Crafting
Blacksmithing
Forge weapons, armour and tools from ingots, at an anvil next to a forge, with a smith's hammer.
- Group
- Crafting
- Title it gives
- Blacksmith
- Grows your stats
- Strength (80%), Dexterity (20%)
- Head start
- Norse (most of all Children of Sól)
How it grows
Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.
All your skills together hold 600 points. Set Blacksmithing to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.
Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (80%), Dexterity (20%).
Titles
When Blacksmithing is your best skill, it names you:
- 30 Neophyte Blacksmith
- 40 Novice Blacksmith
- 50 Apprentice Blacksmith
- 60 Journeyman Blacksmith
- 70 Expert Blacksmith
- 80 Adept Blacksmith
- 90 Master Blacksmith
- 100 Grandmaster Blacksmith
The Blacksmithing tree
Every 10 points of Blacksmithing gives a point to spend here. Some places need another first; some ask you to choose one or the other. Unlearn the whole tree for gold with F4.
Weaponsmith
Finer work, and less lost to a bad strike.
Fine Work3 ranks
Weapons and armour come out exceptional 5% more often per rank.
Sure Hands2 ranks
A failed try loses half as much per rank (nothing at two).
Needs Fine Work
Masterwork1 rank
Exceptional work 15% more often again.
Needs Sure Hands
Armourer
Metal stretched further: work that keeps its ingots.
Thrift3 ranks
+10% chance per rank that what you make takes none of its metal.
Ironclad1 rank
+20% more chance again that the metal is kept.
Needs Thrift
What you can make (19)
Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.
Armour
| Makes | Skill | Needs | At |
|---|---|---|---|
 bascinet | 15 to 65 | 15 ingot | anvil and forge |
 ringmail sleeves | 20 to 70 | 14 ingot | anvil and forge |
 ringmail leggings | 25 to 75 | 16 ingot | anvil and forge |
 ringmail tunic | 30 to 80 | 18 ingot | anvil and forge |
Tools
| Makes | Skill | Needs | At |
|---|---|---|---|
 hatchet | 0 to 40 | 4 ingot | anvil and forge |
 pickaxe | 0 to 40 | 4 ingot | anvil and forge |
 saw | 0 to 40 |  3 iron ingots | anvil and forge |
 shovel | 0 to 40 | 4 iron ingots | anvil and forge |
 skinning knife | 0 to 35 | 2 ingot | anvil and forge |
 smith's hammer | 0 to 40 |  3 copper ingots | anvil and forge |
Weapons
| Makes | Skill | Needs | At |
|---|---|---|---|
 mace | 20 to 70 | 12 ingot | anvil and forge |
 kryss | 25 to 75 | 10 ingot | anvil and forge |
 viking sword | 25 to 75 | 14 ingot | anvil and forge |
 short spear | 30 to 80 | 12 ingot | anvil and forge |
 war axe | 35 to 85 | 16 ingot | anvil and forge |
 war mace | 40 to 90 | 16 ingot | anvil and forge |
 reaver double axe | 45 to 95 | 20 ingot | anvil and forge |
 war fork | 45 to 95 | 16 ingot | anvil and forge |
 war hammer | 55 to 100 | 20 ingot | anvil and forge |
More in the guide: Crafting · All skills