Right now I have about 35 million gold, and i figured out that I could purchase about 150k coal and 75k iron and smith it all to raise my smithing level from 45 to around 87 or 88. The question is, is it worth it? Should I do it? Also keep in mind I have 70 mining, so I would have access to adamant ore no problem. So what should I do?

Its your choice to be honest, if I were you I would superheat it though so you get a nice chunk of mage exp from it as well.

Its your choice to be honest, if I were you I would superheat it though so you get a nice chunk of mage exp from it as well.

 

 

 

thanks for the suggestion thats a great idea, but im short on money and magic levels haha

 

 

 

 

 

On another note, has anyone had good experience making money from smithing?

Well, cannonballs are extremely slow but they are profitable. I smithed a lot a while back and if I would have sold I could have made a few mil off them.

 

 

 

Also, if you enjoy playing sc you can get some hammers from there to speed up your training and also lower the cost.

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thanks for the suggestions :-)

 

 

 

anyone else have any advice?

Cannonballs are fine for a while. They are slow, but that means you can semi-afk while making them.

 

 

 

Once you get to lvl 60, I'd recomment you give the blast furnace a try (on world 58! soloing the Blast Furnace is not the way to go). Make Steel Bolts/Arrowtips and switch to Mithril Bolts or Arrowtips once you can. You'll turn a profit and won't have to make any bank trips during the training.

smithing till you get to level 88 is definately worth it because you can then make runite bars making 2K profit each bar (basing that figure on buying 1 runite ore, the amount of coal needed and a nature rune for superheat item).

 

To be fair i'd agree with the super heat item part, however you'll make a loss on all bars until you do reach 85 (i currently do mithril bars this way and loose 18gp per bar, and when i reach 70 i'll loose 1gp per adamantine bar).

Honestly, smithing isn't really a skill about money but a skill about patience... I have only ever seriously smithed iron... I smelt iron bars with rings of forging and make them into knives and make a pretty good amount of profit...

Once you hit 75 Smithing, consider making Adamant Arrowtips with Stealing Creation Hammers.

 

Get the hammers in a non-combat SC clan (fastsc, fastsc1/2/3/4 is what I used).

 

 

 

It's what I'm doing for 76-88, and I only get 6~8M loss.