Crafting

Carpentry

Saw logs into boards and boards into shields, staves and tools.

Group: Crafting
Title it gives: Carpenter
Grows your stats: Strength (60%), Dexterity (40%)
Head start: No people starts with it

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.

All your skills together hold 600 points. Set Carpentry to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (60%), Dexterity (40%).

Titles

When Carpentry is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Carpenter
40 Novice Carpenter
50 Apprentice Carpenter
60 Journeyman Carpenter
70 Expert Carpenter
80 Adept Carpenter
90 Master Carpenter
100 Grandmaster Carpenter

The Carpentry tree

Every 10 points of Carpentry gives a point to spend here. Some places need another first; some ask you to choose one or the other. Unlearn the whole tree for gold with F4.

Joiner

What you build stands up to more, and costs less to mend.

Sturdy Build3 ranks
Pieces you build take 20% more blows per rank.
Quick Mend2 ranks
Mending a battered piece costs half as much per rank (free at two).
Needs Sturdy Build
Fine Grain1 rank
Raiders do only half the damage to what you build.
Needs Quick Mend

Shipwright

Boats that sail faster and handle better.

Trim the Sails3 ranks
Boats sail 8% faster per rank.
Steady Helm2 ranks
Boats turn 20% quicker per rank.
Needs Trim the Sails
Seaworthy1 rank
Any boat sails at its best for you, whatever your Sailing.
Needs Steady Helm

What you can make (27)

Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.

Armour

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
wooden shield	10 to 60	9 board	Anywhere

Boards

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
boards	0 to 30	1 logs	Anywhere
kindling ×3	0 to 25	1 logs	Anywhere
frostwood boards	55 to 85	1 frostwood logs	Anywhere

Boats

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
raft	0 to 30	10 logs6 plant fiber	Anywhere
rowboat	30 to 70	30 boards	Anywhere
longship	60 to 100	80 boards20 cloth	Anywhere

By hand

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
coal	0 to 30	3 logs	fire
flint knife	0 to 30	1 sticks2 flint1 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden knife	0 to 20	2 sticks1 plant fiber	Anywhere

Instruments

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
tambourine	0 to 40	2 boards1 cut leather	Anywhere
drum	5 to 45	4 boards2 cut leather	Anywhere
lute	10 to 50	5 boards	Anywhere
lap harp	20 to 60	7 boards	Anywhere

Tools

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
buckets	0 to 35	4 boards	Anywhere
stone axe	0 to 30	2 sticks3 stones2 plant fiber	Anywhere
stone pickaxe	0 to 30	2 sticks3 stones2 plant fiber	Anywhere
stone shovel	0 to 30	2 sticks3 stones2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden axe	0 to 20	3 sticks2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden bucket	0 to 25	2 logs2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden pickaxe	0 to 20	3 sticks2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden shovel	0 to 20	4 sticks2 plant fiber	Anywhere
fishing pole	5 to 45	5 boards	Anywhere

Weapons

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
wooden club	0 to 20	4 sticks	Anywhere
wooden sword	0 to 25	4 sticks1 plant fiber	Anywhere
flint sword	5 to 35	2 sticks4 flint2 plant fiber	Anywhere
quarterstaff	20 to 70	6 board	Anywhere

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