Electric smithy
Electric smithy
An electric-powered station for smithing non-mechanical weapons and tools.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Production
- Market Value
- 295
[Note] - Mass
- 20 kg
- HP
- 180
- Flammability
- 100%
- Path Cost
- 50 (21%)
Building
- Size
- 3 × 1
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 50%
- Terrain Affordance
- Medium
- Power
- -210 W
- Cleanliness
- -3
- Facility
- Tool cabinet
Creation
- Required Research
- Electricity, Smithing
- Skill Required
- Construction 5
- Work To Make
- 3,000 ticks (50 secs)
- Resources to make
100 + 
3- Deconstruct yield
- 50 + 1 - 2
- Destroy yield
- 25 + 0 - 1
An electric smithy is used by smiths to create neolithic and medieval weapons, low tech armor and some other items. For its wood-powered counterpart, see fueled smithy.
Acquisition
To be constructed, electric smithies require Smithing and Electricity to be researched, a Construction skill of 5, 100 Steel, 3 Components and 3,000 ticks (50 secs) of work
Summary
The electric smithy behaves exactly the same as its fueled counterpart except that it requires power to operate instead of wood. Like other production stations, a bill must be created to specify what items are to be produced and what materials may be used. Each weapon produced has a certain quality depending on the Crafting skill of the colonist (see quality for a detailed chart).
If a smithing job is interrupted for any reason the crafter will drop the piece, usually on the workbench, and it will be in an unfinished state until the crafter finishes it. A crafter cannot work on another crafter's piece. The piece will indicate the name of the crafter and how much work is remaining. The stockpile filter includes an entry for unfinished weapons which allows the player to control where they are stored.
Up to two nearby tool cabinets can be connected to a electric smithy to increase work speed.
Electric smithies have a Cleanliness value of -3.
The following items can be crafted at the electric smithy.
Analysis
Smithies primarily produce melee weapons, with pila and a few medieval armor options available. A machining table can also create simple helmets (and kid helmets
), and they are researched just after Smithing. So if you don't plan on using melee weapons, then smithies can largely be forgone.
If you are using melee, then smithies can be useful, allowing access to powerful melee weapons like longswords. With the Royalty DLC, smithies are required to create the musical instruments required for a throne room, like the harp and piano. This means that, if you weren't making melee weapons in the first place, waiting to build the smithy until you have a noble that needs said instruments to begin with.
Electric smithies cost 3 components more than a fueled smithy, but don't require constant refueling. If wood is scarce, or if you plan to use the smithy a lot, then the electric variant should be used. If electricity is unavailable, or if you only need to create a single piano, then the fueled smithy can be created instead.