see when you high alch steel bodies do u gain money from buying steel bars making them to body and alch or do u have to smelt n smith,or do u have to mine the resouse your self to make a profit?

I don't know off the top of my head, but I bet that by looking up the high alch price on tip.it and looking up the price of steel bars on the grand exchange (and maybe coal and iron too), and doing some addition you could find out :thumbup:

It is impossible to profit from alching plates no matter how you go about it.

It is impossible to profit from alching plates no matter how you go about it.

 

 

 

Make steel plates yourself from coal and iron, to bars to plates. Buy nats and theres a profit.

It is impossible to profit from alching plates no matter how you go about it.

 

 

 

Make steel plates yourself from coal and iron, to bars to plates. Buy nats and theres a profit.

 

 

 

2 x coal + 1 iron ore = 1 steel bar

 

2 x 180 + 90 = 450 coins per steel bar

 

steel bar x 5 + nature rune = cost to alch

 

2250 + 250 = 2,500 coins to alch

 

1,200 per alch.

 

1,300 coins lost per plate.

It is impossible to profit from alching plates no matter how you go about it.

 

 

 

Make steel plates yourself from coal and iron, to bars to plates. Buy nats and theres a profit.

 

 

 

2 x coal + 1 iron ore = 1 steel bar

 

2 x 180 + 90 = 450 coins per steel bar

 

steel bar x 5 + nature rune = cost to alch

 

2250 + 250 = 2,500 coins to alch

 

1,200 per alch.

 

1,300 coins lost per plate.

 

You could first:

 

mine coal and iron

 

make into bars

 

smith

 

alch

 

 

 

you'd get a profit on that, but just alching from bar state will lose you money.

It is impossible to profit from alching plates no matter how you go about it.

 

 

 

Make steel plates yourself from coal and iron, to bars to plates. Buy nats and theres a profit.

 

 

 

2 x coal + 1 iron ore = 1 steel bar

 

2 x 180 + 90 = 450 coins per steel bar

 

steel bar x 5 + nature rune = cost to alch

 

2250 + 250 = 2,500 coins to alch

 

1,200 per alch.

 

1,300 coins lost per plate.

 

You could first:

 

mine coal and iron

 

make into bars

 

smith

 

alch

 

 

 

you'd get a profit on that, but just alching from bar state will lose you money.

 

He could have sold the bars for more profit. So, making the platebodies loses him money. And alching does too.

If you don't want to do all that mining have your kingdom mine the coal for you. That will put you much closer to a break even point. As will runecrafting your own nats. I've done about 75% steel platebodies and 25% cannonballs before (with kingdom mined coal), which I figured gave me a very small profit.

high alch a different item because

 

 

 

mining for your supplies will take long but will reward exp/slight bit of money

 

buying bars and making steel plates is a waste of money

Lots of people make steel plate bodies for very fast smithing exp, I think its one of the fastest efficient methods in the game (obviously mith/addy/rune plates would be faster but that is seriously expensive) so there are a lot lying about and alcing is the best way to get rid of them.

I'm f2p, and I've smithed steel bars to get my lvl up to 79 right now. The ppl above me are absolutey right in that you lose lots of money and smithing addy just is too time consuming.

 

 

 

If others can offer better solutions for f2p I'm all ears!

I don't think you're going to make a profit, so you should sell your bodies or whatever else you're making. If you want the magic xp, you'd be better off to use your nats and superheat while you're mining. This saves time especially if the bank is far away ;)

 

 

 

And if you're gonna superheat steel, I'd bring 18 or more iron ore with you and just mine and superheat until you can do mithril.