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The Armourer's craft is all about skilfully shaping metal into the various forms of protective gear. It is brother to the [[Weaponsmith]] skill and related to [[Tinkering]].

==Overview==

Crafting and repairing metal armour is performed with an ''armourers hammer'' on an ''anvil'' with smelted ''ingots''.

==Raw Materials==

===Smelting Ingots===

Ingots can be smelted from ore by a [[Mining|miner / metallurgist]] who are also required to dig the ore out of a mountain.

===Types of Ingots===

There are five types of metal ingots that can be smelted by a [[Mining|miner / metallurgist]] and then forged into armour:
*'''ordinary'''
*'''copper'''
*'''silver'''
*'''gold '''
*'''blackrock '''

Note: vampyric and venomous ingots cannot be forged into armour, these are the exclusive province of the [[Weaponsmith]].

===How to make tinted Ingots===

Blackrock ingots are made by alchemically treating the raw ore with various ingredients before it gets smelted into ingots. More on [[Alchemy|treating and alchemy]] here. 

==Crafting Items==

Use ('''u''') an armourers hammer on an anvil to craft items from available ingots in your inventory. Use a tinted armourers hammer on an anvil to craft tinted items. There is a skill premium required to craft tinted items. 

A skilled armourer can make a full set of metal armour like plate mail, helm, gauntlets, greaves and boots.  Due to the variable skill involved the armourer must make each piece separately and a novice must start with the smaller, simpler items first.

===Item List===

Here is a list of items that can be made from ingots of the appropriate type along with their minimum skill requrements: 

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="background:#f0f0f0"
| '''Item''' || '''Ingredients''' || '''Skill''' || '''Gold Skill''' || '''Copper Skill''' || '''Silver Skill''' || '''Black Rock Skill'''
|-
| '''field plate''' || 20 Ingots || 75 || || 90 || 90 || 
|-
| '''plate mail''' || 20 Ingots || 70 || || 85 || 85
|-
| '''chain mail''' || 15 Ingots || 65
|-
| '''chain boots''' || 10 Ingots || 65
|-
| '''chain gloves''' || 4 Ingots || 60
|-
| '''splintmail''' || 18 Ingots || 55
|-
| '''chain coif''' || 4 Ingots || 55
|-
| '''chain leggings''' || 6 Ingots || 55
|-
| '''plate boots''' || 6 Ingots || 50
|-
| '''ringmail''' || 15 Ingots || 45
|-
| '''gauntlets''' || 4 Ingots || 45
|-
| '''greaves''' || 8 Ingots || 40
|-
| '''scale mail''' || 16 Ingots || 35
|-
| '''horned helm''' || 6 Ingots || 35
|-
| '''full helm''' || 6 Ingots || 25
|-
| '''tower shield''' || 10 Ingots || 20
|-
| '''large shield''' || 9 Ingots || 13
|-
| '''heater shield''' || 8 Ingots || 5
|-
| '''kite shield''' || 7 Ingots || 0
|}
The Armoury skill, like most crafting skills, can be repeated with '''F11'''

===How to create tinted armourers hammers===

All of the tinted armourers hammers are made by [[Tinkering|tinkers]] from a regular ingot and a pole, tinted ingots are not required.