Weaponsmith

[Valcus]

I'm at 4 settlements with 24 people in the late bronze era and have crafted many weapons. I want to research bronze maces but it says I need weaponsmith 2. To my surprise, my crafter has no weaponsmith skill, despite all the weapons that she has crafted. She has a few levels in all the other crafts, like armorer, tailor, blacksmith, etc...

I started cranking out copper axes but still no weaponsmith skill at all. What am I missing?

[Valcus]

Never mind. After making various weapon types I made some copper daggers and immediately leveled up weaponsmith. I only had to make a handful to reach level 2. So not all weapons are weapons, apparently.

[Moc117]

The weaponsmith skill (equivalent to blacksmith if we were to name the profession), requires the working of ores in weapon crafts, which means that without the ingots required to craft a weapon, this skill cannot be obtained and cannot be improved

Other crafting skills have such conditions to be obtained

[Valcus]

Originally posted by kechketach:

The weaponsmith skill (equivalent to blacksmith if we were to name the profession), requires the working of ores in weapon crafts, which means that without the ingots required to craft a weapon, this skill cannot be obtained and cannot be improved

Other crafting skills have such conditions to be obtained :winter2019happydog:

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. What does ingots have to do with the fact that making weapons other than the copper dagger was not giving me skill points?

Are you saying that stone weapons don't work because they don't use ingots? If so, that same logic would not apply to the copper axes, which require the same ingots as the dagger but don't give skill points.

Still confused but it's no worry since I was able to progress.

[Moc117]

Normally that's how it works, since the weaponsmith skill corresponds to the production of weapons with metals, and the dev has applied this logic
Weapons using stone improve the craftsman skill

As for the copper axe, it is not considered a weapon (at the time), but more like a tool (although in the game, it is usable as a weapon), which is why this craft does not help improve the weaponsmith skill

This seems strange at first, but is quite logical, because the weapons that were used in the late bronze era, were swords, daggers and spears (plus throwing weapons, bow), while the axe was only used as a tool for cutting trees

And it is on this logic that the dev has developed the obtaining and improvement of skills