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# 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 |
```
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](/skills/magic-skills#inscription) 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)