blacksmithing

[Killermajaro]

can you... not make metal weapons?

[raviolles]

fundamentally u can, but its very round about process
and can be very RNG based
which is dismantle a junk to get metal log, then u can make metal weapon

[ephang]

Don have direct way to use ore or ingot to craft for now.
But you can method like use hammer to turn ingot into wood or rock to craft the weapon with the material you want.

[Cocytus]

just go get the "yar craft" mod for now, that adds all equipment as being craftable to the carpenter table, blacksmith table, anvil, loom, glassmakers table and the accessories table.

at least until noa/löafrontier actually implement a native gear crafting solution that's really your only hope at ever crafting more than a fewe wood/stone pieces.

[Astasia]

Equipment crafting isn't really in the game yet. There are a bunch of specialized crafting tables for advanced weapon/armor crafting, in addition to the anvil, but there are currently no recipes for them. I imagine the dev is trying to decide on the balance of crafted gear compared to looted gear, and one of the "content updates" this month will probably add those in if I were to guess.

But ya, currently you can take a metal ingot, turn it into a statue at a sculpting table, then disassemble that statue with a hammer for like a 50% chance at a log of that material. So you can then take that say admantite log and make a "wood weapon" made of admantite.