Introduction - Smelting To begin training your Smithing skill, you will first need to understand and practice smelting: the method used to make the bars needed to forge weapons and armour. The most popular way to do this is to mine the ores yourself. This can be done through use of the Mining skill. Another way, used by many a player, is trading ores and/or already smelted bars, with other players. This means that you will be paying gold for someone elses work, but it is a consideration if you wish to master the art of smithing quicker. Once you have your ores and you have used the map to find yourself a furnace, you need to smelt them into bars. On the minimap in game, the furnace icon appears as such: In game, a furnace looks like this:

This furnace is located in Al Kharid. To find the others, try looking at the map from the main page and searching for the icon on the map. They are located in various locations throughout the land.

To smelt, you will need the required ores to make the bars of your choice:

Notes – ~Blurite ore can only be smelted after completing The Knight’s Sword.
*Iron ore has a 50% success rate of being smelted.
**Elemental ore can only be smelted, on and after completion of the Elemental workshop.

Now you have your ores and you have used the map to find yourself a furnace, now you need to smelt.

To smelt, there are 3 methods:

1 – If you know what you want, (and generally only want 1 or 2 bars) simply select the primary ore (the non-coal ore) and ‘use’ it with the furnace. You will then receive the relevant bar, provided the secondary ore is also in your inventory and you have the required smithing level.

2 – With all the ores in your inventory, click on the furnace and you will be presented with the following:

Text in black means you have the Smithing level required to smelt the bars, whereas red text shows that you currently do not have the Smithing level required to smelt that bar.

On this new menu, you can simply click the bar you wish to smith. Provided the correct ores are in your inventory and you have the smithing level required, you will smelt it. Alternatively, to save time and clicking, you can ‘right-click’ the picture of the bar you wish to smelt and you will be given this sub-menu:

Here you can select how many bars you wish to make and your character will repeat the smelting action that amount of times, to save you clicking.
When ‘Smelt X’ is clicked, an option will appear in the chat screen as such:

Simply enter here the custom amount you wish to smith.

Whatever way you chose to use the furnace, when you have selected smelt, your character will begin working:

3 – The final way to smelt ores is using Magic. The level 43 spell ‘Superheat Item’ will allow the caster to smelt ores, without the use of a furnace.

This spell requires 4 fire runes and 1 nature rune.

If you have these runes, go to your spell book and select the spell. The option will then change to ‘Cast superheat item on…’ The view in the player control panel will automatically change to your inventory, then select the ore you wish to use (generally the primary ore).

Please note It is important to point out that if you use Superheat Item on Iron ore, the chance of smelting is 100% and you will still get the Smithing experience.

If you want to find ways to improve or speed up your smelting, try looking at the Extra Features page.

Now you have obtained some bars, you can turn them into items. To smith the bars into items, you have to find an anvil. These appear as the following symbol on the map.

In-game, an anvil looks as such:

To smith, you will need bars of the metal type you wish to fashion and a hammer. Hammers can be purchased in most general stores, or picked up for free in the Dwarven Mine. They also spawn at several locations across RuneScape and are dropped by many slain creatures, especially Dwarves.
Simply use the bar of your choice with the anvil and you will be presented with the following menu:

Each item possible to smith from the metal you have selected is displayed here. You can see how many bars you will need in order to make that item.

If an item is displayed in white text, this means you have the Smithing level required to smith the item. If this text is black, you do not have the Smithing level required. Similarly, if the amount of bars is displayed in green, you have the correct amount (or more) to smith the item. If this text is red, you will need more bars in order to smith the item.

Now all you have to do is select the item you wish to make from this new menu, and your character will smith it. It is worth noting that similarly to ‘Smelt-X’, it is possible to right click an item from the smithing menu to get a multiple smithing sub-menu, where ’smith 1, 5, 10′ can be selected to make items in bulk.

To view the smithing tables for each material type and find out more information on what you can use your Smithing level to make, please select from the options below. Although Silver and Gold bars can be smelted, they are not used primarily in Smithing, therefore the sections relating to them are featured in the Crafting section.

Bronze

Blurite

Iron

Steel

Mithril

Adamant

Rune