Crafting

Carpentry

Saw logs into boards and boards into shields, staves and tools.

Group: Crafting
Title it gives: Carpenter
Grows your stats: Strength (60%), Dexterity (40%)
Head start: No people starts with it

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Carpentry to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (60%), Dexterity (40%).

Titles

When Carpentry is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Carpenter
40 Novice Carpenter
50 Apprentice Carpenter
60 Journeyman Carpenter
70 Expert Carpenter
80 Adept Carpenter
90 Master Carpenter
100 Grandmaster Carpenter

What you can make (25)

Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.

Armour

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
wooden shield	10 to 60	9 board	Anywhere

Boards

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
boards	0 to 30	1 logs	Anywhere
kindling ×3	0 to 25	1 logs	Anywhere
frostwood boards	55 to 85	1 frostwood logs	Anywhere

Boats

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
raft	0 to 30	10 logs6 plant fiber	Anywhere
rowboat	30 to 70	30 boards	Anywhere
longship	60 to 100	80 boards20 cloth	Anywhere

By hand

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
coal	0 to 30	3 logs	fire
flint knife	0 to 30	1 sticks2 flint1 plant fiber	Anywhere
stone axe	0 to 30	2 sticks3 stones2 plant fiber	Anywhere
stone pickaxe	0 to 30	2 sticks3 stones2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden axe	0 to 20	3 sticks2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden bucket	0 to 25	2 logs2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden club	0 to 20	4 sticks	Anywhere
wooden knife	0 to 20	2 sticks1 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden pickaxe	0 to 20	3 sticks2 plant fiber	Anywhere
wooden sword	0 to 25	4 sticks1 plant fiber	Anywhere
flint sword	5 to 35	2 sticks4 flint2 plant fiber	Anywhere