Gold bar
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| Release date | 8 May 2001 (Update) |
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| Members? | No |
| Quest item? | No |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alch | 180 coins |
| Low Alch | 120 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | Not sold |
| Examine | It's a bar of gold. |
| Weight | 1.81 kg |
A Gold bar is a bar of refined gold created through the Smithing skill at level 40 by using a gold ore with a furnace, or by casting Superheat item on a gold ore. This normally gives 22.5 Smithing experience per bar, but if the Goldsmith gauntlets from the Family Crest quest are worn, the experience is boosted to 56.2 per bar. Smelting gold will not fill any type of smelting urn.
Gold bars cannot be made into weapons and armour as other bars can. Instead, the primary use of gold bars is to create jewellery with the Crafting skill. To craft gold bars into jewellery, players must use a gold bar on a furnace with the proper mould in their inventory or Toolbelt. If players wish to craft jewellery with gems inset, they must also have the gems in their inventory.
Apart from jewellery, gold bars can be used to create Gold helmets, which are used in the Between a Rock... quest to access Dondakan's mine, and Gold bowls which are used in the Legends' Quest. Despite their name, Gold leaves used in Construction cannot be made by players in any way, and can only be purchased from the Stonemason in Keldagrim. Likewise, gold bars cannot be used to make gold trimmed armour or gilded armour.
Gold bars can also be bought from the G.E. Another way to obtain them is to loot eclectic implings, which can occasionally be looted for 5 noted gold bars.
Dropping monsters
Levels 1 to 24
Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity Rogue 15 1 Uncommon Cave slime 23 1 Rare Minotaur 12, 27 1 Rare Imp 2, 7 1 Very rare Thief 16 1 Very rare
Levels 25 to 99
Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity Gnoeals 84, 93 1 Common Greater demon 92 1 Common Mummy 84,96,103,125 1 Common Dried zombie 89, 94, 110 1 Common Jelly 78 1 Uncommon Minotaur 12, 27 1 Rare Undead troll 74, 100, 125 1 (noted) Very rare
Levels 100 and above
Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity Mummy 84, 96, 103, 125 1 Common Dried zombie 89, 94, 110 1 Common Gargoyle 111 1 Uncommon Nechryael 115 1 Uncommon Elite black knight 138 1–4 Rare Elite dark warrior 122 1 (noted) Rare Skeleton warlord 132 1 Very rare Tyras guard 110 1 Very rare Undead troll 74, 100, 125 1 (noted) Very rare
Value
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With a necklace (F2P) or bracelet mould (members) in your toolbelt you can smelt the gold bars into gold necklaces (F2P) or bracelets (members) and sell at the GE considerably cutting the loss for smelting the ore. This will yield slower Smithing experience but provide some Crafting experience. A gold necklace is worth Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". coins and gold bracelet is worth Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". coins.
You can also buy the bars directly from the Grand Exchange and smelt them to almost double your investment for necklace making or get even more from bracelet making. This will give modest Crafting experience.
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