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.
