Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Smithing is unique passive town skill compared other World 1 specialised Idleon skills. This can create confusion for new players to optimise their anvil points and how to generate the important anvil materials to craft equipment recipes.
This Idleon smithing guide includes an Archer smithing build, smithing account boosts, anvil upgrade recommendations for the best stat to level and how to reset anvil points to optimise this important account skill.
Table of Contents:
– Smithing Overview
– Anvil Points Allocation
– Archer Smithing Build
– Other Smithing Boosts
Smithing Overview
Smithing is a passive World 1 (W1) town skill with materials constantly crafted up to your anvil capacity. Crafted anvil items must be collected with the quick deposit button from the anvil in World 1 or in the Codex until a World 3 upgrade (Anvil Production Pipeline) that can automatically claim anvil materials.
These production items include Thread, Trusty Nails, Boring Brick and other materials which are unlocked at different smithing levels and increase in time taken to produce. Thread is the most experience efficient item available but players will need all materials as they progress for equipment crafting, alchemy, stamps, quests and other game mechanics.
| Anvil Material | Level Unlock | Production Required / EXP Gained |
|---|---|---|
 Thread |
1 | 100 / 6 |
 Trusty Nails |
5 | 200 / 10 |
 Boring Brick |
12 | 350 / 16 |
 Chain Link |
17 | 700 / 25 |
 Leather Hide |
25 | 1,200 / 35 |
 Pinion Spur |
30 | 2,000 / 50 |
 Lugi Bracket |
35 | 3,000 / 65 |
 Purple Screw |
43 | 4,000 / 75 |
 Thingymabob |
50 | 6,000 / 90 |
 Tangled Cords |
60 | 8,500 / 110 |
 PVC Pipe |
70 | 12,000 / 140 |
Anvil Points/Smithing Points Allocation
Anvil Points (or smithing points) increase experience, speed or capacity and are separate for each character in your account. These points can be reset by purchasing an Anvil Reset Whetstone from the World 3 shop and are given for:
- Smithing Levels
- Trading monster resources (700 max) at the anvil
- Purchasing for coins (600 max) at the anvil
The different anvil upgrade options are:
- Bonus Experience: Increases the amount of experience that is earned per item produced.
- Speed: Increases how fast items are produced at the anvil.
- Capacity: Increases the capacity of your anvil (can also be upgraded by crafting material carry capacity bags and using them on each character).
For the best stat to level in the anvil I recommend new players invest into speed as a priority to maximise items produced. This also has the benefit of increasing experience gained as you will produce more resources overall.
If your anvil is becoming full and you have already used the highest level material carry capacity bag available then starting add points into capacity until your anvil fills up in a timeframe that matches how often you collect these materials (e.g. daily).
Archer Smithing Build
The Archer is the Idleon smithing specialist with a small number of talents that boost smithing in this priority order:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Acme Anvil |
+ Anvil Points | This boost to anvil points provides more experience, speed or capacity.
Players can invest into this talent, spend the anvil points in World 1 and then reset their talents while keeping those spent anvil points (they will show as negative in the UI as shown above). This is a useful trick to optimise your anvil points early on when talent points are scarce. |
 Broken Time |
+% Production speed for town skills | An increase to production speed increases how fast your Archer classes can produce anvil materials. |
 Focused Soul |
+% EXP gain for specialised skills | With smithing levels unlocking new anvil materials boosting experience this will help you get there sooner. |
 Yea I Already Know |
After levelling up specialised skills start at % of next level based on agility | Similar to the above this lowers the total experience required for each smithing level although is less effective until later game stages when players have high agility as it scales with this stat. |
 Godly Creation |
% chance to apply a special bonus to crafted equipment | Although it sounds powerful from the talent description this is a chance to only add an additional 4 STR, AGI, WIS or LUK when crafting that is simply too small to prioritise above the other talents.
This can eventually be increased to +12 in World 2 but is still a weak talent. |
Other Smithing Boosts
These important boosts to smithing unlock with game progression to improve smithing proficiency:
| Boost | Effect | Source |
|---|---|---|
  Fire Forge & Cinder Forge Cards |
% Smithing EXP | Dropped when claiming forged bars from the forge. |
 Bob Build Guy Star Sign |
10% Town skill speed | World 1 Star Signs |
 Infinity Hammer |
Produce +1 anvil item | Gem Shop |
 Make or Break |
% Production speed | Guild Bonus |
 Anvil Stamp |
% Production speed | Stamp dropped by Copper Ore |
 Anvil Statue |
% Production speed | Statue dropped by World 2 monsters (Sandy Pot, Mimic, Crabcake, Crystal Crabal, Biggie Hours, Efaunt and Sandstone Bronze Chest) |
 Blacksmith Box |
% Smithing EXP | World 2 Post Office |
 Hammer Hammer |
% Production speed and produce +1 anvil item | World 2 Alchemy |
 Anvilnomics |
Reduce Anvil Point Cost | World 2 Alchemy |
 Godlier Creation |
Increases stat effect of Godly Creation talent from +4 to +12 | World 1 Bribes after unlocking them on World 2 Trash Island |
 Anvil Production Pipeline |
Automatically deposits all anvil production items | World 3 Construction |
