need help. blacksmith

[juhabitak]

for real i searched for this guy for over 1 hour now. im pretty desperate. the man lady thing thats called his wife said he is in a cave ner weathertop.
there is this one cave right next to bree. i think he has to be in there BUT ITS CLOSED. and no matter what i do it wont open. help me....

[Tim]

Follow the yellow studs. The cave you are looking at is probably the wrong one. The entrance to the cave with the blacksmith is east of weather top (not the cave that is directly at the bottom of the weather top but a few metres east of it). It's located at a small hill/rock in the middle of the grass area.

[NTot10]

There is a side quest in weather top to build a catapult for an elf and hit an owl, it is the cave right next to that. I think it is the cave furthest to the east.

[Mallet - Maybe found sens]

Originally posted by NinjaCobra654:

There is a side quest in weather top to build a catapult for an elf and hit an owl, it is the cave right next to that. I think it is the cave furthest to the east.

Is that the one where you have to follow some signs for a while that'll eventually leave you back to the cave and let you dig up the key in a pile of dirt next to the door?

[Tim]

Nope it's the one that has a quest nearby where you build a catapult for one of the elves.

[Mallet - Maybe found sens]

Originally posted by Tim (ง'̀-'́)ง:

Nope it's the one that has a quest nearby where you build a catapult for one of the elves.

The one I mentioned is close to that quest as well.

[TinBlue]

This confused the hell out of me too and the problem is easily sorted once you understand how quests work in Lego games. You can only have one quest running at any given time and if at any point between speaking with the lady in Bree and going to the Cave you attempt any other quest that will become your primary quest instead and the blacksmith quest will nolonger be active and the blacksmith will not be in the cave. So...

To be clear - make sure you only ever do each quest one at a time. Speak to her again and as soon as you leave you should see a trail of yellow studs leading you to the correct cave. The issue arrises if you speak to another quest giver in the interim which is bad because this will result in the missing blacksmith not appearing in the cave.

I tore my hair out over this issue because the default mind set of most people is based on other games we play where you can go around collecting quests and fulfil them whenever we wish. This is not the case with the Lego games.