Enchantment Shape Guide

Portal Strategy for Solo Academy

**Introduction**
This portal setup will eliminate the tedious step of throwing your ingots over to the smithing stations and eliminates the possibility of you throwing your precious metals into the water below.

Introducing the first example of automation within smithworks!

Every step in this guide can be done PRE-GAME, meaning it can all be done before taking the first order with no time limit stress!

**Portal Locations**
These portals are rather hard to spot when you're not looking for them, despite their immense utility.

https://i.imgur.com/GPjLfhU.jpg
This highlights their location from the front desk.

https://i.imgur.com/PfpZIii.jpg
This shows where they are, the platform at the top is where the furnace is located.
The fastest way I have found to gather these is to jump from the smelter onto the big window to your left, then to jump down to the platform.

**Other Necessary Items Locations**
For this setup we will also need:
1xBarrel
1xChair

These are very easy to find and can both be seen here at spawn.
https://i.imgur.com/LOXXDv1.jpg
Note: there is only one barrel here, and any of the three chairs will work. If you need there is also a barrel on the floor under this one

**Furnace Portal Setup**
The first part to this setup will be setting up the Furnace's portal.
(You will need a barrel for this step)

To do so, place the barrel right up in front of the furnace as such:
https://i.imgur.com/LOXXDv1.jpg
Note: Tapping RMB instead of holding it will drop the barrel lightly so you can position it well.

Afterwards, place the portal you have just brought up here on top of the barrel and the furnace's "lip". It is important that the portal's edge is as close to the furnace's hit-box as possible but it must lay flat.
https://i.imgur.com/Dx8oLF1.jpg

**Smithing Area's Portal Setup**
The second step to this setup is placing the portal by the smithing area.
(You will need a chair for this step)

This is rather tedious but consistent, bear with me here.

This is the goal for the chair's setup:
https://i.imgur.com/bZetETE.jpg
Note: the direction the chair is facing is fundamental

Now this may seem impossible, yes the chair is balanced very precariously, but there's a simple lineup for it!

Grab your chair and stand as far back in the corner here as you can:
https://i.imgur.com/njLch6y.jpg

Once you are standing in this corner, turn to face the giant window opposite you and try to place your cursor on the corner of this brick:
https://i.imgur.com/CnZ9fvA.jpg
Note: Although I have not thoroughly tested it, I believe you can generally have your cursor in the blue region, if you find out anything more about this let me know in the discussion.

Finally, it's as simple as tapping RMB to drop the chair in place, if it is rotated poorly you can easily pick it up and try again.
(Remember, there is no time limit before you take the first order!)

**The Portal**
Next, we need to put the portal on top of the chair as such:
https://i.imgur.com/mzyixBi.jpg

Although this does not exactly have a lineup, it's fairly easy to pull off.

https://i.imgur.com/KbHZS1W.jpg

You generally want to stand in front of the chair like this and then drop the portal with varying amounts of power (with RMB)

Another approach is to jump straight up and tap RMB to drop the portal onto the chair as you fall.

It is very important to remember that items are not dropped at the center of your screen, instead they will be dropped exactly where you can see them off to the side.

**And you're done!**
With this all set up, when you go into your run, you can simply throw your ores into your furnace and they will guaranteed be nicely piled up for you by your smithing area!

**Why the floating chair?**
When the idea first struck me to do this portal setup I did not use the chair at first. I loaded up a run to get the new "Expert" achievements and all was going perfectly...

Until I got a hefty order.
https://i.imgur.com/nnznoiS.jpg
See, as soon as more than two or three ores were sent through the portal, they stacked up high enough to get sent back through and to be lost at the top of the furnace's platform. Although this isn't catastrophic seeing as you can hop back through the portal to grab them. It is detrimental to the flow in your run. Without the chair you cannot be 100% certain that the materials you need will be there, leaving the possibility of unnecessary backtrack and points loss in your run!

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