From the ground to your hands
Mining, smelting and forging; felling and bowcraft; fishing and cooking, step by step.
Guide › From the ground to your hands
Ore to sword
Quarrying with a pickaxe gives ore, a furnace turns ore into bars (that is Forging too), and an anvil with a hammer turns bars into weapons, armour and tools. The better metals are not held back by your Forging level but by their ore: iron needs its own mine, steel coal as well, and so on up.
1. Mine the ore
2. Smelt it at a furnace
| Bar | Smelted from | Xp |
|---|---|---|
| 6.25 | ||
| 12.5 | ||
| 17.5 | ||
| 30 | ||
| 37.5 | ||
| 50 | ||
| 13.7 | ||
| 22.5 | ||
| 20 |
3. Forge it on an anvil
Take a hammer. Every metal makes the same things, each for the same number of bars. In bronze:
Bronze arrowheads 1 bar
Bronze axe 1 bar
Bronze dagger 1 bar
Bronze mace 1 bar
Bronze nasal helmet 1 bar
Bronze pickaxe 1 bar
Bronze short sword 1 bar
Bronze spangenhelm 1 bar
Bronze armet helmet 2 bars
Bronze leg armour 2 bars
Bronze long sword 2 bars
Bronze scimitar 2 bars
Bronze square shield 2 bars
Bronze 2-handed sword 3 bars
Bronze battle axe 3 bars
Bronze breastplate 3 bars
Bronze chainmail 3 bars
Bronze kite shield 3 bars
Bronze poleaxe 3 bars
What a metal's weapons ask is Precision, and its armour Block, at the level in the last column:
| Bar | Things to forge | Wield and wear at |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | |
| 21 | 1 | |
| 19 | 5 | |
| 19 | 20 | |
| 19 | 30 | |
| 19 | 40 |
Tree to bow
Forestry with an axe gives logs. A knife carves them into arrow shafts and bows (Bowcraft); a bow needs a bowstring, spun from flax. Logs also make a fire (Kindling), for cooking in the wild.
1. Fell the trees
| Level | Logs | You need |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||
| 15 | ||
| 30 | ||
| 45 | ||
| 60 |
2. Carve and string
Or light a fire
Pine logs level 1 ·
Ash logs level 15 ·
Alder logs level 30 ·
Beech logs level 45 ·
Ironwood logs level 60 ·
Starwood logs level 75
Sea to supper
Angling needs the right tool for the water and sometimes bait. Raw fish is cooked on a fire or a range (Cookery), and cooked fish heals you. A cook below the level in the last column burns some.
1. Catch the fish
| Level | Fish | You need |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 15 | ||
| 20 | ||
| 23 | ||
| 30 | ||
| 35 | ||
| 40 | ||
| 50 | ||
| 80 |
2. Cook it
| Level | Cook | Heals | Stops burning at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 34 | |
| 1 | 1 | 34 | |
| 5 | 5 | 45 | |
| 18 | 7 | 52 | |
| 25 | 8 | 54 | |
| 30 | 9 | 58 | |
| 30 | 10 | 64 | |
| 40 | 12 | 74 | |
| 45 | 14 | 86 | |
| 80 | 20 | 94 |