In Free Realms it's your world. You're not restricted by any class or job since you can pick whichever job you want to play and when. Last time I looked at the combat in Free Realms in a general sense. We saw that, even though it's simple, it could be fun. This time we're going to look at the production jobs of Free Realms.

First of all, let's look at the division of the jobs. Combat jobs are Archer, Brawler, Medic, Ninja, Warrior, and Wizard (a Druid is soon to be added). Production jobs are Blacksmith, Chef, and Mining. And Non-combat jobs are Card Duelist, Demolition Derby Driver, Kart Driver, Pet Trainer, and Postman. So, in this article we're looking at three of Free Realms jobs; Blacksmith, Chef, and Mining.

Since Free Realms is free-to-play some jobs require a membership to play. A membership is $4.99/month USD. Only one of the three production jobs are members' only. The Blacksmith job can only be acquired by members. Chef and Mining are open to everyone regardless of membership.

Briefly, we'll look at each of the production jobs. We'll begin with Blacksmithing. Blacksmithing is the forging of weapons in Free Realms. And you may have already guessed that Blacksmithing works side by side with Mining. Lastly, we'll look at the Chef job. All contain mini-games that require you complete basic objectives with optional extra objectives.

You can easily find quarries on your map. Nodes out in the field that contain rich gems (Free Realms Coins)are something you can happenstance upon but each ore is found primarily in certain areas. When you decide to mine a node you'll be sent into another tile matching mini-game. In this mini-game the objective is to get rid of the rock and allow the ore and gems to fall into the baskets at the bottom. Match the like-colored rock to make it disappear and eventually the ore and gem tiles will reach the bottom.

Smelting the ore is up to the miner as well and requires you to do another mini-game. Thankfully, this isn't another tile matching mini-game. Smelting is comprised of breaking the ore down with a mallet, then heating the ore up, measuring it, and then pouring into its bar mold. In smelting, speed isn't your friend, patience is however. Take your time and you'll do well. Pouring the melted ore into the mold is where you can really mess things up. Again, go slowly but not too slowly while pouring and you'll smelt with maximum efficiency. If you do badly during smelting you could wind up with only 1 finished bar. If you do well you can end up with up to 5 bars per mini-game session.