Pestle

A hand held, club-like item used to crush items in a bowl-like mortar, a pestle is a crafting tool used in Alchemy and in preparing certain alchemical ingredients.

See Crafting Tools for details.

Usage

• In alchemy, it is the primary tool for certain recipes (currently only external remedies). It is used by CRUSHing an herb in a mortar with the pestle.
• In alchemy, certain herbs must be crushed before they can be used in recipes. Currently this applies to all internal herbs. This is done by CRUSHing the herb in a mortar with the pestle.

Creation and Repair

Pestles can be created using forging techniques that fall under the Blacksmithing discipline.

Likewise, their repair falls under the same skills, with standard processes for metal tool repair.

Templates

Pestles use material hardness to derive their effectiveness.
(Low carbon steel was used for the durability cap, and high carbon steel was used for speed cap.)

			Durability Cap		Speed Cap
Type	Difficulty	Weight	Durability	Speed	Durability	Speed
Store Bought	-	3	7 - appreciably susceptible	4 - very ineffective
<metal> tapered pestle	5 - Basic	1 x density	11 - rather reinforced against damage	5 - not very effective	2 - very delicate	5 - not very effective
<metal> flat pestle	07 - Challenging	1 x density	??	??	2 - very delicate	6 - sort of effective
<metal> round pestle	09 - Intricate	1 x density	??	??	3 - quite fragile	4 - very ineffective
<metal> grooved pestle	10 - Difficult	1 x density	??	??	??	??

Cap indicates the best possible score that can be reached using normal metals. It should be noted that it is not possible to reach both caps in the same item.

Variations

	Quality	Quality #	Speed	Speed #	Durability	Durability #	Rarity
Adan'f armbone pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	festival
Alabaster pestle carved in relief with ivy	masterfully-crafted	12	rather effective	7	marginally vulnerable	8	festival
Black clay dragonfly-shaped pestle	exceptional	10	not very effective	5	average construction	9	common
Black glass pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	festival
Black granite pestle flecked with deep purple alexandrite	exceptional	10	not very effective	5	average construction	9	festival
Black marble pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	common
Black marble pestle speckled with tiny silver veins	masterfully-crafted	12	rather effective	7	marginally vulnerable	8	incidental
Black-glittered mica clay pestle	exceptional	10	not very effective	5	average construction	9	common
Black-veined pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	common
Bloodstained stone pestle							festival
Blue atulave pestle etched inlaid with three tiny rivertear dragonflies	masterfully-crafted	12	rather effective	7	marginally vulnerable	8	festival
Blue ceramic pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	festival
Bone-handled blue coral pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7
Bone-handled cranberry glass pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7
Bone-handled pestle	well-crafted	7	very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7
... further results

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