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

Item	Rare	Incomplete	Speed	#	Durability	#	Quality	#
Black clay dragonfly-shaped pestle	false		not very effective	5	average construction	9	exceptional	10
Black marble pestle	false		very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	well-crafted	7
Black-glittered mica clay pestle	false		not very effective	5	average construction	9	exceptional	10
Black-veined pestle	false		very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	well-crafted	7
Bulbous ceramic pestle	false		very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	well-crafted	7
Gold-glittered mica clay pestle	false		not very effective	5	average construction	9	exceptional	10
Goldstone pestle	false		very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	well-crafted	7
Granite pestle	false		very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	well-crafted	7
Green marble pestle painted with the image of a fire-breathing dragon	false		not very effective	5	average construction	9	exceptional	10
Green-veined marble pestle	false		very ineffective	4	appreciably susceptible	7	well-crafted	7
... further results

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