Forging lecture notes

Here are some highlights from my lecture at GEMS.  You can use this as a beginning guide to Crafting.  If you have any questions please email me at the link below.


Forging consists of six separate skills: crafting, one-handed edged, one-handed blunt, pole arms, brawling weapons and two-handed weapons which includes staves.  The first skill you must master is making hammers also known as Crafting.  Once you have mastered this skill you may choose only TWO types of weapons to master.  These three skills together count as ONE artisan skill.  Then you are free to learn ONE other artisan skill such as cobbling or fletching.

To create a weapon you use weapon glyphs which are patterns in which to form your raw material.  The glyphs used for creating hammers are located on the workbench inside the workshops and are free for your use.  You activate the glyphs by holding the material in your LEFT hand and staring at the glyph. 

In order to forge you must be wearing an apron which you can purchase at the supply stall near the workshops.  The aprons DO NOT go on over your armor so it is very important to be sure you put your armor back on before hunting.


At the supply stall there is one type of wooden material and five types of metals.   When learning a craft it is a good idea to use the bronze bars.  These are the cheapest and until you master crafting a hammer you won’t get one above elegant quality which is pretty much useless.  So throwing these away are fine.

So, go to the supply stall, purchase an apron and some bronze bars then GO to the workshop.  The attendant will automatically take your 300 silvers as you enter.  Put on your apron, get your bronze bar in your left hand and stare at the head-glyph.  Once you have marked the pattern onto your bar you must TURN the grinder.  In the beginning you may have to mark the bar with the pattern many times before you make your first hammer-head.  Once you have a completed hammer-head, put your leftover bar away and activate the polisher by LEANing against it.  That completes one part of your hammer. 

You can create the hammer-handle in the same way using the maoral block using the handle-glyph.  Once you have both parts of your hammer completed you can activate the vise by TURNing it.  This step does not always work the first time in the beginning either so just be patient and you will get it with practice.