No weapon and armor smithing?

[Dracon]

Finally managed to get a Blacksmith table, but was left shocked. Why can't I make metal weapons and armor with it? Am I actually locked to randomly generated weapons for metal weapons and armor for now?

[Nyarlathotep]

You need to get the blacksmithing skill

[Dracon]

Getting the skill does nothing really. I guess the recipes aren't in yet...

[Eleraan]

Have the skill. Do I need it higher to get recipe?

[mstasiu]

How can I make blacksmith's table? I need scrap to make it, but I don't know how to make scrap.

[(Farkon) 2m_anylootboxes]

Need to learn the recipies from slerping, chests with recipie pages, and from spoiler.

[Dracon]

Starting to be unsure: Can we already craft metal weapons and armor or is that still WIP?

[Desmond]

Originally posted by mstasiu:

How can I make blacksmith's table? I need scrap to make it, but I don't know how to make scrap.

Some dungeons contain "wrecks" if you dismantel them, you get scrap.

[Dracon]

Gotta push this, I really need to know and I can't find the recie DB in the game files to just check...

[Doesn't Learn From Mistakes]

The starting recipes aside, weapon and armour crafting is intentionally not a thing. The official stated intention is for equipment to be found and then upgraded through crafting.

[Dracon]

That is kinda sad... it's what people would expect from the blacksmithing skill too :/

[Tasolth]

We just got into EA, so who knows. It might be a thing yet.
Also as for scrap, I found a dungeon that kind of looked like a square tower or keep, the walls were made of copper scrap. Took a good bit home with me on that run.

[Doesn't Learn From Mistakes]

Originally posted by Dracon:

That is kinda sad... it's what people would expect from the blacksmithing skill too :/

Personally, I like that it's doing something different from the mine -> craft -> boss loop that just about everything from minecraft to terraria to starbound have all fallen into. Gets stale after a while.

Metals are still useful to build infrastructure and facilities.

[Snapko]

There will be, you can find all crafting tables in game, like heavy armor crafting table, gunsmith table, bowyer table etc

[Eleraan]

So you are saying I as a proud Hillfolk. Who was born from the stone themselves to the nursery rhymes of ringing metal. Am expected to purchase my weapons and armor from some surface dweller? Stones be blessed even a filthy magic loving Elea? If that happened my father would turn over in his rocky grave, and his father before him. And all my kin down the lines to the first. So much so the lands would tremble and the mountains would fall. No, no I will not do such things. I will find the ways of my lost people and soon the fires will roar and the metal sing. For I am a proud Hillfolk who will do honor to my kin before me.

[Zombie Teddy Bear]

FYI i found a work around sorta to making metal weapons and armor.

so you can convert materials into several types of resources.
-----example turning copper ingots into string
so you can convert metals into "stone blocks" and use those to make "stone" items or "wood" items.

im sure these things will get implimented in a less confusing way eventually