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Introduction

Crafting is one of the most important basic proficiencies in the game. Basically you can create everything you need, by using the correct materials and tools. There are many paths of crafting, based on different crafting skills. Some can be combined, others stand alone. With crafting you can provide yourself and others with all items the players need or want. Also it is a good way of making gold.

For more informations how to skill a crafting skill, check here: Path of Crafting

The Crafting Menu (Gump)

Once you have double-clicked your specific Crafting Tool, a menu (gump) will pop up. This is the Crafting Menu.

Main Gump

Every crafting process works with a menu that will pop up if you doubleclick your crafting tool.

Each menu has the same structure:

On the left side of the menu you can choose the category of the item you want to create. At the bottom on this side is a button to change the materials you are using: different ingots, leathers, woods, dragon scales or granites.

On the right side of the menu you select the type of item you want to craft.

Also on this side you can check some options (green colored: enabled, red colored: disabled):

Color: If you check this box, the item will retain the hue from the selected resource.

Mark: If you check this box, the created item will show your name, if it's exceptional (see below).

Unravel: If you check this box, the created item will be unraveled instantly (see below).

Smelt (Blacksmithy skill): The item will smelt back to ingots.

Enhance (Blacksmithy and Fletching skill): The item can be enhanced with a better material than it has been crafted and can get the properties of that material. The item can break!

Repair (Blacksmithy, Fletching, Tailor, Glassblowing, Tinker and Masonry skill): You can repair an item with this option. You don't materials for that! Glassblowing and Blacksmithy require a forge.

Recipes

In the main gump on the right side you can select the items you want to craft.

Click on the scroll on the right. The recipe will show you additional informations:

On the left you can see an image of the item.

On the bottom of this side you can check your success chances:

Chance: The chance you will successfully craft the item. The higher your skill the better your success chance. You can raise the chance with talismans and in houses with an industrial setting, which will give you a 5 % bonus on your skill. The Imbuing property "Craft Success Bonus" will give you additional bonus! Also tools can give you boni.

Bonus: Additional bonus you receive. Add it to your chance.

Exceptional: The chance the item will be exceptional and show your name.

On the right side at the top you will find additional informations that may be important to the crafting process.

In the middle you can check the resources (materials) you need to craft the item, also the amount of materials.

At the bottom you see the skill used in this crafting process:

Your current skill and the minimum skill needed.

MAKE NOW: Click it to create items! If you fail to create an item you lose some of the materials!

Crafting Skills

There are different skills in the game. Which skill you have to use depends on the items you want to create. Every skill needs different tools, materials and maybe additional conditions to use it properly.

List of Crafting Skills, Tools, Materials

You need different tools for each Crafting Skill. The following list will show you these and some additional informations.

Alchemy

Tools: Mortar and Pestle, Inverter (for Transmutation, check the Imbuing Guide: ImbuingGuide)

Materials: Reagents, empty bottles, Saltpeter, Sea Moss

Additional: Create potions and other strange brews to make your life easier! For Transmutation stand close to a heat source.

Blacksmithy

Tools: Smith's Hammer, Tongs

Materials: Ingots, Dragon Scales, Peerless Ingredients

Additional: Stand close to a forge and anvil to craft armor, weapons and shields!

Bow Fletching

Tools: Fletching Tools

Materials: Wood, Feathers, Peerless Ingredients

Additional: Craft different Bows, Crossbows, Arrows, Bolts and Darts!

Brewing

Tools: Brewing Kit

Materials:

Additional: This proficiency uses the Cooking Skill.

Carpentry

Tools: Dovetail Saw, Draw Knife, Frowe, Hammer, Inshave, Jointing Plane, Moulding Planes, Nails, Saw, Scorp, Smoothing Plane

Materials: Ingots, Boards

Additional: Craft furniture, containers, weapons, armor, instruments, House Add-Ons, several equipments for other skills and training dummies!

Cartography

Tools: Mapmaker's Pen

Materials: blank scrolls

Additional: Craft Maps!

Cooking

Tools: Skillet, Flour sifter

Materials: Everything a good kitchen needs!

Additional: Cook food, make Enchanted Apples, Grapes, Fruit Bowls and Magical Fish Pies!

Glassblowing

Tools: Blow Pipe

Materials: Sand

Additional: This proficiency uses the Alchemy skill. Craft Glasses, empty bottles, Glass Weapons and Decoration. Stand close to a forge and anvil.

Imbuing

Tools: Rune Chisel, Inverter

Materials: a lot of different Imbuing Materials

Additional: Enhance items with magical properties. Check here: Imbuing Guide

Inscription

Tools: Scribe's Pen

Materials: Blank scrolls, Reagents, Blank Runes

Additional: Craft Runebooks, Spellbooks, Bulk Order Books (see below), Spell Scrolls

Masonry

Tools: Mallot and Chisel

Material: Granite

Additional: Craft Decoration, furniture, stone anvils, stone armor and Rough Stones (see here: Imbuing Guide)

Tailoring

Tools: Sewing Kit

Material: Cloth, Leather

Additional: Craft Clothing, Leather Armor, Studded Armor, Bone Armor, Footware, Quivers, Anti-Air Nets

Tinkering

Tools: Tinker's Tools

Material: Ingots and more

Additional: Craft Tools for other crafting skills, Decoration, magic jewelery and much more!

Transmutation (see also: Alchemy)

Tools: Inverter

Materials: Relic Fragments, Magical Residues, Crystals of the Elements, Mana (regenerates after use!)

Additional: Turn the materials into Crystals of the Elements or crystals into another type. This proficiency uses the Alchemy and Imbuing Skill. Stand close to a soulforge. More information here: Imbuing Guide

Unravelling

Tools: Rune Chisel

Materials: Rough Stones

Additional: Imbuing Guide

Weaving

Tools: Weaver's Spool

Materials: Wool, Dyes, Flax

Additional: Craft rugs!

Tool Box

A Tool Box can store all your tools you need for crafting. You can purchase a Crafting Tool Box with Pandora Coins.

Drop the box on the ground in a house and secure it.

Using the Tool Box

If you doubleclick the box a menu will pop up. You can choose between different categories, sorted by skill. Inside of each category you will find the tools you need for the crafting skill you want to use.

Put as many tools as you want into the box by dragging them onto the box. The uses of all tools are added up. For example 10 hammers with different amounts of uses will become one hammer with the complete uses of all hammers you put into your box.

If you want to extract a tool from the box you can check the uses of every tool before extracting it. At the bottom of the menu you can type the number of uses to extract. This number cannot be higher than the max uses of the tool inside.

You can also add runic tools (see below)! They will be sorted by their types in alphabetical order.

Unravelling and Crafting

Unravelling is part of the Magical Skill Imbuing. Via Unravelling you can destroy complete items or remove single properties from an item to receive some of the
Imbuing Materials used for the (now removed) properties. You need a Rune Chisel and Rough Stones.

Fore more information check also here: Imbuing Guide

How to do

You can use the Blacksmithy and Tailoring skill to craft items and unravel them directly to get Imbuing Materials in return! The items will be destroyed in this process, instantly.

The higher the intensity of magical properties and the more properties were on the destroyed item, the more Imbuing materials you will receive in return. You receive the Imbuing Materials that are needed for these properties, up to 50%.

Use runic tools (see below) to get the wanted results.

Runic Tools

Runic Tools are special tools of high value. Some of them are very rare and expensive. You can use them to craft items with (high) magical properties. Combined with special materials (see below) you will get satisfying results. The created items (for example weapons or armor pieces) can be used for Unravelling or Imbuing, to enhance the item further for your own use or to sell it for a good pile of gold.

Obtaining Runic Tools

You receive Runic Tools for Blacksmithy and Tailoring by completing Bulk Order Deeds (see below). Fletching and Carpentry Runic Tools are received by Heartwood Quests (via Moongate: Trammel, Heartwood).

Uses

A Runic Tool comes with an amount of uses. If these uses are up, the tool will disappear. The better the quality of the tool is, the lesser the amount of uses will be.

Types of Runic Tools

There are different types of tools. The effect on items depends on these types. Experiment! The list is sorted by the quality of the tool, beginning with lowest quality.

Blacksmithy

Dull Copper Runic Hammer

Shadow Runic Hammer

Copper Runic Hammer

Bronze Runic Hammer

Gold Runic Hammer

Agapite Runic Hammer

Verite Runic Hammer

Valorite Runic Hammer (Donation)

Tailoring

Spined Leather Runic Sewing Kit

Horned Leather Runic Sewing Kit

Barbed Leather Runic Sewing Kit

Fletching (Bowcraft)

Oak Runic Fletcher's Tools

Ash Runic Fletcher's Tools

Yew Runic Fletcher's Tools

Heartwood Runic Fletcher's Tools

Special Materials

There are special materials you use with Runic Tools to get the best results like magical properties with high intensity.
For Blacksmithy these are ingots that are better than iron, for example bronze. For Tailoring these are special leathers like spined, and for
Fletching these are special types of wood, for example yew.

Special Materials: Ingots, Leather, Wood

Depending on the material you use, the results (magical properties, quality) will vary. The better the material, the better the results! You can combine these materials with Runic Tools to get different results. The list shows these materials, starting with lowest quality.

Ingots (Blacksmithy)

Iron

Dull Copper

Shadow Iron

Copper

Bronze

Gold

Agapite

Verite

Valorite

Leather (Tailoring)

Leather

Spined Leather

Horned Leather

Barbed Leather

Wood (Fletching)

Plain Wood

Oak Wood

Ash Wood

Yew Wood

Bloodwood

Heartwood

Frostwood

Bulk Order Deeds (BOD)

For the crafting skills there are Tailoring and Blacksmithy BOD's. They can be obtained from Blacksmith and Tailor NPC's (also Weaver NPC's).

Getting Bulk Order Deeds

Click the NPC and then "Bulk Order Info". A gump will show you the deed you can accept. If you accept that deed it will drop in your backpack. After max. 360 minutes you can get the next deed.

The Deed

Double-clicking the deed in your backpack will open a gump. Here you get additional information about the deed you have to complete:

Amount to make: The amount of items to make.

Item requested: The type of items to make.

Special requirements to meet: The quality and the material of the items to make.

Amount finished: The number of items already combined (see below).

Completing Bulk Order Deeds

The gump also shows you the items combined with the deed. To do that click "Combine this deed with the item requested" and target the crafted item. It will be added in the deed. You cannot extract an item after combined with the deed!

After completing your BOD go to any NPC with the matching profession (you do not have to go to the same NPC). Drag the completed BOD onto the NPC to get your reward. After turning in your filled BOD you are able to receive a new BOD without any delays.

Small and Large Bulk Order Deeds

Small BOD's work like explained before.

Large BOD's consist of an amount of small BOD's. You have to complete all small BOD's as explained and then combine them with the large deed. This means: If you receive a large BOD you have to find the matching small BOD's from the NPC's or in your storage if you were collecting BOD's before.

If you have completed the matching small BOD's you combine them with a matching large deed as you would combine items with a small deed.

Crafting Overcapped Weapons (Melee and Range)

Via crafting you can try to get weapons with property intensities (values) that go over the maximum cap you can reach by Imbuing. For this you need runic tools (see above) and any material above iron or wood. You need the Blacksmithy or Bowcrafting (Fletching) skill in order to make a specific weapon. The skill plays no other role when it comes to overcapped weapons. The same way any material that is higher than iron or regular wood has the potential to give you overcapped weapons. Which type of material you use has no effect on the outcome of your crafting process when looking for higher property intensities. Using Gold Ingots can give you a high Luck property.

The type of runic tool (see above) has an effect on said outcome. The higher the runic tool the better the results can be - but there is only a small chance of getting an overcapped weapon. Also keep in mind that using an industrial setup in your house can raise the general chances when crafting items. Also bless yourself and make sure your character has eaten enough (Create Food ftw.); you can also wear Talismans that give you a bonus in specific crafting skills you need.

Chances

The chances to get an overcapped property on a weapon are not very high - but they do exist. You may notice that sometimes it can go relatively fast, sometimes it takes a very long time til you craft a weapon with atleast one property that goes over its normal cap. Everytime you craft a weapon with a runic tool (and material above iron or wood) there is a theoretical chance that atleast one property is overcapped.

For each property a weapon has the system will check if there will be a roll (imagine it like a dice roll) for a potential property that goes over the normal cap. The chances to get this hidden dice roll for an overcap intensity depends on which property it is, but it is around 5-20%.

Example: A crafted weapon has the Property Hit Life Leech. The system will now check if there is a chance that this hit effect will have an overcapped intensity (the hidden dice roll.) If this dice roll was successful, it will now take a random value of 0 - 75% Hit life leech, instead of the normal 0 - 50% Hit life leech. (The maximum and minimum values is scaled upon the runic tool you are using.

You can raise these chances by using higher runic tools: The higher the tool the more possible properties a crafted weapon can have. So there will be more checks for a potential overcap dice roll than on weapons with less properties, made by lower runic tools. This doesn't necessarily mean that only a higher runic tool will give you overcap properties. Even the lowest tool could be successful after only a few attempts but the theoretical chance is lower than with better tools.

Runic Tools, Properties and Intensities (Blacksmithy)

The amount of properties and their intensity depends on the type of runic tool you are using to craft your weapons:

Dull Copper Runic Tool: 1-8 Properties, 20-100 Intensity

Copper Runic Tool: 2-8 Properties, 25-100 Intensity

Shadow Runic Tool: 3-8 Properties, 30-100 Intensity

Bronze Runic Tool: 4-8 Properties, 35-100 Intensity

Gold Runic Tool: 5-8 Properties, 45-100 Intensity

Agapite Runic Tools: 6-8 Properties, 55-100 Intensity

Verite Runic Tools: 7-9 Properties, 55-100 Intensity

Valorite Runic Tools: 8-10 Properties, 65-100 Intensity

When you are crafting a weapon it is possible that the intensity of a property is 0. This means there will still be a hidden check for a possible overcapped intensity for this property but if the first check failed the property will stay 0 and therefore not show up on the final weapon (therefore not taking a rune slot); it will however count as one of the possible properties the same weapon can have.

Example: A weapon made with a Shadow Runic Tool has only 2 properties although it should have a minimum of 3 properties. Reason: The weapon came with a Hit Mana Leech of 0. The check if there will be a roll for an overcap failed, so the value remains 0. While not showing on the weapon and not taking any rune slots the property is counted as one of the 3 minium properties a weapon made with a shadow tool can have.

(A list for weapons made by Bowcraft (Fletching) will follow as soon as possible!)

Properties

Any property you can put on your weapon via Imbuing or Crafting is counted as a property. These add up to the minimum and maxium number of properties on a specific weapon! Check the Imbuing Guide or the Imbuing Calculator made by Falada to check on those properties.

This means that besides Slayers, Hit Effects, HCI, DCI, SSI and Resists also the following properties are counted in the final calculation:

Use Best Weapon Skill, Mage Weapon, Lower Requirements, Durability.

By Tys

(A list of Properties and Intensities for Fletching will follow soon.)