Crafting

Carpentry

Carpentry starts where Lumberjacking finishes. Logs are carved into boards by the lumberjack who felled them; Carpentry takes the board and makes it something — bows and the whole archery line, instruments, and most of what makes a house worth owning.

How you train it Work the bench recipes. Every one of them trains it, and the better woods are worth the trip for the skill as much as the item.

What you need An active carpenter's saw, and boards to work — which a lumberjack must carve first.

What boards become

Skill	Item	Boards
No requirement	Club	3
No requirement	Quarter Staff	6
No requirement	Black Staff	6
No requirement	Gnarled Staff	6
No requirement	Shepherd's Crook	5
No requirement	Bow	5
No requirement	Crossbow	7
No requirement	Heavy Crossbow	10
No requirement	Lute	6
No requirement	Drum	6
No requirement	Lap Harp	6
No requirement	Tambourine	6
No requirement	Bamboo Flute	6
50.0	Saw Pit	1000 Boards + 500 Ingots
75.0	Display Case	1000 Boards + 500 Ingots
50.0	Parchment Press	1000 Boards + 500 Ingots
50.0	Hitching Post	1000 Boards + 500 Ingots
100.0	Attack Dummy	2 Board Commodity Deeds + 1 Pristine Wood
30.0	Wooden Crate	250 Boards
45.0	Storage Barrel	400 Boards + 25 Ingots
60.0	Oaken Bookcase	600 Boards + 50 Ingots
75.0	Chest of Drawers	800 Boards + 100 Ingots
90.0	Grand Armoire	1200 Boards + 200 Ingots

Wood tiers

Rarer wood makes a better bow, and each tier asks more Carpentry before you may work it at all.

Tier	Board	Carpentry required
1	Wood	—
2	Dullwood	65
3	Shadowwood	70
4	Copperwood	75
5	Bronzewood	80
6	Goldwood	85
7	Agawood	90
8	Veriwood	95
9	Valiwood	99

What the material buys in a fight

The same curve Blacksmithing's metals ride — a Board and an Ingot of the same tier buy a weapon exactly the same bonuses. Every bow, staff and crook is two-handed and so takes the crit column; the Club is the one one-handed thing this bench makes.

Board	Damage	Hit chance	Crit — two-handed only	Durability
Wood	—	—	2%	—
Dullwood	+1	+3%	3%	+5
Shadowwood	+2	+6%	4%	+8
Copperwood	+3	+9%	5%	+12
Bronzewood	+4	+12%	6%	+15
Goldwood	+5	+15%	7%	+20
Agawood	+6	+18%	8%	+25
Veriwood	+8	+21%	10%	+32
Valiwood	+10	+25%	12%	+40

Storage furniture

Boxes for a house. Build one, carry it home, drop it on the floorplan and lock it down, then double-click it to open — it takes anything a bag takes. What separates them is how many separate STACKS each holds; a stack itself is any size, so sixty thousand boards is one slot.

Skill	Piece	Cost	Holds
30.0	Wooden Crate	250 Boards	20 slots
45.0	Storage Barrel	400 Boards + 25 Ingots	30 slots
60.0	Oaken Bookcase	600 Boards + 50 Ingots	40 slots
75.0	Chest of Drawers	800 Boards + 100 Ingots	50 slots
90.0	Grand Armoire	1,200 Boards + 200 Ingots	60 slots

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THEY ARE NOT MORE ROOM. Every one of these draws on the same house storage capacity the chest does — move a stack out of the chest and into a barrel and the house's total changes by nothing at all. What they buy is order: somewhere to keep the reagents that is not the same heap as the armour.

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And locking one down COSTS you storage. Every fixture standing on a floorplan is charged 500 stones against the house, furniture included — five containers is 2,500 stones, which a Small House feels and a Castle does not. Furnish for the way you actually store things rather than filling the room.

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Your own weapon skill carries you from landing 1 swing in 5 untrained to 95% at Grandmaster, and the material's bonus is added flat on top of that — with no ceiling short of never missing at all. The top tier's +25% takes an untrained fighter from 20% to 45%, more than twice as many swings connecting; and from 73.5 weapon skill upward it stops you missing entirely, which no amount of skill on its own will ever do. Skill alone leaves a Grandmaster whiffing 1 swing in 20 forever — the metal is the only thing that closes that last gap.

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Crit chance is carried by TWO-HANDED weapons only — it is what you get back for giving up the shield slot. A crit hits for +50% damage, and every two-hander rolls for one on every landed swing, from 2% at the lowest tier to 12% at the highest. It is a separate roll from Archery's own crit and from a Virtue Binding's, so a single swing can land more than one of them.

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