Armourer
The Armourer's craft is all about skillfully shaping metal into the various forms of protective gear. It is brother to the Weaponsmith skill and related to Tinkering.
Contents
Overview
Crafting 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 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 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 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:
| Item | Ingredients | Ordinary | Gold | Copper | Silver | Blackrock |
| Field Plate | ingots x20 | 75 | ? | 90 | 90 | ? |
| Plate Mail | ingots x20 | 70 | ? | 85 | 85 | ? |
| Chain Mail | ingots x15 | 65 | ? | 80 | 80 | ? |
| Chain Boots | ingots x10 | 65 | ? | 80 | 80 | ? |
| Chain Gloves | ingots x4 | 60 | ? | 75 | 75 | ? |
| Splintmail | ingots x18 | 55 | ? | 70 | 70 | ? |
| Chain Coif | ingots x4 | 55 | ? | 70 | 70 | ? |
| Chain Leggings | ingots x6 | 55 | ? | 70 | 70 | ? |
| Plate Boots | ingots x6 | 50 | ? | 65 | 65 | ? |
| Ringmail | ingots x15 | 45 | ? | 60 | 60 | ? |
| Gauntlets | ingots x4 | 45 | ? | 60 | 60 | ? |
| Greaves | ingots x8 | 40 | ? | 55 | 55 | ? |
| Scale Mail | ingots x16 | 35 | ? | 50 | 50 | ? |
| Horned Helm | ingots x6 | 35 | ? | 50 | 50 | ? |
| Full Helm | ingots x6 | 25 | ? | 40 | 40 | ? |
| Tower Shield | ingots x10 | 20 | ? | 35 | 35 | ? |
| Large Shield | ingots x9 | 13 | ? | 28 | 28 | ? |
| Heater Shield | ingots x8 | 5 | ? | 20 | 20 | ? |
| Kite Shield | ingots x7 | 0 | ? | 12 | 12 | ? |
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 tinkers from a regular ingot and a pole, tinted ingots are not required.
