Giants' Foundry

Plan exactly what to buy to reach your target Smithing level at Giants' Foundry.

Giants' Foundry plan · level 15 → 70

Smithing XP from selected strategies · 735,216 XP needed

Swords

Hours

0 play + 0 shopping

To spend

gp · after owned bars

Gp back

commissions, auto-banked

Net gp

Reputation

free by-product

Totals appear once you pick a strategy for each level band below; the tool never auto-selects an alloy.

Strategy by level band

One pick per band; the tool never auto-selects an alloy. Gp columns are per sword; net gp = 2 × XP − materials.

Sort

15 to 30

	Alloy	Quality	XP/sword	Swords	Hours	Mat gp	Gp back	Net gp	gp/XP
	Bronze + Iron 9:19 score 21 · 4,080 xp/sword · 0.2h play + 0.1h shop	59	4,080	3	0.2	1,990	8,160	+6,170	+1.51

Pick a strategy for 15 to 30 to build your shopping list.

30 to 50

Alloy	Quality	XP/sword	Swords	Hours	Mat gp	Gp back	Net gp	gp/XP
Iron + Steel 14:14 score 40 · 6,030 xp/sword · 0.9h play + 0.2h shop	78	6,030	15	1.1	5,824	12,060	+6,236	+1.03
Bronze + Iron 9:19 score 21 · 4,080 xp/sword · 1.4h play + 0.4h shop	59	4,080	22	1.7	1,990	8,160	+6,170	+1.51
Steel (pure) score 30 · 4,980 xp/sword · 1.1h play + 0.4h shop	68	4,980	18	1.6	9,100	9,960	+860	+0.17

Pick a strategy for 30 to 50 to build your shopping list.

50 to 70

Alloy	Quality	XP/sword	Swords	Hours	Mat gp	Gp back	Net gp	gp/XP
Iron + Steel 14:14 score 40 · 6,030 xp/sword · 6.6h play + 1.4h shop	78	6,030	106	8	5,824	12,060	+6,236	+1.03
Bronze + Iron 9:19 score 21 · 4,080 xp/sword · 9.8h play + 2.5h shop	59	4,080	156	12.2	1,990	8,160	+6,170	+1.51
Steel + Mithril 14:14 score 65 · 9,000 xp/sword · 5.1h play + 5.1h shop	103	9,000	71	10.1	16,380	18,000	+1,620	+0.18
Steel (pure) score 30 · 4,980 xp/sword · 8h play + 3h shop	68	4,980	128	11	9,100	9,960	+860	+0.17
Mithril (pure) score 40 · 6,030 xp/sword · 6.6h play + 12.4h shop	78	6,030	106	19	23,660	12,060	−11,600	−1.92

Pick a strategy for 50 to 70 to build your shopping list.

Shopping list

Exactly what to buy, shop by shop, split per band so you can shop in phases as commissions replenish gp. Counts already deduct your owned bars.

No strategies selected yet. Pick one per band above to build the shopping list.

About the Giants' Foundry planner

Plan exactly what an ironman needs to buy to reach a target Smithing level at Giants' Foundry: which shops to visit, how many items to buy, how many bank-and-shop trips that takes, the total gp, and how long the whole grind lasts, counting play time and shopping time together.

How the planner works

Every sword uses 28 bars. Sword quality follows your mould score, your levels, and how many mistakes you make per sword, and hand-in XP scales with quality; at quality 148 a sword pays roughly 15,700 XP. Because rates change with levels and Kovac's grog brackets, the plan splits your journey into level bands and picks a metal pairing per band (the suggestion is a list, never an auto-pick; you choose the row).

The shopping list sources bars from meltable armour and weapons in regular shops: Cam Torum warhammers, Brian's battleaxes, Aneirin's platebodies, Horvik, Fortis, and friends. Ore shops are excluded by design. Stock limits per visit are respected, a shop's trips equal the most-demanding item it sells, and each bank-and-buy round trip defaults to 30 seconds (you can set anything from 10 to 120). Play time assumes roughly 14 swords per hour.

Bars you already own reduce purchases band by band, leftovers are reported instead of silently vanishing, and every row shows XP, gp cost, and the net gp after sword commissions. If a metal cannot be sourced from your unlocked shops, the row says which unlock fixes it, for example Song of the Elves or enabling tier-C shops like Scavvo's for rune.

Assumptions and scope

Refinement XP is not counted, only hand-in XP, so totals are slightly conservative.
The Smiths' Uniform is noted where relevant but not modelled as a toggle.
Shop stock and prices are verified against the OSRS Wiki and hardcoded, so there are no live lookups and the planner works offline.

Frequently asked questions

Why not buy ore from Ordan and smelt bars instead?

That is a different training loop with its own economics; see the Blast Furnace calculator for the ironman-honest version of it. This planner deliberately sticks to shop-bought meltables, which is the practical way to feed Giants' Foundry on an ironman.

What does "use best net for every band" do?

It selects, for each level band, the pairing with the best net gp result once commissions are counted. That is usually the cheapest realistic route, though you can still pick any row manually.

Shop stock, prices, and rates verified against the OSRS Wiki on 2026-07-22. Static data, no live lookups.