I checked UO.com and stratics and nowhere do I see this mentioned. It's kind of amazing that UO.com lacks information on 90% of what is in the game, but that's another story.

I'm curious where forty powder comes from. I assume it's a smithy reward, but for what bod?

I looked all over and have seen no info on this ;/

PS- OK I just noticed a thread below that talks about the forty, but I'd still like to know which bods = forty.

From what I can recall, it would be exceptional dull copper 20, and exceptional shadow iron 10 or 15. There's a chance of getting mining gloves on all of those instead, but most often you get Powder.

I asked a friend who does bods all the time and he said
'a whole bunch of diffrent ones
Ex. Dull copper 20 items bods and a bunch of shadow ore exce. bod'

A Bod is a bulk order deed. The npc smiths and tailors give bods by left clicking them and selection that option. Only npc smiths give bods that award powder of fortification. Powder of fortification is also known as Powder of Temperance.

Here's a great chart that shows which bods yield which rewards.
http://www.towerofroses.de/bods-srw.htm

That really sucks that she is closing down bodsrus, I always have gone there when doing my POF Bods, since I have a crappy memory and can never remember exactly which gives what. I found an Idoc once and found several full books and got close to 150 bods yielding the powders.. That was ALOT of DC and shadow to mine...

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!!!

bodsrus is still up and running...for how long I don't know.

his other site is http://www.vitadrakonia.com/ but there isn't much info there about bods except pricing.