crafting · items · trade
Eight professions built end to end. Each step takes the quality of its input as a floor and adds skill on top. A craft never fails to nothing.
How crafting works
At the workshop
Each trade crafts at its own workshop in town, never out in the world, and always on protected ground.
While a craft runs you cannot move, trade or take party invites. If your party leader moves, you stay behind and leave the party.
Material stays in your bag and is used only when the craft completes. Quality is rolled in that same moment, so there is nothing to cancel on.
Each recipe has its own craft time, from a few seconds up to about fifteen (placeholder). Jobs can be queued; the queue stops when your tool wears too low.
Getting started
A new character has 0 gold, and the cheapest pickaxe costs 90 (both placeholders). The road from nothing to a first tool is still a balance question.
Selling the tails of giant rats brings the first gold. Five walk Mudbury’s own streets, and more stand in the Meadows.
The Rat Plague, on the quest board in The Market Hall, pays combat experience and a little gold for clearing giant rats. The Guild of Herbalists sends you out for Thistle and on to The Brew Shop with it, for lifeskill experience and a few gold. Rewards are placeholders.
Everyone starts knowing copper ingot (two ways), copper sword, copper ring, herb soup, weak healing draught and mana draught, so any profession can begin without a guild level.
With starting Perception, herbs are hard to spot.
The eight
Walk the regions and find herbs hidden on squares. Each region holds a fixed count per kind; a picked plant regrows elsewhere in the same region after a timer.
Find a vein, start mining once and the game strikes every tick until carry weight, a broken tool, combat or a step away stops you.
Turn a nugget, or ten loose ore, into an ingot. Three copper ingots can be refined in an attempt at a higher quality. It is expensive, and not guaranteed.
Forge ingots into weapons, armour and tools, and repair gear. The more skilled the smith, the less it wears.
Make rings and amulets along three axes: metal, design and stones. Repair jewellery.
Brew herbs into potions. Quality multiplies both effect and duration.
Cook herbs into dishes that give lasting buffs rather than healing.
Extract essences from gear, combine four into one of the next level, and bind them into equipment. Lay charge-based buffs on weapons, armour and hammers.
Chains
One player mined the ore, another smelted it, a third forged it. Each step lifted the next one’s floor, and the smith’s name stays on the blade.
Region stock → herbalist → alchemist or cook → healing, mana, buffs, food.
Vein → miner → nugget or loose ore → smelter → ingot → smith or jeweller.
Gold ingot + the ruby the Wolf Matriarch drops → jeweller → gold ring with ruby. Built, but no vein yields gold yet.
Monster drops → extraction → combine four into one → binding into gear.
The smith forges the pickaxe the miner uses to dig the ore the smith needs.
Metal gear melted back to loose ore at the smelter.
Planned
The profession list is open-ended. Which ones, and in what form, is still being worked out.
Price differences between cities; better information with level.
Decided to exist; its tools belong to dispositions and PvP. What it does is open.
Grow food and herbs. Form open: workers, by hand, plots or a mix.
Miner → smith or builder. Stone tools, weapons and building, no smelter step.
A gatherer with its own loop; fish feed the cook. You fish from a coast or a beach. There will be no water squares.
Timber for builders, clan forts, weapons and shields.
A profession of its own, or a function of the plot system?
Pickpocketing: profession, PvP ability, or neither?
Who brings meat to the cook: hunter or monster drop?
A mastery: shorter craft time, longer duration or more yield, in percent.
The trade’s signature: what makes a grandmaster someone the world talks about.
One per profession, showing who is most experienced.
The smith is to make shields, even wooden ones, and stone tools and weapons once stone exists.
An alchemist’s booster for magic damage, waiting for something that uses it.
Beside the key to your room, more soulbound items are to exist, and most of them will have durability and wear down like everything else. Which ones is not decided.
Brings your dead body to you. It is meant to be one of the most expensive potions in the game.
Items
Every item type has a placeholder image today, except the two newest: the Sealed letter and the Key. The list itself is placeholder content.
| Slot | Built items |
|---|---|
| Head | Iron helmet |
| Face | |
| Body | Leather Vest |
| Cloak | |
| Hands | |
| Wrist | |
| Belt | |
| Legs | |
| Feet | |
| Main hand | Swords, greatsword |
| Off hand | Wooden Shield |
| Tool | Pickaxes, knife, tongs, hammer, kits, wand |
| Quiver | |
| Backpack | |
| Ring | Five rings |
| Ring | Five rings |
| Amulet | Gold amulet |
IN GAME In the game the slots are boxes on a figure in the bag window (helmet on the head, a ring at each hand), with tool, quiver and backpack beside it. Drag an item to its box, or double-click it in the bag and it goes to the first free slot it fits.
Wear, ownership & trade