A promise I can’t keep…
As you know I did promise something… Unfortunately I could not come in on my promise but I do have something good besides adding 4 letters to my display name… I got 99 Smithing… And now my method in one long Arduous post!
Blast furnace Smithing Guide
By LEWentworth
“blast furnace was actually an attempt at writing a smithing guild for example.” ~Paul Gower
You may have heard of the words Blast Furnace in the past but if you wanted to try it here is some information to help you learn it.
———-Why Blast furnace?———–
- ½ ore costs (Steel needs 1 ore mithril needs 2, Adamantite needs 3 and Runeite needs 4)
- 100% Success rate on iron ore to bar conversion! (Like uperheat item)
- Cheap ores that restock Daily
- Train other skills slightly while training smithing
- Work as a team as you all achieve one common goal
Requirements?
None really to just place and smelt ore. (At a price)
Reccomendations
- 60 smithing! This is important! I recommend this as the furnace costs 2,500 coins to use for 10 minutes if you are under level 60! This also allows you to use the magic anvils!
- 30 Agility So you can run the conveyor belt
- 30 firemaking to light the furnace
- 30 Strength to pump hot air into the belly of the furnace to make bars
- 30 Craft to fix the low quality pipes that the blast furnace uses.
————Items, what should I bring with me?—————
Everyone
- Coins! Unoteing ores, paying the fee if under 60 smithing or even buying ores!
- Varrock armour For smithing faster after produceing your bars!
- Sacred Clay hammer for x2 smithing xp and x2 the tiny craft xp if you decide to fix the pipes with the sc hammer
- Ring of charos (activated) if under 60 smithing this will make 10 minutes at 1,250 coins and can save you money!
- Lightweight gear If you are not going to be smithing there or you will be bank running… Bring these! You can really reduce weight costs with them and they will really help on the bike!
- Explorer ring It recharges your run up to 3 times daily!
- Noted coal! Ordan will unote your coal for you! So if you are bringing your own coal… He will unote it for cheap!
- Alchemy runes If you are high alching bring these! You can sit and alch while loads get done if you must. (you may get angry smithers though if you are not helping when help is needed)
- Goldsmithing Gauntlets If you are smithing gold… this WILL give you a bonus on gold smithing at the blast furnace like a normal furnace!
If you are going to be making mithril or lesser bars
- Noted ore of the type you are making! Ordan will unote any ore under Mithril except blurite or elemental (ether are not commonly used for training and are not useable in the furnace)
If you are making addy or rune bars
- Beast of Burden! You will be making bank runs! This will be your extra ore! I was hauling 30 ore back and forth with a spirit terrorbird and my inventory! If you have a pack yak you can hold 50 ore a trip if you really wanted to do this (that’s a lot of time saved). It’s all in what you choose.
————-Reaching the blast furnace————
You have a lot of options to go to the blast furnace!
- The mine cart system leads you just south west of the entrance! You can run to the ge buy your supplies and run back with this! Or from the mining guild or white wolf mountain! (recommended!)
- You can come from the train after Another slice of H.A.M.
- Walk from Relleka or Seers Village! You can easily do this if you don’t have another way!
- D-K-S Fairy ring teleport. Another easy way it summons you right outside of Keldagrim!
- Inferior locator Locate iron it may bring you close to keldagrim!
Keldagrim’s entrance is near the rock crabs do not go on the hill! Look for the two dwarven miners for the entrance and pass through the crack too! Then take the boatman into the town.
——I got here now what do I do?——
This is the meat and potatoes of the guide… once you are in the blast furnace you may be daunted by the room and Bertha herself. (the foreman named it try examining the pot if you don’t believe me!). If you are under level 60 smithing talk to the blast furnace foreman by the water and pay him! If you are over 60 smithing… don’t bother with him he won’t bother you! He will show you a map if you are a first timer to the furnace (but you could read this…).
First talk to ordan he is by the conveyor belt ramp and dosen’t move! He will unote your ore for you if you use it on him!
Ore unote rates! (round down all .5 when smithing more than 1!)
Ore unoted
Unote Gp per ore
Copper
10
Tin
10
Iron
8.5
Silver
37
Coal
22.5
Gold
75
Mith
81
He won’t unote anything he dosen’t sell!
He will not unote more spaces than you have in your inventory!
Now that you got your ore walk up that conveyor belt ramp and place your ore on the belt! Once it is there anyone can see it! However no one not even yourself can take it! So place carefully if you make a mistake you can’t undo it!
Now that your ore is in place… here is the fun part the transition from ore to bar!
Now for the conveyor belt to move it needs man power! Someone needs to pedal the conveyor belt! Once you pedal… you will see your ore fall into the furnace once it does it will be counted and saved. (DO NOT LOG OUT WHEN YOUR STUFF IS ON THE BELT! YOU MAY LOSE IT!) Once it’s in the pot it will stay between sessions, membership renewals until the end of Runescape! The max coal it will take in is 201 coal. Though it should probably be 226 coal and 28 ore. Best way to prepare is to find out how much ore you’re going to smith and split into loads. For example my 30 addy runs would use 90 a trip, So I would put in 180 ore (2 trips) and refill every other trip.
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Bike and all the parts that can break on it…
If you are doing mithril feel free to put 200 in and then in turn up to 100 mith! However you need to wait for bars to come out! As each load allows up to 28 bars at a time. Once you reach 28 it will not smith that bar again until you take some bars out (watch out steel makers I had that happen and I got 28 steel and 12 iron before). You can see how much coal is in the furnace by checking the ore dispenser! It will tell you the status of how much coal is in the furnace!
It will not say how much other ore is there though…
Once your ore is in the belly of the beast the heat has to be made. This is where the furnace comes in! you must take a spade and shove coke into the furnace. I like to pump until it just turns red when soloing (more on that later) but some like to fill it to the max.
As long as it’s not cold you will be ok. Once it’s hot or to your liking move on to step 3!
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The pump and the furnace also see the Spade spawn!
The Pump is where you will push heat in! Now this step is what makes the bars and can be lethal if not watched carefully! You will be pushing air into the furnace making pressure to smelt the bars! Just pump until the bars come out you may pump until it’s too hot but do not over pump or you will take 20% of your health in damage (You can die from this if you respectively do this). You can rotate the camera to see when the bars are done by the liquid and the orange molten look on the dispenser (to come later). For those with sounds it will also make a sound effect as well!
Now for a little pause from the machine to explain the gauge. The temperature gauge explains the machine status. If a part is broken… It will say it’s broken if the stove is cold it will ask to add coke! If it’s green your bars are ready if it’s red it’s too hot and if it’s white it’s too cold. This is an important part and you MUST communicate if you are this part.

here’s the guage and the blasted low quality pipes!

something is broken!
Now that we walked around the machine Let’s look at our completed bars… Oh wait they may be molten still! If this happens just use a bucket of water on the bar dispenser (this will cool any other people’s bars as well)! You will see from 0-28 bars in the metal of your choice once you see the bars you may take 1 at a time or the whole lot at once! After you get some bars feel free to put more ore in to keep a cycle going while you move on to the next step!

the bar dispenser… Molten bars, Cooled bars, No bars!

I got extras!
—————–Broken parts—————–
I mentioned broken parts during these steps… The conveyor belt, gears for the conveyor belt and pipes to the furnace can break! When any part breaks no heat goes in to the furnace (even if it’s the belt falling off how odd). Also when the conveyor breaks the ore won’t move. To fix this hit repair with a hammer in your inventory! (regular or sc hammer will do). You can see if the part is broken as the pipe will be disconnected or the conveyor will be showing signs of something broken. As well the gauge reader can tell you the word broken part.
—————The last step————-
Now that you got your bars… you can either go bank them if bank running for later OR you can smith them on site! There are anvils to the north for your pleasure. It requires 60 smithing to use them though. Other than that they are normal anvils. If you are making stackables or alching items you can sit down there if you are using Mithril or less and just smith, smith, and smith until you are done. Remember, Varrock armor does work like it should allowing some items smithed faster.
————– What NOT to do—————
We went over some of the concepts and all the steps… However there are some things you should NEVER EVER DO! Here they are with examples!
1. Covering Ordan. You can annoy people by putting a cannon or grave over Ordan! This will cause people to click the grave or cannon and not Ordan or worse use item on Ordan. Infact people have been saying they will remove the cannon if you pay them! This CAN be taken as Item scamming and is reportable!

This is how NOT to use a cannon!
2. Small pets. It’s best not to bring small pets when smithing but if you must… KEEP THEM OFF THE BELT! This is like above on Ordan all you are doing is making people mad who come to smith. They like to left click and not be bothered with right clicking. This can also be again be done with the grave stone!
3. Marker plants… Another bane as they can be used as above.
What happens if you do this? I can’t help you now from screaming and flaming. As well you may get reported if you demand money or items. There is topics on the forms ASKING for those items to be banned from the blast furnace.
—– I forgot the tools! I need what do I do!—————
Every item you need can be found in Keldagrim or in the furnace itself!
- Ore rocks are found in Keldagrim as well as around the boatman area.
- Hammer respawns on the table against the north wall east of the anvils.
- Bucket of water respawns right next to the pool of water
- Spade respawns right next to the coke deposit for you to utilize!
——— What should I make?————
This part is very open ended… If you want to smith for money… You need to look at the GE and compare ore costs to all prices! At the time of this writing Addy arrow tips are 2400 for 15 (1 bar). Now the ore costs are 1917 (1 addy ore 3 coal). This means selling them is a net gain of 483gp per bar! 20 bars 9,660 gp in profit! On two terrorbirds (almost 1 hour) I was making 240 bars or 115K an hour! (only an estimate remember). Who says you can’t make money with smithing? Remember that the average is affected by how many trips, what you make and how long it takes to make the bars (the person factor is the most random part of the equation).
——-Can I solo this beast?——–
You can solo this! I did it before I went to the official world of 58 to work with a lot of other smithers. To do so… You need to follow the steps below.
- Add ore
- Place ore in furnace
- Heat stove (when it turns red add 1 more scoop usually works well but your choice on how hot you want it)
- Pump and fix when needed.
- Stop when you see/hear bars come out!
- Cool the bars
- Smith
- Wash rinse and repeat!
Doing this you don’t have to leave! You can have 3000 mith and 6000 coal and just sit there making mithril arrow tips until you get your 15K tips! (they sell ok 189gp for 15 or… 567,000 gp profit!)
—————–Tips for free——————-
- SC hammers! Bring them! Use them! Live with them! You will be there forever with a normal hammer! Also, some people do bring up a certain clan chat on the world of 45 every now and then as well as others!
- Beast of burden if you are bank running! Do that live with it and love it’s company!
- Be the good kind of smither and try to help when you can people will like you and you may level some other skills!
- The pump raises strength at 4 per second
- The Bike raises agility at 2 per second Some people may go and just ride the bike or pump all day! (it’s been done and is a thanked service)
- Fixing pipes is 50xp (100 with sc hammer) each fix!
- Firemaking is 5xp per load (dunno about the penance horn helping).
- Each person you cool besides your bars at once is an additional 1xp per person’s load! (so if 5 people’s are also cooled it’s 5xp even if 3 of them have only 1 bar in there needing to be cooled!)
- WATCH THE GE! If you keep an eye on costs and how much they sell you can make a good amount of gp!
- Buy out ordan! He sells lots of cheap ore! Under GE price! Saves you even more costs!
- Use your kingdom’s coal! 546/3=182 Adamantite bars. Making 87,906 gp alone! Add in the 3 gems and what else you can even make more cash!
- Mine your own ore! If you are really Ambitious mine your own ore! Pay nothing! Make all your cash.
Ordan’s Ore shop
I hope this guide can help you. I do have a link for you to use to help you
http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Blast_Furnace
this explains all about the blast furnace also has the HD picks my computer can’t make for you!
http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/l=0/forums.ws?13,14,756,60366122
reference of Mod Paul quote on page 4 post 8.
Enjoy the guide let me know if there is anything I can clean up or clarify!
LEWentworth.
As you know I did promise something… Unfortunately I could not come in on my promise but I do have something good besides adding 4 letters to my display name… I got 99 Smithing… And now my method in one long Arduous post!
Blast furnace Smithing Guide
By LEWentworth
“blast furnace was actually an attempt at writing a smithing guild for example.” ~Paul Gower
You may have heard of the words Blast Furnace in the past but if you wanted to try it here is some information to help you learn it.
———-Why Blast furnace?———–
- ½ ore costs (Steel needs 1 ore mithril needs 2, Adamantite needs 3 and Runeite needs 4)
- 100% Success rate on iron ore to bar conversion! (Like uperheat item)
- Cheap ores that restock Daily
- Train other skills slightly while training smithing
- Work as a team as you all achieve one common goal
Requirements?
None really to just place and smelt ore. (At a price)
Reccomendations
- 60 smithing! This is important! I recommend this as the furnace costs 2,500 coins to use for 10 minutes if you are under level 60! This also allows you to use the magic anvils!
- 30 Agility So you can run the conveyor belt
- 30 firemaking to light the furnace
- 30 Strength to pump hot air into the belly of the furnace to make bars
- 30 Craft to fix the low quality pipes that the blast furnace uses.
————Items, what should I bring with me?—————
Everyone
- Coins! Unoteing ores, paying the fee if under 60 smithing or even buying ores!
- Varrock armour For smithing faster after produceing your bars!
- Sacred Clay hammer for x2 smithing xp and x2 the tiny craft xp if you decide to fix the pipes with the sc hammer
- Ring of charos (activated) if under 60 smithing this will make 10 minutes at 1,250 coins and can save you money!
- Lightweight gear If you are not going to be smithing there or you will be bank running… Bring these! You can really reduce weight costs with them and they will really help on the bike!
- Explorer ring It recharges your run up to 3 times daily!
- Noted coal! Ordan will unote your coal for you! So if you are bringing your own coal… He will unote it for cheap!
- Alchemy runes If you are high alching bring these! You can sit and alch while loads get done if you must. (you may get angry smithers though if you are not helping when help is needed)
- Goldsmithing Gauntlets If you are smithing gold… this WILL give you a bonus on gold smithing at the blast furnace like a normal furnace!
If you are going to be making mithril or lesser bars
- Noted ore of the type you are making! Ordan will unote any ore under Mithril except blurite or elemental (ether are not commonly used for training and are not useable in the furnace)
If you are making addy or rune bars
- Beast of Burden! You will be making bank runs! This will be your extra ore! I was hauling 30 ore back and forth with a spirit terrorbird and my inventory! If you have a pack yak you can hold 50 ore a trip if you really wanted to do this (that’s a lot of time saved). It’s all in what you choose.
————-Reaching the blast furnace————
You have a lot of options to go to the blast furnace!
- The mine cart system leads you just south west of the entrance! You can run to the ge buy your supplies and run back with this! Or from the mining guild or white wolf mountain! (recommended!)
- You can come from the train after Another slice of H.A.M.
- Walk from Relleka or Seers Village! You can easily do this if you don’t have another way!
- D-K-S Fairy ring teleport. Another easy way it summons you right outside of Keldagrim!
- Inferior locator Locate iron it may bring you close to keldagrim!
Keldagrim’s entrance is near the rock crabs do not go on the hill! Look for the two dwarven miners for the entrance and pass through the crack too! Then take the boatman into the town.
——I got here now what do I do?——
This is the meat and potatoes of the guide… once you are in the blast furnace you may be daunted by the room and Bertha herself. (the foreman named it try examining the pot if you don’t believe me!). If you are under level 60 smithing talk to the blast furnace foreman by the water and pay him! If you are over 60 smithing… don’t bother with him he won’t bother you! He will show you a map if you are a first timer to the furnace (but you could read this…).
First talk to ordan he is by the conveyor belt ramp and dosen’t move! He will unote your ore for you if you use it on him!
Ore unote rates! (round down all .5 when smithing more than 1!)
| Ore unoted | Unote Gp per ore |
| Copper | 10 |
| Tin | 10 |
| Iron | 8.5 |
| Silver | 37 |
| Coal | 22.5 |
| Gold | 75 |
| Mith | 81 |
He won’t unote anything he dosen’t sell!
He will not unote more spaces than you have in your inventory!
Now that you got your ore walk up that conveyor belt ramp and place your ore on the belt! Once it is there anyone can see it! However no one not even yourself can take it! So place carefully if you make a mistake you can’t undo it!
Now that your ore is in place… here is the fun part the transition from ore to bar!
Now for the conveyor belt to move it needs man power! Someone needs to pedal the conveyor belt! Once you pedal… you will see your ore fall into the furnace once it does it will be counted and saved. (DO NOT LOG OUT WHEN YOUR STUFF IS ON THE BELT! YOU MAY LOSE IT!) Once it’s in the pot it will stay between sessions, membership renewals until the end of Runescape! The max coal it will take in is 201 coal. Though it should probably be 226 coal and 28 ore. Best way to prepare is to find out how much ore you’re going to smith and split into loads. For example my 30 addy runs would use 90 a trip, So I would put in 180 ore (2 trips) and refill every other trip.

Bike and all the parts that can break on it…
If you are doing mithril feel free to put 200 in and then in turn up to 100 mith! However you need to wait for bars to come out! As each load allows up to 28 bars at a time. Once you reach 28 it will not smith that bar again until you take some bars out (watch out steel makers I had that happen and I got 28 steel and 12 iron before). You can see how much coal is in the furnace by checking the ore dispenser! It will tell you the status of how much coal is in the furnace!
It will not say how much other ore is there though…
Once your ore is in the belly of the beast the heat has to be made. This is where the furnace comes in! you must take a spade and shove coke into the furnace. I like to pump until it just turns red when soloing (more on that later) but some like to fill it to the max.
As long as it’s not cold you will be ok. Once it’s hot or to your liking move on to step 3!

The pump and the furnace also see the Spade spawn!
The Pump is where you will push heat in! Now this step is what makes the bars and can be lethal if not watched carefully! You will be pushing air into the furnace making pressure to smelt the bars! Just pump until the bars come out you may pump until it’s too hot but do not over pump or you will take 20% of your health in damage (You can die from this if you respectively do this). You can rotate the camera to see when the bars are done by the liquid and the orange molten look on the dispenser (to come later). For those with sounds it will also make a sound effect as well!
Now for a little pause from the machine to explain the gauge. The temperature gauge explains the machine status. If a part is broken… It will say it’s broken if the stove is cold it will ask to add coke! If it’s green your bars are ready if it’s red it’s too hot and if it’s white it’s too cold. This is an important part and you MUST communicate if you are this part.

here’s the guage and the blasted low quality pipes!

something is broken!
Now that we walked around the machine Let’s look at our completed bars… Oh wait they may be molten still! If this happens just use a bucket of water on the bar dispenser (this will cool any other people’s bars as well)! You will see from 0-28 bars in the metal of your choice once you see the bars you may take 1 at a time or the whole lot at once! After you get some bars feel free to put more ore in to keep a cycle going while you move on to the next step!
![]()
the bar dispenser… Molten bars, Cooled bars, No bars!

I got extras!
—————–Broken parts—————–
I mentioned broken parts during these steps… The conveyor belt, gears for the conveyor belt and pipes to the furnace can break! When any part breaks no heat goes in to the furnace (even if it’s the belt falling off how odd). Also when the conveyor breaks the ore won’t move. To fix this hit repair with a hammer in your inventory! (regular or sc hammer will do). You can see if the part is broken as the pipe will be disconnected or the conveyor will be showing signs of something broken. As well the gauge reader can tell you the word broken part.
—————The last step————-
Now that you got your bars… you can either go bank them if bank running for later OR you can smith them on site! There are anvils to the north for your pleasure. It requires 60 smithing to use them though. Other than that they are normal anvils. If you are making stackables or alching items you can sit down there if you are using Mithril or less and just smith, smith, and smith until you are done. Remember, Varrock armor does work like it should allowing some items smithed faster.
————– What NOT to do—————
We went over some of the concepts and all the steps… However there are some things you should NEVER EVER DO! Here they are with examples!
1. Covering Ordan. You can annoy people by putting a cannon or grave over Ordan! This will cause people to click the grave or cannon and not Ordan or worse use item on Ordan. Infact people have been saying they will remove the cannon if you pay them! This CAN be taken as Item scamming and is reportable!

This is how NOT to use a cannon!
2. Small pets. It’s best not to bring small pets when smithing but if you must… KEEP THEM OFF THE BELT! This is like above on Ordan all you are doing is making people mad who come to smith. They like to left click and not be bothered with right clicking. This can also be again be done with the grave stone!
3. Marker plants… Another bane as they can be used as above.
What happens if you do this? I can’t help you now from screaming and flaming. As well you may get reported if you demand money or items. There is topics on the forms ASKING for those items to be banned from the blast furnace.
—– I forgot the tools! I need what do I do!—————
Every item you need can be found in Keldagrim or in the furnace itself!
- Ore rocks are found in Keldagrim as well as around the boatman area.
- Hammer respawns on the table against the north wall east of the anvils.
- Bucket of water respawns right next to the pool of water
- Spade respawns right next to the coke deposit for you to utilize!
——— What should I make?————
This part is very open ended… If you want to smith for money… You need to look at the GE and compare ore costs to all prices! At the time of this writing Addy arrow tips are 2400 for 15 (1 bar). Now the ore costs are 1917 (1 addy ore 3 coal). This means selling them is a net gain of 483gp per bar! 20 bars 9,660 gp in profit! On two terrorbirds (almost 1 hour) I was making 240 bars or 115K an hour! (only an estimate remember). Who says you can’t make money with smithing? Remember that the average is affected by how many trips, what you make and how long it takes to make the bars (the person factor is the most random part of the equation).
——-Can I solo this beast?——–
You can solo this! I did it before I went to the official world of 58 to work with a lot of other smithers. To do so… You need to follow the steps below.
- Add ore
- Place ore in furnace
- Heat stove (when it turns red add 1 more scoop usually works well but your choice on how hot you want it)
- Pump and fix when needed.
- Stop when you see/hear bars come out!
- Cool the bars
- Smith
- Wash rinse and repeat!
Doing this you don’t have to leave! You can have 3000 mith and 6000 coal and just sit there making mithril arrow tips until you get your 15K tips! (they sell ok 189gp for 15 or… 567,000 gp profit!)
—————–Tips for free——————-
- SC hammers! Bring them! Use them! Live with them! You will be there forever with a normal hammer! Also, some people do bring up a certain clan chat on the world of 45 every now and then as well as others!
- Beast of burden if you are bank running! Do that live with it and love it’s company!
- Be the good kind of smither and try to help when you can people will like you and you may level some other skills!
- The pump raises strength at 4 per second
- The Bike raises agility at 2 per second Some people may go and just ride the bike or pump all day! (it’s been done and is a thanked service)
- Fixing pipes is 50xp (100 with sc hammer) each fix!
- Firemaking is 5xp per load (dunno about the penance horn helping).
- Each person you cool besides your bars at once is an additional 1xp per person’s load! (so if 5 people’s are also cooled it’s 5xp even if 3 of them have only 1 bar in there needing to be cooled!)
- WATCH THE GE! If you keep an eye on costs and how much they sell you can make a good amount of gp!
- Buy out ordan! He sells lots of cheap ore! Under GE price! Saves you even more costs!
- Use your kingdom’s coal! 546/3=182 Adamantite bars. Making 87,906 gp alone! Add in the 3 gems and what else you can even make more cash!
- Mine your own ore! If you are really Ambitious mine your own ore! Pay nothing! Make all your cash.
Ordan’s Ore shop
I hope this guide can help you. I do have a link for you to use to help you
http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Blast_Furnace
this explains all about the blast furnace also has the HD picks my computer can’t make for you!
http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/l=0/forums.ws?13,14,756,60366122
reference of Mod Paul quote on page 4 post 8.
Enjoy the guide let me know if there is anything I can clean up or clarify!
LEWentworth.











