Smithing Challenges

These Smithing Challenges are open to all Queen's Hamlet Co-op Members. You must use ore & products that you've either produced yourself, purchased from a QH Member and/or purchased from the QH Co-op. You must also expend energy for all of your smithing tasks.

Please post pictures of your smithing success to verify your accomplishments.

Bronze Award

You've got both the brains and the brawn to be a blacksmith. You dream of crafting beautiful lanterns, sharp scythes and exquisite swords but first you have to start with the basics. Here's the list of requirements for the Bronze Award.

• Purchase your ownjar of Tharlarion's Oil (which is sold at cost in the Market)
• Mine 100 pieces of iron ore
• Using the Foundry turn 100 pieces of iron ore into 10 iron ingots
• Using the Forge turn 1 iron ingot into Scrap Metal
• Using the Forge turn 3 iron ingots into a Hammer
• Using the Forge turn 4 iron ingots into a Pickaxe
• Using the Forge turn 2 iron ingots + 1 Scrap Metal into Tongs

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 22 Oct 2016 04:48:45AM

Excellent!!

Yes, conquering the kitchen really helps with smithing though all that pounding at the forge makes my head ache

Bronze is on the way!

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

Grattis!!!!

Decided to get away from pounding out dough and standing in front of a hot stove in the kitchen, so I tried a totally different challenge, like smithing where I pounded on rock and used the blazing forge!! uh.. oh ...hmmm...

oh well. Got the bronze challenge completed!

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Una (Unalunaqat Resident)
Madame D'Qat
Ferme sur Mer (Sea View Farm), Queen's Hamlet
Villa Toscana,LL, Rocca Sorrentina

Been putting off this challenge because smithing kinda looked complicated and wasn't even sure where the mine was. Out of shear curiosity this week I had a good look through the other members pictures and finally managed to track it down in Provence Coeur (because asking Tat for directions just seemed too simple :p )

Got 129 pieces and dragged all of it Home before realizing I should have just gone up to the market and used the foundry straight after.

I have to admit Smithing turned out to be a lot more fun than I ever imagined.

And to make the best use of the Dinosaur Oil the smithing equipment runs off of I tried making some other stuff too. Naturally included the cute little lamp

Nice!! I'm sending you the Bronze Award - please don't melt it down to make something else

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

Here are my new tools

Looks great!! Congratulations on becoming our 2nd Apprentice

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

Now i have done the tools.

Excellent news! Smithing is so empowering!!

I'm glad you like theambience of the iron mine. It seems that every time I have to work there I throw down a few more flowers

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

I got out there and mined my iron ore. Provence Coeur is probably the most pleasant iron mine in existence.

After I had just a bit over 100 pieces of iron ore, I went to the Foundry and melted the pieces into 10 iron ingots. I then worked hard at the Forge (see Firsts) to create my items, and also repair the sickle I've been using. I'm very excited to know how to use the smithing equipment!

Congratulations to Hatsuka for completing her Blacksmith Apprenticeship and earning a Bronze Smithing Award!

See her pictures here.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

You definitely can!The RL Mike happened to see me mining away and was quite impressed. Saidthat swinging that pickaxewas bound to build up my upper body

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

Mining 100 pieces of ore does not sound very ladylike ... but if you can do it I suppose I can too!

It was a very interesting challenge to put this all together for the Bronze Award (and the new Apprenticeship program). I learned to do things in bigger batches and some days I thought I'd never get the ringing out of my ears from all that hammering

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

Smithing Champions

BRONZE:

• Tatiana Dokuchic
• Hatsuka
• Lady Hartfield
• Stangbo Humlan
• Jane Ixtar
• Claire-Sophie de Rocoulle
• Una Lunaqat
• Ardrhys

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 09 Aug 2017 03:44:43PM

Phew! Hard work...

but rewarding.

Isn't it just!  Congratulations, Ardrhys!

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site