Should the temperature drop when I use helve hammer?

[Vykintas]

Hey guys I have a question, after 90 hours of gameplay i finally made a helve hammer and when I used it to make bismuth plates the metal did not cool, bet when it finished it was like 200/300 degrees. But when I use iron blooms the temperature started to go down. Is that normal or the plates were bugged? Thx a lot for the response.

[LadyWYT]

Was the helve hammer under a roof, or exposed outside on a windy/rainy day? If you don't have it under cover, inclement weather will cool it down quickly. Otherwise, items being forged on it will cool down slowly, though at a slightly faster rate than they might if you're hand-forging. I presume the difference there is to account for the helve hammer being able to work a bit faster on average than the player can.

It also depends on when the forged item was last exposed to heat. Once heated, an item will stay hot for a little bit before it starts to cool off, so if it's been a little bit since it was last exposed to heat then it may have already begun to cool off by the time you start forging.