Crafting

Crafting is making things with your own hands. You can dig ore and smelt it into bars, forge the bars into arms and armour, turn skins into leather, fell trees and build from the timber, cut gems, fletch arrows, brew potions and cook. The artisan guilds teach most crafts, and the finest work is done in the buildings of a province.

Learning a craft

Some crafts need no guild. Anyone can skin a corpse, fletch arrows, make a bow or cook, and craftsmanship grows as you work with your hands.

The guilds teach the rest:

• Profession guilds can be paid for with profession levels, free levels you earn one of for every five ordinary levels. The Leathercrafters, Logger's Hall, Apprentice Miners, Dragonscale crafters, Expert fishers and the School of Alchemy are profession guilds.
• The Master Artisans in Vaerlon take you once you have finished Apprentice Miners, the Leathercrafters or Logger's Hall. Your rank there decides how high you can rise in the professional guilds.
• The professional guilds teach the deep crafts and are paid for with advancement points: the Professional Smiths, Professional Miners, Professional Refiners and Gemcutters in Vaerlon, and the carpentry school in Atherton, entered through the Apprentice Carpenters.

The crafts

Craft	You make	Where you work	To start	Taught by
Mining	ore, stone, coal and crystals	a province mine, with a wielded mining pick	mine <direction>	Apprentice Miners, Professional Miners
Smelting	metal bars, and alloys such as bronze and steel	the furnace of a province smeltery	smelt <metal>	Professional Refiners
Smithing	weapons, armour, tools and jewellery	the forge of a province workshop	forge <metal> following <plan>; see Forge	Professional Smiths
Gem cutting	cut gems	the cutting room of a province smeltery	use gem cutting at <stone>	Gemcutters
Leatherworking	leather armour, bags, quivers, scabbards, tents and more	your own leathercrafter's equipment, or the leatherworks of a province workshop	make <item> from <skin>	Leathercrafters
Dragonscale crafting	armour of wyvern and dragon scale	your leathercrafter's equipment, or an Advanced leatherworks	make dragonscale <item> from <scale type>	Dragonscale crafters
Logging	logs, timbers and planks	a forest, with an axe	select tree, fell <tree>, hew <log>	Logger's Hall
Carpentry	tools, chests, carts, wagons, parts for province buildings and repair kits	anywhere with your carpenter's tools; finer inside a province building	work on new <thing>, with a design	Apprentice Carpenters and the carpentry guilds
Arrows and bows	arrows, quarrels and bows	a forest, with a knife	use fletchery at <arrow>, use bowery at materials	anyone
Fishing lures	lures	an Improved or Advanced leatherworks, with a knife and a hook	use craft lure at <fish> in <location>	Expert fishers
Alchemy	potions	your alchemist's equipment	craft <recipe>	School of Alchemy
Cooking	meals and drinks	a campfire, or the hearth of a food hall or an inn	cook, cook recipe <name>	anyone
Stone and clay	stone blocks and clay for a province	a province quarry or clay pit	quarry, dig	anyone; masonry helps

In the game, help <command> explains each command, and help skill <skill> each skill.

The crafts feed each other. Miners dig the ore that refiners smelt into bars, and smiths forge the bars. A leathercrafter sets a smith's rings or plates on a hide to make ring mail or brigandine. Carpenters build the beams and scaffolding that provinces need to grow, and the repair kits that mend them.

Where to work

Guild halls are where you learn. A province building lets the same work come out finer, and the higher its tier, the finer the work. The stone forge in the Smiths' hall cannot make new pieces at all.

The province buildings are built and run by players:

• The workshop holds the forge, the leatherworks and a drafting room, and from the Improved tier a toolwrights' bench.
• The smeltery holds the furnaces. From the Improved tier it adds a polishing workshop, and the council can fit a gem-cutting room.
• The sawmill mills logs. An Improved one adds a saw pit and an Advanced one a carpentry workstation.
• Mines, quarries and clay pits supply ore, stone and clay.

Each building has three tiers: Restored, Improved and Advanced. Many benches ask for standing in the province, which you earn through missions; the smeltery and the leatherworks want Trusted standing. Province buildings describes each building.

Selling your work

• Shops buy most finished goods. Members of the Guild of Merchants can sell to other players from a booth.
• A province storehouse yard pays for stone blocks (deposit all block) and buys the carpentry parts its buildings need (sell oak beam to province, out on the storehouse lot).
• Province job boards post paid work, such as hauling stone and materials. See Province missions.

See also

• Master artisans, for the artisan guilds and how their ranks unlock each other
• Forge, for smithing step by step
• Materials
• Cooking and village life