Handwerkskunst

Alpha-1 Forge concept art.

Crafting and gathering is a very important component of the economy that players will have direct control over. Whether you wish to build a sprawling plantation around your house, or wish to travel the vast wilderness in search of treasure and resources. There are many tools available to the crafters of our world. Regardless of how you gather your resources, we believe that every item that exists in the world should in some way reflect its creator. As such, there will be extreme versatility in our crafting system – giving crafters the ability to create unique items that represent their strengths and weaknesses.

Crafting is one of the artisan classes in Ashes of Creation. It is a driving force for the game economy.

• Crafting requires the acquisition of recipes in order to craft items.
• Crafting stations are located on freeholds or within nodes.
  • Higher tier crafting stations are unlocked with node progression.

Anything that you want to bring into existence in the world is going to be built by players: Whether that is Schiffe, Siege engines, Weapons, Armor, etc. – Jeffrey Bard

There will not be a labor or energy system in Ashes of Creation.

There is no labor or energy system in Ashes. However, that's not to say that crafting will not be difficult. Crafting is very difficult; but it is because it is difficult that it will be very rewarding as well. – Steven Sharif

Berufe der Handwerkskunst

Pre-alpha crafting.

• Alchemy
• Armor smithing
• Schmiedekunst
• Zimmerei
• Kochen
• Jewel crafting
• Scribes
• Schiffsbau
• Siege weapons
• Weapon smithing

Artisan mastery

Players must choose a path in the artisan skill tree for each character. Within each of the three parent artisan paths (Sammeln, Verarbeitung and Crafting) there are different professions. A character may only ever master one of these parent paths.

Gathering is a parent artisan path, along with processing and crafting. Within each of the three parent paths lies different professions. You may only ever master one parent path. But you may spend time mastering each profession within the parent artisan path. – Steven Sharif

Becoming a master Crafter or a master Processor or a master Gatherer should be a significant time investment and resource investment; and because of that it should also be something that when you achieve that status it's like people on the server know who you are. – Steven Sharif

Handwerkliche Entwicklung within the artisan tree occurs based on experience (repetition of tasks) within a branch and also via achievement of certain benchmarks within each branch.

• Players can dabble in all professions at a "beginners" level before they decide to master a particular pathway.
• Choosing a specific path in the skill tree allows the player an opportunity to specialize in a certain area. This encourages player inter-dependency, enhancing the artisan experience.
• It is possible to master multiple professions (but not all) within a parent artisan path, but this will be a long and labor intensive feat, requiring many resources.
  • A player may only master a profession if they have achieved the artisan path mastery.
  • Based on testing, it may be decided to limit profession mastery certificates to a capped value.
• Masteries aren’t just about making an item. They grant many things, including titles, access to items, bargains, and quests.

Players will have the opportunity to kind of dabble in all of the professions at a very beginners level and then you know that kind of gives them an understanding of what that profession feels like and then allows them to kind of pinpoint the direction that they want to go in to master particular professions. – Steven Sharif

When we reference not being masters of all that doesn't mean you're not a master within your own one of the three artisan types, which is you know crafter or gatherer, processor. You will be a master of one of those, you will not be master of the other two. – Steven Sharif

Rezepte

Crafting in Ashes of Creation is recipe based, not RNG based.

• Recipes that are obtained must be committed to a player's recipe book prior to that recipe being able to be used for crafting. This "consumes" the recipe.
  • Recipes can be traded or sold prior to them being committed into a player's recipe book.

• Within a crafting recipe, there are dials (based on artisan specialization) that are used customize crafted items, such as:
  • Increasing one stat at the expense of another.
  • Making an item more magical versus more physical.

• Crafting does not have mixing and matching (of arbitrary materials) in the manner of animal husbandry.

I think Star Wars Galaxies had a great crafting system... The resource gathering and the crafting system altogether as a whole really was I think way beyond its time. That's kind of the direction we want to go, where there's choices to be made in the crafting system and those choices change what you end up with... It's not just about doing X recipe to get Y item. You know, there's actually thought involved in it and there is you know a market to be captured based on those decisions. – Jeffrey Bard

Erhalten von Rezepten

There are many different ways to achieve recipes. We want to take crafting and house the location of those recipes throughout different progression paths, so that not everything is pigeon-holed into one way forward. – Steven Sharif

Rezepte are found in the world, for the most part.

• Drops from monsters.
• Completing quest lines.
• Becoming Mayor may unlock specific node-related recipes.
• Entwicklung within a social organization, such as the Thieves' guild or Scholar's academy.
• Killing a legendary boss.
• Gaining a title.
• By constructing certain buildings on a freehold.
• Based on status within a religious organization/church.
• Deconstructing/dissassembling rare item drops from bosses can yield recipes that can be used to replicate that item.
• There may be a royalty system where players can license recipes to other players for a certain amount of time and collect royalties.

We talked about having this idea where if somebody discovers a recipe they get exclusive access to that recipe for a given amount of time similar to a patent; and then they can license that recipe out to other crafters so they can use the recipe and eventually that timer runs out and then everybody can use it, but we wanted to reward people for experimentation and going out in the world and finding something new. – Steven Sharif

Rassen- oder Klassenbeschränkungen im Handwerk

Crafting will not be race or class locked.

Handwerksmechaniken

Players are able to specialize in focused crafting branches.

• There are going to be different tiers of crafting stations that represent the quality of the items being crafted.

Crafting stations can be located on freeholds or within nodes.

• Certain crafting stations relate to specific nodes, areas or buildings.

Q: Can crafting stations be mobilized / moved and can they be placed anywhere in the world?

A: It depends on the crafting station. There are going to be different tiers of crafting stations that represent you know the quality of item you're looking to create within that specific profession. There's going to be crafting stations that can be utilized by players within their freeholds and then crafting stations that are resigned only to the development of particular nodes, within particular areas, or particular buildings... There's a wide variety of those things to kind of make it a more dynamic experience and and kind of something that caveat how players decide to build the world and what the value of those things are. – Steven Sharif

Repetitive skill-based crafting mechanics, such as mini-games, are not an intended part of the crafting experience.

We did discuss that type of a feature where the skill of the crafter would grant a greater window of skill-based type crafting. So the higher master level you have of crafting a certain item, the greater your potential to impact the quality of that item might be... The concern obviously that we have when going into developing this type of system is that we don't want what is a fun - you know for lack of a better term - mini-game to be something that becomes repetitive and kind of makes it monotonous... If when we start to flesh out the crafting system and we take a look at that interaction of melding crafting, the actual activity of making something, there is room in the design sheet for different iterations of that particular action; and we may see something come about that can be skill oriented, but that's something that's going to require a lot of testing and different iterations from a design standpoint. – Steven Sharif

It is likely that Star Wars Galaxies inspired crafting mechanics will be present in Ashes of Creation.

Jeff in particular has a soft spot in his heart for the crafting system of Star Wars Galaxies; so without getting into too much detail I will say that it's likely that you will see some inspiration surface itself in that regard. – Steven Sharif

Handwerksmaterialien

Materials (processed goods) are obtained in the following ways:

• Verarbeitung raw materials.
• World boss drops.
• Dekonstruktion von Gegenständen.

The quality of crafting materials will influence the quality of the crafted item.

Hochwertige Materialien

Materials for crafting high-level items are obtained from world bosses and through the deconstruction of other high-level items.

Many end level items with crafting will require mats from world bosses etc. we want those systems intertwined. However. There may be opportunities to deconstruct high level items and replace those needed materials as well. We will be testing the crafting trees in alpha and beta. – Steven Sharif

Hergestellte Gegenstände

Hergestellte Gegenstände will be on par with best in slot items.

• Highest tier items will be a combo of both crafted and boss dropped.
• Crafters will be able to assign different skills/abilities and stats on gear.
  • Master crafters will be able to influence several (but not all) stats on their crafted items.
• The rarity of the items will be commensurate with the effort required to gather, process and craft the items.
  • Stats on crafted items will vary based on the item's rarity.

That plays into our crafting system in and of itself right. The idea is for those stats to be variables that can be kind of dictated based on the mastery level of the particular crafter; and the higher they become a master of those professions, whether it be for armor or for weapons or for accessories, they're going to have some agency and put their mark on essentially what items they're introducing into the economy. – Steven Sharif

Crafters are able to influence what their crafted items will look like.

• At the moment, harnessing corruption to warp items into demonic or decayed things is not on the cards.
• A crafter's name is embedded in the items they craft.

We believe that every item that exists in the world should in some way reflect its creator. As such, there will be extreme versatility in our crafting system – giving crafters the ability to create unique items that represent their strengths and weaknesses.

Crafting and World Bosses will be the main way to obtain high-level gear. There are some exceptions to this in the form of Legendary items (single server drops or discoveries), and other equipment that may drop wholesale, but we want Artisans and top tier raiding to produce the lion’s share of high level, high effectiveness equipment. – Sarah Flanagan

Fertigkeiten und Werte auf Ausrüstungsgegenständen

Crafters will be able to assign different skills/abilities and stats on gear.

• Master crafters will be able to influence several (but not all) stats on their crafted items.
  • Stats on crafted items will vary based on the item's rarity.
• There will also be methods of moving stat blocks around but this won't necessarily be an easy task.
• All gear will be able to be assigned any stat.

Crafters will be able to 'rejigger' stat blocks; and there will be a couple of other ways to move things around to create both the look and the stat block that you're looking for. It's not always going to be easy. There will be a lot of challenges involved with that. But the goal is to give you guys the option to customize your gear the way you want them to be. – Jeffrey Bard

Not all armor sets will be the cookie cutter kind of set. They will have the influences from the crafter available in it, if it's a crafted set. – Steven Sharif

Gear is broken down into Core Stats and Additional Stats.

Suite zur Gegenstandsherstellung

An "item creation suite" that allows crafters to create unique appearances for items has been discussed as a future possibility.

Relikte

Kontenpunkt-Relikt. Dies ist ein schützendes Relikt, das vor einem Angriff schützt. Einmal gestohlen, ermöglicht es eine Belagerung der Metropole.

Relikte sind Errungenschaften für einen Knotenpunkt, die im Laufe der Zeit freigeschaltet werden. Sie ermöglichen es den Bürgern des Knotenpunkts, bestimmte legendäre Gegenstände herzustellen und Fortschritte in bestimmten legendären Questreihen zu erzielen.

Handwerkliche Lieferkette

Artisans within Ashes of Creation must choose a path in their artisan skill tree. This inter-dependency establishes a supply chain from raw materials to finished product. Each stage of the chain may require caravans to transport goods from one artisan to another.

1. Obtaining raw materials:
   • Using the Sammeln profession.
   • By killing mobs and bosses.
   • From deconstructing weapons or armor.
   • By purchasing them from other players.
2. Refining the raw materials with the Verarbeitung profession.
3. Crafting the finished product using its crafting recipe.
   • Rezepte are also obtainable from boss drops.

As a crafter you're going to want to know where certain recipes can be fulfilled; which nodes have the capability of creating what you've processed material that you've gathered for; and then you're going to want to plan out your route to either transit the goods there or make sure that you're situated in the area so that you can go out collect and build in that area as well. So there's a lot of planning that's going to be necessary. – Steven Sharif

Sammeln

Alpha-1 gathering.

Sammeln in the Alpha-1 early preview.

Sammeln is one of the artisan classes in Ashes of Creation.

• Gatherable resources are discovered by trial-and-error and by learning their visuals.
• Gathering requires the creation and use of tools.
• Gathering within a node's Einflussbereich (ZOI) will contribute to its experience growth.
• Certain low level gatherables will have a tiered progression into higher level crafting.

Certain low level gatherables will have a tiered progression into higher level crafting. So for example you know if I'm gathering... leaves of the blue petal flower to craft a pigment that's going to be used in the development of a tunic that I can wear at level one, then I may need to collect those in order to craft the pigments to craft a greater pigment that might be present in the in the crafting of a higher level item. So it's going to be kind of a tiered progression so that materials have relevancy throughout the different levels of of crafting; and that's important from an economic stability standpoint. You need to have layered demand from a supply standpoint so that players who are interested in collecting and gathering those materials still are relevant when the later level items are crafted. – Steven Sharif

Verarbeitung

Schmelzofen that can be placed on a freehold.

Verarbeitung is one of the artisan classes in Ashes of Creation.

• Processing involves the refining of raw materials obtained from gathering and item deconstruction.

Verarbeitung requires blueprints for the construction of buildings that are needed to process resources.

• Buildings can be placed on a freehold to process resources.

Aufwertung von Gegenständen

There are two types of enchantments for items: Vertical and horizontal.

• Vertical enchantments are a power progression for a crafted item. More damage or mitigations, added effects or bonuses. Vertical enchantments include risks.
  • There isn't RNG in crafting but there may be a small amount of RNG in enchanting.
  • Over-enchanting items comes with a potential risk that the item decays or is destroyed if a safety margin is exceeded. This system is subject to testing.

When it comes to over-enchanting things, what we're going to do likely is have a safety- and this is something obviously it needs to be tested- but we're going to have a safety period of enchantment you know like in Lineage 2 I think you could enchant plus four or something. And so we're gonna have a similar system where you can enchant safely and then when you start to take risks, that percentage of potentially damaging your item either through the decay system or completely disabling it through the destruction system will be a risk that's present. – Steven Sharif

• Horizontal enchantments are more situational. For example: I'd like my sword to do force damage instead of holy damage because the monsters I tend to fight are incorporeal.
  • This doesn't make the item more powerful, but instead more applicable to different situations, and less so to others.
  • This type of enchanting assumes no risk, just time and effort.

Enchanting services are sold at player stalls.

Reparieren von Gegenständen

Reparatur von Gegenständen will cost crafting materials.

• 0% durability will unequip items, increasing its repair cost.
• Damaged gear can be reforged at a player stall using a portion of the materials that were necessary to craft the item.
• There is no limit to the number of times an item can be repaired.

For example: if you have an iron sword and then the sword gets damaged from use, you have to use more iron to repair it; and what that does is... make sure that there's significant sinks in the game for base materials so that you are creating a scarcity and demand that's present on the creation of higher goods as well as supplying the necessary decay components for the world. – Steven Sharif

Treuhandsystem

An escrow system is planned to prevent griefing in the crafting system.

We're going to have a UI... you're gonna put the resources in or they're gonna put the resources in. It'll be like an escrow system and then once [the job] is complete you'll get the item they'll get the money.

Komponenten für Karawanen

Zertifikate, um eine Karawane zu erstellen, werden von bestimmten NPCs innerhalb einer Node, oder an gewissen Sehenswürdigkeiten ausgestellt. Diese Zertifikate enthalten mehrere Komponenten:

• Achsen.
• Rüstung (Schadensminderung).
• Kapazität.
• Fahrgestell.
• Lebenspunkte.
• Wendigkeit.
• Anzahl der angeworbenenNPC-Wachen.
• Geschwindigkeit.
• Rosse (Zugtiere).
• Räder.

Karawanen-Komponenten von Handwerkern haben Stats, die von dem Können des jeweiligen Fachhandwerkers bestimmt werden.

• Durch den Beruf des Tierzüchters gezüchtete Reittiere können als Zertifikate für den Bau einer Karawane verwendet werden.

Schiffsbau

Schiffsbau is a crafting profession that is able to construct ship components based on blueprints that unlock capabilities that scale with their progression within the ship building profession.

• Movement, Durability, Speed, Turn rate, Hit points, Defensive and Damage abilities.
• Weapon slots.
• Aesthetic customization.
• Ship components can be sold to other players.

You can have the base value of a hull. That hull might have certain placements that are available when it comes to utility slots and/or weapon slots for the ship. Essentially you are going to have that hull itself be augmented by constructibles via the ship building profession. – Steven Sharif

A player does not need to be a ship builder to construct ships. Players utilize the ship components that are crafted by ship builders to upgrade their ships.

• Anyone with the right schematics, materials and an advanced enough node may construct a ship.

• Ships may only be crafted or upgraded in harbor crafting stations that are unlocked by the advancement of coastal nodes.

You will not need to be a ship builder profession to construct ships. The shipbuilder profession particularly they have the ability to craft components of the ships which increases the ship's capabilities, defenses, speeds, turn rate, offense and defense, you know all those types of things and then they can sell those to other players. – Steven Sharif

Players can choose which "joints" get populated with either utility or weaponry spots on a ship.

Rucksäcke

Backpack concept art.

Ein Rucksack ist ein von Handwerkern gefertigter Gegenstand, der Platz für persönliches Inventar bietet.

• Je höher das Level des Rucksacks, desto größer ist das verfügbare Inventar.
• Verschiedene Rucksacktypen eignen sich für unterschiedliche Aktivitäten.
  • Die Rucksäcke von Sammlern sind dazu ausgelegt, Sammelobjekte zu tragen.
  • Die Rucksäcke von Abenteurern sind für den Transport von Verbrauchsgegenständen und Items geeignet.

In order to roleplay you need to be able to represent kind of what your character is doing in that world and you know part of what animation is doing is creating these sockets on the let's say the belt or the backpack that you know can plug in certain types of props or items that are created by the character team. – Steven Sharif

Kunstwerke

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Community guides

• Ashes101 - The Artisan System - Crafting

Siehe auch

• Sammeln
• Verarbeitung
• Wirtschaft