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Trade Skills

Trade Skills

Crafting I - Refining

Crafting in Aeternum is a means of survival. Gather resources around the island using Tools, refine the resources, then use the resources to create gear and more at Crafting Stations. Progress in Gathering, Refining, and Crafting Tradeskills to unlock more gatherables and recipes.

Once you’ve gathered resources on the island, refine them at the various Refining Stations found in Settlements:

  • Woodshop Woodshops refine wood to lumber.
  • Smelter Smelters refine ore to ingots.
  • Loom Looms refine fibers to cloth.
  • Tanneries Tanneries refine hide to leathers.
  • Stonecutting Tables Stonecutting Tables refine stone to blocks.

Refining higher tier resources will require refining materials in addition to the raw resource: Rarer resources sometimes have a limit on how many can be refined a day.

Many resources don’t need to be refined to be crafted with, such as cooking ingredients and alchemy reagents.

Crafting II - Basic

Use Crafting Stations around settlements to create gear, consumables, and more. Recipes require the correct ingredients and Tradeskill level.

Some items that can be crafted include:

  • Craft light to medium armor, bags, and trinkets at the Outfitting Station Outfitting Station.
  • Craft heavy armor and melee weapons at the Forge Forge.
  • Craft ranged weapons, furniture, and instruments at the Workshop Workshop
  • Craft magic weapons, potions, tinctures and more at the Arcane Repository Arcane Repository.
  • Craft food and dyes at the Kitchen Kitchen

Explore each station to discover what recipes can be crafted at each!

Tip: You may find one-time-use Patterns around Aeternum, in Seasonal Events, and as rewards that allow you to craft specialty gear. You can also discover Food Recipes to unlock more options at the Kitchen.

Crafting III - Advanced

Maximum Gearscore Crafts

When crafting gear such as armor or weapons, the gearscore that your output will be is shown on the crafting screen. The gearscore is determined by the resources you use and more. To achieve maximum gearscore crafts, you will need:

  • Top tier resources
  • Maximum tradeskill level
  • Tradeskill armor
  • Tradeskill earring
  • Three major tradeskill trophies
  • Tradeskill food
  • Tradeskill Lifestyle Buff OR Faction Ownership of the Mourningdale Fort

Lifestyle Buffs are territory-based buffs that increase the crafting effectiveness of any crafter who owns a home in that territory. Each Lifestyle Buff affects a particular Tradeskill. They are activated in each territory by the company that owns it and are active for a limited time. You can see what Lifestyle Buffs you have by navigating to your Character Screen and selecting the Territories you own homes in.

Forts can be captured by Factions. Once they are captured, they provide buffs to that faction as long as they own it. The Mourningdale Fort provides a buff that can take the place of Lifestyle Buffs when crafting maximum gearscore armor and weapons.

Scarab Crafting

Scarabs are a powerful resource found in Brimstone Sands that allow you to craft powerful, customized gear.

  • Golden Scarab Golden Scarabs allow you to specify 2 attributes on the crafted gear.
  • Prismatic Scarab Prismatic Scarabs allow you to specify all attributes on the crafted gear. They can be crafted from Golden Scarabs.

To craft a specific gear type, such as a chestpiece, you must have collected enough Timeless Shards of the same type.

To craft Prismatic Scarab gear, you\ must also have an Azoth Inductor.

Gathering - Fishing

Fishing allows you to gather unique resources from Aeternum’s saltwater coasts, freshwater streams, and everything in between. Each territory has its own subaqueous ecosystem, though species are rarely exclusive to a single territory. While most fish are restricted to one water type, some can thrive in both.

But fish aren’t the only catch. Flotsam can be frequently scavenged and although most is trash only fit for salvage, if you’re lucky, you’ll hoist up a Treasure Chest filled with rare loot.

What you catch is purely luck but you can narrow your odds of rarer finds by casting in waters that increase Fishing Luck. Shallow water adds a low bonus, deep water adds more, but by far the biggest bonus comes from active Fishing Hotspots.

Active Broad, Rare, and Secret Hotspots are easily spotted by their leaping fish. Once a Hotspot is depleted, it’ll take time before becoming active again.

Fishing Hot Spot Fishing Hotspots you’ve discovered are marked on your map.

You can raise your Fishing Luck even higher by using higher tier fishing poles, equipping better bait, placing fishing trophies in your house, or by having perks like Lucky Waters on your gear. With high enough fishing luck, you may even chance a glimpse of a Legendary Fish.

How to Fish

While near any body of water, equip your fishing pole using [F3].

Before casting, you may add any bait in your inventory by opening the bait menu with [e]. Some bait is only effective in either Fresh or Salt water.

Cast the line with [LMB] and hold to increase the distance, then release to cast. Careful distancing is useful for aiming at deeper water or Hotspots.

When you have a bite, hook your catch with [LMB], then hold to reel in or release to give slack. Be mindful of your line tension: If it becomes too taut, the line will snap and you’ll lose the catch (and your bait). If it’s too loose, it’ll drift away.

Fish can have different temperaments which effects how hard they fight and when they get tired.

Balance your tension with the ferocity of the fish and wait for the right moment to reel. With enough patience, you can catch anything.

exclamation_white Have you met Perronelle le Noir? Rumor is she trains master fishermen in Monarch’s Bluff or Windsward.