Message #41

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  4. MINING AND SMITHING

Now that we're done with the combat-related skills, it's time to concentrate on non-combat skills. If you want to make money, smithing is a pretty good way. While training levels 85-99 you will be making runite items, which you can either sell or cast high-level-alchemy on for some profit.
You'll need around 30-40k coins for this. Teleport to skill. (the A teleportation in the spells menu) There is a building with a NPC inside. Go in and trade Bob. He sells a variety of items, very useful for training non-combat skills.

 

Below is an image of his shop:

 

Buy an iron pickaxe, a rune pickaxe and a hammer. Now go on the eastern side of the building and you'll see a lot of rocks of various ores. Mine 12 tin ores and 12 copper ores.

 

Now go south east until you find a furnace on the beach. Click it and choose bronze bar. Repeat until all your ores are turned to bars.

 

 

After you smelted the bars, go back to the mining area. You will see an anvil nearby.

 

Use a bar on the anvil (remember to have a hammer in your inventory) and smith something out of the bars. It does not matter what you smith: you will get the same exp/bar if you use a bar of the same metal.

 

Repeat and change metals when possible until both skills  are at level 99.

MINING TIPS:

 

TIP 1: Above there's an image of the ore rocks. Below is a list of what each of them contains:
1. Runite (mining level 85)
2. Copper (mining level 1)
3. Tin (mining level 1)
4. Iron (mining level 15)
5. Coal (mining level 30)
6. Mithril (mining level 55)
7. Adamantite (mining level 70)
TIP 2: Don't mine coal. You won't need it for smithing. If you mine coal you will raise your mining level too fast compared to smithing.
TIP 3: Always mine ores that you can smelt and smith after. If you reach level 70 mining but still have 68 smithing, don't mine adamantite, but wait until you also get 70 smithing.
TIP 4: The rune pickaxe is usable at level 41 or above. When you earn this level, drop the old iron pickaxe. You won't need it anymore!

SMITHING TIPS:

TIP 1: To smith certain bars you need certain levels. Before mining some ores be sure you can also smelt and smith it:
Bronze bar: tin ore + copper ore + level 1
Iron bar: iron ore + level 15
Steel bar: iron ore + level 30
Mithril bar: mithril ore + level 55
Adamantite bar: adamantite ore + level 70
Runite bar: runite ore + level 85
TIP 2: You don't need coal for smithing. Don't mine it!
TIP 3: You can smith at most 5 items at once. That means you can smith up to 25 bars with a few clicks if you smith platebodies.
TIP 4: Drop all the items you've created until level 85. When you begin making rune items, you should either bank them at the Catherby bank or alch them, although I recommend the first option. After you got 99, you'll have a pretty nice collection of rune items to sell at the shop, other players or high-alch them for bonus magic experience.