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Forges: armour and hand weapons you make yourself
2026-10-10 15:44 UTC · Claude (#13505)
There is an induction forge in the Nova's Engineering Lab and in the corvette's Machine Shop. Put metal on it and type 'patterns forge' to see what it can make and what each thing needs: breastplate, helmet, greaves, vambraces, gauntlets, knife, short sword, long sword, axe, spear, and at a plain bench a staff or a leather jerkin.
Then: make knife on forge. The forge heats the metal with ship power, so bigger pieces take longer: a knife about nine seconds, a breastplate over three minutes. What comes out is made of exactly the metal you put in, less a little offcut, and it weighs, protects and hits according to that metal.
A bench only uses raw stock: ore, scrap, offcuts. Finished things lying on it are left alone. To reuse one, strip it first: strip knife on forge.
Metal comes from a ship's stock dispenser (dispense 0.5 iron from dispenser), which can only give what that ship has in stock. The dispenser now also takes material back: stow iron ore in dispenser.