I don't know if Smithing will ever be "balanced" in Bannerlord however I love how fast you can level it cause its the best part they need to add armorer into it'
It will be hard for them to balance it, there are sooo many weapon parts! I agree, I smith with 90% of my characters. I would love to smith armor and ranged weapons too! I need those legendary stat rolls on my bow :D
I think they should price weapons based on the material used to craft it and a "quality" multiplier based on difficulty (compared to your level) and rng. This would make weapons other than 2h sword and pole arm useful for profit and nerf the profit from smithing.
@@Sanzeh That's a really solid plan and would fix a lot of the issues that are causing smithing to be imbalanced right now. I'm really curious why they didn't do this to begin with lol it would have probably made their life much easier - make an equation and let it do it's thing. As of right now, it seems tied to weapon stats BUT there are several parts that don't follow the math so I know for sure they manually edited some things.
@@Sanzeh Yeah XP and weapon value seem to be connected. I don't know the exact correlation because I never calculated it, but I still have all the data so I could check it.
Its day 40, my army grows tense as they have been camped outside of Makeb with no sight of their leader. Rumors grow as I have been seen sleeping near the forge. I have become the hammer and the anvil. The hammer and anvil have become me. Do you hear the ringing?
Lol As long as there is booze and wages being paid (and probably some lady company) then I'm sure they wouldn't mind the break from their tyrant struck by the smithing bug :D
I'm glad they are helpful! I plan on finishing up the rest of the skills in a couple weeks, but let me know if there are things in Bannerlord that you would like covered in a future video. I have some ideas, but they may not be good ones lol
This was pretty fun to make! Did I include too much info/not enough/etc.? I tried to not edit much so you could see exactly what a smithing start looks like (and also see that it's not BS lol). I would love to do more of these for other skills and factions, let me know if any of that sounds interesting to you! Also, shout out to Flesson19 for the idea - He has done some longer challenges in the past and I found them REALLY helpful and fascinating so I greatly appreciate the inspiration. You can check out his channel here: ruclips.net/channel/UC21LLTJWJR0NvSfhJjbsd2A
Great vid. would’ve loved a bit more info. I’m slightly confused how to get passed the 30k mark for weapons that I’m selling. Did you really just go from town to town selling 30k swords to get to the 5m mark in your play through?
@@TyrasHelm Thank you! So this video was done in a previous patch and 1.7.0 selling prices and smithing in general were changed quite a bit. It will be a bit harder now to get there, but it's still doable. Just maybe not to 1M within a couple months like before lol. So the money came mostly from selling smithed weapons and completing high value orders. I'm going to redo the campaign again at some point, but will not be doing smithing this time because I want to show that money can still be made through other ways (just a lot slower!).
Nice, I'm glad they were helpful! I know smithing has changed a bit in 1.7.0 and it's not as easy now but I think the info is all the same. It just takes a bit longer now!
I'm glad it helps! I want to keep doing 25-day challenge videos with the next one being horseback archery. I'm just scared the devs will see if and patch riding XP when they see level 250 - 300 in the first 25 days lol
You're the only guy in youtube that makes bannerlord guide and content that i can trust. Other content creator lacks content and knowledge of the game. I watch sometimes to laugh and cringe. But you everytime u teach me smt and give me smt to work with.
Thank you! Yeah I've seen a lot of people just pull up the game and talk for 30 minutes but not show any data or testing to back any of their claims up, often times given bad/misleading info. It's not my place to correct anyone, so I'll stay in my lane and keep pumping videos out :)
Another great video! Thanks for putting this info out there! The only thing I wondered why you didn't pick up a companion for a extra smelting capabilities. Not a critique at all, just wondered why, I'm sure threes a reason. I find the smithing in Bannerlord very satisfying, from a kid who use to doodle swords in notebooks in school, i find i just enjoy putting good looking swords together as much as building for stats. " 2 less swing speed, but the crossguard looks like a 14th century anglo...swing speed be damned! ". Looking forward to the next video Strat!
That's a great point and the only answer I could come up with is - I'm an idiot haha : ) Flesson19 did his 25 day challenge and picked up a companion early on and it made a HUGE difference, so you're 100% right. Also, I'm totally good with criticism and critiques as that's the best way to improve in the shortest amount of time, so don't hesitate to point stuff out. I'll be the first to admit that I make a ton of mistakes, big and small. That's so cool, this is exactly why I love video games. When I was younger, I used to be the same way, but with castles. I would make them out of sugar cubes and glue or whatever else I could find. But now to have the chance to do all this stuff digitally, it's awesome! On the smithing note, I just did a video yesterday on my top 10 crafted weapons. Sounds like it's right up your alley lol ruclips.net/video/U6ak7Tw2oKE/видео.html
Take it a step further like me, hah. I forged a "Wolff's Tooth" (Long Seax with Brass handgaurd and pommel and whatever handle looked good) and now am inspired to reforge the Seax I made in real life. Gotta make a mold for the Brass parts and get the leatherworking kit out for the handle. Previously it was just a really simple Seax with a wood handle. Gunna acid bath the blade to put an ornate design on it too like the Ild Blade / Warlords blade. :D
That's a great point, no time passes when you do those trainings so you can do them as many times without using up time! I had not thought about that before... The tavern games can be fun but there are a couple of them that are not that easy to win. I can't remember which faction game it is but I've failed a few quests trying to beat that guy!
Thank you, me too!! I'm just finishing up editing the trade guide and I have enough data in there to make an economist proud lol I'll have it posted by tomorrow, so keep an eye out!
Another great informational video! I also watch other Bannerlord playthroughs like ReformistTM. I think you could learn a thing or two of how he does playthroughs to make more enjoyable to watch. In my opinion he does well to inform a newer viewer to what the story is up to, as in short sum up of last some episodes. Secondly he does very well of following a certain "story line" and edits (or cheats in) boring bits such as recruitment of troops, but doesnt add it in the video. Although one could argue that seeing how you recruit the bandit factions (sea raiders, forest/mountain/regular bandits) is added value aswell, but is repetetive. He also uses mods to make it easier for him to follow his charachters narative. But where you outshine him is pure base knowledge. He doesnt understand all the skills etc as well as you do and I think you could try to dive bit more into that strength. That's your added value for me with the hardcore Robyn of the Hood series you're running currently. Also just playing the game vanilla (no mods) is useful to understand basic game mechanics more in depth for me(Compared to reformist modded playthroughs). This last also cause you tend to explain it, although I think you could share even more knowledge. FYI I'm not a youtuber so I'm just stating what I think, but dont have experience as content creator to back my thoughts. An idea for a video/video series which I would like to see is "How to start as and which skills to choose and why". I think it will explain a narative to follow for a playthrough combined with faction lore. It will show the tipping point for skill investment from combat to social skills (In my opinion you want to start off with atleast some investment in combat and switch to social skills later). Trade offs and your thought process of why to switch or put points into a certain skill without needing to dig it up between alot of minutes of a whole playthrough. "Excuse my french"
Thank you for watching! I'm 100% with you on that point - my Let' Play sucks haha. I'm not sure I've seen any of his videos, but I have seen PartyElite and a couple others that do the narrated play throughs. That's more or less what I was going for, but got lost between learning the software, figuring out how to talk while playing, etc. and it turned into a train wreck lol. I have a lot more respect for people that do that live now, it's truly a skill that needs to be learned over time. Looking back at it now, I would definitely edit a lot more things out. I wanted to avoid using the cheat console to keep the gameplay legit, but I think there is a balance that must be maintained to keep the playthrough entertaining - I'm on board with you there! I do love numbers, data and problem solving... My plan is to focus heavily on the guides and sprinkle in Let's Plays here and there until I can get better at them. Well you and I are in the same boat lol I'm not a content creator either as I just started last month so I have no clue what's what! Feedback like this is highly valued - In the business world this type of feedback would cost me thousands of dollars (please don't send me an invoice)! That's a great idea for more guided Let's Plays - One for each faction following the strength of that faction and how to build your character to embrace that. I would probably keep them short and highly edited just to point out the main important ideas (and skip the repetitive farming, quests, etc.) I also have a "hero builder" data base that I use to build my characters and companions which I plan on making a video for. One example of how it's useful: Let's say I want to max my party size. I look for all perks tagged as "increase party size" and make sure I have focus points and attribute points enough to get those. Throw in a maxed out steward companion and you've got a monster party. Another example is beefy troops - search for "increase troop hit point" perks and make sure I can get all of them. I ran this earlier and if I remember correctly, you can get them up to nearly double the standard HP! It's also good for governor perks to boost militia, loyalty, security, etc. There are so many combinations, it's impossible to remember any of it without a database. Anyhow I'm starting to ramble now lol I'm passionate about this stuff (maybe even more than actually playing...).
@@Strat-Guides A video about how to use the DB (database) would be amazing. I do enjoy your Lets play's series, dont get me wrong. Im just stating that I think some parts could be skipped to avoid repetetiveness... My invoice will be a video coming week aka, please post atleast one this week :P
I think once I finish the rest of the skills, I will do one on the Hero Builder database and how to use it. It's just too useful not to have something like that. I can't tell you how many times I grinded to get to end game only to find out I misplaced my attribute and focus points lol I just released the new Joan of Arc Let's Play with MUCH better editing lol sorry about the Robin Hood one, It was just plain bad (no shame in it, I'm still learning). I think it will be a much more entertaining series!
Thank you. Your guide helped me a lot. Once you unlock the Voulge part then it's easy money from there. I make like 20k on each custom Voulge. Now I focus purely on 2 Handed highest tier blade and make an average of 40k per weapon. Its easy money. Much easier than farming armies or bandits. Much easier than trading or workshops. I save up like 3M and then begin my mercenary career. I don't even bother collecting loot unless it's food or rare items now. I invest all the money on upgrading my companions with the best armour and getting the best tier troops. Smithing is by far the easiest skill to max out. All you need is hardwood, charcoal, Pugios and stamina. Make sure you focus your perks on refining the metals. This guide has helped me experience a much easier and less grinding game. I can now finally afford the Khergit face mask helmet. Can't wait to unlock the Glave or Long Glave parts.
Nice, I'm glad it helped!! Yeah it's so hard to get away from smithing. It's so profitable and fun to make custom equipment for use. Lol I do the same thing! I just skip past the loot screen, maybe picking up the food so I don't have to go to a town to stock up :)
@@Strat-Guides I just wished Taleworlds added armour crafting and ranged weapon crafting. What would fun is if you use catapults and trebuchets in battles and skirmishes.
@@grimgoreironhide9985 100% agree, this needs to be added to the game at some point!! I could see a ballista perhaps, but I don't think siege engines were used much in field battles (i'm not a historian, maybe someone with actual knowledge could chime in on that one lol).
Only when there where large armies fighting each other and still rare then but that's because large army battles usually meant a new motte and Bailey at that location @@Strat-Guides
Smithing was nerfed a bit in 1.7.0 but it's still very strong from an income point of view. Thank you for watching and feel free to reach out of you have any questions :D
Yes please! Feel free to post your results here, I'm interested to see your strategy and results - anything we can do to improve the the bottom line and learn more. Thank you for the support!
@@Strat-Guides ruclips.net/video/F0NmWEfIpPw/видео.html Not sure what time would be considered the start, but with my assumption, I did it in 42 Minutes and 43 Seconds. The time could be improved though.
I'm not sure why it doesn't notify me with comments that aren't the 1st one, so I just saw this. I got a chance to watch it just now, really good run man! Liked and subbed!
Loved the insights taken from this video so I can improve rapidly my Smithing and increase my wallet at the beginning of the game. I am really grateful for your videos and the level of professionalism of then, great detailed informative content. What is the synthwave music in the background?
Thank you for watching!! It's been a while since I made this one, but I think it was some copyright free 80's music from RUclips? I'll see if I can find the link.
I'm glad you like it, I really enjoyed this format. It seems like a good balance between actual playthrough and still getting useful information to use. Sometimes the info in the guides are hard to translate into an actual playthrough so this seems to be a good bridge. I actually have a top 10 crafted weapons video planned and they will all be legendary so keep an eye out for that!
Yeah I really like the artist. I can't recall who this one was, but I ended up deleted all of these since I had used some "Royalty free" stuff on another video and then got a copywrite strike, so now I either take all music out or find stuff on youtube library. Some shady musicians out there lol
It scares me that this was missing some perks and unable to cash in due to the towns not having enough cash at hand. And here I am, learning the tropes and happy for some random unlock. My jaw was firmly embedded in the floor when the notification for +13 skillups showed up and the text for Part Unlocks was a neverending stream that seemed to never dry up.
Yeah smithing was pretty wild a couple patches ago! It's still really strong in the current patch, but they nerfed it by about 50% or so for XP and sell price.
After I heard about this challenge I thought I'd try playing one of my own, but I started in Empire territory, so it took several days to reach Battania and a good source of wood, and then while I was waiting around for endurance to regen, the city got sieged! I had to run all the way to the next city on 1.6 overland speed because I hadn't had the chance to sell off my extra charcoal before moving, and that meant I got ambushed by about 18 mountain bandits along the way. Lost some time and a lot of loot, but fortunately I had enough cash and charcoal left over to start up again. Over all, at around noon on Fall 5, I had a nest egg of 32k, 105 skill, and the ability to turn 1000g of tribal throwing knives into a greatsword worth 12k. Oh and I forgot to mention there were no bonus focus points to start with, so I had to solo a bunch of looters to gain levels via weapon skills just to get my focus points. Still, turned out okay. Smelting the weapons you craft definitely helps unlock those high tier parts faster.
LOL I hate it when that happens! I've never had it happen with a ton of wood before though, that sounds rough. Sounds like you have a pretty good start so far! This video was made prior to 1.7.0 when smithing was much more profitable and faster to level, so I imagine in the current patch it's much harder to do, but still profitable.
@@Strat-Guides Oh yeah, still viable, just takes a little longer (longer still with delays like I had). I still had 100k by Fall 10 and almost a million by Winter 5, around which time I reached 300 skill with no sign of t5 blades for either 2h swords or axes. Then I decided to reboot the campaign for one where I wasn't merely concerned with smithing. Currently in the early stages of a Battanian barbarian smith build. My plan is to run in with light armor, thrown weapons, a big shield for those pesky archers, and a two handed axe for the melee. Got lucky and won my first tournament in the town where I happened to be doing my first phase smithing, so I've got cash for materials.
@@Strat-Guides I hope they do. I was smithing 2h swords worth 50k+ and like I said, I didn't even have any t5 blades. Axes and polearms I couldn't break into the 20k zone, but I was getting values into the teens for nothing more than a couple of steel and one wood. My hope is that this time when they rebalance the system they do a complete overhaul instead of just adjusting the overall values down, because the price and exp bonus from 2h swords is just insane, and despite their utility as high-tier weapons, I have never seen maces or spears (aside from chopping poles) come close to 10k. It would be really nice to see xp rates balanced better between the weapon classes so smithing feels less gimmicky. But, then, I also want to see ranged weapons, shields, and armor added to smithing, and at this stage of development that is highly unlikely. I can only hope they at least leave open the possibility for mods to add those in later. Honestly, if they included price mods for all three damage types and weighted blunt and piercing slightly higher than slashing, that would already be a tremendous help. I think the best balance here would be to rate damage multiplied by weapon speed for any given attack, with a small bonus from reach. Oh and one last thing. From some testing I've done, it looks as though they misplaced a minus setting up reach requirements for requests. Like weight, reach seems to cause failure from going over the requirement, but not for going under or matching. But I haven't done as careful of tests as you do, so I could be wrong.
@@Strat-Guides Oh and that barbarian smith build just reached Fall 5. I kept my starting armor, financed my early endeavors with full bets on a tournament, acquired two companions including a smith with the first two perks, chased down numerous bandit parties for combat practice, and ran two more tournaments on which I didn't need to bet. I even visited 3 Vlandian cities because I'd never been into their territory before. Right as the cock crew on Fall 5, I stopped resting, smelted some daggers, and sold two 43k value swords for 60k gold plus some new party equipment, ending up at 210k current gold and 124 smithing skill in the morning of day 25. After spending the day traveling, I just managed to reach the next city before midnight, forged a new sword, and sold that, for a total of 250k and 126 smithing skill at the end of day 25. I wasn't actually trying for a 25 day challenge this time, but I thought it was an interesting point of comparison. So yes, if anyone is wondering, it is still possible to get over 200k in 25 days, even after the patch.
Extra comment just to support you great video mate. You butchered the run at few points but u were not paying too much attention and care tbh. Great run .
Thanks for watching! Yeah this was from a while ago when I was still trying to figure out how to put together a video lol rough around the edges for sure :)
i think i might be missing something, you talk about "Lets save this" as in the plan your using for smithing. can you store a set plan rather than having to pick the components everytime you come in and out of the screen?
Yes you can! Make the weapon you want to save, then use CTRL + C to copy that blueprint. When you want to use it again, press CTRL + V to paste it back in. *I heard from Flesson19 that the recent hotfix bugged this, so it may not be working at the moment BUT normally it does work lol
I know I'm in the wrong but it feels physically painful to see the refining perks passed on in favor of the curious ones. I love being able to get whatever I want out of nothing but stacks of wood and iron ore.
I agree with you 100%. I've they get rid of those daggers that smelt for all the goodies, I think it will be necessary once again. I usually get those perks on my companions later in the game so it feels less cheesy lol
pretty much have my family members as master smelters and everyone else as master refiners. main character gets the curius perks and everyone so far got practical smith, since the description of artisan is too wonky for me to know if the smithed weapons get an attribute that makes them worth more, or the party leader that is selling them has the attribute on him, so i smith volume over value. if the latter is the case id probably make the MC an artisan and everyone else practical.
Thank you! I'm going to keep doing these 25 day challenges, but I think I will edit them a bit more. I'll be sure to keep all the important info, but if I can get them down to 10 minutes or so, I think it would ideal. A lot of the traveling and chat screens should go. I still got some stuff to learn :)
Following along with this video but I don't seem to be getting xp at the same rate. I might be wrong but it seems xp from smithing has been nerfed a bit but I might be wrong.
You're 100% right, they nerfed it in 1.7.0! I think this video was recorded in 1.6.4 or something around there. It's about 1/2 to 1/3 as fast now so it was a pretty big nerf! It's still amazing once you get a couple good weapon parts though.
It would be nice if TaleWorlds had stuff like that in their quick tips like on a loading screen or something... but no matter - we got your covered! : ) Thanks for watching!
I would say it's faster on a per-weapon basis. So if you only have enough crafting materials to make 2 - 3 weapons, save them for orders. Otherwise, just sit in town and spam to do it the fastest.
I find that once I get the part for fine steel pamerion or spatha blade I can quickly amass a gigantic amount of wealth from 80k 2hander orders which needs a lot of thrust damage(typically 57 for cheaper orders and 58 for more expensive ones) and once I unlock more smithing parts I can take on better orders and specialise into damage using round pommels and speed with flat ones
Yeah it's all about getting that first "good" unlocked part that allows the whole snowball effect to happen :) That being said, I do hope they continue to nerf smithing because it's still fairly broken relative to all of the other ways of earning money. It's gotten much better though, that's for sure!
Yeah I had not figured out how to position the mic, use audio filters in the editor or edit down those crazy spikes at that time. I think this was one of the first 10 or so videos I had done so I was still very new :(
I have no clue lol it was from this royalty free music I had found online, but it sounds like something Dr. Disrespect would have playing on his streams haha
So when you are crafting a weapon, you can press CTRL + C when you have it exactly how you want it. This will save that weapon in the memory so you can paste it again later. In order to paste, you must go to the same weapon tab (so in this case, I clicked on the section for polearms) and then press CTRL + V and it pastes our creation back in!
Whoa! Thank you man, you're saving me al lot of time! Btw, I have followed your instructions and now I have 2.3 million in the bank despite losing 4k a day for my full 160 battanian fian champ party!
Yep! Just the right perk (the one that give better profit for handcafted weapons) and blade combination. The pugio smelting trick is insane for the fine steel! Great find on that. I'm really impressed with your channel, keep up the good work!
i think pugios got hella exp in the latest patch or smth? i've only been able to get my hands on a couple (been to all the empire towns) and they cost like 12k each!
Oh wow, I don't recall them raising the prices that much but I would have to check. Are you running any mods? How many years since the game start? I've heard of inflation kicking in a few years after the start date so not sure if that has any effect. I thought they were around 250 and tribes daggers were 500ish?
@@Strat-Guides oh duh yea I'm using rbm with the combat module I think it messes with equipment prices maybe; idk if you have any experience with rbm but I highly recommend it! Thanks again for the videos!
@@ASAINsensation That is probably the culprit! I actually downloaded it this week :) I have not used it yet but I plan on it. I wanted to use their RTS camera mod for the battlefield tactics series and it's working perfectly so far!
100% they end up on the market, but I'm not sure if anyone actually buys them... I don't think so but I have not tested it so I can't say for certain! Sometimes your crafted stuff will end up as a tournament prize, but I think that's about it.
@@Strat-Guides It's for this reason that if I'm selling something, I take the time to name it something legitimate, usually named after the blade "Warsword" "Backsword" etc. Because I can't stand seeing just lists and lists of "Crafted - x y z" I feel like I'm polluting the system!
I can't recall the version, but it should be in the 1.6.x. I find Battania lands to be really good for hardwood, especially Seonon in the early game. You can go directly to the villages if the towns are all sold out too! So both the spawn and setting age are found in the sandbox mode, it sounds like you are doing "New Campaign" instead. Try a new game using the sandbox option and that should set you up! :D
@@CoolKillkennyCat It's all good, TaleWorld's doesn't really explain it anywhere so hard to know unless you have clicked on everything before lol Let me know if you get stuck on anything, I'm happy to help!
@@Strat-Guides for that you get a subscribe, I've never really watched gaming things on RUclips, I suppose this is the least intuitive game I've ever played aha. Your my first game related sub.
I really, really, really wish I could like the smithing system. But the moment the locked parts stare me down, I lose all motivation and go get beat up in tournaments again...
I think they need to redo the way parts are unlocked. It would be nice to not grind hard to unlock and get 90% dagger and throwing knife parts that you'll never use LOL
@@Strat-Guides My most direct fix would be: Towns get lorekeepers (for neretzes folly, instead of asking wandering leaders, if it's such a big deal then someone should keep a record, right?) And smithes of different towns offer unlockable parts for a price, too.
Hey Vlad! I used you in my Throwing Perks guide bonus section :) I always loved the story of Vlad the Impaler! So it's certainly possible and probably would still be profitable. You would unlock parts much slower, have less crafting stamina without smithing levels and weapons would sell for less because of the minus stats from not having enough smithing skill to make it properly, but I think it would still work. What might make even more sense is to hire a companion with some endurance points to do smithing for you. That way you don't have to spend point there if you don't want to.
I'm still wondering why it's not worth to get steel maker at lvl 75, seems like you had a hard time getting the pugio for smelting but maybe that's just me.
It's a tough call for sure, I just tend to lean towards faster unlocks because RNG can be brutal at times and I try to mitigate that. I think once they fix the smelting of pugio and other daggers for absurd crafting materials, then I think steel maker will be the priority. Once all parts are unlocked, the 2 perks are totally wasted so long term isn't not the best choice.
@@Strat-Guides Agreed, just played a couple of hours testing you method and it's not too hard to get the pugio (much easier then I thought) but if it gets fixed, like you said, then it's going to be a no brainer the maker route will be top priority. Btw your guide got me hooked back on the game XD Used to not understand the game at all and it was demotivating, but now? Man, I'm having a blast! Thanks :D Also do you know of any mods to revert back your spent point? I'd find it useful to try out different tactics and tree routes.
@@PPWarrior I have no doubt they will patch this out eventually because it doesn't make any sense lol I'm really glad the guides have been helpful! I love to hear it. I have not personally used mods, but I know there is one that I think is called Character Editor or something like that. I think that should do what you are asking for - I've heard it used to make companions exactly how you want so I imagine it would do the same for the main character.
It's actually all vanilla! When you are on the main menu, select Sandbox mode and it will let you pick your age and spawn you with your selected culture :D
No it's the base game actually! It's from sandbox mode and picking to start at age 50. I have a video that has a lot of details on this topic: ruclips.net/video/gtV6uf0mPz8/видео.html Feel free to ask if you have any questions, I'm happy to help as best i can :)
Starting a new playthrough and would like to ask if you need to start this heavy into smithing to reach the high level or is it still possible if you go Charm/endurance and put skills into smithing as you get companions since you can skill it faster with the extra workers or does it only work because of the low lvl learning rate? :-)
The beauty of smithing is you can start it at any point in the game and it won't really make any difference to your progress! You can level it up just as fast in the late game. The only thing to be aware of is your main character levels will slow down significantly in the later game, so if you need to level the main character to get the focus points for smithing, that will slow you down some. But still, it can be done! I usually focus hard on smithing early just more from a min/max point of view, but if i'm playing more of a relaxed or RP play through then I'll ignore it until the mid game or even entirely and just let companions handle it. If you're focusing heavy on endurance, then getting it leveled up quickly along with athletics is nice for the free attribute points!
@@Strat-Guides Thank you for the quick response :-) Im rather new to bannerlord and do not want to ruin my experience by starting with 200k but i really want to get the higher tier smithing perks and ability to craft myself some shiny armor... I find it rather difficult to do tournaments, looters etc at the same time as raising smithing because of the capacity vs speed problems... I guess thats why you completely ignore into until mid game? How do you build your character then? do you have another skill route start and just make sure you have endurance/smithing when you reach midgame then do the smithing sorcery? :D - Thanks for your guides btw, very helpful as a new player.
@@originalcaly Yeah I agree with you 100%, once you get a taste for not having to worry about money, it's hard to go back from it lol and dealing with balancing a budget is a fun aspect of the game (for me at least) so it does take that away. So they didn't add armor crafting yet, but you can make far superior weapons to what you can buy on the market. It's a huge difference! So I start with riding and bow first since that's how I like to do my early game. I just solo kill bandit groups to earn some cash, levels and renown. I find recruiting an early party is slow and inefficient (similar argument as the smithing early though, it can take some of the fun out). I will generally have riding and bow maxed out within a couple battles and then I pump the rest into smithing so that when I'm clan tier 1 or 2, I'm already set for the smithing start. It's a bit min/max but that's mostly because I have 2500 hours into the game lol I don't recommend playing like that in the beginning because as you said it will ruin some of the fun :D I'm glad you are getting some use out of the videos! I appreciate you watching and supporting the channel!
I don't use any mods since I do all of my videos on the latest beta branch. One way you could do it is to use the console command - there is a command to move forward an exact amount of time, so you would just need type in 18 and it will stop exactly at that time for you :D I don't remember the command exactly, but if you type "campaign.time" it will show up since it's the only one with those tags. I hope this helped, but feel free to keep asking if you get stuck!
Thank you! Hm... Only thing I can think of is maybe you're on an older patch?? I think it used to be like that on an older patch where you would only spawn at the training grounds (southern empire) and only campaign mode which doesn't let you select age. Do you have the option to do a Sandbox mode from the main screen??
Can I follow this to make money on a not brand new character? Wondering how a normal stat spread without fully stacked endurance would effect the method.
Yeah you can do this at any point! The only difference is that the cost of hardwood will not be 3 like it is at the beginning of the game. It should work just fine though. Also, I made a mistake by not having companions in my run. Be sure to have some help to speed it up!
How do you get the day to progress so fast? Is that a mod? Thanks for the informative vids, I watched all the ultimate guides and I don’t level like a snail anymore 🐌
They do have mods for that, but I'm playing on the latest beta patch so I can't use mods :( You can use the console commands to speed the game up on your own, which I will use from time to time for boring stuff like waiting around in town for stamina to replenish. I usually just type in campaign.speed and it will pop up with the correct command for that. I think the game is normally on speed 4 or 5, so I usually run it at 20 - 30 for waiting a full day. I'm really happy that the guides are making a difference! Thank you for watching :D
@@confidential5743 No problem! I would like to get another 25 day challenge out this week since I have not done one in a little while. Either will be horseback archery or two handed town gang fighting :)
@@confidential5743 done, I'll do that one next! It will be nice to have a break from sitting looters from horseback lol I didn't about 2 years doing that in my current game. I got to clean tier 4 in just over 2 years so it's extremely effective but wow it's tedious!!
*Bro, help me a bit.* *Is that possible to make a good money like that in 1.0.1 patch after came out? Cause my country in a bas shape now, I need additional party's, but I can't afford them right now. 4 caravans + 3 worksmiths, and seems like they are broken on that patch, cause only caravans make some money, but it is barely enough to pay a tax to my own squadmates, not for additional one.* *Please, if thats possible, give me a hint.*
Yeah I have a smithing guide for 1.0 patch that I made about a month ago. If you want to see the full hour long video there is a link to it on the end screen to skip to the last 20s of the video and click that link.
@@Strat-Guides *I've looked all of your videos within a 2 days (From new to 1 year old). Learn a many things for bannerlord.* *In 1.0.1 only swords are making money? I read from your videos commentary section is Iike javelins and polearms are working too, is that true?* *And bro, what I need to look on, when I craft things for money? Swing damage, or what?*
If you are playing on campaign mode, it will spawn you at that stupid training field every time lol Try loading up in sandbox mode and it will put you with your culture :D
I don't even remember lol that was a while ago! When I get the website up and running, i'll put the copy/paste code for all of the characters so it will be easier :)
Should buy some cheap sheeps/hogs - kill - sell meat for profit. Then hire 2 random companions for smithing, go to Seonon where are 2 wood and 1 iron village and you should be able to do it in 14 days or sooner :)
That's a great idea, I'll have to test it out! I had never though of buying animals to sell for meat in the same town - very efficient with time and no need to deal with herd penalty. I like it!
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There are mods that can do this or you can use the console command to speed time up. If you're using the console commands, I think speed 4 is the default sped up time.
@@Strat-Guides I commended without seeing it, midway through I found out I need to change cheat mode to 1. Amazing video. Now I got a got of gold because of it
@@leoashura8086 oh got it, yeah that enables the console command. I think it's especially useful if you're trying out a new strategy or practicing stuff since you can skip the waiting part much faster (like stamina recovery). Good, I'm glad to hear it was helpful!!
Lol it's coming soon! (And I don't mean soon like "patch coming soon"TM). I'm working on steward next week and medicine the week after, so keep an eye out for it! I'll always release guides on a Friday just FYI
@@Strat-Guides definitely I will, first time I saw your video talking about smithing that Flesson19 recommended... Watching your video: "i got timestamps" okay nice, "here are the numbers and the math" yo i love this channel
Imagine being a dwarf or an elf..... Forging in a LotR mod...... And only specific race benefit skills can be had for each race regarding smithing ...... Like only dwarves can make mithril and smelt mithril etc. And only elves can do this and that hahahahahaha damn
This is like when your mate is showing you something on a video game and doesn’t actually tell you anything just does it and you’re there trying to work out the million step process by yourself. I get that you’ve probably done it a ton of times but it really felt like you were just doing and explaining what you’re doing not explaining what and why. Would have preferred less gameplay and a more in depth step by step guide style of tutorial. I also get that it’s kind of a challenge video but let’s be real…it’s not is it 😂
Yeah I think you're right. I had recently done the smithing skill guide that went over everything in detail and this was supposed to be the implementation of that, but as you states it's a lot of detail that isn't easy to follow unless you've done it several times already. I'll work on it for the next time! Thank you for the input
So this video was recorded in patch 1.6.4 or 1.6.5 when smithing was a bit stronger. I know in 1.7.0 it's harder to make money. There are a few perks that can help you: - 175 smithing perk artisan smith - 25 trade appaiser - 225 Roguery Arms dealer These will help reduce some of the trade penalty for weapons and help you earn some money.
@@Strat-GuidesAhh i see, so it's nerfed now. Well i dont see the need of money in my current state of run. I've been doing well enough by selling the 20k polearm thanks to your awesome guide!
@@pvtptt The nerf was pretty good, but to be honest it's still too OP I think. It's not hard to make millions of denars still in a matter of a year to so. I'm glad it was helpful!
I don't know if Smithing will ever be "balanced" in Bannerlord however I love how fast you can level it cause its the best part they need to add armorer into it'
It will be hard for them to balance it, there are sooo many weapon parts! I agree, I smith with 90% of my characters.
I would love to smith armor and ranged weapons too! I need those legendary stat rolls on my bow :D
I think they should price weapons based on the material used to craft it and a "quality" multiplier based on difficulty (compared to your level) and rng. This would make weapons other than 2h sword and pole arm useful for profit and nerf the profit from smithing.
@@Sanzeh That's a really solid plan and would fix a lot of the issues that are causing smithing to be imbalanced right now. I'm really curious why they didn't do this to begin with lol it would have probably made their life much easier - make an equation and let it do it's thing. As of right now, it seems tied to weapon stats BUT there are several parts that don't follow the math so I know for sure they manually edited some things.
@@Strat-Guides I remember seing someone talking about pricing being based on the xp the weapons gives to smithing. I don't remember where tho.
@@Sanzeh Yeah XP and weapon value seem to be connected. I don't know the exact correlation because I never calculated it, but I still have all the data so I could check it.
Its day 40, my army grows tense as they have been camped outside of Makeb with no sight of their leader. Rumors grow as I have been seen sleeping near the forge. I have become the hammer and the anvil. The hammer and anvil have become me. Do you hear the ringing?
Lol As long as there is booze and wages being paid (and probably some lady company) then I'm sure they wouldn't mind the break from their tyrant struck by the smithing bug :D
Damn Godo go to sleep
Hey man, just wanted to say your videos are really helpful, I am a casual bannerlord player and I understand the concepts alot better now. Keep it up!
I'm glad they are helpful! I plan on finishing up the rest of the skills in a couple weeks, but let me know if there are things in Bannerlord that you would like covered in a future video. I have some ideas, but they may not be good ones lol
This was pretty fun to make! Did I include too much info/not enough/etc.? I tried to not edit much so you could see exactly what a smithing start looks like (and also see that it's not BS lol). I would love to do more of these for other skills and factions, let me know if any of that sounds interesting to you!
Also, shout out to Flesson19 for the idea - He has done some longer challenges in the past and I found them REALLY helpful and fascinating so I greatly appreciate the inspiration. You can check out his channel here: ruclips.net/channel/UC21LLTJWJR0NvSfhJjbsd2A
Great vid. would’ve loved a bit more info. I’m slightly confused how to get passed the 30k mark for weapons that I’m selling. Did you really just go from town to town selling 30k swords to get to the 5m mark in your play through?
@@TyrasHelm Thank you! So this video was done in a previous patch and 1.7.0 selling prices and smithing in general were changed quite a bit. It will be a bit harder now to get there, but it's still doable. Just maybe not to 1M within a couple months like before lol.
So the money came mostly from selling smithed weapons and completing high value orders. I'm going to redo the campaign again at some point, but will not be doing smithing this time because I want to show that money can still be made through other ways (just a lot slower!).
@@Strat-Guides Ah I see. That makes a lot more sense. Really excited to hear about the prospects of a new campaign. Can’t wait! Keep up the great work
@@TyrasHelm Thank you!!
This video, along with the Smithing Guide, were absolute game-changers for me.
Nice, I'm glad they were helpful! I know smithing has changed a bit in 1.7.0 and it's not as easy now but I think the info is all the same. It just takes a bit longer now!
Ive seen many smithing vids but this one fills in all the gaps in the knowledge. Thank you
I'm glad it helps! I want to keep doing 25-day challenge videos with the next one being horseback archery. I'm just scared the devs will see if and patch riding XP when they see level 250 - 300 in the first 25 days lol
You're the only guy in youtube that makes bannerlord guide and content that i can trust. Other content creator lacks content and knowledge of the game. I watch sometimes to laugh and cringe. But you everytime u teach me smt and give me smt to work with.
Thank you! Yeah I've seen a lot of people just pull up the game and talk for 30 minutes but not show any data or testing to back any of their claims up, often times given bad/misleading info. It's not my place to correct anyone, so I'll stay in my lane and keep pumping videos out :)
I was wondering why so many pro players start out naked. They literally sold the cloths off their back just to get extra hardwood xD
LOL that's pretty much it :D The armor does practically nothing to save you that early on, so it's best to liquidate and buy other things!
It’s been years since I’ve been here in my garage.
Al for the knowledge.
Haha yeah that was a classic! I can't believe that guy made it onto a TED talk...
Another great video! Thanks for putting this info out there! The only thing I wondered why you didn't pick up a companion for a extra smelting capabilities. Not a critique at all, just wondered why, I'm sure threes a reason. I find the smithing in Bannerlord very satisfying, from a kid who use to doodle swords in notebooks in school, i find i just enjoy putting good looking swords together as much as building for stats. " 2 less swing speed, but the crossguard looks like a 14th century anglo...swing speed be damned! ". Looking forward to the next video Strat!
That's a great point and the only answer I could come up with is - I'm an idiot haha : ) Flesson19 did his 25 day challenge and picked up a companion early on and it made a HUGE difference, so you're 100% right. Also, I'm totally good with criticism and critiques as that's the best way to improve in the shortest amount of time, so don't hesitate to point stuff out. I'll be the first to admit that I make a ton of mistakes, big and small.
That's so cool, this is exactly why I love video games. When I was younger, I used to be the same way, but with castles. I would make them out of sugar cubes and glue or whatever else I could find. But now to have the chance to do all this stuff digitally, it's awesome!
On the smithing note, I just did a video yesterday on my top 10 crafted weapons. Sounds like it's right up your alley lol ruclips.net/video/U6ak7Tw2oKE/видео.html
Take it a step further like me, hah. I forged a "Wolff's Tooth" (Long Seax with Brass handgaurd and pommel and whatever handle looked good) and now am inspired to reforge the Seax I made in real life. Gotta make a mold for the Brass parts and get the leatherworking kit out for the handle. Previously it was just a really simple Seax with a wood handle. Gunna acid bath the blade to put an ornate design on it too like the Ild Blade / Warlords blade. :D
@@HauntingSpectre Nice, that's so cool! I watched all of the forged in fire episodes lol It looks like a really fun job/hobby!
Great video,
The training Area is free 250 D each time you win at no cost to in-game time or tavern game. For the early run, low cash flow, I think.
That's a great point, no time passes when you do those trainings so you can do them as many times without using up time! I had not thought about that before...
The tavern games can be fun but there are a couple of them that are not that easy to win. I can't remember which faction game it is but I've failed a few quests trying to beat that guy!
Love your video. Such detail and great info. Hope your channel gets more subscribers.
Thank you, me too!! I'm just finishing up editing the trade guide and I have enough data in there to make an economist proud lol I'll have it posted by tomorrow, so keep an eye out!
Another great informational video!
I also watch other Bannerlord playthroughs like ReformistTM. I think you could learn a thing or two of how he does playthroughs to make more enjoyable to watch. In my opinion he does well to inform a newer viewer to what the story is up to, as in short sum up of last some episodes.
Secondly he does very well of following a certain "story line" and edits (or cheats in) boring bits such as recruitment of troops, but doesnt add it in the video. Although one could argue that seeing how you recruit the bandit factions (sea raiders, forest/mountain/regular bandits) is added value aswell, but is repetetive. He also uses mods to make it easier for him to follow his charachters narative.
But where you outshine him is pure base knowledge. He doesnt understand all the skills etc as well as you do and I think you could try to dive bit more into that strength. That's your added value for me with the hardcore Robyn of the Hood series you're running currently. Also just playing the game vanilla (no mods) is useful to understand basic game mechanics more in depth for me(Compared to reformist modded playthroughs). This last also cause you tend to explain it, although I think you could share even more knowledge.
FYI I'm not a youtuber so I'm just stating what I think, but dont have experience as content creator to back my thoughts.
An idea for a video/video series which I would like to see is "How to start as and which skills to choose and why". I think it will explain a narative to follow for a playthrough combined with faction lore. It will show the tipping point for skill investment from combat to social skills (In my opinion you want to start off with atleast some investment in combat and switch to social skills later). Trade offs and your thought process of why to switch or put points into a certain skill without needing to dig it up between alot of minutes of a whole playthrough.
"Excuse my french"
Thank you for watching!
I'm 100% with you on that point - my Let' Play sucks haha. I'm not sure I've seen any of his videos, but I have seen PartyElite and a couple others that do the narrated play throughs. That's more or less what I was going for, but got lost between learning the software, figuring out how to talk while playing, etc. and it turned into a train wreck lol. I have a lot more respect for people that do that live now, it's truly a skill that needs to be learned over time. Looking back at it now, I would definitely edit a lot more things out. I wanted to avoid using the cheat console to keep the gameplay legit, but I think there is a balance that must be maintained to keep the playthrough entertaining - I'm on board with you there!
I do love numbers, data and problem solving... My plan is to focus heavily on the guides and sprinkle in Let's Plays here and there until I can get better at them.
Well you and I are in the same boat lol I'm not a content creator either as I just started last month so I have no clue what's what! Feedback like this is highly valued - In the business world this type of feedback would cost me thousands of dollars (please don't send me an invoice)!
That's a great idea for more guided Let's Plays - One for each faction following the strength of that faction and how to build your character to embrace that. I would probably keep them short and highly edited just to point out the main important ideas (and skip the repetitive farming, quests, etc.)
I also have a "hero builder" data base that I use to build my characters and companions which I plan on making a video for. One example of how it's useful: Let's say I want to max my party size. I look for all perks tagged as "increase party size" and make sure I have focus points and attribute points enough to get those. Throw in a maxed out steward companion and you've got a monster party. Another example is beefy troops - search for "increase troop hit point" perks and make sure I can get all of them. I ran this earlier and if I remember correctly, you can get them up to nearly double the standard HP! It's also good for governor perks to boost militia, loyalty, security, etc. There are so many combinations, it's impossible to remember any of it without a database. Anyhow I'm starting to ramble now lol I'm passionate about this stuff (maybe even more than actually playing...).
@@Strat-Guides A video about how to use the DB (database) would be amazing. I do enjoy your Lets play's series, dont get me wrong. Im just stating that I think some parts could be skipped to avoid repetetiveness...
My invoice will be a video coming week aka, please post atleast one this week :P
I think once I finish the rest of the skills, I will do one on the Hero Builder database and how to use it. It's just too useful not to have something like that. I can't tell you how many times I grinded to get to end game only to find out I misplaced my attribute and focus points lol
I just released the new Joan of Arc Let's Play with MUCH better editing lol sorry about the Robin Hood one, It was just plain bad (no shame in it, I'm still learning). I think it will be a much more entertaining series!
Thank you. Your guide helped me a lot. Once you unlock the Voulge part then it's easy money from there. I make like 20k on each custom Voulge. Now I focus purely on 2 Handed highest tier blade and make an average of 40k per weapon. Its easy money. Much easier than farming armies or bandits. Much easier than trading or workshops. I save up like 3M and then begin my mercenary career. I don't even bother collecting loot unless it's food or rare items now. I invest all the money on upgrading my companions with the best armour and getting the best tier troops. Smithing is by far the easiest skill to max out. All you need is hardwood, charcoal, Pugios and stamina. Make sure you focus your perks on refining the metals. This guide has helped me experience a much easier and less grinding game. I can now finally afford the Khergit face mask helmet. Can't wait to unlock the Glave or Long Glave parts.
Nice, I'm glad it helped!!
Yeah it's so hard to get away from smithing. It's so profitable and fun to make custom equipment for use.
Lol I do the same thing! I just skip past the loot screen, maybe picking up the food so I don't have to go to a town to stock up :)
@@Strat-Guides I just wished Taleworlds added armour crafting and ranged weapon crafting. What would fun is if you use catapults and trebuchets in battles and skirmishes.
@@grimgoreironhide9985 100% agree, this needs to be added to the game at some point!!
I could see a ballista perhaps, but I don't think siege engines were used much in field battles (i'm not a historian, maybe someone with actual knowledge could chime in on that one lol).
Only when there where large armies fighting each other and still rare then but that's because large army battles usually meant a new motte and Bailey at that location @@Strat-Guides
@@slithudaboss6501 Oh interesting - I wonder how quickly an army could put up a motte and bailey?
I've played a ton of bannerlord. Never got into the smithing, it didn't make sense. TY for the example and guide. I'm excited to dive back in.
Smithing was nerfed a bit in 1.7.0 but it's still very strong from an income point of view. Thank you for watching and feel free to reach out of you have any questions :D
Ah, nice to see some smithy competition. Tonight, I will challenge your speed run. Love the vid btw. 👍
Yes please! Feel free to post your results here, I'm interested to see your strategy and results - anything we can do to improve the the bottom line and learn more.
Thank you for the support!
@@Strat-Guides ruclips.net/video/F0NmWEfIpPw/видео.html
Not sure what time would be considered the start, but with my assumption, I did it in 42 Minutes and 43 Seconds. The time could be improved though.
I'm not sure why it doesn't notify me with comments that aren't the 1st one, so I just saw this. I got a chance to watch it just now, really good run man! Liked and subbed!
Great video Dunn, I'll copy this strat to my raider save. It'll be fantastic bcz of this lifesaving advices. Keep it up.
Nice!! I'm glad it was helpful :) It's hard to beat the income from smithing.
Loved the insights taken from this video so I can improve rapidly my Smithing and increase my wallet at the beginning of the game. I am really grateful for your videos and the level of professionalism of then, great detailed informative content.
What is the synthwave music in the background?
Thank you for watching!! It's been a while since I made this one, but I think it was some copyright free 80's music from RUclips? I'll see if I can find the link.
Very cool video man, would love to see more challenges. Maybe a legendary weapon run?
I'm glad you like it, I really enjoyed this format. It seems like a good balance between actual playthrough and still getting useful information to use. Sometimes the info in the guides are hard to translate into an actual playthrough so this seems to be a good bridge. I actually have a top 10 crafted weapons video planned and they will all be legendary so keep an eye out for that!
mate, you need to crank that music up in your videos, it`s so cool! The one on the 15:30 minute
Yeah I really like the artist. I can't recall who this one was, but I ended up deleted all of these since I had used some "Royalty free" stuff on another video and then got a copywrite strike, so now I either take all music out or find stuff on youtube library. Some shady musicians out there lol
It scares me that this was missing some perks and unable to cash in due to the towns not having enough cash at hand.
And here I am, learning the tropes and happy for some random unlock.
My jaw was firmly embedded in the floor when the notification for +13 skillups showed up and the text for Part Unlocks was a neverending stream that seemed to never dry up.
Yeah smithing was pretty wild a couple patches ago! It's still really strong in the current patch, but they nerfed it by about 50% or so for XP and sell price.
@@Strat-Guides So this is before the nerf? I was wondering why I only make half of what you showed here. Still a better money source
After I heard about this challenge I thought I'd try playing one of my own, but I started in Empire territory, so it took several days to reach Battania and a good source of wood, and then while I was waiting around for endurance to regen, the city got sieged! I had to run all the way to the next city on 1.6 overland speed because I hadn't had the chance to sell off my extra charcoal before moving, and that meant I got ambushed by about 18 mountain bandits along the way. Lost some time and a lot of loot, but fortunately I had enough cash and charcoal left over to start up again. Over all, at around noon on Fall 5, I had a nest egg of 32k, 105 skill, and the ability to turn 1000g of tribal throwing knives into a greatsword worth 12k.
Oh and I forgot to mention there were no bonus focus points to start with, so I had to solo a bunch of looters to gain levels via weapon skills just to get my focus points. Still, turned out okay. Smelting the weapons you craft definitely helps unlock those high tier parts faster.
LOL I hate it when that happens! I've never had it happen with a ton of wood before though, that sounds rough.
Sounds like you have a pretty good start so far! This video was made prior to 1.7.0 when smithing was much more profitable and faster to level, so I imagine in the current patch it's much harder to do, but still profitable.
@@Strat-Guides Oh yeah, still viable, just takes a little longer (longer still with delays like I had). I still had 100k by Fall 10 and almost a million by Winter 5, around which time I reached 300 skill with no sign of t5 blades for either 2h swords or axes. Then I decided to reboot the campaign for one where I wasn't merely concerned with smithing.
Currently in the early stages of a Battanian barbarian smith build. My plan is to run in with light armor, thrown weapons, a big shield for those pesky archers, and a two handed axe for the melee. Got lucky and won my first tournament in the town where I happened to be doing my first phase smithing, so I've got cash for materials.
@@Nurk0m0rath Wow that's still not bad. I think they may adjust smithing again before the full release.
@@Strat-Guides I hope they do. I was smithing 2h swords worth 50k+ and like I said, I didn't even have any t5 blades. Axes and polearms I couldn't break into the 20k zone, but I was getting values into the teens for nothing more than a couple of steel and one wood. My hope is that this time when they rebalance the system they do a complete overhaul instead of just adjusting the overall values down, because the price and exp bonus from 2h swords is just insane, and despite their utility as high-tier weapons, I have never seen maces or spears (aside from chopping poles) come close to 10k. It would be really nice to see xp rates balanced better between the weapon classes so smithing feels less gimmicky.
But, then, I also want to see ranged weapons, shields, and armor added to smithing, and at this stage of development that is highly unlikely. I can only hope they at least leave open the possibility for mods to add those in later.
Honestly, if they included price mods for all three damage types and weighted blunt and piercing slightly higher than slashing, that would already be a tremendous help. I think the best balance here would be to rate damage multiplied by weapon speed for any given attack, with a small bonus from reach.
Oh and one last thing. From some testing I've done, it looks as though they misplaced a minus setting up reach requirements for requests. Like weight, reach seems to cause failure from going over the requirement, but not for going under or matching. But I haven't done as careful of tests as you do, so I could be wrong.
@@Strat-Guides Oh and that barbarian smith build just reached Fall 5. I kept my starting armor, financed my early endeavors with full bets on a tournament, acquired two companions including a smith with the first two perks, chased down numerous bandit parties for combat practice, and ran two more tournaments on which I didn't need to bet. I even visited 3 Vlandian cities because I'd never been into their territory before.
Right as the cock crew on Fall 5, I stopped resting, smelted some daggers, and sold two 43k value swords for 60k gold plus some new party equipment, ending up at 210k current gold and 124 smithing skill in the morning of day 25. After spending the day traveling, I just managed to reach the next city before midnight, forged a new sword, and sold that, for a total of 250k and 126 smithing skill at the end of day 25. I wasn't actually trying for a 25 day challenge this time, but I thought it was an interesting point of comparison. So yes, if anyone is wondering, it is still possible to get over 200k in 25 days, even after the patch.
Extra comment just to support you great video mate. You butchered the run at few points but u were not paying too much attention and care tbh. Great run .
Thanks for watching! Yeah this was from a while ago when I was still trying to figure out how to put together a video lol rough around the edges for sure :)
I want to do this but start by getting 75 athletics through practice fights
i think i might be missing something, you talk about "Lets save this" as in the plan your using for smithing. can you store a set plan rather than having to pick the components everytime you come in and out of the screen?
Yes you can! Make the weapon you want to save, then use CTRL + C to copy that blueprint. When you want to use it again, press CTRL + V to paste it back in. *I heard from Flesson19 that the recent hotfix bugged this, so it may not be working at the moment BUT normally it does work lol
I know I'm in the wrong but it feels physically painful to see the refining perks passed on in favor of the curious ones. I love being able to get whatever I want out of nothing but stacks of wood and iron ore.
I agree with you 100%. I've they get rid of those daggers that smelt for all the goodies, I think it will be necessary once again. I usually get those perks on my companions later in the game so it feels less cheesy lol
Just get the refining ones on your brother and the other ones on your main.
@@JonasRaphaelKallasch Yeah that's a great idea - to have specific roles for different people in your party and specialize them with the perk choices!
pretty much have my family members as master smelters and everyone else as master refiners. main character gets the curius perks and everyone so far got practical smith, since the description of artisan is too wonky for me to know if the smithed weapons get an attribute that makes them worth more, or the party leader that is selling them has the attribute on him, so i smith volume over value. if the latter is the case id probably make the MC an artisan and everyone else practical.
Smithing is by far the most overpowered method for money making in the game and has been.
100% agreed! I'm going to be starting off my World Conquest run video with a healthy dose of smithing to get a great foundation :D
Awsome vid. I love deep dive vids
Thank you! I'm going to keep doing these 25 day challenges, but I think I will edit them a bit more. I'll be sure to keep all the important info, but if I can get them down to 10 minutes or so, I think it would ideal. A lot of the traveling and chat screens should go. I still got some stuff to learn :)
Following along with this video but I don't seem to be getting xp at the same rate. I might be wrong but it seems xp from smithing has been nerfed a bit but I might be wrong.
You're 100% right, they nerfed it in 1.7.0! I think this video was recorded in 1.6.4 or something around there. It's about 1/2 to 1/3 as fast now so it was a pretty big nerf! It's still amazing once you get a couple good weapon parts though.
Holyyyy I did not know u can copy nd paste WOOOO I was just thinking how it'd it'd great to save certain blueprints. Great video my dude!!
It would be nice if TaleWorlds had stuff like that in their quick tips like on a loading screen or something... but no matter - we got your covered! : ) Thanks for watching!
i know this video is old now but is a smith called chad a reference to red hot chilli pepper?
Interesting, I used to listen to RHCP back in the day! So Chad is just a meme character and not related, it's just a coincidence. Good catch though :D
Has smithing changed so that filling orders levels it faster than sitting in a a town and smelting and forging?
I would say it's faster on a per-weapon basis. So if you only have enough crafting materials to make 2 - 3 weapons, save them for orders. Otherwise, just sit in town and spam to do it the fastest.
I find that once I get the part for fine steel pamerion or spatha blade I can quickly amass a gigantic amount of wealth from 80k 2hander orders which needs a lot of thrust damage(typically 57 for cheaper orders and 58 for more expensive ones) and once I unlock more smithing parts I can take on better orders and specialise into damage using round pommels and speed with flat ones
Yeah it's all about getting that first "good" unlocked part that allows the whole snowball effect to happen :) That being said, I do hope they continue to nerf smithing because it's still fairly broken relative to all of the other ways of earning money. It's gotten much better though, that's for sure!
those Plosive sounds in the intro where kinda rough man (also you can vendor your weps to caravans instead of jumping from town to town)
Yeah I had not figured out how to position the mic, use audio filters in the editor or edit down those crazy spikes at that time. I think this was one of the first 10 or so videos I had done so I was still very new :(
Song at 15:00? Sounds so familiar
I have no clue lol it was from this royalty free music I had found online, but it sounds like something Dr. Disrespect would have playing on his streams haha
doing your shit i got 1.6m at 35 (did get 2 companions early,1 for smelting and 1 for refining) annyway, nice vid bro thx for the tips ^^
Wow that's really good! 1.6M will last you quite a while :D I'm glad the video was helpful. Thank you for watching!
23:05 When do you exit and enter again the smith, how do you go back to the last crafted weapon?
So when you are crafting a weapon, you can press CTRL + C when you have it exactly how you want it. This will save that weapon in the memory so you can paste it again later. In order to paste, you must go to the same weapon tab (so in this case, I clicked on the section for polearms) and then press CTRL + V and it pastes our creation back in!
Whoa! Thank you man, you're saving me al lot of time! Btw, I have followed your instructions and now I have 2.3 million in the bank despite losing 4k a day for my full 160 battanian fian champ party!
@@r1pp3rr0 Daaaang 2.3M?! Time to start buying up the whole world lol :D I'm glad the video was helpful!
Yep! Just the right perk (the one that give better profit for handcafted weapons) and blade combination. The pugio smelting trick is insane for the fine steel! Great find on that. I'm really impressed with your channel, keep up the good work!
@@r1pp3rr0 Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it :)
i think pugios got hella exp in the latest patch or smth? i've only been able to get my hands on a couple (been to all the empire towns) and they cost like 12k each!
Oh wow, I don't recall them raising the prices that much but I would have to check. Are you running any mods? How many years since the game start? I've heard of inflation kicking in a few years after the start date so not sure if that has any effect.
I thought they were around 250 and tribes daggers were 500ish?
@@Strat-Guides oh duh yea I'm using rbm with the combat module I think it messes with equipment prices maybe; idk if you have any experience with rbm but I highly recommend it! Thanks again for the videos!
@@ASAINsensation That is probably the culprit! I actually downloaded it this week :) I have not used it yet but I plan on it. I wanted to use their RTS camera mod for the battlefield tactics series and it's working perfectly so far!
@@Strat-Guides battlefield tactics series?? I'm psyched man!
@@ASAINsensation Me too! Finally I get to test something that isn't a perk haha :D
One question do the swords you sell end up on the marketplace and do others buy them when sold?
100% they end up on the market, but I'm not sure if anyone actually buys them... I don't think so but I have not tested it so I can't say for certain! Sometimes your crafted stuff will end up as a tournament prize, but I think that's about it.
@@Strat-Guides Wow thanks thats so cool!
@@Strat-Guides It's for this reason that if I'm selling something, I take the time to name it something legitimate, usually named after the blade "Warsword" "Backsword" etc. Because I can't stand seeing just lists and lists of "Crafted - x y z"
I feel like I'm polluting the system!
@@dickrendell6574 Haha you would hate my save games then. I go town to town selling my nameless masterpieces :P
@@Strat-Guides Oh nooo! Do you at least name the weapons you give to your companions? :D
What version is this? Nowhere has hard wood, I can't set age? Andy Batanian spawns else where. Any help would be appreciated.
I can't recall the version, but it should be in the 1.6.x. I find Battania lands to be really good for hardwood, especially Seonon in the early game. You can go directly to the villages if the towns are all sold out too! So both the spawn and setting age are found in the sandbox mode, it sounds like you are doing "New Campaign" instead. Try a new game using the sandbox option and that should set you up! :D
@@Strat-Guides thanks, new to this, probably look stupid but I didn't realise there was a sandbox mode aha.
@@CoolKillkennyCat It's all good, TaleWorld's doesn't really explain it anywhere so hard to know unless you have clicked on everything before lol Let me know if you get stuck on anything, I'm happy to help!
@@Strat-Guides for that you get a subscribe, I've never really watched gaming things on RUclips, I suppose this is the least intuitive game I've ever played aha. Your my first game related sub.
I really, really, really wish I could like the smithing system. But the moment the locked parts stare me down, I lose all motivation and go get beat up in tournaments again...
I think they need to redo the way parts are unlocked. It would be nice to not grind hard to unlock and get 90% dagger and throwing knife parts that you'll never use LOL
@@Strat-Guides My most direct fix would be:
Towns get lorekeepers (for neretzes folly, instead of asking wandering leaders, if it's such a big deal then someone should keep a record, right?)
And smithes of different towns offer unlockable parts for a price, too.
@@lofwyr5063 That's a really good idea. I would much prefer that!
is this doable and profitable with no focus on Endurance and Smithing?
Hey Vlad! I used you in my Throwing Perks guide bonus section :) I always loved the story of Vlad the Impaler!
So it's certainly possible and probably would still be profitable. You would unlock parts much slower, have less crafting stamina without smithing levels and weapons would sell for less because of the minus stats from not having enough smithing skill to make it properly, but I think it would still work. What might make even more sense is to hire a companion with some endurance points to do smithing for you. That way you don't have to spend point there if you don't want to.
I'm still wondering why it's not worth to get steel maker at lvl 75, seems like you had a hard time getting the pugio for smelting but maybe that's just me.
It's a tough call for sure, I just tend to lean towards faster unlocks because RNG can be brutal at times and I try to mitigate that. I think once they fix the smelting of pugio and other daggers for absurd crafting materials, then I think steel maker will be the priority. Once all parts are unlocked, the 2 perks are totally wasted so long term isn't not the best choice.
@@Strat-Guides Agreed, just played a couple of hours testing you method and it's not too hard to get the pugio (much easier then I thought) but if it gets fixed, like you said, then it's going to be a no brainer the maker route will be top priority.
Btw your guide got me hooked back on the game XD Used to not understand the game at all and it was demotivating, but now? Man, I'm having a blast! Thanks :D
Also do you know of any mods to revert back your spent point? I'd find it useful to try out different tactics and tree routes.
@@PPWarrior I have no doubt they will patch this out eventually because it doesn't make any sense lol I'm really glad the guides have been helpful! I love to hear it.
I have not personally used mods, but I know there is one that I think is called Character Editor or something like that. I think that should do what you are asking for - I've heard it used to make companions exactly how you want so I imagine it would do the same for the main character.
I've been wondering, what mod? is it that lets you spawn at not the tutorial grounds and select how old you are before start?
It's actually all vanilla! When you are on the main menu, select Sandbox mode and it will let you pick your age and spawn you with your selected culture :D
@@Strat-Guides THAT was it. Thanks.
@@MineMadMan Good luck on your new campaign! I'm happy to answer questions as they come up so keep me posted :D
Are the points you get to spend at the beginning of your playthrough a mod? I never seem to get that many when I start over
No it's the base game actually! It's from sandbox mode and picking to start at age 50. I have a video that has a lot of details on this topic: ruclips.net/video/gtV6uf0mPz8/видео.html
Feel free to ask if you have any questions, I'm happy to help as best i can :)
@@Strat-Guides Thanks bro! just started a new sandbox using your tips
@@Germanxzx0 Nice! Hopefully you got a little RNG on your side for the weapon parts :D
Starting a new playthrough and would like to ask if you need to start this heavy into smithing to reach the high level or is it still possible if you go Charm/endurance and put skills into smithing as you get companions since you can skill it faster with the extra workers or does it only work because of the low lvl learning rate? :-)
The beauty of smithing is you can start it at any point in the game and it won't really make any difference to your progress! You can level it up just as fast in the late game. The only thing to be aware of is your main character levels will slow down significantly in the later game, so if you need to level the main character to get the focus points for smithing, that will slow you down some. But still, it can be done! I usually focus hard on smithing early just more from a min/max point of view, but if i'm playing more of a relaxed or RP play through then I'll ignore it until the mid game or even entirely and just let companions handle it. If you're focusing heavy on endurance, then getting it leveled up quickly along with athletics is nice for the free attribute points!
@@Strat-Guides Thank you for the quick response :-) Im rather new to bannerlord and do not want to ruin my experience by starting with 200k but i really want to get the higher tier smithing perks and ability to craft myself some shiny armor... I find it rather difficult to do tournaments, looters etc at the same time as raising smithing because of the capacity vs speed problems... I guess thats why you completely ignore into until mid game? How do you build your character then? do you have another skill route start and just make sure you have endurance/smithing when you reach midgame then do the smithing sorcery? :D - Thanks for your guides btw, very helpful as a new player.
@@originalcaly Yeah I agree with you 100%, once you get a taste for not having to worry about money, it's hard to go back from it lol and dealing with balancing a budget is a fun aspect of the game (for me at least) so it does take that away. So they didn't add armor crafting yet, but you can make far superior weapons to what you can buy on the market. It's a huge difference! So I start with riding and bow first since that's how I like to do my early game. I just solo kill bandit groups to earn some cash, levels and renown. I find recruiting an early party is slow and inefficient (similar argument as the smithing early though, it can take some of the fun out). I will generally have riding and bow maxed out within a couple battles and then I pump the rest into smithing so that when I'm clan tier 1 or 2, I'm already set for the smithing start. It's a bit min/max but that's mostly because I have 2500 hours into the game lol I don't recommend playing like that in the beginning because as you said it will ruin some of the fun :D
I'm glad you are getting some use out of the videos! I appreciate you watching and supporting the channel!
May i ask the mod you use for waiting in town for exactly 3/4th of the day. And the fact that it fast-forwards that quickly?
I don't use any mods since I do all of my videos on the latest beta branch. One way you could do it is to use the console command - there is a command to move forward an exact amount of time, so you would just need type in 18 and it will stop exactly at that time for you :D I don't remember the command exactly, but if you type "campaign.time" it will show up since it's the only one with those tags. I hope this helped, but feel free to keep asking if you get stuck!
Million Denar challenge, let's go!!!
That would be fun! I wanted to do the same thing with tournaments and trading, just to see what 25 days would look like and compare them all.
Great video but I have a weird bug with my game where I always spawn in Southern Empire and I can't pick character age... any way to fix?
Thank you! Hm... Only thing I can think of is maybe you're on an older patch?? I think it used to be like that on an older patch where you would only spawn at the training grounds (southern empire) and only campaign mode which doesn't let you select age. Do you have the option to do a Sandbox mode from the main screen??
wass he able to speed up the game more than it usually allows?
Yeah there are mods that do that or you can speed up the campaign map time through console commands. I highly recommend a mod called "Better Time" :)
Can I follow this to make money on a not brand new character? Wondering how a normal stat spread without fully stacked endurance would effect the method.
Yeah you can do this at any point! The only difference is that the cost of hardwood will not be 3 like it is at the beginning of the game. It should work just fine though. Also, I made a mistake by not having companions in my run. Be sure to have some help to speed it up!
How do you get the day to progress so fast? Is that a mod? Thanks for the informative vids, I watched all the ultimate guides and I don’t level like a snail anymore 🐌
They do have mods for that, but I'm playing on the latest beta patch so I can't use mods :( You can use the console commands to speed the game up on your own, which I will use from time to time for boring stuff like waiting around in town for stamina to replenish. I usually just type in campaign.speed and it will pop up with the correct command for that. I think the game is normally on speed 4 or 5, so I usually run it at 20 - 30 for waiting a full day.
I'm really happy that the guides are making a difference! Thank you for watching :D
@@Strat-Guides Thanks brother, keep up the good work
@@confidential5743 No problem! I would like to get another 25 day challenge out this week since I have not done one in a little while. Either will be horseback archery or two handed town gang fighting :)
@@Strat-Guides Two handed gang fight sounds pretty interesting, looking forward to it
@@confidential5743 done, I'll do that one next! It will be nice to have a break from sitting looters from horseback lol I didn't about 2 years doing that in my current game. I got to clean tier 4 in just over 2 years so it's extremely effective but wow it's tedious!!
*Bro, help me a bit.*
*Is that possible to make a good money like that in 1.0.1 patch after came out? Cause my country in a bas shape now, I need additional party's, but I can't afford them right now. 4 caravans + 3 worksmiths, and seems like they are broken on that patch, cause only caravans make some money, but it is barely enough to pay a tax to my own squadmates, not for additional one.*
*Please, if thats possible, give me a hint.*
Yeah I have a smithing guide for 1.0 patch that I made about a month ago. If you want to see the full hour long video there is a link to it on the end screen to skip to the last 20s of the video and click that link.
@@Strat-Guides *I've looked all of your videos within a 2 days (From new to 1 year old). Learn a many things for bannerlord.*
*In 1.0.1 only swords are making money? I read from your videos commentary section is Iike javelins and polearms are working too, is that true?*
*And bro, what I need to look on, when I craft things for money? Swing damage, or what?*
Please add armor smithing Takeworlds!
It would be really fun if they added smithing for ranged weapons and armor!
*walks into town*
"C H A R C O A L"
*refuses to elaborate*
*leaves*
Lol "Gib Moar Plox!"
Picking Batania did not change my spawn location, how did you change your spawn from the vanilla location?
If you are playing on campaign mode, it will spawn you at that stupid training field every time lol Try loading up in sandbox mode and it will put you with your culture :D
How do I make the character chad?
I don't even remember lol that was a while ago! When I get the website up and running, i'll put the copy/paste code for all of the characters so it will be easier :)
Should buy some cheap sheeps/hogs - kill - sell meat for profit. Then hire 2 random companions for smithing, go to Seonon where are 2 wood and 1 iron village and you should be able to do it in 14 days or sooner :)
That's a great idea, I'll have to test it out! I had never though of buying animals to sell for meat in the same town - very efficient with time and no need to deal with herd penalty. I like it!
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How is the map time speed so fast?
There are mods that can do this or you can use the console command to speed time up. If you're using the console commands, I think speed 4 is the default sped up time.
@@Strat-Guides I commended without seeing it, midway through I found out I need to change cheat mode to 1.
Amazing video. Now I got a got of gold because of it
@@leoashura8086 oh got it, yeah that enables the console command. I think it's especially useful if you're trying out a new strategy or practicing stuff since you can skip the waiting part much faster (like stamina recovery).
Good, I'm glad to hear it was helpful!!
were pugio deleted from the game or is it rbm that's fukin with me because i can't seem to find them
its only in empire culture towns, i think they are rare in the early game also this guide is quite old a lot of things changed since then
Here in my garage caught me off guard lol
LOL Mr. Lopez the snake oil salesman :D
You left a town with 4 Pugio for a town with 1 Pugio =P
Lol It probably won't be the last time either! I make a lot of dumb mistakes :P
Really awesome flex
That is, until they patch the crap out of smithing lol I can feel it coming soon!
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Bit coin and Doge coin for the algorithm too :D
Give me medicine guide, and my heart will be yours
Lol it's coming soon! (And I don't mean soon like "patch coming soon"TM). I'm working on steward next week and medicine the week after, so keep an eye out for it! I'll always release guides on a Friday just FYI
@@Strat-Guides definitely I will, first time I saw your video talking about smithing that Flesson19 recommended... Watching your video: "i got timestamps" okay nice, "here are the numbers and the math" yo i love this channel
omg... xD this works!! :D
Imagine being a dwarf or an elf..... Forging in a LotR mod...... And only specific race benefit skills can be had for each race regarding smithing ...... Like only dwarves can make mithril and smelt mithril etc. And only elves can do this and that hahahahahaha damn
I'm really looking forward to the LorT mod when it's all done! It's going to be epic :) Especially the smithing!
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This is like when your mate is showing you something on a video game and doesn’t actually tell you anything just does it and you’re there trying to work out the million step process by yourself.
I get that you’ve probably done it a ton of times but it really felt like you were just doing and explaining what you’re doing not explaining what and why. Would have preferred less gameplay and a more in depth step by step guide style of tutorial. I also get that it’s kind of a challenge video but let’s be real…it’s not is it 😂
Yeah I think you're right. I had recently done the smithing skill guide that went over everything in detail and this was supposed to be the implementation of that, but as you states it's a lot of detail that isn't easy to follow unless you've done it several times already. I'll work on it for the next time! Thank you for the input
Basically unlimited money
Lol money printer mode enabled!
How do you raise the weapon price ? i unlocked a tier 5 polearm blade but the price is not gaining after 20k
So this video was recorded in patch 1.6.4 or 1.6.5 when smithing was a bit stronger. I know in 1.7.0 it's harder to make money. There are a few perks that can help you:
- 175 smithing perk artisan smith
- 25 trade appaiser
- 225 Roguery Arms dealer
These will help reduce some of the trade penalty for weapons and help you earn some money.
@@Strat-GuidesAhh i see, so it's nerfed now. Well i dont see the need of money in my current state of run. I've been doing well enough by selling the 20k polearm thanks to your awesome guide!
@@pvtptt The nerf was pretty good, but to be honest it's still too OP I think. It's not hard to make millions of denars still in a matter of a year to so.
I'm glad it was helpful!