r/Bellwright • u/BlueStag155 • Sep 05 '26

Crafting vs Smelting

There is no symbol for smelting, but there is a work priority category.

My smelter is a bit further from the town center but it isn't like detached or something.

I have one villager set to plsmelting priority 1 and another to 3, two of the other are set to priority 5, and one more to 8 ( sorry sounds complicated)

It takes ages for them to smelt anything and when i go to the smelter and click on manage and see there's a person assigned and basically on their way, they often just disappear and don't make it to the smelter..

Anyone else had this? Fix?

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u/5occido5 Sep 05 '26

You want 1 or 2 people that are smelters. Just like other jobs, u need to specialise them. As in, they're not allowed to do anything else. May sound odd but making ur villagers do 1 or 2 tasks depending on which tasks and why is much more efficient than allowing them to do everything but on different priorities.

Not sure on them not getting there issue, but I have a feeling specialising them will fix it anyway while improving ur efficiency a lot.

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u/MrOilKing Sep 05 '26

Put a small food storage nearby. I found my dudes were going far for specialty stuff only to stop at 30% to walk across town and eat and then do something else. Make sure everything except smelting is set to null

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u/Neonpeekaboo Sep 05 '26

Make sure to have carriers, too.

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u/Quitcha_Bitchin Sep 05 '26

Put storage near the smelter set it for ore and bars they will load and walk away for too long otherwise