Crafting
The forge knows 162 gear recipes and 9 material recipes, fed by a 17-step refining ladder. Crafting feeds gear upgrades, quest turn-ins and some of the best endgame attributes — see the enchanting guide for the bonus rolls.
How it works
- Gather. Buy tools from the crafting-area NPC. The broom sweeps powder from dirt floors, the pick mines ore from lava holes and mineral veins, the hoe digs soil from resource spots. A green effect means success, red means try again, poff means the spot is empty.
- Refine. Take the raw material to a lit oven and drop it on the fire. Each rung of the ladder below is one refinement, and a failed roll destroys the material.
- Craft. Every recipe needs a minimum crafting mastery and lists its ingredients and success chance. Higher tiers are deliberately harder — see the table below. Failure breaks part of the materials, and mastery protects them up to a point.
- Enchant & upgrade. Gear recipes roll a bonus attribute onto the result, and some can be upgraded again. See Enchanting.
Crafting mastery
Mastery is its own skill — it rises only by crafting, and it is the one number that touches every step: it is added to the refining roll, adds half its value to a recipe's success chance, and improves the odds that a failed craft leaves your materials intact. A successful craft grants full mastery progress, a failed one grants half.
Mastery stops paying at 80. Past that the roll no longer improves, and it is worth less the higher the tier — the top gear stays a gamble for everyone. No craft is ever a certainty (92% ceiling) and none is ever hopeless (5% floor).
How hard each tier is
Success is the recipe's own chance plus mastery. Averaged across every recipe of a tier, this is what you can expect — a beginner, a crafter at 40 mastery, and one at the 80 cap. Individual recipes sit a little either side of their tier's average.
| Tier | Mastery needed | At 0 mastery | At 40 | At 80 | Upgrade pass |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 10 | 62% | 82% | 92% | 88% |
| 4 | 14 | 59% | 78% | 91% | 85% |
| 5 | 26 | 54% | 72% | 89% | 78% |
| 6 | 30 | 48% | 64% | 80% | 68% |
| 7 | 35 | 41% | 55% | 70% | 58% |
| 8 | 41 | 36% | 48% | 60% | 48% |
| 9 | 48 | 25% | 35% | 45% | 33% |
| 10 | 62 | 20% | 28% | 37% | 25% |
Where recipes come from
Kill tasks, quest NPCs and area traders reward crafting recipes — the quest index lists over 40 NPCs that pay out recipes. Master crafters gather in the Mastercrafters Hall in Ridgefire.
The refining ladder
Almost nothing a recipe asks for drops from a monster. Raw materials are refined one tier at a time on a lit oven: drop the material on the fire and the refined version appears on the tile. There are 17 rungs — some materials climb three tiers before a recipe will take them.
Each attempt rolls 1–100 plus your crafting mastery against the difficulty below. A failed refine destroys the material, so climb the cheap rungs first and let mastery carry the expensive ones.
| Put in | Get out | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Ore | Huge Chunk Of Crude Iron | 45 |
| Brown Powder | Yellow Powder | 50 |
| Yellow Sulphur | Fine Sulphur | 50 |
| Mother Soil | Natural Soil | 55 |
| Icicle | Flawless Ice Crystal | 60 |
| Unique Iron Ore | Spiked Iron Ball | 65 |
| Yellow Powder | Blue Powder | 70 |
| Huge Chunk Of Crude Iron | Piece Of Royal Steel | 75 |
| Fine Sulphur | Violet Sulphur | 80 |
| Piece Of Mithril | Flawless Mithril Crystal | 85 |
| Blue Powder | Green Powder | 90 |
| Blood Crystal | Ruby Crystal | 95 |
| Piece Of Adamantine | Flawless Adamantine Crystal | 95 |
| Piece Of Royal Steel | Piece Of Hell Steel | 100 |
| Buranium Stone | Covalasite Crystal | 105 |
| Violet Sulphur | Sulphuric Essence | 105 |
| Pixie Stone | Soul Stone | 110 |