The Complete Guide to Vintage Story - Part 6: Early Copper/Smelting

This is a video on finding your very first copper and making your first tools as well as producing charcoal fuel and the tongs to handle it.

If you're here for a video on finding a proper copper mine or locating Tin or Iron that is my next video in the series, which ill place here when it's out. Until then I have some other videos on Prospecting that are less polished you can watch.

Some Additional Notes on Early Copper and Smelting:

The chance of getting a copper nugget from panning sand or gravel is 1 in 6

Muddy Gravel cant be panned

You can't overpour a mold, it will always only take 100 units of metal (20 pieces)

You cant add any metal to a crucible until ALL of the metal inside is used up. It's best to only smelt multiples of 100 units so you arent left with a crucible that has like 10 or 25 units leftover

Once the metal in a crucible is smelted down, you only need to reheat it to pour it again. You don't need to wait for a progress arrow

You need to place the wooden tongs in your offhand to hold onto molten metal items like ingots and crucibles.

Ore under surface deposits is NOT always in one chunk. It's worth it to dig around some more in the area after you clear out everything visible.

There is no way to break stone without a metal tool

You cannot cool down a tool in a mold with water or anything

A shovel can harvest charcoal faster than with hands

Even though it's the cheapest easiest fuel to get, charcoal is the best fuel. Use Coal to smelt ores and stuff en masse but don't stop producing charcoal for later metal working like Steel and Iron