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== Controls ==
== Controls ==


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<pre>Protip
<pre>Protip
 
Other players can help you craft clay objects as long as they are also holding a piece of clay just like with knapping. It also works for smithing with hammers.
Other players can help you craft clay objects as long as they are also holding clay just like knapping. It also works for smithing with hammers.
Don't make an anvil just yet until you want to craft higher level tools such as shears, saws and scythes as casting is generally the faster method for creating basic tools.
Using the 3x3 to place clay off the grid or on already placed clay doesn't use up any clay.
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The anvil mold takes a lot of clay and anvils can't be melted down. Furthermore, anvils only work for one metal tier higher so save yourself the work until you want to enter the iron age or want to craft saws, shears and scythes, which can't be cast.</pre>


== Entering the Late Copper Age ==
== Entering the Late Copper Age ==
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<pre>Protip
<pre>Protip
Some anvil recipes like the axe and shovel take more than one ingot if you smith it but only one if you cast it.</pre>
Some anvil recipes like the axe and shovel take more than one ingot if you smith it but only one if you cast it.</pre>
 
== Entering the Bronze Age ==
== Entering the bronze age ==


Creating bronze works in the same way as when you create copper, however you will have to find some extra ingredients to create one of these 3 alloys. Mix them inside the crucible according to these ratios. Be aware that some ores contain fewer units of metal than others, as shown in the tooltip information.
Creating bronze works in the same way as when you create copper, however you will have to find some extra ingredients to create one of these 3 alloys. Mix them inside the crucible according to these ratios. Be aware that some ores contain fewer units of metal than others, as shown in the tooltip information.
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No worries though, you don't need to remember these numbers, you can also guess your way to them just by trial&error in the crucible. The firepit dialog will tell you if you got a valid combination.
No worries though, you don't need to remember these numbers, you can also guess your way to them just by trial&error in the crucible. The firepit dialog will tell you if you got a valid combination.


== Entering the iron age ==
== Entering the Iron Age ==


Iron tools will give you again a significant boost in strength and durability.  
Iron tools will give you again a significant boost in strength and durability.  
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Here's a video tutorial of it:<br>
Here's a video tutorial of it<br>
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