How to level smithing quickest?

[Xequilibrium]

I wonder how you can level smithing quickly from the beginning. Im 400 days into my game and my smithing only just became 25. Is there a way or trick to level it quickly? It takes forever to get my smithing stamina back.

Also how do i unlock javelins. im 400 days in and still the unlock the shaft for javs, so i cant craft any.

[Clovis Sangrail]

The way to level smithing is to smith. Smith big ol' two-handers. The bigger and shinier the better. Convert all your crappy bandit loot to raw materials and smith them into better stuff. Buy pugios and smelt them down into raws.

Parts are random. Just keep smithing.

Keep Calm and Smith On.

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

The way to level smithing is to smith. Smith big ol' two-handers. The bigger and shinier the better. Convert all your crappy bandit loot to raw materials and smith them into better stuff. Buy pugios and smelt them down into raws.

Parts are random. Just keep smithing.

Keep Calm and Smith On.

Ya i do that kinda, but the crafting stamina is so crap it takes years. Is there a way to do it quicker?

[MinenSpecht]

In stable branch you just craft way beyond your skill. Take the best parts possible that far exceed your smithing skill.

In the beta you want to finish smithing orders. You get 4x XP when the client is pleased.

[Clovis Sangrail]

I told you -- Craft 2 handers. They give more experience and yield more parts,

Also, your companions and family can smith. This yields more parts. Bring the wife. When your are resting to regain stamina, she'll get pregnant.

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

I told you -- Craft 2 handers. They give more experience and yield more parts,

Also, your companions and family can smith. This yields more parts. Bring the wife. When your are resting to regain stamina, she'll get pregnant.

Thanks bro, i will try that later when im at home :)

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by MinenSpecht:

In stable branch you just craft way beyond your skill. Take the best parts possible that far exceed your smithing skill.

In the beta you want to finish smithing orders. You get 4x XP when the client is pleased.

Ahh i see, the crafting orders are hard tho when your smith is still 0:)

[Fenris]

I usually buy up as many pugios as I can to smelt, they give every thing but Thamaskin (or what ever it's called), and I have a few companions set to specialize in making different metals and others set to learn new recipes. I also skip the perks that make weapons worth more in the market and just get the ones that allow you to craft/smelt more. Weapons are worth so much already that a single one can bankrupt a town anyway.

[AlexMBrennan]

The quickest way is to savescum until you get high tier parts on the first try.

The best way is to have the devs replaced with less incompetent ones - recipes should obviously depend on skill (source: any other video game like, say, Skyrim). This lottery only makes sense if you are selling diamonds/donuts/whatever to allow the player to refill the smithing stamina.

[DewOrDie]

Use to be two handers that where the best - for starters to level (once you get the parts) I have faster success with two handed polearms and two handed axes. They are cheaper to build in materials.

Buy Pugio knives and tribesmen throwing knives and smelt then for fine steel mats. then you wont need to level your refine skills. But try to find some companions that can.

Also when you dont need the money smelt your own crafted weapons for XP that works as well.

Weapons trade is stil WAY OP I easy get 30000 pr. Poleaxe. But even 8000 for two handed axes is a crazy profit for no risk tasks.

[VUSLAT]

good

[MinenSpecht]

I just checked in 1.6:

- Crafting the best 2 hander I can with tier 4 parts i need up to 5 weapons crafted to unlock 1 part with curious smith perk.

- crafting an ordered 2 hander with the order paying 20k+ gives me 6-10 parts if the customer is pleased and i level up while fulfilling that order.

[RJboxer]

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

I wonder how you can level smithing quickly from the beginning. Im 400 days into my game and my smithing only just became 25. Is there a way or trick to level it quickly? It takes forever to get my smithing stamina back.

Also how do i unlock javelins. im 400 days in and still the unlock the shaft for javs, so i cant craft any.

Lots of vagueness :)

what version game? 1.5.10 You can hit smithing 200+ within first year I assume, I never do, because tend to focus on trade, but it is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper easy.

Want the cheesy strat? Don't get mad, when you see how cheesy it is. Don't read farther, if you don't want the cheese.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1-- Start game. Run around, get some cash, do the quests, raise renown, raise cash nonsense
2-- Go to seonen . I dunno why, but for some reason there is 2-3 towns that start with a ton of wood, for 6 denars each. That is ridiculously cheap.
3- Get a companion or 10.. However many you can afford. You ain't talking about "whats my best way to have an efficient army? how do I have low troop wages? etc. You asked how to SMITH like a fiend. (using different words).
4-- With that bought wood, go to a town, Enter smithy, WIth your main hero and all his companions/siblings you currently have, refine all that wood into charcoal.
5-- Keep doing this until ONE dude has smithing 25 (this should be 2-3 days of smithing.
6- When that dude has 25 (usually your main hero) pick the charcoal perk. In fact, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS for every person, pick that perk. Iron is so common, you will be throwing it away soon enough. Charcoal isn't
7- Now have THAT Guy only, refine wood (you still buying wood) to charcoal. Have the OTHER dudes, Smelt.
8- Smelt what??? Have you been fighting? if so you have weapons from them. Never sell them, smelt them. You fight looters? awesome you have a ton of pitchforks, smelt em all.
9--- Oops you didn't know that, and sold all your weapons (noob, hehehe jk) No worries, BUY pitchforks and wooden hammers. in basically every town
10-- Your main hero still refining charcoal, everyone else smelting pitchforks/weapons. Pitchforks give 3 wood. Which is 4.5 charcoal value. Nice.
11- Once your companions have the charcoal perk. Your main hero now starts smelting.
12- You will repeat this, buy/smelt/ buy smelt etc.
13- add attribute and focus points for EVERYONE to endurance and smithing. Why? you will get a ton of levels from it, and it raises smithing fast.
14- Now you start making real items. As has been said, You want someone (hero?) to Smith Two handers, Swords, or polearms. BUT.... you want it cheap to make, expensive to sell. This is tricky. Try to find a recipe which uses iron, or a few steel, and a hardwood. No fine steel, no themaskeel. etc. Make that, BUT watch that the weapon head you choose is ALL slice damage, or high slice damage, This makes weapon more expensive.
15- You have now been smithing for 5 days? maybe not even that. you are making 3-4k two handed swords. Selling them for 60-100k easily. (making a bunch).
16- Use that cash to buy more weapons to smelt.. or fight, up to you.
17- For your hero, you want him to take all the perks for crafting, Not refining. You want fine/legend/masterwork. you want extra unlocks for smithing etc.. You never want "Make steel" or that nonsense on him. He is your crafter, The other scrubs pick up the refining perks. They are your slaves to make resources (though eventually you have so many all of them are 200+ smithers as well.. but we aint there yet).
18- Once you can make a sword/polearm etc. that sells for 20k (should be day 7ish) you have ALL your guys make them. This gives them quick boosts to smith xp.
19- Sell em.
20-- You should have unlocked some javelin things now. Again, stay cheap, The 1-3 iron head is good the hardwood handle good. and the cheaper choices for the other categories are good. You want them selling for 30-40k. This is day 10-14 probably.
21- Wait? stamina sucks. Nope, this aint the olden days, where you had 100 stamina, and could do like 3-6 actions before rest. Nope, now you get hundreds of stamina, and with some perks. You run out of stuff to do before you run out of stamina.
22- Your hero is smithing 10-50 items per round. your guys are refining all kinds of stuff, and /or smelting. Some of them probably smelting 60 items per round. not bad.
23- Rest, Oh yeah. look how fast stamina resets per reset now? awesome. (it now gives more stamina for rest, and your pool of stamina is higher based on your smithing level).
24- Your main dude probably has 200 smithing now.
25- You can figure out the rest. Eventually by day 30? 60? You have so much money, and so much resources, you start "trying crap out" , just to see if its good. "Oh, cool I'll make this themasteel sword, and polearm and axe.. try em out, if I hate em, Ill smelt em". etc

This can get you millions of denars, and 200+ smithing (I usually have my main guy around 320.... ) fast. I put 8 ports in endurance, 9, depending on which other trees I go to. And use the perk in smithing for an extra endurance. My END is now 10. smithing focus 5. and the leveling is awesome.

You could do this before, to a slower extent, but no towns had over 50k to buy stuff, and some items were 133k. so it was a waste. Now with towns having 100k... not unusual. And you making 33k-50k items nosntop. it's much easier to sell. (no longer having to exploit trades with lords... for cash.. weeeeeeee!!!!!!!)

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by RJboxer:

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

I wonder how you can level smithing quickly from the beginning. Im 400 days into my game and my smithing only just became 25. Is there a way or trick to level it quickly? It takes forever to get my smithing stamina back.

Also how do i unlock javelins. im 400 days in and still the unlock the shaft for javs, so i cant craft any.

Lots of vagueness :)

what version game? 1.5.10 You can hit smithing 200+ within first year I assume, I never do, because tend to focus on trade, but it is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper easy.

Want the cheesy strat? Don't get mad, when you see how cheesy it is. Don't read farther, if you don't want the cheese.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1-- Start game. Run around, get some cash, do the quests, raise renown, raise cash nonsense
2-- Go to seonen . I dunno why, but for some reason there is 2-3 towns that start with a ton of wood, for 6 denars each. That is ridiculously cheap.
3- Get a companion or 10.. However many you can afford. You ain't talking about "whats my best way to have an efficient army? how do I have low troop wages? etc. You asked how to SMITH like a fiend. (using different words).
4-- With that bought wood, go to a town, Enter smithy, WIth your main hero and all his companions/siblings you currently have, refine all that wood into charcoal.
5-- Keep doing this until ONE dude has smithing 25 (this should be 2-3 days of smithing.
6- When that dude has 25 (usually your main hero) pick the charcoal perk. In fact, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS for every person, pick that perk. Iron is so common, you will be throwing it away soon enough. Charcoal isn't
7- Now have THAT Guy only, refine wood (you still buying wood) to charcoal. Have the OTHER dudes, Smelt.
8- Smelt what??? Have you been fighting? if so you have weapons from them. Never sell them, smelt them. You fight looters? awesome you have a ton of pitchforks, smelt em all.
9--- Oops you didn't know that, and sold all your weapons (noob, hehehe jk) No worries, BUY pitchforks and wooden hammers. in basically every town
10-- Your main hero still refining charcoal, everyone else smelting pitchforks/weapons. Pitchforks give 3 wood. Which is 4.5 charcoal value. Nice.
11- Once your companions have the charcoal perk. Your main hero now starts smelting.
12- You will repeat this, buy/smelt/ buy smelt etc.
13- add attribute and focus points for EVERYONE to endurance and smithing. Why? you will get a ton of levels from it, and it raises smithing fast.
14- Now you start making real items. As has been said, You want someone (hero?) to Smith Two handers, Swords, or polearms. BUT.... you want it cheap to make, expensive to sell. This is tricky. Try to find a recipe which uses iron, or a few steel, and a hardwood. No fine steel, no themaskeel. etc. Make that, BUT watch that the weapon head you choose is ALL slice damage, or high slice damage, This makes weapon more expensive.
15- You have now been smithing for 5 days? maybe not even that. you are making 3-4k two handed swords. Selling them for 60-100k easily. (making a bunch).
16- Use that cash to buy more weapons to smelt.. or fight, up to you.
17- For your hero, you want him to take all the perks for crafting, Not refining. You want fine/legend/masterwork. you want extra unlocks for smithing etc.. You never want "Make steel" or that nonsense on him. He is your crafter, The other scrubs pick up the refining perks. They are your slaves to make resources (though eventually you have so many all of them are 200+ smithers as well.. but we aint there yet).
18- Once you can make a sword/polearm etc. that sells for 20k (should be day 7ish) you have ALL your guys make them. This gives them quick boosts to smith xp.
19- Sell em.
20-- You should have unlocked some javelin things now. Again, stay cheap, The 1-3 iron head is good the hardwood handle good. and the cheaper choices for the other categories are good. You want them selling for 30-40k. This is day 10-14 probably.
21- Wait? stamina sucks. Nope, this aint the olden days, where you had 100 stamina, and could do like 3-6 actions before rest. Nope, now you get hundreds of stamina, and with some perks. You run out of stuff to do before you run out of stamina.
22- Your hero is smithing 10-50 items per round. your guys are refining all kinds of stuff, and /or smelting. Some of them probably smelting 60 items per round. not bad.
23- Rest, Oh yeah. look how fast stamina resets per reset now? awesome. (it now gives more stamina for rest, and your pool of stamina is higher based on your smithing level).
24- Your main dude probably has 200 smithing now.
25- You can figure out the rest. Eventually by day 30? 60? You have so much money, and so much resources, you start "trying crap out" , just to see if its good. "Oh, cool I'll make this themasteel sword, and polearm and axe.. try em out, if I hate em, Ill smelt em". etc

This can get you millions of denars, and 200+ smithing (I usually have my main guy around 320.... ) fast. I put 8 ports in endurance, 9, depending on which other trees I go to. And use the perk in smithing for an extra endurance. My END is now 10. smithing focus 5. and the leveling is awesome.

You could do this before, to a slower extent, but no towns had over 50k to buy stuff, and some items were 133k. so it was a waste. Now with towns having 100k... not unusual. And you making 33k-50k items nosntop. it's much easier to sell. (no longer having to exploit trades with lords... for cash.. weeeeeeee!!!!!!!)

Thanks allot bro for this extended guide.

I got two more questions tho.

1. how does stamina recover quick at the start of the game? Cuz its refilling terrible slowly.
2. i play on 1.6.0 Beta, does it still works that way?

[RJboxer]

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

Thanks allot bro for this extended guide.

I got two more questions tho.

1. how does stamina recover quick at the start of the game? Cuz its refilling terrible slowly.
2. i play on 1.6.0 Beta, does it still works that way?

Sadly, I am an old timer here. I have been playing bannerlord for many many hours, and many (most?) patches. I specify that, because I TOO used to always play the heck out of current release, then play the heck out of the beta release... then wait for the new beta beta lol.. It got tiring, and very difficult to keep up with what did what, where... :)

That being said, I am reeeeeeally trying to not play 1.6.0 currently. I don't wanna fall into that rabbit hole again. So I have no idea how it works on 1.6.0 sorry

as to the "how does stamina recover". Well, the olden ways was "slowly. and painfuly". You got 100 stamina, and it just gradually recovered when you rest IN A TOWN or CASTLE. Not resting in the world map. You had a max stamina of 100, the recovery rate was pretty much fixed (i.e. slow). So depending on what version you may be referring to, that is the answer Until 1.5.10 and most likely 1.6.0

In 1.5.10 which is current and I'm playing, stamina both increases (you get way way way more than 100 stam, as you LEVEL smithing), and it recovers much much faster. But you still must "wait here for awhile" in a town or castle for that to happen. I don't know exact numbers because smithing levels so fast for me.. but when u got about 200 stamina (super super easy to get to in year 1 or sooner) you wont even rest a full day and all your stamina is back (and it's much higher than 100.. though I dont recall off hand the exact number). Suffice to say, with me, wife, bro, his wife, and 4-5 companions. I have way way way more stamina than I can use. Ever.

[Urmel]

in 1.6 you must make orders to skill smithing.
and orders are far away from working and/or balanced.

best tip: make a good 2-h weapon (sword) and SMELT it.
you will not get any skill point for smithing this but 3-4 for the smelting.

i think TW will change this to zero 0 skill points for smithing AND smelting.