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 |
Sculpting
Tailoring
Leatherworking
Smithing
Logging
Bowyering
Weaving
Luthiery
Jewelcrafting
Glassworking
Tinkering
Carpentry
Pottery
Engineering
Animal Husbandry