Smithing

Smithing makes metal weapons, armour, tools and Repair Kits. Jewellery is made at a jeweller's bench and advances the same profession. Smelt ingots at a forge before using them at the anvil.

Repair Kits, replacement tools and jewellery are useful repeat products. Daily crafting writs can request Repair Kits, and crafted jewellery provides enchantment capacity and Arcane Essence when disenchanted.

Station	Product	Patterns
Anvil	Metal weapons, from Dagger to Dai-katana	15
Anvil	Plate armour	7
Anvil	Chain armour	7
Anvil	Shields	4
Anvil	Gathering tools	5
Anvil	Repair Kits	—
Jeweller’s bench	Jewellery, from Ring to Wand	8

Staves and bows are made through Building.

Making money

Best tested NPC-gold recipe per ingot: Orcish Helms at rank 70. Best fixed silver: fill the Repair Kit writ when its displayed reward covers your inputs. For player sales, make to a commission or a demonstrated order instead of assuming that every Masterwork sells at a premium.

NPC gold: compare the recipe, not just the metal

These source-calculated NPC offers use the following assumptions:

Property	Value
Condition	Full
Quality	Standard
Game settings	Default
Shop quality	10
Mercantile	50
Personality	50
Price adjustment	1,000 (normal)

Actual offers change with shops, skills and settings. These examples are not measured farming rates.

Piece	Inputs	Example NPC offer (gold)	After one craft fee (gold)
Orcish Helm	2 Orichalcum Ingots, 1 Cured Leather	20,093	20,043
Orcish Cuirass	6 Orichalcum Ingots, 2 Cured Leather	25,116	25,066
Orcish Dai-katana	5 Orichalcum Ingots, 1 Copper, 1 Cured Leather	12,558	12,508

The last column deducts only the 50-gold item craft: ore, leather, smelting, travel and tool costs still have to be paid. Among the 26 ordinary Orcish weapon, plate and shield recipes tested, the Helm gives the most gold per ingot. Do not turn a whole ore load into cuirasses simply because their individual selling price is higher.

Quartermaster is available at Smithing 100:

Smelting	Ore per unit of work	Ingots produced	Ore for a 2-ingot Helm
Normal	2	1	4
Quartermaster	2	2	2

A shop smelt batch costs 50 gold for up to 100 units of work. Home stations remove use fees. Orichalcum comes from witnessed Orsinium Map and Wrothgarian surface veins and Motherlodes; see Mining.

Equivalent Daedric and Orcish weapon or plate patterns have the same NPC sale value after the Daedric reduction. Daedric smelting also consumes Hearts and Embers, so reserve it for your equipment or a paying player.

Clean work and quality bonuses improve equipment and player-sale potential without raising the NPC counter offer for their rolled bonuses.

Repair Kit writs

These are the current requests and payouts, before Quartermaster. They are drawn for the account, not selected freely, and share the three daily crafting-writ slots with Provisioning. Ingredient costs and any refining fees are additional to the craft fees shown.

Rank	Kit	Hand in	Silver paid	Craft fees (gold)
0	Iron Repair Kit	3	20	150
10	Steel Repair Kit	3	40	150
25	Silver Repair Kit	3	60	150
40	Elven Repair Kit	2	80	100
40	Dwarven Repair Kit	2	80	100
55	Mithril Repair Kit	2	100	100
70	Adamantium Repair Kit	1	120	50
70	Ebony Repair Kit	1	120	50
70	Orcish Repair Kit	1	120	50

For a two-Mithril-Kit writ:

Perk	Crafts	Mithril Ingots	Cured Leather	Writ pay (silver)
None	2	2	2	100
Quartermaster	1	1	1	100

Quartermaster makes two kits per craft. A one-kit request leaves a spare for later use or sale; extra output does not raise writ pay. Daedric and Warforged kits are not requested.

Action	Requirement	Product
Supply an enchanter	1 raw Silver per ring	Plain Silver Rings
Pair with Enchanting	Disenchant eligible crafted pieces	Arcane Essence
Make Masterwork Iron weapons	Smithing 50, Weaponsmith and a clean heat	Guaranteed Masterwork before other modifiers

Keep jewellery Silver unsmelted. Confirm a buyer before crafting for sale, and leave pieces unenchanted for silver listings or Masterwork auctions. Account for Market fees.

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