Tradeskills
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[edit] MUD Definition
From "help tradeskills_about":
The tradeskill system is designed to allow players to more fully interact with their environment and players, and to make their own neat stuff. There are three different types of tradeskills: gathering, crafting, and artisan. For this example, I will walk you through the process of making a loaf of bread.
Making a loaf of bread from scratch requires the gathering and crafting tradeskill types: You'll first need to harvest the wheat, mill the wheat into flour, and then bake the flour (and other ingredients) into bread. You might use an artisan tradeskill such as pottery to make a dish with which to serve the bread.
Harvesting is essentially reaping items from the land, whether it is wheat, iron ore, or lumber. Often, you will need to refine those materials into something more usable, and a crafting tradeskill will be needed to accomplish that. Artisan tradeskills are primarily used to create something aesthetic and enriching, such as a piece of jewelry, a portrait, or a plate.
For each tradeskill that is available in the game, you can see 'help tradeskill (tradeskill name)'; for baking, you can see 'help tradeskill baking'. You can see what tradeskills are available by typing 'help tradeskills'.
You will find various areas in which a tradeskill helper is available to teach you new tradeskills, or to let you focus or forget about them. Focusing a tradeskill makes it "active" (seen as a * in the tradeskills command). If a tradeskill is not active, you cannot use it; further, non-active tradeskills will degrade for each hour of age). Professionals (players who have a non-civilian profession) may not have as many active tradeskills as civilians. For the exact numbers, see 'help tradeskills'. As such, you must choose wisely what tradeskills you wish to master.
Mastering a tradeskill can only be accomplished through use. Practice, practice, practice! Even if you do not succeed in crafting, you will probably learn something from it.
Like the rest of The Two Towers, tradeskills are not a static thing. As time goes on, new tradeskills will be added to the game and many tradeskills may be used together to create even better things.
For more information see: help tradeskill, help tradeskills
[edit] Other Help Files
- From "help tradeskill":
- Usage: tradeskill <learn|focus|forget> <skill>
The tradeskill command must be used at a tradeskill trainer. Once at a trainer, you can use the 'learn' option to learn new tradeskills, the 'focus' option to make a tradeskill active, or the 'forget' option to make a tradeskill passive. If a tradeskill is passive, you will be thinking about other things when you attempt to use it, and as a result, it will be as if you never had the skill at all.
See 'help tradeskills' and 'help tradeskills_about'
- From "help tradeskills":
The tradeskills command shows you your current tradeskill levels and the tradeskill that you are currently using.
Your tradeskills will only improve as you use them; you cannot purchase tradeskill upgrades like you can with other skills.
There are three types of tradeskills: gathering tradeskills allow you to collect different materials, crafting tradeskills allow you to create equipment to help you in your adventuring, and artisan tradeskills allow you to create beautiful aesthetic things to make your world more interesting.
There is no limit to the number of gathering tradeskills that you may have active.
Civilians may have 4 active crafting tradeskills, while Professionals may have 2. Civilians may have 3 active artisan tradeskills, while Professionals may have 2.
In order to make a tradeskill active, you must seek out a tradeskill helper proficient in that tradeskill. Once at the helper, you may use the 'tradeskill' command. See 'help tradeskill' and 'help tradeskills_about'.
- We currently have the following tradeskills:
- cooking : See 'help tradeskill cooking'
- harvesting : See 'help tradeskill harvesting'
- fishing : See 'help tradeskill fishing'
- sewing : See 'help tradeskill sewing'
- alchemy : See 'help tradeskill alchemy'
