Blacksmith Hammers

[Ganoes]

Hey, I'm having a real problem finding blacksmith hammers. I doubt it's a glitch though and even after reading the other posts about this I still haven't been able to figure out how to find them. I'm at about 20k kills and haven't seen a single one... even if I missed most of them I'd probably of seen at least one right?

Someone else said it was from vendors, but I've gone to every vendor in every act on all my chars and haven't found a single one.

Someone said it was only normal gheed who had them but I checked and I didn't see anything under his Misc tab. Are they gambled? I looked there too but I didn't see any.

Sorry for the complaint I really enjoy the mod it's just annoying me to have all these runes stored up and not being able to use them.

P.S. Are there new runewords? I looked through the readme and there's a list at the end but I'm having trouble understanding it... Are they just the normal d2 lod 1.10 + 1.09 runewords or have they been changed?

Thanks very much.

[spruce68]

I just started a couple days ago, maybe 5 or 6 hours of Act 1 and have found 4 or 5.The drops seem OK, balanced very well.I think you'll find them if you keep playing, I'm in no particular hurry myself to use anything until I play the mod a while and get a handle on it. Nothing seems out of place or missing. My impression. Haven't checked the runes yet but in the read me it states the Blizzard Crafting Recipes work, and I don't swear to it, but just glancing at the runewords on the TFW Wiki, they are the same as d2 lod with some new additions.

[Hans]

There is a file that is in the zip for the mod that has recipes in it.

[Ganoes]

Well, I finally found 1 blacksmith hammer, in a2 hell. Still nobody has responded to npc's selling them, do they? I wish I had your luck spruce, I have so many runes I want to use.

I'm sorry Hans, I'm looking through all the files I have, which file has recipes other than the readme? As I said, I'm having trouble understanding the recipes in the readme. I don't particularly want to make the original d2 recipes, and I'm not sure which ones are Awakening ones, or if the original d2 recipes have been modified to fit the changed difficulty

[Myhrginoc]

There is a bug selling miscellaneous items in nightmare and Hell difficulty, when you have many weapons and armors in the game. So I took the hammers out of vendor stocklists altogether, you now have to look for them in drops.

The readme has the recipes. The readme has two sections, the first half being about Awakening, the second half a reprint of the original Ancients readme for those migrating from the original mod to this effort.

Almost all the runewords are vanilla D2 v1.10/v1.11: "All runewords present in D2/LoD v1.11 can be made, even some of the ladder-only runewords. Only those few that were not defined in the local file are missing. In addition, you can make the fury runewords from TFW: Ancients." There were not many furywords in Ancients. Those runewords marked *future* are intended to be advanced forms using attribute extractors, but the extractor system was never implemented in Ancients and I haven't worked on it yet myself. More runewords are also on the docket, especially something that uses the ski rune.

"TFW has all the original Diablo II v1.09x crafting recipes and many more developed for the Ancients mod." I listed the Blizzard recipes at the end of the Crafting section.

[Ganoes]

Right.. well damn they're impossible to find =( what a bummer, I have about 200 runes ranging from el to the new one you added and I want to use em but I can't find any socketed items, especially not good ones. Also I need a blacksmith hammer to make them eth, and.. bummer, I've also only found two anvils hah. I must be missing them or something I dunno what's going on. Guess I'll just keep plugging away.

[darklider]

here's the readme file

http://phrozenkeep.18v.biz/content/docs ... _a2p17.txt