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OSRS Introduces Giants’ Foundry

The Smithing skill in OSRS is something that is in dire need of an update. With a few exceptions like cannonballs, bars, or ammunition, it does not bring much to the game. The skill trains for completing quests or achievement diaries, but it does not provide access to a higher level of content within the skill, with super low XP rates. If you spend the right amount of OSRS gold, you can train Smithing at the Blast Furnace with great XP rates, but to what end…? 

Even as an Ironman, you do not need a high-level Smithing, as most of the stuff you could create through Smithing is obtainable from monster drops.

To rectify this, Jagex released Giants’ Foundry, a Smithing minigame at low levels with super interactive gameplay that can bring a lot of change to OSRS. It has a high skill ceiling and XP rates. Further, let us understand, how you can enhance your minigame experience, earn rewards, and others within the game.

Giants’ Foundry Requirements

The proposed requirements for the Giants’ Foundry minigame are 15 Smithing and the completion of a short quest: The Sleeping Giants Quest. Like GOTR, the quest will teach you the hows and whats of the minigame. Remember that these are the proposed concepts and requirements and that by the time it finally reaches the live stage, many changes are still possible.

Giants’ Foundry Gameplay

The concept of the Giants’ Foundry gameplay is pretty straightforward and can be broken down into the following steps:

This is similar to getting a slayer task from a Slayer Master, a farming contract from Guildmaster Jane, or a Mahogany Homes minigame contract. Kovac will assign you a giant sword. The commission will be described in two words, representing the qualities this sword needs to have. Examples that can be seen in the Jagex post are heavy/light, broad/narrow, and pointy/flat. We currently don’t know whether all the options are dual or if there’s something more complex.

The second step is choosing the mold or molds for the sword. Because this is a sword that fits the size of a giant, you will need three different molds to smith the forte, blade, and tip of the sword. Also, you’ll have to keep in mind the two descriptive words you were given when getting the commission from Kovac.

This step is done at a crucible that can hold up to 20 bars, the exact amount needed to create the sword. You can add bars or recycle metal OSRS items, losing some bars used to create them initially. Interestingly, Jagex purposely didn’t give more information but used it as a teaser of the possibility of combining multiple metal types to obtain alloys, which should create superior swords. The metal you select is restricted by your Smithing level and will affect the difficulty of making that sword.

The process resembles making a sword in real life better than any other piece of Smithing OSRS content. You will have to use a waterfall and a lava pool to adjust the temperature of the sword after you take it out of the mold. At the same time, you will need to use a trip hammer, a grindstone, and a polishing wheel to forge and polish an excellent giant sword. This will be click-intensive. 

You will also be penalized with decreased sword quality if you use the right tool at the right temperature. The higher the quality of the sword, the better the rewards and the more XP you’ll be given. Also, let’s keep in mind that Jagex is currently pushing for the possibility of entirely losing the materials.

Giants’ Foundry Best Strategies

Once, you have understood the workings of the Giants’ Foundry Minigame, you can move further with strategies:

Moneymaking Strategy

If you have 30 smithing, you can make money in the game by doing low-difficulty swords. All you need is a combination of iron and steel alloy to generate up to 150k GP/hr. For each crucible, you will be required to use 3 Iron Platebodies, 2 Iron Bars, and 7 Steel Battleaxes. 

However, comparatively, this money-making method could be more effective but still is a good option to gain up to 85K Smithing EXP per hour. 

Ironman Strategy

Giants’ Foundry is a blessing for Ironman accounts. It gives you the purpose of all weaponry and armor you get from slaying and provides an extra experience out of your bars. Here, you only have to:

• Use the blast furnace to make bars from ores.
• Then, smith the bars into weaponry.
• At last, get extra experience by using it in the game.

Hence, the Giants’ Foundry helps you gain easy smithing levels on Ironman builds. 

Giants’ Foundry Rewards

Jagex has yet to release any numbers in terms of experience rate but did state that they intend for this minigame to sit between Smithing cannonballs and training at the Blast Furnace XP-wise. The emphasis is also on it being rewarding content starting at lower levels (15 Smithing). A big perk of training Smithing with the Giants’ Foundry minigame saves up to 85 percent of the resources you would have used through other training methods, which equals spending less OSRS GP. 

Apart from that, you can claim some other rewards from Kovac’s Rewards Shop. They include ore packs, a Smithing catalyst (a replacement for coal that also gives more XP), some cosmetic OSRS items, a +4 Smithing boost, more molds for this specific minigame, and the Eight-Cannonball Mould. The controversy stems from the fact that you’ll be able to make more cannonballs in the same amount of time, thus lowering the amount of OSRS gold you can make from Smithing them.

Conclusion

The Giants’ Foundry is a concept meant to update the Smithing skill. Briefly speaking, it is a minigame locked behind a quest that helps you save up on your OSRS GP. You will use a significantly smaller amount of resources for the same amount of XP, at the cost of being click-intensive and interactive. 

But do we want to be able to save OSRS gold when training Smithing, or are there other issues that we’d instead have addressed? Regardless of how you feel about the Giants’ Foundry, remember that it is currently at the concept stage. What this means is that Jagex is open to feedback. You can fill in their survey to give your feedback or use the Reddit thread they created for this.

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Raymond L. Mora

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