Crafting Basics

Crafting

Crafting is the practice of making items and also of providing more refined materials with which to make items. Learning crafting skills will grant you new abilities to perform certain crafts. You can make unique custom items with the abilities granted by most crafting skills, but some sorts of crafting skills are primarily for the specialized gathering of natural resources, and these do not give you the opportunity to make customized products. There are further other sorts of crafting skills that are truly unique and work in their own specific ways. All crafting skills will allow you to produce a tradeable product in some fashion, and inhabit a specific needed niche in a given market.

Types of Crafting Skills

The following table will show what type of abilities are granted by which crafting skills.

CRAFTING SKILL	Resource-Gathering	Resource-Manipulation	Generic-Product-Making	Custom-Product-Making
Foraging: A person skilled at foraging will be able to find any sort of natural resource in any environment.	Resource-Gathering
Herbalism: A herbalist has the ability to refine and modify plant material to produce a variety of products, often with medicinal uses.		Resource-Manipulation	Generic-Product-Making
Cooking: This skill governs the crafting of edible and drinkable foods or drinks.			Generic-Product-Making	Custom-Product-Making
Hunting: This skill grants the ability to track down animals in their natural habitat and specialized abilities for finishing off small prey.	Resource-Gathering
Mining: A miner can mine ore and deposits with a pickaxe, or quarry for larger blocks of stone with quarrying tools.	Resource-Gathering
Fishing: This skill is for catching fish in a variety of different ways.	Resource-Gathering
Horticulture: This skill is for the caretaking and harvest of live plants.	Resource-Gathering
Butchering: A butcher is skilled at harvesting deceased animals.	Resource-Gathering
Construction: A skilled crafter of constructs can build all manner of unique dwellings by utilizing items crafted by others.		Resource-Manipulation	Generic-Product-Making
Painting: A painter is an artist, most often using canvas, whose works always tend to be unique. However, a painter can also paint on other existing objects.		Resource-Manipulation		Custom-Product-Making

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