But with our help, you’ll soon be making wonderfully powerful weapons to massacre your foes with!

You’ll notice that there is a difficulty scale on the sword to the left of the screen.

This indicates how difficult a weapon is to construct.

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There is also a yellow ring where the current smithy skill level is.

It’s unclear why this happens at this time, but it’s something to keep in mind.

You do need tounlock perksto get those.

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A small investment into hardwood will mean you shouldn’t need to buy much more in the future.

It may be tempting to sell the weapons and tools, but save them for now.

Smelting has multiple advantages.

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Firstly, you get tolearn different ways of constructing weapons, unlocking more options later on.

The more you do this, the more you learn how to make new parts.

You’ll also get smithing skill points that will help you learn how to refine better quality metals.

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More advanced gear such as weapons will smelt down into multiple grades of iron and even steel.

All of these are useful for forging your new weapon.

Now you should be smelting loot and crafting the best gear in no time!