¶ HAZE Crafting System
"Remember, in the fantastical forge of Dungeons & Dragons, each adventurer is a master crafter. Our destinies are not found, they are hammered and honed, shaped by each endeavor, every relic, and potion. For in this world, the mightiest weapon is not a sword, but the craft it springs from."
Crafting stands at the heart of gameplay in Haze: Saltborne, showcasing a unique and intricate system. Potions, armor, weapons, and useful adventuring equipment can all be crafted to enhance your journey.
In Haze, crafting professions are categorized into two types: primary and secondary. All primary professions can craft reagents essential for other professions, creating an interdependent system where each profession supports the others in producing finished items.
The key difference between primary and secondary crafts is that leveling up a secondary craft doesn’t affect your pure-crafter status in your primary craft. Additionally, secondary crafts aren’t limited by CXP when it comes to the number of items you can produce.
¶ Primary Crafts
| Primary Stat: [Intelligence] | Uses |
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| Dyes | Dyes for clothes and armors |
| Medicine | Bandages, Med Kits, and Healing Potions for a variety of situations |
| Concoctions | Combat consumables and throwables to aid adventurers and expeditions |
| Potions | Potions with varrying effects to enhance combat and non-combat abilities |
| Alchemy Supplies | Wood Oils for Woodworkers and Tanning Oils for Leatherworkers |
| Primary Stat: [Constitution] | Uses |
|---|---|
| Weapons | Metal Weapons, swords, axes, hammers, etc., including throwing weapons such as Javelins |
| Armors | Metal Armors such as Chest pieces, Helms, Bracers, Boots. Including some for non-melee classes |
| Tools | Metal Tools used to gather resources, such as Pickaxes, Woodaxes, Harvesting Knives, and Shovels |
| Ingots | Metal Ingots, Copper, Bronze, Silver, etc., some used by Tinkerer's for Traps and Jewlery |
| Metal Supplies | Metal Parts to supply other crafts, such as Arrowheads for Woodworkers, and Studs for Leatherworkers |
| Primary Stat: [Dexterity] | Uses |
|---|---|
| Bows & Ammunition | Wooden Bows and Crossbows, along with Arrows and Bolts |
| Clubs & Shields | Wooden Clubs and Shields, for classes and characters that prefer non-metal |
| Furniture | Wooden Chests, Bookshelves, etc., for storage options, and Chairs, Tables, etc., for RP |
| Magic Wands & Staves | Wooden Magical Wands & Staves, paired with Tinkerer's gemstone work to enhance mages |
| Wooden Supplies | Wooden Parts to supply other crafts, such as shafts and hilts for Blacksmith's Weapons |
| Primary Stat: [Dexterity] | Uses |
|---|---|
| Armor | Leather Armors for characters and classes that need lighter and more dexterous options |
| Clothing | Clothing and fashion options to give your characters a unique look and personality |
| Skill Based Wearables | Robes, Hoods, Gloves, some embeded with Tinkerer's gemstones to empower mages |
| Wilderness Equipment | Leather Backpacks, Warm Hoods and Cloaks, and Climbing Gear |
| Leather Supplies | Leather supplies such as Straps for Blacksmith's Armors, and Leather for Tinkerer's Tents |
| Primary Stat: [Wisdom] | Uses |
|---|---|
| Trinkets & Tools | Locks, Keys, Keymolds, Musical Instruments, and Fishing supplies |
| Jewlery & Gemstones | Rings & Amulets embeded with gemstones, as well as cutting and polishing gemstones for Mages and Woodworkers |
| Traps & Thieves Supplies | Traps and Lockpicks for rogues and theives |
| Wilderness Equipment | Tents, Bedrolls, Rope, Lanterns, and Canteens for all different types of adventures and expeditions |
| Misc Tinkering Supplies | Parchment and Books, Vials for Alchemists, Gears and Springs for Tinkerers and Woodworkers |
| Bags | Bags of various sizes and shapes, including bags that can reduce weight for specific items, such as wood, ore, paper, etc... |
¶ Secondary Crafts
| Primary Stat: [Wisdom] | Uses |
|---|---|
| Assorted Prep | Flour, Oils, Butter, etc., used in more complicated dishes |
| Bait | Bait for Fishers, unique bait options for different fish and locations |
| Meals | Meat, Fish, and Vegetarian Meals all to work within the HTF System |
| Drinks & Sedatives | Drinks and others, to work within the HTF System |
| Chef's Specials | Custom Recipes made by, and in honor of characters |
| Primary Stat: [SKILL: Survival] | (Must have 2 ranks in Survival to get the book) |
|---|---|
| Improvised Weapons | Improvised Weapons such as bows & arrows, spears, and clubs scavenged from wild animal parts |
| Improvised Clothing | Improvised Clothing, Wearables, and Backpacks, scavenged from the hides of wild animals |
| Improvised Tools | Improvised Tools like Harvesting Knives, Chisels, Trowels scavenged from the bones of wild animals |
| Wilderness Equipment | Improvised Tents, Bedrolls, Cooking Pots, and Campfires, scavenged from nature and wild animals to survive in the wilderness |
¶ Crafting Experience Points (CXP) and ECL
To level up your crafting skill, you require CXP. Every hour, +1 CXP gets added to your CXP Pool. By default, you can have a maximum of 60 CXP saved up. This cap can be increased on certain classes or with certain feats. Crafting items will consume CXP and in turn level up your crafting ability. Bonuses, such as from the Natural Crafter feat, are added at midnight UTC.
Each crafting skill is linked to an attribute, and your attribute modifier boosts the skill without changing its level. This is called the Effective Crafting Level (ECL).
Example: A character with level 2 blacksmithing and a +3 CON modifier has an ECL of 5. The CXP needed to reach level 3 remains the same, but their skill functions as level 5.
¶ Elements of Crafting
The key components of any crafting involve:
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Your Skill Tome
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Your desired item’s blueprint
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The required ingredients
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The correct crafting station
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Sufficient crafting skill, and CXP
¶ Crafting Station
These are the various stations located around the island. Each station is linked to a specific field of expertise. Blacksmith stations, leatherworking stations, alchemy stations and so on. Access to these stations can vary from specific guildhouses to a smith charging you a fee to use his anvil and furnace.
¶ Skill Tome
The Skill Tome is your personal diary of all crafting recipes that you know for a specific field. There are Skill Tomes available for each crafting type. Without them, you will be unable to craft. These tomes either you begin with from a starting "Background", or you can acquire one from an Player Character who is considered an 'Adept' in their craft. “Use” the tome on any of the blueprints you purchase in order to add them. “Use” the tome upon itself to give you a full list of known recipes, and your current crafting level.
It is worth noting that recipes are linked to each specific tome, not the player. If you give your tome to another player, they will have full access to the recipes within that tome. However, crafting level/xp is unique to each player character.
¶ Crafting Skills
Each item that is listed in your Skill Tome will have a difficulty level. This is linked to your overall crafting skill. Crafting here is based on its own hidden experience points. Ability/skill score does not factor into crafting, but rather experience through crafting itself. Certain items are easy to make, whilst others are much more difficult, however you can tackle higher difficulty items the more you become experienced in crafting.
Simply put, the more you craft, the better you'll become at that craft. The more you craft a given item, the better you become at making that specific item.
You can determine your ECL (Effective Craft Level), when you use your skill tome on itself, you will see a batch of information like this:
Current Skill Level: 5 (2) This means your standard craft level is 5, your modifier by your attributes is 2, making your ECL 7.
¶ Crafting Skill Difficulty Levels
Crafting encompasses eight difficulty levels, each with its own characteristics:
- Effortless: No chance of a negative outcome, CXP is spent at a 1:1 ratio.
- Very Easy: A 1 in 16 chance of a negative outcome, CXP is spent at a 1:1 ratio.
- Easy: A 1 in 8 chance of a negative outcome, CXP is spent at a 1:1 ratio.
- Normal: A 1 in 4 chance of a negative outcome, CXP is spent at a 1:1 ratio.
- Above-Average: A 50% chance of a negative outcome, CXP is spent at a 3:4 ratio.
- Hard: Potential for multiple negative outcomes, CXP is spent at a 1:2 ratio.
- Very Hard: At least one negative outcome guaranteed, CXP is spent at a 1:4 ratio.
- Impossible: The project cannot be worked on.
¶ Blueprints
Every craftable item has a blueprint, which is like a recipe for creating that item. Blueprints can be bought, found, or scribed and shared by other players.
Blueprints can only be added to their corresponding skill tomes. For example, a dagger schematic can only be added to a Blacksmithing Skill Tome, while a bow schematic belongs in a Woodworking Skill Tome.
¶ Eurekas
When you successfully craft an item, there's a 25% chance for a "eureka" moment, as long as something related to the item within the same tier, or the next tier, hasn't been discovered yet.
When you have a eureka moment, you make an opposed roll against the "eureka DC". If you beat the DC, a blueprint of your new discovery is automatically added to your inventory. Your character must be carrying paper, ink and a quill to be able to note down their discoveries. Otherwise, the eureka moment is lost.
As you advance in your crafting skill, the eureka DC will decrease, increasing your chances of successfully discovering new blueprints.
The eureka roll formula is 1d20 + ECL + INT mod. vs. the eureka DC.
- Eurekas for items in the next tier only apply to the current "lineage" of the item being crafted.
Note: Information about item "lineages" is not known either in-character or out-of-character.
¶ Ingredients
These are the raw and crafted materials you need to craft your item. The majority of raw resources can be found around the island, although some may need tools to acquire them (a pickaxe for ore, as an example). Others may be bought from vendors or found as loot. Other ingredients will need to be crafted first before being used for the final product.
¶ Gaining Experience
¶ Primary Crafts
When working on a primary craft project, the system will inform you of the amount of Craft Experience Points (CXP) required to complete the project. To initiate a project, you must be able to allocate a minimum of 1 CXP. If you are unable to finish the project, you will receive an "Incomplete Project" item that signifies the project and the progress made. While near a crafting station, you can "use" the incomplete project. If you have enough CXP to contribute to the project, the points will be applied, and you will receive that amount of CXP.
¶ Secondary Crafts
For secondary crafts, CXP can be earned at various rates based on the item's difficulty and whether it's a non-T0 craft. If you prefer not to accumulate CXP for secondary crafts, you can deactivate CXP gain by accessing the 'R' menu, navigating to settings, and disabling CXP gain.
¶ Equipment Repair
Crafters have the ability to repair items that fall within their specific crafting expertise. Repair Kits are employed at crafting tables for this purpose, and the results depend on the Effective Character Level (ECL) of the repairing Crafter and the item's complexity. A Crafter can only repair items up to the quality of items they can craft themselves. Non-pure crafters are limited to repairing an item up to 5 times, while pure crafters can repair up to 10 times.
Repairing an item requires a specific amount of Crafting Experience Points (CXP), which is currently set at 4. Crafters gain CXP during the repair process, which also helps them accumulate CXP when they lack raw materials.
Field repair kits are another option, usable anywhere, but they provide less effective repairs compared to standard kits. Field kits can repair an item up to 5 times and are available to non-pure crafters.
Magical repairs can be performed using the Mending spell. Although these repairs are less potent, they do not require a skilled craftsman. However, the limit for magical repairs is one step toward "Good" condition.
¶ Crafting Masterwork Items
To create a masterwork item, you invest extra time and effort into your crafting project. Keep in mind that not all items are suitable for masterwork attempts. You can enhance your chances of creating a masterwork item by adding 12, 24, 36, or 48 Crafting Experience Points (CXP) to the project timeline. However, even with these additions, success is not guaranteed.
Masterwork bonuses can include improvements like increased Armor Class (AC), Attack Bonus (AB), reduced weight, and more. These bonuses are determined through a random roll on a table, so the specific enhancement you receive will be uncertain.
While each Masterwork item recieves a random bonus as explained above, all Masterworks items recieve the following properties:
- Double Durability
- Two Equipment Kit Slots (see: Item Properties)
- All positive skill rating stats will roll their maximums
- All negative skill rating stats will roll normally
During the Masterwork attempt process, CXP spent on a masterwork attempt does not contribute to leveling the craft. These are considered "lost" points, specifically for the purpose of attempting a Masterwork. (Still gain CXP up to the base CXP cost of the item being produced)
¶ Enhancing Skill Ratings on Completed Items
You have the option to enhance the skill rating of items you've previously crafted using specialized tools tailored to each crafting profession. These tools enable you to incrementally boost the skill rating of an item at a rate of 1 point for every 5 CXP expended. The maximum attainable skill rating through this enhancement process is 75% of the maximum potential an item could have rolled during its initial creation.
To illustrate, consider a hood that offers a maximum skill rating of +2d4 for Hide. It can be improved after its creation, allowing it to reach a skill rating of up to 6 out of 8. This feature ensures that expertly crafted items remain valuable, while also permitting the refinement of items with suboptimal rolls.
¶ Multi-Crafter Crafting Quality
In Haze, the quality of a crafted item can be influenced by multiple crafters working on the same craft. This system takes into consideration the crafting difficulty levels of each crafter and their contribution to the crafting process to calculate a resulting difficulty level.
¶ Crafting Difficulty Levels:
The game defines various crafting difficulty levels as follows:
- Effortless (1): The task is trivial and requires minimal effort.
- Very Easy (2): Simple tasks that even beginners can accomplish.
- Easy (3): Tasks that are straightforward but may require some knowledge.
- Normal (4): Standard tasks that require a moderate level of skill.
- Above-Average (5): Tasks that start to challenge the crafter.
- Hard (6): Difficult tasks that require significant expertise.
- Very Hard (7): Extremely challenging tasks reserved for the masters.
- Impossible (8): Tasks deemed unachievable, representing the pinnacle of complexity. (no points can be applied by these crafters anyway)
¶ Crafting Quality Computation:
When multiple crafters of varying difficulty levels contribute to a craft, their combined effort determines the item's quality. Here's how it's calculated:
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Weighted Sum: For each difficulty level, the game calculates a weighted sum by multiplying the CXP amount (Crafting Experience Points) contributed by crafters of that difficulty level with the difficulty level itself.
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Total CXP: The game sums up all the CXP amounts contributed by all crafters.
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Additional Applied Values: If there are any additional CXP values applied (such as bonuses), they are added to the weighted sum and the total CXP, weighted by the crafting difficulty they correspond to.
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Average Difficulty: The game computes the average difficulty by dividing the weighted sum by the total CXP.
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Resulting Difficulty: The average difficulty is rounded to the nearest whole number to determine the resulting difficulty level of the crafted item. This is the quality of the item produced by the combined efforts of all crafters.
¶ Example:
Imagine two crafters working on a craft. One is of "Effortless" difficulty and contributes 10 CXP. The other is of "Normal" difficulty and contributes 50 CXP. The resulting difficulty will factor in their contributions like so:
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10 pts at effortless = (10 * 1) = 10 pts
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50 pts at normal difficulty = (50 * 4) = 200pts
So you'd take the 210 pts and divide by number of applied points (60) = 3.5, rounded to the nearest whole number, is 4, it is treated as if it was created at NORMAL difficulty.
¶ 'Pure' Crafter Benefits
As a 'pure' crafter, meaning you only invest in one trade and have no practice (crafting levels) in any other trade, you possess the finest abilities in your craft and can expect exceptional results from the goods that you create. The current mechanical benefits you can expect are as follows:
- You are able to repair an item better, and more often, than a non-pure crafter. Non-pure crafters are limited to repair an item at most 5 times. Pure Crafters are allowed up to 10 repairs on an item.
- You can attempt a "Masterwork" your effortless/easy crafts, See "Masterwork Attempts" above.
- You can copy your entire book once you hit level 8 in your craft, and are a pure crafter, you can copy the entire book for half the ink cost. If you are not a pure crafter you add 2 levels to the level required for every craft you work.
- You begin taking penalties the more crafts you have at level 1 or higher, making crafting items more difficult, the more crafts you hold.in. The more primary crafts you take on, the higher the penalty, minimum is still always 1 item created.
- and More!
Note: The team reserves the right to add more features to encourage people to be pure crafters without forcing the limitation.