Crafting and Schematics

Crafted items are more than mere tools or possessions. They are the product of careful design, sourceable components, and skilled assembly. When the right materials are combined correctly, they can achieve effects or qualities that simple items cannot. Most crafted items provide practical benefits to their users or to others, whether in the field, in trade, or in survival. Some, however, are created purely for display, showing wealth, status, or taste rather than offering practical function.

Creating Crafted Items

A Crafter may create any item for which they know the Schematic. Each item requires specific Components, as detailed in the schematic, as well as access to the Crafter’s Workshop. Crafting takes five minutes per item.

Before beginning, the Crafter must inform a Referee of their intention to craft an item. Multiple items can be created in a single session; it still takes five minutes per item, but the Crafter does not need to separately inform the Referee or collect each Crafted Item Card from the Post Office before starting the next item. Once the crafting session is complete, the Crafter hands in all components and collects the corresponding Crafted Item Cards.

The Crafted Item Card states the item’s name, all in-game effects, and its expiry date, and should be attached to a Phys Rep where possible.

Components

Each crafted item requires the correct Components, as detailed by the specific schematic. This may include:

Base components (bone, iron ore, wood, etc.)
Crafted Items (items created by Crafters which can be used as components in other schematics)

Availability of Components

Components are available in-game through various means, including the Post Office. Whilst the Post Office offers a convenient way to buy and sell components, that convenience comes at a premium, and better opportunities can often be found through trade and play.

Interrupting Crafting

Crafting can be interrupted with little consequence to the Crafter. As long as they still have all the required components, they can continue crafting their items from where they left off.

If components are no longer accessible—for instance, if they are stolen mid-crafting—then the Crafter will need to acquire replacements before continuing.

Tools of the Trade

A Workshop provides the tools a Crafter needs to bring schematics to life. It is non-specific, capable of supporting the creation of everything from delicate jewellery to bulletproof plating or refined tools.

A Workshop is required for crafting items.
Every Crafter can start the game with a Workshop; it is not an item you need to buy in-game and will not have its own item card. A Workshop should be appropriately physically represented by at least an area set up to do your work, for example, a workbench and crafting tools.
It is also possible to acquire upgraded Workshops in-game, which will have various effects. These will have their own item card and will also need to be physically represented (attaching the item card to your existing Workshop is perfectly fine).
Workshops take 10 minutes to set up and pack away and can be carried (when packed away) by two people.

Note: It is perfectly acceptable for multiple Crafters to use the same Basic Workshop at the same time. Upgraded Workshops can, however, only be used by one Crafter at a time.

Schematics

Schematics represent the knowledge a Crafter possesses that allows them to create specific in-game items. Characters automatically know a number of schematics of their choice when selecting the Crafter Archetype. The total number of schematics a character knows depends on whether they are a Professional or Hobbyist Crafter, and whether they have taken the Extra Schematics sub-skill.

Crafters can learn additional schematics in-game either through the Backwards Engineering sub-skill or by being taught by an Academic.

Professional Crafters can know and learn Major, Intermediate, and Minor schematics.
Hobbyist Crafters can know and learn Intermediate and Minor schematics.

Schematics are divided into three levels: Major, Intermediate, and Minor.

Note: Schematics do not need to be represented physically in-game, although doing so can provide an excellent prop for roleplay. Regardless of what happens to the physical representation, a character’s knowledge of a schematic is unaffected.

Base Components

Base components are the raw materials from which all crafted items begin. They are simple and unrefined on their own, such as iron ore, bone, wood, cotton and the like, but in the hands of a skilled Crafter, they become the foundations of more complex creations.

In-game Base Components

Animal Pelt
Bone
Chalk
Clay
Coal
Copper Ore
Cotton
Flux
Gems
Gold Ore
Iron Ore
Oil
Rubber
Salt
Sand
Silver Ore
Stone
Tin Ore
Wood
Zinc

Available Schematics

Schematics are divided into three levels of complexity:

Minor Schematics: Items created from minor schematics serve as the building blocks of crafting. On their own, they have little purpose, but they are essential components in the creation of more advanced items.
Intermediate Schematics: Items from intermediate schematics stand at the midpoint of the craft. They can be used as components in more complex schematics, or they may hold value and function in their own right.
Major Schematics: Items from major schematics represent the height of a Crafter’s skill. Some grant powerful or practical benefits, while others exist solely as works of prestige, wealth, or artistry.

Minor Schematics

Bricks
Requires: Workshop, 1x Clay, 1x Chalk, 1x Coal

Cut Gems
Requires: Workshop, 4x Gems, 1x Grinding Stone

Fabric
Requires: Workshop, 2x Cotton, 1x Animal Pelt

Glass
Requires: Workshop, 3x Sand, 1x Coal

Glue
Requires: Workshop, 2x Bone, 2x Oil

Grinding Stone
Requires: Workshop, 2x Stone, 1x Wooden Handle

Leather
Requires: Workshop, 2x Animal Pelt, 2x Salt

Metal Cog
Requires: Workshop, 1x Stock Brass, 1x Grinding Stone

Nails
Requires: Workshop, 1x Iron Ore, 1x Coal

Refined Gold
Requires: Workshop, 4x Gold Ore, 1x Coal

Refined Silver
Requires: Workshop, 4x Silver Ore, 1x Coal

Rope
Requires: Workshop, 3x String

Rubber Belt
Requires: Workshop, 2x Rubber, 1x Cotton, 1x Chalk

Screws
Requires: Workshop, 1x Iron Ore, 1x Coal

Springs
Requires: Workshop, 2x Iron Ore, 2x Coal, 1x Oil

Stock Brass
Requires: Workshop, 2x Copper Ore, 1x Zinc, 1x Flux, 1x Coal

Stock Bronze
Requires: Workshop, 2x Copper Ore, 1x Tin Ore, 1x Flux

Stock Iron
Requires: Workshop, 2x Iron Ore, 1x Flux, 1x Coal

Stock Steel
Requires: Workshop, 2x Iron Ore, 1x Oil, 1x Flux, 1x Coal

String
Requires: Workshop, 2x Cotton

Wire
Requires: Workshop, 3x Copper Ore, 2x Coal

Wooden Handle
Requires: Workshop, 2x Wood, 1x Oil

Intermediate Schematics

Academic Supplies
Requires: Workshop, 1x Chalk, 1x Stone, 1x Rubber, 1x Fabric, 1x Wood

Allows an Academic with the Lecturer subskill to teach a third person the same Schematic/Recipe/Religious Rite. Can be used once; then is destroyed.

Autopsy Tools
Requires: Workshop, 3x Stock Steel, 1x Wooden Handle

Reduces the time a Medical Practitioner takes to use the ‘Autopsy’ subskill to 1 minute when used on a dead body. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Bronzed Holy Symbol
Requires: Workshop, 1x Chalk, 1x Sand, 3x Stock Bronze

Allows the ‘Well Versed’ subskill to be used 1 additional time per day by a single Religious Practitioner with the ‘Well Versed’ subskill. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Note: A Religious Practitioner may only use 1 Holy Symbol at a time in a rite. Once the item is destroyed, it can still be used as a normal Holy Symbol.

Bulletproof Plates
Requires: Workshop, 2x Stock Iron, 1x Nails, 1x Leather

This item is attached to a location and can either be sewn into clothing or be a separate physrep. A person can only wear one set of bulletproof plates per location at a time. Will negate a single Mangle/Rend to the location the item of clothing is covering. Once the hits have been used, the item is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Note: Locations allowed to be covered are left and right arms, left and right legs, torso, and head.

Centrifuge
Requires: Workshop, 1x Glass, 1x Metal Cog, 1x Screws, 1x Rubber Belt, 1x Wooden Handle

Lets an Apothecary destroy an Elixir or Tincture and recover all its component pieces after 5 minutes of roleplay. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Clipping Knife
Requires: Workshop, 1x Stock Steel, 1x Wooden Handle, 1x Grinding Stone

Lets an Apothecary gain one additional copy of an Apothecary Ingredient when using the Duplicate subskill. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Hunters Trap
Requires: Workshop, 3x Stock Iron, 1x Screws, 1x Springs

Allows a Provisioner with the Hunter subskill to exchange resource ribbons collected from nodes at the Post Office for base components that would usually be collected from beasts/monsters. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Note: The Provisioner will need to show this item to the Referee at the Post Office when exchanging ribbons.

Lifting Harness
Requires: Workshop, 1x Leather, 2x Rope, 2x Fabric

Allows anyone wearing a Lifting Harness to ‘grapple’ another character who is on their death count without assistance. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Master Lock
Requires: Workshop, 2x Stock Brass, 1x Screws, 2x Stock Steel

When used to lock a box or chest, it will take 10 minutes of roleplay to pick with Thieves’ Tools instead of 5 minutes. The lock is then destroyed; components cannot be recovered.

Metal Press
Requires: Workshop, 2x Stock Iron, 1x Screws, 2x Stock Steel

Once per day, allows a Crafter to make one additional duplicate item at no extra component cost when using one of the following schematics: Stock Steel, Stock Iron, Stock Brass, or Stock Bronze. Lasts one year, then is destroyed; no components can be recovered.

Ornate Bracelet
Requires: Workshop, 2x Refined Silver, 2x Refined Gold, 1x Screws