Phantom Blade Zero Forged Metal Locations for One-Handed Blades

Sanguine, the free one-handed sword Forge gives you at the Outpost, is upgraded with Forged Metal in Phantom Blade Zero, and Weeping Creek Valley is where the first pieces lie. Most valley pickups are open from the start, while a few wait behind the bridge barricade or the Chain Sickle’s grapple. The Weeping Creek Valley world map for Phantom Blade Zero pins every one.

Phantom Blade Zero Forged Metal guide location screenshot

A PS5 run for Map Master opened each stack from the valley to the Mandate Encampment, and the Phantom Blade Zero map hub with every checklist covers the two-handed and dual metals too. The valley’s free pickups come in small stacks, so expect the bigger piles from the Village of Lu onward.

Forged Metal Costs in Phantom Blade Zero: What Levels 1 to 10 Ask For

Forged Metal works on one-handed blades only, while two-handed weapons take Broadplate Metal and dual weapons take Twinned Metal. A level 1 to 2 upgrade is reported to cost 2 Forged Metal, 1 Solvent, and 1,080 Remnant Dust, and reaching level 3 is reported to take six metal plus three of the Solvent every main weapon uses.

The steps get steeper near the top of the tier. Levels 9 to 10 are reported to cost 8 Forged Metal, 4 Solvent, and 5,400 Dust, and Polished Forged Metal that follows level 10 takes over after that. Every five levels is reported to add a skill, so level 5 is the point to judge a new blade.

Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal in Phantom Blade Zero: Pairs, Chests, and Gated Stacks

The valley spreads its Forged Metal thin, in pairs and small piles of three or four. Most of it lies loose on porches, ledges, and corpses, with a few wooden chests along the river and the tower grounds, so a careful first sweep picks up nearly everything before Crimson Forest.

Some valley stacks need progress. The large house opens once the bridge barricade is gone, and a chest on the mountain wall needs the grapple from the Hunter’s Chain Sickle and the other Phantom Edges, so plan a return trip after The Hunt’s second fight.

Phantom Blade Zero Forged Metal in Crimson Forest and on Quick Hand Zhang’s Shelf

Crimson Forest’s stacks jump to six and eight pieces, mixing chests, corpses, and loose piles. The one most easily missed is the Mirrorwood chest, in a clearing you only reach through the southern Mirrorwood Cave Entrance, and the Crimson Forest exploration map for Phantom Blade Zero shows the route in.

Quick Hand Zhang sells a stack of 12 at 1,040 Dust each, or 12,480 to buy him out, while the valley Peddler stocks six at the same price. The Quick Hand Zhang and Peddler shelves list what else that Dust could buy, which matters early, when Remnant Dust is tight.

Phantom Blade Zero Forged Metal From the Village of Lu to the Mandate Encampment

From the Village of Lu on, single stacks reach 13 and 14 pieces. Some of the biggest are up in attics, so climb every ladder in the houses and barns off the eastern alley. The Village of Lu region map in Phantom Blade Zero places each village stack.

Pangzhen adds a stack of eight, and the Pangzhen & Mirage Estate region map for Phantom Blade Zero locates it. The Mandate Encampment region map in Phantom Blade Zero then shows stacks of 18 and 7, and the 18 alone is enough for the reported level 9 to 10 step on two blades, with metal to spare.

Buying or Waiting for Forged Metal in Phantom Blade Zero

Wait before you buy. Upgrades up to level 10 are reported to refund for free, metal and Dust included, so early Forged Metal is safe to move between blades, and the bigger stacks later make buying early a poor trade. Spend shelf Dust only when a blade you’re keeping stalls one level short.

Past level 10, refunds cost a talisman, and the Weapon Reforge Talisman for undoing upgrades is reported at 2,000 Remnant Dust. Overwhelming Force and Skill Over Strength are reported to need a level 30 weapon, so the one-handed path ends on Flawless Forged Metal for the last levels.

Name	Map Location	Details
Forged Metal x8Crimson Forest Forged Metal x8	Crimson Forest	Found along the mountain tunnel, past the three hounds and the Thief on the wooden platform.
Forged Metal x8Crimson Forest Forged Metal x8	Crimson Forest	Found inside the building by the bridge.
Forged Metal x6Crimson Forest Forged Metal x6	Crimson Forest	Six Forged Metals can be found in the wooden chest at the end of the clearing north of Mirrorwood Lóng Pillar. You can access the clearing via the southern Mirrorwood Cave Entrance.
Forged Metal x6Crimson Forest Forged Metal x6	Crimson Forest	Found in the open.
Forged Metal x14Village of Lu Forged Metal x14	Village of Lu	Found on a shelf in the attic of the house accessed via the eastern alley.
Forged Metal x6Crimson Forest Forged Metal x6	Crimson Forest	Found in front of the Esteemed Master Grave.
Forged Metal x13Village of Lu Forged Metal x13	Village of Lu	Found inside the chest on the porch of the house north of the Survivors' Courtyard Bell.
Forged Metal x13Village of Lu Forged Metal x13	Village of Lu	Found in the wooden chest next to the house.
Forged Metal x14Village of Lu Forged Metal x14	Village of Lu	Found inside the wooden chest in front of the waterfall at the end of the river valley.
Forged Metal x8Pangzhen & Mirage Estate Forged Metal x8	Pangzhen & Mirage Estate	Found in the back of the terrace in the large South Gate Bridge plaza in southern Pangzhen.
Forged Metal x3Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x3	Weeping Creek Valley	Found in the large house. It can be retrieved only after the bridge barricade is removed.
Forged Metal x18Mandate Encampment Forged Metal x18	Mandate Encampment
Forged Metal x7Mandate Encampment Forged Metal x7	Mandate Encampment
Forged Metal x14Village of Lu Forged Metal x14	Village of Lu	Found inside the wooden chest in the attic of the barn. You can reach it by climbing the ladder by the Beggar. Access to the barn is via the eastern alley south of the Covered Bridge Bell.
Forged Metal x17Mandate Encampment Forged Metal x17	Mandate Encampment
Forged Metal x18Mandate Encampment Forged Metal x18	Mandate Encampment
Forged Metal x2Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x2	Weeping Creek Valley	Found in front of a shrine on the lower ledge by the main path past the Red Thread Barrier.
Forged Metal x2Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x2	Weeping Creek Valley	Found at the end of the ravine, east of the Rustblade Pavilion Bell.
Forged Metal x2Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x2	Weeping Creek Valley	Found inside the wooden chest guarded by two Brutes north of Rustblade Pavilion.
Forged Metal x2Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x2	Weeping Creek Valley	Found on the ground in the room of the house on the northern side of the Weeping Creek Valley Outpost.
Forged Metal x2Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x2	Weeping Creek Valley	Found on the porch of the house west of The Axemaster's Holding Cell Bell.
Forged Metal x4Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x4	Weeping Creek Valley	Found next to a corpse by the path up the hill.
Forged Metal x3Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x3	Weeping Creek Valley	Found inside the wooden chest in the river north of The Axemaster's Fall Bell.
Forged Metal x2Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x2	Weeping Creek Valley	Found inside the large hole after descending the pipes of the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Furnace.
Forged Metal x3Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x3	Weeping Creek Valley	Found inside the wooden chest at the end of the path under the Waterfall Bridge Bell.
Forged Metal x6Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x6	Weeping Creek Valley	Six Forged Metals can be purchased from the Weeping Creek Valley Peddler for 1040 Remnant Dust per unit.
Forged Metal x3Weeping Creek Valley Forged Metal x3	Weeping Creek Valley	Found inside the wooden chest on the platform halfway up the mountain wall. It can be reached only after obtaining the Hunter's Chain Sickle to grapple.
Forged Metal x6Crimson Forest Forged Metal x6	Crimson Forest	Found on the corpse near the barricade.

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