RuneScape: The Secrets to Making Gold While Training Smithing

Earning RuneScape gold while leveling up in your smithing skill becomes a lot easier when you are a RuneScape member. Here is a look at the smithing experience potential and the potential for profit for each type of RuneScape ore. For starters, it is wise to do the Knight's Sword Quest for its smithing experience reward. It will allow you to start by smithing Iron and put you half a level away from steel. It will also put you above the required skill level for making most Iron items, allowing you to be able to smith the bars to level up as well. Bronze can be used to make RuneScape gold, but it is not advisable because Iron takes the same amount of time to work with but gives twice the experience. Tin ore costs 30 gold and copper 75 gold. You make about 60-70 gold per bar; another figure Iron can outdo.

Iron is one of the best ways to level up smithing while earning RuneScape gold. Although an F2P Runescape player can make a marginal profit smelting Iron ore, RuneScape members can use the Ring of Forging to greatly improve the margins. A Ring of Forging allows you to smelt 140 Iron bars with a 100% rate of success before it melts. So basically, you get 70 extra iron bars per ring.

140 Iron Ores cost about 14K RuneScape gold on the RuneScape Grand Exchange, and a ring of forging will cost about 1k, for a total cost of 15k per 140 bars, or 107 RuneScape gold per bar. Not bad for an item that retails on the grand exchange for 230 RuneScape gold. Plus, you get the smithing experience for smelting them. If you complete the easy RuneScape Diary for Varrock, you can smith in the Edgeville furnace, which is right next to a bank.

Now go to Varrock and smith the 140 bars into Iron Arrowtips. Each bar makes 15 arrowtips, and they sell on the grand exchange for 13 RuneScape gold market value. That's 195 gold return per smithed Iron bar. True, it's not as great a return as the bars, but its smithing experience while still making a profit. Sell the arrowtips on the grand exchange to fund future RuneScape investments. Arrowtips seldom sell immediately but almost always sell overnight.

Smelting iron, silver, and gold, and smithing arrowtips involves repeating the same action 27 or 28 times. So I find it efficient to have the RuneScape game sounds turned on so when the smelting or smithing sound stops, I can return to the RuneScape page before my character logs out. It also allows me to hear most random events that occur; they will make a sound or they will make me stop smithing. Another thing is when a ring of forging melts, the smithing stops. So it is a good idea to check your status bar and/or finger when there is an interruption. To tell how many uses are left on a ring, select the worn equipment tab (just to the right of your inventory tab) and right click on the ring to operate it.

Silver does not offer an opportunity to earn any runescape gold but does allow you to get free smithing experience as the bars and ores sell for about the same price. You can also craft the bars into unstrung symbols and try to sell them, but they may take a week to sell at the minimum of 140 gold each. Low alching them with the explorer ring only gets 80 gold, not a good return. Unstrung symbols are worth it if you are training crafting, though.

Bluerite does offer a little smithing experience, but it is not worth it. The ore is difficult to obtain and the ore, bars, and the finished products cannot be sold in the grand exchange.

Steel is another good way to gain experience and earn runescape gold. The materials for a steel bar cost about 460 RuneScape gold, and steel bars sell for 625 gold. However, if you do the Dwarf Cannon quest, you can then make cannonballs. Each steel bar makes four cannonballs, which make about 750 RuneScape gold total. That is a profit of 125 RuneScape gold per bar bought from the grand exchange or 290 gold per bar that is smelted and made into cannonballs. You are sacrificing a bit of smithing experience though; 25 instead of 37 per steel bar. But you are making money so it really dosen't matter as much.

Smithing Gold is not profitable. Gold grants 24 points smithing experience per smelt, but the ores are worth 500gp while the bars only sell for 180gp.

Buying the materials for mithril and adamantite and smelting them to bars which are resold is a way to make a couple hundred RuneScape Gold per bar. However as you only make five mithril or four adamantite bars per trip, it can be time consuming. If you are using mithril bars to train fletching (smithing arrowtips for mithril arrows) this can be a way to get the mithril cheaper to lessen the expense of training fletching. If you can mine adamantite ore yourself and smelt it, you will be able to make a bigger profit margin. I'm not clear on the high adamantite/runite market picture is yet, as I am still in the lower levels of adamantite smithing. There are probably some ways to make good RuneScape money there, or to at least save by being able to make items rather than buy them.

Runite ore and bars grant a lot of experience, but to mine the runite you need to be a level 85 and have to have the patience of a saint, as runite rocks are rare and hard to mine. Runite ores cost 11k and the bars sell for 13k. With a high smithing level, you can smith high-priced runite items and lend or sell them to make RuneScape Gold.