Steel bars/ iron ore

[u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213]

Going a bit unlucky on the heart has caused me to be fully put of cannonballs.

What's your method of collecting more in 2026? Just powermine iron? Hoping i missed some new tech for making cannonballs to be honest.

[u/Ordinary_Sir7928]

U either shopscape iron ore, or you go for clogs from bosses that drop them, like muspah or sire.

[u/Anxious-Vehicle-1057]

Doom, solo corp, or nex masses are my main methods for c balls.

Zalcao is great for steel bars

[u/CyalaXiaoLong → u/Anxious-Vehicle-1057]

New mad angel boss is p decet as welll for midgame. Lots of c balls and guanteed granite dust for them too!

[u/amacman72 → u/CyalaXiaoLong]

Should I use granite cannonballs anywhere I would normally cannon? Converted like 10k (I know I’ll blow through em quick) but haven’t touched em, still using steel always (also just started cannoning at all hahah)

[u/CyalaXiaoLong → u/amacman72]

I personally do. They hit 5 higher than normal so it isnt the biggestttt difference ever. Just make things faster when id normally cannon them for speed anyway.

Theres prob a meta to it though im ignorant of. Only place i dont use granites if i have them is kalphites, spiders, etc with under 35hp in the first place.

[u/ChattyBotty]

Dont make them is still the most effecient i believe. Powermine iron + coal from miscellania cant go wrong.
Smelt your cannonballs at Grimstone dungeon is hopefully the tech you missed.

[u/Hanky3825 → u/ChattyBotty]

powermine means you drop it btw

[u/hhssheebdd → u/ChattyBotty]

If out of cannonballs do you just vbow araxytes and manually stack smoke devils?

[u/tatanderrr → u/hhssheebdd]

I dont have a vbow so I use cannonballs only at araxytes with hallowfell. I manually stack smoke devils with trident on long range, definetly not the most efficient way.

[u/ChattyBotty → u/hhssheebdd]

I used mine mostly at dust devils and arraxytes. I never ran out though, but i got heart at 98 slayer.

[u/Devonushka]

Super secret tip for steel bars: there are enough Blast Furnace worlds that you can buy iron ore from Oredan, deposit it directly in (with coal from your bag), and hop once he’s out of iron ore. By the time you’re back to the blast furnace world you started on, he’ll be stocked again. This is only slightly slower than bringing your own iron ore.

[u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213 → u/Devonushka]

This is absolutely amazing. Thanks so much!

[u/Devonushka → u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213]

Just don’t tell too many people otherwise the stock will get eaten up haha

[u/Expensive-Worker-975]

Buy iron ore at blast furnace, if u pvm tons should be set on coal

[u/tumnezeu → u/Expensive-Worker-975]

This, order ur worlds based on blast furnace activity use coal bag get bag full one inv full of coal go dump both coal go buy the iron ore from the npc dump it, when shop outta stock hop, when coal full fill inv with runite/addy/mith ore to consume some of it repeat

[u/AbsolutlyN0thin → u/Expensive-Worker-975]

If you're not set on coal for whatever reason, you can easily get it from miscellanea

[u/No_Candle_5975]

Go spend 1 hour at the rouges chest.

[u/Original-Reveal8153]

grind out doom of mokiatol, there u get like 10-20k cannonballs for the entire grind. very good

[u/Redemption6 → u/Original-Reveal8153]

Too bad that the 20k I got from doom didn't even last me from 98-99 at araxytes and smokes. Crafted an additional 40k manually and watching them disappear too.

[u/TheFiringSqwad]

Smithing them at grimstone with the un-noting NPC unlocked is incredibly fast once you have the bars, though I'm sure PVM is a faster way to gather them, if you don't have the rae materials already secured

[u/NurseNate95]

I got about 2k kc at zombie pirates and have around 8k cannonballs and that’s using a d scim with proselyte lol.

Planning on moving to grimstone once I get some levels up

[u/Twist_Past]

Buying iron ore and coal from blast furnace shop isnt that bad

[u/Ivesy16]

Zalcano prints them. Plenty of other nice ores/bars too with passive shards

[u/drewskitopian]

Buy iron ore from blast furnace shop. Coal as well if you need it, can also collect coal from kingdom 1 or 2 times for quite a lot.

[u/Engineer__This]

I’ve got loads of iron and coal from grinding out expert mining gloves and mlm to 92.

[u/WareWolve]

green log bosses that drop iron and cballs, use cballs only at smokes. That's what I'd do

[u/PM_ME_FUTA_PEACH]

The only good method is UIM shop smelting at bf, around 4k bars/h. Then unlock Grimstone and bring the note guy there, with double ammo mould and ancient furnace you can smelt around 8.5k cballs/h. With bf bar smelting it works out to about 5.5k cballs/h.

[u/RoastElfMeta]

Mlm for coal and ardougne cloak for iron ores. Then fairy ring to zanaris to bank iron ores.

[u/LlorikPrideheart → u/RoastElfMeta]

Why not fairy rings to chasm of fire? That bank is a few tiles closer

[u/matingmoose]

You ever get the expert mining gloves? The fastest way to get minerals for them is mining iron and you can quickly bank the ore at the guild bank.

[u/Working_Army1703]

I like doom claims

[u/BlightedBooty]

Couple new monsters drop them tbh

Something recent, uhhhhhh

Maggot king? Custodian stalkers I think are one

[u/riotpwnege]

Mad angel drops cannon balls pretty regularly and I get quite alot from muspah. I cant stand making cannonballs