Crafting materials... Which ones and where?

[MechaDoc]

I've been trying to figure out the way crafting works and I can't seem to find rocks that give somekind of usable metal after crushing it. I think I destroyed more than enough materials in hearth without any clue of what im doing. What is it for anyway.

I've been using wood for tools but I'd love to move onto stronger materials now.

[prophet carason]

So, to properly create metals, you need to go through several stages of extraction. You can look up "Mortal Online Emulator" to see what you can do with many materials, but to make something like steel, there is a relatively long multi step process involved. For example, to make steel, you must mine Granum, Calx, and Saburra. Calx extracts to coal and calx powder. You take the coal, combine it with granum in an attractor, and get blood ore. You smelt the blood ore in a furnace with coke to make pig iron. You then combine pig iron with calx powder and coke to make grain steel. Finally, to convert grain steel to steel, you combine it with coal and saburra powder. By the time you're done, you'll get around a 1:26 ratio of steel to granum with lores maxed. For all the ratios, you'll need to do some research, but you should have a dedicated character if you want to do material extraction/mining. If you have any more questions, just let me know. Happy refining bro!
Also, steel sells for like 600g per stack. Pretty good money.

[MechaDoc]

Wow... Thats a pretty deep process. I was expecting something like mine it, smelt it, craft it,
No wonder why furnace always burned my materials.
Thanks for explaining the whole process. This opens a whole new road for me.

[Aku]

A lot of player guides here for all sorts of knowledge:

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/forums/noblemans-wisdom.130/