Blacksmith

Used to craft weapons and armor.

Blacksmithy

Blacksmithy allows you to craft weapons and armor, which can be used in combat, sold to other players, or used to fill Bulk Order Deeds. Crafting with colored ingots will give the crafted item the hue of the ore, but no added AR bonus. Ingots are gathered by Mining, or purchasing them from the blacksmith vendor for 10gp, or at a discount at 9gp if you join the NPC blacksmith guild (500 gold cost)

Training

It's best to start with 50 skill points in Blacksmithy, but buying skill from the blacksmith guildmaster NPC should get you to between 34.0 and 40.0 skill, depending on your stats and some NPCs train higher than others. The Skara Brae blacksmith guildmaster currently gives the highest level of teaching, but that is subject to change if a new NPC spawns.

It's a good idea to do Blacksmithy with Mining to increase ingot recovery through smelting your successfully crafted items.

Cheapest method: (approx. 20k iron ingots required with GM mining, depending on power hour usage)

• 0.0 - 45.3: Dagger  : 3 ingots per  : 350 ingots total with GM mining; 900 ingots without mining (from 39.7) / 1 hour
• 45.3 - 95.3: Short spear  : 6 ingots per  : 15,000 ingots total / 14 hours (3 power hours)
• 95.3 - 100.0: Plate gorget  : 10 ingots per  : 6,000 ingots total / 4 hours (4 power hours)

Faster method, but consumes more ingots: (approx. 25-30k iron ingots required with GM mining, depending on power hour usage)

• 30.0 - 36.7: Dagger  : 3 ingots per  : 400 ingots total / 15 minutes
• 36.7 - 45.3: Kryss  : 8 ingots per  : 1,000 ingots total / 30 minutes
• 45.3 - 80.0: Short spear  : 6 ingots per  : 6,000 ingots total / 3 hours (1 power hours)
• 80.0 - 100.0: Plate gorget  : 10 ingots per  : 18,000 ingots total / 10 hours (5 power hours)

Character building

Some players choose to do Blacksmithy without Mining, others choose to do it with Mining. The difference being that you can not smelt the weapons and armor you craft without skill in Mining, so you will require a far greater number of ingots to GM Blacksmith without Mining skill than with it. It may be useful to start with Mining, and then drop the skill to 0 after you complete levelling Blacksmithy. See Mining for further details.

For a character choosing to do Blacksmithy with Mining together, start with 60 strength, and 50 skill points allocated to both Blacksmithy and Mining. This will allow you to mine straight away and get the ingots flowing. The best starting city for a newbie on this character is Minoc, as there are caves to mine in nearby to the guard zone to the easy of the city. Use your starter 100 gold pieces to buy 7 shovels from the tinker shop, just two screen southwest of the newbie starting point in Minoc, the building with a picture of a hammer on the door sign. These 7 shovels should get you about 600 ingots at the 50 skill level before they are destroyed. You can use these ingots to craft into daggers to sell to the blacksmith and weaponsmith, both near Minoc bank, for 10-15gp each, which will fund more shovel purchasing. Alternatively, just sell 40 ingots to get 100 gp back, buy another 7 shovels, bank the remaining 570 ingots, and go start mining another 600!

For a character choosing to just do Blacksmithy on its own without Mining, start with 50 skill in Blacksmithy, but your other stat and skill choices don't matter as much. People often choose Tinkering, as you can craft your own crafting tools.

See Also

Alchemy - Blacksmithing - Bowcraft & Fletching - Carpentry - Cartography - Cooking - Inscription - Masonry - Mining - Tailoring - Tinkering