Smithing question

[benkc 1]

I've been under the impression that the durability of a tool head made with smithing was based on how many actions were taken at the anvil, so you wanted to find the minimum number of actions necessary to fulfill all the requirements -- both the ones listed to the right, and getting the slider to line up.

But today, two things happened that made me question my understanding:

1) I made my first sword blade, and it came out with 0 damage. (I hadn't thought that was possible.)

2) In my first attempt at making a saw blade, I realized on the next-to-last hit that my guesstimated method for fulfilling the hit requirements would put me quite a bit too far to the left. I went ahead and did the last hit anyway... and got a saw blade with about 80% health.

So is it that you don't have to get the markers to line up exactly, they just need to be near-ish eachother when the requirements to the right are satisfied, and the tool durability is based on how closely they line up? Does the number of times you work the metal factor in to the durability at all, or just the slider?

[GCountach 39]

So is it that you don't have to get the markers to line up exactly, they just need to be near-ish eachother when the requirements to the right are satisfied, and the tool durability is based on how closely they line up?

Correct

Does the number of times you work the metal factor in to the durability at all, or just the slider?

Just slider

From the wiki:

You do not need to line up the arrows exactly, and for making ingots and plates, and unfinished armor, there is no consequence for missing the mark by a small margin. However, for heads of tools and weapons, and completed armor, how precise you are affects the starting durability of the finished item. This means that if you don't line up the arrows very closely, your finished chisel head may only have 90% of its total possible durability. Skill matters in smithing.

Source: http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Anvils#Working

[benkc 1]

Thanks!