GTS Crafting Guide

Glossary #

1. Acceleration Points: consumable points which can be spent to make you master GTS crafting faster. These points are granted to players based on their progress in the legacy system ATS.
2. ATS: Ambrosia Tadeskill System, the old crafting system we are migrating from.
3. GTS: Goon’s Tradeskill System, our new crafting system.
4. Entity: a GTS asset in the game, like a tree you can chop, a plant you can harvest, an animal you can skin, an ore/gem you can mine.

F.A.Q. #

Known Issues & Non-issues #

1. Many of the GTS weapons have appearances that don’t really fit their lore. For example, coldsteel may have the red appearance, or iron that of gold. This is a side-effect of procedurally determining the weapon models, and won’t be looked into until time can be allocated to manually go through and verify each one.
2. Some recipe items haven’t been reworked for GTS, yet. This is a work-in-progress and you can always check in on Trello to see what we’re working on!
3. Tinkering isn’t ready yet. It will be introduced as a later update to GTS (possibly with a lot of pizazz).
4. The Mulrok shop hasn’t been converted yet to accept these new items. You can always watch this card for updates on the post-release addition of the tradeskill economy.

Overview #

Nordock is a land sprawling with danger, enemies, and resources at the very ends of its reaches. As a crafter, you would rather spend your time honing your skills and perfecting your trade, than picking through mountains of brutally murdered goblin remains looking for shiny objects. You’re better than that.

Welcome to the GTS guide. This manual will tell you everything you need to know about ADOH’s intricate crafting system, and how to use it to your advantage.

Resources #

Unless you’re some kind of mega-conjurer (in which case the bank of Benzor would like to have a word with you), you’re going to need resources to craft. These resources are scattered about the lands in a semi-random pattern: some resources prefer certain climates, maps, or biomes and can be found there in greater abundance. If your thick crafter’s skull forgets everything else I just told you, remember this one thing: The location of resources can be determined by examining them in the crafting tree or your inventory. Didn’t get that? Ok, shorter: Examine a resource to see where it spawns. Got it? Good.

Once you find a resource in the wilds, you’ll need to harvest it with the proper tool. If you use the wrong tool, you’ll only get half! So, if you’re a smart crafter, you’ll carry around a few different tools to make sure you’re always prepared.

The different types of resources are as follows:

Ore Veins #

Ore veins are typically mined with GTS hammers. They are each weak to acid damage (which will dissolve and waste their precious metals) and have differing amounts of hitpoints. Oddly enough, they seem to have some strange affinity with fire damage…

Trees #

Trees are chopped down with GTS axes (or fists if your name is Steve). Dealing fire damage or interacting with them with a torch will also cause them to catch fire, burning them down and yielding charcoal in the process. Acid works magnificently for decaying these little pests away, and it counts towards the wood yield too!

Animals #

Animals are killed via any means possible. Just make sure to bring a shortsword or a knife to skin them with when you’ve done the job.

Herbs #

Herbs are harvested with anything and everything. You just walk up to one and pluck it out of the ground. They’re not very tough, you see.

Gems #

Gems are mined with GTS hammers. They differ from ores in that they don’t show any particular weaknesses to any damage type, and they tend to form on walls and in clusters.

Crafting #

Crafting is done at a crafting station. There are many crafting stations for many different trades, and you are encouraged to browse about and experiment with them all. Crafting stations can generally be found at your local workshop in your home city.

The first thing you are going to want to craft, at the weaponsmithing station, is an axe and a hammer. You can use these immediately and begin to gather all of your resources when mining and chopping, instead of half.

The Tree #

The crafting tree is a visual representation of the crafting system. It is a branching tree of recipes, with each recipe leading to more recipes. Shown on each node (representation of a recipe) is the _skill_. Each time you attempt to craft that recipe, the skill will go up until it hits the maximum value. Once it does hit the maximum value, the chance of succeeding at the craft will be 100% and you will unlock the next recipes in the tree.

The Recipe #

When you select a recipe, you will be presented with a little window with a ton of useful options. Listed right by the icon are the speed, skill, mastery (these are explained in the Mechanics section below), and just below that are the ingredients. The ingredients will be colored green if you have enough, or red if you lack the resources to craft the item. If you have enough resources, you can click the [1], [5], [10], or [100] buttons to queue up that many crafts.

The Queue #

When you queue up a craft, it will be added to the queue. When there are items in the queue your character will begin crafting it if they are near an unoccupied crafting station. You can cancel individual queue entries one at a time by left clicking on the ‘X’ icon, or right-click to remove the entire entry.

If you walk away from your crafting station, the queue will be paused until you return. If you log out, the queue will be cleared.

Mechanics #

The above covers everything you need to know to get started, and to start producing crafted items. However, if you wish to take crafting to the next level and really optimize your output, you’ll need to know the mechanics.

Harvesting #

When you harvest resources, such as pelts or wood, it’s all modified by your harvesting modifier. Generally, you can see a breakdown of the harvesting modifier by examining the item to be harvested. The harvesting modifier is a combination of your character’s Craft: Harvesting skill and the relevant ability score for that resource. Different resource types use different ability scores:

By raising the combination of your harvesting skill and the relevant ability score, you can increase the amount of resources you gather dramatically.

Speed & Synergy #

Speed is a measure of how quickly you can craft an item. It is modified by your character’s Craft: Speed skill combined with recipe synergy bonuses. A synergy bonus is a speed boost you can obtain by mastering a similar recipe. In most cases these recipes will be in the same column of the crafting tree, but not always. For example, mastering the recipe for a copper longsword will give you a synergy bonus, and therefore a slight speed boost, when crafting a copper shortsword.

Mastery #

Mastery is a measure of how well you can craft an item. It is a cumulation of your character’s Craft: Mastery skill, the trade’s relevant ability score, and the percentage that you have mastered the recipe. Each recipe has a number of skill points associated with it, and each time you attempt to craft that recipe, the skill will go up until it hits the maximum value. On the way up, you receive a success chance (mastery) equal to the percentage of the recipe you have mastered. Once you have mastered the recipe, the chance of succeeding at the craft will be 100%.

After adding the recipe’s base mastery %, the Craft: Mastery skill will be added, and finally there will be a bonus based on your ability score which depends on the trade:

With all of these values added together, it is possible to reach numbers higher than 100% mastery. When your skill is over 100%, the overflow becomes your chance to craft [Masterful] items instead of normal ones. [Masterful] items have identical stats to normal ones, but they count towards the [Vengeful] set bonus allowing you to receive an improved bonus and combine it with other [Vengeful] items.