Help Topic: Shape

Category: Crafts -- This command cannot be used in combat.

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Pottery is the skill that allows you to craft receptacles and objects
out of clay.

To make pottery at all, you must first have the shape ability, which is
learned at the first level of the pottery skill. To shape a specific item,
you must know how to use a clayform for making that object. Custom clayforms
can be designed and submitted for approval. Clayforms can be taught to
others.

Custom clayforms are for particularly unique items that you cannot easily
make with the potential combinations in the adaptable set of basic forging
dies.They will always use the exact same materials, so you may be very
specific when describing them.

Usage:
clayforms
clayforms view <clayform>
clayform <new | submit>
clayform <defined clayform value> as <string>

Example:
You want to make a bowl. You have white clay in your inventory, and
a jar of blue paint.

> clayform new
(This starts a new design for you. It is not submitted until
you submit it, and if you make another new one without submitting,
this one will be overriden.)
> clayform name blueflower bowl
This describes what the name of the eventual clayform design will
be, so you can refer to it while forging. If your name is identical
to another name, numbers will be added on the end of it to keep
it unique.
> clayform base as bowl
(This sets the base clayform for you. It determines what sort of
item this is exactly; what functionality it will have.)
> clayform material as white.clay, blue paint
(When selecting materials, use a comma to separate them. You should
have these materials present in your inventory.)
> clayform sdesc as a pale ceramic bowl painted with blue blooms
(This sets the short description of the item.)
> clayform ldesc as This nice bowl has blue flowers painted on it.
(This sets the long description of the item.)
> clayform submit
(This submits the clayform for approval.)

Now you wait for the clayform to be approved, and then you can use
it, and even teach it to others.

To use a clayform that you already know, simply have all the required
materials and tools, and then you can shape it.

Usage:
shape <clayform>

The durability and value of the clayform you craft, plus the chance that you
completely ruin the materials, is based on your skill in pottery and finesse
stat. You will need to be around a kiln.

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