The Bloomery is a workstation construction used to smelt low-temperature ores. It requires 50 Clay and 5 Bucket of Water to craft, and can be placed nearly anywhere in the world. It has a max temperature of 4, which keeps it to the lower-tier refining recipes — for hotter work you'll want a Furnace (temp 5) or a Metallurgic Furnace (temp 6).
Bloomeries can be filled with materials and left to smelt in a semi-AFK manner. The heat level decreases over time and must be maintained, so you'll have to come back every few minutes to manage it. See also the general Smelting guide.
Recipe
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Crafting Profession (level) | Engineering (12–25) |
| Character Development Tree | Smelting and Roasting |
| Proper Workshop | None — make in inventory |
| Materials | 50 Clay, 5 Bucket of Water |
| Recipe Acquired From | Known at Character Creation |
Running the bloomery
- Place the bloomery — it can go nearly anywhere in the world.
- Load the materials you want to smelt into the material slots.
- Add fuel — wooden logs, wooden billets or coal — to the fuel slots above.
- Click the bellows button to start processing and bring the heat up to the recipe's required temperature.
- Check back every few minutes to top up the heat, since it decays over time.
Fuel & heat
The three fuels burn to different ceilings — wood billets are the coolest, charcoal hotter, and coal the hottest. The Bloomery itself caps at temperature 4, which is why it only handles the low-temperature recipes; hotter recipes need a station that reaches a higher temperature.
Available recipes
Low-temperature recipes the bloomery can run include:
- Quicklime
- Chamotte
- Steel Bar
- Iron Lump
- Christmas Gingerbread (seasonal)
Two of the most-used outputs and what they take (ingredients only — confirm exact amounts in-game):
| Product | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Iron Lump | Wood Billets + Roasted Limonite + Quicklime + Coal + Charcoal |
| Steel Bar | Wood Billets + Iron Lump + Pyrite |
Placement bonuses
Where you set the bloomery down matters. Placing it in a Crafting District — the flat, fenced-off areas found in most nation locations and every capital city — or in a loot zone grants a speed-production bonus.
The workstation screen only shows the speed bonus from your placement location. Bonuses from leveling the Smelting and Roasting tree still apply automatically, even though they aren't displayed there.
Decay & safety
- If placed in a loot-enabled area, a bloomery can be 100% emptied by enemy nation players — your own nation can never loot it. Don't leave large amounts inside in a loot zone; see Smelting for full looting best practices.
- If placed in a guild province, the guild leader of that province can destroy it.
- It will decay after 5 days if the owner does not interact with it.
- When a bloomery decays, the materials inside are returned to you — find them in the "My Offers" tab of The Market.