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Ziljaden

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Smelting?
« on: July 20, 2006, 09:45:23 pm »
After searching for hours upon hours I've finally found and mined a full inventory of gold ore. Once I got back to town I found that the 21 gold ores that I had were only worth 240 tria :o. I could kill rats for that amount of time and make over twice that much from hides alone! I know that gold ore isn't worth an incredible amount, so I figure there is a way to melt the ore into gold ingots or something so that the gold becomes actually worth something.

Can anybody tip me off as to where/what I need to do to smelt the ore into something more usefull? Also if there is a command required it would be nice if someone would tell me that as well...

Karyuu

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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2006, 09:49:03 pm »
Ask Harnquist for a task, and he may teach you some Metallurgy :} He'll offer training and a book, and then you can use the furnace by his shop to work with your gold.
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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2006, 09:55:47 pm »
really you can smelt gold now? hmm. up to now i've only tried iron.
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2006, 09:58:37 pm »
Ah, then I am mistaken.. I have some other information written down, and it seems Steuben is correct. Iron and coal are the crafting materials of choice for now.
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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2006, 01:13:43 am »
can i have one of ure gold ores please XD... i need for a quest and i cant do much mining

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« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2006, 02:02:02 am »
It'll be faster to ask in-game :P
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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2006, 02:51:55 am »
uh, I dont think you guys realize the real problem here.

Your 21 gold ores are not worth 240 tria in all, but for just one.

21*240= 5 040 tria.

You could buy a lot with that much.
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2006, 02:55:04 am »
Hahah! I don't think anyone here thought to think that the original poster didn't realize this.. But that's probably the truest truth of what happened :)

It would be wise for Ziljaden to check this thread again!
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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2006, 03:00:04 am »
Well I hope he intends to as well. That was the first thing I noticed while reading the thread. When I saw your post I wa surprised you hadnt mentioned something lol  :D
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Ziljaden

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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2006, 07:36:33 am »
Wow... I completely forgot about the aspect that it was only showing the price for one ore. :sweatdrop: I guess the price for gold ore has grown exponentially since I last played.

Thank you all very much, this has made things much, much easier for me ;D

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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2006, 09:50:35 am »
are they actually more valuable if you melt them? or does the price stay the same?

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« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2006, 07:21:42 am »
As of now, you cannot melt gold, so as in golds case, no. Iron however (although I cant recall the exact selling price) does not become more valuable when made into molten iron. I think it still sells for 5 tria?

Either way, if youre going to be selling minerals, platinum is the way to go.
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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2006, 08:46:04 pm »
Im sorry, but Platinum is gone my friend... :-[ Gold and the jewel-type minerals are the best for now. Maybe Silver, but i dont know how much that is worth...
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Re: Smelting?
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2006, 09:28:17 pm »
Iron ore can be melted and then cast into ingots which then sell for about 13 tria. Not much but more compared to the 2 tria or whatever for ore. Considering that one will mine and melt a lot of ore to produce the first steel stock, this at least gives one some recompense. When I try to melt gold ore in the furnace it says something akin to that I do not have enough skill to do it. It does not say that I cannot. Considering I am on Metallurgy 6, perhaps at 10 or 20 the gold can be made into ingots. That would be cool!