Forging Alloys to Build the Perfect Blade in Medieval Blacksmith

[@YUNGHENNEY]

Someone didn't pay attention to the tutorial when it said the kids will throw away anything left on the floor lol

[@ShadeScarecrow]

What? Drae not paying attention to the tutorial? Noooooo

[@nilsvanhuffel7090]

​@@ShadeScarecrow i am SHOCKED 😂

[@joe125ful]

Where is see that already..hhmm...

[@norbby42]

Plus I'm pretty sure the boy was holding a sword in the morning when Drae looked at him

[@btheg9953]

Imagine he pays attention ONCE

[@3amForge]

As someone who does bladesmithing, yes, higher temps can burn steel, removing carbon content and making the blade more prone to chipping, fractures... the quench definitely determines how good your blade will turn out. Be thankful you don't have to worry about tempering the blade after the quench

[@wanlow5217]

Ah, the heat treat.

[@ducky2379]

I watch forged in fire and I knew what all of these words meant 😎😅

[@dragonwing4ever]

heat treating is definitely the most important part of a blade

[@sayori3939]

bah, i like my steel crispy

[@guswightman2695]

Yes it’s much more than the just the quench. Thermal cycling and tempering both play just as large of a role.

[@DrLeeX]

The final number on cut rate is your damage. The first is your design's cut damage multiplied by your cut bonus (ie. 1.10 is a 10% bonus) then equals to your total cut damage. Your first dagger was 5 and your second was 11 dmg. Like others gave said, you needed greater than 20. Love the series, even the mistakes and frustration are entertaining.

[@joe125ful]

Well Drae can read comments but you know....very rarely when he realize something important from tutorial 3 parts later:)

[@TheRealPhantomWolf]

what DrLeeX said

[@nikelon8227]

Why do i feel like it's gonna be 3 episodes of "reasons why i should've done the tutorial" before we get anywhere

[@Altair1243WAR]

Because Drae is the person who always needs a tutorial, but never thinks he does and causes himself immense emotional pain and torment.....

[@rasmustapper9994]

Every...single...time XD

[@ayzoubazz4207]

Oh Drea oh Drea don't skip math classes Greater than or equal to 20

[@Kar4ever3]

How do you make sure kids stay in school? Show them Drae videos.

[@Menelutorex]

any idiot can be youtuber .....

[@funyz.clipss]

and the fact he said he wanted a common and he was trying to give rare, idk some games are picky abt that stuff 🤷‍♂

[@CloyingPulchritudinous]

Drae not Drea. Get back in school! Lol

[@Dinkleberg96]

Drae skipped all subjects

[@seanfarley1758]

Drae, if you look at the smelting pot there is a percentage that continually and sometimes RAPIDLY decreases. That is the quality of the ore. Try and smelt as much as you can as fast as you can is what I've been doing

[@burntout]

Drop it in water after your pour, Will freeze the % until you melt it again... That way you can make them all above 98%

[@seanfarley1758]

​@@burntoutahh interesting. I've been throwing my molds in the forge and then pouring again. I've been stopping making molds after around 60-70% quality

[@Sarstan]

Just get it a bit above the melting point (all melting points are in the book) and then leave it out of the furnace after pouring. You don't need to rush. Also leaving the furnace lid open will cool the furnace.

[@Swan-p2h]

@@Sarstan i cant find the game on steam even though i searched the name in description does it go by a different name

[@balkamp8888]

Don't waste your melted metal, just cast extra pommels and guards for rando off weapons. Store them in the chest by your ore stores.

[@billbillinger2117]

Fun Fact: Medieval Smiths would, on average, take about 2 weeks to finish a generic sword or dagger. Changes in complexity to the design of the project could drastically lengthen the completion time.

[@Rhec22]

what i found in the skills to help with ore quality in the forge is go right for a skill in the blacksmithing tree called "Molten Heart" long story short it tells you when ur ore is boiling or done ready to pour so u never have to worry about having junk for ore quality helps out when a finished product is over 10,000 coin and u don't want to mess it up lol

[@Hugos7532]

Hey drae just to let you know you can go mining for your ores and can get special ores that makes you more money. All you have to do is go out the blacksmith door and go right to the open gaurded area once in grab the wagon and follow the trails and once finish you can leave it their and go back to the blacksmith building it spawns it their for you.

[@bafon867]

It's free as well, haven't run into any problem there yet and I ussually go there after closing time to get my stock filled

[@Swan-p2h]

@@bafon867 hey im having issues finding the game even after searching the name in description does it go by a different name r am i doing something incorrect

[@sahilrahman5066]

Wow i wonder if he would have know that if he read the tutorial? 🤔

[@Shadowknight_Gamingltm]

If I may drae offer advice about quenching. If you drop the blade in the trough then reheat in the oven it helps with the quenching process. The barrel itself is a fickle mistress but quickly lower the blade in the water and pull out quickly it'll take about 3 drops but that should give you about an 80-90% everytime.

[@jasonwong972]

Weapons left on the ground when you sleep will get thrown out. The dagger was a bit overweight anyway though.

[@brandonsattizahn4443]

Greater than or equal to 20. The alligator opens its mouth to the bigger side.

[@nilsvanhuffel7090]

I was thaught it was a bird and < is part of the k in kleiner dutch for less.

[@BakeXlove11]

Lol the alligator is great, I'm not sure I've heard that one before.

[@erueka6]

​@@BakeXlove11it's been around for 30ish or more years not something new.

[@AGH69]

The less than symbol is shaped more like an L < is how I was taught

[@Need2Xplore]

I was taught to put my arms in front of my body, the left one makes this curve < And the right arm does this > (it makes more sense if you are right-handed), with the right arm being the stronger, so this > is greater than this < 😅

[@knicklichtjedi]

While quite complex, I enjoy how in-depth some mechanics get. And more importantly I highly appreciate the information book. So many complex indie games have very little resources to learn so this is so helpful!

[@NeoSilents]

= is equal >= is Greater than or Equal to

[@Menelutorex]

any idiot can be youtuber .....

[@boxxythecat5778]

≥ what is this than

[@Tuulos]

@@boxxythecat5778 Greater than or Equal to. It's just a different way to type >=

[@boxxythecat5778]

@@Tuulos ah, I see. I was reading those not together, like (>) = is greater, rather than (>=) is greater.

[@joe125ful]

Thats dumb...why not do this +,-,=....:):)

[@metern]

Drae, remember to reheat the metal before it gets too cold when hammering, or the metal will be of bad quality. Smithing is all about creeping the right temperatures of the metal.

[@metern]

Nice. You did remember to do it 😁.

[@camdenhamann7390]

There is a percentage when you hover over the smelting bucket directly to the right of the ore name. That is the ore quality.

[@vidarvapor]

Not sure if you noticed, but at one of the shops the vendor sold a rack labelled "Sell" and a rack labelled "Save." I think you need the "Save" one to put stuff on that wont sell, and you can store them there until you are ready to hand them out to people.

[@MrRhoidRage]

27:20 YES, THIS IS TRUE IN REAL LIFE. It breaks down and can't even be worked with in reality so it isn't totally accurate.

[@xghostsniper1179]

*TIPS* 1) once your ore melts it will start to degrade which is seen if you hover over it in the furnace 2) Top left in the weapon build tells you if your blades at dagger or one handed sword lenght ect, 3) weapon design only matters for the mold, once you've poured into the mold you can create a new blueprint and the bar will become whatever mold it was at the time of its pour 4) any bars or crafting items left over night i.e. a pommel thats not attached to anything will go to your chest beside the quench bucket 5) when pouring, pour the excess into the mold and get another pommel or gaurd dont waste, more money

[@metern]

Just found out that you should not keep your meltet ore in the furnace for storage. It not only gets bad, but it gets wasted, too. Let it cool down, and then you can reuse it without wasting any of it 😉👍

[@stonewa11]

When you go past the quenching, you can reheat the blade and try again. Heat the blade to 530-540 before quenching and it ends around 100%.

[@ratsy1302]

Keep at this! I love watching the learning process, and it's a pretty deep game.

[@Zalfeon]

if you put weapons on the ground the kids will through them away thats why there is a weapon rack next to the bed to keep things that you dont want to sell how ever if you leave weapon parts on the ground they get put in the chest out back and the blade parts are put on the crate next to the wood poles.

[@haal4919]

. The % from when you bend it in design phase is only a % added to the final cut rate value, Its not that the blade is getting for ex 26% cut rate. Its the basevalue + whatever percentage you have. In your last dagger it had 8% and a basevalue of 10.8. 10.8 * 1.08 = 11,66. and then the bad overall quality probably takes some off it aswell. And the first dagger: 5.49 cut rate * 26% cut bonus from design 5.49 * 1.26 = 6.9

[@danielkjm]

@@haal4919 nice ;P

[@screwylooygaming]

Really need to look at that % on the smelting bucket. No need to keep it heated, it degrades the liquid ore. I just throw the bucket in the trough after eat ore pour.

[@arturm6621]

I love how my man compleatly ignores the ui thats plainly telling him everything hes confused about at every step lmfao

[@wanlow5217]

You can actually keep making weapons of the same pattern. When you take the ingots out of the molds you can immediately pour more metal in to make another one. Then the ore quality is retained and you can reheat the parts as much as you want for forging.

[@Zalfeon]

for alloys you need to put the ore that takes the longest to melt first then let it cool to solid then and the other ore but you want the temp to be as close together to keep the alloy quality as high as possible my highest quality alloy ore was at 98.85% but every time you heat it up the quality goes down.

[@firetrix93]

I like how he puts designs in his handles and doesn't even have the lathe

[@TrojanEliteGaming]

Not to sound sentimental but man I watch every video you drop and it’s like you have become part of my life routine . Never could I doubt you on a good or bad day

[@TheQcjoe47]

My guys just made a copper bread knife for the lady to defend herself lol

[@Dj_-zn5zl]

I really enjoy watching this series, this game has so much potential and with the pacing you can get so much iconic DRAE content at the forge 😂 it’s reminiscent of so many other games you haven’t played in a while. it’s always a good watch with games like these.

[@Tetrok_the_Teal]

IRL for steel blacksmithing specifically you can burn off the carbon leaving it more ductile and less strong (idk about other metals, never worked with them)

[@mitsurugi667]

I enjoy the episode but the whole less than 20 was getting to me especially as someone who's best subject was math. With greater than or less than, you look where the "mouth or opening" of the symbol is going. > 20 is greater than 20 cause the "mouth" is facing away from 20. < 20 is less than 20 cause the "mouth" is facing towards the 20. Or another way to put it is that the "mouth" is two lines while the point is one line so two is more than one so which ever number the two lines/mouth is pointing at is the bigger number. I'm sorry for pointing this out cause I'm sure a lot of people in the comments know this already, and was probably getting on to Drae like me. XD Plus, I think Drae even said to the guy, "Why would you want it to do less damage, when you're trying to kill someone?" So, that should have told Drae maybe it's not less than but greater than. lol

[@Shoe_Horn]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Drae already spend like 40 minutes last time figuring out that not quenching the blade brings the value down to near zero? How did he forget? It was so harrowing for him at the time.

[@karmskorner6430]

Ya got to go by the stats on the leftside not the percentage bonus for the Cut Rate, and when you hover over each piece when designing you can see how much it adds to what stat. So some designs add more pierce or more cut etc etc and then the bend/bonuses are ono that base state total.

[@karmskorner6430]

The dagger you did first was WAY under 20 cut rate

[@oliviawolcott8351]

Yes. IRL, you can burn metal. also if you keep your bar or blade in the fire too long it can ruin the grain of the metal and make it weaker IRL.

[@Bkundert12]

Go mining to get the good ores easier and for free. You can go multiple times a day to get free coal and ores including gold ore. Best way to make money

[@pug7163]

I discovered you last night with the part 1 to this and was sad to realize there wasnt any more, looks like at the time i was only a couple hours off of you posting haha. Thank you, youre very entertaining!!

[@oliviawolcott8351]

it's be fun to see you make a zweihander.

[@austinreuber6297]

Hey Drae, pro gamer tip here about quenching. You can reset it by heating the sword back up to 750 and re-dipping it! hope that helps!

[@wingnutt1228]

if you don't talk to the people that wait by the door, it pauses the clock to pay rent so you can make as much money as possible. I had 50,000 by the time the big guy came in

[@tigerlep9]

love how Drae was mixing up the Greater Than symbol lmao

[@Zalfeon]

it took me 15 daggers and 2 days to please that man on my game he wants a common dagger if you look after sharping its rare. what i did to please him was at the assembly table and just do a bad job like 90% on all parts as you put it together

[@time_to_teaparty]

From what I see is, your ore quality is shown on your heated bucket when you hover over it. It gets worse over time even when the bucket is outside of the smelter. The longer it stays in the lower the quality gets. Thats why the first copper one was good quality and the second one was only in the one digit percent of quality and consider junk.

[@danielkjm]

Cut rate is Cut Damage. Your dagger did 11 cut damage.

[@pamarcycoldsteel5279]

Love your vids! Just didn't know if you saw it or not, but after you sharpened the weapons on the wheel the Quality changed to Rare instead of common. So the daggers were what the guy wanted until you sharpened them!

[@Gunsack]

Love the content so much Drae thank you for bein so consistant you motivate me to post more and just make my days better everytime I click on your videos much love brotha!

[@scottvisakowitz6326]

Lol at pouring it out for the dead homies

[@Andrew-qo2jg]

It's not the size of the dagger that determines its worth, it's how you use it.

[@louishoey]

Love the longer videos this is a fun game 2 watch as well. 👍🏼

[@mindfire86]

i guess Drae did miss the page of the different temp ranges of the metals in the book

[@testing123istheseon]

When quenching make sure your using the right quench you pick. You start out with the water one and you and using the new ome you got and not picking it in your build when you are setting it up.

[@illegalwidget267]

This is an awesome game! Great attention to detail on weaponry! I love seeing the crazy stuff he comes up with.

[@warfin1379]

at 30:04 it shows the ore melting points and my guess is that if you have it too much over thoes it degrades for copper its 1085c and you were waiting till it got all the way to 2000c and it takes a while for it to cool, thus demishing the ore quality so try pouring your ore 100-50c over the melting point and not let it get hotter than that.

[@danielbeaverson2194]

I’m over here about to pull my hair out at the blade quality changing after sharpening and him not seeing it 35:34. And the cut rate at the top on the left is not the same as the cut rate bonus from design on the bottom.

[@Choppies97]

Throw the smelting bucket in the trough it cools it down quicker... then reheat with new of the same ore to increase quality value... put all the special weapons in your bedroom rack to save the weapons and always save once a special event has occurred

[@Choppies97]

Also look at your ore quality when in comes out of the furnace... to stop ore quality diminishing just throw it into the trough

[@pascalf9602]

The first free dagger was too heavy anyways

[@ferrisfamilygaming3876]

heating up metal too much can alter the metal's crystal structure, making it brittle.

[@iseuron]

Dr. Drae

[@mattjordan6472]

What i have found to work best is blueprint your weapon make your mold melt the amount of ore you want once ore is melted pour into mold once all 3 molds are filled swap to your tongues pull the bars out of the mold and fill molds again and repeat until all molten ore is used up that way you don't worry about ore quality diminishing to 0

[@Fayt414]

He wanted Common dagger, but he made a Rare dagger 😂

[@TreadWalkin]

> is greater than. So I'm thinking even with the crazy high cut rate it sill wasn't enough. No sure though tbh

[@corabila8055]

You can read rather well for being dyslexic no hate your a natural story teller love you drea.

[@dEvilYash99]

Theres melting tempratures in the book telling you how hot you want the fire to be to make your ores melt. if you let the ore be melted at a way higher temp than that then the quality of it will drop very quickly. Like copper, you want it to be just hot enough to pour it. The ore quality is shown to you when you look at the kiln.

[@chrisweaver587]

Heat is very critical so if you got an or that melted a higher heat, you get that up the temp let it start to cool and then add your other or

[@_Kitetsu]

(peruses comments to check if Math symbol direction was mentioned and see's that it was) Cherio! Very good then, moving on. lol nah just messing around LOVE YOU DRAE!!! fr tho, we do. positive intentions, not that igp-wisdom of OMG you did this and that.. omgomg. [correction correction] (which is usually correct btw, but anyhow) Nah man, if anything it you that's trolling us. hahaha Anyhow LOVE the content as always. Also, love that things are working out better for this game, cuz it looks pretty damn cool imo. I am loving it so far!

[@eshepley2000]

The less than sign always points left, I like to remember by the phrase "Less than left"

[@davryder12]

@drae so seeing you play this got me to buy it so your the one at fault here LOL So some stuff I noticed READ up on what ore melts at what temp, try to keep the temp within 100 of the stated melting point. The smelter will keep getting hotter if the cap/hook is fully closed, you can regulate temp by opening/closing. Alloys, look in the book to check which ore has the highest melting point and melt that one first then add the other ore. There is a mining area to the left of your shop when exiting, it respawns ore and coal daily, take advantage. Kids will clean up when you sleep, components of WIP weapon will be put in the chest by the ore storage, blades and blade bars on top of the wooden box by the wood, any assembled weapons left out will be trashed, so hang everything on racks before sleep. Hope this helps but do with this knowledge what you will.

[@daltonpearson9204]

I am so ready 😮

[@crazykids2004]

Oh Drae it said in tutorial kids will throw away stuff left on floor yes you can burn metal so cooling it and reheating will hopefully work

[@dazedhaze]

When changing your weapon curve, you can hit the refresh button to the right and it will show you the actual blade

[@flamewolfspirit-u8p]

what's funny is that Drae hasn't figured out that he can actually pocket the crucible to keep the ore quality from going down cause while it's in the air it losses ore quality until it hardens. and leaving it in the furnace makes the ore quality go away faster. the Kid clean up the shop and if the weapon is not in the sell or keep racks the kids will toss the weapons but pieces of weapons get stored in the chest and the blade bars/unfinished blades get put on the craft next to the wood racks. plus it's always good to use all the spare melted ore for extra parts to save ore later or to piece weapons together. but nothing sells better than gold stuff. i think he forgot that there was a mine he could go to get free ores from without spending any money Pro tip: you can reheat the blade to requench it. and Cut Rate, Peirce Rate and Smash Rate is Damage Rate for those types. Rate Bonus is a percentage added to the over all rate. (started playing this since mid may this game has always looked this good and it's still got alot of features coming)

[@AdamZZ4]

“Because he needs to kill a man evidently” 😂😂😂

[@mak0bac0]

There is a percentage next to the bucket that shows the quality of the ore

[@chrisweaver587]

This is a pretty cool game that it takes temperature into effect which is real life

[@rhyker1pbruhmoment725]

Drae you need to quench at lower temp and dont melt the ore so high for so long. That will fix the problem about the junk grade. I have been blacksmithing for a mintue

[@oliviawolcott8351]

I wonder if you could get the kid to work the bellows for you so you can have a consistent temp?

[@anTEX891]

The cut rate is the number in the top left. Cut Rate and Pierce Rate is there.

[@Geaxuce]

try pouring the left over smelt into the trough. If this game is that realistic then it should save the left over smelt edit: well, ffs I was literally a fraction of a second off from when you plunged the crucible into the water... That timing was legit natures comedic side showing... Also, when quenching, at least in real life, when you want to get optimal hardness in metal you have to heat it to a specific temperature before quenching. You don't want to go full hardness because the metal will become brittle. There is a sweet spot for every metal and alloy. It's never just heat like the sun will go out of fashion then quench. This game seems really fun. Also also, the fuller type isn't the guard, it's the type of groove in the blade

[@Shoe_Horn]

In regards to leaving metal in a crucible, yes. Metal can char, form bubbles, and even catch fire and burn if you leave it above its melting point for too long. The bubbles and char get into the metal and make it brittle and functionally useless. There is usually some level of waste slag involved, and it could theoretically be recycled, but it's more expensive than mining fresh ore. Metallurgy involves a tremendous amount of waste. I hope to see more accurate melting points for the various metals, eventually. Copper and aluminum are around the 2,000°C mark like it is in the game, but Iron alloys are closer to 6,000°. You should not be able to work iron at all with the equipment you have here.🤷‍♀️

[@ducane9096]

Drea is killing me with getting the “greater than” and “less than” signs mixed up

[@nicolatesla9429]

Drae, < means less than, > means more than. The dude wanted a dagger with at least 20 cutting damage. Better luck next time! :)

[@bl4rgh]

Way to stick it to them Drae.

[@Shadow_of_the0ccult]

Hi Drae! Idk if you will see this, but I wanted to ask.. Are you going to continue playing through Fruitbus? I've absolutely adored watching you play it!!!

[@zonawibu5135]

Finally this game what ill waiting

[@jtbullington8404]

Irl you can definitely burn metal if it's heated for too long, it kinda screws with the structure of it, to the point where it basically just crumbles

[@siccoblue2112]

YOUR ORE IS DEGRADING IN THE FURNACE DRAE!?!?!?!!?

[@reverse_engineered]

For everyone saying he wanted a common, I think it says at least common.

[@gingerhacks5131]

Bad quench % on the first dagger.

[@gingerhacks5131]

Cut Rate is different from Cut Rate Bonus. Cut rate on the left side of the screen. The symbol is GREATER than or Equal to 20.

[@Olimar92]

You're making junk because you're leaving your Ore to basically burn in the Smelter.

[@dezoksiribon]

somebody told him already, that pot literally shows the percentage of ore quality inside?

[@TheBattleRabbit860]

You don't wan to leave the crucible bucket on the hook in the forge, it degrades the quality of the molten ore the whole time. I take mine out and drop it into the trough to cool it back to solid. You also want to pay attention to the melting points of each metal in your blacksmithing book.

[@rekohart]

Very cool

[@maximilien885]

I’d try several molds so I’m not reheating if that’s possible

[@SmallOneEyedKing]

Yey welcome back

[@Lolindir_Fox]

Cut damage > 20 (means greater than) The alligator mouth eats the bigger number (at least thats what grade school taught me lol)

[@stevenmiller279]

Drae, as someone who has done real blacksmithing, yes you can burn metal

[@AlexDuKaNaa]

I've waited for this