Blacksmithing

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Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing is the process by which tools and various other items are made by processing metal.

Tools Used

• Metal lumps, usually iron lump (Creation material) (QL determines max quality achievable)
• Hammer
• Mallet (Only for improving blacksmithing products that improve like carpentry items, e.g. dredges)
• Small anvil (Creation tool)
• Large anvil (Creation tool)
• Water
• Whetstone
• Pelt

Notes

• These tips work for all smithing sub categories, and some of these principles work for imping of any kind.

• Always use a forge, other fire types just don't cut it, because they heat things faster. However, they do use more fuel.

• Get the quality of the forge as high as possible, for 2 reasons.

1) it heats things up quicker

2) it burns longer.

• Anymore than 20kg of fuel is wasted.

• Have as many different lump quality ranges as you can get. 0-10ql is Best for making things with. When imping, try to use a lump that is 15-20ql higher than the item you are improving.

• Try to build the forge near the water table, then dig a hole until water is revealed, you will use a lot of water.

• When improving several things at once, apply lump to them all together until they all require a different item, then put the lump back and imp them all back to needing lump again. this is because lump needs to be hot, so you want to get through it's use quickly.

• It's also useful to have 2 lumps for imping, so that you can switch if one cools.

• As a good general guideline, you can improve items to your skill +10. For example, a hammer uses blacksmithing, if you have 25 skill, you can improve the item to 35ql.

• Blacksmithing is the most important smithing skill, followed by weapon smithing. This will cover all your tools and allows you to work faster and better. Blacksmithing is more important at first because your hammer and anvils use this. These tools need to be good to make the other smithing skills easier.

• The better the quality of your tools, the more chance you have to succeed at imping. If your tool is significantly lower quality than the tool you are imping (say 30 points lower), your chance to improve the item is very slim. You will most likely end up lowering the quality of the item though fails & repairs.

• If you want to train a particular smithing skill, the best way is to make 20 of a small item that uses this skill, then imp them all to 5, then 10, then 15, etc. Reasons:

1)Having a large number of tools to imp allows you to gain skill faster with relation to the following reasons

2)Making the item a small one means that you will use less lump on them.

3)There is a 'magic' point at which you gain skill fastest, so by hitting this point with many items at once makes your skill jump fastest. By the time you have gone through this 'magic' point in all the items, the magic point has moved ahead of you again and you get to hit it all over again.

• Use a backpack or cauldron to keep lumps/chains/small tools in & you are able to keep more than 100 items in your forge.
• Needles, these are a great way to raise your blacksmithing without using too much metal.

Skills & Characteristics

• Blacksmithing
• Body > Body strength

Titles

• Blacksmith at 50 skill
• Renowned Blacksmith at 70 skill
• Master Blacksmith at 90 skill
• Anvil of Tears at 100 skill

See Also

• Guides:Blacksmithing and subskills guide for the resource conscious
• Category:Blacksmithing items
• Smithing
  • Armour smithing
    • Chain armour smithing
    • Plate armour smithing
    • Shield smithing
  • Blacksmithing
  • Jewelry smithing
  • Locksmithing
  • Metallurgy
  • Weapon smithing
    • Blades smithing
    • Weapon heads smithing