What craft skills do you want to see?

Personally, I'd like to see the following:

Smithing - the creation of items made of metal.

Tailoring - the creation of items made from cloth or leather.

Mining - the gathering of ores and gemstones.

Gemcraft - the creation of items from gemstones.

Woodworking - the creation of items made from wood.

Carpentry - the creation of home furnishings and other items.

Cooking - the creation of food from raw ingredients.

Farming - the cultivation of plants and animals.

 

If you have woodworking and carpentry, then you have to have lumberjacking. Also without lumberjacking how will the swordsmen get their str up?

 

Crafting Skills
Armor Smith
Weapon Smith
Fletching
Tailoring
Leather Working
Gemcraft/Jewel Craft
Enchanting
Cooking
Alchemy

Gathering Skills
Mining
Skinning
Logging
Wild plant Gathering
Farming (I like this idea, grow food, Animals for leather or Plants for Cloth.)

 

It might help the (ambiance? immersion?) if there were some way to customize your rig; dyeing or embroidering clothes/bags; engraving on metal items. Perhaps adding jewels or colored enamel to almost any object; makes it more recognizable, more valued. (More traceable if stolen!)
Just a thought; most of this would likely be available in city/towns; to the upper class or Luxury levels.
looking forward to more info.
KM

 

More than certain specific crafting skills, I would like to see a robust, well-thought-out, generalized crafting/gathering framework created right from the start.

I'm always disappointed when there are lots of crafting skills in a game and only 2 of them are really interesting or economically viable.

Spend some more time thinking about crafting in general and less time on how cooking is different from smithing is different from sewing. Sure, there will be implementation differences between each of these, but they should all be based on a reasonable super-set of ideas.

It would be great to start out with many well thought out options for people who enjoy crafting, but it that isn't feasible (and it has never been yet) then it would be better to start out with a great crafting framework and a few example skills with the ability to add more in the future.

 

I've been playing A Tale in the Desert lately and I'm really impressed with their skills and crafting. While the ability to attempt something is easily purchased, the execution of it takes real skill and practice. For example, blacksmithing requires shaping a malleable block into a finished product by controlling the force of your 1 of 4 chosen tools. It takes skill, practice and a certain knack to create high quality items. Foraging - a skill I though was sorely lacking in UO - means knowing how to recognize and harvest over a hundred different herbs, mixed in among the 300+ plants scattered across the land.

Skills can be so much more than mindlessly repeating the same actions over and over. Grinding is soul-crushing. Although I played UO for almost 12 years I never maxed out a skill. I just couldn't bear building chairs and bookcases only to toss them in a trashcan.

Skills need to be based on real skill, not real obsessive/compulsive behavior.
mw

 

The part of uo that I sorely miss is the detail to gathering multiple items in order to crafty. For example, to make an arrow you had to chop a tree then get some feathered then whittle the wood and finally fetch it. Using multiple skills or knowledges just to make your ammo. That sort of immersion is what I wouldv like to see.

 

I do so appreciate a well thought out crafting system with some interaction between skills. Mine, smelt, forge. That was my gig in UO.. though mostly mining and selling ingots.

I would love to see a diverse system with many skills and options but as was said those options need to be viable to be worth while.

Personally, if it can be carried, placed, driven, worn, used or broken then I'd love to be able to craft it.

 

I would like to see beer brewing / distillery, creating various different beers, spirits and wines. Even more awesome would be having my own distillery in my house and creating my own beer labels too.

 

Crafting
Alchemy - Mix potions
Glassblowing - Make flasts, bottles, lanterns etc usually for potions
Item Identification - Ability to reconise and identify an item
Blacksmithy - Craft metal into objects
Bowcraft & Fletching - Makes bows out of woods
Carpentry - Makes items out of wood
Masonry - Makes items out of stone
Cartography - Maps the area
Cooking - Overall ability to cook
Baking - Bakes food such as bread, cakes etc
Roastion - Roast meat etc
Imbuing - Add item properties (ok don't really want this but w/e)
Inscription - Write scrolls, engrave jewlery
Tailoring - Make items out of leather / animal hides
Tinkering - Makes parts of traps, tinker toys, clockwork etc
Rune Crafting - Make runes / recall stones
Farming - Grow herbs and some reagents
Reaping - Ability to get reapable crops back once planted
Plant Knowledge - Able to identify plants / herbs
Planting - Ability to germenate a seed
Harvesting - Ability to get harvestable crops back once planted

Resource Gathering
Fishing - Catch fish
Lumberjacking - Chop trees
Mining - Mine rocks / ores
Hunting - Gather resources from huntable animales. Eg: rabbits food, vension, hides etc

Creatures
Animal Lore - Animal knowledge
Animal Taming - Animal taming / pets
Herding - Animal control
Veterinary - Animal treatment

 

Alchemy as long as it does something other then making buffs and heals.

in UO one thing that always saddend me was that explosive potions weren't really fleshed out,

Making various sorts of "grenades" instead of being a caster would be great.


But beyond that I want there to be more to do with crafting then just making and opening a shop....I'd love to see trade routes and the ability to become a trader going from city to city

 

Many.

 

I would really like a great economic system based on crafting.

 

Bee husbandry.

 

Masonry.

 

I'd say mine but it would look like I totally copied Lord Sunrise, so I'll just say "Awesome List you got there).. I agree with everything he/she said.

And also please make the crafting system deep enough so everyone crafting doesn't craft the same exact items. Why would anyone want to buy my armor if everyone is crafting the same quality, density, type and look? Don't so much make the outcome random but allow there to be some type of variable within the crafting process that has huge variety on what the outcome will be.

/my 2 coppers

 

Okay, I can't figure out how to edit my previous post, but I did think of a few that I didn't see listed..

Lock Smithing (making / copying of keys and crafting locks (part of tinkering))

Architect (instead of buying a house deed, then build the house from scratch)

Boat Building (various types of small to medium boats either sail powered or with oars)

Cart Building (Self explanatory)

Unsure what its called but crafting fishing poles and lures

Siege Weapon crafting (unsure if there's a demand for this)

Candle crafting (part of wax crafting / bee keeping?)

Torch crafting

Tent Crafting?

Rope crafting

If Pack Animals then the packs (Part of Leatherworking?)

Also would like to grow my own pipe tobacco.. so however that can be added..

 

As mentioned in the wish list sticky, my ideal is every item in the game should be craftable, not only usable.

Also, that there be at least one NPC crafter in the world for each type of craft. Notice that there are always hundreds of books in RPGs but no bookbinders anywhere?

Here's a list of some craft trades, although in game terms some of these might be grouped under a more general skill title.

Beekeeping
Chandlery (candlemaking and soapmaking)
Bookbinding and parchmenting
Brewing, winemaking, and distilling
Masonry and thatchery (making thatch roofs)
Goldsmithing and silversmithing
Net making and rope making
Pottery and tile-making
Embroiderery, engraving, illuminating
Ploughwrightery and cartwrightery

 

Luthiers to create musical instruments

 

I still want my distillation, brewing and fermentation. I want to distill my spirits, brew beer and make wine too. Of course each one of these require different equipment and ingredients.

At some point I would go pro and buy my own distillation equipment, a wine press, and set up a brewery.. If I couldn't have a full size still, I could maybe use an alembic to produce smaller amounts of distilled spirits..

"There are several steps in the brewing process, which include malting, milling, mashing, lautering, boiling, fermenting, conditioning, filtering, and packaging. There are three main fermentation methods, warm, cool and wild or spontaneous. Fermentation may take place in open or closed vessels. There may be a secondary fermentation that can take place in the brewery, in the cask, or in the bottle."

"The basic ingredients of beer are water; a starch source, such as malted barley, which is able to be fermented (converted into alcohol); a brewer's yeast to produce the fermentation; and a flavouring, such as hops. A secondary starch source may be used, such as maize, rice or sugar."

Spartans! what is your profession?!
- mine is brewing...