Simple Metal Blade
| Simple Metal Blade | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Material |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Made With | |
| Station | Primitive Forge |
| Research |
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| Crafting Skill | Blacksmithing: 0 |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Crafted |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.CrudeBlade
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| Crafting XP | 25 XP (Blacksmithing) |
The Simple Metal Blade is a small, roughly forged blade without a handle. It is the cheapest metal blade a forge can make.
Its main use is Assemble Crude Knife, which fits it to a Small Handle to make a Simple Metal Knife. It also binds onto a Long Stick as a spear head, giving a Spear with Simple Metal Head. Both need only Maintenance 1.
The blade is forged from scrap with Forge Simple Blade, which needs no Blacksmithing skill. Using Research Craft on one teaches Forge Simple Blade and Forge Small Knife. The Carpenter is the best occupation for materials. It starts with the most Carpentry skill. For Welding, the Welder starts strongest.
Uses
Assemble Crude Knife takes the blade, a Small Handle and a simple weapon binding. It needs Maintenance 1 and makes a Simple Metal Knife. The same recipe makes a Stone Knife from a Stone Blade, so the metal blade is the step up from stone.
Bind Spear Head ties the blade to a Long Stick or Sapling with two Zip Ties, Leather Strips or Twine at Maintenance 1. The result is a Spear with Simple Metal Head. Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape and Bind Spear Head With Wire do the same with other bindings.
The blade can be sharpened with Sharpen Blade, Sharpen Blade Poorly with File or Sharpen Blade with Grindstone. As scrap, it counts as a small iron item. Smelt Iron From Small Item gives one Iron Chunk at a Primitive or better Furnace.
How to Get Simple Metal Blade
Forge Simple Blade makes it at a Primitive or better Forge with no skill needed. It takes one Charcoal and one Iron Bar Quarter, Steel Bar Quarter, Kitchen Knife Blade or blade shard. A hammer and pliers or tongs are kept. Shards such as the Simple Sword Blade Shard and Sword Blade Shard are good stock for it.
Dismantle Bladed Item takes a Simple Metal Knife apart and returns the blade. Dismantle Long Implement does the same for a Spear with Simple Metal Head.
Research
The Research Craft option in the inventory menu studies the Simple Metal Blade and teaches the recipes below.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forge Simple Blade | Simple Metal Blade | 
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/additem Base.CrudeBlade
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| Forge Small Knife | Small Knife | 
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/additem Base.SmallKnife
|
How to Craft Simple Metal Blade
Each recipe that makes the Simple Metal Blade is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Forge Simple Blade
The Forge Simple Blade recipe makes the Simple Metal Blade. It needs Blacksmithing level 0. It is made at a Primitive Forge.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.Charcoal
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| Simple Sword Blade Shard | 
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1x | No | /additem Base.CrudeSword_Shard
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| Claw Hammer | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.Hammer
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| Metalworking Pliers | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.MetalworkingPliers
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Used in Crafting
Everything made with the Simple Metal Blade, with how much each recipe takes, the other materials it needs, the station and the skill.
| Item | Image | Recipe | Amount | Other Materials | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Metal Knife | 
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Assemble Crude Knife | 1x |
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- | Maintenance: 1 | /additem Base.CrudeKnife
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| Spear with Simple Metal Head | 
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Bind Spear Head | 1x |
|
- | Maintenance: 1 | /additem Base.SpearCrude
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| Spear with Simple Metal Head |
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Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape | 1x |
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- | Maintenance: 0 | /additem Base.SpearCrude
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| Spear with Simple Metal Head |
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Bind Spear Head With Wire | 1x |
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- | Maintenance: 1 | /additem Base.SpearCrude
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These recipes accept the Simple Metal Blade by its type rather than by name.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharpen Blade | - | - | - | - |
| Sharpen Blade Poorly with File | - | - | - | - |
| Sharpen Blade with Grindstone | - | - | Grindstone | - |
| Smelt Iron From Small Item | Iron Chunk | 
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Primitive Furnace | /additem Base.IronChunk
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| Smelt Small Iron Item | Small Ceramic Crucible with Iron | 
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Simple Furnace | /additem Base.CeramicCrucibleSmall_Iron
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| Smelt Steel From Small Iron Item | Steel Chunk | 
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Advanced Furnace | /additem Base.SteelChunk
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Notes
- Forge Simple Blade needs no Blacksmithing skill, so it is an easy first forging job.
- A spear made with this blade can be taken apart to recover it.
- Leftover blade shards from larger forging jobs make good stock.
- Research Craft on the blade teaches Forge Small Knife.
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