Blacksmithing

With the Blacksmithing general ability, you can create weapons, armor, shields and commodities from bars created from Mining and Smelting.

Tools

• A blacksmith's hammer.
• Blacksmithing tongs.
• A forge.
• Material to work with.

Steps

Blades and Heads

• You must be in a workshop with a forge, anvil and vice
• Place a metal bar upon the anvil
• Heat the bar
• Forge blade {type} or forge head {type}

Hilts and Hafts

• Hafts can be made from wood or metal
• Hilts can be made from metal
• For a wooden hilt, you will need to use carve {hilt} or {haft}
• For a hilt of metal you can use forge {hilt} or {haft}

The Vice

• Once you have a blade and hilt, or a head and haft
• Vice {item}
• This will combine the pieces and create your new weapon

Armor and Shields

• You can forge plate armor pieces.
• You can forge shields of three different sizes
• forge {armor/shield} {type}
• Note that armor must be forged out of suitable materials which includes copper, iron, steel, bronze, celestium, sunsteel, cobalt, riversteel and the more exotic bloodglass.
• Armor cannot be created with soft metals such as tin.

Commodities

• You can forge commodities such as horseshoes, gears, nails
• These can then be sold at the market for a profit
• forge {type}

Arrowheads

• You can forge bodkin or broadhead arrowheads
• These can be used in the fletching process

Skills Used

• General Blacksmithing
• Forging: Armor
• Forging: Bladed Weapons
• Forging: Blunt Weapons
• Forging: Arrowheads