Skills/Carpentry

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Carpentry is the craft of turning boards and logs into furniture, crates, chests, instruments, staves and shields. Every chair in a player's house, every keg an alchemist fills and every forge, loom and stone oven a crafter sets up at home starts on a carpenter's workbench. Carpenters work hand in hand with lumberjacks, who supply the wood.

This page explains how carpentry works in New Bradford, from your first barrel stave to a Grandmaster's pentagram. For cutting the wood yourself, see Lumberjacking. For bows, crossbows and arrows, see Bowcraft/Fletching.

At a glance

Skill category	Crafting & gathering
Tools	Saw, dovetail saw, hammer, planes, draw knife, froe, inshave, scorp or nails (see Tools)
Workstation	None. You can build anywhere.
Materials	Boards or logs. Some items also need cloth or iron ingots.
What you can make	Furniture, crates and chests, kegs, staves, shields, fishing poles, instruments, and house add-ons such as beds, forges, anvils, looms, ovens and training dummies
Skill cap	100 (Grandmaster)
Stats it can raise	Strength and Dexterity
Starting gear	Choosing Carpentry as a starting skill gives you a saw, 10 boards and a half apron.

Tools

Every carpentry tool opens the same carpentry menu, so it doesn't matter which one you use. Carpenters and tinkers sell them all.

	Tool	Uses	Where to get it	Weight
	Saw	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (15 gold). Tinkers can make one from 4 iron ingots (30.0 Tinkering).	2
	Dovetail saw	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (12 gold). Tinkers can make one from 4 iron ingots (30.0 Tinkering).	2
	Hammer	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (17 gold). Tinkers can make one from 1 iron ingot (30.0 Tinkering).	2
	Jointing plane	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (10 to 11 gold). Tinkers can make one from 4 boards or logs (any Tinkering).	2
	Moulding plane	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (11 gold). Tinkers can make one from 4 boards or logs (any Tinkering).	2
	Smoothing plane	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (10 to 11 gold). Tinkers can make one from 4 boards or logs (any Tinkering).	1
	Draw knife	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (10 gold). Tinkers can make one from 2 iron ingots (30.0 Tinkering).	1
	Froe	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (10 gold). Tinkers can make one from 2 iron ingots (30.0 Tinkering).	1
	Inshave	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (10 gold). Tinkers can make one from 2 iron ingots (30.0 Tinkering).	1
	Scorp	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (10 gold). Tinkers can make one from 2 iron ingots (30.0 Tinkering).	1
	Nails	25 to 75 (100 if exceptional)	Carpenters and tinkers (3 gold). Tinkers can't make them.	2

The tool must be on your person, in your backpack: "The tool must be on your person to use."

Every attempt uses one charge, whether it succeeds or fails. When the last one is gone the tool breaks: "You have worn out your tool!" Carry a spare.

How to build

1. Put boards or logs (and any cloth or ingots the item needs) in your backpack.
2. Double-click a carpentry tool. The carpentry menu opens.
3. Pick a category (Other, Furniture, Containers, Weapons and Armor, Instruments, Misc. Add-Ons, Blacksmithing, Training, Tailoring and Cooking or Cooking), then the item.
4. On success the item goes in your backpack: "You create the item."

The menu also has a Make Last button to repeat your last item, a Last Ten list, and the maker's mark setting. There's no repair button: carpenters can't repair staves or wooden shields in New Bradford.

Boards and logs both count as wood, one for one. If you run short: "You do not have sufficient wood to make that."

Success chance

Every item has a minimum Carpentry (listed in the tables below). Below it, you can't make the item at all.

At the minimum your chance is already 50%, and it rises by 2% for every skill point above it. At 25 points above the minimum you never fail. For example, a wooden chest needs 73.6, so you have a 75% chance at 86.3 and you never fail from 98.6 on.

A failed attempt costs the materials: "You failed to create the item, and some of your materials are lost." Practice on cheap items.

Items that need a second skill

Some items also need another skill. If that skill is below the listed amount you can't make the item at all, even with enough Carpentry. Each attempt also gives the second skill a chance to rise, so building them trains both.

Second skill	Needed for
Musicianship 45	All instruments
Tailoring 40 to 75	Fishing pole (40), training dummy and pickpocket dip (50), dressform, spinning wheel and loom (65), beds (75)
Tinkering 50	Stone oven and flour mill
Blacksmithy 75 to 80	Small forge and anvil (75), large forge (80)
Magery 50 to 75	Abbatoir (50), pentagram (75)

Exceptional quality

Only staves, wooden shields and instruments can come out exceptional: "You create an exceptional quality item." Furniture, containers and everything else always come out as ordinary items.

Your exceptional chance is your success chance minus 60% (before it's capped at 100%). So you start seeing exceptional pieces once you're 5 points above an item's minimum, the chance rises by 2% per point from there, and at 55 points above the minimum every one is exceptional. For example, a quarter staff needs 73.6, so at 100.0 you succeed every time and 43% of them are exceptional. The tables below show each item's exceptional chance at 100.0.

What exceptional means:

• Staves: 20% more damage and 20% more durability.
• Wooden shields: +8 armor rating and 20% more durability.
• Instruments: 100 more uses, and they're a little easier to use when you play them against a target.

Maker's mark

Your work can carry your name. Use the MARK ITEM button in the menu to switch between Mark Item, Do Not Mark and Prompt For Mark. Marked items show crafted by and your name: "You create an exceptional quality item and affix your maker's mark."

Wood

	Material	Weight	Where to get it	Notes
	Logs	2	Chopped from trees with Lumberjacking, 10 at a time	Work exactly like boards in the carpentry menu. Carpenters and tinkers buy them back for 1 gold.
	Boards	1	Carpenters and tinkers (3 gold). Or cut your own: double-click an axe and target logs in your backpack.	Half the weight of logs. Carpenters buy them back for 2 gold.

All wood in New Bradford is ordinary wood, and everything you build comes out in its natural color.

Other materials:

	Material	Where to get it	Used for
	Cloth	Tailors (2 gold), or cut from bolts of cloth. See Tailoring.	Instruments, fishing poles, beds, training dummies, pickpocket dips, dressforms, spinning wheels and looms
	Iron ingots	Blacksmiths and tinkers (5 gold), or smelt your own. See Mining.	Forges, anvils, stone ovens, flour mills, pentagrams and abbatoirs
	Barrel hoops	Made by tinkers from 5 iron ingots. See Tinkering.	Kegs

What you can build

In every table, Carpentry needed is the minimum skill, and Always succeeds at is the skill where you stop failing. Sells for is what a town carpenter pays you for one.

Other

	Item	Carpentry needed	Always succeeds at	Materials	Notes
	Barrel staves	Any	25.0	5 boards or logs	Part of a keg.
	Barrel lid	11.0	36.0	4 boards or logs	Part of a keg.
	Short music stand	78.9	103.9	15 boards or logs	Decoration.
	Tall music stand	81.5	106.5	20 boards or logs	Decoration.
	Easel	86.8	111.8	20 boards or logs	Decoration.

Furniture

	Item	Carpentry needed	Always succeeds at	Materials	Sells for
	Foot stool	11.0	36.0	9 boards or logs	6 gold
	Stool	11.0	36.0	9 boards or logs	6 gold
	Straw chair	21.0	46.0	13 boards or logs	6 gold
	Wooden chair	21.0	46.0	13 boards or logs	8 gold
	Vesper-style chair	42.1	67.1	15 boards or logs	12 gold
	Trinsic-style chair	42.1	67.1	13 boards or logs	10 gold
	Wooden bench	52.6	77.6	17 boards or logs	6 gold
	Wooden throne	52.6	77.6	17 boards or logs	6 gold
	Magincia-style throne	73.6	98.6	19 boards or logs	24 gold
	Small table	42.1	67.1	17 boards or logs	7 gold
	Writing table	63.1	88.1	17 boards or logs	—
	Large table	63.1	88.1	23 boards or logs	10 gold
	Yew-wood table	84.2	109.2	27 boards or logs	10 gold

Containers

	Item	Carpentry needed	Always succeeds at	Materials	Sells for	Notes
	Wooden box	21.0	46.0	10 boards or logs	7 gold	Can have a lock. Provisioners sell them for 14 gold.
	Small crate	10.0	35.0	8 boards or logs	5 gold	Can have a lock.
	Medium crate	31.0	56.0	15 boards or logs	6 gold	Can have a lock.
	Large crate	47.3	72.3	18 boards or logs	7 gold	Can have a lock.
	Wooden chest	73.6	98.6	20 boards or logs	15 gold	Can have a lock.
	Wooden shelf	31.5	56.5	25 boards or logs	—	A bookcase you can store things in.
	Armoire (red)	84.2	109.2	35 boards or logs	—	A tall wardrobe you can store things in.
	Armoire	84.2	109.2	35 boards or logs	—	A tall wardrobe you can store things in.
	Keg	57.8	82.8	3 barrel staves 1 barrel hoops 1 barrel lid	—	See Kegs.

Locks

Wooden boxes, crates and wooden chests can come out lockable, with a matching copper key inside. Whether they do depends on your Tinkering, not your Carpentry:

• With no Tinkering, the chance is 25%. It rises by 5% per point and is certain at 15.0 Tinkering.
• "Your tinker skill was sufficient to make the item lockable." means you got a lock and key. "Your tinker skill was insufficient to make the item lockable." means it has no lock.
• The more Tinkering you have, the harder the lock is to pick.
• Each attempt also gives your Tinkering a small chance to rise, until 15.0.

Wooden shelves and armoires never have locks.

Kegs

An empty keg is put together from 3 barrel staves, 1 set of barrel hoops and 1 barrel lid. Tinkers turn it into a potion keg that holds 100 potions. See Alchemy.

Weapons and armor

	Item	Carpentry needed	Always succeeds at	Materials	Exceptional at 100	Strength needed	Damage	Speed	Weight	Shops sell it
	Quarter staff	73.6	98.6	6 boards or logs	43%	30	8–28	48	4	Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (19 gold)
	Gnarled staff	78.9	103.9	7 boards or logs	32%	20	10–30	33	3	Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (16 gold)
	Shepherd's crook	78.9	103.9	7 boards or logs	32%	10	3–12	30	4	Weaponsmiths and blacksmiths (20 gold)
	Wooden shield	52.6	77.6	9 boards or logs	85%	—	Armor rating 8	—	5	Blacksmiths (30 gold)
	Fishing pole	68.4	93.4	5 boards or logs 5 cloth Also needs 40 Tailoring	—	—	—	—	8	Fishermen (15 gold)

The shepherd's crook is also the tool for Herding. All three staves are two-handed Mace Fighting weapons. The fishing pole is what you need for Fishing.

Instruments

Every instrument also needs 45 Musicianship.

	Instrument	Carpentry needed	Always succeeds at	Materials	Exceptional at 100	Shops sell it
	Lap harp	63.1	88.1	20 boards or logs 10 cloth	64%	Bards, tinkers and carpenters (21 gold)
	Standing harp	78.9	103.9	35 boards or logs 15 cloth	32%	—
	Drum	57.8	82.8	20 boards or logs 10 cloth	74%	Bards, tinkers and carpenters (21 gold)
	Lute	68.4	93.4	25 boards or logs 10 cloth	53%	Bards, tinkers and carpenters (21 gold)
	Tambourine	57.8	82.8	15 boards or logs 10 cloth	74%	Bards, tinkers and carpenters (21 gold)
	Tambourine (tassel)	57.8	82.8	15 boards or logs 15 cloth	74%	—

Instruments are what bards play with Musicianship, Peacemaking, Provocation and Discordance. Each one has a limited number of uses. When they run out the instrument breaks.

House add-ons

The beds, dartboards, ballot box, pentagram, abbatoir, forges, anvils, training dummies, pickpocket dips, spinning wheels, looms, stone ovens, flour mills and water troughs come out as deeds. Most come in two versions, facing east or south.

	Add-on	Menu category	Carpentry needed	Always succeeds at	Materials	Also needs	Facing
	Small bed	Misc. Add-Ons	94.7	119.8	100 boards or logs 100 cloth	Tailoring 75	East or south
	Large bed	Misc. Add-Ons	94.7	119.8	150 boards or logs 150 cloth	Tailoring 75	East or south
	Dartboard	Misc. Add-Ons	15.7	40.7	5 boards or logs	—	East or south
	Ballot box	Misc. Add-Ons	47.3	72.3	5 boards or logs	—	Single
	Pentagram	Misc. Add-Ons	100.0	125.0	100 boards or logs 40 iron ingots	Magery 75	Single
	Abbatoir	Misc. Add-Ons	100.0	125.0	100 boards or logs 40 iron ingots	Magery 50	Single
	Small forge	Blacksmithing	73.6	98.6	5 boards or logs 75 iron ingots	Blacksmithy 75	Single
	Large forge	Blacksmithing	78.9	103.9	5 boards or logs 100 iron ingots	Blacksmithy 80	East or south
	Anvil	Blacksmithing	73.6	98.6	5 boards or logs 150 iron ingots	Blacksmithy 75	East or south
	Training dummy	Training	68.4	93.4	55 boards or logs 60 cloth	Tailoring 50	East or south
	Pickpocket dip	Training	73.6	98.6	65 boards or logs 60 cloth	Tailoring 50	East or south
	Dressform	Tailoring and Cooking	63.1	88.1	25 boards or logs 10 cloth	Tailoring 65	—
	Spinning wheel	Tailoring and Cooking	73.6	98.6	75 boards or logs 25 cloth	Tailoring 65	East or south
	Loom	Tailoring and Cooking	84.2	109.2	85 boards or logs 25 cloth	Tailoring 65	East or south
	Stone oven	Cooking	68.4	93.4	85 boards or logs 125 iron ingots	Tinkering 50	East or south
	Flour mill	Cooking	94.7	119.7	100 boards or logs 50 iron ingots	Tinkering 50	East or south
	Water trough	Cooking	94.7	119.7	150 boards or logs	—	East or south

The dressform isn't a deed: it comes out as an ordinary item you can carry around and set down anywhere.

Placing an add-on

1. Put the deed in your backpack ("That must be in your pack for you to use it.").
2. Double-click it and pick a spot inside a house you own. Elsewhere you'll see "You can only place this in a house that you own!"
3. The add-on appears and the deed is used up.

You can't place an add-on in front of a door ("You cannot build near the door.") or where it doesn't fit ("You cannot build that there.").

To take it back up, double-click an axe and target the add-on: "You destroy the item." The deed goes back in your backpack. Only the house owner can do this.

What they do

• Forges and anvils let you smith at home. See Blacksmithy.
• Spinning wheels and looms turn wool and cotton into cloth. See Tailoring.
• Stone ovens and flour mills are where you bake and grind flour. See Cooking.
• Water troughs are a water source: double-click an empty pitcher (or other drink container), then target the trough to fill it with water.
• Training dummies let you practice a melee weapon skill up to 25.0 (or Wrestling with bare hands). Equip the weapon, stand within its reach and double-click the dummy. Each hit is a chance to gain. Ranged weapons don't work ("You can't practice ranged weapons on this."), you have to be on foot, and you have to wait for the dummy to stop swinging before hitting it again.
• Pickpocket dips let you practice Stealing up to 25.0. Stand next to the dip, on foot, and double-click it.
• Ballot boxes hold a yes-or-no vote. The house owner writes the question (up to 6 lines) and can reset the count. Each player gets one vote: "Your vote has been registered."
• Dartboards are just for fun. Hold a knife or dagger, stand up to 4 tiles away facing the board and double-click it to throw. No skill involved: "BULLSEYE! 50 Points!"
• Beds, pentagrams and abbatoirs are decoration.

Training Carpentry

• Every attempt can raise your Carpentry, whether it succeeds or fails, but only while the item is a challenge. Once you reach an item's Always succeeds at skill it's too easy to teach you anything.
• Below 10.0 you gain on every attempt. Above that, each attempt has a chance to gain 0.1.
• The harder the item is for you, the better your chance to gain, especially when you succeed. Your chance also drops as you get closer to your Carpentry cap and to your total skill cap.
• Carpentry tops out at 100.0 (Grandmaster). There are no power scrolls for Carpentry.
• Reaching 100.0 adds Carpentry to the Skills Mastered count on your achievements.
• Town carpenters, stonecrafters and shipwrights will also teach you the basics for a fee.

Strength and Dexterity: each successful item has about a 6% chance to raise your Strength by 1 and about a 1.5% chance to raise your Dexterity by 1, at most once every 10 minutes each (as long as the stat is set to rise).

Suggested path

Carpentry	Build	Wood each	Notes
0 to 10	Barrel staves	5	Keep them for kegs.
10 to 21	Small crates	8	Sell for 5 gold.
21 to 31	Wooden boxes or wooden chairs	10 / 13	Sell for 7 and 8 gold.
31 to 42	Medium crates	15	Sell for 6 gold.
42 to 60	Trinsic-style chairs	13	Sell for 10 gold.
60 to 74	Large tables	23	Sell for 10 gold. With 45 Musicianship and some cloth, lutes (68.4) work too.
74 to 90	Magincia-style thrones	19	Sell for 24 gold, the best return in carpentry. Wooden chests (20 wood, 15 gold) are the same difficulty.
90 to 100	Yew-wood tables or armoires	27 / 35	Yew-wood tables are cheaper and sell for 10 gold.

Chairs, stools, crates, chests and tables sell back to carpenters, so a lot of your practice pays for some of its wood.

Messages you'll see

Message	What it means
You create the item.	Success.
You create an exceptional quality item.	Success, and the staff, shield or instrument is exceptional.
You failed to create the item, and some of your materials are lost.	The attempt failed and the wood is gone.
You do not have sufficient wood to make that.	Get more boards or logs.
You do not have sufficient cloth to make that.	The item needs cloth.
You don't have the required skills to attempt this item.	Your Carpentry, or the second skill the item needs, is too low.
The tool must be on your person to use.	Put the tool in your backpack.
You have worn out your tool!	Your tool broke. Grab a spare.
Your tinker skill was sufficient to make the item lockable.	The box, crate or chest has a lock and a key inside.
Your tinker skill was insufficient to make the item lockable.	No lock this time.
You can only place this in a house that you own!	Add-on deeds only work in your own house.
You cannot build near the door.	Move the add-on away from the door.

Tips

• Cut your logs into boards before a long trip home. Boards weigh half as much and build exactly the same things.
• Learn a little Tinkering. 15.0 Tinkering means every box, crate and chest you build comes with a lock and key.
• Raise Tailoring alongside if you want to build looms, spinning wheels, training dummies or beds. Every attempt trains it a little too.
• Sell your practice pieces. Magincia-style thrones fetch 24 gold and wooden chests 15 from carpenters.
• Keep your add-on deeds safe. A deed in your backpack is the add-on, and you can always chop a placed one back into its deed.