The game is nice and all but i'm that type of person who doesn't know how to do most things(pickaxe,hammer,axe, and shield) and also i don't know what to press(like the circle thing that you press Z to open, it doesn't let me press any of them). So i believe that if there were a tutorial added to the beginning(you should be allowed to choose if you want to go through the tutorial or not) it would be easier for most people to play and that would help people understand what to do and how to do it.

I think if i recall right... There's actually a (very very very) light explanation on your bedroom wallboard, as well as the small blueprint sheet on the shelf, I know those aren't 100% detailed nor 100% accurate, but they should be enough really to give an idea...

You could also use sandbox before really getting into the nit and gritty to play around with how things work....

But anyway, disregarding that.

In order to utilize the Radial menu (Z default)  - you need to heat ingots and place them on the Anvil, if done right they snap into 1 of 3 spots on the anvil.

For 1 heated ingot, Shields and Blades will light up - With 1 ingot you can make one of three (all necessary) shield parts, and a small blade (dagger/spear head)

For 2 heated ingots, All icons will light up - with 2 you can make normal blades, shield rims, small blunts, and small axes, which is to said one hand hammers (and maces which will sell like hammers) and one hand axes (hatchet, if you please) - All of these use a one hand grip
For the Blacksmith's tools, the blacksmith can actually make a 2h grip small hammer, and a 2h grip hatchet (like your everyday woodcutting ax and fire ax seen in stores and stuff) - These cannot be sold and will not make a notification of creation when completed However, The Blacksmith can equip these, if you so desire. Personally, I can't not make a 2h hatchet, its just something I always do, just seems "right"

Side-note: Dagger, or spear head, as I said earlier, Can also be affixed to a pole grip, with or without a guard - ALL BLADES of any size, ALL, can be affixed to a pole grip as well, they will all successfully create a polearm, which can be sold for accurate profit, to any customer requesting a generic polearm.

For 3 heated ingots, which will probably be the most commonly used amount - All but shields will light up.
Large blades
Large blunt
and Large axes
The Large axe has two heads, a pickax and a war axe/double sided axe/great axe/battleax, whatever.
To obtain a pickax much like any other "alternate" item, you'll hit the "completed" item more times to cycle it to the next "look" - Large axe only has the two. - Blades have many variants, but no alternate items. - Small Blunts has hammer heads and "mace"  type heads, The Blacksmith cannot use a mace head as a hammer tool, but any customer will buy it if they're requesting 'hammer'

Shield rims have many "alternates" rather than "variants" - each rim goes to a specific shield type, you'll unfortunately have to go through several heater shields in order to get to tower or round shield - there's only 1 "alternate" for tower and round, but there's like 5-7 heater Alternates, personally I just use the first heater, round, and tower versions, as its still in its early stages and not the most blacksmith friendly. - you'll rarely if ever, get a specific request for otherwise, they're usually just generic shield requests.

Shield parts are, as i said, 3 different parts and all necessary, the boss (first) the wrist enarmes and hand enarmes... or... whatever their exact names are... two grip-parts, all in all it takes 5 ingots to make one shield, if you have 5 ignots of a quality metal, It's usually best to focus on that, as shields are definitely the most profitable at 5 ingots while the next closest is 3 ingots and a pole grip or really expensive 2h

Ah. It should probably go without saying, but, 2h guards are used on great swords (Large blade/2h grip) and 1h guards are used on longswords/one hand sword - polearms can use both, but require neither.

Wood parts should be stored in raw form (logs)

That's all I can think of atm pertaining to specifically making parts.

Oh.

Wait no. Pickax is a "large" ax, It uses a 2h grip, The blacksmith can equip it with a one hand grip, but it won't be saleable unless its 2h.

yep youre right i dont even know how to otimize the items i make