Quick Crafting Tips

• Watch the condition meter for optimal skill usage
• Utilize mass crafting at higher levels for efficiency
• Beware of oversupply to avoid increased crafting taxes
• Use crafting gear and trinkets to increase your labor
• Crafting items for the first time will grant you a :ravencrest-emblem: Ravencrest Emblem
• After upgrading your house, you can add a crafting room to boost your skills on that craft

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Different professions use different crafting stations. Check the icons on your map to see if you are on the right place for what you want to do

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:blacksmithing-station: Blacksmithing: Craft weapons, heavy armor, and metal components

:woodworking-station: Carpentry: Create wooden items, furniture, and some weapons

:weaving-station: Weaving: Produce cloth and leather gear

:cooking-station: Cooking: Prepare meals and buff-giving consumables

:alchemy-station: Alchemy: Prepare potions, poisons and elixirs for your allies

Each profession allows you to create unique items and contributes to the player-driven economy

Crafting Basics

Crafting in RavenQuest is a complex but rewarding system. Here's how to get started:

1. Find a Crafting Station: Look for blue symbols on your map in major cities like Ravencrest
2. Gather Materials: Ensure you have the necessary raw materials
3. Refine Materials: Some raw materials need to be processed first (e.g., ore into ingots)

1. Access Crafting Menu: Approach the station and press :f-key: to interact

2. Select Item: Select the item to craft from the menu that appears on the right side once you press :f-key:

3. Check if you have the required materials, then click Craft

   💡Pro tip: You can filter crafting recipes for available materials and unlocked status

4. Use your crafting skills as needed to complete a successful craft

   💡Pro tip: Each craftable item has durability, and the player has a work capacity (labor). It's best to maintain a balance between both to avoid crafting failures.

The Crafting Process

Crafting involves managing several meters:

• Progress: Tracks your progress toward completing the craft successfully
• Quality: Tracks the quality of the resulting craft. Filling it once will yield a high quality item, filling it twice will yield a superior item, and filling it thrice will yield an artisan item
• Durability: The amount of durability available for your craft. If the durability runs out then the craft will be unsuccessful. Certain crafting skills can restore durability
• Labor: The amount of labor available for your craft. Every crafting skill consumes labor. Additional labor can be gained via passives, crafting gear and trinkets
• Condition: This variable is increased by Shine skills and decreased by Synthesis and Touch skills. There is also a natural decay on quality that reduces condition by 5 per turn. If the condition is already maxed, all Shine skills are disabled.

💡 Pro tip: Balance your actions between progress, quality, and durability management for optimal results!

Crafting Skills

Use various skills during the crafting process:

• Synthesis: Increases progress
  • Using synthesis skills spends labor and reduces the durability
  • Skills that generate more progress consume more labor
  • Worsens condition
• Touch: Improves craft quality
  • Lowers durability
  • Worsens condition
• Shine: improves craft condition
• Mend: restores durability
  • May worsen condition

💡 Pro tip: hover your mouse over the abilities to check their effect, chance of success, labor required and duration