Smithing Skill Guide (RuneScape: Dragonwilds)

 

    Search the RuneScape: Dragonwilds wiki for "Smithing" and the page redirects you straight to the Blacksmith's Bench — there is no separate Smithing skill page with levels or XP thresholds documented at all. What the wiki does describe, verbatim, is a "dedicated bench to craft all your tools and melee weapons," unlocked once you have a single bronze bar in your inventory. This guide sticks to exactly what that source confirms: the bench's unlock condition, its build recipe, and what it replaced — and it flags, explicitly, every place where a true "Smithing skill" system (levels, perks, XP curve) simply isn't in the source data.

 

What the Blacksmith's Bench actually is

 

    The wiki's infobox files the Blacksmith's Bench under the Crafting catalogue and the Tools, Weapons & Armour collection, and its own description reads: "A dedicated bench to craft all your tools and melee weapons." The page's intro text goes further: "The blacksmith's bench is a buildable facility where players can only create weapons that are higher tiered than stone equipment." That "higher tiered than stone" wording is the wiki's own — it tells you this bench is specifically the gate past the stone tier, not a general crafting station for every material rank. The facility was added to the game on 23 June 2026, in the "Eye on Ashenfall - 0.12.0" update.

 

 

How you unlock it — and what it replaced

 

    The unlock condition is stated plainly on the source page: the bench "is unlocked upon obtaining a bronze bar in the player's inventory." No quest, no separate skill level, no additional building prerequisite is mentioned — just having one bronze bar on you. The same sentence also settles a question players might have about an older facility: "The blacksmith's bench replaced the smithing anvil in the game." The update history entry for 23 June 2026 confirms this from the patch-note side too, listing the bench as "Added to game" and noting it "Absorbed functionality of the smithing anvil." So if you remember an anvil-based smithing station from an earlier build, that facility's role now lives inside the Blacksmith's Bench — the wiki gives no indication the old anvil still exists as a separate station.

 

What it costs to build

 

    The bench's own build recipe is listed under the Build Menu facility, tagged to the Construction skill (not a "Smithing" skill — the source never names one), and worth 12 skill XP to place. The materials list is:

 

• Bronze Bar x6
• Ash Logs x20
• Coarse Thread x8
• Vault Core x1

 

    Add those quantities up and building one Blacksmith's Bench costs 6 + 20 + 8 + 1 = 35 total items across four material types. Three of those four — Ash Logs, Coarse Thread and the Vault Core — are gathered or crafted elsewhere; only the Bronze Bar quantity (6) is a smithing-adjacent material in this recipe, and even that is spent on construction rather than on smithing a weapon or tool directly.

 

 

What you can craft there — and what's still undocumented

 

    This is the section to read before you assume this guide can tell you a full weapon-and-tool crafting list. The wiki's "Products" section for the Blacksmith's Bench is written as a template reference to a facility's uses list rather than a rendered, itemized list of craftable weapons and tools — so the specific items you can craft at the bench, their tiers, and their own material costs are undocumented in the source data used for this article. Likewise, no Smithing skill levels, perks, or XP-to-level curve are documented anywhere on the page — the only skill named in connection with this facility is Construction, and only for the act of building the bench itself, not for using it afterward. Treat any specific weapon-tier list or skill-level claim you see elsewhere about "Smithing" in Dragonwilds as unverified until the wiki publishes it directly.

 

 

Practical tips

• Get one Bronze Bar into your inventory — that alone unlocks the Blacksmith's Bench, per the wiki.
• Build it via the Build Menu for 6 Bronze Bar, 20 Ash Logs, 8 Coarse Thread and 1 Vault Core (35 items total), worth 12 Construction XP.
• It replaced the smithing anvil — don't go looking for a separate anvil-based station; the bench absorbed that role on 23 June 2026.
• It only makes tools and melee weapons above stone tier — the wiki's own wording, not a paraphrase.
• The full craftable-items list and any Smithing-specific skill system are undocumented in the source used here — don't trust a specific weapon-tier list or level curve you see quoted elsewhere without checking it against the wiki directly.

 

Running your own Dragonwilds server

 

    Working out a bench-gated crafting chain like this one goes a lot smoother with a world that doesn't reset between sessions. A gamever Dragonwilds server keeps your bronze bar stockpile, your build progress, and your whole base exactly where you left it, so your group can pick up the next crafting tier together instead of re-gathering Ash Logs and Coarse Thread from scratch every time someone logs back in.

 

Conclusion

 

    The Blacksmith's Bench is Dragonwilds' actual "Smithing" facility — the wiki's own Smithing page redirects here, and there is no separate skill-level system documented anywhere in the source. What's confirmed: it unlocks the moment you hold one bronze bar, it replaced the older smithing anvil as of the 23 June 2026 "Eye on Ashenfall - 0.12.0" update, and building it costs 35 total items — 6 Bronze Bar, 20 Ash Logs, 8 Coarse Thread, 1 Vault Core — for 12 Construction XP. What isn't confirmed matters just as much: the itemized list of tools and weapons it produces, and any Smithing-specific skill levels or perks, are undocumented in this source, so don't repeat a specific craftable-item list or level curve as fact until the wiki actually publishes one.

 

    Want a base that's still standing when you log back in? Rent a RuneScape: Dragonwilds server at gamever.io — instant setup, one-click backups and updates, and 24/7 uptime. Start with a free trial and use promo code WELCOME.