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Steel Smithing · Tech Tree

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FIND YOUR NEXT CHECK

Find the gate blocking Steel Smithing.

Check the actual technology and Jack’s active task before grinding more materials.

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YOUR NEXT STEP

What is stopping your steel progression?

Making steel equipment, obtaining steel and unlocking the factory are related but different goals.

Follow what you observe

Changing an earlier answer clears the later branch. Your observations guide the next check; they do not prove a single cause.

What is stopping your steel progression?

Making steel equipment, obtaining steel and unlocking the factory are related but different goals.

Read all possible checks
  • Steel Smithing is locked: Inspect its Jack reputation gate and the active Jack quest. Next check
  • A quest asks me to bring steel: Read the Royal Foundry objective for the steel hand-in rather than assuming you must already craft the material yourself. Next check
  • Technology unlocked, item still unavailable: Check the exact recipe, its workstation and its separate requirements. An unlocked technology alone is not proof of readiness.

Do you have an unfinished Jack quest?

Use the exact quest text; this is not a universal fastest reputation route.

Read all possible checks
  • Yes: Follow that objective and its return dialogue. The calculations and Royal Foundry hand-in are separate points in the quest chain.
  • No visible quest: Check story progress and prerequisite dialogue. Record your current quest state instead of repeatedly crafting items in the hope of gaining trust.
  • Not checked: Open the quest log and check Jack’s available dialogue before spending materials.

Where are you in the Royal Foundry hand-in?

Use the journal and carried steel count. This is a configuration-backed action segment, not a tested complete route.

Read all possible checks
  • The hand-in quest is absent: Check the Royal Foundry meeting and the Bishop’s high-quality steel conversation. That conversation opens the Jack hand-in. If it is absent, record the meeting and battle quest states; do not repeat a completed fight.
  • Quest active, steel not yet obtained: At the Royal Foundry, inspect the steel offer unlocked after the Bishop conversation and your carried inventory. The dialogue says it is sold. Verify the actual price and available stock in game; this guide does not establish either. The hand-in requires 3 steel ingots.
  • I carry at least 3 steel ingots: With Man of Steel active, bring 3 steel ingots to Jack in the Town Workshop and use the high-quality steel conversation. Check that the journal marks the steel delivered and the industrial follow-up appears. If the option is absent, recheck the active quest and carried count before spending anything else.
  • I delivered steel but progress differs: Record the completed hand-in, Jack’s reputation and the industrial follow-up. The completion configuration adds 10 reputation and starts that follow-up; it does not prove Steel Smithing or an equipment recipe is ready. Another delivery is not a verified repair.

Useful next checks

  1. Check the four separate goals

    Obtain steel: check the Foundry offer and your inventory. Deliver steel: check Jack’s active hand-in and its journal completion. Unlock Steel Smithing: inspect its own Jack reputation gate. Make equipment: inspect the exact recipe, station and inputs. Stop at the first unknown condition; completing one goal does not complete the others.

  2. I carry at least 3 steel ingots

    With Man of Steel active, bring 3 steel ingots to Jack in the Town Workshop and use the high-quality steel conversation. Check that the journal marks the steel delivered and the industrial follow-up appears. If the option is absent, recheck the active quest and carried count before spending anything else.

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Values and uses

Technology cost

120 red · 0 green · 15 blue

All listed prerequisites must be unlocked.

Direct unlocks

Unlocks buildings

  • Steel Anvil

Unlocks recipes

Additional unlock effects

  • Lantern II

Plan prerequisite costs

Purchase spends the displayed red, green and blue points; reputation is checked, not spent. The planner totals prerequisites and does not subtract technologies already owned in your game save.

Prerequisites(1)

Next unlocks(4)

Unlocks(1)

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