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Tinkering is the craft of small machines and metal goods. Tinkers make the tools every other crafter depends on, along with clocks, sextants, jewelry, lockpicks, kitchenware and trapped chests. If a crafter's tool breaks, a tinker can make another.

At a glance

Skill cap 100 (Grandmaster)
Tool Tinker's tools tinker's tools (7 gold at tinkers)
Materials Iron ingots iron ingots, boards or logs, gems, potions
Main uses Tools, parts and assemblies, jewelry, traps
Stats it trains Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity

How to tinker

Double-click a pair of tinker's tools to open the tinkering menu. Choose a category, then an item. You don't need a forge or an anvil. Your chance starts at 0% at the bottom of an item's range and rises to 100% at the top. Tinkers can add their maker's mark to what they make, and can repair tinkered items.

You can work coloured ingots once your skill is high enough:

Ingot Tinkering needed
Dull copper Dull copper 65
Shadow iron Shadow iron 70
Copper Copper 75
Bronze Bronze 80
Gold Gold 85
Agapite Agapite 90
Verite Verite 95
Valorite Valorite 99

Wooden items

Item Skill range Materials Chance at 50 Chance at 80
Jointing plane Jointing plane 0–50 Boards 4 boards or logs 100% 100%
Moulding plane Moulding plane 0–50 Boards 4 boards or logs 100% 100%
Smoothing plane Smoothing plane 0–50 Boards 4 boards or logs 100% 100%
Clock frame Clock frame 0–50 Boards 6 boards or logs 100% 100%
Axle Axle 0–25 Boards 2 boards or logs 100% 100%
Rolling pin Rolling pin 0–50 Boards 5 boards or logs 100% 100%

Tools

Item Skill range Materials Chance at 50 Chance at 80
Scissors Scissors 5–55 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 90% 100%
Mortar and pestle Mortar and pestle 20–70 Iron ingots 3 iron ingots 60% 100%
Scorp Scorp 30–80 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 40% 100%
Tinker's tools Tinker's tools 10–60 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 80% 100%
Hatchet Hatchet 30–80 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 40% 100%
Draw knife Draw knife 30–80 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 40% 100%
Sewing kit Sewing kit 10–70 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 67% 100%
Saw Saw 30–80 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 40% 100%
Dovetail saw Dovetail saw 30–80 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 40% 100%
Froe Froe 30–80 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 40% 100%
Shovel Shovel 40–90 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 20% 80%
Hammer Hammer 30–80 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 40% 100%
Tongs Tongs 35–85 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 30% 90%
Smith's hammer Smith's hammer 40–90 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 20% 80%
Sledge hammer Sledge hammer 40–90 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 20% 80%
Inshave Inshave 30–80 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 40% 100%
Pickaxe Pickaxe 40–90 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 20% 80%
Lockpick Lockpick 45–95 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 10% 70%
Skillet Skillet 30–80 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 40% 100%
Flour sifter Flour sifter 50–100 Iron ingots 3 iron ingots 0% 60%
Fletcher's tools Fletcher's tools 35–85 Iron ingots 3 iron ingots 30% 90%
Mapmaker's pen Mapmaker's pen 25–75 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 50% 100%
Scribe's pen Scribe's pen 25–75 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 50% 100%

Parts

Item Skill range Materials Chance at 50 Chance at 80
Gears Gears 5–55 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 90% 100%
Clock parts Clock parts 25–75 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 50% 100%
Barrel tap Barrel tap 35–85 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 30% 90%
Springs Springs 5–55 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 90% 100%
Sextant parts Sextant parts 30–80 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 40% 100%
Barrel hoops Barrel hoops 0–35 Iron ingots 5 iron ingots 100% 100%
Hinge Hinge 5–55 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 90% 100%
Bola balls Bola balls 45–95 Iron ingots 10 iron ingots 10% 70%

Utensils

Item Skill range Materials Chance at 50 Chance at 80
Butcher knife Butcher knife 25–75 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 50% 100%
Spoon Spoon 0–50 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 100% 100%
Plate Plate 0–50 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 100% 100%
Fork Fork 0–50 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 100% 100%
Cleaver Cleaver 20–70 Iron ingots 3 iron ingots 60% 100%
Knife Knife 0–50 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot 100% 100%
Goblet Goblet 10–60 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 80% 100%
Pewter mug Pewter mug 10–60 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 80% 100%
Skinning knife Skinning knife 25–75 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 50% 100%

Miscellaneous

Item Skill range Materials Chance at 50 Chance at 80
Key ring Key ring 10–60 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 80% 100%
Candelabra Candelabra 55–105 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 0% 50%
Scales Scales 60–110 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 0% 40%
Iron key Iron key 20–70 Iron ingots 3 iron ingots 60% 100%
Globe Globe 55–105 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 0% 50%
Spyglass Spyglass 60–110 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 0% 40%
Lantern Lantern 30–80 Iron ingots 2 iron ingots 40% 100%
Heating stand Heating stand 60–110 Iron ingots 4 iron ingots 0% 40%

Jewelry

Each piece of jewelry takes 2 iron ingots and 1 gem and needs 40 to 90 Tinkering. Every piece comes in nine gem styles:

Pieces Ring Silver bead necklace Gold necklace Earrings Gold bead necklace Bracelet
Ring, silver bead necklace, gold necklace, earrings, gold bead necklace and bracelet
Gems Star sapphire Star sapphire Emerald Emerald Sapphire Sapphire Ruby Ruby Citrine Citrine Amethyst Amethyst Tourmaline Tourmaline Amber Amber Diamond Diamond

Assemblies

Assemblies combine parts you've already made. Most always succeed.

Item Skill range Parts
Axle with gears Axle with gears Always Axle, Gears
Clock parts Clock parts Always Axle with gears, Springs
Sextant parts Sextant parts Always Axle with gears, Hinge
Clock Clock Always Clock frame, Clock parts
Sextant Sextant Always Sextant parts
Bola Bola 60–80 4 bola balls, 3 leather or hides
Potion keg Potion keg 75–100 (50% at 75) Empty keg, 10 empty bottles, Barrel lid, Barrel tap

Building a clock: axle + gears → axle with gears; axle with gears + springs → clock parts; clock frame + clock parts → clock. Building a sextant: axle with gears + hinge → sextant parts → sextant.

Traps

Tinkers can rig a trap on a lockable chest they own. Make the trap, then target an unlocked chest within 2 tiles. The trap stays harmless until you lock the chest (Trap is disabled until you lock the chest.), then it goes off on the next person who opens it or picks its lock. The trap level is your Tinkering divided by 10 (level 10 at 100 skill).

Trap Skill range Materials Effect
Dart trap 30–80 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot + Crossbow bolt 1 crossbow bolt Darts hit anyone within 3 tiles of the chest for 5–15 damage per trap level.
Poison trap 30–80 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot + Green potion 1 poison potion Poisons anyone within 3 tiles. The poison is stronger the higher the trap level, up to Lethal.
Explosion trap 55–105 Iron ingots 1 iron ingot + Purple potion 1 explosion potion Fire damage of 10–30 per trap level to anyone within 3 tiles.

Training Tinkering

  • Every item you attempt inside its range is a chance to gain. Pick cheap items near the bottom of your range.
  • Iron ingots are the main cost, so a miner friend helps.
  • Below 10.0 you gain on every attempt, sometimes several tenths at once. Above that, each attempt has a chance to gain 0.1.
  • The harder the attempt is for your skill level, the better your chance to gain. Your chance also drops as you get closer to your Tinkering cap and to your total skill cap of 700.
  • If you've set Tinkering to go down (the arrow in your skills list), gains elsewhere can lower it to make room under your total cap. Lock skills you want to keep.
  • Reaching 100.0 adds Tinkering to the Skills Mastered count on your achievements.
  • Tinkers, tinker guildmasters and golem crafters will train you for gold: up to a third of their own skill, at most 42.0, for 1 gold per 0.1 points. Ask them (or use their context menu) to train the skill, then drop the gold on them.

Stats: each successful use has about a 2% chance to raise Strength, a smaller chance (under 1%) to raise Dexterity and a smaller chance (under 1%) to raise Intelligence by 1 point. Each stat can rise at most once every 10 minutes, and only if it's set to rise.

Suggested path

Tinkering How to train
0 to about 33 Buy it from a tinker.
33 to 45 Clock parts, scissors or tinker's tools.
45 to 60 Tongs or fletcher's tools.
60 to 75 Lockpicks (also useful for training Lockpicking).
75 to 90 Candelabras or globes.
90 to 100 Spyglasses, scales or heating stands.

Messages

Message What it means
You have worn out your tool! Your tools broke. Make or buy another pair.
You can only trap lockable chests. Traps only go on lockable chests.
You can only trap an unlocked object. Unlock the chest before trapping it.
You can only place one trap on an object at a time. The chest already has a trap.
That belongs to someone else. It isn't your chest.

Tips

  • Make your own tinker's tools (10 Tinkering, 2 ingots) so you never run out.
  • Supply other crafters. Saws, smith's hammers, sewing kits and pens are always in demand.
  • New characters who pick Tinkering start with tinker's tools and spare parts.

See also

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