Crafting skills

Crafting, Cooking, and Inscription — quality tiers, the stack bonus system, UO-style repairs, and food effects.

Three skills cover everything you make: Crafting handles weapons, armor, and tools; Cooking handles food and potions; Inscription handles magic scrolls. All crafting uses vanilla crafting tables, furnaces, and brewing stands — no custom UI required.

Crafting never fails. You always receive the item; only its quality varies based on your skill.

Quality tiers

Every crafted item receives a quality tag based on your skill at the moment of creation.

Quality	Skill required	How it is assigned	Damage bonus	Durability bonus
Low Quality (LQ)	0 – 49	Guaranteed	−15 %	−25 % (higher damage chance)
Normal Quality (NQ)	50 – 69	Guaranteed	±0 %	±0 %
High Quality (HQ)	70 – 89	Probability check	+15 %	+30 % (33 % chance to ignore durability loss)
Exceptional (EX)	90 – 100	Probability check	+25 %	+50 % (50 % chance to ignore durability loss) + crafter name

Quality determination flow

skill ≥ 70 → HQ check (success chance = skill value %)
  ├─ Success and skill ≥ 90 → EX check (success chance = (skill − 90) × 10 %)
  │     ├─ Success → Exceptional
  │     └─ Failure → High Quality
  └─ Failure → Normal Quality

skill 50 – 69 → Normal Quality (guaranteed)
skill 0  – 49 → Low Quality   (guaranteed)

Crafting

Crafting covers all weapons, armor, tools, bows, arrows, and wooden furniture. It also handles anvil repairs.

What Crafting covers

Category	Examples
Metal weapons	Iron through Netherite swords, axes, tools
Metal armor	Iron through Netherite helmets, chestplates, leggings, boots
Chain armor	All chain pieces (iron nuggets)
Wooden items	Shields, wooden swords, doors, chests, beds, bookshelves
Leather armor	All leather pieces
Bows and arrows	Bow, crossbow, standard arrows, tipped arrows
Crafted goods	Fishing rods, lanterns, candles, compasses, telescopes

Crafting difficulty table

Material	Difficulty
Wood products	5
Stone products	10
Leather products	15
Gold products	20
Iron products	25
Diamond products	40
Netherite products	60
Bow / crossbow	20 – 30

UO-style repair system

Repairing equipment at an anvil permanently reduces its maximum durability. A skilled crafter loses less.

durability_loss = (110 − Crafting_skill) / 10

Skill	Max durability lost per repair
0	11
50	6
100 (GM)	1

Item lore shows current and maximum durability with color coding: green (> 75 %), yellow (> 50 %), orange (> 25 %), red (≤ 25 %).

Mending enchantment success rate

Mending on most equipment requires Crafting skill to trigger reliably.

mending_success = min(100, Crafting × 100 / 60)  %

Skill	Mending success
0	0 %
20	33 %
30	50 %
40	67 %
50	83 %
60	100 %

Aim for Crafting 60 before relying on Mending. Below that threshold a significant portion of XP orbs will be absorbed without repairing the item.

Elytra and Turtle Shell helmets are exempt — Mending always works on them regardless of skill.

Cooking

Cooking covers food (furnace and crafting table) and potions (brewing stand). It replaces both the old Cooking and Alchemy skills.

Food effects

Every cooked food item gains a hunger recovery bonus based on your Cooking skill:

recovery_bonus = Cooking / 4  +  quality_correction

Quality	Quality correction
LQ	−15 %
NQ	±0 %
HQ	+15 %
EX	+25 %

HQ and EX quality food also temporarily increases maximum HP:

Quality	Effect	Duration
HQ	Health Boost I (+2 hearts / +4 HP)	30 seconds
EX	Health Boost I (+2 hearts / +4 HP)	60 seconds

Food difficulty table

Difficulty	Food items
5	Dried Kelp
10	Baked Potato
15	Cooked Chicken, Rabbit, Cod
20	Cooked Pork, Beef, Mutton, Salmon
25	Bread, Cookie
35	Pumpkin Pie, Mushroom Stew, Beetroot Soup
45	Rabbit Stew, Suspicious Stew, Cake
60	Golden Apple
100	Enchanted Golden Apple

Potion duration bonus

All brewed potions receive extended duration based on your Cooking skill:

duration_bonus = Cooking / 200   (max +50 % at skill 100)

Potion difficulty table

Difficulty	Potions
15	Mundane, Thick, Awkward
25	Night Vision, Water Breathing
30	Healing, Swiftness, Leaping, Fire Resistance
35	Regeneration, Strength, Slow Falling
40	Invisibility
45	Poison, Weakness, Slowness
50	Harming, Turtle Master, Luck
55	Ominous, Wind Charged, Weaving, Oozing, Infested

Modifiers add to base difficulty:

Modifier	Added difficulty
Extended duration variant	+15
Level II (enhanced)	+20
Splash potion	+10
Lingering potion	+20

Inscription

Inscription creates magic scrolls and is also counted among the crafting skills for the stack bonus. See Magic skills for full scroll creation details.

Stack bonus system

All three crafting skills together determine how many items can stack in your inventory beyond the vanilla limit of 64.

stack_limit = 64 + (Crafting + Cooking + Inscription) / 300 × 35

Combined skill total	Stack limit
0	64
100	76
150	82
200	87
300	99

The expanded stack limit applies when:

• Picking an item up off the ground
• Taking an item out of a container (chest, furnace, etc.)
• Logging in (existing inventory is updated)