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Runescape Smithing Guide v0.9

Table of Contents

1) Legal Crap/Disclaimer
2) Versions
3) Introduction
4) How to Smith
5) Smelting Tables
6) Smithing Tables
7) Getting Started
8) Smithing related quests
9) Item prices as of 30/3/2003
10) Runespeak
12) Tips
12) About the Author
13) The last word/Thanks

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------------[1. Legal Crap/Disclaimer]---------------------------------

This FAQ is the copyright of it's author. No part of it may be
transmitted or reproduced without the consent of it's original owner.

Copyright¸ 2002 by Daniel Hu

Please do not flame me about any errors in the FAQ, especially in the
smithing charts. I did not make them myself, I copied from www.tip.it/
runescape and added some stuff, and gave some more advice. Shame on me,
I know, but at least I'm going to be (fairly) honest and own up, and I
have neither the time nor effort to research all of it myself. Anyway
tip.it, thanks for making an excellent chart on smithing.

I am not responsible for any people to choose to commit suicide due to
the fact they somehow got ripped off while using this guide. If you
can't take the fact that this is only a game, you are pathetic. I heard
of a guy who was playing Everquest (easily better in RPGing, but you
need to pay to play), got a set of rather rare and extremely kickarse
items, got hacked, lost them all, and decided life wasn't worth living
anymore. I dont particularly want to be sued. Unfortunately, american
people (Aussies are following quite nicely) have a nasty tendency to sue
everyone around them, so I should be pretty afraid.

------------[2. Versions]----------------------------------------------

v0.9 About 7/7/2002
I have just started this FAQ. It's kinda crap, but it will do. This
version has not been posted online yet.

v0.95 17/1/2003 or 1/17/2003
Still unposted. Have vastly improved the FAQ. I believe it's ready. Now
all I ahve to do is submit it.

v1.0 22/1/2003 or 1/22/2003
It's finally been posted. Added a few updates to the smithing tables.

v1.1 30/3/2003 or 3/30/2003
Haven't had an update for ages. No time either, I'm a busy man. Year 10
so many assignments it's scary. I just added some spelling checks and
update the date in Gamefaqs, so more people go to this FAQ. Call me
cheap... Oh, yeah, I added the price guide. It's not very comprehensive
though, but I'm not that good.

By the way, I'm putting up both types of dates, for the American people
who read this FAQ. I'm too kind.

------------[3. Introduction] -----------------------------------------

Before anyone bags me about my spelling errors, I live in Australia,
and Australians use the British English system. So there. Don't Flame
me about it.

For those of you who do not know what Runescape is, it is a very
popular online game. It is a Massive Multiplayer Online Game, or MMORG.
I think that's it. The main difference between Runescape and many other
online RPGs are:

1) Runescape has graphics, even if they are pretty crap

2) Runescape does not only concentrate of fighting monsters or other
people. Of course, having a powerful fighter is very important, but not
as important as the skills required. There are many skills, most which
involve creating items, and selling them for money. You can fight
monsters, and receive experience, increasing your character's fighting
ability. Or, you can mine copper and tin, smelt it into bronze, and
smith it into a sword. Or, you could fish tuna or sardines, and cook
them. You can chop trees and make arrows or bows. You can complete
quests in exchange for experience and goods, like a traditional RPG.
The possibilities are huge.

3) Runescape is free. Well, nearly. There are two types of servers in
Runescape, 'free' servers, and 'members' servers. Call them f2p and
p2p. The majority of players play in f2p, but in p2p, you have to pay a
fee to use it. The trade-off is huge. The member's world is twice the
size of that of the f2p world. There are new quests, new items, new
monsters, and many other new features. Too bad I can't afford (can't
use credit card yet) it.

There you have it. They are the three main features of Runescape. I'm
not sure if they are the three Official features, but it doesn't matter.

The skill system in Runescape is much different to games such as Diablo.
The more you use a certain skill, the better your character gets at it.
For example, every time you hit a rock with a pickaxe (mining), and
receive a piece of ore, you receive experience for that skill. Once you
experience total for that reaches a certain number or higher, you level
up. More level ups allow a greater chance of finding an ore, and allows
you to mine better and better ores.

This FAQ looks at one feature of Runescape's skill system. Smithing. It
is one of the skills that can produce the most profit. The others are
mining and fishing. Smithing can potentially produce the greatest profit
out of all of them, but it is the hardest skill to raise. This FAQ
concentrates on all of the facets of smithing, from the mining, the
smelting, the smithing, and the weapons/armour.

I am going to do it an assume that you know some things about Runescape
.eg. how to move, how to use items, how to fight, etc. That will save me
a lot of space. I will also assume you have a map (go to
www.runescape.com, click on Runescape, click on map, and save the
website).

------------[4. How to Smith]------------------------------------------

Smithing requires three stages, mining the ores from rocks, smelting the
ores into bars, and smithing the bars into armour or weapons. It is
fairly simple to do, but there is a catch. A large one as well. To smith,
you require ores. Low level ores are quite easy to obtain, and their
rocks are very common. Along with each ore named will be the mining
level required to mine it:

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| Clay: Level 1 |
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Clay has absolutely nothing to do with smithing. Clay is used in
crafting, which makes amulets, holy symbols, pottery and leather. Clay
is not particularly common, it's just no one cares about it.

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| Copper: Level 1 |
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A low level ore. Copper, along with tin, is very common. It is very easy
to mine, and is used on conjunction with tin to make bronze. It is
usually mined by new players, who wish to raise their mining level. It
used to be good for powermining, but with the new fatigue system around,
it is much less common.

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| Tin: Level 1 |
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Another low level ore. It is used in conjunction with copper to make
bronze. It is very similar to copper, in it's abundance and uses.

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| Iron: Level 15 |
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Iron is a large jump from copper and tin. It is the metal most used in
smithing, as it is easy to obtain and gives good experience. It also
gives much better profits. The best place to mine iron is the mine SE
of Varrock. It is near a bank, a bed, and has 3 iron rocks. One quirk
with smelting iron is that it has a random 50% chance of failing,
requiring you to mine twice as many ores than bars. Very annoying, I
know.

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| Silver: Level 20 |
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Like Clay, Silver is associated with crafting. The only thing you can
make with them are Holy symbols of Sarodomin. They also give decent
smithing experience, but you cannot actually smith it, only smelt it.
They are pretty good to sell to people who want to raise their crafting
level.

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| Coal: Level 30 |
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Coal is the jackpot for many miners. Coal is used with iron, mithril,
admantite, and runite ores to make their bars. Without Coal, you cannot
make Steel, Mithril, Adamantite and Runite bars. Coal is very
profitable, and even more so if you decide to smith with it. Steel
requires, 2 Coals to smelt, Mithril requires 4, Adamantite requires 6,
and Runite requires 8. Mithril is good to sell to other players, and so
is Adamantite and Runite. Coal is most often mined in the Mining Guild,
Barbarian Village and the wilderness Coal mine.

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| Gold: Level 40 |
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Gold is also a crafting metal. It is used to make gold jewellery and
amulets. Gold is only profitable is you are able to smelt it, as you can
sell the bars for high prices.

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| Mithril: Level 55 |
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Mithril is one of the high level ores. It is mainly mined in dungeons,
the swamp mine, and the wilderness. Mithril equipment is usually in high
demand, as it is strong and usually affordable to level 20s. Just don't
sell any of it to shops, you will know what I mean. From now on, I will
often refer to Mithril as Mith. Don't get confused.

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| Adamantite: Level 70 |
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Adamantite is very similar to Mith, in it's concept and demand.
Adamantite is also mined in similar places to Mithril. I will refer to
Adamantite as Addy, so I won't have to type so much.

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| Runite: Level 85 |
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Runite, or Rune, is the crowning glory of any player. Rune is the rarest
and most sought for metal, and by far the strongest. Anyone who can make
or mine Rune is exceptional. Very few people can actually mine and smith
Rune. Rune is found in the Hero's Guild, VERY high level wilderness, and
maybe on Crandor Isle. I'm not sure about the Crandor Isle and Hero's
guild one, I've never been to those places

After the ore is mined, you must smelt it. To smelt, you must take the
ore(s) to a furnace. There are three furnaces in f2p, one near
Lumbridge, one in Falador, and one in Al Kharid.

Falador:
Falador is the most commonly used furnace, as it is both the most
accessible and the most crowded. There is a nearby bank, where you can
withdraw ores and deposit bars. This is by far the best place to use,
but others are still accessible. There are actually two furnaces inside
the building, so it is easier to smelt.

Lumbridge:
The furnace is fairly accessible, but there is no nearby bank. If there
were anvils there (which I am not sure of), it would be an excellent
place to sell iron or bronze armour to newbs. If, that is, they can
afford it/begged money off other people. Otherwise, it is not a very
good place to smelt, as there is no nearby bank.

Al Kharid:
Al Kharid, on the other hand, does have a nearby bank. Unfortunately,
the area is not very accessible, there is a toll required to enter the
main gate (you can always go the long way around), unless you finish a
very annoying quest. The furnace is not very crowded, and is very close
to the bank. There is a mine (the scorpion chasm) north of it, where you
can mine gold, silver and iron. Nevertheless, I would not bother using
this town, it's too far from where the action is.

Once the ores have been smelted into bars, it is now time to smith them.
This is the bit where you can make a lot of money. To smith an item, you
must open your inventory, click on the bar that you want to smith, click