Bowcraft and Fletching are two aspects of a single skill used to make a variety of bows and all types of feathered ammunition. For bows that means arrows and crossbow bolts, but the fletcher also creates fukiya darts for ninjas to use with their carpenter-crafted fukiya blowguns. Kindling and the imbuing ingredient ‘Elven Fletching’ can also be made by a bowyer. Tools and Resources Everything you need can be bought from an NPC Bowyer’s shop, but that can prove costly. You will need fletching tools, those made by a GM tinker are desirable as they will have more uses than […]

There was a time when all there was to a lumberjack’s life was chopping logs for carpenters to make furniture and bowyers to make their bows and arrows. Not any more! All kinds of things can be found hiding in Britannia’s trees. The first thing to think about is your character’s attributes. Set strength as high as you can, logs are heavy. Dexterity for stamina and finally a little intelligence. A pack horse or llama is useful too, or better, a giant beetle. It matters little whether you chose an axe or a hatchet for your task; as long as […]

The Blacksmith skill allows a character to craft the items listed on this page. To craft an item you will need to use a Smith’s Hammer or Sledge Hammer. The items on this page can be sorted by item name, required skill or by the category they are located under in the crafting menu. The ‘Makers Mark’ column indicates whether the item can be marked with the makers name when crafted exceptionally by a Grandmaster Blacksmith. The ‘Retains Color’ column indicates whether the item will retain the color of the material used to craft the item. The ‘Requires Recipe’ column […]

Blacksmithing, in basic terms, is the skill with which a player can make and repair weapons, shields and metal armor, he can also make cannons, cannonballs and metal kegs for distilling! What Skills? The easiest way is to choose the pre-made Blacksmith template when you make a new character. This gives you a useful set of skills and stats to begin with. Suggested skills are: Blacksmithy; obviously Arms Lore; gives bonuses to exceptionally made items in addition to the normal Exceptional Bonus; Mining; needed for recycling/salvaging items you don’t want, as well as mining the raw material you will craft […]

Basics | Resources | Unravelling | Imbuing | Restrictions | Bonuses | Power Scrolls & Skillgain | Mysticism Imbuing is a skill that allows player characters to add resists and/or magic properties to loot or crafted items in a controlled, though limited way and to unravel magical items into the basic resources needed for such embellishment. A character who is trained in this skill has the skill title ‘Artificer’. There is also a more random, but also more powerful, option for the skilled artificer, runic reforging. Basics Imbuing requires no ‘tool’ but does require you to be close to a […]

Tinkering quests can be obtained from Anolly, Unoelil, Tholef, Tillanil, Sleen or Waelian in Heartwood. Dallid or Daneol in Sanctuary Recipes from these quests will allow you to make Craftable Magic Weapons. Rare recipes will allow you to make Craftable Artifacts Tinker quests give recipes for Alchemy, Masonry and Inscription in addition to Tinkering. The Runic Carving Knife is also obtained from these quests in error. Because of this the East stone anvil recipe is unobtainable via a quest, though it can sometimes be found in treasure chests Anolly the Bark Weaver Quest Name: The Far Eye Make: 10 Spyglasses […]

The ability to construct mechanical pets was discovered some years ago when Lord Blackthorn brought his abominable constructs to Ilshenar. Later the mage Sutek developed three further pet types and a recent discovery is the Kotl Automaton. The basic building blocks of mechanical pet construction are: a clockwork assembly and a power crystal Although crafted by characters with Tinkering skill the basic pet is not listed on the tinkering menu, Sutek’s creations and the Kotl Automaton are listed, however, under the ‘assemblies’ category. Creating them is an exhausting task, if attempting to repeat it too quickly you will be advised […]

Basket Weaving is an extension of the Tinkering skill. First you must learn how to make the baskets. To do this read the book, which can be purchased from tinker vendors in the Royal City. You will require: Decorative plants Clippers (craftable – Tinker menu under the Tools tab) Empty bottles Toxic venom sacs (from toxic slith) Wooden shafts (craft from wood using bowcrafting or buy from NPCs) Step 1: Harvest dry reeds from decorative plants. Your basket will be the color of the plant selected. Use the context menu on your clippers and choose the ‘set to cut reeds’ […]

Long looked down upon by other trades, the tinker is the essential backbone of the crafting world, supplying high quality tools to all. From scribe’s pens to miner’s shovels, from sextants to potion kegs. He is also a supreme artist crafting musical windchimes, clocks or lighting for your home from a simple lantern to an elaborate candelabra. Sought out by hunters and fighters for his ability to craft bola; weapons such as nunchaku, cleavers, skinning knives and jewelry; both basic and magical. No gargoyle’s suit is complete without a finely crafted necklace and earrings from a grandmaster tinker (suitably imbued […]