It seems that the Blacksmith forge will not wait until all of the necessary ingredients are collected to create weapons and/or heavy tools. Even with the ratio slider dictating the building making nothing but heavy tools or weapons, it still produces tools. I even had two foundries and a steady stream of iron ore and coal/charcoal coming into my settlement that (as far as I can tell) are the only ingredients for making the different goods. I have read that there is actually no way to create heavy tools, but the blacksmith forge has a ratio slider for them. Could be a mistake on my end but it doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
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You can certainly make heavy tools - it works, but you need to have enough of the ingredients actually stocked in the forge for it to do it … that seems to be the challenge… the distribution of goods from stockhouses to the factory buildings seems kind of messed up at the moment and im desperately hopeful thats addressed in the upcoming patch.
An example is I have 450 iron ore in a stockpile quite close to my foundry, yet the foundry workers are constatnly low stocked the iron ore… they seem to go out and get 1 or 2 at a time … it’s annoying
I usually just make ONLY heavy tools until I have a decent stock of them. Then I switch to just regular tools or weapons. I can see how many heavy tools I have when the traders show up, so I get regular reminders if I’m getting low.
Once you are a big enough city, you just have 3 blacksmith shops with 1 for each item. Just set the number of workers to regulate how fast you want the items.
i found i was bottle necked with coal. i needed 2-3 coal houses to keep up with my blacksmith and other shops. make sure you are making enough coal. heavy tools needs allot of coal. and if you never have a stock pile of coal you never have enough to start the process. you need to produce more coal than you consume.
Also the distance to storage with raw materials matter cause if they have to run long distance one worker will stock the forge forever while second will make tools cause he won’t have enough for anything else.
I think the real problem here is that it only ever shows your working as ‘making tools’. Mine make all three (four now that they are upgraded), and even when I single out production of one item, it still only says tools, even though they are actually making weapons or heavy tools. I don’t recall it even ever saying weapons but they do make them. To be fair I don’t watch them all to time to see if it says ‘weapons’. It might just have the two generic descriptors.
Just look at the ‘items produced in the last year’ bit to see if they are or not.
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