Okay, so ive done a fair bit of mining. 30 steel, 45 wrought iron and countless castiron without the deep artifice skill. My average iron ochre smelter was about 2-3 bars per smelter and blooms seems to be 4/9 getting wrought iron.
I have now purchased the deep artifice skill and ive smelted 100 ore and produced 0 cast iron bars. I burned the cast iron I had saved before getting deep artifice and got 0/9 wrought iron.
Ive talked with a few other villages and they have also made notes that deep artifice is not worth the lp.
What have you guys noted on the subject?