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If Illapedia proved not to work, perhaps the best way to explain things to new players is via quests. For example, a smith NPC at Galmair could give quests teaching the player: maybe sending him to the NPC in the mines to learn about mining, then asking for a few basic tools. Similarly, a glass make...

The hint about how leveling skills works helped a lot, thank you. I believe such information should be sticked (in a separate thread, together with other valuable information concerning game mechanisms.)

I'll try to make it more quantitative. I managed to advance from smithing 19 to 20 by mining about 40 coal and 40 iron ores, then smelting them to make 40 iron bars. Now, at smithing 20, I mined about 200 ores of each kind and made 200 iron bars; also made about 100 smithing tools. After all that, I...

Trying to be as self-sufficient as I can, I am working on smithing right now. It went rather well till level 20, but I seem stuck now. Excessive smelting of ores doesn't seem to help. Manufacturing lots of needles and other smithing tools doesn't seem to help as well. A higher level of smithing is d...

According to this post, Galmair is supposed to be a place ideal for blacksmithing as a "primary craft". However, as far I can tell, there is no coal mine nearby. A few players I asked ingame also verified that. So I wonder, what makes Galmair a place for smiths, if you can't even make iron...

I believe some kind of wiki, often found in many games, would be the best choice (probably the "Illapedia", which I assume doesn't exist anymore). But any kind of decent documentation will help. None wants to bother others about things that should be documented. As it is now, I am afraid a...

Greetings, dear Illarion community, I just joined the game, which I find very interesting. However, I have to say it's hard to start, mainly because I can't find any documentation. Something that will tell me what smithing skill is needed to make a hatchet, for example. Such a documentation is usual...