Can A Noob Make 1M Denars In 1 Year?! Bannerlord Beginner's Smithing Guide 

"We just need somebody with a pulse, they get the same treatment. Strip them down and sell everything." the most Bannerlord thing ever .

Imagine being the governor of a city and you just see this Carrot Top lookin' guy in a loincloth walk in, take up residence in one of the blacksmith forges, and not even a year later you find out he's been single-handedly outfitting most of your army and also just bought the governorship out from underneath you.

Curved blades sell for more because usually they have to be imported all the way from Hammerfall.

Strat gaming always manages to be funny while holding a straight tone

I have to say I appreciate how efficient this video is - straight to point, zero fat... Thank you, this was extremely helpful for me as a new player.

If you find a 2h sword that has a cost of 1 crude and 3 wrought iron and add a wooden pomel of 1 wood cost, when you smelt it you will receive 2 crude 2 wrought and 1 wood back. 1 Crude + 1 coal = 1 Wrought. So you never need to buy iron materials to keep grinding to unlock all tier 2. Your only cost is wood to make coal, the cheapest of the smithing materials. You can spam craft -> smelt all day long as long as you have stamina and coal.

I used your smithing guide from a while back. I got lucky and got that green two handed grip that adds stats as one of my first upgrades. Ended up with somewhere around 5 mil by the end of the first year. I then got all the best companions, outfitted us all with excellent gear, hired some troops, and set down my path to conquering the map. Much appreciated good sir! Great vids, love the hustle!

Just in case anyone wanted a money making 2 handed at a higher level, I've made a 29k 2H sword with the following. LVL 4 Heavy Saber Blade LVL 5 Knobbed Bronze Guard LVL 4 Reinforced Jewelled Two Handed Grip LVL 4 Western Lobed Pommel Takes 2 steel and 4 fine steel to make, and is the best combo I've found so far

I did not know sales price was the indicator for xp gain and part unlock chance! I still think the hardest challenge of smithing is finding towns with enough denars to buy your stuff. Making eight swords per rest cycle that sell for 33-35k each turns the game into easy mode.

Curved sword blades usually have much higher cut damage multiplier than the straight sword blades. The game picks the highest damage out of the available categories (cut, thrust, blunt, lance/brace) and disregard the other categories. So, thats why curved swords with lets say 4.0 cut multiplier sell for more than 3.6 cut + 2.1 thrust multiplier straight swords as the game will compare 4.0 vs 3.6 multiplier. Or even worse, the secondary damage component can lower the price in some cases (like a spiked mace heads). This is the case only if you go A/B method where the weapons are identical except the blade/mace head.

There's actually an even better way to make millions thrice as fast. If you start grinding for throwing axes at the start of the game, you can get an axe really early that sells for around 2.5k. Throwing axes are good because there's very few designs making it easy to get. After that, grind for javelins. A tier 5 javelin can sell for 17k, 20 if you have a perk to reduce penalities for selling smithed weapons. These recipes require more expensive materials, but you're already gonna be hunting for tribesman throwing knives which is all you'll need, and those things are like literal gold once you get going. I have trouble moving from town to town just to sell the massive amount I got, an easy 5 mil in 30 or so minutes.

Floating blades on crafted swords was a nice touch to the final release.

Somehow strat continues to make guides where he breaks the game using Talewords own rules and mechanics. Absolutely loving it

Holfy F! I am only 50 hours into campaign mode and I didnt know the "size" slider was a slider!

Just a little tip as I have done this myself. Instead of clicking the Smelt button (or whatever the button happens to be on the screen) you can spam Enter and it makes it faster.

Price of the weapon is partially related to its damage. Swing damage is always higher than thrust damage and curved swords have highest swing damage and thus sell for higher price. Not having any thrust damage and only swing damage makes them even more valuable for some reason.

Liked and subscribed because you are the FIRST RU-vidr I see that does a 10 min video AND a full walkthrough 1h video on the SAME topic. I always wondered why NOONE does this!

The quick start tip with the hogs is fantastic, and it work in Poros as well from my recent playthrough.

After downloading the game and playing for a day I had a decent army size but eventually lost all my money trying to keep it up and missions where not doing much to help my finances. I watched over 20 videos and tried them all, from get rich with horses to get rich with caravans, they didn’t work for me. This one did, I made over 40k in 2h IRL. Thank you for making such this video

I've noticed that going to various tourneys is very powerful, Noble horses that are sometimes for prizes, they're worth like 10k each, and if you get really lucky, you'll have a ton of money, and if you can actually ride them in early game, they're very good

Pretty much my strategy for making money in this game, but rolling a Brittanian is not necessary except for a minor head start. It's crazy how I've seen people claim that smithing is overrated and not the most effective money maker, claiming that battles are better. Once you get your smithing up to a certain point (with certain unlocks), it shoots past anything in the game by miles. I could buy a fief for millions of denar and make it back within minutes.

A little tip for anyone crafting a ton at one time: press "esc" after crafting something instead of clicking the button. It closes that screen and you can leave the cursor on the craft button. You can spend all of your stamina in just a few seconds.

Thanks for making this, Strat! Never thought to respec my companions at the arena, and will be doing this a LOT for all kinds of companion builds. As always, your efforts are much appreciated!

I've had Bannerlord since the month it came out and I've only logged maybe 30 hours, but I always come back to your videos because they're so entertaining. Keep up the great work man I don't even play the game as much as I want to yet you make me want to drop everything to play it some more lol.

One thing I've learned about smithing is that Javilins are my bread and butter. They're cheap to make and expensive to sell. 20-25k per jav but I'm bored of just crafting them I need something else lol

I didn't know about the tribesman daggers but the pugio is practically an infinite money glitch. I have way more high in materials than I should given the fact that I was smelting something so little

Excellent guide. I am already playing with a companion that has some smithing skill. I am gonna try your strat!

Another tip: while you're doing this, go around to every castle village in Battannia and recruit every noble line troop you can. I did a run using these exact strats about 6 months ago, and ended up with 120 battannian nobles. After leveling them up, that was 115 (lost a few) Fiann Champs. I never lost a battle. DEATH ARROW STORM

This game is my new addiction. And i'm pretty sure i've lost at least two and a half hours of sleep because of it. AWESOME game! So fun!

Used this method by also used the higher end metal left over to craft a bunch of full tier 4 swords to, sold it all winter 8 1086 have 2.04 gold left after full kitting myself and my companions. Great guide mate

This man puts in the work holy shit bro every time I see a vid you post it almost instantly hits my watch later if I can't just watch it then. Keep it up bro.

Withe the new update, i started a new empire campain, and decided to try out smithing for the first time. And now its my favorite activity haha😅

It is also possible, once you hit the phase where you get moderate returns from your swords; to buy out all javelins and smelt them down to learn the VERY FEW parts that require unlocking. This is an exceptionally rapid weapon type to max out on; with the highest tier javelin needing something like 1 iron or steel, 1 fine steel and 1 hardwood to create something that sells for >20k. A pugio/highland throwing dagger and wooden hammer is all you need to print this obscene amount of money. ~300gp for >20k gp. Make that make sense. On the plus side, you can easily make such javelin for all your companions to equip for virtually 0 cost; and they hit like a truck.

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oh my god, I was losing my shit about that graphics glitch... I legit thought that my GPU was dying. I ve spent countless hours trying to figure out if it is in fact dying or i have messed something up... Glad its just a glitch. Other than that, your vid is not just about a challenge, its a really pog guide to smithing. Lots of info i had never head of before. Keep it up!

Thanks for this video. Have many hours in this game, but have never delved into smithing. Just started a new character and am having success with this guide!

Great guide. I never paid much attention to Smithing before this. I learned a lot about it to use for a normal run though! Thanks!

for smithing i personally recommend checking the best cutting damage weapons. As i tested they give the best prices overall. So more cutting damage = more cash.

You're the go to channel for bannerlord content! keep up the good work and please release a video on best overhaul mods when you can.

I come here to watch a noob make 1 million denars in a year. I find out after 300+ hours you can smith with companions and change their perks... Your videos are legendary

Your videos are SO HELPFUL for both new and returning players. I just got a friend hooked on this game and sent him your Ultimate Guide video and he said it saved him to much time! Keep up the great work. Also, do you have any videos on the best banners to take?

Phew been smithing on the PS5 version and it has been taking ages, still only got level 1 items unlocking on 2 handed swords. Will follow this guide a bit more closely from now on.

You are a legend Strat! Subscribed because of this and the kingdom guide!

Thank you man, I've been stuck around the 10k denar range were I build up an army way to big, can't feed them or pay there wages and then I start pawning of my gear and horses to keep them around for like another week lol bannerlord is extremely different to Warband and it's taken me awhile for that to set in

Very cool guide, thx man

I always look for wooden hammers, blacksmith hammers for basic smelting materials at the start (when I'm not using your spamming guide) and pugios for better materials. Just something I was wondering, I've noticed that damage doesn't always give bigger prices, sometimes you gotta find that sweet spot with swing speed as well.

Great vid as always!

8:50 , had no idea we could reset companions perks !! thank you

I believe the reason I heard for the price difference between curved and straight blades was because the price is based off only the first damage type in the description. So, the curved blades do noticeably more thrust damage than straight blades, which comes earlier on the damage list, causing the game to read it as a more powerful weapon, thus more valuable.

Bro I have the same business suite as your character! Also this is beautiful. I have been thinking about doing something very similar. Man you make everything so clear and simple!

lol@ 1:39 just imagining him walking into town with his underwear spear and sword lmaooo...😂

This is great. I went a step further and got the infinite smithing stamina mod on the steam workshop to save time and got 1mil in like 40 minutes, had a budget of 15k already though

A shield disarm ability would be an awesome thing to see added to the game. Instead of having to literally break somebody's shield to pieces you should be able to knock it out of their hand with a forceful enough blow. or even when it's filled with javelin's or throwing axes if it became like a level zero handling item to where it's really slow to move around

another way you can get a million denars is to recruit lots of battainian archers crush all bandits and then raid all of sturgia independently there generally slow to respond cause of the snow and theres trees for battainians to hide in. Streching out a loose formation, follow me and slowly walking away means your archers are still shooting but the enemy shield wall can't catch up but if they charge there dead. f1 f6 stop archers if cav charge it will cut them down then go back to follow me. occasionally head back to pawn off the war gear and get more archers. raid villages to draw out there nobles and train up rookie bowman on militia walking though the village weakens the shield wall so they get shot. once you feel cocky start sieges the fians are great at them. Using this you can crush them while severely outnumbered meaning lots of renown. with the 2 renown battle perks i got clan tier 6 in 5 yrs and captured 4 towns before joining a kingdom and smacking them even harder though the fights can be a drag the speed up mod made it convenient and fun

btw, there's a trick to that graphic glitch. If it ever happens, turn film grain ON if it's OFF, close menu, then if it happens again, turn it back ON or toggle it, etc.

In campaign mode you start near Poros and can do the same hog slaughter for easy money straight away 😊 then head over to Battania

Awesome tips, I should've bought this game long ago. Its so much fun

You absolute legend. This was great cheers.

Try to unlock two handed polearm fully. Then use best header(which is rank 5 and the longest one) then use rank 3 pole which gives thrown option. Make those 2 option longest. It’s the highest value weapon (sth. like 33k)

Coming back after almost a year, nice to see your channel doing better and better! Keep up the good work :D Something for discussion though, at 6:01 isn't it better to get the iron maker perk? It pretty much unlocks the ability for your party to buy iron ores and get crude irons instead of heavily relying on buying weapons.

Right as I'm ready to smash that like button on this 11min banger, you give me a hour more? holy shit that's a crazy productive week you had :D

tribesman throwing daggers are in huge quantity in Aserai towns so maybe it will be worth to do some Empire and Aserai run for the daggers and then smelt them down

Lets be honest about this youtuber here. He is the gift to the mount and blade community such well made / edited videos keep it up !

I see in the comments that most people seem to ignore Two handed polearms as big money printers. The advantage they have is that they are VERY light on material. I can craft a Pilum head (1iron) on a level 3 handle which makes it throwable(1 hardwood) and sell his bad boy with the relevant perks for 11k each. compared to the 2 handed sword from the vid which sells for 13k but requires 4 times the amount of iron and even extra wrought iron its significantly cheaper to build this. Same goes for glaive and menavlion head they both consume 1 steel and 1 fine steel to get rid of higher tier crafting items. But imo the throwable pilum polearm is the best bang for buck 10k+ with perks for 1 iron is insane swords containing 3+ iron when smelted go for less than 1k in shops so you dont even have to really pick out the high tier metals to get some decent stuff

marched with the camp followers as the youth is also really cool because of the selling price of the throwing axes.

When you press "Forge" with your mouse in the smith, you can press "spacebar" instantly after. This speeds up when you refine, smelt, forge etc.

Been looking for a video like this for a while 10/10

Well I'm definitely going to try this now!

Great guide! Didn't know that price & XP roughly match, also that smelting gives more XP than crafting. I guess the exception are the smith orders. Not sure if it is just me, but in-game smithing seems too unbalanced (yet) that it feels a bit like cheating. At least the 100K javelins are gone :)

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Also crafting order are much more efficient in money per smithing material, it's easy to came by an order of 100k+ for a weapon that don't sell that much on the market. The most profitable are two hand polearm, since they usualy involve less high tier material and are equally profitable. Also crafting ordeer generate much more "discovery" on new smithing parts than ordinary free build, and are somewhat random because sometimes the client will be pleased even if the atcual weapon didn't reach full specifications.

Update: this start can be used at poros in the campaign for p much the same profit. Still a long ride north, but there are also two sheep villages nearby, it may be worth purchasing as many burden animals as possible and as few recruits as you need to avoid a herding penalty to make your way over, purchase the lot, and slaughter them immediately and carry the meat and hides to the next towns to make more profit. Haven’t tried greeding the villages like that yet, but the poros deals are still there to triple (or quadruple) your starting income… just pray there are lots of sheep.

I stock at skill level 80 because i didnt have enough skill or attribute points. But great Video! Helped me a lot

default size of the money maker parts is worth more. do the AB test for size once you get the parts you want and you will see if upscaling is worth it. also history can help quite a bit with not having to remember the parts once you find your money making combo.

Open source armoury adds a couple parts to craft. also I already set my smithing beyond learning limits by cheats to the exact number needed to Smith it without any stat downgrades or upgrades to have the raw item stat value selling prices. did the usual longest blade to still gain damage test and wrote their selling prices for each individual blade and tier and material used down to get those which really sell the most. then repeated that with every single crafting part and also ordered them by material then tier used by the selling price increase they grant to the same most efficient blade of its own tier and one up. Also the ideal swords for each tier I've noted down on a pad to just copy into the game to check if any of these parts got unlocked the last row of smelt or smithings. yes. I am a dedicated smither and I dislike to abuse it for making money but as the selling price is related to the exp gain that's the most efficient to me to know. I just want all my chars to always have the 2 perks to give attribute points in my character. to have serve as soldier mod training for attributes and focus points for battle nullifies this grind to me and I simply set smithing to 300 by cheat without gaining a single exp to lvl up by it because I simply wanna be able to Smith my own weapons..... works especially well training with companions aswell.as they have tremendous amounts of health just like the training partners

When I mass Smith, I assign my spouse as a party leader, and then I go talk to her and trade her all of my 300 swords that I’ve made, and she’ll go to the next town and sell it all and it won’t destroy the economy by depleteing them their resources, and you’ll be paid out on a daily stipend percentage of it until you’re reimbursed for all of the cost of the items that you traded to her. The nice part about doing it. That way is that you don’t have to run around downtown she can sell all of her items to the next town. She goes to, and it won’t even show up as part of the local economy the stuff that she sells or the money that she depletes from the town doesn’t come out of the towns base gold.

Great video. Very succinct

Thanks for this been looking for a guide relevant to console.

Starting from Poros you can make a decent amount money since there's always alot of hogs there on day one. If you're willing to save scum you can sometimes find a escort herd quest in the near by villages and slaughter these to. If you get caught by bandits just reload. You can do the same in Lageta and then there's two villages near Pen Cannoc with hogs and just sell them at Pen Cannoc or Marunath. By that time im usually around 14k and you're probably on day 4 or 5. If you don't wanna save scum, you can alway hire troops so you don't get attacked and ditch them later.

reminds me of the even more insane bug that used to exist where a specific type of javelin would sell for like 70k per unit, was lucky enough to stumble upon it and gained infinite money in a few minutes. Think i killed some raiders and unkowingly smelted it and gained the tier 4 part i believe, back before you had to climb 1 tier at a time

sell prise for 2H swords is based on cut dmg i think so i always do the longes handle and the heviest pomel and guard with the high cut factor blade but then again prise is based on materials and tier to

I just tried this. There's an element of RNG involved in the towns, for how many daggers spawn, wood ect... Overall though this is a very very effective guide. Nice! On another note... Winning each arena tournament as a naked bearded primitive caveman who's learning to make pointy things never gets old. I don't know why I can't control my laughter when the naked man, once again, wins.

always find myself coming back to this video

Thank you very much, thats great guide. But its really annoying that i can´t save a weapon, that i can make later the same :(

... Korrekt Bruder! Bedankt ✊🏼

now with the split of only unlocking things for one type of item, even if it is the same across several items unlocking everything to craft custom weapons is a lot more of a chore, and money making is a lot easier. i find that this was not the best option during the dev cycle and will look forward to a mod modding this back to the old way, (at least with cross unlocking, the unlocking a tier first then moving on is nice) or modding it back in myself if no one does it eventually.

your thumbnail designs are really good

There is a very easy way to determine sell price and therefore xp. Its all correlated to the damage stat of the weapon, specifically swing cut damage!

"You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords."

They way I do it is I don’t choose the 10% fine weapon perk because it will take forever to get companions to the point where they make thamaskene (idk how to spell it). There’s other ways to get tons of money smithing which many people don’t know, or at least I never found videos of the other exploits.

A very nice guide!

You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Swords.

Oh those juicy throwing daggers 😂 great video as always!

My man literally turned from rags to a literal multi-million arms dealer in just a year lol

This changed the game for me THX...

I remember accidentally finding out that high cut damage polearms sold for 100k. I thought it was a huge glitch that would get patched

Best video I seen on bannerlord, you gained a subscriber

This guide is really helpful tho. I made 1millions in 120days in my first play of bannerlord. Thank you man.

Thanks man I was worried about the tribute payments till now.

There's a tier 3 handle with hardwood that massively increases the sell price. I've also notice a x1.5 increase in sell price for 2handed polearms when using 3 hardwood for the stick instead of just 1. It's like they literally put wood ahead of thamaskene in terms of value