How to get more metal?

[Mr. Graae]

I have just unlocked the pumps and need the metal to fix it, i have already discovered everything in the main hush house exept for the clock tower. I am currently beginning to explore the prison part but that takes some time. As far as i can remember you are only provided 3 metal in the main house (one wire and two knock-metals) i think i have used them all. How do i get more?

[Olleus]

Craft it. There's at least 1 Knock 10 recipe that does it.

[Serpit]

You can get metal in random bags you can find by scavenging at the beach and in the moors.

More reliably, you can craft it. Lockworks & Clockworks with 10 Knock and any Glass item makes Gervinite.

[Grob]

Ive personally found the best way to get metal is by crafting Gervinite at the Forge.
Scholar level Knock with Glass, and I have been using Lockworks & Clockworks skill but a few other knock skills work.

Glass you can find by searching the beach to get either sand or glass stones.

[Olleus]

I've found this to be an excellent metal production chain
Both steps at the Dispensary. I'm assuming Lockworks lvl 3 and base Shapt, but Lockworks lvl 2 and Shapt+, or even Lockworks lvl 1 and Shapt++ would work just as well.
1) Lockworks + Shapt = Amethyst Ampoule
2) Lockworks + Shapt + Amethyst Ampoule + (Pattern Memory or Moth Orchid) = Gervenite

For those feeling fancy
You can add an extra step to either make Orichalcum Wire or a Chronischord

[Andi]

Originally posted by Serpit:

You can get metal in random bags you can find by scavenging at the beach and in the moors.

More reliably, you can craft it. Lockworks & Clockworks with 10 Knock and any Glass item makes Gervinite.

And the same skill at prentice level can conjure up a glass item (Amethyst Ampoule) out of thin air.

I upgraded it to level 5, and it's now my go-to skill for unlocking the more difficult rooms:

The process is rather simple:

• Use Shapt and Lockworks&Clockworks to create Amethyst Ampoule.
  
• Make another Amethyst Ampoule.
  
• Use one Amethyst Ampoule, Shapt, and Lockworks&Clockworks to make Gervinite.
  
• Use Gervinite, Amethyst Ampoule, Shapt and Lockworks&Clockworks to create a Chronsichord.
  
• Make another Amethyst Ampoule
  
• Use it to make another Gervinite.
  
• Now, grab the Blacksmith from the Village.
  
• Give him the Chronsichord as tool.
  
• Give him the Gervinite. It's a metal, and he can use metals.
  
• Now you have Assistence with 10 Knock, that can still use a Memory, another Shapt and Food and Drink. That's easily enough even for the most difficult rooms, which need 16 Knock.

[Jane_Lance]

Originally posted by Andi:

Originally posted by Serpit:

You can get metal in random bags you can find by scavenging at the beach and in the moors.

More reliably, you can craft it. Lockworks & Clockworks with 10 Knock and any Glass item makes Gervinite.

And the same skill at prentice level can conjure up a glass item (Amethyst Ampoule) out of thin air.

I upgraded it to level 5, and it's now my go-to skill for unlocking the more difficult rooms:

The process is rather simple:

• Use Shapt and Lockworks&Clockworks to create Amethyst Ampoule.
  
• Make another Amethyst Ampoule.
  
• Use one Amethyst Ampoule, Shapt, and Lockworks&Clockworks to make Gervinite.
  
• Use Gervinite, Amethyst Ampoule, Shapt and Lockworks&Clockworks to create a Chronsichord.
  
• Make another Amethyst Ampoule
  
• Use it to make another Gervinite.
  
• Now, grab the Blacksmith from the Village.
  
• Give him the Chronsichord as tool.
  
• Give him the Gervinite. It's a metal, and he can use metals.
  
• Now you have Assistence with 10 Knock, that can still use a Memory, another Shapt and Food and Drink. That's easily enough even for the most difficult rooms, which need 16 Knock.

FYI you can also make Knock drink: either serpent-milk (10 edge + leaf + [Disciplines of the Scar, Edicts Martial, Sickle & Eclipse] or 10 scale + leaf + Inks of Power or 10 winter + leaf + Putrefactions & Calcinations give you perinculate and it can give you serpent milk) or Sacrament Ascite from Glassfinger Toxin and 15 knock - both give you +6 knock.

[Pandorian]

Originally posted by Jane_Lance:

FYI you can also make Knock drink: either serpent-milk (10 edge + leaf + [Disciplines of the Scar, Edicts Martial, Sickle & Eclipse] or 10 scale + leaf + Inks of Power or 10 winter + leaf + Putrefactions & Calcinations give you perinculate and it can give you serpent milk) or Sacrament Ascite from Glassfinger Toxin and 15 knock - both give you +6 knock.

They're probably aware. The process they laid out used 1 skill to get an assistant to 10 knock with just 2 items crafted from the skill. Giving your assistant a basic Shapt and basic memory then takes them to 14. Once you start bringing in multiple skills your options open up more but it's hard to find another single skill that can stand on it's own like this.

[Yxklyx]

Has anyone created metal from anything other than Lockworks & Clockworks? I don't have that skill in this game...

[Pandorian]

Originally posted by Yxklyx:

Has anyone created metal from anything other than Lockworks & Clockworks? I don't have that skill in this game...

It's the only skill that creates metal from something other than metal. Your other choices are scavenging or the secret metal .

EDIT: Since inevitably someone will ask.

Hint 1:
There are objects in the house that have slightly different names from other objects similar to them.

Spoilery:
Try comparing and contrasting candles.

More Spoilery:
What's the difference between a bedside candle and a weighty bedside candle?

Full Spoiler:
Examine the weighty bedside candles found in Regensburg Room(Moth desk, dispensary tower) and the Servants Quarter - North

[zombiemickey]

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[TGWeaver]

Sorry to resurrect this, but it is pretty weird that for all the reliably renewable items and item-types, Metal has literally just one skill out of what, 70(?) that actually creates it without needing it to begin with. Lockworks & Clockworks ends up being one of the most vital skills in the game as a result.

[SCPantera]

Glaziery & Lightsmithing also can craft Gervinite but with Sky principle and a metal, and thus quite a bit less practical. Technically, there are enough Gervinite sitting around the mansion that you could use them for both pumps without having to craft any, though several are in hidden sources.

[Wiszcz]

Now you can also buy wires

[stumpoman]

Just finished a couple days ago. Lockworks was the second to last skill I unlocked and I got them all.. it was annoying. Edicts martial was another noticeably very useful one I got pretty late.

[War Crimes Appreciator]

Step 1. Buy a guitar
Step 2. Find a buddy or learn Nyquist
Step 3. Get a set of drums or program some in Nyquist
Step 4. Write metal music, publish it.