Smelting

Smelting
Crafting skill

Attributes			Skills
Primary		Agility	Requires	Materials preparation
Secondary		Intellect	Unlocks	Forging & Armorsmithing
Skill Progression
Level	Description
All	Maximum quality of produced metal
0	Can smelt iron and copper out of ore
30	Can smelt precious ores into lumps
60	Can smelt steel
90	Can melt down (recycle) metal tools, weapons, and armor Can make bars and ingots out of precious metals Can smelt Vostaskus steel
100	Waste less material during the recycling of metal objects

Skill ID 3

Smelting is one of the three tier 3 crafting skills in the Artisan branch and the single branch following the Materials Preparation skill. It allows to refine metallic raw materials such as copper, iron, silver and gold ores into more refined forms which can then be used to make a variety of useful items. Level 30 of Materials Preparation is required to learn this skill. To increase Smelting past level 30, Materials Preparation skill must be at level 60.

Procedure

You need a smelting tool equipped like a Primitive crucible and stick

Place either Billets or Charcoal into a Furnace and light it.
Add ore(lumps, bars or ingots) to the furnace.
Use the Bellows to increase the temperature to 1500.
Maintain the temperature using Billets or Charcoal as the ore or metal begins to melt.
Once the source items had heated fully, melt them into the desired shape

Abilities

Name	Image	Level	Duration Min – Max	Equipment	Entities	SStam	Cooldown
Name	Image	Level	Duration Min – Max	Equipment	Entities	SStam	Global	Orders
Anvil		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
2x Lump of iron		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
8x Lump of iron		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
40x Lump of iron		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Iron bar	File:Iron bar0.png	0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Iron ingot	File:Iron ingot0.png	0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
2x Lump of copper		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
8x Lump of copper		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
40x Lump of copper		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Copper bar	File:Copper bar0.png	0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Copper ingot		0	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Lump of silver		30	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
8x Lump of silver		30	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
40x Lump of silver		30	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Lump of gold	File:Lump of gold0.png	30	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
8x Lump of gold	File:Lump of gold0.png	30	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
40x Lump of gold	File:Lump of gold0.png	30	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Lump of steel		60	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
8x Lump of steel		60	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
40x Lump of steel		60	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Steel bar		60	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Steel ingot		60	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Silver bar	File:Silver bar0.png	90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Silver ingot	File:Silver ingot0.png	90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Gold bar		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Gold ingot		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Irregular alloy	File:Irregular alloy0.png	90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
8x Lump of Vostaskus steel		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
40x Lump of Vostaskus steel		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Vostaskus bar		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
5x Vostaskus bar		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Vostaskus ingot		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool
Recycle		90	MinTime – MaxTime	Smelting Tools	Smelting Devices	SUsed	GCool	OCool

Lumps, bars and ingots process

Name	Crafting materials required	Name	Crafting materials required	Name	Crafting materials required
Lump of iron	1x Iron ore - creates 2(or 1x Iron ingot - creates 40)(or 1x Iron bar - creates 8)	Iron bar	4x Iron ore(or 8x Lump of iron)(or 1x Iron ingot - creates 5)	Iron ingot	20x Iron ore(or 40x Lump of iron)(or 5x Iron bar)
Lump of copper	1x Copper ore - creates 2(or 1x Copper ingot - creates 40)(or 1x Copper bar - creates 8)	Copper bar	4x Copper ore(or 8x Lump of copper)(or 1x Copper ingot - creates 5)	Copper ingot	20x Copper ore(or 40x Lump of copper)(or 5x Copper bar)
Lump of silver	1x Silver ore	Silver bar	8x Silver ore	Silver ingot	40x Silver ore
Lump of gold	8x Gold ore	Gold bar(Golden nugget)	64x Gold ore	Gold ingot(Golden nugget)	320x Gold ore

Training Tips

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Amount of items and stack size do not affect heating up speed or fuel consumption, so it is efficient to smelt as much stuff as possible in one go. Bloomery is far superior for smelting due to great capacity.
Charcoal is produced in the Kiln at a rate of 4 pieces from one Hardwood billet. They last for same time as fuel source, so Charcoal is way more efficient way to use materials. Besides, its smaller weight(1.00 against billet's 10.00) make stuffing the furnace easier.
Ore, lumps, bars and ingots will only melt at 1,500 and no lower. Going above this temperature will greatly increase fuel consumption and will not increase heat-up speed. Once item is fully heated up however, temperature do not matter as long as Furnace is not extinguished by hand or due to lack of fuel.
Smelting during a rain cycle is impossible. The rain will douse your Furnace

If one wish to power level Smelting, repeatedly making lumps from bars and then bars from lumps is the way to go. Alternatively, it may be leveled via item recycling, provided by leveling Armorsmithing or Forging. Recycling give 50% less experience, but Smelting will likely hit 100 before chosen crafting skill.
Smelting a full batch of ore takes exactly 10 minutes. The temperature in the Furnace will drop one time exactly 6 minutes after ignition. If the ore sits in the Furnace for 10 minutes without the player using bellows to re-raise the temperature, and at 10 minutes the player then raises the temperature, the ore will be ready for smelting at the 14 minute mark as it will require 4 additional minutes of heating at 1,500 degrees.
Smelting ore into a lump, bar or ingot takes exactly 6 seconds. Use the previous tip, along with how many items you wish to create from your Furnace, to setup a schedule so that you can have multiple batches of ore ready to be smelted without wasting Charcoal. For example, if we want to smelt 85 Iron Ore all into Lumps you must heat the Furnace to 1,500 degrees. At 6 minutes you will have to use bellows to raise the temperature back to 1,500 again, and at 10 minutes it will be ready to smelt. Smelting 85 Iron Ore into lumps is 85 actions, which take 6 seconds each, this would require 8 minutes and 30 seconds to complete. Using this information, we can have another 85 Iron Ore sitting in a second Furnace ready to be turned on at about the 9 minute mark. This batch will be ready for smelting at 19 minutes, whereas your first batch will complete smelting at 18 minutes 30 seconds. Do note you'll need to use bellows on the second Furnace at 15 minutes, so you'll need to interrupt your work on the first Furnace quickly to do that. Use a stopwatch and you can get into a rhythm.

References

Iron placed in a lit Furnace, ready to be heated
Fully heated iron, ready to be smelted
Options presented to form heated iron

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