When ingots are heated they combine into a larger one for better handling. That is it for now. I will think of something later, other than that the game is awesome!

You could make a town(in which you are the blacksmith) and there are people around you selling furniture,weapon upgrades, ect.and then raiders coming to your town and you and your fellows have to defend it in which you can make an ultimate weapon for yourself.Maybe be able to dismantle/fix some broken weapons from failed defences.

Kevin12 :)

Hey Dasius, Just wanted to let you know something cool( if you didn't know already) but recently a youtuber named CrankGameplays, just letting you know cause i thought it was cool, also i thought you could use this as a sample vid. :)

Hey Dasius,

I feel like the currency system needs balancing. Higher quality metals should yield a higher profit as right now the weapons they make barely pay for themselves. An Iron PoleArm costs a minimum of $310 to make and sells for $330, making a $20 profit. Bronze PoleArms cost a minimum of $20 and sell for $40, also resulting in a $20 profit. It just doesn't feel worth it to use higher quality metal when I can just crank out tons of bronze weapons instead.

With this in mind, in order to balance the higher profit you could make the crafting times longer for more expensive ingots. Maybe more hammer strikes on the anvil until the weapon is forged (which would make the strength stat more useful) or maybe longer smelting times and add a stat to quicken it as you level up.

All in all I think this is an great start to an incredible game and I can't wait to see what it becomes.

Cheers

ok 5 ingots for 1 chestplate and 3 for 1 boot they come in a pair btw so thats it thanks for the game mate i will donate later

It might be good to to have a cheat/debug menu, which include coin hack (maybe give 100 coins at a time), and a button to turn off day/night cycle (or a button to sleep, so I don't have to go upstairs).

I really like this game's concept, thank you, Dasius ^_^

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I would like if the days were longer but its up to you

here are my suggestions

1. make the days longer they are too short this has already been suggested

2. increase the profit you get to more the progression is too slow

3. make the shop bigger it is cramped

4. something to do with the crystals

Please make the starting money higher.. :(

I feel a Change log Thread should be made so that people experiencing certain persistent bugs can see when you have attempted to patch them before trying to download and play the new version. Also a plus for people liek me who love to know exactly what has been changed, to see if another playthough is worth wile yet.

First suggestion: Please either make the ingots smaller, or the anvil bigger. There is little that's more frustrating than missing an order because it took 30 seconds to get the physics to let you stack all three ingots somewhere on the anvil. Ideally, skip the problem entirely and let us 'snap' ingots into place on the anvil the same way that we can snap weapon pieces together - this way, we don't have to worry about a problem I encountered last night where I was trying to make a greathammer, but somehow ended up making a regular blade and a small blade as one ingot began to tumble away from the others as I took the final swing.

Second suggestion: regular blades and great blades have some wonky anvil properties. Regular blades initially spawn on the horn of the anvil, and begin to tilt, but ultimately don't. However, if you hit that blade again, it respawns perfectly balanced in the center of the anvil. Great blades are a nightmare because they, too, initially appear on the anvil's horn, but are long enough that they always end up toppling off the anvil, requiring seconds to try to pick up, manipulate, and balance back on the face of the anvil so you can hit it again to make it a greathammer head. If at all possible, I highly suggest having the initial blade for both weapon types spawn in that perfectly flat, balanced position that they appear in if you start cycling through all the appearance options, because nothing gets more annoying than seeing "Give me a greathammer, NOW!!!" and spending five seconds trying to get the great blade back on the anvil to keep working.

Third suggestion: Don't make it possible to earn less from a sale than the cost of the materials that went into making it. I made a tin dagger out of curiosity. I got it to the customer within seconds because I already had it pre-made, and got paid far less than the cost of creating it. That's never fun.

Fourth suggestion: Take physics out of weapon construction entirely. It causes so many problems and frustrations, especially with unwieldy items like greatsword blades and polearm handles - it would be far easier if there were simply places on the table you could put the weapon parts onto that they would 'snap' to, with a button to assemble a weapon out of the parts 'attached' to the table. This would also likely help with the problem of having items become stuck in the table, or weapons 'merging' like I had happen last night (I had left a one-handed sword on the assembly table. When I placed a greatsword blade on the table, somehow the one-handed sword's grip and guard snapped to it, and I lost a sale while trying to get the monstrosity disassembled. Then lost a second sale on the one-handed sword because it was no longer counted as complete for some reason...)

Fifth suggestion: One way to add some strategy to the game might be mass orders. Let's say you wake up, go downstairs and find out an adventurer looking to outfit a new adventuring party has requested 2 greatswords, 2 one-handed hammers, a polearm and a dagger, all made with specific parts and appearances, before the end of the day. You have a choice: Do you take the order and skip out on possible greater earnings serving random customers - if you can serve them fast enough - or play it safe and take the mass order for less potential profit but more assured profit?

Sixth suggestion: Rather than repeatedly hammering to cycle through appearances, I suggest a radial menu that lists the appearance options before you start swinging. You use the menu, choose your appearance, and then start swinging, ending up with a weapon with the chosen appearance.

One suggestion that I can think of is to be able to send a customer away if you cannot create what they want.

upgrades to your items like hammer upgrade so it takes less hammers to make an item or to the forge so it heats ingots faster and like maybe items to increase customers patience time by like 1% or so (also to make it clear not the level up to your character thats already in game like items that are with money to skill points like a better hammer a better forge some decos to make look pretty so they become more patient like that also maybe something extra on the blacksmithing)

Hey Dasius,

First off great game, but when i exit the game then load back in my coins reset to 0 and all the weapons i have made are disassembled. It would be great if you could fix that.

Perhaps add ax heads for differing handle sizes? Like the one handed would be a hatchet and the two handed would be a battleaxe and the polearm would be a halberd and so on. Maybe add thieves or bandits that try to steal your stuff and you can make weapons YOU use to defend? And maybe even hire guards?

Sandbox mode. for money! it would be cool to just...buy what you want. make literally a storage of ingots. I think that it would be cool to be introduced in the new update. some people may like it.

Maybe make races that pick up orders? I would love to see a wolf anthro-morph ask for a weapon and happily walk out with a copper greatsword.

make sheilds and things likr that also missions and quests would be a good idea I think.

I think a tutorial would be great also

Hey Dasius, I love your game! I am a coder as well, and I have a gaming YouTube channel. I tested the latest version of the game, and the lastest additions to the game from the previous versions are awesome! I would love to give suggestions, but there wouldn't be enough space on this post!!! If you could let me email you directly, I could give some feedback and suggestions every now and then for a new update. I'll also try to upload videos of your game on my channel for every new update, or just a video to have fun with it! Thanks for reading my post! :D

My email: realezgaming420@gmail.com

My channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuViCAHDLD93JYLM1plKqPg

Multiplayer would be cool.

Will you make mac support

I realy realy love your game, and it's super relaxing, but I think it gets REALY frustrating when you make nothing but loss. I think I barely ever get over 50 gold because I always make loss. I put all my skill points into charisma, but still make loss. I think it's realy frustrating.

If the amount of gold you get from creating something is random, I think it should be considered how much time you needed for creating, or anything for that matter. But it gets so so frustrating after a while

Great little game. I was wondering could you make it possible to have the shelves pull the ingots that are ordered, Or perhaps a way to sort them all?

On the subject of item placement on the Anvil:

You could maybe make it so that the ingots/items you place onto the anvil snap to a position like the different weapon parts snap to each other. I'm not very savvy with the unreal engine (I've never used it before), but maybe you could create a snap-point node so that when certain items come near it, they snap to the pre-defined position/orientation and it shouldn't effect the items created from the ingots because you could leave them off of the list of items that auto-snap to the anvil.

But make it so that they can be taken off of the anvil in case you need to make something else.
EX, You're in the process of making a greatsword and a customer comes in and requests a one handed sword or a dagger and now you have to take 1 or 2 of the ingots off of the anvil to make the requested items.

Don't really know how you would do that though. I've never used the unreal engine. I've only ever used Blender, and I'm not too good with that.

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On the subject of item deconstruction:

You could make an entirely new station for weapon deconstruction similar to the crafting bench.

To solve the bug where you deconstruct an item and then use it to make a new item and it doesn't allow you to use it or sell it. you could make it so that when you deconstruct the item it deletes the items and gives you entirely new ones altogether.

This way it doesn't conflict with the item ID's and bug the newly crafted items made with the deconstructed parts and let you make other items with the "deconstructed" parts.

Just a thought.

Maybe create a use for the crystals?

Hey Dasius i made a icon for the game in case you were needing one:

http://prntscr.com/e7kly3

Here's the .ico file in case you would like to use it in the game :P

http://www.mediafire.com/file/a5ai2ta2dehsztl/Blacksmith.ico

maby you should add places you could move to and make the hous upstairs inside the shop and the stuff the costomers buy should cost more money. Plz take this stuff into account

This may already have been asked but.

Item snap to spots.

E.g. I buy 10 ingots, I want to put them on the shelf nice and neatly and snap to a grid for example. :)

shields?

any chance of adding a leave my store sir option for the people with bad manners saying GIVE ME THIS NOW!!!!!

it will be cool if you can make armor and can fight. but i know it says my little blacksmith shop but it will be really cool and can make shields

EDITED: and make a menu

and make the water usefull its useless and also make a youtube channel to know what is the next update :D

maybe that some adventurers also sell a weapon and they can be more or less expensive then how you make them depending on the adventurer.

some sort off dungeon wich you can get in too to get ores maybe.

You should add upgrades to the shop like (these are just examples that i think would make the game cooler)

bigger furnaces, imps that give customers their weapons, local knight tournament(if the knight that bought your weapons or armor wins you get a 30% of the winnings, 2nd place 20% etc.., mines behind your shop to explore and get metals from, a blacksmith tournaments where you compete against others to become the ultimate blacksmith!

I think this game has a lot of potential and i cant wait to see the next big update.

Thanks!

-Hesham

Hey Dasius, it would be nice if you added some sort of way to know the time. Like a clock or something so you don't build something and waste resources when the customers come in and ask for something then leave when the day has ended :)

It would be cool if using the metals you could make machines or something to automate the crafting/production or like an auto-buy feature. The machines might be a little ambitious though so I don't blame you if you don't add it :P

you should put some armor in the game and those shields can you even make them ? also you should add a food bar and or a food need / water need if too hard just put a well on the back of the house / blacksmith shop and make items sell depending on the time made

i cant open the game i dont know why i put it in the suggested location and i downloaded it again but it keeps saying unreal engine crashed

pls help if anyone has the same problem how do you fix

Maybe, once the player starts using mithril, have a Lord of the Rings easter egg or something. Like having Aragorn come in and request a mithril sword.

I've got a few ideas in mind.

1) Perhaps instead of ordering, you could have a small town that has shops in it.

2) Blades are still hot after forging and need to be quenched in the water next to the forge.

3) add a grindstone out back, if a player sharpens a sword it will sell for more.

4) steel is blue at the moment. perhaps make it a lighter iron color?

5) I agree with DarkFlameWolf that a skip feature would be helpful.

6) I also agree with hesham62, i think shop upgrades would be great.

that is all for now.

i realize this is a small game but i think it could be an amazing game if it was developed a bit more. also if you were to keep working at it for a while i think this would be a great addition to many steam libraries (yes i know it costs money to put games on steam now).

Dear Developer

i have been playing your game and i love it but i think it could do with improvement

from what ive learned from playing is level ups take a tad to long and sould be slightly faster (BTW i'm not trying to criticise these are just my ideas for improvements) I also think that money drops should be in a more secure area, say instead of getting a gap of roughly $6 - $26 you should get a gap from roughly $15 - $26. these are my ideas and i hope you at least read my thoughts on the game :) p.s what are the little glowing gem things :P

I pitched the idea of a game like this on Reddit approximately 8 months ago and came up with all sorts of ideas. Maybe you'd like to take a look through my post and the comments. They might go well with your game. https://www.reddit.com/r/gameideas/comments/4n12ag/smithing_simulator/

could you please ad a co op mode.

My idea:

When selling a weapon, the faster you make it, the more money you get.

When I make copper weapons, they get sold as bronze weapons. Bronze is supposed to be a mixture of copper and tin. Maybe you can replace the tin ingots with bronze ingots instead. Also, I'd like to be able to purchase ores and smelt them myself. I'd also like to be able to smith my own grips and guards. Maybe in the future, you can add enchanting. The way it could work is you could smith some magical gems into your weapons. Other than gems, you could pay a wizard to imbue different quality enchantments into your stuff.

Making the game Multiplayer would make it interesting and even more fun. Also, reduce the price for tin and maybe iron, it takes nearly forever to get to the point i can buy full creates of tin ingots. Speaking of the crates, when you break them open everything inside is trying to be stacked like a tower and constantly makes a mess, why not make a pile out of the contents or have it stack them side by side in the space of the crate

plz make a use for the water

thx

also bigger anvil

I think that crafting armour would be cool!

Co-op mode could bring alot to the game.

I think if you implemented a resource gathering addition would be cool. Along with ordering minerals, maybe opening up a mine in the world would be cool as well?

I also think the ability to order weapons/tools themselves would be cool.

Also more types of weapons.

This game is fantastic already, but it seems that making greatswords is a serious blunder that can cost you serious money. Now, if you could customize these weapons like you can the small and normal blades and hammer heads, maybe we could sell them for more. I assume this is already in the works, but it can't hurt to mention it.

- A way to minimize the amount of a weapon so you don't get ripped off

-Make the wood outside a fail safe so if you run out of money you can cut up the wood and make wooden weapons with the wood

• You can make wooden grips, guards, blades, and hammer heads
• The wooden weapons would be worth a lot less then copper weapons
• You can use the trees outside
• Extend the outside backyard into a saw mill and tree farm and you can buy seeds off the shipment place
• The more expensive the seed the more the wood it produces
• Add an axe and you can cycle from axe to hammer

-Inventory slots for specific weapons

• Hammers get two parallel pegs sticking out of the wall and you prop it up head up handle down
• Polearms get two hooks that are far apart from one another and you can prop it on the hooks blade facing left or right
• One handed and Great Sword get the same pegs as the hammer but closer together, the pegs hold the guard with the blade facing down and the grip facing up
• Daggers get one peg, but at the end of the peg is a hole in the style of a Lego Persons Hand

make a hachet and war axe andsry english is not my main language

i've found a bug where people walk in give me there order the timer says 80 seconds (ish) and then they walk straight back out.

if anyone has a way to help me please say something

Hey, Dasius, really enjoying your work! Really happy to see there are still fresh minds willing to explore other avenues, and I'm not the only one who can see you've got something great here :) I apologize for some of my bullets that I know others will have mentioned before, but I wanna be sure to hit all the check boxes

• Forge
  • The simple design is effective, and with a bit more modification I think you can make one of the most important parts of blacksmithing more fun :)
    • Quenching metal! Definitely seen this one mentioned! And I was very curious about the concept of it myself, and I'm sure you've got something in the works, but I'd also like to see different kinds of quenching, like doing so in water, or oil, or other methods I know exist to maybe strengthen the blade in different ways? You could refill the substance in the basin next to the forge (the one with the blue crystal within), and when placed in water will sizzle, when in oil will make brief flames, and if you've got magical sand or stuff, you could get really creative with what it can do
    • Introduce a bellows! Keep it pumping every now and again to make your flames hotter, maybe? Extend the life of the flame so the igniter button doesn't have to be pressed in intervals, or possibly just cosmetic and fun to play with as a little side. Maybe make wood a fuel?
    • Also something I'm sure you have ideas for: combining metals! Having separated ingots is awesome for variety, but there's a depth of challenge that can be added by forcing us to discover and explore how mixing and combining metals can work. Definitely some more weight on your end for something like that, and I wouldn't be surprised if it couldn't be slipped in until later, but definitely an idea
    • Different shapes of metals! I have to assume you have some degree of knowledge when it comes to blacksmithing, so we can perhaps see more that just ingots to use as a foundation for our weapon metal in the future? It'd be more of a challenge to shimmy around our forge and figure out how and where to put our blanks, and ultimately more fun. A surprise shipment with a railroad spike? Bam, free ingot, or two, of iron
• Anvil
• The sound of the hammer blows in the updated version, especially when working three ingots, is so damn satisfying. I am happy with its utility, but I think the breaking feature could be moved to another blacksmith tool, which I assume you also are working on alongside things like tongs for managing the ingots, perhaps.
• The placement is a bit wonky with the physics, but I know quite well that's just the nature of the engine and alpha games :) Something I'd like to see, if this framework is being kept, is after smacking a bunch of ingots into one solid shape after a couple swings, we should have to start aiming at the rear or the front of the ingot, or perhaps towards the sides to start making the edges of a blade, or a hammer based on what we need. In my opinion, shaping the metal is every bit as important as smelting it
• Kind of a continuation off a note in the last bullet (that doesn't really have to do with the anvil..): a tool belt/apron with belt! Being able to look down at our feet is perfect opportunity to give us a belt to look at too, to switch between all our crucial blacksmith tools on the fly
• Since chipping away and losing material is a concern with real projects, maybe after each ingot has been pounded out a bit of soot collects around the floor? Don't clean up after yourself enough and eventually catch fire, losing some stock and a customer who runs away in fear/on fire?

I love the game and the concept. I think that a good addition to the game would be being able to make armour and shields. Also being able to employ AI to help with the work.

Love the game and can't wait to see where it goes.

It may not be possible at this point, but maybe VR eventually? I miss being in my own forge back in Maine ;-;

remove/restart npc/AI

debug

Hello!I have some ideas to share!

1. Add a mine

2.Add the please the coins in the chest back.

3.Add furniture to buy and upgrades for your shop

4.Workers

Hi, what about armors and axe weapons? :)

How about replacing the button of the forge with bellows?
And a hanging sign above the entrance door of the shop instead of right behind/next to the door? :)

Hey Dasius,

I saw this game being played by a bunch of youtubers, and once I heard it was free and on Itch.io, I wanted the game really bad. So I tried to download it, and realized because I have a Mac, I can't. I was wondering if you were gong to make a version for the game on Mac anytime soon. As a basic programmer, I do understand how hard it might, but in the future It would be great for all those stuck wit apple with no idea how to duel boot. I would really love to be able to play, and since I like to program, I want to make something cool like it.

Thanks

I may repeat some that have been mentioned, but a suggestion repeated must be a popular one, so hopefully no harm, no foul.

1. Materials
   • As nice as the instant ingots are, some method of spending time to save money (mining or buying ore, for example) might be fun. Ore may require a separate furnace for smelting, but if the smelter let you melt blades down into their component ingots, it'd be more than worth it.
2. Crafting
   
   • Some method of improving weapon quality would be nice. Maybe I heat ingots, hammer them into a sword shape, then heat that and hammer more, quench, assemble the sword, and take it to a whetstone? Basically, just more with the theme of spending more time to make more money. This could lead into an easier way to cycle weapon types; first forging cycles between sword, hammer, etc., and you can change design by reheating it, or something. And maybe if you make top-tier weapons, you get a reputation? Which leads to...
3. Shop
   • Less with the theme of balancing time and money, I'd like the ability to "advertise" specific weapon types; maybe my shop specializes in the highest-quality daggers only? This one is more of a pie-in-the-sky one for me, I'll admit. Less of a sky pie, I like the idea of a storage chest or the like, and shop upgrades, though I can't imagine what they might do at the moment.

How about flintlock firearm building?

Why don't we add the ability to go into the forest to search our own ore?but at the forest we would also meet monster where we will use our own forged swords to defend ourselves,and weapon coloring would be cool too

Why don't we add the ability to go into the forest to search our own ore?but at the forest we would also meet monster where we will use our own forged swords to defend ourselves,and weapon coloring would be cool too

Start Screen Would Be Nice

It would be nice if we could have a bigger variety of text when the customers walk into the store.

Make it so that customers will ask for a certain weapon variety like a dagger pole or hammer pole and so that every different sword/hammer/pole variety costs more or less depending on who asks for it.

Also, what about adding customers who already have armor and swords? you keep seeing them in the background but the only one's who asks have nothing, would be cool to see actual adventurers come and order from you. Maybe add so that the more you play, the more experienced and popular warriors comes.

Could you make a better collision box for the dagger display. Most of the display items fall thru, the only way things stay up is if you put them at the very back

i think you should put pistols in the game not those modern ones so the old ones like in Assasins creed and that would be good too if you would put bandits in the game like they still your stuff and attack you and everything(sorry if my english is bad)

i think its called flintlock just please add them

How can I put my old save to the new version?

I have another idea you could add multiplayer too so more customers can come in at the same time and you and your friends could do things faster

and about the crystals you could go out and find more of them and that would be good if you could craft magic staffs with them for wizards

stands ? :D ClickHere!

It would be nice if the items locked into place when you putt them on the shelfs (or maybe an button for that).

Really great job on this game. I really like it and am very impressed with the progress already. The stuff I am suggesting is probably farther down in the development process but I would like to see it come to life as the game progresses.

I would like is maybe a smelting ability. That you get iron ore from the mine and you have to smelt it. Having to combine copper and tin a certain way to get bronze and such in the effort to make a ingot.

A couple of things I would like to see is more of a progression type system for the tools that we can use at the start. In the beginning maybe if you can only stat with only making daggers and have to buy better tools or such to increase the ability to make larger items. Also if you decide to make the smelter you can add so you get more ingots out of ore you place in the smelter. Make it so you can interact with you shop more. I feel this would be fun but a lot of work on your end. Also I do not know if this would work in game. Might be more fun to just imagine then in game.

Stoning the swords or hammers with gems maybe to increase value. I feel this would be more of a late game implication. I dont know if that would be good since it is more of a gemest or whoever does that stuff for their job.

Inserting like axes and maybe arrow heads. Just insert a larger variety of jobs to possibly do. Maybe they don't have to focus on just war jobs either. Insert some like horse shoes or lanterns. More sword variants if possible but you have a good selection right now so I am not to worried on that.

The ability to buy other smitherys. This also a later game but able to buy a new building for your shop so it can be bigger.

Over all I really like your progress on its current status. Feel free to ask me any questions on these that don't make sense or I did terrible to explain. Like I said up front I am not sure if most of this stuff would go into your system well because you could have a different picture for the future of the game. Very well done though.

You should add sandbox mode which gives you infinite money so you can test things and you should also make it so you can expand your shop or hire people

1. You should make a Sandbox mode where you have infinite money and the customers will take any weapon you give them, like a GreatHammer PoleArm!

2. Spear weapon would be made by putting 2 ingots onto the anvil to make a sword blade, then you would bash it until you get a "Spear Head" and then you would put it on a PoleArm.

3. Bow and Arrow weapon would be made by taking the logs in the backyard and switching to a "axe" tool to chop the logs into a couple of sticks so you can then use the "hammer" tool to form it into a bow. and how to make the arrow is to take a stick and by making a arrow head by putting 1 ingot onto the anvil to make a dagger blade, then bash it until you get a arrow head, stick it onto the stick to make a arrow and then give the bow and arrow to the customer.

i love how you make everything, its so easy i hope it doesnt change a lot.

i feel like the game can be multiplayer. any chance of that happening kind of lonely here at 'COME GET YOUR ARMS'

Dasius, pls make a queuing customers and specified order thanks

the best thing id say is to fix the bugs and do some more re-balance the Pricing a bit. and most of all make the saving more Optimal. as well as it would help to make all of the UI a bit more friendly as well. like if i hit ESC i should see my mouse with out having to click after opening the menu, Can tell me how many times I've accidentally clicked on something i did not wont to click on.

Hey, if you want to make it a little bit more authentic I'd suggest rotating the anvil 180 degrees.

I'm a blacksmith irl and that's the way an anvil should be oriented if your righthanded. The reason for it is that you hold the thongs in your left hand and you don't have to move about as much if you need to use the pointy bit on the anvil. (haven't the foggiest what it's called in english)

Cheers!

Please please please tell me you're gonna make the black weapons on the racks intangible and automatically grab the matching weapon type into its place when approached with one, similar to how ready ingots lock to the anvil... Getting weapons on the racks is kind of difficult right now because they don't have any auto-placement feature (and in the case of daggers, potentially impossible since they're so small they just fall right through the rack with certain heads)

Auto-placement might prove entirely useful, both for the player and you as the developer, in determining when weapons are already properly stocked in the shop so that NPCs can be shown to take weapons off of the racks and buy them directly -- and certainly a lot more reliable than the area check at the counter, which I often struggle with when weapons are premade for some reason.

edit: Okay, I just noticed that when you load a save, all of your assembled weapons fall apart too. @_@ You having trouble figuring out how to get the engine to treat them as a single item or something? Is that something in the way hampering weapon rack development? Gah...

Multi save games slots please!

Hey Dasius I have bought your game a couple times so hopefully now that I have an account I can get on with it. Anyway I am 15 and I actually do real blacksmithing as a hobby and soon to be job. I have a lot of ideas and would like to try to contact you through email or something to go through detailed steps and offer assistance free of charge.

I didn't go through all of the suggestions, since there's 140+, but I've got a couple of ideas to make the money in game mean more to the player than just making better weapons to then get more money.

I wouldn't be surprised if this had been suggested already, but I think there should be more levels of grips and guards. For guards maybe add some things that look like THIS or THIS. I also think fancy grips should cost more since by default when I start out I use them for everything to the point there's either no point or the other ones, or no point for the fancy ones.

I think there should be upgrades to certain elements of the shop. Maybe upgrades to the forge so it smelts faster, upgrades to the anvil to allow for different heads, upgrades to the shop front to entice richer customers (see next suggestion), and upgrades to the inside of the shop like chairs to make customers sit down and wait longer for the item, which would be necessary later in the game if you don't like to rush.

Another idea that should go along with both the last one and the next one, is a grinder/sharpener. You'd be able to buy and upgrade a sharpener to sharpen blades. The sharper the better, meaning the happier the client and more they're willing to pay. Also a higher rating which I get into on my last suggestion.

I think there should be different levels of wealth for clients. Perhaps they come in with a budget or wearing a certain level of clothing, like royal robes for people that are very rich, and burlap for people that just want a bronze dagger. It's kind of easy right now to just server customers with the richest of metals to keep making the most money. This also kind of segways into my next and final suggestion.

I think a cool way to have a popular shop would be with ratings. Obviously in the age we're set in people aren't posting on Yelp with a review and a 5 star rating, but people would talk about it. If it's a really nice blade people would want to come get their own from you.
This would also combat people just skipping lower tiered customers because they'll get a bad rating. There could also be upgrades to your shop to help with rating, like posting signs around town, making your house look better, and things like that.

Obviously I know this stuff will take a while, but I figured I've got stuff in my brain, may as well share it! :)

tl;dr
More grips and guards
Upgrade things in shop
Add a sharpener
Classes of customers
Rating/popularity for the shop

if its a black smith shop shouldn't you need to make things like horseshoes?

material proficiency skills (novice/apprentice/master/legend) the more you are proficient the better and more expensive the weapons you make

going between materials is too easy right now as well. i recommend to have to upgrade your forge and/or level up strength skill grants you access to new material

Hey there im kind of a rookie programmer i would like to help you with the game, i mainly program in C++ (i guess your game its programmed in Cpp. since i havent seen the code yet im not sure. would like to get an answer, not interested in money.

here are some of my ideas:

-add the making of shields

-add the making of Mage staffs (maybe it could have something to do with those three crystals, mora about that later)

-Add the option to deny a customer an order and also add a communication option that makes the customer pay more for the weapon they order

-Add the possibility for bigger, higher paid orders(as in customers ordering more than one item)with a longer time span

-add fancy finger guards as well as the fancy handles that you already have

-give a point to those three crystals other than just lighting up the store sometimes

-Add maces

-add armour(this might be a big ask but make it so you could maybe make individual plates and they snap together on the purple table

-add bows, arrows and crossbows

-oh and sword sheiths

-maybe make the tree crystals have elemental powers an the customers can ask for special weapons with magical enchantments for specific battles or needs

-do absolutely nothing I ask of and tell me to go away if you wish as this is only some suggestions from a thirtee-I mean random person online, but I really do love the game and can't wait for any new features to be added in the future. Also some of the stuff I suggested might be ridiculous or would take a very long time so it's cool if you say no:

would like to see bronze swords like the Khopesh, Apa, and Hallstatt D. maybe by adding a copper and tin on the anvil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_sword

Suggestion: make a main menu and there will be multiplayer wich has a town with 4 blacksmiths and there will be a server list and you can get games at max 4/4 and if you press tab it will show the player list there names and there money and you the blacksmith guy it will flash on your name please read

Thanks Dasius if you read this plz repley

you can add shields, like the one in the shop, with a new ore: wood. Also some armor like helmets ect... and more weapons

i really think that you should make like an arena where you make your own sword and fight others and if you win you get 1,000 coins that'll be very cool

P.S this game EPIC

Suggestions: Option to make axes, maces, and shields

Other metals and different guards?

BTW Loving this game. Feels really relaxing too.

Time limit seems just right for each customer!

Edit: As time goes on, it seems that time is getting less and less so that it's nearly impossible to make great-weapons

It really bothers me that when I look at either a torch, or the forge, everything gets dark. Could you please add the ability to disable it in the graphical settings?

About the logs in the back. I dont know what they are used for but the idea i had was.

Press 2 to pull up the axe left click to cycle through different weapon heads, Logs respwan every day. Thats all

i have a good idea but it might making the game more complicated due to the selection of weapons you need to create.

i was thinking of an expansion in weapons. like once you have made all the types of melees you then unlock a new weapons catagory.

an example of that is flintlock weapons and ammo.

basically just more stuff to be sold to customers.

cool game, i think an add on like these would be cool (someone might have written some of these since ive only skimmed through the suggestions):
-pickaxe? maybe for mining and smelting you own ore?

-smelter ^^ turn your raw mined ores into ingots. ( i think that would add abit depth to the game)

-more weapons varieties like armor, accessories like rings, etc

-shop expansion pls! my stuff is so messy since its super crowded in there >.<

-haggling ability (get in extra moolah from what you're selling!)

-special orders (something like "i'd like a TIN dagger!") or something along those lines

-rare ores/ingots that you cant purchase but have to mine by yourself? maybe crystal ingots :D

-crafting expertise. maybe at the start even your copper weapons arent the best but the more you make a certain thing the better quality it is and its more expensive?

thats all i can think of right now. hope anyone finds it interesting >.>

Release this game in Steam Greenlight, I think she will be claimed momentally :)

List of things I would want:

- Tutorial/Free mode, learn the basics or just have fun, not about the money, but learning

- Expanding the shop, it's kinda cramped in here...

- More weapon categories (Melee, Long Range, Armor, etc.)

- Auto-Snap, if you would put something, say, in your "inventory", you wouldn't have the struggle of it not falling.

Please Move the New Game Button away from the Save Game Button PLEASE!!!
Thanks

Love this game, just had a few thoughts.

Would be cool if say, you ordered something small, like a guard, that it would come in a smaller box so you could store large quantities in small boxes or so they could fit through the door easier.

Once again, I think the quantity of each item should be reflected in box size, say like 3 and below is a small box, 3+ is a medium, and 5+ is large or something like that, especially when buying ores.

Possibly put a smelter in the game to reclaim ores already crafted into swords/hammers?

Maybe make the water bin "un-readify" hot ores.

And Im in LOVE with the whole forest/mine idea, so just go at your own pace, this game is fantastic and I would love to purchase it if it gets greenlit on steam or has a full release.

There seem to be a lot of requests from everyone for new weapons and armor. This could prove confusing when customers start asking for obscure things. Perhaps the customers could request specific items by picture instead of text? We already have a nice reference sheet for this on the blueprint. It would make the game less English dependent, and the customers wouldn't seem as rude and demanding.

Is it possible to add vsync to the game, i am suffering from screen tearing on max settings

Hi, I'm here to ask a thing, Unreal Engine 4 have support for android platform too, so, will you bring the game for android? Trust me, it's a good idea!

To match yesterday's rather long post in the complaints thread, I have a few ideas that might make some things a little better. Here goes nothing (again, in no particular order:)

When you put a weapon together, it looks like the pieces are moving together, but otherwise remain the same. Rather than having them be two objects that follow each other around, is it possible to actually make them one item? Like, when you look at the grip of a fully-constructed one hand sword, it says one hand grip, and only the grip highlights. Is it possible to make it so hovering over any part of the sword displays "one hand sword," and highlights the entire thing? Using the anvil to separate connected items was a great idea, and it works perfectly with my idea. This should also fix the problem of weapons falling apart when you exit and reload, since the parts would load in as pieces of a whole. However, I don't know how possible this whole thing is, because I don't know how your engine works.

If the previous idea isn't possible/feasible, I think it should be fairly simple to make it so parts only connect if they aren't already connected to something. Grips obviously have two connection points, so they'd need to account for that, but I don't see it being a huge problem. Again, though, I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, so I don't know how much control you have.

Now, about snapping (like how ingots snap to the anvil.) I think it would be lovely if weapons snapped to the display racks, though some of the racks need to be moved (customers try to go upstairs to get the polearms and they stop half-way up the stairs for the greatsword.)

I thought long and hard and...I can't think of a particularly good way to store grips/guards. I'm currently using tipped over/angled crates. There's gotta be a better way.

This may be the cause of my storage woes, but light things are way too bouncy. I throw a knife blade from the anvil to the workbench and it bounces off and slides almost all the way back to me. I toss a grip onto the workbench and it flies across the room. But then I can't even throw a hammer head two feet. There's gotta be some middle ground.

This is probably on your to-do list already, but make use of the water trough! Make it so blades/hammer heads are all hot and glowy after you make them and you have to dump them in the water before you can stick 'em on a grip.

Also, have you considered putting the smelter in the corner, moving that little tool rack (with the tongs and stuff,) to the right side of the smelter, and putting the water trough underneath the tool rack? That would free up some space under the window. Then, if you moved the sales record over by the counter or front door or something, you could put the order form where the sales record used to be and a table or something under the window. Maybe deliveries could be delivered through the window, and land on the table (or maybe there is no table, and they just land on the floor.)

Pricing! I've noticed that guards don't factor into weapon values, but that's gotta be a bug. If we pretend that guards do count toward item value, I could sell three greatswords for a profit of $12. With the same amount of ingots, I could sell nine daggers for a profit of $36. I think item value should be the production cost plus some percentage. Charisma might increase the percentage, or just add a flat amount, or maybe both. Either way, the current system just doesn't feel right.

I think the coin chest would be better suited to the bedroom than the workshop. Yes, it makes sense that you'd just toss your coins in the coin chest after a sale, but it takes up a bunch of space and the workshop is pretty cramped as it is.

I won't make any suggestions about the golem, crystals, monument/pillar, or the mirror that I find highly suspicious, both because I'm sure you've heard enough about them and because I want to be surprised :)

I love watching people play this game I was wondering if you were ever going to realease it for Xbox one or are even considering it. I would love to be able to play this on my xbox

and this? https://gyazo.com/a96d3c8b115474ec23bb0aabba950d07

could you possibly add a one hand battleaxe a two hand battle axe and a polearm battleaxe

I was thinking more ancient weapons. (These are all real btw) 0.0.63

Bisento/Naginata:

Polearm Grip + Regular Sword Blade.

Tanto:

One Handed Grip + Regular Sword Blade (NO GUARD)

Butterfly Sword:

One Handed Grip + One Handed Guard + Dagger Blade

Jintachi:

Two Handed Grip + Greatsword Blade (NO TWO HANDED GUARD)

Nagamaki:

Pole Arm Grip + Greatsword Blade

Dasius please make it for xbox! I don't have a computer, but if you made this for xbox i would buy it in a instant.

A freeplay mode, where you have full skills and unlimited money to buy and create anything. Battle and war axes would be cool, too.

Any thoughts about adding the ability of keybinds? I would like to try the game out except I can't because certain letters on my keyboard doesn't work such as my W button and until I get an external keyboard I have to copy/paste some letters :(

Few things that could be improved/added

-one day late order: simply just somebody comes to you lewes you a request on some kind of order board and then he comes tommorow for his weapon ( that's kinda how real blacksmith shops works irl)

-higher Furnace: make borders of furnace a litle higher so ignots wont fall off when you are in hurry

-ignots coming in packs; it's a knowwn issue you open the box with a lot of ignots and they fly all over the place like crazy, you could give them something like palette and them beeing tied to it o you can move it whenever you want and open it for example above your furnace

-burning up boxes: right now they just vanish, i think it would be nice if they could be like the ones left in backyard opened with one wall you take what you need and burn box on the furnace, to form charcoal wchich will just burn after another time you use furnace (speeding up the process of heating nearby ignots)

-making weapons of diffrent ignots: simply divide the area that will be used by each ignot on the weapon so you can get rid of useless throwouts in no time, or create ultimate weapon that will whitstand every epic battle

-heating blades and cooling them : that will be a hot selling point and a cool thing to add (ok i'll stop with the puns) Simply you can heat the blade to reuse it(cannot do it for 3 ighots weapons) for example you created dagger but nobady wants this dagger, you heat the blade, put it with another ignot on the anvil, and you create normal blade or put 3 daggers toi make 2h blade etc. Cooling is the way that real weapons would be done, you put th red-hot blade in the water to cool it down, and then you asspemble weapon

-(that will be more of a complain but whatever) Extending time the customer stays in your shop for his/hers weapon: It quickly goes so far down that you just make 2 or 1h weapons because you don't have time to fix it, i'd like to just make it something like patience of certain person, so somebody would come and he would be very patient giving you 4 minutes to finish the work, later on somebody hot-bloded would come and he would want his weapon in 60 seconds (that or 40 seconds should be minimal time considering cooling and heating will be added anyway) it would add varieity to the game and would eliminate issues with clients coming for 2-h blade and then when you are just finising it they go out, and you are left with useless 2=h weapon on which you probably spend much more money

that will be i think everything, For now

I might think of other cool stuff soon and i'll post it here

sorry for possible typos my english isn't too good and i still need to get used to my new keyboard

Love your game and have nice day

I think we have a problem with the crafting table. it should have a fixed angle for the weapon that appears. The forge could also uso some lock just the way you did with the anvil.

Weapons made the day before can't be sold, you have to change the handle to sell it like a fresh weapon.

We could have a stand to place weapons that we already made so they can just be sold easyer. A lock on the stand would be good, so we can store up to 3 weapons of each kind.

When I go back to a saved day it always start as morning. This way instead of going to bed and starting a new day I can just save, open the game again and keep my day counter low.

sup Dasius could you add the ability to mix metals and get better prices when you sell weapons using those "new" metals and a scrap system so when you craft an item any metal scrap can be turned into ingots this also works with my mixing metals idea also add fancy grips and polearms and make it so you can raise the price of what ever you sell but if you go to high people will just straight up leave

I would like to see customization of the Character (in the mirror for example) and/or the blacksmith shop.

Great Game so far!

Could you set up the controlls for ps4 and xbox one controllers.

Yo, dasius i found a bug. It is impossible to change my name

I have 2 Suggestion

1. Being able to set prices would be great

2. Make ingots smaller and a lot closer to IRL Ingots like this

https://www.google.com/search?q=ingots&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid4LGvzaXSAhWM8YMKHQiqDo4Q_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=940#imgrc=_

Great Game i really enjoy it!

hi i think you shod be able to be visited by a fellow blacksmith who can give you items if he had too much or ask for items if he was missing items

(items like ingots, maybe like a short blade, hammer head, grips and so on)

I think it need able to change control key

I am suggesting to add magical weapons. Like wooden staffs, staffs with crystal at the tip etc.

Hi! I got a suggestion. It would be really cool if you could make armour and shields. And if you could add some sort of co-op feature. What i mean by the co-op feature is that maybe 1 or 2 friends could join and have their own shop on the other side of the road or something. Maybe it would be cool if you could purchase material to expand you shop with better ovens, more shelves, mannequins, better hammers and other equipment to use. Maybe add some co-workers as well? They would have to cost a bit of money though. Adding different stores to choose from, let's say you want to make armour, so you get an armour and shield shop. It would be so amazing!

I love this game so much and i really want to see you guys succeed!

Everyone seems excited for the possibility of forging new item types. While I agree that the item selection is currently limited, it also fits well with a game still in development. I'd suggest focusing more on the core mechanisms such as customer interaction, facilitating ease of ordering and fabricating items, and how your shop/character develop or upgrade as you play. More item types won't add much to the play time or experience currently. They'll just make it harder to create a stock of prepared items. Of course, adding items will be a necessary part of polishing the game before release. Keep up the good work, Dasius!

Some other ideas

+Conversations [Make conversation dialog with customers to improve price, waiting time, or just for some friendly chatter]

+Make customer archetypes such as a browser, questions asker, time waster, early shopper, pateint, etc

+Have multiple customers in a line up

+Customers having certain quality expectations [Such as one that wants a fancy handle or fancy blade]

+Have a hammer system that using QTE, or something like that. [Look at the papa Louie series of shop sims, or jack smiths hammer system.]

+Customer emotions [Angry when quality is bad, happy when made right or fast, upset when order denied]

+A shop rating system [The more happy your customers are, the more people will pay and more customers]

+A door ringer [Purchased in shop upgrades, would allow you to hear customers walking in while you are restocking or smelting ingots]

+Night time shoppers [Shoppers who will pay a little more, but only come at night, making sleeping not as forced as it is]

+Fatigue [The larger weapons you make the more tired you are, being more tired makes production of weaponry slower making customers upset that weapons are taking longer.]

+Passing out [Staying up too late will make you pass out, loosing daylight hours the next day]

+The ability to deny orders [I don't want to wait 120 seconds before they leave ;-;]

What about adding a clock, could be an actual clock on the wall to add immersion or a simple timer clock at the bottom/top right/left so that you know how much time theres left so you don't get confused wheter or not the day is over.

Hi there, I have a few suggestions for small Quality of Life improvements which I'll list first and some more ambitious upgrade features which I'll list later.

Quality of Life Improvements:

• On the anvil, LMB alone should cycle through designs for ONE type of weapon (blades or hammers) while you can switch weapon types quickly with Shift or Ctrl + LMB so that each hammer doesn't require cycling through blades first.
• On the anvil, all designs for 2 ingot blades should appear in the same orientation when produced. Presently, the first 2-ingot blade is 90 degrees rotated and all the other designs are consistent with each other.
• Include specific stats on the "P" character level up screen regarding current bonuses from each skill and the increase that one point would give in each skill.
• Either force polearm grips to be a separate order if any other item is in the "shopping cart" already or sort out a solution for 2+ polearm grips flinging delivery contents all over.

• Allow 3 ingots to be hammered into a block of that metal which can be sold back to the shop at a 33% loss (so you can sacrifice 1 ingot's worth to gain 2 fresh ingots from what might have been a greatsword blade/greathammer hammer)
• Allow for nearly every part of the shop to be upgraded, from the furnace (size/side-guards/speed?) to shelf size/number, to workbench size/utility (maybe high level work benches can disassemble like an anvil?) to the actual size of the shop so more customers can queue and more shelves/racks can be included. Decorations/attractions outside or fancier display cases would be great too.
• Economy: Different weapons/metals should be more/less valuable to customers on different days. Perhaps these fluctuations could be multiple day-long trends which affect the purchase price for ingots (with a few days' lag).
• Multiple item orders placed ahead of time. This is similar to a feature I love in Recettear, where a customer comes in, says they want a specific weapon/item in a specific number of days and you can accept/reject the offer. This would offer a relief from the total random chaos that is in the game now.
• Similar to the point above, have customers come in with a weapon they bought at the shop previously and they request the same weapon of a higher quality metal.
• Option to restart or skip a day (pop up menu upon clicking the bed?), especially in the alpha state due to game-breaking bugs that force you to wait out the whole day due to a stuck customer or restart a save file due to some bug.

hey i have 1 idea you can do a coop game with 1 armour shop and a weapon shop and in the final of the day the money will be divided with the 2 players sorry my english isnt very good

Multiplayer.

I really like this game, but I feel a little lonely and sometimes can't make the weapon in time, if there will be a multiplayer, I got a few suggestion:

PVP: player have to make the weapon that the system want in time, if one of the player lost a customer, then he/she is the loser.

PVE: players have to work together.

I would really want to see multiplayer will be added into the game! :D love your game bro.

Hi Dasius. Amazing game! Iv already payed for it once but i feel like i should give you more for it (i probably will).

Idea 1

Anyways, i was playing the game and i was thinking that the house i live in seems a small house. I need breathing room, a room for my forge and items a room for living in (like a living room) a kitchen, and maybe a attic for storing older weapons i made but never use. I mean i have all this money i should be able to buy upgrades for my house. Upgrades for the players house would be so cool. Although i do see some problems and troubles with this idea when i comes to upgrading the house. Another idea im getting as im writing this is maybe the player could place where his forge and work bench goes.

Idea 2

The game seems to lack action. I know the game is focused around being a blacksmith but maybe the maybe there could be events outside like people getting into fights and possibly little wars in the distance (where the player cant go to). Also if there is one war in the background there could be a higher demand for weapons giving the player more money the next day for and weapons he makes for people.

idea 3

The game could have some story to it! Well... not in the way your probably thinking. The customers could chat with you while your working. Tell the player more about themselves maybe some rumors about the area you live in, gossip about people and other stuff like that.

I love this game it gives me pretty much what I want in a blacksmith game. I love as well I can custom make spears with a great blade and a hand guard. Other then more stuff to craft the only ideas i can give are in stead of right click and hold it is right click and you hold it in your hand then right click puts it where your curser is pointing (so you can hold more then one of that item as well i think about 3 would be the max but str would give you more carry. Maybe +1 every 5 levels.) and sell bins. Like after you make the item you could right click it (if you add that.) into a selling bin that is one for each or a bin that just holds all and if the item is in there they will "see" it and buy it. You could even have it set up so at start it holds 2 or 3 of each and every 2 levels in agi will give you more slots. or both of these can have their own stats. And letting us pick what we want to sell. Like if right now we can only sell daggers or want to sell only swords we can X out the other stuff and no one will come in asking for the things you X out. (I get into a spot a lot I put a ton of money into a dagger that no one wants to buy and can not make anything else.) The only other idea I can think of is a weapon rack where if we make a weapon we really like the look of we can have it as display.

just thought of this. item bins that let you put in bars handles and so on.

Remember to Check New content From 0.0.7 Version BEFORE posting a new suggestion here

i'm a bit late with that tough lol

Might want to change the pictures in the preview for the game since the actual layout and gameplay has changed since the last update?

Dasius, does the game update by itself or not

PS you should really put this game on steam

It's so cool when a developer asks for ideas and listens. It really makes me feel like a part of the community

What about a little exploration?Where you can craft ypur own weapon and earn money extrs by killing mobs or others things?

Amazing game y like it so far I realland I'll donate you extra money as soon as possible!

Add bow

Maybe (if you interesting) New weapons style like Scythe, Morning Star, Staff, Axe.
And for the crystals perhaps they can be like magical gems each color a different element

maybe every night you have dreams of the people you sold weapons to and you fight trolls,goblins,witches,etc. so instead of just building you can fight as well!!

leather wrapping grips, players possibly can purchase different types of leather to wrap around handles

jewels in guards, players can possibly choose from, ruby, sapphire, emerald, etc to embedded into the guard for aesthetic purposes

engravings in sword blades, possible purchasable tool to engrave whatever the player pleases into whichever sword

I think if you add multiplayer to this game would be amazing and more peopole would give more attention

PS:your game is amazing

When I download the game it says that it is in version 0.71 or I type but when I install it in version 0.0.7 how to fix it

help me please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SRQ_B5s4s Puts with legend and ve has ideas at the end

Hey man ! About the crystals, what do you think about use them to help us to make some enchantments? And, for this, you can creat a new option to use our Xp, like wisdom? That would be very cool. Anyways, sorry for the bad english...still learning... And...your game is just wonderful!!

will be really funny if we just burn all the papers!!

Monsteeersss at night

I would reccommend an element for people to ask for a certain style for their weapons down the line like it shows a picture of how they want it exactly.

It be great if we can hire workers like ones that can do the selling of items while we prepare it, and add like a cool thing in which a boss comes and players are killing it that would be awesome to see and give us a way to like upgrade stuff, expand house and all sort of other stuff and allow us to craft axes too

AXES!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I have a semi detailed idea here. You should be able to build axes. there would be 5 types of axes you can make customers.

• 1 ingot makes hatchet head
• 2 ingots makes axe head
• 3 ingots makes great axe head

• Hatchet: 1 Hatchet Head + 1 One Handed Handle
• Axe: 1 Axe Head + 1 Two Handed Handle
• Great Axe: 1 Great Axe Head + 1 Two Handed Handle
• Double Sided Axe: 2 Axe Heads + 1 Two Handed Handle
• Double Sided Great Axe: 2 Great Axe Heads + 1 Two Handed Handle

You could add something like thiefs or sometihng like that and are you planning on adding armour?