# Documentation **URL:** https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/c/documentation/19.md [Latest](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Documentation category](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/about-the-documentation-category/1270)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/about-the-documentation-category/1270 "2025-12-20T20:51:26Z")
Official guides and reference material for SL Colonies, covering core systems, mechanics, and gameplay features. This category contains curated, staff-maintained documentation intended to act as the canonical source of … --- ## [\[CRAFTABLES\] Smokehouse: curing, smoking and carving in Second Life](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-smokehouse-curing-smoking-and-carving-in-second-life/1879)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-smokehouse-curing-smoking-and-carving-in-second-life/1879 "2026-11-13T21:53:01Z")
The Smokehouse is where a Butcher cures, smokes and carves meat and fish in Second Life. Load the cabinet from the Smokehouse app, light a fire with your choice of wood, walk away while it smokes, then collect, carve the… --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Forge & Anvil](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-forge-anvil/1427)
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The Forge & Anvil is where raw metal becomes something useful. It is the Blacksmith’s station, and almost every tool another profession relies on passes through it at some point — blades for the butcher’s knives, hand… --- ## [\[CRAFTABLES\] Butcher Table and the Butcher's Block: butchering in Second Life](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-butcher-table-and-the-butchers-block-butchering-in-second-life/1337)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-butcher-table-and-the-butchers-block-butchering-in-second-life/1337 "2026-01-07T21:42:55Z")
The Butcher Table is where a Butcher cuts real carcasses by hand in Second Life. Sit down with your butcher knife and it opens the Butcher’s Block, a hands-on 3D app: lay a cow, pig, lamb, deer, chicken or one of 72 fish … --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Butcher Table](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-butcher-table/1279)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-butcher-table/1279 "2025-12-21T03:46:06Z")
The Butcher Table opens the Butcher’s Block, where a Butcher cuts real carcasses by hand in Second Life: a cow, pig, lamb, deer or chicken from the farms and the hunt, or one of 72 fish over 5 kg. No recipes The Butch… --- ## [Fishing 101: casting, the fight, bait, rods and lines](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/fishing-101-casting-the-fight-bait-rods-and-lines/1727)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2026, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/fishing-101-casting-the-fight-bait-rods-and-lines/1727 "2026-10-24T11:17:59Z")
Fishing in SL Colonies is a game of its own: you cast, wait for the bite, and fight every fish to the bank. Over a hundred real species, with rare ones that move from realm to realm every week. This guide and the vide… --- ## [\[CRAFTABLES\] Grafting Table](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-grafting-table/1797)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-grafting-table/1797 "2026-11-01T07:56:43Z")
The Grafting Table is where a Brewer breeds a grape nobody has grown before. Cross two vines and raise seedlings with brand-new genes. Graft a vine onto roots that let it grow in soil it hated. Root a cutting into see… --- ## [Product Tutorial Index](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/product-tutorial-index/1314)
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This section contains detailed tutorial videos for individual SL Colonies products and systems. Each tutorial focuses on a specific product, explaining how it works, how to set it up in-world, and how players interact w… --- ## [How to Play Index](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/how-to-play-index/1302)
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Welcome to the SL Colonies “How to Play” guide. This section is designed to help new players get up and running quickly, using clear, step-by-step tutorial videos that walk you through the basics of the system. You’ll … --- ## [Campfire 101: cook your catch, rest and fish together](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/campfire-101-cook-your-catch-rest-and-fish-together/1785)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/campfire-101-cook-your-catch-rest-and-fish-together/1785 "2026-10-31T12:47:34Z")
The campfire is somewhere to stop: sit with friends, get your energy back, cook what you’ve caught and keep fishing from your chair. This guide and the video walk through all of it. Wha… --- ## [\[ESSENTIALS\] Mailbox](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-mailbox/1512)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2026, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-mailbox/1512 "2026-08-22T12:11:00Z")
The mailbox lets you send a letter, a parcel or a bill to any colonist, across the sim or across the grid, even when they’re not online. It is also where your marketplace and vendor deliveries arrive. From October 2026 … --- ## [\[BREEDABLES\] Bait Tank](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/breedables-bait-tank/1759)
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The Bait Tank is where your live bait comes from. Stock it with two bait fish of one kind, keep them fed and their water right, and the shoal grows, one fish every six hours, up to thirty. It is the first of our Breed… --- ## [\[FARMABLES\] Herb Garden](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/farmables-herb-garden/1559)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/farmables-herb-garden/1559 "2026-10-28T21:45:12Z")
The herb garden is eight separate plots in one object. Every other field grows one crop across the whole plot; this one grows up to eight different herbs at once, each on its own timer. What makes it diffe… --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Basic Campfire](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-basic-campfire/1276)
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The campfire is a basic item anyone can rez from the tools icon on their HUD. It allows for the regeneration of energy, as well as for some basic crafting. Recipes 2 system recipes. Player-created recipes are not… --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Cooking Station](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-cooking-station/1282)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-cooking-station/1282 "2026-10-20T02:09:20Z")
The recipes listed below are only the system recipes we created for players initially. The cooking station lets you combine any consumable in the game into food and drink — the limit is your imagination. Recipes invente… --- ## [\[GATHERABLES\] Fishing Pool](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/gatherables-fishing-pool/1526)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/gatherables-fishing-pool/1526 "2026-08-25T01:06:24Z")
The fishing pool turns a spot on your land into a fishing water for the SL Colonies fishing game. Players stand within 40 metres of it with a rod and the fishing HUD, cast, and fight real fish: over a hundred species,… --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Compost Bin](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-compost-bin/1289)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-compost-bin/1289 "2025-12-21T07:53:26Z")
The Compost Bin turns pig dung into what the fields want, and it is the farmer’s station. Every field recipe now makes a pack of ten, in a large bag: twenty dung and one large bag make ten fertiliser in thirty-five hours… --- ## [Field Care: tend your soil for Fine and Choice crops](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/field-care-tend-your-soil-for-fine-and-choice-crops/1691)
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Grow better crops by looking after your soil. While a crop grows, you can water, feed, test and mulch its field. How well the soil was kept over the growing week decides the harvest: more of the crop, a Fine or Choice g… --- ## [\[GATHERABLES\] Chalk Pit](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/gatherables-chalk-pit/1688)
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The chalk pit is where the Farmer’s lime starts. Dig it with a small basket and you come away with chalk, which the Compost Bin turns into the garden lime that sweetens sour soil. What it fee… --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Bottling Station](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-bottling-station/1429)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2026, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-bottling-station/1429 "2026-08-09T03:01:54Z")
There are no recipes to list here, and that is the design. The Bottling Station does not ship with a recipe list, because it is not that kind of station. It exists so that you put a drink of your choosing into a vesse… --- ## [\[CRAFTABLES\] Bottling Station](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-bottling-station/1490)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2026, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/craftables-bottling-station/1490 "2026-08-21T03:55:42Z")
The Bottling Station is not a brewer’s tool, and that is the first thing to know about it. Any profession, at any level, can use it. If you can make or buy a drink — juice, oil, beer, spirits — you can put it in a vesse… --- ## [\[ESSENTIALS\] Marketplace HUB](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-marketplace-hub/1513)
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Every realm’s market keeps its own stock and its own prices. One that’s full of something sells it cheap and pays little for more of it; one that’s short of something pays well and sells it dear. Goods move between them … --- ## [\[FARMABLES\] Vineyards](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/farmables-vineyards/1563)
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The vineyard grows grapes and hops on a trellis. It is worked with a hoe rather than a plough, harvested with a basket rather than a sickle, and — unlike every other field — it pays Brewer crafting experience, not Farmer… --- ## [\[GATHERABLES\] Trees](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/gatherables-trees/1532)
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Fir, oak and maple are gatherables: rez one on your land and you have a tree that colonists can fell for logs, and that grows back on its own. Maple and fir can be tapped instead. The harvest is the same for all three — … --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Distillery](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-distillery/1432)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-distillery/1432 "2026-08-09T03:02:02Z")
The Distillery is a crafting station used by Ingredient. Recipes 3 system recipes. Player-created recipes are not listed — they belong to the colonists who invented them. Level 1 3 recipes Recipe Makes XP Time I… --- ## [\[RECIPES\] Carpentry Bench](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-carpentry-bench/1281)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/recipes-carpentry-bench/1281 "2025-12-21T04:16:27Z")
The Carpentry Bench makes the tools, tool parts, barrels and furniture parts the rest of the colony builds on. It belongs to the carpenter, it needs a carpenter’s hammer from the Forge, and at 153 recipes it is the large… --- ## [The Scrying Stone: work your colony from anywhere](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/the-scrying-stone-work-your-colony-from-anywhere/1635)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/the-scrying-stone-work-your-colony-from-anywhere/1635 "2026-10-06T02:46:12Z")
Work your colony from anywhere. The Scrying Stone shows every crafting station, tree, vein, reed, animal and field your colony shares, on any screen, phone included. Start crafts, collect finished goods, gather and farm… --- ## [\[ESSENTIALS\] Colony Sign](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-colony-sign/1508)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-colony-sign/1508 "2026-08-22T12:10:49Z")
A colony is the group you belong to in SL Colonies Roleplay — a family, a faction, a bloodline, a house. The colony sign plants it on your land: it shows your crest, your leader and how many have joined, and lets a passe… --- ## [Selling for L$: Crates & the Trading Post](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/selling-for-l-crates-the-trading-post/1632)
**Author:** [@attila.katana](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/attila.katana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2026, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/selling-for-l-crates-the-trading-post/1632 "2026-10-04T01:27:33Z")
Sell what you make for real Linden dollars. Pack your goods into a crate, seal it, and sell it on the Trading Post, or as a real object you can hand to anyone in Second Life. This guide walks through every step, start t… --- ## [\[ESSENTIALS\] Item Vendors](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-item-vendors/1511)
**Author:** [@Auryn](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/u/Auryn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/t/essentials-item-vendors/1511 "2026-08-22T12:10:57Z")
Vendors let you buy and sell game items for coin on your own land, at your own prices, even while you’re offline. There are two: a single item vendor that trades one line, and a multi item vendor that trades up to twenty.… [Next page](https://forum.slcoloniesroleplay.com/c/documentation/19.md?page=1)