Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 10:41:25 GMT
Greetings ladies and gents,
My name is Angor and welcome to today’s guide.
We will be focusing in this tutorial on grinding the smithing skill and all its sub-skills. So without further a due, let’s get started.
General skill.
A few general ideas regarding this guide and what knowledge you will get if you proceed to read:
Cons:
• We do not care about profit when grinding.
• We tend to be a bit of wasteful.
Pros:
• We aim to be very fast.
• One of the most efficient ways to attain high level skills.
• Lots of money can be generated after you hit high levels.
As with most if not all skills, we recommend to get your best possible skilling boosts and stack them when possible.
This includes the following:
• Vynora follower on a Vynora domain.
• Food Buff from eating food tailored for the skill you are grinding.
• Knowledge path buff “Intellect of the Enlightened”
• Your tools WoA* and CoC enchants.
• Sleep Bonus
*WoA does not provide skill gain. It only allows more skill ticks per minute.
NOTE: These buffs are NOT a “must have”, however they will help you in faster skill gain. It does not mean you need to lose your FO priesthood or your favorite meditation path!
When doing any sort of skill grind, always make sure you have 2-3 food buffs for your main skill that you are training and your characteristic skill also.
Example: Mining gets you Mining skill, Body, Body Strength, etc, Make sure you have the food buff for Body Strength and Body too. A link to see what Characteristics each skill gives here.
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The Forge.
As a future smither, you will always want the best possible Forge. The higher the quality of the forge the longer it will burn if you stack it with fuel.
Note: A forge can’t take in more than 20kg of fuel, anything over 20kgs will be a waste of material.
Always examine the forge and see the rough estimation timer on how long it will last. The forge must always be hot in order for it to keep the lumps at glowing heat temperature.
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The Smelting pot.
This beautiful item will save you a lot of metal resources as it will smelt your useless carp back into its precious metallic lump state. However it does come with a drawback as you lose a bit of iron when smelting the item back into its original lump form. Instead of throwing the finished item in a BSB or letting it to rot, you recycle and get way more skilling ticks per kg or iron!
The iron lump then can be thrown in a BSB and broken down into 1kg pieces ready for you to smith it again!
Please refer to this link on how to use it.
Make at least 10 of these as they will be your best friend in your grinding adventures!
Hint: You can cast Mend on them to repair 20 points of the Damage.
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The Anvil.
The anvil is the main item you will use when grinding most of the smithing sub-skills. This means it must always be of High quality, have CoC and WoA of the highest tier possible you can get your hands on.
You must never let the anvil reach 100damage as your toon will automatically throw it away. [Not a very smart toon right?]
If you are a priest, I would suggest casting the mend spell at 20 damage at the cost of 2quality per cast. This will most likely be more beneficial if you have a 90+ quality anvil as repairing manually will net a loss of more than 2quality per 20 damage.
Each creation action takes about 0.01 damage on the anvil, this means 20 damage is the equivalent of 2 000 actions before a mend is needed.
The more damaged an anvil is the lower its REAL quality is hence it can lose creation speed!
Damage reduces the effective QL of an item to QL * (1 - DMG/100)
If you have a godly 100 QL anvil and you have 50 damage on it, you have a Real quality of 50!
Rare anvils take even less damage.
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Organisation.
One forge can hold a multitude of backpacks. They never degrade in the fire and can hold up to 75 iron lumps. Excellent for heating up massive amounts of iron lumps for your long day grinding.
Fire up the forge, fuel it with a log/scrap. Place your backpacks into the forge and start filling the backpacks with iron lumps. Using this method you can easily hold over 1000 iron lumps, way over the regular 100 limit.
After a few minutes the iron lumps will glow. Quality of the Forge and Quality of the Iron lump determines how fast a lump will get to the Glowing Hot stage. Do not take the lumps the moment it hits the Glowing hot stage, leave them two more minutes to gather more heat.
You can only work with glowing hot metal. If the lump you are working with gets cooler, throw it back into the hot forge and grab another one from the backpacks.
Make sure to combine your lumps that you are working with into 64Kg lumps for long queue actions.
Note: A 64Kg lump will not fit back into a backpack so DO NOT combine every lump if you have over 1000 in the forge. To break down a lump simply throw it into a BSB and they will revert back into pieces of 1kg each however please mind that the lump will lose its heat levels.
Never spam create items until you are on 0 stamina. The closer you are to maximum stamina, the faster your action is. You can check how fast your stamina depletes after doing a full cycle of creation.
As you advance in your skills and characteristics, you will be able to do even 20-30 actions before taking a quick break to recuperate your stamina!
Sleep bonus regenerates stamina 3x faster! Also make sure you are hydrated and not starving as these have a major impact too on Stamina regeneration.
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Consumables needed.
• Iron lumps. As I said at the beginning, you will waste a lot of iron lumps. Iron is cheap and abundant and Quality has no importance when grinding any smithing sub-skill. You can use ANY quality of iron.
• Wood or peat to provide your forge the fuel it needs.
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THE SMITHING SKILL
When it comes to the Smithing skill, there is nothing much to discuss since the main focus are its sub-skills and they are the following:
• Weapon smithing - Used in the creation of weapons such as swords and axes used in fighting and bladed tools such as scythes and sickles.
o Blades smithing (Not important on its own)
o Weapon heads smithing (Not important on its own)
• Armour smithing - Used in the creation of armour for added protection against attacks.
o Chain armour smithing - Used in the creation of chain armour.
o Plate armour smithing - Used in the creation of plate armour.
o Shield smithing - Used in the creation of shields.
• Blacksmithing - Used in things such as nails or pots and pans.
• Locksmithing - Used in the creation of locks and lockpicks
• Metallurgy - Used in the creation of alloys like steel, bronze and brass
• Jewelry smithing - Used to make jewellery and special horse shoes.
There is no real point in grinding the smithing skill in general as this inevitable rises while training its subskills in time.
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Weapon Smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Hunting Arrow head item and start crafting them.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Chain armour smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Armor Chains and create a lot of them. Dump the leftover iron and the chains in a BSB to recombine them.
5. Heat up the Armor chains and make Chain Gauntlets until out of Armor Chains.
6. Melt down the chain gauntlets and throw the leftover iron into a BSB to recombine them.
7. Repeat the process on step 2.
7.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Plate armour smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Plate Gauntlet and create a lot of them.
5. Melt down the gauntlets and throw the leftover iron into a BSB to recombine them.
6. Repeat the process on step 2.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Shield smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Small Metal Shield and create a lot of them.
5. Melt down the Shields and throw the leftover iron into a BSB to recombine them.
6. Repeat the process on step 2.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Blacksmithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Small nails and create a lot of them. Dump them in a BSB.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Locksmithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Lockpick and create a lot of them. Dump them in a BSB.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Metallurgy.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Create your lumps based on the materials you have at hand.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2.
7. And repeat until end of time.
7.1 No anvil to repair as you simply combine two lumps to make one.
Note: Metallurgy has no fast way because it does not matter what metal you create.Simply spam the metals left and right.Speed wise it depends on your stockpile. Details on what metals you can make are here.
I.e. If you have lots of iron and coal you can make steel, if you have Copper and Tin you can spam Bronze, etc.
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Jewellery smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Ball and create a lot of them.
5. Melt the balls back into Iron lumps and throw them in a BSB to recombine them.
6. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
7. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
7.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Conclusion.
Smithing and its subskills are very useful to your day to day wurm play. I consider it one of the core skills in the game as it connects a lot of other skills, from fighting to building houses, from mining to grinding other skills.
Always use the highest QL tools you can get your hands on with the best possible enchants.
Do not worry if you don’t have a 100 CoC and 100 WoA enchanted 99ql Supreme Anvil (Hyperbole) as long as it has a basic CoC and WoA enchant you will be fine grinding.
To ease the pain of repetition I suggest watching a movie and clicking the creation button every X seconds once your full creation cycle is completed. Empty your inventory when full and repeat. Try to have hourly breaks as it can get boring very fast depending on your mental fortitude.
I would never recommend you to grind with no sleep bonus. Do you daily chores in game rather than grinding with no SB as 1hr with SB is 2hrs with no SB. 10hrs with SB = 20hrs no SB. IT ADDS UP.
Whatever you do in game, DO NOT MACRO or you will be banned.
Please feel free to comment and suggest your own ways to grind these skills. There is no reason to keep the “secret” to yourself, it’s always nice to share your findings in making the world better.
I will update this guide as people will suggest more and more ideas and how to make things more efficient.
See you all in game!
Angor
My name is Angor and welcome to today’s guide.
We will be focusing in this tutorial on grinding the smithing skill and all its sub-skills. So without further a due, let’s get started.
General skill.
A few general ideas regarding this guide and what knowledge you will get if you proceed to read:
Cons:
• We do not care about profit when grinding.
• We tend to be a bit of wasteful.
Pros:
• We aim to be very fast.
• One of the most efficient ways to attain high level skills.
• Lots of money can be generated after you hit high levels.
As with most if not all skills, we recommend to get your best possible skilling boosts and stack them when possible.
This includes the following:
• Vynora follower on a Vynora domain.
• Food Buff from eating food tailored for the skill you are grinding.
• Knowledge path buff “Intellect of the Enlightened”
• Your tools WoA* and CoC enchants.
• Sleep Bonus
*WoA does not provide skill gain. It only allows more skill ticks per minute.
NOTE: These buffs are NOT a “must have”, however they will help you in faster skill gain. It does not mean you need to lose your FO priesthood or your favorite meditation path!
When doing any sort of skill grind, always make sure you have 2-3 food buffs for your main skill that you are training and your characteristic skill also.
Example: Mining gets you Mining skill, Body, Body Strength, etc, Make sure you have the food buff for Body Strength and Body too. A link to see what Characteristics each skill gives here.
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The Forge.
As a future smither, you will always want the best possible Forge. The higher the quality of the forge the longer it will burn if you stack it with fuel.
Note: A forge can’t take in more than 20kg of fuel, anything over 20kgs will be a waste of material.
Always examine the forge and see the rough estimation timer on how long it will last. The forge must always be hot in order for it to keep the lumps at glowing heat temperature.
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The Smelting pot.
This beautiful item will save you a lot of metal resources as it will smelt your useless carp back into its precious metallic lump state. However it does come with a drawback as you lose a bit of iron when smelting the item back into its original lump form. Instead of throwing the finished item in a BSB or letting it to rot, you recycle and get way more skilling ticks per kg or iron!
The iron lump then can be thrown in a BSB and broken down into 1kg pieces ready for you to smith it again!
Please refer to this link on how to use it.
Make at least 10 of these as they will be your best friend in your grinding adventures!
Hint: You can cast Mend on them to repair 20 points of the Damage.
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The Anvil.
The anvil is the main item you will use when grinding most of the smithing sub-skills. This means it must always be of High quality, have CoC and WoA of the highest tier possible you can get your hands on.
You must never let the anvil reach 100damage as your toon will automatically throw it away. [Not a very smart toon right?]
If you are a priest, I would suggest casting the mend spell at 20 damage at the cost of 2quality per cast. This will most likely be more beneficial if you have a 90+ quality anvil as repairing manually will net a loss of more than 2quality per 20 damage.
Each creation action takes about 0.01 damage on the anvil, this means 20 damage is the equivalent of 2 000 actions before a mend is needed.
The more damaged an anvil is the lower its REAL quality is hence it can lose creation speed!
Damage reduces the effective QL of an item to QL * (1 - DMG/100)
If you have a godly 100 QL anvil and you have 50 damage on it, you have a Real quality of 50!
Rare anvils take even less damage.
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Organisation.
One forge can hold a multitude of backpacks. They never degrade in the fire and can hold up to 75 iron lumps. Excellent for heating up massive amounts of iron lumps for your long day grinding.
Fire up the forge, fuel it with a log/scrap. Place your backpacks into the forge and start filling the backpacks with iron lumps. Using this method you can easily hold over 1000 iron lumps, way over the regular 100 limit.
After a few minutes the iron lumps will glow. Quality of the Forge and Quality of the Iron lump determines how fast a lump will get to the Glowing Hot stage. Do not take the lumps the moment it hits the Glowing hot stage, leave them two more minutes to gather more heat.
You can only work with glowing hot metal. If the lump you are working with gets cooler, throw it back into the hot forge and grab another one from the backpacks.
Make sure to combine your lumps that you are working with into 64Kg lumps for long queue actions.
Note: A 64Kg lump will not fit back into a backpack so DO NOT combine every lump if you have over 1000 in the forge. To break down a lump simply throw it into a BSB and they will revert back into pieces of 1kg each however please mind that the lump will lose its heat levels.
Never spam create items until you are on 0 stamina. The closer you are to maximum stamina, the faster your action is. You can check how fast your stamina depletes after doing a full cycle of creation.
As you advance in your skills and characteristics, you will be able to do even 20-30 actions before taking a quick break to recuperate your stamina!
Sleep bonus regenerates stamina 3x faster! Also make sure you are hydrated and not starving as these have a major impact too on Stamina regeneration.
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Consumables needed.
• Iron lumps. As I said at the beginning, you will waste a lot of iron lumps. Iron is cheap and abundant and Quality has no importance when grinding any smithing sub-skill. You can use ANY quality of iron.
• Wood or peat to provide your forge the fuel it needs.
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THE SMITHING SKILL
When it comes to the Smithing skill, there is nothing much to discuss since the main focus are its sub-skills and they are the following:
• Weapon smithing - Used in the creation of weapons such as swords and axes used in fighting and bladed tools such as scythes and sickles.
o Blades smithing (Not important on its own)
o Weapon heads smithing (Not important on its own)
• Armour smithing - Used in the creation of armour for added protection against attacks.
o Chain armour smithing - Used in the creation of chain armour.
o Plate armour smithing - Used in the creation of plate armour.
o Shield smithing - Used in the creation of shields.
• Blacksmithing - Used in things such as nails or pots and pans.
• Locksmithing - Used in the creation of locks and lockpicks
• Metallurgy - Used in the creation of alloys like steel, bronze and brass
• Jewelry smithing - Used to make jewellery and special horse shoes.
There is no real point in grinding the smithing skill in general as this inevitable rises while training its subskills in time.
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Weapon Smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Hunting Arrow head item and start crafting them.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Chain armour smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Armor Chains and create a lot of them. Dump the leftover iron and the chains in a BSB to recombine them.
5. Heat up the Armor chains and make Chain Gauntlets until out of Armor Chains.
6. Melt down the chain gauntlets and throw the leftover iron into a BSB to recombine them.
7. Repeat the process on step 2.
7.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Plate armour smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Plate Gauntlet and create a lot of them.
5. Melt down the gauntlets and throw the leftover iron into a BSB to recombine them.
6. Repeat the process on step 2.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Shield smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Small Metal Shield and create a lot of them.
5. Melt down the Shields and throw the leftover iron into a BSB to recombine them.
6. Repeat the process on step 2.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Blacksmithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Small nails and create a lot of them. Dump them in a BSB.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Locksmithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Lockpick and create a lot of them. Dump them in a BSB.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
6.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Metallurgy.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Create your lumps based on the materials you have at hand.
5. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
6. Go back to step 2.
7. And repeat until end of time.
7.1 No anvil to repair as you simply combine two lumps to make one.
Note: Metallurgy has no fast way because it does not matter what metal you create.Simply spam the metals left and right.Speed wise it depends on your stockpile. Details on what metals you can make are here.
I.e. If you have lots of iron and coal you can make steel, if you have Copper and Tin you can spam Bronze, etc.
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Jewellery smithing.
1. Fire up your forge, fuel it, fill it with backpacks and lumps, wait for the lumps to be glowing hot.
2. Create a 64kg lump and prepare the crafting window.
3. Turn on Sleep Bonus and your other skilling buffs.
4. Select the Ball and create a lot of them.
5. Melt the balls back into Iron lumps and throw them in a BSB to recombine them.
6. Repeat until the lump is gone or too small to work with.
7. Go back to step 2. And repeat until end of time.
7.1 Make sure to repair your anvil!
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Conclusion.
Smithing and its subskills are very useful to your day to day wurm play. I consider it one of the core skills in the game as it connects a lot of other skills, from fighting to building houses, from mining to grinding other skills.
Always use the highest QL tools you can get your hands on with the best possible enchants.
Do not worry if you don’t have a 100 CoC and 100 WoA enchanted 99ql Supreme Anvil (Hyperbole) as long as it has a basic CoC and WoA enchant you will be fine grinding.
To ease the pain of repetition I suggest watching a movie and clicking the creation button every X seconds once your full creation cycle is completed. Empty your inventory when full and repeat. Try to have hourly breaks as it can get boring very fast depending on your mental fortitude.
I would never recommend you to grind with no sleep bonus. Do you daily chores in game rather than grinding with no SB as 1hr with SB is 2hrs with no SB. 10hrs with SB = 20hrs no SB. IT ADDS UP.
Whatever you do in game, DO NOT MACRO or you will be banned.
Please feel free to comment and suggest your own ways to grind these skills. There is no reason to keep the “secret” to yourself, it’s always nice to share your findings in making the world better.
I will update this guide as people will suggest more and more ideas and how to make things more efficient.
See you all in game!
Angor