Recipes

Frank Blomdahl explains in threadID:756381.1:

A recipe is an ability to create a certain item, using one or several components (=other items).

A recipe always uses a tool (another item). The tool is not destroyed in the process, but you must have it with you.

In addition to the tool, you need components. Each time you make something, one charge of each component is consumed.

A recipe always requires that you have a certain skill. However, you do not have to be of a certain skill level. Just have the skill is enough.

A recipe is sometimes time restricted, so you can only make it every X minutes. (Coffee is not, however).

There are several ways to learn recipes:

• Some recipes will be given by default when you learn a certain skill. Most recipes will not be given this easily!

• You can learn a recipe from your master/mistress, if you are an apprentice. To learn it this way, you must :
  • Be present when your master/mistress makes the recipe.
  • You must have the required skill, of course.
  • Your chance to learn the recipe this way depends on your skill level in the related skill and your master's teaching abilities

• Thirdly, you may sometimes spend XP on “buying” a random recipe that exists. Yes, random - you cannot control which one you will learn (except that of course you won't get the same recipe twice). The price is 5 XP. Yes, it is expensive! The price is high because it is meant as a way to let little known recipes enter the game world, while the default way to learn recipes is meant to be through master/apprentice relationships. In order to “buy” a recipe this way, you need at least 4 stars in the skill that is needed for the recipe.

New recipes are usually discussed in threadID:757806.1

You can find a list of recipes in our References section.