Crafting

Crafting is the catch-all term for a series of new creation systems that were introduced into DragonRealms as part of the Mechanical Lore split. There are now five new crafting-specific Lore skills, each of which control three creation disciplines. While all five skills have been released, not every discipline has been released.

The CRAFT command can be used to display a range of information related to crafting, both general and specific to your character.

General Notes

Not all the disciplines have been released. Currently, the following are available:

• Alchemy
  • Remedies
• Engineering
  • Carving
  • Shaping
  • Tinkering
• Forging
  • Armorsmithing
  • Blacksmithing
  • Weaponsmithing
• Outfitting
  • Tailoring
• Enchanting
  • Artificing

Additional notes:

• Currently, only stage 1 of furniture making is released, which is limited to tables.
• Identifying who crafted an item that hasn't been marked with a maker's mark can only be done by the crafter of that item, who gets the message "You recognize this work as your own."

Timeline

• July 2010 - Carving discipline released
• January 2011 - Blacksmithing discipline released
• July 2011 - Weaponsmithing and Armorsmithing disciplines released
• January 2012 - Tailoring discipline released
• July 2013 - Remedies discipline released
• June 2015 - Shaping discipline released
• May 2016 - Tinkering discipline released
• June 2019 Artificing discipline released
• TBD Reactants discipline released
• TBD Cooking discipline released
• TBD Artistry discipline released
• TBD Jewelry Making discipline released
• TBD Binding discipline released
• TBD Invoking discipline released

Guides

The crafting skills all work on the same fundamental concepts, though each have their own quirks and mechanics. The following crafting player guides are available:

• Artificing - Enchanting Guide
• Carving - Guide to Stonecarving and The No-Nonsense Guide to Carving
• Forging - Forging guide
• Remedies - Remedies Player Guide
• Shaping - Shaping guide
• Tailoring - Tailoring player guide
• Tinkering - Tinkering guide

ANALYZE can be used on an in progress item to determine the next step, but there is no way to know in game what the syntax to start a craft is, so the following table is a quick reference for the first step of each type of craft.

Requirements for starting a craft
Craft	Material	Tools	Initial Steps
Forging	ingot	anvil hammer/mallet + tongs	put ingot on anvil pound ingot on anvil with hammer/mallet
Carving	pebble/stone/rock/boulder	chisel	carve <rock> with chisel
Carving	bone stack	bone saw	carve stack with saw
Shaping	lumber	drawknife	scrape lumber with drawknife
Tinkering	lumber	drawknife	scrape lumber with drawknife
Tailoring	cloth/leather	scissors	cut cloth/leather with scissors
Knitting	yarn	knitting needles	knit yarn with needles
Remedies	dried herb	mortar mortar + pestle	put <herb> in mortar crush <herb> in mortar with pestle
Remedies	crushed herb	bowl/jar/cauldron bowl/jar/cauldron + mixing stick	put <herb> in bowl/jar/cauldron mix <herb> in bowl/har/cauldron with mixing stick

Feedback and Bugs

A list of crafting bugs is being maintained on the crafting feedback page, to assist GMs in tracking them.

As with all DR bugs, the first thing to do is ASSIST or use BUG in-game, and/or post on the appropriate DR message board. After doing that, please use the crafting feedback page to record the bug.

Materials

For a detailed list of crafting materials and their properties, see here

• There are mining locations near Stone Clan, Dirge, Riverhaven, Therenborough, Shard, north of Raven's Point in Forfedhdar, Ain Ghazal, and Fang Cove.
• There are logging locations near Riverhaven, Ker'Leor, Dragon's Spine, Mistwood Forest, Wyvern Forest and the Darkling Wood.
• See Crafting Tools for an in depth discussion of them.

Product Quality

The final quality of an item is determined by difficulty modified by workability, with bonuses from having career/hobby, using high quality material, using high quality tools, and knowing the appropriate tech.

• Weapons receive a bonus to durability from being masterfully-crafted.

Quality Levels from High to Low
Range	Name	Ordinal
99	masterfully-crafted	12
98-95	outstanding	11
94-90	exceptional	10
89-85	superior	9
84-80	finely-crafted	8
79-70	well-crafted	7
69-60	above-average	6
59-50	about average	5
49-40	mediocre	4
39-30	below-average	3
>29	poorly-crafted	2
	dismal	1
0	practically worthless	0

Tool Crafting Speed

On tools used during the crafting process, there is also a scale for how quickly the given tool will perform the task directed. Further information on crafting tool speed can be found on the Crafting Tools page.

Speed Levels from High to Low
Name	Ordinal
tremendously effective	11
extremely effective	10
exceptionally effective	9
very effective	8
rather effective	7
sort of effective	6
not very effective	5
very ineffective	4
extremely ineffective	3
tremendously ineffective	2
completely ineffective	1

Skills, Disciplines and Techniques

• There will be 5 skills, each broken down into 3 disciplines, each with approximately 25 techniques.

Skill	Discipline	Techniques	Products	Notes
Forging skill	Blacksmithing discipline	Blacksmithing techniques	Blacksmithing products	crafting tools, smelting, metal containers, metal sundries
	Armorsmithing discipline	Armorsmithing techniques	Armorsmithing products	metal armor (including shields)
	Weaponsmithing discipline	Weaponsmithing techniques	Weaponsmithing products	metal weapons
Engineering skill	Tinkering discipline	Tinkering techniques	Tinkering products	caravans, crossbows and bolts, instruments, lockpicks, siege engines, toys, traps and locks/keys, metal imagery, metal assemblies (orlogs, sextants, wind chimes, etc.)
	Shaping discipline	Shaping techniques	Shaping products	wood: bows and arrows, decorative wear, furniture and containers, imagery, weapons and shields clay: containers and accessories, decorative wear, imagery
	Carving discipline	Carving techniques	Carving products	bone and stone: armor and shields, tools, containers, decorative wear, furniture, imagery, weapons
Outfitting skill	Jewelry Making discipline			jewelry
	Tailoring discipline	Tailoring techniques	Tailoring products	tanning, leather and cloth armor and items
	Artistry discipline			embellishment, alterations, and possibly applying barbarian warpaint
Alchemy skill	Remedies discipline	Remedies techniques	Remedies products	healing potions, salves, tinctures
	Reactants discipline			Poisons and other substances
	Cooking discipline			food and drink, stat buffs
Enchanting skill	Artificing discipline	Artificing techniques	Artificing products	founts, foci, runestones, wands, and other tools (devices that require both arcana skill and mana to use); analogous to blacksmithing's role in forging
	Binding discipline			Constellation Jewelry. Devices that require arcana skill to use, but not mana.
	Invoking discipline			Devices that work automatically with no use involvement.

• All guilds receive 3 bonus technique slots in areas selected by their guild (Note: These are currently subject to change):

Guild	Bonus #1	Bonus #2	Bonus #3
Barbarian	Weaponsmithing	Weaponsmithing	Weaponsmithing
Bard	Tinkering	Shaping	Carving
Cleric	Artificing	Binding	Invoking
Empath	Remedies	Remedies	Cooking
Moon Mage	Artificing	Binding	Invoking
Necromancer	Reactants	Reactants	Carving
Paladin	Armorsmithing	Armorsmithing	Armorsmithing
Ranger	Carving	Tailoring	Tailoring
Thief	Carving	Carving	Reactants
Trader	Blacksmithing	Blacksmithing	Artistry
Warrior Mage	Artificing	Binding	Invoking

Careers/Hobbies

Players can specialize in a discipline by choosing careers and hobbies. To choose a career or hobby, go to the appropriate crafting society, and ASK <MASTER> ABOUT CHOOSING CAREER/HOBBY <DISCIPLINE>.

Careers and hobbies can now be reset once per calendar year, but are otherwise meant to be permanent choices. As long as your character isn't under the effects of a recent warning, you can visit your local crafting trainer and ASK them ABOUT RESET. For 100 platinum Kronars, they'll take care of the paperwork necessary to wipe out all career, hobby and technique choices in one go.

A career or a hobby is NOT required to be successful at crafting. You can train any of the skills just fine without choosing a career or hobby. It is highly recommended to try out the various crafts to see if it is something you would enjoy specializing in before choosing a career or hobby.

When you choose a Career, you will automatically receive a number of technique slots equal to the number you have already gained from skill up to 12. From then on, each technique slot you earn from skill will grant you one extra technique slot up to 12. You also get a small bonus to creating items in that discipline.

When you choose a Hobby, you will receive technique slots in the same manner as if you had chosen a career except that it caps at 6 slots. You also get a tiny bonus to creating items in that discipline.

Technique slots are recalculated whenever you learn or forget a crafting technique. When you choose a hobby or career; hobby/career awarded technique slots are used first, potentially freeing up general skill awarded technique slots.

Career and Hobby Slots:

• Lore Primaries get 2 careers and 1 hobby
• Lore Secondaries get 1 career and 2 hobbies
• Lore Tertiaries get 1 career and 1 hobby.

At any time, you can check what careers & hobbies you have chosen, how many techniques you have available, etc. with the CRAFT command.

NOTE: You can never re-choose a hobby or career, short of the yearly reset, but can forget a technique by talking to a crafting instructor. It currently costs 10 25 50 platinum lirums, but is temporary while the system is getting set up - eventually it will be on some sort of timer like forgetting spells.

Techniques

With rare exception (like stamps), and unless specifically stated, techniques are not required to perform a task, but instead give a skill bonus to it. However, enhancements (tempering, reinforcing, lightening, ect.) require techniques to perform.

Technique Slots

• Up to 13 general technique slots per crafting skill are earned based on skill. These can be spent on any discipline within their respective skill.
• Careers and hobbies provide up to 12 and 6 bonus technique slots respectively and are also earned based on skill. These can only be spent within their specific discipline.
• Guilds provide 3 bonus technique slots, up to 3 within a single discipline depending on your guild, and are also earned based on skill. These too can only be spent within their specific disciplines.

Rank	Technique Slots
	General	Career	Hobby	Guild Bonus
25	1	1	1	1
50	2	2	2	2 (if applicable)
75	3	3	3	3 (if applicable)
100	4	4	4
150	5	5	5
200	6	6	6
250	7	7
300	8	8
400	9	9
500	10	10
700	11	11
900	12	12
1200	13

Syntax Help

Players can STUDY crafting society masters for help.

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT <discipline> to learn more about that crafting Discipline]

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT <career/hobby> to learn more about those]

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT CHOOSING <career/hobby> <discipline> to pick that as your own]

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT LEARNING <technique> to learn that technique]

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT FORGETTING <technique> to forget that technique]

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT TECHNIQUE <technique name> to learn more about that technique]

[You can ASK <NPC> FOR <difficulty> <discipline> WORK while holding a logbook]

[You can ASK <NPC> ABOUT MINING for instructions on how to do that]

Difficulty

See the Work order page for more information on them and their relative difficulty.

	Difficulty	Base Ranks*	With Techs*
Tier 1	Extremely Easy	25	~18
Tier 2	Very Easy	50	~36
Tier 3	Easy	100	~71
Tier 4	Simple	200	~143
Tier 5	Basic	300	~214
Tier 6	Somewhat Challenging	425	~304
Tier 7	Challenging	550	~368
Tier 8	Complicated	700	~500
Tier 9	Intricate	?	~601
Tier 10	Difficult	?	~839
Tier 11	Very Difficult	?	?
Tier 12	Extremely Difficult	N/A	?

*These ranks are for achieving mastercrafted items using average materials with approximate workability 35-40, for example High carbon steel or granite.

• NOTE: It is currently impossible to mastercraft a T12 recipe with materials below 40 workability. Even with 2100 effective forging ranks, the corresponding techniques, 99 quality tools and materials, you will fail. Kodius declined to comment further.

Workability Difficulty Multiplier

Workability works as a difficulty multiplier for the template you are attempting to craft. At 0 workability, the difficulty is increased to 200%. At 100 workability, the difficulty is reduced to 40%. The difficulty described by STUDYing a crafting book assumes a 70 quality, 50 workability material per Kodius' posts. The formula for the difficulty modifier applied to the template by workability has been reverse engineered as follows:

When workability is < 50

Multiplier = 100 + ((100 - workability) - 50) * 4)

When workability is >= 50

Multiplier = (((100 - workability) * 120 / 100) + 40)

Please see the following link for a visualization of this formula. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/hhrd0umcat

Instruction Understanding

Your understanding of the instructions shows how well you are capable of crafting an item based on your skill, technique, and career/hobby bonuses.

Barring poor tool condition and crafting errors, once you "completely understand all facets of design" you should be able to create masterfully-crafted items using 70 quality / 50 workability materials and well-crafted (store bought) tools. (This is not true as of 8-2-2020. 70 quality/80 workability materials and masterfully-crafted tools consistently got 11/12 results.)

When you can "comprehend all but several minor details" you can generally create masterfully-crafted items using 99 quality / 50 workability materials and masterfully-crafted tools.

Below is a listing of potential messages when you STUDY an instruction book:

• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and completely understand all facets of the design.
• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and comprehend all but several minor details in the text.
• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and confidently discern most of the design's minutiae.
• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and interpret many of the design's finer points.
• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and absorb a handful of the design's finer points.
• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and fail to grasp all but the simplest diagrams on the page.
• You <scan/review/peruse> the X instructions <with a glance> and quickly realize the design is far beyond your abilities.

Group Assistance

Another way to improve your success is to receive assistance from people in your group. CRAFT ASSIST will enable a small boost to the player performing the crafting actions. Up to 3 characters may assist the primary crafter. CRAFT ASSIST HELP will give an overview of the syntax to use the system.

note that this section needs further information on amount of skill bonused, duration, etc.

Work Orders

Each Society Master within the crafting halls can help you determine what items are at your skill level through the issue of a work order.

Prestige

Completing work orders will increase your prestige within that crafting discipline. Gaining sufficient prestige enables you to earn a maker mark.

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Additional Information

• Crafting Materials
• Mining
• Player crafter listings
• Crafting Player Guides