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This is smithing guide. Here you find all smithing tables (thanks to ) and all exp info for all items You will also find the newbie guide to smithing. Note that this guide is also a mining guide, but not crafting. It will come seperately later.

What can you do with smithing?
Main thing you do with smithing is to gain money. Smithing is now, and always will be the best way to gain money, although it requires a lot of patience and time. If you are experienced enough, you can even make your own armors and weapons with this skill, but most likely you will gain so much money with smithing, that your equipment is always better than what you can make.

Basics (Newbie players):
You are probably wondering how to begin smithing and mining if you are reading this guide. Before you start smithing and mining, I suggest that you throw all other stuff of your to item bank, because the more space you have, the less work you must do. What you need for mining is a pick axe, you can find regenerative pickaxe at small house in barbarian village, or buy one from general stores (I'm not sure if they sell). First I suggest you to go to mining in West mining zone of Varrock (click the link for mining map). That place is the best source for tin and copper, which are required to smith bronze. You can only smith bronze if your smithing is below 15 (see the tables at bottom for skill requirement information). Now when you go mining, mine your inventory full with half of it copper and the other half tin, because 1 bronze requires 1 tin and 1 copper. After you have mined your inventory full with ores, go to the furnace in lumbridge. Use copper or tin to the furnace, and it will make one bar of bronze (note that it will automatically take the other ore when other one is placed in furnace). Now you should have about 14 bronze bars (the number doesn't mater). Every time you smelt one bar, you will gain exp (experience) (see the tables in bottom). Now when you got to smithing, you will need a hammer, you can buy it from general store at lumbridge. Now go to the nearest anvil, which is probaply located at Varrock. When you reach the anvils, use the bronze bar to a anvil. Now to the upper left corner appears a menu, where you can choose what items you will make. Now if your smithing is 1, you only make bronze daggers. When you smith items, you will gain exp, but how hard the item is to make, doesn't mater, only the number of bars required do (some items require more bars than others), but the amount of exp gained trough smithing 5 bar item is same than smithing five 1 bar items. The fastest way to make money is always to make daggers, short swords, long swords, chain mails or plate mails, because you should always sell items to special stores to gain more money and armor and sword special shops are in varrock. Just repeat this and you should understant the basics of smithing.
Tools:
Pick axe
Hammer

Tips:
- Allways only keep your pick axe and hammer only with you when mining and smithing to gain the maximium advantage of free space.
- Train your magic well for smithing because there is a spell called "superheat ore" which works just like a furnace. There is also spells called "low level alchemy" and "high level alchemy" which, as far as I know, gives you money from items equal to prices from general store at "low level alchemy" and prices of special stores at "high level alchemy"
- When you are mining, mine from multiple rocks, because ores have "regeneration time", which means that the ore regenerates back to the rock after certain time (which depends on players playing and the ore). When you have mined ore out of one rock, move to the next rock and so on.

Gems:
Gems can be founded from every rock, because every rock has a change of finding a gem in it. If you are mining for gems, you should mine at barbarian mines, because I have heard that they have increased chance of finding gems.

Best places to mine ores:
Here are the best places to mine specific ores to make mining easier, note that some places are more crowded than others.

Ore: Skill: Place: Notes:
Bluerite 1 Ice cave No map, it only exists in there
Clay 1 Dwarwen mine  
Bronze 1 West mining zone of Varrock  
Tin 1 West mining zone of Varrock  
Iron 15 East mining zone of Varrock  
Silver 20 Chasm mine  
Coal 30 Barbarian mining zone Mining above 60: Dwarwen mine, or good fighter: Wilderness mine (level 9)
Gold 40 Karamja dungeon  
Mithril 55 Dwarwen mine I'm not sure, because I haven't mined mithril
Adamantite 70 Dwarwen mine I'm not sure, because I haven't mined adamantite
Runite 85 Wilderness mine no map, only exists in there

Tables:

Requirement tables:
Skill: Pic: # Ore: Exp: + Pic: # Ore: Exp: = Pic: Bar: Smelt exp: Smith exp:
1 1 Copper ore 17.5 + 1 Tin ore 17.5 = Bronze bar 6.25 12.5
15 1 Iron ore 35 + 50 % = Iron bar 12.5 25
20 1 Silver nugget 40   = Silver bar 13.75 N/A
30 2 Coal ore 50 + 1 Iron ore 35 = Steel bar 17.5 37.5
40 1 Gold nugget 65   = Gold bar 22.5 N/A
50 1 Mithril ore 80 + 4 Coal ore 50 = Mithril bar ? 50
70 1 Adamantite ore 95 + 6 Coal ore 50 = Adamantite bar ? 63.5
85 1 Runite ore 125 + 8 Coal ore 50 = Runite bar ? 75

ore and Bar product info tables
Pic: Ore: Skill: Exp: Pic: Bar: Skill: Exp: Smith exp: Avrg. Sell Avrg. Buy: Set sell
(per bar cost):
Set buy
(per bar cost):
Bluerite 1 ? Bronze 1 6.25 12.5 12 22 241 (192) 404 (352)
Copper 1 17.5 Iron 15 12.5 25 43 77 843 (688) 1409 (1232)
Tin: 1 17.5 Silver 20 13.75 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Iron: 15 35 Steel 30 17.5 37.5 157 274 3030 (2512) 5033 (4384)
Silver: 20 40 Gold 40 22.5 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Coal: 30 50 Mithril 50 ? 50 ? ? ? ?
Gold: 40 65 Adamantite 70 ? 62.5 ? ? ? ?
Mithril: 55 80 Runite 85 ? 75 ? ? ? ?
Adamantite 70 95                  
Runite 85 125                  
Clay 1 5                  

Smithing tables:
| Bronze | Iron | Steel | Mithril | Adamantite | Runite |

Where to sell different things: Places where to sell the item is the closest place to Varrock where you get the best money by selling it there. Note that skort shop, where you can sell skirts is just below the leggin shop, so it is not noted. Also, Champions guild has two shopkeepers, which buy different things. Both re marked as champions guild. To see the locations on map click here.

Bronze items
(bars required):
Skill: Power: Aim: Defense: Sell price
(price per bar):
Buy price
(price per bar):
Smithing
experience:
Where
to sell:
Dagger (1) 1 5 5   6 (6) 10 (10) 12,5 Sword shop
Hatchet (axe) (1) 1 6 5   10 (10) 16 (16) 12,5 Axe shop
Mace (1) 2 5 6   10 (10) 18 (18) 12,5 Mace shop
Medium helmet (1) 3     +3 14 (14) 24 (24) 12,5 Helmet shop
Short sword (1) 4 7 7   16 (16) 26 (26) 12,5 Sword shop
Scimitar (2) 5 7 7   19 (9) 32 (16) 25 Scimitar shop
Long sword (2) 6 8 8   24 (12) 40 (20) 25 Sword shop
Large helmet (2) 7     +4 26 (13) 44 (22) 25 Helmet shop
Square shield (2) 8     +5 28 (14) 48 (24) 25 Shield shop
Battle axe (3) 10 10 8   31 (10) 52 (18) 37,5 Btl Axe shop
Chain mail (3) 11     +9 36 (12) 60 (20) 37,5 Armor shop
Kite shield (3) 12     +6 40 (13) 68 (23) 37,5 Shield shop
2-H sword (3) 14 11 11   32 (10) 100 (34) 37,5 General store
Plare leggings / skirt (3) 16     +7 48 (16) 80 (27) 37,5 Leg shop
Plate mail (5) 18     +14 96 (19) 160 (32) 61,5 Armor shop
Iron items
(bars required):
Skill: Power: Aim: Defense: Sell price
(price per bar):
Buy price
(price per bar):
Smithing
experience:
Where
to sell:
Dagger (1) 15 6 6   21 (21) 35 (35) 25 Sword shop
Hatchet (axe) (1) 16 8 6   34 (34) 56 (56) 25 Axe shop
Mace (1) 17 6 8   37 (37) 63 (63) 25 Mace shop
Medium helmet (1) 18     +4 50 (50) 84 (84) 25 Helmet shop
Short sword (1) 19 8 8   54 (54) 91 (91) 25 Sword shop
Scimitar (2) 20 9 9   67 (33) 112 (56) 50 Scimitar shop
Long sword (2) 21 10 10   84 (42) 140 (70) 50 Sword shop
Large helmet (2) 22     +7 92 (46) 154 (77) 50 Helmet shop
Square shield (2) 23     +8 100 (50) 168 (84) 50 Shield shop
Battle axe (3) 25 13 9   109 (36) 182 (61) 75 Axe shop
Chain mail (3) 26     +12 126 (42) 210 (70) 75 Chain shop
Kite shield (3) 27     +9 138 (46) 233 (78) 75 Shield shop
2-H sword (3) 29 15 15   112 (37) 350 (117) 75 General store
Plare leggings / skirt (3) 31     +10 168 (56) 280 (94) 75 Armor shop
Plate mail (5) 33     +20 336 (67) 560 (112) 125 Armor shop
Steel items
(bars required):
Skill: Power: Aim: Defense: Sell price
(price per bar):
Buy price
(price per bar):
Smithing
experience:
Where
to sell:
Dagger (1) 30 9 9   75 (75) 125 (125) 37,5 Sword shop
Hatchet (axe) (1) 31 12 9   120 (120) 200 (200) 37,5 Axe shop
Mace (1) 32 9 13   135 (135) 225 (225) 37,5 Mace shop
Medium helmet (1) 33     +7 180 (180) 300 (300) 37,5 Helmet shop
Short sword (1) 34 14 14   195 (195) 325 (325) 37,5 Sword shop
Scimitar (2) 35 15 15   240 (120) 400 (200) 75 Scimitar shop
Long sword (2) 36 17 17   300 (150) 500 (250) 75 Sword shop
Large helmet (2) 37     +9 330 (165) 550 (275) 75 Helmet shop
Square shield (2) 38     +12 360 (180) 600 (300) 75 Shield shop
Battle axe (3) 40 21 16   390 (130) 650 (217) 112.5 Axe shop
Chain mail (3) 41     +19 487 (162) 750 (250) 112.5 Chain shop
Kite shield (3) 42     +14 510 (170) 833 (278) 112.5 Shield shop
2-H sword (3) 44 23 23   400 (133) 1250 (417) 112.5 General store
Plare leggings / skirt (3) 46     +17 600 (200) 1000 (334) 112.5 Armor shop
Plate mail (5) 48     +31 1200 (240) 2000 (400) 187,5 Armor shop

 

Mithril
Daagger 50 195
Hatchet 51 208
Mace 52 351
Medium helmet 53 468
Short sword 54 507
Scimitar (2) 55 308
Long sword (2) 58 390
Large helmet (2) 57 429
Square shield (2) 58 312
Battle axe (3) 60 338
Chain mail (3) 61 390
Kite shield (3) 62 294.6
2-h sword (3) 64 346.6
Plated legs (3) 66 520
Plate mail (5) 68 624
Adamantite
Dagger 70 480
Hatchet 71 512
Mace 72 864
Medium helmet 73 1152
Short sword 74 1248
Scimitar (2) 75 512
Long sword (2) 76 960
Large helmet (2) 77 1056
Square shield (2) 78 768
Battle axe (3) 80 762.6
Chain mail (3) 81 1040
Kite shield (3) 82 640
2-h sword (3) 84 853.3
Plated legs (3) 86 1280
Plate mail (5) 88 2648.8
Runite
Dagger 85 4800
Hatchet 86 5120
Mace 87 8640
Medium helmet 88 11520
Short sword 89 12480
Scimitar (2) 90 5120
Long sword (2) 91 9600
Large helmet (2) 92 10560
Square shield (2) 93 7680
Battle axe (3) 95 ?
Chain mail (3) 96 10400
Kite shield (3) 97 6400
2-h sword (3) 99 8533.3
Plated legs (3) 99 12666.6
Plate mail (5) 99 25488
  
           
           
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