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.

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. If you want to reach the position of Grandmaster Armourer, be prepared to use several thousand ore.

Types of Ingots

There are seven types of metal ingots that can be smelted by a miner / metallurgist and then forged into armour:

• ordinary
• copper
• silver
• gold
• steel
• blackrock
• mithril

Note: venomous ingots cannot be forged into armour, these are the exclusive province of the Weaponsmith. Mithril can only be mined, smelted and forged by a Dwarf.

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. There is a skill premium required to craft tinted items - please see the Advanced Crafting page for more info.

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.

Armourers may also hammer certain ingots into sheets of metal for tinkers to work with.

Ingot	Sheets	Min Skill %
Brass Ingot	Brass Sheets x4	20
Silver Ingot	Silver Sheets x4	35

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	Min Skill %
Kite Shield	ingots x7	0
Heater Shield	ingots x8	2
Large Shield	ingots x9	4
Tower Shield	ingots x10	6
Full Helm	ingots x6	8
Horned Helm	ingots x6	10
Scale Mail	ingots x10	12
Gauntlets	ingots x4	14
Ringmail	ingots x10	16
Chain Leggings	ingots x6	18
Chain Coif	ingots x4	20
Plate Boots	ingots x6	22
Greaves	ingots x8	24
Splintmail	ingots x10	27
Girdle	ingots x3	30
Chain Gloves	ingots x4	33
Chain Boots	ingots x6	36
Chain Mail	ingots x10	39
Plate Mail	ingots x12	42
Field Plate	ingots x12	45
Shield spikes	ingots x1	55

Grandmaster Armourers can make a pseudo-artifact called Snakefang Grips at 100%

Item	Ingredients	Min Skill %
Snakefang Grips (venomous)	venomous ingot, ingot of defense +3, ingot of strength +10, ingot of dexterity +10, fangs x 10	100

The Armoury skill, like most crafting skills, can be repeated with F11.

Tinted Items and Magic Items

Please see the Advanced Crafting page for more info on crafting magic armour and tinted armour.