Pay-to-play Smithing training

This article is about the pay-to-play guide. For the free players' guide, see Free-to-play Smithing training.

This article gives tips about training Smithing.

Fastest experience

Levels 1–39: Questing

Completing The Knight's Sword, Sleeping Giants, Elemental Workshop I and II, The Giant Dwarf, Heroes' Quest, and Freeing Pirate Pete subquest of Recipe for Disaster will grant a total of 36,982 experience, increasing Smithing from level 1 to level 39. Players would then only need to make 2 iron platebodies to get level 40 Smithing, where they can start smelting gold bars in the Blast Furnace. (Even without Heroes' Quest, this method yields 34,725 experience, requiring players to make only 20 iron platebodies to get to level 40).

In particular, completing The Knight's Sword is strongly recommended, as it gives 12,725 Smithing experience upon completion, enough to increase Smithing from level 1 to level 29 immediately.

Levels 1–40: Anvil smithing

From level 1 to 40, the fastest experience is gained by smithing various items at the anvil just south of the west Varrock bank. Players should make the highest-level item available, since higher-levelled items require more than one bar to make, less actions will be required and this will result in more experience per hour. This will result in a loss, but the overall loss is relatively small as reaching level 40 would only take less than an hour.

The below table shows the items and materials needed to reach level 40. While there are some items which are potentially cheaper to make, these low-level items are uncommonly traded on the Grand Exchange and their prices fluctuate a lot. Players who wish to save money should do quests that give Smithing experience to skip most of the early levels.

Levels	XP needed	Item		Bars required (each)	XP each	XP/h	# for goal	Bars required (total)	Profit
1-5	388		Bronze dagger	1	12.5	13,900	32	32 Bronze bar	−3,424
5-9	581		Bronze scimitar	2	25	25,700	24	48 Bronze bar	−6,264
9-18	2,554		Bronze warhammer	3	37.5	36,200	69	207 Bronze bar	−38,295
18-24	3,505		Bronze platebody	5	62.5	52,100	57	285 Bronze bar	−55,347
24-33	11,219		Iron warhammer	3	75	72,300	150	450 Iron bar	−93,900
33-39	15,401		Iron platebody	5	125	104,200	124	620 Iron bar	−128,588
39-40	3,756		Steel warhammer	3	112.5	108,500	34	102 Steel bar	−44,506
1-40	37,224							572 Bronze bar, 1,070 Iron bar, and 102 Steel bar	−370,324

Levels 40–99: Gold bars (Blast Furnace)

Smelting gold bars at the Blast Furnace becomes the fastest viable training method at level 40. This method costs money, and it can be fairly expensive depending on the Grand Exchange prices.

Players will need to have completed Family Crest for goldsmith gauntlets for this method. The gauntlets increases the base experience from 22.5 to 56.2 experience per gold bar. Without the gauntlets this method is not worth doing, as it would be much more expensive and a lot slower. Players will also need to have level 50 Mining and kill the Ice Queen once for ice gloves. Stamina potions are also mandatory for optimal experience rates, and it is also strongly recommended to have some weight-reducing clothing to reduce the run energy drain. Wearing a ring of endurance with charges is recommended as well.

To gain access to Keldagrim, players must have started The Giant Dwarf quest. Players can get to the Blast Furnace by using the Grouping teleport there or using the minecart from the Grand Exchange to Keldagrim. While on an official Blast Furnace world, dwarf NPCs will keep the furnace running for a fee, see below for a break down. Below level 60, the Blast Furnace Foreman will require a payment every 10 minutes to be able to use the furnace.

Players can gain up to around 380,000 experience per hour at maximum efficiency. When including mistakes, players are more likely to see rates of around 330,000–360,000 experience per hour. Without goldsmith gauntlets, players can only gain up to around 150,000 experience per hour. At level 99, it is possible to gain up to 400,000–420,000 experience per hour when wearing the Smithing cape.

Levels	Item		Bars/h	XP/h	Profit/h	Profit/XP
40-99		Gold bar	6,000	Up to 150,000	−1,007,060	−6.71
40-99		Gold bar (with goldsmith gauntlets)	6,227	Up to 380,000	−1,040,202	−2.74

To achieve the maximum experience rates, all of the following points should be considered (in order of priority):

1. Wear goldsmith gauntlets when the experience is earned for smelting the gold ore. The experience will be earned approximately 3 seconds after adding ore to the belt for an empty dispenser.
2. Use ice gloves to save an inventory space for more gold ore.
3. Wear weight-reducing clothing.
4. Keep stamina potions in the bank. When run energy gets low, drink a dose of a stamina potion from the bank at the same time you collect gold ore (right-click and drink in the bank interface).
5. Set the bank transfer quantity to "All" to quickly retrieve a full inventory of gold ore from the bank and deposit gold bars from your inventory with a single left click on the respective materials.
6. Optionally, fill the bank with bank filler via the banking menu to allow you to use the deposit inventory option to deposit only your smelted gold bars into your bank in one click. For this to work properly there cannot be a placeholder for the Goldsmith gauntlets or Ice gloves.
7. The 'Deposit worn items' button can be hidden via the banking menu so that worn gear is not accidentally deposited into the bank.

231,268 gold ores are required to achieve level 99 from level 40 when using the goldsmith gauntlets. Training with gold bars costs −2.74 per experience when training on one of the official worlds, using goldsmith gauntlets and drinking 40 stamina potion doses per hour. Exclusively training via gold ore from level 40 to 99 would result in a loss of −35,578,212.41 after selling the created gold bars.

Other methods

For anvil smithing methods, the closest anvil to a bank is in the Trahaearn district of Prifddinas. Players who have not completed Song of the Elves should use the anvil just south of the west Varrock bank.

The experience rates for anvil smithing depends on the type of metal being smithed and number of bars being used per item. The following table shows the calculated experience per hour of each type of metal bar vs. how many bars are used per item, assuming an optimal 11-tick bank time, as possible at the south-eastern Prifddinas bank. The cost and level requirements can be checked by using the Smithing tables.

XP/hr ranked by # of bars used per item

# of bars
1 bar	13,900	27,700	41,600	55,500	69,300	83,200
2 bars	25,700	51,300	77,000	102,600	128,300	153,900
3 bars	36,200	72,300	108,500	144,600	180,800	217,000
5 bars	52,100	104,200	156,200	208,300	260,400	312,500

Levels 15/81–99: Giants' Foundry

Main article: Giants' Foundry

Giants' Foundry is a minigame that has the player forge giant swords for a Hill Giant named Kovac. It requires the completion of Sleeping Giants, which mostly serves as an introduction to it. Once set up, this method becomes a relatively effective, medium-engagement and very low click rate activity that will even turn a profit. Run energy is restored with each sword completed, so the Graceful outfit is not beneficial in this activity.

Although the Foundry can be played from level 15, Bronze-Iron swords are not particularly effective. At level 30, Iron-Steel swords can be forged, which are the most profitable, and provide 94,950 experience per hour on average. At level 50, improved moulds will start becoming available and at level 81, the player will be able to always use optimal sword moulds for any possible commision, resulting in significant improvement in earning rates (50% or more) and potentially making higher-tiered alloys economically sustainable.

Using optimal moulds and a 1:1 Steel–Mithril bar alloy, it is possible to forge about 14 swords per hour, resulting in up to 164,640 experience per hour, and profits reaching 100,000 per hour, depending on commisions assigned, mistakes made during the forging process, and expenses in obtaining material.

The foundry allows use of smithed weapons and armour instead of bars, and doing so may allow the player to acquire material at a cheaper price, making use of an alloy such as 1:1 Mithril-Adamant reasonably profitable. Due to higher difficulty of forging, the player can expect an average of 12 or 13 swords an hour. However, the experience rate increases to around 193,000 experience per hour and yet a profit of over 40,000 per hour can be attained. Wearing the Smiths' Uniform set will increase sword making speed, increasing the experience and gold rate by roughly 15%.

Levels 15–99: Blast Furnace

Smelting bars (other than gold or silver) at the Blast Furnace offers slow experience, but it usually provides decent profit. Having the ice gloves and coal bag is strongly recommended to significantly increase the number of bars created per hour. Players will also need weight-reducing clothing and stamina potions to always have run energy. Optimal bar patterns can be found on the Blast Furnace page. The capital required to run the furnace for a full hour may be considerable for some players.

Experience and profit rates are listed in the table below. The numbers assume using one of the official worlds, having the coal bag, wearing ice gloves, and using 36 stamina potion doses per hour.

Lvl	Money making guides		Bars/Hour	Cash Capital	XP/Hour	Profit/Hour
15		Smelting iron bars	6,000	923,154	75,000	450,846
30		Smelting steel bars	5,400	1,626,354	94,500	1,154,646
50		Smelting mithril bars	3,600	1,673,154	108,000	1,048,446
70		Smelting adamantite bars	2,700	4,107,654	101,250	1,308,546
85		Smelting runite bars	2,160	25,500,834	107,500	1,438,686

Levels 20–99: Smithing dart tips

Smithing dart tips offers very slow experience, but it requires very little attention. This method usually breaks even or makes a small profit due to their high demand for their use of training Fletching. The player must have completed The Tourist Trap quest to be able to smith dart tips. 10 dart tips are created per bar.

Experience and profit rates are listed in the table below. The numbers assume 9,500 dart tips are made per hour.

Level	Bar	Method	XP/Hour	Profit/Hour	Profit/XP
4		Bronze dart tips	11,900	241,300	20.32
19		Iron dart tips	23,800	219,450	9.24
34		Steel dart tips	35,600	232,750	6.53
54		Mithril dart tips	47,500	146,300	3.08
74		Adamant dart tips	59,400	−5,700	0.10
89		Rune dart tips	71,300	−4,485,900	−62.96

Levels 48–99: Smithing armour

Smithing various armour pieces at an anvil offers the fastest experience outside the Blast Furnace, and it requires fairly low amount of effort. Players should smith the highest-tier platebody they can, starting from steel platebodies at level 48, moving to mithril at level 68 and then to adamant at level 88. From level 66 to 68, players can smith mithril platelegs or plateskirts as a slightly slower but cheaper alternative to steel platebodies.

Depending on the Grand Exchange prices, smelting gold bars at the Blast Furnace can be cheaper than smithing lower-tier armour, and it offers a lot faster experience per hour. However, adamant platebodies can be a viable option for some players, as they offer decent experience rates and they are usually very cheap.

Due to the low Grand Exchange buy limit, some High Level Alchemy focused Clan Chats may offer to buy in bulk for a better rate than the Grand Exchange price, benefiting the seller and the buyer. This can lower the loss from making low-level armours, and potentially make Smithing a profitable activity doing Adamant platebodies to level 99.

Levels	Item		XP/Hour	Profit/Hour	Profit/XP	Profit (HA)/Hour	Profit (HA)/XP
48–68		Steel platebody	144,000	−1,383,723.73	−8.86	−1,301,250.13	−8.33
66–68		Mithril platelegs	140,000	−907,124.00	−6.27	−862,780.00	−5.97
66–68		Mithril plateskirt	140,000	−902,304.00	−6.24	−862,780.00	−5.97
68–88		Mithril platebody	200,000	−859,862.40	−4.13	−705,720.40	−3.39
88–99		Adamant platebody	240,000	−434,972.16	−1.67	−194,154.24	0.75

Levels 95–99+: Smithing 3-bar rune items

Smithing rune platelegs, plateskirts, or 2h swords at an anvil offers decent experience, and it is also profitable. Players will need to have level 99 to be able to make these items, but Kovac's grog or Dwarven stout can be used to boost for that level. Previously, using the mature Dwarven stout(m) was also an option, but the new Kovac's grog is cheaper and better. Each of these smithed items yields the same amount of experience, so players should make whatever offers the best profit. Players may also cast High Level Alchemy to increase profits, however this is only recommended if you have a lot of disposable gold and plan on skilling whilst you alchemise.

Assuming 60 grogs used at level 95, 900 items smithed per hour and alching the items would yield −696,360 per hour, with a GP/XP of −3.44 while normal dwarven stouts at 98 would yield 709,920 for a GP/XP of 3.51.

Item		XP/Hour	Profit/Hour	Profit/XP	Profit (HA)/Hour	Profit (HA)/XP
	Platelegs	210,000	484,389	2.24	768,308.00	3.54
	Plateskirt	210,000	503,649	2.32	768,308.00	3.54
	2h sword	210,000	457,425	2.11	768,308.00	3.54

Quests for Smithing experience

Main article: Quest experience rewards

Quest	Experience reward	Smithing requirement	Other requirements
The Forsaken Tower	500	-	20% Lovakengj favour
Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete subquest)	1,000	-	31
Heroes' Quest	2,257	-	55 , 53 , 53 , 25 , 50
The Giant Dwarf	2,500	-	14 , 12 , 16 , 33
Between a Rock...	5,000	50	30 , 40
Elemental Workshop I	5,000	20	20 , 20
Sleeping Giants	6,000	15	-
Devious Minds	6,500	65	50 , 50
Cabin Fever	7,000	50	42 , 45 , 40
Elemental Workshop II	7,500	30	20
The Knight's Sword	12,725	-	10
Song of the Elves	20,000	70	70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70
Dragon Slayer II	25,000	70	200 , 75 , 68 , 62 , 60 , 60 , 50 , 50
Total	100,982