Resources
 A forging workstation | |
| Part of a series on Crafting: | |
|---|---|
| Alchemy | |
| Art Crafting | |
| Carpentry | |
| Forging | |
| Herbalism | |
| Tailoring | |
| armor - weapons resources - runes | |
Resources are used by characters in Crafting. Thare of two types. They can be either:
- Opened - Containers that include the resources inside, e.g. Bushes or Sand deposits, or
- Bashed - e.g. Trees, Ore and Gem deposits
Some resources can produce new materials only once per server reset to demonstrate their rarity (such as sweetberry or food resources in Underdark). Other resources can produce random amount of new materials after some time of being picked up.
Resources that can be bashed produce different random amount of materials. The more rare the resource, the lower chance of obtaining any result. Mining coal or salt is likely to provide more resources than mining diamonds or adamantine. The minimum yield a deposit may offer is 2 chunks of ore.
Ore deposits aren't entirely fixed. The deposit always respawn in the same place, but depending the value of the spot, it may offer a plethora of different yields. The tiers of rarity scale as Common (Coal, Tin, Copper, Lead), Noble (Iron, Silver, Gold, Zinc), Rich (Mithril, Arjale, Adamantine), and Grandiose (Guaranteed Rich).
Coal, tin and copper may spawn commonly in a local mine, as it would be full of common deposits, but rarely you may even see gold and silver in the same place, since every resource deposit may offer something one tier higher, or one tier lower. The deposits usually take between 2 and 4 RL days to rotate.
Mining
The system works as follows.
- Each resource has a % chance associated with it. So coal might have 90%, emeralds might have 10%.
- Resources have 250 hitpoints (with a few rare exceptions, like tinder fungus).
- Every 25 damage done to a resource triggers a roll against the % chance. If passed, you get one resource. If not, nothing happens.
- Only physical, fire and cold damage counts.
- You don't need to bash the resource node at melee - magic and summons (using the Player Tool 1 to command them) can be used instead.
- If you are within 10 feet of the resource node, the resources acquired will go to the damage dealer's (or summoner if the commanded companion is doing the job) inventory. Otherwise, the resources will fall to the floor.
That's it. There are two small subtleties though.
- If you have more than three attacks (and so are doing 2+ attacks per flurry), then due to a biobug, the damage used on the -last- attack in the flurry is used for -all- attacks that hit. So if you attack twice in a flurry and hit for 20 and 40 damage, you will be counted as doing 80 damage (but if you hit for 40 and 20, you are counted as doing just 40).
- If you do say 105 damage when the resource has only one hitpoint left, you get rolls for 250, 275, 300, 325 and 350 damage points - so you basically get 4 extra rolls. This is the only bias in the system in favour of doing large amounts of damage.