Category:Crafting materials: Difference between revisions

These are the raw materials from which crafted items are constructed. As more systems are released, this section will be expanded.

Alchemy materials

Catalysts used in Alchemy can be metal, plant, bone, or even creature parts. Catalysts must be pure, player-made alloys will not work. It may also be useful to have on hand this list of Healing Herbs, which will also be used in creating the specific remedy you want.

Catalyst Properties

Metal and plant catalysts have the following properties which help determine the final product:

• Workability - The difficulty of crafting the item. Lower workability catalysts require more skill to masterfully craft than higher workability catalysts.
• Potency - Magnitude of the healing. Potency drops every time the remedy pulses and is reduced when healing multiple wounded areas.
• Efficacy - The duration for which the remedy remains in effect.
• Solubility - The amount of time in between pulses. High solubility results in shorter time between pulses.
• Toxicity - The extent to which using a remedy increases your systemic toxicity. This will build and eventually cause penalties.

For additional notes about potency, efficacy, solubility, and toxicity see catalyst properties.

Common metals

* Value is in kronars/volume, at 99 purity.

Rare metals

Common plants

Forging materials

Metals are the primary materials used in the Forging disciplines of Armorsmithing, Blacksmithing, and Weaponsmithing, but is also used in Tinkering mechanisms. Metals are found in fragment, lump, nugget, shard, and tear forms by mining or in bar, ingot, and fist forms from random creature drops, quest rewards, task rewards, and other sources.

The crafting quality of an ingot is its purity (99 quality being masterfully-crafted). The quality of a metal ingot can be reduced through mistakes in the smelting process or increased by refining.

As of DR 3.0, all metal loot drops are now fully craftable. Once a metal drop has been smelted into an ingot, it can no longer be sold to a gem appraiser.

Alloys are not mined directly. They can be obtained from loot drops in small quantities, or produced in a crucible from their component metals. In most cases, these do NOT have to be made using pure source materials (a tin-alloy ingot and a copper ingot will still mix to bronze and what ever else was in the tin-alloy ingot). You can read more about metal alloys on the Forging guide.

Metal properties

Metals have the following properties which are used by templates to make crafted items:

• Hardness affects the damage of weapons and the speed of some tools.
• Durability affects the construction of the crafted item.
• Workability modifies the difficulty of crafting the item. Lower workability metals require more skill to masterfully craft than higher workability metals.
• Electrical resistance affects the electrical protection/absorption of metal armor.
• Thermal resistance affects the fire and cold protection/absorption of metal armor as well as the speed of some tools (e.g. tongs).
• Physical resistance affects the protection of metal armor as well as the speed of some tools (e.g. pliers).
• Ductility affects the balance and power of crossbows when used to create the gear components of their mechanisms. Mechanisms created from high ductility metals will bonus the crossbow's balance. Mechanisms created from low ductility metals will greatly penalize balance, but provide a small boost to power.
• Density affects the weight of the crafted product, the absorption of metal armors, and the speed of some tools.

Common metals

*: Value is per volume, at 99 purity.

Rare metals

* Value is per volume, at 99 purity.

** Unique means the metal comes from a source such as a Quest, Auction, Contest, Treasure map, etc.

Metal sizes

Engineering materials

Engineering materials are currently stone, bone and wood.

Common stone

* Values at 99 purity.

Rare stone

Stone sizes

* Stone volume is additive. As an example, if you have a boulder (5 volume) and make it into a stirring rod (requires a 4 volume "large rock") you will be left with a pebble (1 volume).

Common bone

Rare bone

Common wood

* Value on each wood is calculated from a 99 quality piece of raw wood (stick, limb, etc) that is then processed into a 99 quality piece of lumber. Starting with a lower quality raw wood will decrease the end lumber result, even with full techniques.

Rare wood

* Value on each wood is calculated from a 99 quality piece of raw wood (stick, limb, etc) that is then processed into a 99 quality piece of lumber. Starting with a lower quality raw wood will decrease the end lumber result, even with full techniques.

Wood sizes

Outfitting materials

The primary materials for Outfitting are cloth and leathers. Cloth is woven from thread that is spun from fibers. Currently fibers are purchased or obtained from quests and other sources. Leather is obtained through the skinning, scraping, and curing of hides of animals.

Currently a Festival-only system, the Artistry Dye system is likely to fall under the Artistry Discipline, possibly with some crossover from one of the Alchemy Disciplines. You can use these dyes with any item that is currently made with the "new" crafting systems.

Common cloth

* Density depends on thickness and the values listed are for fine, thin, average, thick, and heavy cloth, respectively.

Rare cloth

* Density depends on thickness and the values listed are for fine, thin, average, thick, and heavy cloth, respectively.

Common leather