Blacksmithy
Whether sweating over a fiery forge to create a masterpiece or hammering dents and polishing scratches from a favored piece of plate mail, the blacksmith of Britannia is a skilled craftsman who often finds his or her services in high demand.
The skill of Blacksmithy involves: smelting metal items and ores; crafting arms and armaments; enhancing certain metal items; and repairing applicable items.
Smelting
The process for smelting ores and recycling metal items into their constituent ingots differs.
Ores
- Stand near a forge.
- Double-click a Smith's Hammer, tongs, or sledgehammer that is located in your backpack.
- Target the ore pile you wish to smelt into ingots.
Metal Items
The manual, or old school, method of smelting, or recycling, metal items into their constituent ingots involves:
- Double-click a smith’s hammer, tongs, or sledgehammer that is located in your backpack.
- A menu will appear.
- Select the Smelt Item button in the lower left-hand corner.
- Target the item you wish to melt into ingots.
The UOAssist Recycle Agent feature and the Salvage Bag have made the above process far easier.
Crafting
To create an item using the Blacksmithy skill:
- Stand near a forge and anvil (either, alone is insufficient).
- Double-click a smith’s hammer, tongs, or sledgehammer that is located in your backpack.
- A menu will appear displaying the different categories of items you can craft.
- Select a category and click on the button next to the item you wish to craft.
For arms, there are three categories: Bashing, Bladed, and Polearm.
If successful, the crafted item will appear in your backpack. If successful and lucky, the crafted item will be exceptional. A Blacksmith can opt to include his or her maker’s mark on such exceptional items. The crafting menu contains a toggle in the lower right-hand corner to turn the maker’s mark option on or off.
A blacksmith may increase his or her chances by using an Ancient Hammer.
Enhancing Arms & Armaments
To enhance an item using the Blacksmithy skill:
- Stand near a forge and anvil (either, alone is insufficient).
- Stock you backpack with the metal type you wish to utilize.
- Double-click a smith’s hammer, tongs, or sledgehammer that is located in your backpack.
- A crafting menu will appear.
- Select the appropriate metal type and click on the Enhance Item button located in the lower-right of the menu.
- Target the item you wish to enhance.
Instead of "enhancing", many Blacksmiths refer to this process as "destroying".
Repairing
Temporary link, see the Increasing Current Durability section of the Durability article.
Training
See George Hephaestus, the Blacksmith Instructor, at the Forge And Anvil in New Haven. The New Player Quest entitled It's Hammer Time! will allow a character to train Blacksmithing to 50 (and get the sweet reward, Hammer of Hephaestus). The New Player Quests use accelerated skillgain.
- 47.5 - 53.0 - Kryss
- 53.0 - 57.5 - War Axe
- 57.5 - 59.5 - Katana
- 59.5 - 70.5 - Spear
- 70.5 - 106.4 - Platemail Gorget
- 106.4 - 108.9 Platemail Gloves
- 108.9 - 116.3 Platemail Arms
- 116.3 - 118.8 Platemail Legs
- 118.8 - 120 Platemail Tunics
- It takes about five days of non-stop game play and over 100,000 ingots to gain 120 Blacksmithy skill points using this technique, so take a break from time to time. You're not a machine! Items produced during training are smelted, or recycled, into ingots for further training.
- Mining of over 50.0 will help cut costs a lot because it allows you to smelt and mine your own ore.
- A modicum of Tinkering will allow you to craft your own Blacksmithy tools.