Your efforts bear fruit, Flameborn, but this is no time to be complacent. Greater challenges lie ahead of you. Greater demands will be made. The road to restoring Embervale is long and difficult.
With the Revelwood Spire unlocked, you’ve got new areas in Enshrouded to explore, and tasks you have to fulfill in order to help reduce the chances of a gruesome death. One of these tasks comes courtesy of Oswald Anders, the Blacksmith. The Metal Scraps you’ve been picking up and working with are a good stopgap, but he’s wanting to get down to some real foundry work. For that, he’s going to need you to build him a Smelter. And to do that, you’re going to need to hunt down a key component: the Crucible.
The Crucible’s Location: A Question Of Reduction
Compared to other wish list items from other Survivors, the general location of the Crucible is pretty straightforward. Simply launch yourself off the top of the Revelwood Spire, flying west. Once you touch down, keep heading west past Diadwyn, straight for the mountains. There will be a narrow dirt road winding its way up that will take you where you need to go. When you come to the palisades of a Scavenger camp, you’ll know you’ve found the Mark of Sameth mine location, and it will appear on your map.
This particular mine is heavily defended by Scavengers of various stripes, all at level 13 – so you want to be around that level as well. As usual, you’ll want a full stack of Bandages and Health Potions. You’ll also want to make sure you’re fully fed and hydrated to ensure maximum hit points and maximum stamina.
The Mark of Sameth is a multi-level affair, inside and out, but the general layout for the exterior portion of the mine is kind of a lopsided S-shape. Clear out the initial guards near the entrance to the mine, then follow the path till you come to a point with two sets of stairways. Take the left-hand set of stairs to their end, which will put you on a boardwalk with a short tunnel to your left and another set of stairs to your right. The tunnel has a silver chest at the end of it, along with a couple of guards. Grab the chest, then go back and take the new stairs up to a four-way boardwalk intersection. You might attract the attention of a guard or two above you, but ignore them for now, and head left into the tunnel.
The tunnel will open up into a chamber with a couple Scavengers in it. Clear them out, then continue to follow the tunnel. If it gets dark, just keep running, either holding a Torch in hand, or letting your Flame light up lanterns ahead of you. You’ll come to a sort of fork, with the left path going through a narrow opening into an empty looking chamber and the right showing off a silver chest. Take the right path for now, grab the chest, then turn left. You’ll see a large anvil (which you can use to repair equipment,) a lore item, and, beyond that a large orange glow behind what looks like a collapsed section of mine.
Grab your Pickaxe, excavate your way through the collapsed section (which will get you a bunch of Rubble), and you’ll soon enter a chamber with the Crucible. There are other loose resources laying around, along with another repair anvil, so grab them alongside the Crucible. Then, fast travel back home.
Fire Up The Smelter & Dig In
Oswald will congratulate you on grabbing the Crucible, then direct you to build the Smelter. Make sure you’ve got 50 Fired Bricks, created in the Kiln (not the Charcoal Kiln) with Lumps of Clay, and a spare slot in your backpack or action bars. Create the Smelter, then set it in place near Oswald.
Doing so will give you new crafting options with Oswald, as well as the ability to refine Copper Ore into Copper Bars in the Smelter. For warrior-type characters, you’ll now have access to the Adventurer and Tank armor sets. Interestingly, mage-type characters who might be wanting to go the Battlemage route get a new option as well. The Ghostly Shield ward is a means to help protect against physical attacks with an added bonus of 10% resistance to Fire-type damage.
Looking at the Smelter, you’ll notice it takes a lot of Charcoal and a lot of Copper Ore to get Copper Bars, a 2:1 ratio. As it turns out, the Mark of Sameth is a copper mine, and there’s potentially quite a bit of it for the taking, particularly if you’ve got the “Miner” perk unlocked in the skill tree. You might want to invest in crafting a Copper Pickaxe with your first loads of ore, then go back to the Mark of Sameth and dig out more.
Remember that chamber at the last fork you took to get to the Crucible? That “empty” chamber on the left has a very large deposit of Copper Ore on the back wall. It’s just tedious to dig out. Other sections of the mine also have smaller and less obvious deposits, so clearing the mine of Scavengers first and keeping some Wood Logs to make Campfires to keep your stamina up isn’t necessarily a bad plan.
Blacksmith Recipes
• Copper Axe – 4 Copper Bars, 1 Shroud Wood, 3 String
• Copper Pickaxe – 8 Copper Bars, 1 Shroud Wood
• Enhanced Spiked Club – 5 Copper Bars, 5 Charcoal, 4 Wood Logs
• Adventurer Helmet – 1 Copper Bar, 1 Charcoal
• Adventurer Chest – 3 Copper Bars, 3 Charcoal, 5 Linen, 2 Dried Fur
• Adventurer Gloves – 1 Copper Bar, 1 Charcoal, 3 Linen, 2 Dried Fur
• Adventurer Trousers – 2 Copper Bars, 2 Charcoal, 2 Linen, 1 Dried Fur
• Adventurer Boots – 1 Copper Bar, 1 Charcoal, 6 Linen, 2 Dried Fur
• Tank Helmet – 2 Copper Bars, 2 Charcoal
• Tank Chestplate – 5 Copper Bars, 3 Charcoal, 5 Linen, 2 Dried Fur, 3 Amber
• Tank Gloves – 2 Copper Bars, 2 Charcoal, 2 Linen, 1 Dried Fur, 1 Resin
• Tank Trousers – 3 Copper Bars, 4 Charcoal, 3 Linen, 1 Dried Fur
• Tank Boots – 2 Copper Bars, 2 Charcoal, 2 Linen, 2 Dried Fur
• Ghostly Shield – 2 Copper Bars, 4 Amber, 2 Charcoal
• Crucible – 5 Sand, 3 Lump of Clay, 3 Dirt
• Smelter – 50 Fired Bricks, 1 Crucible
All things being equal, this particular job was fairly straightforward, if somewhat tedious. You’re now able to make better armor, you’ve got access to better tools, it’s all nice and incremental. The next item on the Enshrouded shopping list is in the same general vicinity, but it’s going to be a lot of work to reach it.
