Smithy

[Joshypoo]

When does the smithy start bringing in good money? There's wars all around the kingdom I'm in, weapons should be a hot commodity right? Does building caravans from the smithy npc help grow things? Tia

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. Do you have raw materials coming in? If not, you will have to supply them to the Warehouse.

2. The smithy doesn't actually produce any weapons. It produces Tools. If it's not making money, try sending the output to Warehouse, then pick them up and sell them elsewhere.

3. Caravan doesn't do ♥♥♥♥ for you.

[Azunai]

Your best bet for workshops is to build them in the cities on the edge of the map that never get sieged and build up lots of prosperity over time.

The low value tradegoods are less profitable usually. In my current run i have workshops for jewels, velvet, linen, oil and pottery in various cities that get the coresponding raw material from their villages and they all generate 150-200 per day. The cities are all in vlandia and meanwhile i've also become a vassal lord of that kingdom. Vlandia is a safe bet since they are stronger and less exposed than their neighbors so their cities and villages almost never lose prosperity.

[Joshypoo]

Should I switch my workshop to something that will use local resources? The smithy doesn't sound very promising

[Joshypoo]

And I've fed a ton of iron ore into it, it's just not really making money.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Joshypoo:

Should I switch my workshop to something that will use local resources? The smithy doesn't sound very promising

Originally posted by Joshypoo:

And I've fed a ton of iron ore into it, it's just not really making money.

Where is it?

What are the Trade Bound villages supplying?

You may have to do as I mentioned in my first response -- Send the output to Warehouse, then find where the market is and sell it yourself.

(Note: You will get Trade experience for sending workshop output to the Warehouse.)