Smelting is one of the Refining Skills in Amazon's new MMO, New World.
There's no prerequisite to getting started with this skill, just take the Ore you collect while mining in Aeternum a Smelter in a Settlement and off you go.
Be mindful that you'll need a higher level Smelter to refine higher quality Ores, so make sure you visit a Settlement which has leveled up its workstations.
Is Smelting for me?
Weaponsmithing and Armoring recipes in particular require a lot of different ores, with Heavy Armor and almost all weapons entirely dependent on the resource. There are also Engineering, Furnishing and Arcana recipes that require ore, so Smelting becomes a refining skill of great importance.
It's a profession which has perfect synergy with the Mining gathering skill, being the primary provider of ores for refining.
Types of Ingots
Where to find Flux for Smelting
You can obtain Flux for smelting ores in Supply Containers. This is a bit of a lottery as to how much and how often it drops, but as long as you're checking all crates while exploring you should pick up plenty.
You could also purchase it from the Trading Post, although this can quickly become a money sink. Given how easily it can be found with a little time, we wouldn't recommend this if the price seems high.
Should you find yourself in a bind, you can purchase Material Converters from your Faction Store. This one-time-use machine can be used at a Tier 3 or higher Smelter, and is a reagent in a recipe that converts a stack of another refining material into Flux.
- Common Material Converter: Used with 20 Tier 3 Refining Materials to create 15 Sand Flux. Requires Smelting Skill Lv. 50, Smelter Tier 3.
- Advanced Material Converter: Used with 20 Tier 4 Refining Materials to create 15 Shelldust Flux. Requires Smelting Skill Lv. 100, Smelter Tier 4.
- Masterwork Material Converter: Used with 20 Tier 5 Refining Materials to create 15 Obsidian Flux. Requires Smelting Skill Lv. 150, Smelter Tier 5.
How to craft Voidbent Ingots
This Legendary-quality Ingot will be time-consuming to create even for master smelters (despite there being no Smelting skill requirement), but the weapons and armors crafted from it will be amongst the best in the game.
You'll have to get extremely lucky when Mining and Gathering for the raw materials to create Iron Ingots, so be prepared to farm an awful deal.
Here's what you'll need:
How to craft Asmodeum
Much like the Voidbent Ingot, this is a Legendary-quality resource that will take significant time to create.
Apply every buff you can to increase your Luck when farming for these materials.
Leveling up your Smelting Trade Skill
There's no real secret to leveling up refining trade skills -- you just need to keep refining your raw materials into Ingots.
Naturally, higher level refining will grant more Trade Skill XP past certain milestones, usually when the next recipe is unlocked. For example, it's better to refine Starmetal Ingots than Iron Ingots, once that becomes available.
