The Complete Guide to Vintage Story - Part 6: Early Copper/Smelting

This is a video on finding your very first copper and making your first tools as well as producing charcoal fuel and the tongs to handle it.
If you're here for a video on finding a proper copper mine or locating Tin or Iron that is my next video in the series, which ill place here when it's out. Until then I have some other videos on Prospecting that are less polished you can watch.
Some Additional Notes on Early Copper and Smelting:
The chance of getting a copper nugget from panning sand or gravel is 1 in 6
Muddy Gravel cant be panned
You can't overpour a mold, it will always only take 100 units of metal (20 pieces)
You cant add any metal to a crucible until ALL of the metal inside is used up. It's best to only smelt multiples of 100 units so you arent left with a crucible that has like 10 or 25 units leftover
Once the metal in a crucible is smelted down, you only need to reheat it to pour it again. You don't need to wait for a progress arrow
You need to place the wooden tongs in your offhand to hold onto molten metal items like ingots and crucibles.
Ore under surface deposits is NOT always in one chunk. It's worth it to dig around some more in the area after you clear out everything visible.
There is no way to break stone without a metal tool
You cannot cool down a tool in a mold with water or anything
A shovel can harvest charcoal faster than with hands
Even though it's the cheapest easiest fuel to get, charcoal is the best fuel. Use Coal to smelt ores and stuff en masse but don't stop producing charcoal for later metal working like Steel and Iron

[@yayoeva00]

Love your tutorials! I'm happy you're continuing them!

[@SnapdonGAME]

Wow man, these tutorials are saving my bacon and making me enjoy this game so much more! The learning curve is steep, but with your videos it feels so rewarding! Straight to the point and no spoilers.

[@sovereignwinter]

short and sweet, exactly what I needed with all the details required. Great job.

[@grimlime9257]

These are exactly the kinds of tutorials I was looking for. Quick and informative.

[@SFFrog]

These Vintage Story tutorials are so much better than anything else I've seen!
Keep up the great work! 😀

[@UliTroyo]

Ah! Is this a full Vintage Story channel? I love it!

[@bighomie6704]

fable 2 soundtrack a man of taste

[@tuckerthemf]

primo tutorial my guy, I just got the game and even though I knew this game had some complex and cool features I was in WAY over my head without your videos

[@userrelkjwrweefdggfdgsagsadgw]

i love these, so cool the way you tell the story

[@HallyVee]

Important update; one can now create and use rope out of simple reeds for creating the tongs. No need to find anything rare.

[@codaman127]

This mod looks like Terrafirmacraft as a stand alone. Shut up and take my money.

[@VintageCopperman]

It's actually made by the same people! I highly recommend it.

[@uncolored2060]

I always make 3x3x3 charcoal pit, it gives me one an a half stack of charcoal
To fill up such a hole you would need 27 stacks of firewood (which is 13,5 stacks of wooden logs, specifically 216 of them)
Charcoal pit of that size is the most optimal for me, anything more than that and it's too much work to be done and less than that yields too low amount of charcoal to satisfy me

[@uncolored2060]

2:58 you can also look at the fire pit from above then place the block while crouching

[@grandfremdling3841]

Very good

[@KAEFARIK]

You are doing players a wonderful service, great job on the videos!

[@antaresx.8432]

WHAT IS THIS?! Minecraft mod? Bruh
Super cool

[@Felix-tz6hn]

This is not minecraft actually.

[@meatystew5088]

10/10

[@NePtUnEsToRm1995]

whats the song that plays 4:38? i remember it from a video game but cant remember which one and its driving me nuts lol also great tutorial thank you!!!

[@uncolored2060]

I have a request - can you give me the world seed, settings (if possible) and coordinates of your base shown in the video? I find this place really nice and I would love to build stuff there

[@naz_games]

Can you give the seed of this world please

[@christopherdecarie-dawson7772]

Only got one thing wrong, we've been living like that for a lot longer then 7000 years

[@VintageCopperman]

Ive definitely heard some convincing theories about that yeah.

[@yousfhelal321]

Can you make a vido about machines?

[@VintageCopperman]

You bet! My next videos will be about Prospecting Copper, Smithing on an Anvil, Making Bronze, and then Machinery

[@loganmontgomery2597]

was there an update to this process its not working for me

[@xWhyb]

you kinda sound like saul goodman

[@joemeernesto-zs3vp]

Is There A Diference Of Panning Sand Or Gravle

[@VintageCopperman]

There is no difference between Sand and Gravel for panning, there is for Bony Soil however. Bony Soil has a lot more precious metals and little treasures like candles but it's not good for copper.

[@dienowplease3565]

Get cheat engine, increse game speed to 5 and save yourself time on panning 🎉