How to Make Iron

After rerolling my sorcerer I found that sometimes I just didn't want to hunt. At such a young age, my defenses were pretty weak and getting spells in a world where TSSW was no longer noded and the small park had not yet been built would take a millenia, maybe longer... So, I decided to make iron. Now, from previous lifetimes past I remembered how to make this very precious material, but while doing so I noticed that many people did not know or understand the process or what iron could actually do for them.

Besides giving the young character money for the iron, Iron Jack the blacksmith will teach you a bit of his ways everytime. For a single slab of iron, your mind will become half-full with experience. So, hunt a little bit, then while your mind is draining make some iron (provided there isn't a line and unless it's 2am elven time, there's a line) and by the time you get to town and sell the blacksmith a single piece, you'll fry yourself again. It's just that simple.

But you have to watch out, one batch of iron consists of 4 heavy iron slabs, so don't swing at anything on the way home or it'll take you a long time to recover. It's usually five extra seconds for each slab you are carrying unless you are a rather strong giantman or dwarf. Also, if you have any pieces in clothing, cloaks, backpacks, etc, no matter closed or open, when you sell that piece of iron in your hands to the blacksmith, he'll take all of it from you for the experience of only a single piece. Hey, you get all the money at once, too, but once you understand iron and what it's for, you won't care about that piddly 117 silvers.

One last thing, this will only work for you up to and including your 5th training. After that, yer on yer own, my friend. I hope you scoped the places to hunt that way yer not running around like a newbie at level 6. That would just be... Keep your eyes and ears open, learn from those older than you. Sometimes they are crochety, but they have vast wealths of information that they'd be willing to tell anyone, so long as they ask nicely.

Okay, I blabbed your ear off enough with this one. There's entirely too much talking on this page and not enough teaching. So we'll get down to business, shall we?

1. First, ask good ol' Iron Jack for a map. The context is "ask blacksmith for map"
2. Now, follow that map, or this map here .
3. Once there, go hole
4. go shrubs
5. If there is already charcoal made, just get it from the burner. If not, you're going to have to make some:
   1. There is a woodpile, so, get wood. For one piece of charcoal, you need 1 (one) handful of tinder, 1 split log, and 2 wooden sticks. If you don't get it all on the first try, just keep getting wood till you get what you need.
   2. Put the tinder and the logs in the burner. For each log you put in you will get one piece of charcoal.
   3. When you finally want to make the charcoal, get those two sticks and just rub them together ("rub stick").
   4. When you hear the hiss, the charcoal has cooled enough to grab. There's some waiting in this process so be prepared to hang about and defend what you're making if you have to. It's rare, but be on guard.
6. Now, go bushes
7. Go shadows
8. Go down, down, north
9. Type search. You should find a full flask of oil. If you don't, keep looking till you find one. Here's what those with high perception excel
10. Go south, d, south
11. Now, here's the hardest part if you have low perception. Type "Search workface" and you will poke around within the workface until you find iron ore. When you hear the "CLLLAAANNG!!", you've dislodged a piece and it's fallen to the ground. If there is another person in there with you looking for the same stuff, pick up your ore right away so arguements aren't caused later as to who's ore is who's.
12. When you find four pieces (four pieces make a batch. You can make less, but why?) go n, u, go door
13. Now, you wait in line if there are other people making some. If not, or it's your turn, hurray, it's time to get down to business
14. Turn the valve until it closes. You should see "the valve closes under your hand".
15. Put the charcoal in the crucible
16. Put all the ore in the crucible. It can hold 5, but 5 pieces of ore won't get you 5 pieces of iron, so save yourself the trouble of finding the last bit.
17. Go east
18. Pour the oil in the drum ("pour oil in drum")
19. pull chain (make sure you have nothing your hands)
20. pull bellows (same as above)
21. go west
22. turn valve
23. go east
24. pull chain
25. pull bellows
26. pull chain
27. pull bellows (Yes, you have to do them twice, and alternately. This process pumps the air into the fire under the crucible that heats the iron. It helps if you are in stance offensive, for it takes a few seconds to recover from such physical exertion.)
28. Now you go west and wait until the iron is ready. You will hear it shatter into multiple pieces and you can't get it until you hear this happen. It will be in the casting pit when it is done, because if you are paying attention to this process, the crucible dumps the molten iron into the pit).
29. Return to the blacksmith and with a single piece of iron and map in hand, give the map to the blacksmith ("give map to blacksmith"). Remember, only have one piece of iron on you at a time. Most people drag a chest a long with them, personally I like to have a disk, or I take off my backpack and drop it before I sell anything. It's risky with some of those jerks out there, but I also did this very late into the night when most people weren't around.
30. There! For the time, you're done. Go off, have a drink, make some friends, and remember, *roleplay*!! That's what this game is all about. You're not spending your $10 bucks a month so you can level so quickly. If you do that, then you'll have no friends. Then where will you will be when your level 100? Tired, old, and lonely. So have some fun, make some friends, and when your mind gets empty, sell some more iron.

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