ports Distraction and Diversion.
• 92 is required to unlock the ability to smith the Tetsu katana and Tetsu wakizashi in the Player-owned ports Distraction and Diversion.
• 92 and completion of While Guthix Sleeps are required to forge the ruined dragon armour lump, ruined dragon armour slice, and ruined dragon armour shard into a dragon platebody, using a blast fusion hammer at the Dragon Forge.
• Smithing is one of the skills used in the ancient effigies Distraction and Diversion. Additionally, as the assist system can be used with Smithing, players can earn up to 30,000 Smithing experience per day assisting others with their effigies.

Cape of Accomplishment

A player wearing a Smithing cape (t) and performing the Skillcape emote.

Upon reaching 99 Smithing, players may buy the Smithing Cape of Accomplishment from Thurgo in his house near Mudskipper Point for 99,000 coins.

Smithing is currently ranked #17 out of 26 among skills in which players have level 99. This makes it somewhat rare, possibly due to the large investment of time and/or money required to train the skill.

Money making

Main article: Money making guide/Skilling

Also, for a table showing profits made smithing certain items, see Smithing/Smithing tables

Temporary boosts

Main article: Temporary skill boost

If the players boost to smith items from a lower level, they only need to apply the boost initially to make the unfinished smithing item. Once made, the unfinished item can be completed at half speed without any experiences gained if the Smithing level is not reached.

Item	Level boost	Requirements	Notes
Orange spicy stew	-6 to +6	Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Evil Dave	Upon completion of the Evil Dave's Big Day Out quest, spicy stews made with orange spice will give a guaranteed boost of 2 to 6 levels.
Dwarven stout	+1 to +2		Will raise both Mining and Smithing by 1 + 1% levels (+2 at level 100).
Dwarven stout (m)	+2 to +3		Will raise both Mining and Smithing by 2 + 1% levels (+3 at level 100).
God banner	+2	Completed skilling tasks given by God Emissaries	Can be activated once a day, for a 30 minute duration.
Smithing cape	+1	99 Smithing
Smithing master cape		120 Smithing
Advanced pulse core	+8		Numerous cores may be needed to achieve a boost to artisan skills. You do not need to use any cores, and can just be near another player consuming cores to receive the boost.

Skilling pet (Smithy)

Main article: Smithy

Like all skills, there is a skilling pet obtainable from training this skill. The pet for the Smithing skill is called Smithy.

Quests with a Smithing requirement

• 5 - What's Mine is Yours
• 10 - Doric's Task I (miniquest)
• 20 - Doric's Task II (miniquest)
• 20 - Elemental Workshop I
• 20 - The Tourist Trap
• 30 - Beneath Cursed Tides
• 30 - Doric's Task III (miniquest)
• 30 - Elemental Workshop II
• 30 - One Small Favour
• 33 - Elemental Workshop III
• 40 - Doric's Task IV (miniquest)
• 40 - Family Crest
• 42 - Elemental Workshop IV
• 45 - Swan Song
• 50 - Between a Rock...
• 50 - Cabin Fever
• 50 - Desperate Times
• 50 - Doric's Task V (miniquest)
• 50 - Legends' Quest
• 54 - Defender of Varrock
• 60 - Doric's Task VI (miniquest)
• 60 - Kindred Spirits
• 60 - Succession
• 65 - Devious Minds
• 65 - Doric's Task VII (miniquest)
• 67 - Hero's Welcome
• 68 - Love Story
• 69 - Rocking Out
• 70 - Doric's Task VIII (miniquest)
• 70 - King of the Dwarves
• 70 - The Void Stares Back
• 74 - A Clockwork Syringe
• 80 - The Brink of Extinction
• 82 - Birthright of the Dwarves

Quests for Smithing experience

Main article: Quests/Experience rewards § Smithing

Quest	Members	XP reward	Smithing requirement	Other requirements
Doric's Task I (miniquest)		250	10	N/A
Hearts of Sanguine		250	N/A	N/A
What's Mine is Yours		400	5	N/A
Doric's Task II (miniquest)		500	20	N/A
Doric's Task III (miniquest)		750	30	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete		1,000	N/A	31 Cooking
Doric's Task IV (miniquest)		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 (miniquest)		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 (miniquest)		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 (miniquest)		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 (miniquest)		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	403,132

Achievements

• Come Together ( 5) – Use a luminite injector in the Artisans' Workshop on world 70.
• Hot In Here ( 5) – Smith an item that requires at least 60 Smithing without letting heat fall below high heat.
• The Knight Begins To Shine ( 5) – Repair a piece of armour at an anvil.
• Work on Your Artisan ( 20) – Unlock all rewards from the Artisans' Workshop (excluding outfits and auras).
• Work on Your Artisan II ( 0) – Unlock all rewards from the Artisans' Workshop (including outfits and excluding auras).
• It Should Have Been Called Aetherium ( 15) – Unlock the ability to smith masterwork armour by making and upgrading to +5 a full set of elder rune armour.
• It Still Should Have Been Called Aetherium ( 20) – Unlock the ability to smith masterwork swords by making and upgrading to +5 a full set of primal armour.
• Ritual of the Murderbat ( 15) – Tune a bane sword or two-handed sword.
• Imcando Magic Can't Melt Elder Rune Boots ( 10) – Heat a pair of unfinished elder rune boots to 100% heat using only the superheat item spell.
• We Will Bury Them ( 5) – Smith a full set of fully upgraded armour into burial armour in the Artisans' Workshop, donating it to the dwarves in the process.

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Update history

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• patch 27 January 2026 (Update):
  • Readded the audio queues when smithing an item on an anvil.

• patch 12 May 2025 (Update):
  • Pure essence was added to the "Casting Metals & Glass" section of the Make-X smelting interface.
  • The ensouled bar subsection of the Make-X smelting interface was renamed from "Special Casting" to "Ensouled bar casting".

• patch 3 February 2025 (Update):
  • Added a failure message when the player attempts to withdraw materials from the smithing interface with a full backpack.

• patch 16 September 2024 (Update):
  • "The total amount of experience..." Quick Chat now uses an appropriate table of data for 110 skills.

• patch 2 September 2024 (Update):
  • Corrected progress needed by primal armour spikes from 1,100 to 550 so they're smithed at a similar rate to elder rune armour spikes. Also adjusted elder rune armour spikes XP from 1,000 to 500, and primal armour spikes XP from 1,400 to 700, to account for their creation speed being twice that of typical 1-bar items.
  • Prevented heating of members' unfinished smithing items on free-to-play worlds.

• patch 27 August 2024 (Update):
  • Ensured the Grand Exchange Gold Value listed on the smelting/smithing interface is derived from the middle column rather than the left column, irrespective of which one is selected.

• patch 19 August 2024 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue with Make-x Smithing that occurred with stackable items, where they would automatically drop to the ground and become unusable objects when attempting to smith.
  • Fixed an issue where some Primal armour items could not be repaired with Primal bars on an anvil.
  • Fixed an issue where some Primal items were untradeable on the Grand Exchange.
  • Protean bars and unstable protean bars now give appropriate XP at levels 100 to 110.

• update 12 August 2024 (Update):
  • Maximum level increased from 99 to 110.
  • Levelling benefits for levels 100–110 added.
  • Primal bar and primed glorious bar added.
  • Primal equipment added.
  • Primal burial equipment added.
  • Primal ore box added.
  • Primal armour spikes and primal abyssal armour spikes added.
  • Masterwork 2h sword and its variants added.
  • The Smithing interface now has a make-x quantity slider to allow creation of multiple projects of the same type without reopening the interface!

• patch 29 January 2024 (Update):
  • Smithing interface upgrades have yellow highlights on their box.

• ninja 13 September 2021 (Update):
  • Changed the Grand Exchange buy limit for glorious bars from 10,000 to 100.

• patch 13 September 2021 (Update):
  • The animation played when riveting Masterwork Armour has changed.

• patch 1 February 2021 (Update):
  • The Fortune perk will now work correctly when smelting.

• patch 11 January 2021 (Update):
  • You'll no longer receive popup messages regarding deposits in the ore box when smelting gold or silver before completing Family Crest.

• patch 14 December 2020 (Update):
  • Smithing tasks in Yak Tracks have been replaced by a 'Gain Smithing XP' task, allowing players to smith efficiently while making progress.

• patch 10 August 2020 (Update):
  • The Heated Tea Flask Heated will no longer remain visible while Smithing.

• patch 3 February 2020 (Update):
  • Various Mining & Smithing typos have been fixed and corrected.

• patch 4 November 2019 (Update):
  • Smithing skillscape perk now has correct description in Smithing Skillguide.

• patch 14 October 2019 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue causing Ceremonial smithing projects to start with changes already made.

• ninja 10 June 2019 (Update):
  • When using the smithing interface, you can now press '1' to deposit materials and '2' to withdraw them.

• patch 18 March 2019 (Update):
  • Players are no longer spammed with a warning message if they have boosted their Smithing level to start a project they no longer meet the requirements for.

• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • The Smithing levelling benefit for smelting extra Bane bars was missing from the Smithing skillguide, and has now been added.

• patch 4 March 2019 (Update):
  • Added some inventory checks when smithing various items.

• hotfix 22 February 2019:
  • An issue where under certain circumstances there was a chance that your last hit when Smithing wouldn't grant you the full XP has been hotfixed.

• patch 18 February 2019 (Update):
  • In-progress Smithing items can now be used on forges to heat them up instead of displaying the "nothing interesting happens" message.

• patch 4 February 2019 (Update):
  • The Smithing interface will now show the correct amount of XP given for each item.

• patch 21 January 2019 (Update):
  • A forge and anvil in the Yanille workshop have been moved to allow Clue Scroll enthusiasts to once again dig from within the building.
  • Accessing any functionality with the metal bank, aside from depositing, will now require a bank pin.
  • Updated Smithing skillguide for Bane heat upgrades.
  • The Smithing skillguide now tells you how much faster you smelt bars.
  • Updated the Smithing requirements for POH armour displays to match the Mining & Smithing rework level req changes.
  • The 'Milestones' tab on the Mining & Smithing skillguides no longer displays all levelling benefits.
  • Chat head models for the new Mining & Smithing armours have been slightly adjusted to be more consistent.
  • Daily Mining and Smithing challenges no longer state that you need to hand over any items.

• patch 14 January 2019 (Update):
  • Fixed some issues with the previous, now cosmetic, rework armours which can be obtained from Egil.
  • Scroll of Efficiency no longer triggers while repairing armours.
  • Players can once again make alchemical onyx necklaces at furnaces.
  • Certain items were flagged as f2p, they have now been correctly made members items.
  • Luminite injectors have been fixed to give the correct amount of progress when activated and as such are now working as intended.
  • Tuned bane ores no longer have a chance to increase amount of bars gained while smelting.
  • Depositing ores and bars using the interface should now let you correctly continue smelting bars.
  • Heat levelling benefits now work as intended.
  • The Modified Blacksmith's Helmet will no longer allow players to make extra bars while smelting Masterwork Alloy bars.
  • Fixed a typo with Elder rune bars on the smithing skill guide.
  • Smelting interface now shows if you have coal in your inventory or not correctly.

• update 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • The Mining and Smithing Rework was released. See the patch notes for a list of changes.

• ninja 17 July 2017 (Update):
  • A level up message has been added for when a player reaches the levels required to unlock Invention.

• patch 22 May 2017 (Update):
  • Smithing dragonbane bars no longer displays a negative quantity.

• patch 20 February 2017 (Update):
  • Players now gain item XP and use relevant perks when smithing spears and hastas.

• patch 9 May 2016 (Update):
  • Free players can now smith their own throwing knives and off-hand throwing knives.

• patch 30 November 2015 (Update):
  • Tetsu and Seasinger weapons now appear on the Smithing and Runecrafting guides respectively.

• patch 28 September 2015 (Update):
  • Players will now correctly face the anvil when smithing.

• patch 20 April 2015 (Update):
  • Free-to-play players can no longer smith pickaxes that require a members-only quest.

• patch 12 May 2014 (Update):
  • The smithing animation has been updated.

• patch 21 January 2014 (Update):
  • The information for throwing knives in the Smithing skill guide has been updated for consistency.

• patch 20 August 2013 (Update):
  • When creating armour and weapons, the stats on the 'more info' screen now display the correct value and colour.

• patch 3 July 2013 (Update):
  • Players can now use boosts to their Smithing stat in the Artisans' Workshop.

• patch 4 March 2013 (Update):
  • Iron no longer appears in the Smithing Skill Advance Guide twice.

• patch 22 November 2012 (Update):
  • Adamant and Rune claws now show the correct information in the Smithing interface.

• patch 28 February 2012 (Update):
  • Pickaxes on the Smithing Skill Guide now correctly shows a members only icon.
  • Metal claws on the Smithing Skill Guide now display the correct level required to smith them.

• patch 6 December 2011 (Update):
  • The Dungeoneering section of the Smithing skillguide now lists the correct amount of arrow heads per bar.

• patch 28 March 2011 (Update):
  • The Smithing skillguide now has a ‘Milestones’ tab once again.

• patch 8 March 2011 (Update):
  • Artisan's Workshop added to game, introducing many new methods of training, including ceremonial swords, burial armour, cannon repair and track making.

• patch 1 September 2010 (Update):
  • Rewrote some of the Smithing code, specifically that which deals with gold and silver.

• patch 7 December 2010 (Update):
  • The Smithing skill guide has been updated to reflect the difference between runite ore and rune bars.

• patch 25 February 2009 (Update):
  • Quick Chat options were missing silver bars and gold bars in the Smithing section, this has been rectified.

• patch 20 January 2009 (Update):
  • A level-up message for Smithing was informing players the incorrect location for the Smithing Tutor.

• update 5 November 2007 (Update):
  • The Smithing skill has also received the Make X feature, you will also be free to walk away from the anvil at any point if you make a mistake or change your mind.

• update 8 May 2001 (Update):
  • Smithing tables were updated with more even spacing of items.

• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Runescape beta goes live, releasing Smithing into the game.

Trivia

• In the early days, Smithing was considered one of the best skills for making money. As such, Jagex deliberately kept anvils and furnaces far away from each other in an attempt to prevent people from levelling Smithing too quickly.
• During the January 2011 RuneFest meet, Mod Mark stated that the long-awaited Smithing skill revamp had not been started and most probably would not start development for quite some time due to the busy schedules of the development team. Smithing did have a large update on 8 March 2011, but it was not the expected revamp. An update was started in 2016 but was delayed until 2017 to account for some new designs and player feedback. It was pushed back even further but was eventually released on 7 January 2019.
• The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 1,241,595) on the HiScores for Smithing is level 15. As of 30 April 2026, there are 245,238 active players that have achieved level 99 in Smithing. There are 31,164 active players that have achieved level 120 in Smithing.

See also

• Quest experience rewards - Smithing
• Free-to-play Smithing training, a guide to training Smithing for free-to-play players
• Pay-to-play Smithing training, a guide to training Smithing for pay-to-play players
• Grand Exchange Market Watch - Smithing
• Smithing/Experience table, a list of all Smithing experience sources
• Smithing/Level up table, a list of all requirements and unlockables within the Smithing skill
• Smithing/Smithing tables
• Smithing Calculators