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Portable Bronze Mortar
Item Level 14Consumable
Use: Big Bronze Bomb
Sell price: 20 silver
Not sold on the Auction House
This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.
A Common Consumable, item level 14. Crafted with Portable Bronze Mortar.
Background
| Crafted | Portable Bronze Mortar | Recipe |
|---|
First seen in build 1.15.9.68940 (Classic).
Portable Bronze Mortar Effects
- Use: Big Bronze Bomb - 2s
Inflicts Fire damage and incapacitates targets in a 5 yard radius for 2 sec. Any damage will break the effect. Unreliable against targets higher than level.
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
In WoW Forever it is item level 33. In Classic Era it is item level 33. In The Burning Crusade it is item level 33. In Wrath of the Lich King it is item level 33. In MoP Classic it is item level 33.
| Version | Item level | Quality | Sells for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail (Midnight) | 14 | Common | 20s |
| WoW Forever | 33 | Common | 20s |
| Classic Era | 33 | Common | 20s |
| The Burning Crusade | 33 | Common | 20s |
| Wrath of the Lich King | 33 | Common | 20s |
| MoP Classic | 33 | Common | 20s |
Crafted By
The Classic Engineering recipe Portable Bronze Mortar takes 4 Bronze Tube, 1 Iron Strut, 4 Heavy Blasting Powder and 4 Medium Leather.
Requirements & Properties
- Requires
- Classic Engineering (165)
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
Cost to Craft: Portable Bronze Mortar
At the lowest EU listings, the reagents for one craft cost 44g 31s, and Bronze Tube is the largest share at 63%. The Classic Engineering recipe Portable Bronze Mortar is taught by Schematic: Portable Bronze Mortar. It turns yellow at Classic Engineering skill 185 and grey at 205.
| Reagent | Needed | Lowest listed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bronze Tube | 4 | 6 gold93 silver | 27 gold72 silver |
 Iron Strut | 1 | 4 gold71 silver | 4 gold71 silver |
 Heavy Blasting Powder | 4 | 69 silver | 2 gold76 silver |
 Medium Leather | 4 | 2 gold28 silver | 9 gold12 silver |
| Reagents for one craft | 44 gold31 silver | ||
What Else the Reagents Make
- Bronze Tube goes into 9 other recipes in Engineering, including Deadly Blunderbuss, Moonsight Rifle, Lovingly Crafted Boomstick and Ornate Spyglass. It is itself made by the recipe Bronze Tube.
- Iron Strut goes into 3 other recipes in Engineering: Compact Harvest Reaper Kit, Mechanical Dragonling and Advanced Target Dummy. It is itself made by the recipe Iron Strut.
- Heavy Blasting Powder goes into 13 other recipes in Engineering, including Big Iron Bomb, Goblin Land Mine, Big Bronze Bomb and Explosive Sheep. It is itself made by the recipe Heavy Blasting Powder.
- Medium Leather goes into 55 other recipes across Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Engineering and Tailoring, including Hillman's Leather Gloves, Chain Leggings, Chain Pauldrons and Dark Leather Pants. It is itself made by the recipe Medium Leather.
Prices are the lowest listed prices in the latest EU Auction House snapshot, not sales. Recipes, reagents, yields and skill levels come from the World of Warcraft client build files.
Similar Items
The 3 items nearest to Portable Bronze Mortar among Consumable > Explosives and Devices; 2 of them also come from Classic.
| Item | Item Level | Details | Lowest Listed Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portable Bronze Mortar (this item) | 14 | Crafted with Classic Engineering | Not listed |
 Explosive Sheep | 13 | Crafted with Classic Engineering | 49 silver |
 Hi-Explosive Bomb | 20 | Crafted with Classic Engineering | 8 silver |
 Explosive Decoy | 30 | Crafted with Northrend Engineering | 10 silver |
The lowest listed price among them is Hi-Explosive Bomb at 8 silver in the EU Auction House.
Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Items That Share Portable Bronze Mortar's Icon
Portable Bronze Mortar uses icon file 134535, which 5 other items also use. The 5 closest by item ID:
- Inlaid Mithril Cylinder ID 9060 · Trade Goods · item level 10 "Used by Gnomish Engineers to reinforce their creations"
- Mithril Tube ID 10559 · Trade Goods · item level 10
- Goblin Mortar ID 10577 · Armor · item level 22
- An Antique Gun ID 24283 · Miscellaneous "The name 'Lasitor' is etched into the barrel."
- Damaged A.M.O.D. Barrel ID 151208 · Quest "Slightly bent, but salvageable."
Items Numbered Next to Portable Bronze Mortar
Blizzard numbers items as they are created, so the named items next to ID 4403 (4398 to 4408) were usually added in the same batch as Portable Bronze Mortar: the same quest line, zone, vendor or reward set.
Large Seaforium Charge ID 4398 · Consumable · item level 17
Wooden Stock ID 4399 · Trade Goods · item level 10- Heavy Stock ID 4400 · Trade Goods · item level 10
Mechanical Squirrel Box ID 4401 · Miscellaneous "Teaches you how to summon this companion."
Small Flame Sac ID 4402 · Trade Goods · item level 10
Silver Contact ID 4404 · Trade Goods · item level 10
Crude Scope ID 4405 · Consumable · item level 6- Standard Scope ID 4406 · Consumable · item level 10
- Accurate Scope ID 4407 · Consumable · item level 15
Schematic: Mechanical Squirrel Box ID 4408 · Recipe "Teaches you how to make a Mechanical Squirrel Box."
Portable Bronze Mortar Client Record
The raw ItemSparse values for item 4403 in the current client build.
- Vendor buy price
- 80 silver
- Vendor sell price
- 20 silver
- Material
- Leather
- Flags
- 0 / 73728 / 0 / 16384 / 0
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files: Item, ItemSparse, Lock, Holidays, AreaTable and CollectableSourceVendor.
Portable Bronze Mortar in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Portable Bronze Mortar is in the Classic Era game data, the era World of Warcraft: Forever is built on. Blizzard describes Forever as vanilla World of Warcraft plussed up: its story sits in year one, characters level to 60 and stay there, and it launches November 4, 2026. Blizzard has not said which vanilla items appear in Forever, so nothing here is a Forever claim; it is the Classic Era record for Portable Bronze Mortar next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Portable Bronze Mortar in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Portable Bronze Mortar is a Classic Era item and Forever is built on vanilla World of Warcraft with its story set in year one and a level 60 cap, so this page tracks it. Forever launches November 4, 2026.
- Where do you get Portable Bronze Mortar in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Portable Bronze Mortar is created by Portable Bronze Mortar.
- What level is Portable Bronze Mortar in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Portable Bronze Mortar is common quality, item level 33 with no level requirement.
- What does Portable Bronze Mortar sell for to a vendor in Classic?
- A vendor pays 20s for one Portable Bronze Mortar in Classic Era.
Read next: World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4 · Forever's Professions, Legacy, Camping and Honor changes · Classic Era page for Portable Bronze Mortar
WoW Forever: what our data shows
- Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
- Build 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
- Also in the Classic Era client
- Yes - this item is in the Classic Era client's data too
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4