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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 700 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

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

MakesSkillNeedsAt
bascinet15 to 6515 ingotanvil and forge
ringmail sleeves20 to 7014 ingotanvil and forge
ringmail leggings25 to 7516 ingotanvil and forge
ringmail tunic30 to 8018 ingotanvil and forge

Tools

MakesSkillNeedsAt
hatchet0 to 404 ingotanvil and forge
pickaxe0 to 404 ingotanvil and forge
saw0 to 403 iron ingotsanvil and forge
shovel0 to 404 iron ingotsanvil and forge
skinning knife0 to 352 ingotanvil and forge
smith's hammer0 to 403 copper ingotsanvil and forge

Weapons

MakesSkillNeedsAt
mace20 to 7012 ingotanvil and forge
kryss25 to 7510 ingotanvil and forge
viking sword25 to 7514 ingotanvil and forge
short spear30 to 8012 ingotanvil and forge
war axe35 to 8516 ingotanvil and forge
war mace40 to 9016 ingotanvil and forge
reaver double axe45 to 9520 ingotanvil and forge
war fork45 to 9516 ingotanvil and forge
war hammer55 to 10020 ingotanvil and forge

More in the guide: Crafting · All skills