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Blacksmithy

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PadreDante: Removed salvage bag +1 ingot smelting bonus

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''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 [[Skills|skill]] of [[Blacksmithy]] involves: [[smelt]]ing [[metal]] items and [[ore]]s; [[crafting]] arms and armaments; [[enhancing]] certain metal items; and [[Durability#Increasing_Current_Durability|repairing]] applicable items.

There is a special collection of [[Blacksmith BOD|Bulk Order Deeds]] available for Smiths to fill out. Returning these provides special mining tools and other items as rewards. For the Smith in training, these can help speed the time it takes to acquire more [[ingot]]s - For advanced players, [[Power Scroll]]s and [[Runic Tools#Blacksmithy|Runic Hammers]] may be earned.

A skilled [[character]] may learn special [[Blacksmithy Recipes]] in order to create yet more powerful weapons.

==Smelting==
The process for smelting ores and recycling metal items into their constituent [[ingot]]s differs.

===Ores===
* Stand near a [[forge]].
* Double-click the ore pile you wish to smelt into ingots.
* Target the [[forge]].

===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. (If smelting self-crafted items, will yield half of ingots used to create the item.)

The [[UOAssist]] Recycle Agent feature and the [[Salvage Bag]] have made the above process <i>far</i> 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==
''Main Article: [[Durability#Increasing_Current_Durability|Increasing Current Durability]].''

==Training==
See [[New_Player_Quests#Forge_And_Anvil|George Hephaestus]], the Blacksmith Instructor, at the Forge And Anvil in New Haven. The [[New Player Quests|New Player Quest]] entitled ''It's Hammer Time!'' will allow a character to train Blacksmithy to 50 (and get the sweet reward, [[Hammer of Hephaestus]]). The New Player Quests use accelerated skillgain.

Use a [[Crystal Ball of Knowledge]] when training. This will tell you whether the making an item will yield "Optimal" training or not. Using this technique, you can keep switching to making different items as you gain, and can do far better than the chart below.

{|
| valign="top" width=30% |
{{Training
|interval1=40.0 - 45.0
|training1=[[Mace]]
|interval2=45.0 - 50.0
|training2=[[Maul]]
|interval3=50.0 - 55.0
|training3=[[Cutlass]]
|interval4=55.0 - 59.5
|training4=[[Longsword]] or [[Katana]]
|interval5=59.5 - 70.5
|training5=[[Scimitar]] or [[Spear]]
|interval6=70.5 - 106.4
|training6=[[Platemail Gorget]]
|interval7=106.4 - 108.9
|training7=[[Platemail Gloves]]
|interval8=108.9 - 116.3
|training8=[[Platemail Arms]]
|interval9=116.3 - 118.8
|training9=[[Platemail Legs]]
|interval10=118.8 - 120.0
|training10=[[Platemail Tunic]]s
}}
| valign="top" |
* Note: Gains are tremendously slow after [[Platemail Gorget]]. It may help to switch from the Platemail Gorget to the Platemail Gloves every now and then.
* 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. Higher levels of mining also increase your return when salvaging.
* Using a [[Salvage_Bag|Salvage Bag]] is absolutely crucial, as it {{Line-Through|both}} speeds up recycling (recycling everything inside within a second){{Line-Through| as well as giving ''one extra ingot per item recycled'', which can represent a monumental return on items that only take a few ingots to make in the first place}}.
* A modicum of [[Tinkering]] will allow you to craft your own Blacksmithy tools.
|}

Using a [[Power_scroll|power scroll]] to increase your Blacksmithy skill early in your progression can improve your 'rate of return' when salvaging items by extending the range at which you can gain skill on any individual item. Normally, your skill gain ceases at the point where your chance to create the item reaches 100%, which corresponds to 50 points above the minimum skill needed to create the item. If X is that skill level, then this point is (X + 50). The power scrolls raise this cap in direct correlation to their strength. Thus, a 105 power scroll raises the cap to 105% (X + 52.5); a 110 scroll to 110% (X + 55); a 115 scroll to 115% (X + 57.5); and a 120 scroll to 120% (X + 60).

Thus, if your character has used a Legendary Scroll of Blacksmithy early in their career (and if you have the expansions installed), you may instead consider this alternate progression chart designed to maximize your skill return per ingot:

{{Training
|interval1=47.5 - 75.0
|training1=[[Kryss]]
|interval2=75.1 - 89.9
|training2=[[Shuriken]] (requires the [[Samurai Empire]] expansion)
|interval3=90.0 - 100.0
|training3=[[Circlet]] (requires the [[Mondain's Legacy]] expansion)
|interval4=100.1 - 120
|training4=[[Boomerang]] (requires the [[Stygian Abyss]] expansion)
}}

==Craftables==
{{Blacksmithy Craftables}}

==See Also==
* [[Blacksmithy Recipes]]
* [[Blacksmith_BOD|Blacksmith BODs]]
* [[Runic Tools]]
* [http://guide.uo.com/skill_7.html Blacksmithy page on UO.com]

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Mining

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PadreDante:

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Seams of [[ore]] lie buried in the mines, mountains and caves of Britannia. The skilled miner seeks out these veins to harvest ore, which can then be smelted to ingots for use in crafting items with the [[Blacksmithy]] or [[Tinkering]] skills.

In order to mine you must use a [[Pickaxe]] or [[Shovel]] on a cave floor or mountainside tile. Ore may then be [[smelt]]ed by using it on a [[Forge]] or [[Fire Beetle]]. Be warned - If you fail to smelt you will lose 50% of the contents of your ore pile!

The mining skill is also useful when practising the creation of [[Smelt|smeltable]] items (which can be recycled back into usable [[Ingot]]s, with the amount of ingots returned based on the Mining skill). It furthermore gives a bonus to [[Treasure Map|Treasure Hunters]] looking for [[Treasure Chest]]s underground. You cannot mine while [[Mounts|mounted]].

As your skill improves, you become capable of mining and smelting more obscure forms of ore:

* '''0+''' [[Iron]] [[Ore]]
* '''65+''' [[Dull Copper Ore]]
* '''70+''' [[Shadow Iron]] [[Ore]]
* '''75+''' [[Copper]] [[Ore]]
* '''80+''' [[Bronze]] [[Ore]]
* '''85+''' [[Golden]] [[Ore]]
* '''90+''' [[Agapite]] [[Ore]]
* '''95+''' [[Verite]] [[Ore]]
* '''99+''' [[Valorite]] [[Ore]]

A GM Miner, after the proper research, may also extract [[High Quality Granite]] and [[Sand]] for use by the more experienced crafters. When you have read the High Quality Granite book, you can click on your pickaxe and set it to mine both stone and ore. When you have read the High Quality Sand book, instead of mining only in rock, you can also mine the beaches and deserts of Britannia (or any random sand tiles available to you).

Although your Mining skill cannot advance past 100 points through training, [[Mining Gloves]] may be worn to take your skill to an absolute maximum of 105. Mining is the only skill that can be advanced in this way without the use of a [[Power Scroll]].

[[Human]] characters will have a chance to get extra ore with each dig, while [[Elves]] have an increased chance of harvesting special ore types from colored veins (as opposed to finding colored veins).

Whenever an ore vein refreshes after being harvested from, there is a slight chance it will change resource type. For example, a mountainside that yielded Valorite today might give plain iron tomorrow, and vice versa. Your level of skill does not determine your chance of finding a colored vein, it only determines whether you can extract the colored ore.

A [[Gargoyle's Pickaxe]] and/or [[Prospector's Tool]] can be used to potentially advance an ore vein's level by up to two types (e.g., Agapite to Valorite).

==Training==
* '''0 - 40''': Train from [[New Player Quests#Mountains|Jacob Waltzt in the Haven Mountains]]. (cost 400 gold)
* '''40 - 50''': Do the accelerated skill gain [[New Player Quests|New Player Quest]] The Delucian’s Lost Mine from Jacob Waltzt. and receive [[Jacob's Pickaxe]].
* '''50 - 100''': Mine up and smelt [[Ore]].
Gains from the actual digging process can be from mining any ore type (even Iron-only veins), as the chance of a gain is based on the chance of digging up ore (which only reaches 100% at 100.0 skill).
However, gains from smelting of ore into ingots is difficulty based, and is based on the chance to successfully smelt that ore.
As a result, while you can gain slowly, simply by mining, you can enhance gains further by splitting up colored ore piles that you are not 100% chance to succeed on, and smelt 1 ore at a time. This is especially useful at very high levels of mining when ores are rarer.

==Ingot Return from Recycling Blacksmithy Items==
Recycling items requires a [[Blacksmithy]] tool, a forge and an anvil. The amount of ingots returned is based on the mining skill, as follows:
* You can only recycle metal types you can mine. It is possible, if your [[Blacksmithy]] skill is higher than your Mining skill, that you may not be able to recycle some metals that you are able to use in crafting.
* The amount of ingots returned is calculated by the following formula: (ingots needed to make item) x (0.66% x Mining Skill), rounding fractions down after the multiplication is done. At 100.0 Mining skill, a 12-ingot item will return 7 ingots (12 x 66.0%, rounded down).
* To get 2/3 your ingots (66.67%) back when Recycling, one must have at least 101.1 Mining skill (natural skill plus the bonus from either +3 or +5 [[Mining Gloves]] )
* {{Line-Through|Use of a [[Salvage Bag]] will add one additional ingot returned, per Blacksmithy item recycled.}}

==Special Resources==
===Gems===
At 100 Mining skill you have the chance to randomly retrieve one of the following resources:
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* [[Image:Turquoise.png]] [[Turquoise]]
* [[Image:Fire_Ruby.png]] [[Fire Ruby]]
* [[Image:Blue_Diamond.png]] [[Blue Diamond]]
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* [[Image:Ecru_Citrine.png]] [[Ecru Citrine]]
* [[Image:Perfect_Emerald.png]] [[Perfect Emerald]]
* [[Image:Dark_Sapphire.png]] [[Dark Sapphire]]
|}

You can also retrieve regular small gems after reading the High Quality Gems book, obtained in [[Ter Mur]] from the [[Royal City]] Blacksmiths for approximately 10,000 gold.

===Saltpeter===
Introduced with the [[High Seas]] booster pack, [[saltpeter]] is a gathering resource for miners from the niter deposits that can be discovered inside the [[dungeons]] and at the sea.
* [[Image:Saltpeter.png]] [[Saltpeter]]

===Other===
While not exactly a resource, [[Blackrock]] has been used during various events in the past and still has some special uses.
* [[Image:A small piece of blackrock.png]] [[A Small Piece of Blackrock]]

==Tips & Tricks==
* To get the most ore out of your pickaxe uses, go to [[Felucca]] instead of [[Trammel]]. You will notice that you get exactly double the amount of ore per use of the pickaxe.
* Mining veins in towns are half of what you could get outside of the towns.
* People can get confused on which beetle most suits their character. Its wise to have both but when you are mining, it is a better deal to use the [[Fire Beetle]] over the [[Giant Beetle]], especially in locations far from [[forge]]s. However, if you are relatively close to a forge ''all'' the time, you can collect more ore, smelt them into ingots, and store them in the Giant Beetle.
* There is no way to increase your mining above grandmaster 100 skill unless you are using [[Mining Gloves]] which add a +5 to your total skill. Mining [[Power Scrolls]] do not exist.
* [[Tinkering]] is a very good combination with your mining skill. You can use it to create more [[pickaxe]]s and [[shovel]]s with the ingots you collect. This way you can stay out with your pack mule for longer periods of time.
* When smelting richer types of [[ore]] material that you can't always work with successfully (eg, Agapite, Verite, or Valorite), it's best to divide all of the material in piles of two. That way if you fail to smelt the ore (hence wasting half the pile), you only lose one ore rather than, say, fifteen ore from a nice pile of thirty in that type.
* To mine [[High Quality Granite]] or [[Sand]], you must travel to the Gargoyle city [[Ver Lor Reg]] in Central Ilshenar or [[Royal City]] in [[Ter Mur]] and buy "tutorial books" from the gargoyle alchemists or stonecrafters that reside there. The books can only be read by GM Miners.
* Although the type of ore a vein gives will change over time, the percentage of coloured ore it'll give on average (of any colour) does not change. That is to say, if you clean out a Dull Copper node and get 70% coloured ore from it, you'll likely get the same percentage if it ever flips around to Valorite.

==See Also==
* [[Blacksmithy]]
* [[Tinkering]]
* [[Glassblowing]]
* [[Masonry]]
* [[Mining Gloves]]
* [[Mining for Quality Stone]]
* [http://guide.uo.com/skill_45.html Mining page on UO.com]

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