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So... you want to be an Artisan. How does one start? The game provides
you a quest to get you on your way. On the Isle of Refuge, head to Malvonicus'
Tower and speak to Assistant Dreak there. He will give you a quest to
clean up the cellar. Do so. When you do, you will also learn to harvest
and will obtain some raw ingredients. When you return to speak to him,
he will ask you to perform another task for him; to craft him a tin spike
to secure the cellar door. Accept. You will receive a bag of ingredients
and some coin.
Now that you have your ingredients, it is time to learn how to craft.
Enter the cellar again and double click on the forge. The tutorial will
begin and explain the crafting process. After you are done, return to
Dreak for a further reward. You are now a certified artisan. All of level
3. You will also have gained a few culinary recipes which unfortunately
are useless to you as the raw materials are not obtainable on the island.
Return to the cellar, you will find all other crafting receptables. Right
click them to examine them and you will learn what fuel is required.
| Crafting Receptacle |
Fuel Used |
| Chemistry Table |
Candle |
| Engraved Desk |
Incense |
| Forge |
Coal |
| Sewing Table & Mannequin |
Filament |
| Stove & Keg |
Walnut Kindling |
| Woodworking Table |
Sand Paper |
| Work Bench |
Coal |
Shall we craft?
Examine your inventory. You should have some severed elm or some form
of ore and some coin. if you were lucky enough to obtain a tin cluster
when you mined the stone, you would be able to forge a tin bar. If you
have some elm, the simplest thing to do would be to use the elm on the
woodworking table, right?. However, you do not have that recipe and recipe
books are 1sp 40cp from good old Quartermaster Brennar and you do not
have that coin. Ah well. Time to kill a few goblins, earn some coin and
xp as a bonus.
Harvesting
 While running around the island killing creatures, keep an eye out for
harvestable spawns. Why harvest? Well, harvesting is the method by which
you gather your raw materials to craft into finished goods. On the Isle
of Refuge you can raise some basic skills. They are:
Gathering - raised by harvesting from roots, shrubs and other vegetable matter
- Fishing - raised by fishing (harvesting from schools of fish)
- Foresting - raised by harvesting from felled trees
- Gathering - raised by harvesting from roots, shrubs and other vegetable
matter
- Mining - raised by harvesting from stones
- Trapping - raised by harvesting from animal dens (note, there are
no animal dens currently on the Isle of Refuge)
These are automatically given to you in your Knowledge book and you do
not need to hotkey them as double-clicking on a harvestable item will
activate the correct skill. Every spawn can yield from two up to four
harvests, so make sure you deplete each spawn as then they will respawn
again after some time.
 As you run
around the Isle of Refuge, you will find items such as “Felled Tree”
“Unearthed Stone” “Roots” and “School of
Fish”. When you mouse over them, your mouse pointer changes into
a hand, indicating that they are items which can be harvested. Harvest
them by double left-clicking or right clicking to bring up a menu and
clicking on the appropriate action.
 Be careful
not to accidentally double click on a creature that is wandering by, as
that activates your attack and it could be painful. To both you and the
poor creature.
Shiny question marks are items that can be collected and that raises
your collecting skill. Here I am waiting for a guttooth invader to walk
on by before collecting what turned out to be a duck feather for the collection
quest.
Rare Ingredients
 Rare ingredients
are just that. Rare. Do not expect to see many of them, and you can expect
the spawns to be highly contested. On the Island, the rare spawn is Piperacae
which yields pepper for use in the culinary arts.
Other Ingredients
Other ingredients such as hide and liquids can be obtained from creatures
that roam around the island. Eye all creatures with an mind to this and
examine all material that drop from them. For example, canine saliva is
a form of liquid. Crab meat is a culinary ingredient and deer hide is
a source of raw hide.
Courtesy
If there is someone else standing there staring at the raw material spawn
or actively harvesting from it, it is only courteous to leave them to
it. Here is a lovely picture of me and Jiro running up to a Felled Tree
and clicking it at the exact same time. It does happen, so shrug, smile
and carry on.
Crafting in Ernest
Now that you have raw ingredients, fuel and recipes, it is time to craft
in ernest. Clicking on each tradeskill receptable will open up your recipe
book to the recipes pertaining to the receptable. Before you start, open
your Knowledge Window. You will see a new tab. Tradeskills. They were
given to you when you first accepted the Quest to create the tin spike
for Assistant Dreak. Mousing over the tradeskill icons will show you what
they do. Think about the crafting process you are about to undertake.
What could happen? For example for the Forge. Magical anomalies? Loss
of concentration? Metal and forge over-heating? Move those icons to an
open hot bar by dragging and dropping and begin the crafting process by
highlighting the recipe and clicking create.
 The
quest fools you into thinking that crafting is simple. No anomalies happen
during this first crafting, but they will begin the next time you craft.
As anomalies happen, click on the matching icon on your hotkey bar to
activate the proper tradeskill to counter it. If you do not, you can hurt
yourself doing crafting as these anomalies can drain your health as well
as your power, and a major knot un-countered with a tradeskill could mean
a lesser grade of planed lumber created.
As of the tradeskill revamp in April of 2005, tradeskill "Heroic
Opportunities" may also come up. There are three of these events.
Depending on the event, a successful counter can provide you a buff that
increases the skill you were using at the time, an instant pristine or
an instant pristine plus the Gods bestowing upon you a rare harvest. The
third is rare. Very rare.
Click on the thumbnail of the tradeskill tab for a full sized picture. Now
you are ready to build your skills as an Artisan. One piece of advice. Raise
your basic skills as high as you can on the island where resources are not
as highly contested as in the newbie areas of the cities. In the higher
level zones are higher tier harvestable items, and you cannot harvest them
without the appropriate skill.
Written by: Carolyn "Sylvene" Koh
Updated: July, 2005
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