This guide will show smithing XP and how to make profit in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
- Trade Goods Price Range Guide
- How to Conquer the Castle (Besiege)
- Save File Location
- How to Complete The Spy Party (Walkthrough)
- How to Win Tournament (Useful Tips)
- How to Change Difficulty
- Main Questline Guide (Search, Banner, Empire)
- Headman Sinor Quest (How to Complete)
- Smithing XP (How to Make Profit)
- Family Feud Quest (How to Fix Bugs)
- Map Guide (Silk Road, Trading and Goods)
- Getting Camel and Blocking with Weapon
- Which Faction to Choose (Empires, Vladian, Sturgia, etc.)
- How to Understand the Character Sheet
- Smith and Forge (Crafting, Getting, Refining)
- How to Learn Blocking, Attacking (Guide)
- How to Fix Archers (No Firing)
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- How to Win Arena Fight
- How to Make Money (4 Basic Ways)
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- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord -Caravan System (Quest), Trading, Prisoner, Archers
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Smithing XP (How to Make Profit)
Introduction
As a veteran of games such as Factorio I’ve learned to delve into the math of crafting systems.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has such a system with Smithing, turning Iron Ore and Hardwood into various purities of Iron. I’m making this guide in my own time using the data I calculated and gathered through experience in the game.
This guide is designed assuming that you’ve explored the Smithy and understand the layout.
Smithing Essentials
In the trade menu of each town you will see two important resources listed: Hardwood, and Iron Ore.
- Grain
- Hardwood
- Clay
- Wool Meat Cheese
- Pottery Fish
- Grapes
- Hides
- Sheep
- Butter
- Iron Ore
Hardwood can usually be bought in towns or villages for about 15 gold on average (with decent Trading skill) while Iron Ore can be bought for an average of 60 gold (with decent Trading skill).
You will need a LOT of Hardwood if you plan on getting into Smithing. Explore your area of play for villages that produce it a lot and shop around. The villages will tend to sell it to you for about the same price as the town it serves will.
Once you have a fair amount of Hardwood you can start refining it into Charcoal. If you have not already done so, choose the Efficient Charcoal Maker perk. If you did not start at 25+ Smithing, I would advice putting numerous Focus Points into Smithing as it will speed up the first few levels much more.
NOTE:
Making 1 Charcoal nets you 15 Base XP regardless of the recipe you use. You will make orders of magnitude more Charcoal than you ever will smelt Iron Ore so keep that in mind.
Refining Iron
Once you have Charcoal and Iron Ore you will refine it into various purities of Iron.
- Crude Iron = 9 Base XP each
- Wrought Iron = 18 Base XP each
- Iron = 27 Base XP each
- Steel = 63 Base XP each
Skill gain modifiers from Focus Points and your Endurance stat change this to a max of x10 at character creation with 5 in END and maxed Focus.
Now if we look at profit margins for selling crafting materials with a Trading skill of about 40…
With Efficient Iron Maker, 8 Iron Ore and 322 Hardwood can be made into 21 Steel, 1 Iron, and 1 Crude Iron which can be sold for about ~6,486g. The raw materials bought at 50g per Iron Ore and 15g per Hardwood costs about ~5,230g for a total profit of ~1,256g.
With Efficient Charcoal Maker, 12 Iron Ore and 248 Hardwood can be made into the same 21 Steel, 1 Iron, and 1 Crude Iron sold for ~6,486g with a profit of ~2,166g with the only downside being that it takes an extra 2 minutes of your life (which is peanuts considering this can take almost an hour).
Considering the substantial gap which can only get higher, it’s still much smarter to take Efficient Charcoal Maker until the game has been rebalanced (if it does).
By cOwOna viwus
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