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Crafting lets adventurers turn found materials into permanent equipment.

The basic loop is:

  gather a raw material
  process it with a suitable expert
  study a recipe
  craft the item at the right station

Your Craft skill is shown on score.  Better Craft skill improves the
quality of crafted items and lets you attempt harder recipes.

Current examples:

  gather ore        in the dwarven mine
  gather wood       in the Forest of Dreams
  process iron ore  at Barrin Ironhand's forge
  process copper ingot with Barrin to make fittings
  process stone     with Maribel the lapidary
  process hide      with Nessa the leatherworker
  process wood      with Merrit the carpenter
  process seasoned wood or bone with Rovik the bowyer
  craft arrows      for bows; bows need arrows in combat
  craft bolts       for crossbows; crossbows need bolts in combat
  visit the Artisans' Exchange on Magus Lane to trade crafted goods
  study <recipe>    to learn a recipe forever
  recipes           to see known recipes and missing materials
  craft <recipe>    to make the item
  craft <recipe> named <name>
                    to give a successful item a personal name

Some materials come from dangerous creatures instead of room resources.
Raw hides, for example, can be won from some jungle beasts.
Room resources recover after a short time, so a picked-over seam, branch
or vine patch may need a minute or two before it can be worked again.

Better-grade materials improve the quality of the finished work.  Crafted
weapons, armour, tools and components are real permanent items.  They can be
used, given, traded, or sold to other players.  Ordinary shopkeepers do not
buy crafted goods as routine stock; the Artisans' Exchange handles crafted
trade and selected tool plans.

Named crafted items are cosmetic but permanent.  The name must be unique,
must use ordinary printable words, and must still include the base item word:
for example, craft iron spear named the witchbane spear.  The long description
still records the underlying recipe, maker, quality, and materials.

See also: help materials, help recipes, help gather, help process,
help study, help craft