How to Make Steel Bars in RuneScape
Just as the development of steel ushered in a new era for humanity, your RuneScape character's development of steel will usher in a new level of profits and skills-building capabilities. Steel bars are easy to make and utilize in RuneScape.
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Instructions
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Gain experience. To make, or "smelt," steel, you must first develop your character to at least a smithing level of 30. There are several techniques that can help develop lower experience levels. With a ring of forging, for instance, your success at smelting iron improves, which makes iron an accessible and simple ore to use. Rather than being working in silver at level 20, some players will concentrate on smelting iron and hammering out plate armor to develop experience between 20 and 30.
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Obtain sufficient ore. It typically takes two coal and one iron ore to create each bar of steel. Coal may be mined in many places, but the more popular include the coal mine west of Seer's Village and the Mining Guild below Falador. Both iron and coal may be found outside the guild area in the mines below Falador, and in many other mining areas. The Scopian Pit North of Al Kharid has both coal and iron. Wealthy and impatient players may simply purchase their ore on the Grand Exchange.
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Locate a forge. Non-members often leverage the forge in Falador for smelting. It is slightly closer to the western-most bank in Falador. Al Kharid has a forge, and this forge is closer to a bank than any other non-member forge in RuneScape. The forge in closest proximity to a bank for members, however, is the forge in Port Physmatys. This town is not available until at least beginning the Ghosts Ahoy quest. Note in this graphic that as a character stands at the bank window, a door to the forge is visible just over his left shoulder. Though the forge in Edgeville (available to those who have completed the first Varrock Achievement Diary) is also close to a bank, the door to the furnace hut is almost always closed, which makes it tougher to use than Port Phasmatys.
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Consider the blast furnace. Deep in the Dwarven city of Keldagrim there lies a mini-game called the blast furnace. Though designed as a team game, the contraption can be operated alone with some patience and practice. What's valuable about the blast furnace is that you may forge iron with a coal ratio of 1:1. Instead of two coal for every iron, you need just one coal per iron ore. Additionally, there's a non player character at the forge who can "un-note" ore for a price. Savvy players with extra money bring hundreds or even thousands of noted ore and simply remain there smelting for long periods of time. There are anvils available there as well, so the bars may immediately be turned into product either to stack (such as arrow-heads or bolts) or to sell to the merchant also loitering near the furnace.
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Consider magic. The level 43 spell Superheat Item will smelt one iron ore for each coal in your inventory. The spell costs one Nature rune and four fire runes to cast. It is not a popular approach in part because the market value of the steel bar is lower than the cost of runes required. If you are already high-level in magic, and are well funded, this approach may be useful. Select the Superheat spell and then choose an iron ore in your inventory. Assuming you have two coal as well, the iron will be automatically combined with the coal and converted to steel.
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Select smelt at the furnace. You may right-click on a furnace and select Smelt, or you may simply click on the furnace, as smelting is the default action for a furnace. As shown in this graphic, you may right-click on the icon for steel and choose a volume to smelt at once. There is no penalty for getting the volume wrong. Though it is not possible to smelt all ten at once, you may still select Smelt 10. It will stop after nine.
You may also create steel by using coal on the furnace with another coal and an iron ore in your personal inventory
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Tips & Warnings
Complete the Dwarf Cannon quest and get a cannonball mold. This is an ideal fit for the last ore position in your inventory. From ore to bars to cannonballs. It is helpful to build your combat levels before mining for coal and iron as both ores are often protected by moderate to moderately low levels of monsters which will not harass you if your levels greatly exceed theirs.
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