The Lord of Things, There shall be four of them...

4 important things you should do shortly after starting a new game,

to make life as a blacksmith in the game incredibly easy,

since they bring more than just real-life time savings and a very high productivity bonus,

to gain much more free playtime for the actual game over the entire game duration,

I would very much hate to play without this tactic in the future...



1.) Sabotage the industries of cities with their own wood-building villages...

These villages always have a wood-consuming carpentry workshop in the city,

but this workshop consumes a lot of wood and increases the drop chance of good bows and arrows for the owning faction...

A blacksmith constantly needs this wood,

and preferably at a very low purchase price...

So, all these carpentry workshops are quickly bought up and converted into other workshops,

so that the wood is no longer processed in these cities, and The workshops are then sold again...

As long as you don't build completely inappropriate workshops (e.g., 3x olive presses in Phycaron or similar...),

then they won't be changed back to carpentry workshops...

The very simple rule is that every city and honorable NPC is satisfied,

if there is one silversmith and all cities with even one wheat village will always welcome a brewery...



The advantages of this sabotage action are as follows...

A permanent percentage income penalty for the city-owning faction, lasting until the end of the game, due to reduced tax and customs revenue...

Due to this uncoordinated city production and the overpriced purchase of necessary raw materials for further processing...

In my opinion, the most valuable advantage is that, by eliminating the wood-processing workshops,

after a short stabilization period, the global wood market will experience a very high wood surplus, and the price of wood will plummet. It's slipping...

and you can easily set up 1-2 completely autonomous woodworking shops in your smithy HQ city,

which you don't have to fill with wood from your storage,

because the wood can be bought up automatically and cheaply on your own market,

without risking a production break or having to pay large sums for it...

since you get more than enough wood delivered to your city with the only global woodworking shop via caravans...

If things start to slow down due to war, you can visit this foreign city once a year, which has wood income, and buy a year's supply there directly...

and thus easily transport 2000-5000 units of wood to your smithy HQ and store them in the city hideout...



2.)
Convert your own smithy HQ city into a double carpenter's workshop monopoly with a smithy...

By converting your workshops into 2x carpentry + 1x smithy in your city,

you increase the daily drop chance of high-quality weapons and items on the city market...

These two carpentry workshops can, as mentioned, autonomously and cheaply replenish their wood supply from the market without any breaks,

so that the small storage space of only 5000 can be reserved entirely for the smithy and its required metal bars...

since these would never stay on the market for long...^^

The city should but always have at least 5001 inhabitants (prosperity),

because only from this city size onwards can the best weapons (bows + hand weapons) + armor (full plate armor and horse armor),

+ items (perfect arrows) drop daily in the market as T5-T6...,



The advantages of this action are...,

you can probably guess that...,^^



3.)
You should create a page in Windows Editor just for Bannerlord Smithing results!!!

to save them there in a table with your own name and the necessary files...,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3722876224
your best and frequently used weapons, or even your own custom creations, can be easily saved there with all the fine-tuning,

and required weapon items, and copied and pasted back into the game without any problems...,

to do this, you just need to... To craft a legendary weapon, press Ctrl+C in the forge view...

This will then store all the necessary game files for weapon crafting, including all the fine-tuning settings, in its cache...

Then, press the Windows key to open Notepad while the game is running and press Ctrl+V in Notepad.

This will copy all the game data for that specific Legendary weapon into Notepad.

After saving these files, you can then open Notepad again, select the data, and copy it to your clipboard using Ctrl+C.

Then, back in the game and in the Forge view, paste this data using Ctrl+V.

You'll immediately have that exact weapon again with the same fine-tuning settings for the Legendary Forge result, ready to craft it again.

If you do this for every weapon you want to craft frequently,

you'll save a lot of time and always have the correct settings for Legendary results right away.

And above all, you'll avoid all the different weapon sets and settings and the hassle of experimenting without having to think even once about whether the values ​​are correct. The legendary results are,

without having to take a screenshot, from which you then have to repeatedly copy and adjust the fine settings...

and thus, this whole forging process becomes a truly legendary hammering festival of a particularly easy kind... ;)



Advantages of this Win/Editor action are...

a lot of time-consuming fine-tuning and item selection for legendary forging results of popular weapons of all kinds,

can be saved so that your favorite weapons can be forged exactly like the original after saving in the editor,

by copying and pasting the weapon data with the forging result data at any time without having to test and make new settings,



4.)
Attention...

this advantage is only possible with a gaming keyboard or a gaming mouse!!!

this is really very fast and only takes about 20-30 seconds. Setting up a "*left mouse click*" macro, which takes a long time,

is more than worth the minimal time investment required for setup.

For example, I've configured my G3 key on my Logitech gaming keyboard to perform a G3 click "ON/OFF" followed by repeated "*left mouse click*" macro without any delay.

This saves a significant amount of real-time time when crafting materials in the smithy.

For instance, if I want to process wood into coal, I move the mouse cursor to the crafting button in the bottom right corner and then press my G3 key just once.

In just 3 seconds, I've executed this process approximately 100 times.

Without the noise of the processing and all the left-clicking on that button...

I do the same when I'm processing iron into steel or steel into fine steel...

I also press the G3 key when I need some wood while traveling to other cities' forges...

and then want to melt down 200 wooden hammers... One click and my pockets are filled with 600 wood again,

without getting a cramp in my right index finger from constantly clicking the left mouse button...


Advantages of this macro action...

Never again having to click the left mouse button 100 times to, for example, get 300 wood from melting...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3722880384

Only once you reach a population level of Level 6 (T6)—meaning 5,001+ inhabitants and 5,001+ Prosperity—

can you find such daily weapon drops available for purchase and smelting on the Town Market.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3720884421

The same applies to the high-T armor, which will only drop from city level 6 onwards.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3720888333

The same applies to headgear and horse armor, as well as bows and arrows.

However, having a blacksmith's workshop or a carpentry shop increases the percentage chance of obtaining high-quality weapons and items;

That said, nowhere is it actually stated or mentioned what the specific multiplier for this effect is.

Furthermore, instances where items of a tier (+1T) higher than the town's current level drop are likely to be rare exceptions rather than a regular occurrence.

At least, I have never personally found Tier 6 equipment in towns smaller than Level 6 (i.e., those with fewer than 5,001 inhabitants).

Curious for more blacksmithing tips?

You'll find them here...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3618263134