Forging Aeternium Plates and Tools in BetterEnd
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Forging Aeternium plates and heavy tools in BetterEnd requires crafting dedicated smith hammers and reshaping endgame ingots on anvils before assembly. This specialized metallurgy progression replaces standard crafting grid recipes with modular smithing steps, delivering the highest defensive and mining tiers available across the outer End islands.
Crafting and Upgrading Smith Hammers
Before shaping advanced alloys, players must fabricate a smith hammer to strike hot metal:
- Early hammers are forged at crafting tables using sticks and base metals, creating the
Iron Smith Hammer, 
Golden Smith Hammer, or 
Diamond Smith Hammer. - Upgrading to high-tier hammers utilizes smithing templates. Placing a Diamond Smith Hammer with a
Netherite Ingot produces the 
Netherite Smith Hammer. - Dimensional metals yield specialized variants: combining a smithing template, a stick, and a
Thallasium Block yields a 
Thallasium Hammer, while using a 
Terminite Block produces a 
Terminite Smith Hammer. - At the pinnacle of craftsmanship, assembling an
Aeternium Hammer Head with a 
Leather Wrapped Stick yields the 
Aeternium Smith Hammer, possessing exceptional durability for extensive forging operations.
Hammering Ingots into Forged Plates and Tool Heads
Shaping heavy components requires placing ingots on an anvil and striking them with your smith hammer:
- Striking an
Aeternium Ingot flattens the metal into an 
Aeternium Forged Plate, the fundamental structural component for endgame armor plating. - Striking ingots also shapes dedicated implement blanks, yielding an
Aeternium Axe Head, 
Aeternium Pickaxe Head, 
Aeternium Shovel Head, 
Aeternium Hoe Head, and 
Aeternium Sword Blade. - The same hammer shaping applies to mid-tier metals, transforming a
Terminite Ingot into a 
Terminite Forged Plate or a 
Thallasium Ingot into a 
Thallasium Forged Plate.
Assembling Aeternium Armor in the Smithing Table
Aeternium armor cannot be fabricated from scratch; it requires reinforcing pre-existing terminite gear with forged plates:
- Place a
Smithing Template in the template slot of a smithing table. - Place a piece of terminite armor—such as
Terminite Helmet, 
Terminite Chestplate, 
Terminite Leggings, or 
Terminite Boots—in the base equipment slot. - Insert an Aeternium Forged Plate into the material slot.
- Finalizing the upgrade produces
Aeternium Helmet, 
Aeternium Chestplate, 
Aeternium Leggings, or 
Aeternium Boots, granting maximum armor protection, knockback resistance, and extreme durability.
Tool Construction and Upgrading to Aeternium Anvils
Completing handheld tools requires mounting forged heads onto reinforced grips:
- Combine the corresponding forged tool head with a Leather Wrapped Stick and a tool assembly Smithing Template inside the smithing table to create finished tools like the
Aeternium Axe, 
Aeternium Pickaxe, or 
Aeternium Sword. - For intensive repair operations, placing a
Terminite Anvil in a smithing table with a Smithing Template and an Aeternium Ingot forges an 
Aeternium Anvil, which provides 12 durability levels across three degradation stages—four times the longevity of a standard vanilla anvil before finally breaking.