Runescape Smithing Guide From 1-99 For F2P

The ability to forge your own weapons and armor out of various metals found in RuneScape can be quite a useful skill.It's actually to skills combined.. Smelting and Smithing .
. Smelting involves you using a furnace to melt down coal and/or metal ore into bars.
The following metal bars can be made:

You only successfully smelt Iron 50% of the time (increase by 1% up to level 40, total 80%). If you fail you get no experience and no bar.

. Smelting involves you using a furnace to melt down coal and/or metal ore into bars.

The following metal bars can be made:

You can only successfully smelt Iron 50% of the time (increase by 1% up to level 40, total 80%). If you fail you get no experience and no bar.

Smelting

Places for training:

You can smelt your ores in Al Kharid, as this has the closest furnace to a bank .

Clicking on the ore and then the furnace will bring up this menu:

Right click on your bar type and select the amount to make (Just click on it if you only want to make 1)

If your going solely for a higher level just smelt the highest exp giving bar, see table above. You can actually make good money making steel. Profits per Bar below:

Smithing

Using a hammer and Anvil you can turn bars into useful items. This can use 1 or more bars but only of 1 metal. Whereever you see the symbol bellow is 1 or more anvils, this is the anvil in Varrok:

Smithing almost garenties you a loss, so only do this for experience. However if you dont need the money and you have a few metal bars in you bank you may as well smith them into something and get the experience.

Tips: Gold and silver are used in crafting more than fordging.