Crafting system is not intuitive at all.

[kildar]

Even with the quests trying to help you still end up stuck all time.

Leather - The quest brings you to create the solutions needed in the vat but then they jump to making shoulders meanwhile you end up with soaked medium hide and no idea how to make leather.

Bronze - TheY guide you to making the furnace but then want you add tin ingots with bronze one but there is no indication of how to make a tin ingot.

This kind of vagueness plagues the crafting so far and is fairly frustrating to deal with.

[Ruinous]

For leather you need the medium hide with water, lime solution, bark solution and nettle solution all present in the tanning vat.

You make tin ingots (and a more efficient way of making copper ones) by putting raw ore and regular ore into a bloomery with fuel (wood of some sort) enough.

Bronze is made by popping the tin and copper ingots in the furnace together, with enough fuel (recommend logs for this).

Iron is a bit different, the ore is processed into iron 'bloom' in the furnace and then you process the bloom into ingots using an anvil.

I agree its vague and not intuitive at all, but do feel free to use the general chat ingame or post more questions here as there are plenty people who'll be happy to help out.

[kildar]

Thanks, I had found the way to do most of it eventually. The main point though is it does not make a great impression. Also even your explanation on leather will frustrate many people as they will check it in a half hour and see soak hide instead of leather then spend the next amount of time trying to figure out how to turn it into leather which is super frustrating. It is not intuitive that you need to leave it in for four different stages as that mechanic does not really exist in other games. Thus it should be explained better.

[Ruinous]

For sure. I think with it being 30 minutes per stage, thus needing 2hrs to make 1 piece of leather is a bit ridiculous as well.

[Vanyel]

This was a problem in WT1 as well...for basic stuff as this...one should not be dependent on having to ask in chat. This should be covered either by the tutorial and or when one builds say, the tanning vat, furnace, bloomery, etc. Would also make for additional entries in a 'Journal' as I suggested in a previous thread for keeping track of clues/actions the player has uncovered along the way and used for quick reference and or after returning to the game after being absent for a bit.