Smelting

Crafting Also trains Intelligence

Smelt ore into bars (and alloys) at a furnace.

Kind

Crafting

Stat training

Intelligence ×1 (per action, relative to combat training)

Station

Furnace

Recipes

14

How to level Smelting

All tradeskills share one training curve. Each action (a swing, a smelt, a forge, a brew...) adds training points; when the bar reaches the cost of the next skill point, your skill goes up by 1. The cost of the next point at skill s is 1 × (1 + s / 12)^1.7 points, so it is fast early and slower higher up. An action adds 1 + 0.35 × tier points while your skill is inside the recipe's (or node's) optimal range – from its required level up to 20 levels above it. Above that the gain shrinks and reaches zero (“trivial”) 25 levels later: nothing more is learned from that item, and the game tells you to try something harder. Each action also trains a core stat a little (see “Stat training” above). Skills are trained by use and have a soft cap of 250 (like every skill; they can reach 1000).

Smelting basics

Smelt ore into bars (and alloys such as bronze and steel) at a furnace. Bars feed Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting. Ore comes from Mining; coal is mined or bought as fuel/flux. Smelting trains Intelligence.

What trains best at each level

For each skill level: items still inside their full-rate range (highest tier first). Higher tier = more training per action.

Stations & where they are

All 14 recipes

The skill curve

Training points needed per skill point, and how many actions that is (at full rate) for items of tier 1, 5 and 9. Tier of crafted items and nodes: see the tables above (iron = tier 3, steel 4, mithril 5 …).