questions about smelting woodcutting.

[Game Killer2]

My question is, is this like UO where if I try to smelt the ore its going to take half my ore away if I fail? Whats the best way of leveling this and benifits?

Should I have someone else smelt my ore into ingots and cut my timber into logs or should I do it?

TYIA

[Kwargkh]

I do it myself as it's much more forgiving than UO was, plus I'm raising extra stats.

[Sengash]

If you fail at smelting or woodcutting you will lose the mats. If you fail at making a raft you will probably get to keep the gold at least. If you fail at smelting rarer ores you have a higher chance to get to keep the mats. With timber and iron ore though you lose it 100% of the fails.

I still think you should do it yourself as you do raise stats (at least wisdom) by crafting.