Crafting Professions Guide

Crafting Profession Guide
For those who do not wish to build a career via a martial, religious, or by illegal means then perhaps a suitable path is through becoming a crafter or merchant. Often the two careers go hand in hand, and players are able to open their own shops, and sell items they make in game to other players and even random NPC's in the game. A player can certainly save themselves a lot of cost in game by finding the raw materials themselves, and cutting out cost of buying them from shops. For those who wish to gather the raw materials you will need specific skills and/or tools in order to gather obtain any given item.


 * Mining - Materials available through mining - iron ore, copper ore, silver ore, gold ore, coal ore, diamonds, topaz, rubies, sapphires, emeralds.  Required - 'excavate' skill, a mining pick


 * Farming - Materials available through farming - barley, blackberry, blueberry, corn, cotton, dillweed, fennel, flax, grapes, ginseng, peas, peppermint, potatos, rye, safflower, silverleaf (contraband), strawberry, tomatoes, wheat. Required - 'farming' skill, a hoe, seeds, a sickle.


 * Skinning - Materials available through skinning - small pelts, large pelts, sinew, scales, wings.  Required 'skin' skill, a dagger.


 * Butchering - Materials available through butchering - animal bone, venison haunches, rabbit haunches, flank of bear meat, flank of wild boar, leg of lamb.  Required - 'butchering' skill, an axe weapon.


 * Foraging - Materials available through foraging - The list is long and varied, and includes but is not limited to alder bark, belladonna, cardamom, poppy, monkshood, mugwort, rosehip, etc, etc. Required - 'forage' skill -and- areas in game that work well with the skill, such as forest, desert, moutains, plains, beach or even underground.

For those who wish to craft the raw materials into items you will need the skill, the tools, the raw materials, and one of the following three: Workbench, Forge, or item specific to the craft you are doing. The tools can generally be found at Tools of the Trade and the skills, workbenches, and forges can be located at the Merchants Guildhall.

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