SKILL

Smithing

Smelt ore into bars, then hammer bars and timber into better pickaxes and hatchets at the Slagworks anvil.

MENTOR: HOBAREA: THE SLAGWORKS

Why

Better tools are permanent: fewer swings, more doubles, faster progress in Mining and Woodcutting forever.

Iron, Silver, Soulsteel and Hellfire tools, plus heavy blocks for your builds.

Each tool tier needs the next tier of ore and wood, so it pulls you into the deep galleries.

Titles

LV 1: Soot Sniffer LV 5: Slag Botherer LV 10: Anvil Whisperer LV 20: Forge Regular LV 30: Hob's Apprentice LV 40: Hammer Menace LV 50: Warden of the Anvil

The path

LEVEL	KIND	MILESTONE	WHAT IT DOES
1	RECIPE	Iron Bar	Two iron scrap, one bar.
5	TOOL	Iron Tools	Iron pickaxe and hatchet: permanent extra swing off.
8	RECIPE	Chain and Hazard Blocks	Heavy building blocks for your world.
12	RECIPE	Silver Bar	Cursed Silver, purified enough.
15	TOOL	Silver Tools	Silver pickaxe and hatchet: two swings off and a chance at doubles.
20	PERK	Clean Cuts	10% of smelts keep their ore.
22	RECIPE	Vault Door	The hub's decorative door, made real. Heavy block.
25	AREA	The Deep Forge	Hotter furnace, older anvil. Soul Bars are made here.
30	TOOL	Soulsteel Tools	Three swings off, double chance up.
38	RECIPE	Hellfire Bar	A ruby and a Soul Bar and a lot of nerve.
42	TOOL	Hellfire Tools	The best tools in Endsville.
50	AREA	The First Anvil	Secret forge. The anvil is older than the street.

At fifty

Warden of the Anvil

TEMPERED: 25% of your smelts and tools keep their materials.

Secret: The First Anvil · Cosmetic: Ember-forged tool skins · Sparks off your shoulders

The mentor says

Iron scrap? Put it in. Two scrap, one bar. Do not stand there like a coat rack.
Bars make tools. Tools stay. You keep the pickaxe forever, and the rocks resent it.
Iron tools at five. Silver at fifteen. The rest costs you a bit of soul, literally.

Every tool takes timber too. Oak handles, willow handles, elm handles.
The Deep Forge at twenty-five. I keep a lantern lit for it.
Chain and Hazard blocks are for your builds. I like chain.
The First Anvil is older than the street. It makes things nobody asked for and I am not going to ask why.