Board Thread:Guides/@comment-24150750-20140203170618/@comment-12648415-20140205185835

err, for me, i usually make all of these tools in sets before so i have some much-needed skills:

3 bush stumps and 10 smal leaves to make: bucket, fire-making bow, net. (basic survival tools. gets the need for water, fire, and food out of the way)

6 small tree stumps to make: three rafts (makes ship-building high enough to make sailboats, and you have extra rafts in case you're about to run out of swim)

22 small tree stumps to make: two granaries for storage, a mill, a lumbermill, and a hut, (also makes your skill high enough to make a forge and a well)

10 wheat, 2 handles and 24 small stones to make: 4 stone walls, 4 cut stone and 2 thatchings to make: a well, and save the two stone walls and other thatching for when you have iron so you can make a forge, make a flint from two cut stone, and make two stone pickaxes from the other so it's faster to get iron.)

i think by now i just go for steel accordingly and my smithing skill raises when i make two steel pickaxes, a steel axe, and a steel knife, where i then make a sword to use until i get mithril, and a gold jug if i feel like it.