Taking place in a medieval Fantasy World of Funny Animals, Jacksmith the Donkey and his apprentice, Scout the Dog, work as poor blacksmiths. One day, Dudley, a mouse wizard, kidnaps Princess Liliana and sets up an army of dangerous creatures. Realizing that Jacksmith can claim a reward of money for rescuing the princess, he sets out to help local clans defeat Dudley, by building weapons.

A remake titled Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors was released on May 13, 2025 on Steam. The remake features new quality-of-life improvements, remastered graphics and new female warriors.

Jacksmith provides examples of:

• 100% Completion: You can keep travelling after defeating the big bad in hopes of finding every Epic Design blueprint, then acquiring the parts to build each of them three times while also upgrading the basic weapon schematics to gold level. And it takes a long time.
• Achievement System: The game will reward the player with some gems when reaching various objectives. Most of them are trivial, like reaching a certain region, or forging a weapon with each different metal, but some of them (like getting 100% on hammering for all weapons) aren't that easy to get.
• All Your Powers Combined: There's an achievement for attacking a single enemy with all your cannonball types at once.
• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • You can always scrap a weapon and start over if you screw up at some point, without losing any of the materials. It just wastes some time, of which you should have enough anyway.
  • You can bookmark the parts for an Epic design so you don't have to open the manual at each step of building the weapon.
  • A chest that holds the blueprint to an Epic design always also holds the materials to build it.
• Artistic License – Geology: Gold is a soft metal, yet is the second hardest metal in the game and takes a long time to melt.
• Aside Glance: The soldiers does this if you build their weapons about at 50%.
• Awesome, but Impractical: All the Epic builds provide a nifty group bonus, but they require specific parts that are scarce and only randomly available. Furthermore, they'll often use low-grade metals that may be completely outmatched by the general monster level when you find the design.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: The Plumbfeathers, Dudley, the anthropomorphic monsters.
• Big Bad: Dudley the Mouse Wizard is established as the villain from the start.
• Blacksmith Upgrade Service: Your point of view is the Blacksmith Upgrading Service, making weapons for a set amount of warriors each day. Doing tasks to forge each weapon, you are encouraged to make the best weapons you can as it affects the warriors' performance in battle afterwards, with all weapons having durability tied to quality. The better your weapons are, the more likely you are to get the treasure chest with Epic parts for the day, which can be used to make better weapons.
• Boring, but Practical: Building a weapon with exotic parts to give it elemental damage, or just more raw damage and durability, is fun, but it lasts only one battle and you can't reuse the parts which can be hard to come by. Unless you absolutely need an elemental boost, perfectly crafting a simple build with the default parts (of which you never run out) can do the job just as well.
• Breakable Weapons: As expected, the weapons durability is based on how well you crafted the weapon, and are balanced to last through the set of encounters. Adventurers that take too much damage have their weapons break, and retreat. Of interest is a healing support ability (with a red cross), which keeps the weapons intact rather than heal the adventurers.
• Butter Face: Princess Liliana. Everything about her but her face is beautiful.
• Damsel in Distress: Princess Liliana is kidnapped by Dudley.
• Disc-One Nuke: You gain access to all metals and get all basic weapon schematics before facing Dudley… at about 1 third of the game. The remaining two thirds are spent obtaining epic builds and challenging your skills, as just using the best metal available no longer always does it.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Gander is a male goose.
• Elemental Crafting: You start forging with copper, then get access to bronze, iron, steel, gold and crystal in that order. Each makes for weapons that deal more damage and last longer in battle, and with enemies leveling up low-end metals progressively become obsolete outside of Epic builds, the recipes of which require that specific metals, weapon sculpt and parts be used.
• Elemental Dragon: The first true boss battle consists of an 8-dragons marathon fight, each of them wielding a different element. A dragon then serves as the final enemy in each subsequent battle; 8 times out of 9, they are elemental.
• Elemental Powers:
  • Most enemies each hold one of the 8 elements: Water, fire, ice, stone, wind, lightning, plant, and shadow. Weapon parts can be used to increase a weapon's effectiveness against a certain element.
  • Likewise, you gain access to 3 elemental cannonballs. Fire and Lightning deal damage over time, while Ice deals immediate damage and completely freezes the enemy for a short time, potentially preventing it from attacking. Your soldiers' attacks don't destroy the ice, but a fire cannonball will melt it.
• Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors: Averted. An enemy afiliated with a given element will be more vulnerable to that same element.
• Evil Counterpart: Most enemies are a monstrous version of your own soldiers, wielding a similar weapon. There are even monstrous donkeys with hammers that mirror Jacksmith!
  • Averted with the basic enemies, which look like bees, bats, slimes, dragons… which exist by themselves and do not have a Good Counterpart.
• The Faceless: Liliana's beautiful face is never shown until the end, to reveal that she's actually ugly.
• Fake Longevity: You defeat Dudley the evil wizard and save the princess rather early in the game. The rest of it is spent traveling further, facing more and more dangerous monsters to try and find all the Epic designs… Then once you found them all, you just keep doing the same thing until you've built each of them 3 times and upgraded everything to the max.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Three of the cannonball types are associated with the respective elements: fire and lightning deal damage over time, and ice temporarily freezes them. The Updated Re-release even gives you an achievement for using all three elemental cannonballs at the same time. Longswords with a silver level boost also deal damage of all three aforementioned elements.
• Gender Flip: The remake changes the Martello Flock and the Meadowguard clans into exclusively female clans instead of the male clans from the original web game, as their designs are based on female animals and not male ones (like the Capriloch Clan and Oxdin Herd respectively). Downplayed for the Pigarius Legion and the Cluckshire Brood, who get new female warrior designs while still having males.
  • Because of this change, it is now entirely possible for all of your soldiers for the day to form an Amazon Brigade, or maybe just have The One Guy or The Smurfette Principle (or any of the other tropes applicable).
• Happily Adopted: Scout, Jacksmith's apprentice, whom he took in after he ran away from a neglectful orphanage.
• Harmless Freezing: Downplayed. The Ice cannonball can completely immobilise an enemy for a short time without killing it outright, but it still deals damage.
• Healing Shiv: Jacksmith's healing cannonballs. Justified, as it is not actually the soldiers' health that decreases, but the condition of their weapons; the "Healing cannonballs" are in fact repair kits.
• Ironic Name: Dudley the mouse is a wizard. You know whose father hated wizards and shares the same name?
• Item Crafting: The main game mechanic. You must craft weapons for the clans to use. What materials you use and how well you craft them will determine each weapon's effectiveness and durability.
• Logical Weakness: Fire and ice cannonball conflict with each other : firing the former over the latter will melt the ice instantly, while an ice cannonball will douse the flames that would otherwise last until the enemy is destroyed. This is now averted in the remake.
• Meaningful Name: Scout is Jacksmith's faithful canine companion who scouts the threats ahead.
• Nice Mice: Completely Averted with Dudley. He's an evil mouse wizard that caused all the chaos in the land.
• Nobody Can Die: Your soldiers never die, they simply retreat when their weapon breaks. More interestingly, it's very possible the monsters don't die either : they're flinged to the right of the screen when their health is depleted, but never seen dying, implying they may very well also retreat to come back in a following encounter, which would explain why you encounter the same enemies several times.
• Oh, Crap!: When a soldier notices that the weapon you made for them was poorly constructed, they will make such a face.
  • They will also do this in the remake if their weapons break during combat, alongside the other appropriate reaction.
• Prongs of Poseidon: Downplayed and inverted examples.
  • There are no sea gods, but there are water-themed enemies. If said enemy happens to wield a spear, it will be a trident.
  • You can craft trident-headed spears, which will have an inherent damage boost against water enemies.
  • Epic designs that increase everyone's damage against water enemies include a "Spear of Poseidon" gold trident, a trident-arrowheaded "Poseidon Bow" and a "Water Blade" with a trident-shaped guard.
• Punny Name: "Jacksmith" is a combination of "blacksmith," his occupation; and "jack(ass)," a male donkey.
• Random Drop Booster: Weapon parts and Epic builds that increase "luck" will in fact increase the amount of loot dropped during battles.
• Rated M for Manly: All of the Flash version's soldiers are male, while the remade Steam version is averted by introducing female soldiers.
• Save the Princess: Jacksmith's main objective is to rescue Princess Liliana.
• Set Bonus: Epic weapons are weapons created with specific parts in mind that add an additional bonus that applies to all soldiers in the party.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: King Plumpfeather's daughter, Princess Liliana, is stated to be this at first, in comparison to Plumpfeather's average look. Then it's inverted when you see Liliana's face...
• Time Management Game: The time management is simpler compared to the Papa Louie Arcade gamerias. The only critical point is having the metal forged at the right temperature, and the bonus for extra time is based on the total time to forge all weapons rather than each individual weapon.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: You can become this, provided you craft the right weapons with the best materials and/or parts available, and play well enough to get 100% on all steps.
• Updated Re-release: Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors is a version of the game released on Steam with updated graphics (including Gender Flipped warriors) as well as minor quality of life improvements.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Dragons do not die when you defeat them, they slither backwards and will likely come back another time.
• Villainous Crush: The main reason Dudley kidnapped Liliana.
• World of Funny Animals: It's a medieval world, except everyone's an animal. Unusually, they are exclusively typical farm animals such as geese, cows, pigs, sheep and donkeys, with no wild animals nor typical predators.