The following is a table showing at what level you can forge various items. A similar table to the one below can be opened in the game by clicking the smithing skill icon in the stats menu.

Item		Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune
Dagger		1	15	30	50	70	85
Hatchet		1	16	31	51	71	86
Mace		2	17	32	52	72	87
Medium helm		3	18	33	53	73	88
Short sword		4	19	34	54	74	89
Nails		4	19	34	54	74	89
Throwing dart tips** Members		4	19	34	54	74	89
Wire Members		4	-	-	-	-	-
Cannonball Members		-	-	35	-	-	-
Arrow heads Members		5	20	35	55	75	90
Scimitar		5	20	35	55	75	90
Long sword		6	21	36	56	76	91
Item		Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune
Studs Members		-	-	36	-	-	-
Full helm		7	22	37	57	77	92
Throwing knives Members		7	22	37	57	77	92
Square shield		8	23	38	58	78	93
Warhammer		9	24	39	59	79	94
Oil lantern Members		-	26	-	-	-	-
Battle axe		10	25	40	60	80	95
Chainmail body		11	26	41	61	81	96
Kite shield		12	27	42	62	82	97
Claws* Members		13	28	43	63	83	98
Two-handed sword		14	29	44	64	84	99
Platemail legs		16	31	46	66	86	99
Platemail skirt		16	31	46	66	86	99
Platemail body		18	33	48	68	88	99
Bullseye lantern Members		-	-	49	-	-	-
Item		Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune

* To make this you will need to have completed the Death Plateau quest.
** To make this you will need to have completed the Tourist Trap quest.

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. If you want to smelt several lots of ore at once, left clicking on the furnace will bring up a list of metals. Right click on a metal to select the quantity you want to make.

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
	Adamant	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.