Phantom Blade Zero Polished Forged Metal Locations

These stacks were gathered on PS5 for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero main weapon upgrade guides and maps cover the metals for Soul’s other blade types. Pangzhen & Mirage Estate has the real supply, including single stacks of nine and ten, bigger than any Polished Broadplate stack.

Phantom Blade Zero Polished Forged Metal and the One-Handed Upgrade Path

One-handed swords like Sanguine and Jagged Steel climb through three metals. The Forged Metal that gets a sword to level 10 ends with a reported 8 metal, 4 Solvent, and 5,400 Dust for the last step, and Polished Forged Metal picks up from there, before the Flawless Forged Metal for a sword’s final stretch takes over toward the reported level 30 cap.

Concentrated Solvent is reported to replace regular Solvent at the same point, so every Polished level needs both. The large barn helps with that, since it also has a stack of eight Concentrated Solvent for refined sword levels, which makes it a stop for metal and Solvent alike.

Polished Forged Metal in the Village of Lu: Hilltop House, Barn, and River Log

The hilltop house deserves a full search. Its western room has the Polished Forged pair, and the shrine behind the Village Auntie on its ground floor has a pair of Otherworldly Copper in the same hilltop house, so one visit covers a sword and a Martial Edge at once.

The river chest is the village’s best find, a stack of four in the wooden treasure chest beside the log that blocks the river, twice the size of the house and barn pairs, so it’s the stop to make if you only have time for one.

The Biggest Phantom Blade Zero Polished Forged Metal Stacks Are in Pangzhen

Pangzhen’s stacks mostly run three or four, with a nine and a ten among them. Each of those is bigger than any village find, and the Phantom Blade Zero Pangzhen & Mirage Estate map of the city and estate places each one, so a one-handed build should plan its big jump here.

Sweep the city before you spend. With stacks this size, saving your village pairs until Pangzhen lets you push one sword further rather than nudging two blades forward, and it spares you a reset while you settle on a favorite.

Which One-Handed Blade Deserves Phantom Blade Zero Polished Forged Metal

Jagged Steel is the strongest early one-handed pick at 240 damage, 20% more than Sanguine’s 200, and its bleed is reported to help in Lóng Pillar duels. The Fanatic’s Broken Blade from Hua Qianxiao falls between them at 228, so check the one-handed blades that take Polished Forged before you commit.

Lock in your sword before level 10. Levels under 10 are reported to refund for free, but undoing a Polished level is reported to need a Weapon Reforge Talisman for one-handed reverts, so pick once and let the Pangzhen stacks do the rest.