Opening Words Alrighty, this guide is my first and please criticize this guide respectfully. No flaming on this topic such as this is common knowledge. Another thing I would like to say that it is still under construction and I'm still working on the pictures for power smithing. Ok with that out of the way lets begin! Also this is P2P! I find it faster to smelt in P2P. I will list places that are and not F2P. Table of Contents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Requirements 2. Items Needed 3. Location 4. Starting Out 5. Inventory and the Bank A. Steel Bars B. Iron Bars 6. Smithing A. Steel Plates B. Iron Knives C. Starting Out 7. Alching 8. Gold Smelting Method 9. Experience Table 10. Closing Words 11. Tips 12. Acknowledgement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Requirements Port Phasmatys (P2P) is where I do my smelting since it is the easiest place to smelt. That is my opion and some people prefer Al Kharid (F2P), also because it is the best F2P place to smelt. The requirements if you choose Port Phasmatys are as following, Priest in Peril (P2P) Ghosts Ahoy (P2P) >Optional< So if you don't want to pay 2 tickets to enter. Smithing lvl of 1 or above (Starting Out). 30 Smithing (Steel Bars) 48 Smithing to make steel plates. (Smithing Section) 40 Smithing to make gold bars. (Gold Method) 40 Crafting (Gold Method) 55 Mage (Alching) 15 Smithing (Iron Bars) 2. Items Needed >Smelting< Ores, you can mine them yourself if you want, but it will take time! Iron is 100 each, Coal is 150-180 each 1 coin (Explained Later) Ghost Speak Amulet (Port Phasmatys, P2P) Rings of Forging, about 15 or so (B. Iron Bars) (P2P) >Smithing Items< Bars, hammer, 2 free space items. >Alching< Nats, firestaff, platebodies >Beginning< A bronze or iron pickaxe, a general idea of where the bank is. A bronze pickaxe, if you lost yours, there is a respawn of one in Rimmington. If your not sure where that is, check the world map. >Gold Smelting Method< Brown Apron A Rune Pickaxe Gold Gauntlents *Requires Family Crest (P2P) (Opitional) Explained in the Experience Table 3. Location >Smelting< Port Phasmatys to smelt of course. If you haven't done Ghost Ahoys then you will need *two* tokens. (P2P) >Smithing< Varrock (F2P), some people like Yanile (P2P), but it is a longer walk. 4. Starting Out Ok, so you doodled around playing a little bit there and here. Well smithing can be a decent money maker for those fresh off Tutorial Island. Best place to start it none other than Lumbringe. I didn't have this when I started out, so I will give my best opinions about this topic. To begin, you click the rock with an organgish tinge to it. Congratulations you mined your first copper ore. Mine about 13 more, 14 in all. Then off to tin, same as copper. When you are finished you should have 14 tin and 14 copper. This is a layout of where the ores are. A tip is have nothing besides your equipped pickaxe. Smelt them in Lumbridge, a little past the general store, and bank them, third floor. Do this til your desired number, probally something over 100 bronze bars. Refer to the Smithing guide of how you should smith them. Iron I believe is quite worthless at a lower level. With 28 bars you can make up to 10-15 bars, its all about luck. But it could prove better if your sick of bronze. Well hope this can get you started. 5. Inventory and the Bank It is very helpful if you have an organized bank like so. As you can see my ores are close together. A. Steel Bars Now to the inventory, first time you are withdrawing you should withraw 1 coin, 9 iron and then LASTLY withdraw all coal, instead of withdrawing X, 18. It makes it quicker. After you smelt your first 9, it gets easier. This is an overall view of the inventory. This is how your inventory should look like when your done smelting. After you smelt the 9 steel bars, first things first, withdraw ALL coal. Next deposit all steel bars, or 10 if you prefer. Lastly withdraw 10, or all iron. Repeat til you are done. B. Iron Bars, (P2P) Refer to above where to smelt. Iron bars are quite easy to make. The main thing you need is Rings of Forging, without these you can just kiss nearly half of your iron ores goodbye. An example of how many rings you need is, take this example, I have around 2k iron ores, I will need about 15. Just in case I make around 20 rings. 15 x 150 = 2250, and a note is the rings do not have charges on them, the charges are on the user. So do not think you can get away with making 149 bars with a ring and sell it. The next ring will just carry over the charge. Your inventory should look like this. I keep an extra ring because it saves time if the ring your wearing breaks. If you did the math you'll get up about 5 bars short, it just says a trip. Smelt x 27, congrats! Bank and then withdraw all iron ores til you are done. 6. Smithing A. Steel Plates Self explanitory, sorry no pictures! Ok first withdraw your hammer, very important item! Second 2 free space items, what I used was a newt eye and rope. You can also use herbs. Ok after that you can withdraw 25 steel bars and hammer away, better pay close attention, because it goes by fast. Best to listen to music since, by the time you switch to the forums, you'll be done. B. Iron Knives All you need is a hammer and iron bars. This is easy but you need to make about 3 sets, which means you can't doodle off while doing this. It will take 3 clicks to use all of the bars. Good luck! C. Starting Out All you need is your hammer and smith the highest lvl object you can and bank it. As soon as your done making the items you want, you can sell them. 7. Alching You will not make a profit if you bought ALL ores. I bought only 500 iron (50k) and using only 100 nats (30k). That sums up to 80k and if you high alch them all, which is 1200 per plate. Since I made 100 plates thats 100 x 1200 = 120k! So just 120k - 80k = 40k profit. For me thats a *big* profit. Not really I make more fletching but I need the smithing exp. Another note about alching is if you low alch you will only get around 800 per steel plate. 8. Gold Smelting Method This method is based around the Crafting Guild. This picture describes what you do in order to make an effective path, another method instead of 26 agility is taking the one around the corner (P2P). The Gold Method is a way to raise Crafting and Smithing. With the *gold gloves* (P2P) you can make nearly twice the exp. Also a nice way to raise crafting. If you wish you may sell the amulets at the general store, the lowest it sells at is 20 gp each. 9. Experience Table Smelting (Furnace) Bronze (1 copper, 1 tin) 6.2 exp Iron (1 iron) 12.5 exp Steel (1 iron, 2 coal) 17.5 exp Gold (1 gold ore) 22.5 Gold *with Gold Gauntlents* (1 gold ore) 56.2 C-Balls (1 steel bar) 26 exp (4 c-balls per bar) Smithing (Anvil) Bronze (1 bronze bar) 12.5 Iron (1 iron bar) 25 Steel (1 steel bar) 37.5 10. Closing Words Hope this helps, it sure did kill my boredem while mining and smelting. Um I would apprecate if you PMED me the mistakes I made instead of saying it out loud to everyone. Thats all... Happy Smithing! He is waving, I know ghosty makes it hard to see. 11. Tips ~Getting the ores yourself gives great mining exp. ~If you are F2P then try out Al Kharid to smelt your ores. ~Another place to start out is west of Faldor, which has tin, copper, iron, and coal (P2P) ~Smithing is a hard skill to raise, so keep at it! 12. Acknowledgement Tip.It for an awsome forums and not banning me after my 5th time of breaking the rule. I know I was new at the forum rules here! Well now I know. Also to anyone who bumps this thread and says good things. : Kinslayer777 for a lil mistake in the Alching Section. Runescape World Map, Tip.It calculators *Updates* December 2 Added Gold Method, Starting Out, and Experience Table. December 6 Put the exp of c-balls into the expierence guide. Thanks Pokemama.