Crafting

Parts, professions and costs

How the crafts depend on each other: the parts each one makes, the three-professions limit, what a piece costs and how it trains you, and the rare finds of the high levels. For crafters planning their climb.

The parts

Part	Made by	From level	Needs	Used by
leather ×2	Tailoring or Tailoring	1	1 hides	Smithing, Tailoring, Bowyery
padding ×2	Tailoring	2	3 nettles, 1 leather	Armouring, Tailoring, Alchemy
bowstrings ×3	Bowyery	1	1 hides, 1 pine resin	Bowyery
hafts ×2	Bowyery	1	2 logs, 1 pine resin	Smithing
fine silver ×2	Jewelling	1	1 silver ore, 1 coal	Smithing, Tailoring, Jewelling
steel bars ×2	Smithing or Armouring	2	3 iron ore, 2 coal	Smithing, Armouring, Tailoring, Bowyery, Jewelling
found horseshoes ×1	Smithing	1	1 Scrap metal	-
holy nails ×1	Smithing	2	1 Iron	-
broken crankshafts ×1	Smithing	2	1 Iron, 1 Scrap metal	-
ghostly horseshoes ×1	Smithing	6	1 Iron, 1 silver ore	-
commemorative coins ×1	Jewelling	2	1 fine silver	-
charcoal water ×1	Alchemy	2	2 coal, 1 nettles	-
hanged man's nooses ×1	Tailoring	2	3 nettles, 1 leather	-

Crafters need each other

From level 5, every piece of smithing, armouring, bowyery, jewelling and carpentry, and the tailor's horse tack and noble garments, needs a part that only another craft makes: buy it from a crafter or trade for it. Its share is small - about a tenth of the piece's goods, one part at level 5, up to two at level 6 and three at level 7, more for the great pieces - and it replaces as much of the craft's own goods, so a piece costs what it did. Every one of these parts is made from level 1 or 2 of its craft. The craft window lists the part with the other goods. The game's own anvil takes it from your sack too. The cook, the apothecary and the brewer still work alone.

Craft	Needs	Made by
Smithing	leather for a sword, a dagger, a sabre or a shield (the grip, the straps); a haft for an axe, a mace, a war hammer, a flail or a polearm	Tailoring; Bowyery
Armouring	padding (the lining)	Tailoring
Tailoring	steel for horse tack, belts and spurs (buckles, bits, rings); fine silver for a noble garment (silver thread and buttons); nothing for an ordinary garment	Smithing or Armouring; Jewelling
Bowyery	steel for a crossbow, arrows and bolts (the lock, the heads); leather for a bow (the grip)	Smithing or Armouring; Tailoring
Jewelling	steel (clasps, pins and settings)	Smithing or Armouring
Carpentry	steel (nails and fittings); leather for a carpet or a cushion; nothing for a dish	Smithing or Armouring; Tailoring

The recipe tables (Every recipe) show each piece's goods as the bench takes them: that part, the rare finds of levels 8 to 10 and the armour's least cost are in (a piece of armour costs at least 15 gr. of goods and fee at level 1, 70 at level 4, 110 at level 5, 300 at level 8 and 600 at level 10: a cheap one takes more of its metal and lining). Horseshoes need no other craft's part. A noble garment is one whose name speaks of rank or finery (noble, courtier, legate, lord, knight, a coat of arms or a crest, brocade, embroidered, ornate...) or one of the dearest pieces of tailoring (level 10); every other hat, hood, coat, gambeson, shoe or glove of level 5 and up needs no other craft's part. A haft is turned by the bowyer from level 1: two logs and some pine resin make two. In the craft window a part of another craft has a blue edge and a rare find a golden one (hover for which).

Three professions a life

A character holds three professions at most: each trade worked and each craft taken counts as one, and never more than two of either - two trades and a craft, or one trade and two crafts. A craft is taken at a town hall's clerk, like a trade (its Crafts section, or /takecraft), and only a craft taken can be worked. You may take up to four crafts: the first two to pass level 3 go on to level 10 and count as professions; the others stop at level 3 and earn no more experience there until you give one up. A craft not taken stays greyed in the workbench, their recipes closed and their experience kept. To free a place, leave a trade (/quitjob) or give up a craft: /quitcraft (or the clerk, or the Give up button under the work window's Crafts tab) frees a profession and keeps all its experience for when you take it up again, after a confirmation. A character from before this rule had their best three professions taken for them at their first login (two crafts and a trade, or a craft and two trades, by the levels - a trade left out that way kept all its experience). Choose well - a faction that wants its whole kit needs a smith, an armourer, a tailor and a bowyer, and a town needs its goldsmith and brewer. The crafts are balanced to climb at about the same pace by their cheapest route, counting the goods (gathered or bought), the bench time and the fees: some 17 hours of work from level 1 to 5, some 107 from 5 to 8 and some 202 from 8 to 10. Tailoring gives less experience per piece than the others, since its nettles can be picked for free in the wild. Selling your pieces through the town supply orders makes the climb shorter: they pay back the cost and add a quarter more experience. A piece trains the craft according to its level, on each craft's own scale, and more for a heavy piece (up to two and a half times as much for a cuirass of fifty loads) than for a light one.

What the crafts cost

A piece of gear takes its level from how good it is in a fight - its protection, or the damage it deals - compared with other pieces of its kind (helmets with helmets, gauntlets with gauntlets, swords with swords): under 70% of the best of its kind, levels 1 to 3; 70 to 85%, levels 4 to 6; 85 to 95%, levels 7 and 8; the very best, levels 9 and 10. Its cost rises with that level, not with its price: the first levels are cheap and the great pieces dear, counting ingots, parts and fee. The mine's rare finds go into the rare pieces: copper ore into the middle levels, silver from level 7, a little gold ore at levels 9 and 10. Clothes, hats and jewellery, which protect nothing, keep their own level and cost according to their worth. A piece much weaker than a famous one of the same name says so in its name (open-faced, light, plain). A piece trains your craft fully only at your own level: one level below gives about a third of its experience, two levels below a tenth, and further below almost nothing (the craft window marks those pieces). Each piece gives at least 1 point; any fraction is rounded up by chance (1.3 experience gives 2 points three times in ten). Making cheap pieces far below your level is a slow way up, never a fast one. A merchant pays back a tenth of an item's worth, so crafted pieces are for wearing, trading or selling at your own stall, not for selling back to a merchant.

Rare finds in the high crafts

Every recipe of level 8, 9 or 10 asks one to three rare finds besides its goods - weapons included; never the kitchen, nor a part made only to go into another piece. Level 8 asks one, level 9 two, level 10 two or three:

Craft	Level 8	Level 9	Level 10
Smithing, armouring	1 silver nugget	2 silver nuggets	2 silver nuggets, 1 meteoric iron
Tailoring	1 river pearl	1 river pearl, 1 white wolf pelt	2 river pearls, 1 white wolf pelt
Bowyery	1 yew stave	2 yew staves	2 yew staves, 1 royal antler
Jewelling	1 rock crystal	1 rock crystal, 1 river pearl	2 rock crystals, 1 river pearl
Joinery	1 oak heartwood	1 oak heartwood, 1 amber	2 oak heartwood, 1 amber
Alchemy	1 ancient mandrake	1 ancient mandrake, 1 rock crystal	1 ancient mandrake, 1 rock crystal, 1 royal antler
Brewing	1 oak heartwood	1 amber	1 amber, 1 oak heartwood

The finds turn up now and then while the gatherers work - miners and woodcutters at a rich or normal spot, herbalists, fishers on fine work, hunters skinning a stag or a wolf: about one an hour for a steady hand, two for one who works hard. A golden card and a chime tell you; the market buys them dear and never sells them.

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