Body control

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Description

Body control is a characteristic that helps with weapon accuracy and stealthing, and determines the mounts a player can ride.

Skills

Smithing, carpentry, tailoring, and archaeology skills all offer decent Body Control skill, as do archery, shield skills, and some weapon skills.

Chopping trees with a longsword and two handed sword also offers good Body Control gains. Note: this only works until 20 skill, or 20 effective skill on Epic.

Archery on an archery target is excellent until about skill level 30.

Body control levels

Body control required	Action/Mount
<19.5	Cow
19.5	Donkey
20.5	Steal
21	Horse
23	Bull
23	Brown Bear
25	Crocodile
26	Unicorn
29	Scorpion (dominated or zombie)
31	Hell horse

Currently Cows/Donkeys are the only animals non-prem characters can ride.

List of skills that raise Body control

• Archaeology
  • Restoration
• Archery
  • Short bow
  • Medium bow
  • Long bow
• Carpentry
  • Bowyery
  • Fletching
  • Fine carpentry
  • Ship building
  • Toy Making
• Climbing
• Knives
  • Butchering knife
  • Carving knife
• Smithing
  • Armour smithing
  • Blacksmithing
  • Weapon smithing
  • Locksmithing
• Swords
  • Longsword
  • Shortsword
  • Two Handed Sword
• Tailoring
  • Cloth tailoring
  • Leatherworking
• Thievery
  • Lockpicking
  • Stealing
  • Traps
• Shields
  • Small wooden shield
  • Medium wooden shield
  • Large wooden shield
  • Small metal shield
  • Medium metal shield
  • Large metal shield

For a list of more characteristic-based skill gain, look here.

Messages

You now feel confident enough to steal things.

• When body control rises to 20.5. Stealing is only allowed on PVP servers.