
Click that to change the companion who is crafting the weapon. On the bottom left, you can see a portrait of your character. At later tiers, like tier 5, you may require crude iron, steel, and thamaskene steel to make just one sword. Each component requires a different resource amount. Tier 1 requires wrought iron and/or crude iron, Tier 2 requires wrought iron and/or iron, as does Tier 3, and so on. For example, the pickaxe head gives more damage, but is harder to control and is slightly slower than the hatchet head.Įach tier requires different resources. Each component modifies the weapon in a certain way - the change are not just visual. You gain components by smelting or forging weapons, and components are gained randomly through these processes. On the right of the forge you can see the components you have access to when making your weapons. Every weapon expends charcoal upon creation. This axe would expend 2 wrought iron and 1 hardwood, as well as 1 charcoal. A medium or small sized axehead is easy, but making a bigger one increases the difficulty by 1-4 points.Īt the bottom of the forge, you will see all of the resources you can use. The slider for each component, past the middle point, increases the difficulty. The tier of the weapon's components you chose (tier 1 components, like a basic mallet head for a mace, are far easier to make than a tier IV ornate mace head).Weapon class (axes and spears are very simple to make, swords are far harder).If it is higher, you will still be able to try and make said weapon, but you will probably make one that is essentially worthless.Įach weapon has a different difficulty, based on these factors: If your smithing skill, displayed on the right of the meter, is higher or equal to the difficulty, you will be able to make a decent or better version of the weapon you desire. This meter tells us how hard it is to make a weapon. On the forge screen, you will see this meter on the left. You cannot make armor, shields, or bows/crossbows. You can make anything from swords to daggers to javelins and maces. In smelting, you will gain the resources it mentions, but you also will gain experience in smithing and, if you smelt a decently high ranked item, like a tier 2 or 3 sword, you will get a part of a weapon which you can then use in smithing.

To smelt it, click on the polearm on the right column, then click smelt at the bottom of the screen. However, to smelt it, I require one charcoal first. As we can see from the icons next to it, smelting it will give me one crude iron and one hardwood (mouse over the icons in-game to see what those resources are while you are learning the icons). Here, I have a polearm which I crafted that I do not want anymore (it's a bad spear). On the right-hand side, you can see the weapons you are able to smelt. Let's take another look at the smelt screen. From there, you should be able to gain some basic levels in smithing. You can always find hardwood and iron ore in the major cities to start your crafting journey.

In the screenshot, you can see them in order at the bottom of the screen. In Bannerlord, there are NINE different resources for smithing. You can't make a sandwich without bread, and you can't make a sword without iron. Just be aware that you cannot smelt an entire arsenal of weapons or craft twelve spears in one trip to the smithy. It appears that every day you are able to do one action, and you can stockpile these actions up to three or four - I do not know the extent of this yet, as there is no information on this yet.


You can only do a certain amount of actions in the smithy before you will have to wait to smith again. Click the option in the screenshot below to enter the smithy.Īnother significant part of smithing is the smithing cooldown. More on that later.Īt every major city, there is a smithy. For example, the first perk you get to choose makes charcoal or iron production more plentiful and resource efficient. The skill tree's perk options all have to do with modifying some part of the smithing process which we will discuss later in this guide. At the highest tiers, you will be able to make swords only kings would dream of wielding (a king that you could become!). At the lowest tiers, you will be making mediocre hatchets. The higher your skill, the more options you will have. Smithing, in Bannerlord, is a skill in the Endurance row that allows you to forge and smelt weapons within the game. The ultimate guide to Bannerlord's smithing system.
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