The smithing skill is used to convert ores, obtained by mining, into weapons and armours. Many players find that making equipment and selling it to shops and other players is a good way to make money. Smithing has two stages: smelting and forging. Smelting converts your ores into bars. This is done at furnaces. To convert your ore into bars select an ore in your inventory then left click on a furnace.

You will need different combinations of ores and different smithing levels to make each bar. Some of these requirements are shown below. There are even more bars to make at higher levels.

	Bar	Ores required	Level
	Bronze	1 Tin ore, 1 Copper ore	1
	Iron	1 Iron ore (50% chance of success)	15
	Silver	1 Silver	20
	Steel	2 Coal, 1 Iron ore	30
	Gold	1 Gold	40
	Mithril	4 Coal, 1 Mithril ore	50
	Adamantite	6 Coal, 1 Adamantite ore	70
	Runite	8 Coal, 1 Runite ore	85

Forging items

Select a bar from your inventory, then select an anvil. You will be given a screen to decide what sort of equipment you would like to make. You will be shown how many bars are needed to make types of object. If this is written in green then you have enough bars to make the item, if it is written in red then you do not.

The name of the objects will be written in black or white. If the name is written in white then you have the smithing level required to make it. If it is written in black then you do not.

Select what you would like to make and provided you have the required smithing levels and number of bars, your object will be made.

The smithing levels required to forge a metal type are the same as those required to smelt it. However at the levels given you will only be able to forge the most basic items in that metal (mostly daggers). A few levels past these base smithing levels you will be able to make a wider variety of things. For example at smithing level 4 you will be able to make bronze short swords. The gold and silver bars are not used to smith weapons instead they are used in the crafting skill.