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'''ImprovingAltars''' - Having Working within the best tools and raw materials [[Religion#Domain_of_the_gods|domain]] of your [[Gods|god(resourcesdess) you ]] can get your claws on is bestadd some bonus gain to certain skills. In additionMost skills and crafts require one to be standing still, finding the one item in the skill that uses the least amount of raw materials for improving is desirableso it cannot hurt to have an [[altar]] nearby.

'''Enchantments''' - [[Circle of Cunningcunning]] (CoC) and is extremely helpful since it provides increased skillgain. It's not advisable to use [[Wind of Ages]] on your tools when you're working to increase you skills as it results in reduced skillgain. '''Improving''' - Having the best (WoAhigh QL) are both extremely helpfultools and raw materials (resources) you can get your claws on is best. In addition, finding the one item in the skill that uses the least amount of raw materials for improving is desirable. '''Nutrition''' - At the very least, your nutrition should be higher than 40%. Anything less than that will result in decreased skillgain. You receive a 1% skillgain bonus at 60% nutrition and the bonus increases to 5% as you reach maximum nutrition. For blacklighters, except where specifically noted otherwiseit's best if you can do your work while standing on a mycelium tile. You will passively regain lost hunger and nutrition from mycelium tiles. Full nutrition can be achieved by sacrificing rare items to your chosen diety. This applies to all four gods.  '''Sleep Bonus''' - You can use this bonus at anytime to increase your skillgain while it's activated. You can accumulate sleep bonus by logging off in a bed or by consuming a sleep powder.

Copied to [[Smithing Guide]] To get started , it's best to have a forge of decent (50+) QL and good QL tools. This ensures The reason for having a good forge is that your the higher QL a forge has, the longer it will remain hot for longer and stay lit. It will also heat things items up faster. In order to practice blacksmithing and it's subsequent skills, and that you will have less of need the following tools: whetstone, hammer, pelt, and water (usually in a chance barrel).You can only improve items to the QL of failing while impingyour tools and resources. This is why it's important to have the best (high QL) tools and resources you can get your hands on.  What I find handy, when working to increase this skill, is to make multiple copies of an item and work on them all simultaneously. It's best to have an item for each queue slot that you have access to. For example to start off, you'll want three items to work on. 20-29.99 mind logic allows you to have three actions queued. When you reach 30 mind logic it would be beneficial to work on four items.

What I find handy when skilling up is It's best to make multiple copies of an item begin by creating and work on them all simultaneouslyimproving needles. If you They are also a miner or have ready access to unlimited ore, then you can work on any items you want. If you only have limited access to ore and/or are only working for skill, then your best bet is resource efficient to create and improve needles. They ; they only use .001 of a lump to create, use hardly anything to imp, and you can fit a hundred in a bowl or jar.

Skill gain Improving isn't limited by your skill level. It's also a good way to increase your skill level, when done properly. The gamewide method to increase crafting skills is faster the more difficult the work; by improving items to 30 points below a QL above your skill level won. It't generate skillgain as fast as improving items s best to go about 10 below -15 QL above your skill level, and so forth. This is why it's important to have high QL tools.

==JewelrysmithingJewelry smithing==

In order Copied to practice jewelrysmithing you need the same tools as for any other smithing skill: whetstone, hammer, pelt, and water. The higher the QL of your tools, the greater the chance to succeed when improving. [[Smithing Guide]]

To train JSing this skill it is best to begin with by making bowls for initial skill. Bowls can be made of any metal, resulting in high resource availability. As with all skills involving improving, you should endeavor to improve each bowl (and all subsequent items) to your skill plus 10 for maximum skill gain. Eventually, presuming that you have access to silver or gold ore, you can progress to creating armrings. These have a relatively high creation chance for low-skill Jewelrysmiths, and less skilled jewelrysmiths. They are also worth a pretty penny to traders. Their The downside to armrings is that since they weigh 0.30 30kg each. Therefore, they consume a lot of gold lump per imp attempt. You can endure this extra lump cost for a while if you have ready access to ore, but if not it is best to skip armrings entirely and proceed to the final item: rings. While their creation chance is initially low, they only weigh 0.05, meaning that a 0.10 lump lasts for 30 uses.

To raise Copied to [[carpentryCarpentry Guide]] the best way is building [[house|houses]] or grinding sub skills like [[fine carpentry]], [[bowyery]] and [[fletching]]. Don't use [[Wind of Ages]] on your [[mallet]] when you're building, as it results in reduced skillgain.

The best way to raise [[carpentry]] is by building [[Wooden house|houses]]. Working to increase the sub skills like [[fine carpentry]], [[bowyery]], [[fletching]], and [[ship building]] also increase the parent skill [[carpentry]]. You'll need the following tools for the [[carpentry]] skill family: hammer/mallet, pelt, carving knife, and a file.  For help in building houses, it is strongly recommended that you visit [[The "how do I build a Build house?" ]] guide.]]

To grind [[digging]] skill up, use a good [[Circle of Cunning]] [[shovel]] and try not to keep your eye on the skillgain; trust me it seems like you get your skill up faster. Look for an area you want to [[Flattening|flatten]] or terraform, and then dig the areas needed and dump the [[Pile of dirt|dirt]] in areas needed. For example:-

The best way to grind your farming skill is to start with ''Bread crops'' or [[Wempplants]]. ([[Oat]], [[Wheat]] & [[Barley]]) You may wonder why, but the reason is that you ALWAYS gain seeds for replanting.

To get started so you should you start with a 10x10 field for maximum skill gain. Get a small barrel and LOTS of time and you are set. (Read the [[Farming]] article for common farming knowledge.)

===Safe Wayway=== Create a [[practice doll]] and equip a shaft. Then beat it senseless for a bit, keeping its damage below 20 at all times. Never, EVER use a true weapon, especially a sword, on a practice doll. It's a complete waste of a good weapon and destroys the practice doll in no time. Not recommended. Equipping a shaft is a good weapon to use on a doll, or use a saw. ===Dangerous (but a heck of a lot more fun) way=== Go hunting. That's it. Just go hunting. You first want to try hunting down simple farm animals such as pigs, pheasants, roosters, bulls, cows, etc. Even wild cats work at the start. At around 10 fighting you want to get some leg protection and hunt down wolves. The wolves aim for the legs a lot, so leg protection will save you health in the end. Pheasants in particular can make an excellent training enemy as they will not follow you when you back away from the fight, giving you time to heal and regain stamina if necessary, especially if fighting with very low QL weapons for the skill gain. ==Melee weapons==

Create a practice doll and equip a shaft. Then beat it senseless for a bit, keeping its damage below Melee weapons can be safely trained up to 20 at all timesin that respective weapon. NeverAll melee weapons, EVER use a true weapon, especially a swordincluding [[mauls]] and [[clubs]], can be used on a [[practice doll|practice dolls]]. It's a complete waste Additionally, Both [[axes]] and [[swords]] can be used to safely hack at trees for skill up to 20. Skill beyond 20 requires usage of a good weapon and destroys the practice doll these weapons in no time. Not recommendedactual [[fighting]].

Go hunting. That's it. Just go hunting. You first want to try hunting down simple farm animals such as pigs, pheasants, roosters, bulls, cows, etc. Even wild cats work at the start. At around 10 fighting you want to get some leg protection Using axes and hunt down wolvesmauls gives [[body strength]]. The wolves aim for the legs alot, so leg protection will save you health in the endSwords give [[body control]].

Copied to [[Leatherworking Guide]] To leatherwork properly you will need; a needle, an awl, some leather, a leather knife and a mallet.

The best way to begin your leatherworking career is to make a leather belt. This is because leather belts are the cheapest(don't take much use small amounts of leather) when created and when improved. Leather belts also have a high % chance to make and at low skill which means you will most likely not failas often. From then Once you have created your leather belt, get a piece of leather of <strike>high-ish </strike> 15+QL leather and improve the belt until you need another tool. Keep improving it and you will gain skill(you still gain skill from fails but repairing will slow you down). Once you have a higher % chance on other items, make lots of gloves and improve them all to 15QL. Keep doing this with higher difficulty items and once your keeping in mind that items with a 50% success rate will give you the biggest skill reaches 10-15gain. Try NOTE: Needle quality and stud some of them (it takes 0.2 kg of rivets leatherworking skill will determine the % chance to stud ALL succeed when creating leather items apart from leather pants which take 0.8 and leather jackets which take 0.4)

As Once your skill goes up reaches 10-15 (EDIT - I would have said 20-25 but this depends on if you like making rivets :Shweet), try and stud some of them. It takes 0.2 kg of rivets to stud ALL leather items apart from leather pants which take 0.8 kg and leather jackets which take 0.4 kg. If you fail to stud an item you will need better QL toolslose the item and the rivet. Tool QL Rivet ql and leatherworking skill level limits your max improving QLwill determine the % chance to succeed when riveting leather armour, not the raw ql of the leather QLitem to be studded. Tip; combine rivets before improving them.

As your skill goes up you will need better quality tools as the quality of your tools will determine the failure rate when improving. Your leatherworking skill level limits the max improving quality. You can improve with raw leather that has lower quality than the item you are improving you will however suffer from larger fail to improve rates. The only item used that has its own skill is a mallet; the miscellaneous skill “hammer” will effect your ability to successfully improve with the mallet.As with other skills you will gain the most skill by improving the item rather than creating them, and when the item quality is closer to your skill you will also gain the most skill. Working on drake armour gives a greater skill gain than plain or studded leather armour. '''Creating leather.'''Successful creation of leather is determined by your leatherworking skill and the quality of the lye used. If successful the leather will be created at the quality of the hide, the higher your leatherworking skill the better chance you will have of creating leather at the maximum hide quality. Higher quality hides are harder to turn into high quality leather and unless you have very good leatherworking skill and lye it will turn into lower quality leather. When making leather try to use the smallest amount of lye possible as the entire amount is used. To do this, make the lye in a water skin then place 11 potatoes into a jar and then fill that jar with lye. Using this method you will only use 0.08kg of lye on each hide. ==Lock SmithingLocksmithing== Copied to [[Smithing Guide]]

Copied to [[Mining Guide]] To grind [[mining]] people usually ask for an insanely high [[Quality|ql]] [[pickaxe]] with [[Wind of Ages]] spell. This isn't the way to go. You want a relatively low ql pick with as much [[Circle of Cunning]] on it as possible, this will give a lot of skill if you mine [[rock shards]] with it as it heightens the difficulty and the mine time, its the mine time that improves the skill gain in mining, longer mine time = more skill#. Mining [[rock shards]] is easier for a new player up to a decent skill level (40 -50?) but from then on if you want to grind [[mining]] I would suggest mining on an [[ore]] [[vein]]. You want to mine shard/ore about 1 half of your actual skill, so say you have 50 mining, you want to be mining 25ql rocks or ore. This means you have a 50% chance of mining a full ql (your mining skill) and failing (1ql). Try to not mine capped walls lower than your skill. Different ore veins have different difficulty. The easiest is mining plain rock, followed by [[iron vein]]s and [[copper vein]]s. The hardest are silver and gold. As with most things in Wurm, too low difficulty leads to reduced skill gain, while too high difficulty results in high failure rate. A failure results in a 1.00 QL rock or ore. Items from successful mining have random QL, but the maximum possible is the lower of your mining skill and the tile's inherent quality. See [[prospecting]] for details about tile QL. ''Optimal Skill Gain'' * Rock: 1-50* [[Iron vein]]: 50-60*[[Copper vein]]: 60-70* [[Tin vein]] or [[lead vein]]: 70-85* [[Silver vein]]: 90-99 For the best skill gain, you will want to fail to mine the ore sometimes; about 10-15 failures (1QL) is the best skill gain. If you fail more, improve your [[pickaxe]] or downgrade an ore difficulty. Note that if the tile is capped at a QL much lower than your skill you won't be able to check average QL of the pile of ore/shards to see whether or not you have a decent success rate. The average QL of the pile is '''always''' based on your skill and not the tile itself, and the tile QL is therefore irrelevant to skillgain. A wider range in upper QL based on skill will get lost when translated to the tile capped with lower QL so it will look like more top QL gains but in reality they would've been higher in QL if the tile was. For example: If you have 70 mining and you mine a QL32 rock tile and get 1xQL1 and 49xQL32 you don't actually get 49xHighest possible quality - the tile just doesn't go any higher so the ones that would've been in the range between 32-70 are all translated down to 32 due to the cap. The skillgain from a QL32 and a QL70 rock tile is exactly the same.

Mining [[rock shards]] <nowiki># There is easier for actually some disagreement about this. Some people are of the opinion that the extra mining actions with a new player fast pick make up for the loss of skillgain due to short timers. There is also a decent skill level (20 -30?) but from then on 3rd camp which believes that it makes little difference which method you prefer & that skillgain will be about the same if you want to grind [[mining]] I would suggest spend the same total amount of time mining on an [[ore]] [[vein]]. At around 30 skill, [[mining]] [[iron]] may be If this is the best option for youcase, but as you get up to around 40 then how many shards (or even 50 in mining, how much ore) you should mine [[Gold]] or [[Silver]]. I would not recommend you start off want at the end of your mining on gold or silver because you are very unlikely to get any ore above ql 1session might be more important.00 (Mining a ql 1.00 ore)</shard gives no skillgain whatsoever)nowiki>

Do not care about Blades smithing and Weapon heads smithing skills, that skills you will get while making actual weapons over time. Best item to skill weaponsmithing to 40 are butchering knives, imping butchering knife takes only 0,02kg 06kg of iron. First make yourself about 150-200 butchering knife blades, don't care about failures, it will pass over time. Finnish Finish unfinished ones, do not imp blades it's a waste of time. For making blades use 1-20ql iron, anything over will be a waste. When you will make 150-200 blades also make same amount of wooden handles. Make first batch of butchering knives, use about half blades for making knives, finish unfinished butchering knives, set yourself a target ql (your actual skill in weapon smithing + 8-10 points. For example, having 10 weaponsmithing you will be able to make weapons with quality about 20). Improve all butchering knives you got to your target quality. After improving all butchering knives to certain ql you can check your skill again, set new target quality level, and proceed with improving them like 3 times. After improving all the butchering knives 3 times you should make another batch of butchering knives from the rest of the blades and wooden handles. You should notice a significant difference in success rate between two batches. Improve the second batch of butchering knives to average quality of the first batch. Then keep improving knives as your skill grows. after you gain about 30 skill in ws start thinking about making other weapons, be sure to have plenty of handles

===Blades Smithingsmithing===

===Heads SmithingWeapon heads smithing===

==Wood Woodcutting== Copied to [[Guides:Woodcutting Guide|Woodcutting Guide]] To grind [[woodcutting]], the best way is to get a good [[Circle of Cunning]] [[Hatchet]] and start cuttingdown [[trees]] in the area you want to use/ build on. Make sure you repair the axe after every 5-20 uses to raise your [[Repairing]] skill. A good idea is to go to an area that is not populated, or areas infested with unwanted tree types (i.e. fruit trees), and ask any locals before cutting down the trees; this helps to avoid angering people and the sharp pointy things they will stick into you ([[Wild]] servers). If possible, harvest [[sprout]]'s with a [[sickle]] and replant the trees. ==Ropemaking==Improving [[Cloth Net Trap|Net Traps]] is a possible way to grind this skill. ==Ship Building==See also: [[Ship Building Guide]]

To grind [[woodcutting]], the best way ==Clothing==Cloth tailoring is to get not a good [[Circle of Cunning]] [[Hatchet]] and start cutting down [[trees]] in the area you want to use/ build on. Make sure you repair the axe after every 5-20 uses to raise your [[Repairing]] difficult skill. A good idea is to go to an area that is level up, at least not populated, in the first 30 points or areas infested with unwanted tree types (i.e. fruit trees)so, and ask any locals before cutting down the trees; this helps is vital to avoid angering people. If possiblemaking sails, harvest [[sprout]]'s with a [[sickle]] which are more or less pointless to attempt to create before 25 cloth tailoring--and replant the treesnot easy even then.

# Starting with lowest QL square, activate a [[Category:Guidesneedle]], right-click a cloth square, and select "Create -> Armor -> [[Cloth glove]]".# Using a [[Category:Babel/Tneedle]], [[scissors]], and your highest QL strings from the remaining 25% of your strings of cloth, improve the glove until it is around QL 10 or is finished.# Repeat until you have no cloth left.