Grafting at the Grafting Table is about to get hands-on, and it will need things only you can make. Cooks, Smiths and Woodsmen each have something new from today.
Cooks: beeswax and grafting wax
| Makes | Takes | Time | Level | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 beeswax | 1 honeycomb | 2 minutes | 0 | Cooking Station |
| 7 grafting wax | 1 beeswax, 2 fir resin | 5 minutes | 1 | Cooking Station |
- Beeswax is honeycomb melted down and strained. Any Cook can make it from level 0, and it doesn’t spoil.
- Grafting wax is what a grafter seals a fresh graft with. Like the real thing it’s mostly resin: melt one beeswax with two fir resin and you have seven seals.
- The market keeps a little grafting wax in stock so the first grafters can start. Once a Cook’s wax is for sale in a hub or a shop nearby, the market stops adding its own, and it only steps back in if the shelves run dry.
Woodsmen: tap the fir
- Fir trees can now be tapped for fir resin with a clay pot, the way maple trees are tapped for sap.
- Chop or tap? Each time a fir regrows you get one or the other: a fir log with your axe, or fir resin with a clay pot. The resin is worth about as much as the log, and the Cooks need it for grafting wax.
Smiths: steel sheets, steel blades and the grafting knife
| Makes | Takes | Time | Level | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 steel sheet | 1 steel ingot | 3 minutes | 2 | Forge |
| 3 small steel blades | 1 steel sheet | 3 minutes | 2 | Forge |
| 3 medium steel blades | 2 steel sheets | 3 minutes | 2 | Forge |
| 1 grafting knife | 1 small steel blade, 1 small wooden handle | 2 minutes | 1 | Forge |
- Steel can now be worked down, like copper. A steel ingot hammers out into a sheet, and a sheet cuts into blades: three small ones, or two sheets for three medium ones.
- The grafting knife is a small steel blade on a small wooden handle. It’s steel because a graft needs one clean, slanted cut, and steel holds that edge.
- It lasts 50 uses and earns the Smith 20 crafting experience. A level 1 Smith can put one together from bought blades.
- The Masters don’t sell it. Smiths make it and trade it between players.
And the rest of the chain
- Carpenters: every grafting knife needs a small wooden handle, made from 2 oak wood scraps at the Carpentry bench.
- Seamstresses: every graft is bound with plain wool string, spun from wool at the Spinning Wheel.
- Beekeepers: every harvest of a hive gives honey and a honeycomb, and the Cooks will want the honeycomb.
Why stock up now: grafting
With the update, a vintner will take a cutting, cut it, join it to its rootstock, bind the join with wool string and seal it with grafting wax. If a sealed graft doesn’t take, you keep your cutting and only the rootstock is lost. Cuttings only come from Choice harvests, so most grafters will want a seal every time.
So every grafter will want:
- A grafting knife, from the Smith.
- Plain wool string, from the Seamstress.
- Grafting wax, from the Cook.
Start building stock now, so the vintners have what they need on day one.
Questions are welcome below.