Runescape Guide to Mining And Smithing
This is a concise beginner’s guide to Mining and Smithing in Runescape.
Greeting, fellow Runescape player! This is the Beginner’s Smithing/Mining Guide to Runescape. In this explanatory guide, the best smithing and mining strategies will be told to you, like how to quickly level up, where to smith, and the best ways to make money. So sit back, relax, and let’s get down to business!
The Basics:
Most people have no idea how to go about making armor, swords, money, and other valuables from mining and smithing. This section will help you get started.
About Mining:
Mining is how players gain ores (rocks used for smithing) from rocks found all around the Runescape world. In order to start mining, you must have a pickaxe (obtained in the Dwarven Hollows, near Falador). Once you have the necessary pickaxe wielded or in your inventory, you can mine a rock by clicking on it. Mining Rocks are found all over the Runescape world. Certain areas contain certain rocks. A list of mining areas is in the Mining Area Section.
These are the different kinds of pickaxes, levels you need to be to use them, and their costs. You must be a specific level to mine the different types of Runescape rocks.
Once You Have a Pickaxe:
Mine equal amounts of tin and copper. Get about 100 of each. After this, if you’d like, mine iron (level 15). Many players choose to keep mining iron, even when they are at level 99 mining simply because it respawns quickly, it is found close to banks, and it is easy to smith. A good place to start mining is the mining area south of Falador. It contains many different types of rocks, like clay, tin, copper, iron, and gold. Remember to come back at level 40 mining to mine gold!
About Smithing:
Smithing is a lot easier to get started in than Mining. All you need is a few ore and a furnace. You can find furnaces all around towns in Runescape. For this example, I will be using the Falador furnace, as it is close to the place you just went to for your tin and copper ore.
Did you mine tin and copper in equal amounts like I told you? Well, here is where it pays off. Click on the furnace, and select “smelt bronze.” If you have at least one copper and one tin in your inventory, you will get one bronze bar. You can now use a hammer to make a bronze item. To make a bronze item, you must find an anvil (the closet one to Falador would be Northwest of the North Gate of Falador, but you need to complete Doric’s Quest in order to use it. If you haven’t completed this quest, the closest anvil for F2P (free to play) Runescape players is in West Varrock, near the bank. Click on your bronze bar(s) and click on the anvil. A menu will show up telling you what you can make with your bar(s) depending on you level and the quantity of bars that you have. After that, all you have to do is click on what you want, and you hammer out the object, whether it is a sword, shield, or platebody. Easy enough, right?
Repeat with bronze bars and iron bars until you can make iron platebodies.
Once You Have the Basics Down:
Are your mining and smithing levels at least high enough to make iron platebodies? Good. Now you can begin the really fun stuff.
Making Money:
If you are able to make iron platebodies (steel would be better, but if you can’t make that yet, then it is okay), you can start selling to Runescape players. Anything below iron is not worth your time or their money. The reason I wanted you be able to make iron platebodies is that you can now advertise your products by saying “Selling Full Steel” in the Varrock West bank, you can get upwards of 2,000 gp from a Runescape player for a full set of iron gear (platebody, platelegs, full helm, shield, and sword or weapon). Isn’t that worth your time?
This can be repeated with all levels of smithing and all types of bars.
Selling Coal:
Once you are level 30 mining, you will be able to mine coal. This is a great way to make money, as you can sell them for 150-250 gp each. Get a large supply, and then advertise in a bank like this: “Selling Coal (your price here) each”.
How to level up:
A great way to level up mining is to mine iron ore. A good way to level up smithing is making steel bars and turning them into platebodies. Ores respawn faster in a crowded server, so go to a server that is almost full. Since iron respawns quickly anyway, you should have no trouble mining hundreds of iron ore within a few hours.
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THeres a closer anvil in falador mines u just have to go deeper
i’ve a mining lvl of 18 and i have the necessary materials to smith a bronze platebody. However, the platebody doesn’t show up when i click the anvil, the chaps and the kiteshield also doesn’t. any idea why?
ralph, i hope u get this……on the page that shows you ur lvls, go to the smithing then click it. there, it shows the lvl u need to be to make anything. Check if your lvl is actually high enouhgt for those things. for example, to make a steel plateleg, i think you need to be lvl 4. however, for a platebody, you have to be lvl 49.
hope I helped
i mean to make a steel plateleg u needa be lvl 48….lol forgot the 8.
I have the same problem as ralph. Bronze platebody doesnt show up on the screen and i checked to make sure im a high enough level
coorsmackio is my account name if you can help please add me/messege me
ralph and coorsmackio,
scroll down the anvil screen. see it now? hope i helped
did i help you? i hope so. otherwise, im sorry i couldn’t help. my rs username is Twins Rock 5. go and make a lot of money!!!:)
Twins Rock 5
Jesus…so many dushes… lol jk u guys but there is a way easer way to make cash. you could just sell the barz. mith barz r 1k ea so that decent. steel is 500 ea and iron is 200 ea.
Twins Rocks 5 nice comments and if u sell 1000 gold ore u can get
more than 4mil
well an easy way to lvl up your smithing is cut yews if your wcing is 60 then you can and then sell them
well an easy way to lvl up your smithing is cut yews if your wcing is 60 then you can and then sell them
a good way to get ur smithing lvl up is smith stuff
i play runescape and am lvl 72 add me if u want sameerdbz11
smithin is useless cause its long boring and waste time
ok this is for mem no f2p people soz maybe next time
go kill green dragon in edilve wildy lvl 11-13 deep
remember dragon bones r 2k each
and grren d hide 1k each so if u go 1 trip fill ur invent with 28 d bones that 56k =0
guys no affence but u have to be a mem to make good money when free world well u cant make good money really
if u all want money add me i want yew logs in stead of getting 300gp each for 1 i will give u lucky ******* 500gp each. i dont really
care bout money i got 4.5mil in bank and got loads of good mem items like:
1.dragon battle axe 172k
2:dragon scimter 100k
3.dragon long sword:100k
4:dragon dageer++ 36k
5: ring of stone 1.7mil
6.robin hood hat : 2.6mil
7:dark bow:1.9mil
8:dharoks great axe:650k
9:full sara:3.5mil
10:10 rune scimter 200k
11.10 rune 2h 400k
12:dragon 2h:1.5mil
and thats it but im rich =) just meesgae me in runescape i will be glad to help
If anyone needs money come talking to me on rs. i will teach u step-by-step how to make money!
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if any of u new guys (lvl 10 or under in mineing or smithing) need help mineing and smiting then talk to me in rune scape im a lvl 31 mineing 19 smithing add me ill also give u 3 coal ores 2 sell ill tell u my rs name l8r
cool add me i like mining i give free ores away (bronze iron steel)
and gold ore
just don’t buy bars there a rip off don’t buy them make them
all these things yes u can do them but its just a waste of time u would be better of just mining then smithing the ores u mine thats the only way to lvl up most other things are just stupid scams hope u lvl up lol cya
if ya wanna make cash, dont mine and smith, u gotta craft flax into bowstrings…or viel running at shilo village or even making falador telepads from you lecture, theres even the good old berry picking, wat u do is go by red dragons in wildy, and pick the berries till u got 28, go to bh and bank em, continue this until u have about 1k berries, that about 800k! also oak plank and ballooning. if u dont know what some of these are, look on youtube, but if ya really wanna make cash from mining, mine pure essance, all of these are members and not f2p, sorry.
i know about 5 more ways of fast cash, add me if ya wanna know-hen head8
hi everyone my smithing lv is 38 and mining is 58 and wc is 62.i wanna get my smith to 50 ………..so any ideas??and to make money i am suffering…..wat to do?plz suggest some useful things for smithing xp and money…..
and remember i am not a member!!
where can i mine iron????every where bank is toooooooo far and i can get a full inventry of iron by the time i go and comeback to and from the bank.please please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok if any of u need help in runescape just add me billyjoe925 im a lvl 107 and need 69 smithing 4 a quest cuz its my last quest i have 2 do 2 get a quest cape! but anyways a good way 2 get smithing up is by smithing steel arrowtips if ur a memb and if ur a non memb, then soz i don\’t know.
well remember just add me if u guys need help in runescape!
i will try 2 log on a lot.
Hi!
wheres a good place to mine ore i wanna make 1k gold ore and sell them can u tell me some areas???
guys i really need a cheap but effective way to get 65 smithing then 69 smithin from 55,, as i have 3 quests left and jagex find it clever 2 put such a high smithin requirement on 2 of those quests its unbelieveable… if any of u have a cheap but effective way to get 65 and 69 smithin plz add me in game
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smithing is hard but good mining really helps to get smithing up. You need to get 50 smithing to make mith. Mith bars sell 1k each but u also need 50 minning that how i got full addy g and black g
look, i found the easiest way, but it takes awhile, also the only way to smith without loosing money if u buy ores, is to buy 200 mith ore, 800 coal and 200 nats (its like 50000000000000000 times quicker to super heat bars then use furnace) so super heat all your mith and dont smith, sell bars in G.E you come out pretty much same money spent on ores, even with buying nats, just use fire staff to keep price down. you get roughly 4k exp per 200 bars. takes about 20 min. iv gone up 6 lvls in a about a week (i dont logg on for long). if u need any help add me, samwilliam92 im a lvl 67 with 67 mining and 56 (or 57 forgoton lol) smithing. also 66 wc.
i got 49 mining i need 50 for heroes im mining iron takes long
…matter of fact, i dont see any good advice worth a … look at number 10..what does wc have to do with smithing? .. look at 32, what does superheat item have to do with smithing?
..point i’m making is you all dont have a clue and thats why runescape will always be a little kiddie game
number 26..closest bank is lumbridge in free play
omfg noob this is for like lvl5s 2K isn’t worth my time when 28gold is like 13K -.- so i owned you! 65mining ftw
seriously, just buy iron ore & smith the heck out of it!
make as many bars as you can & stock up.
then make platebodies/arrow heads/etc. and you’ll be making money and even help out with fletching. (members)
some of u r noobs good y not just if u r a mem go pure ess mineing 180 gp a pice and 1 inventory in 1 min
went wrong
if your a non mem make steel bars, to make 1k steel bars it will cost 450k but they will sell for 600k and you will get 17,500 xp
nice my smithing is level 30 and i am a member and i am allowed to kill free users beware before i get you my summoning is level 99 i can summon a dragon
The best way to earn money is to fish. Get your fishing level to 50 and fish for swordies. There is a very high demand for them. A 100 sells for around 50k.
After you get a lot of money fishing, buy ores (I buy coal then mine iron to make steel) and smith them. I’m trying to be able to smith gold (lvl 40) and it’s working.
lol u guys r rubbish
hey yall i need help getting my mining and smithing lvl up there only lvl 57(mining) and 50 (smithing) and if u could help me plz add me
username evilkanivil7
ty if u help me and i also need help to make enuf money for full zammy (l) if u can help ty
oh ys im a non member but i useto be a member and im lvl 74
Twin rocks 5 you helped me so much i just couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t make an Iron kite shield on runescape until you came along and saved the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TYSM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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where is the best place to find gold? I’m a free player.
the best way to make money is to go to port sarim and go tothe island and thhe you should go up the volcano and down it there a like 5 gold rocks and noone is ever there thaen just cabbage port out ps add me my name is wobaku
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I need to get to Lv.40 and I’m Lv.33.How can i level up fast??????????????
making money 1st of all for making money get ur skillz up like woodcutting and cut normals near the ge and bank them and then selll them logs sell for 28gp each ok 2nd is mining u can mine copper and tin or get ur mining to 15 and mine iron which sells for 100gp each or if ur high enuf lvl go kill giants they drop big bones which sell for 300gp each and sometimes drop limpy roots which sell for 1k the giants lvls r 28 and can hit 3’s another is for combat ppl is to go to karamaja u can get there by boat at port sarim and boat costs 30gp for each trip there anyway go up to the volcano and go to the spiders and pik up their red eggs which sell for 400 gp each minimum price and yer there is also gold ore there yay lol anyway theres 4 gold ore there oh by the way having trouble add me noobs teabag
hope that helped
ok me again doomzknight go kill red spiders they r in karamaja in the volcano place if u look on the map u go to the ! icon and go there 2nd is theirs moss giants lvl 45 or something or 41 so yer and theirs also red spiders their lvl 34 or something oh im lvl 47 and loving it
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ok dats gd but dat aint useful how are we emant to make platebodies if we don’t even have da high eniugh lvl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! duhhhhh use ur brain like