🧵 Crafting in Mystavaria
For those of us who just want to make really nice buckets.
Mystavaria offers more than just battles and magic — every player can learn up to three crafting skills, each one offering a different type of creative mastery. Whether you yearn to brew strange potions, forge molten metal, or just make a really gorgeous bookshelf, crafting lets you create a vast range of items from essential utitlities to decorative works of art.
The skills listed below will be available at launch, with plans for additional crafting skills to come post-release.
Alchemy
Mix, stir, transmute, and hope it doesn't explode. Alchemy lets you brew potions from various ingredients. It pairs well with the Herbology gathering skill, which allows the alchemist to pick and prepare the many herbs required in alchemical recipes. Potions are an important aspect of survival in Mystavaria and other adventurers are like to have frequent needs of potion refills, so you can rest assured you will always have purpose in the world.
Best paired with the gathering skill: Herbology
Armour Smithing
Armour Smiths learn the art of forging defensive armoury. The skill pairs well with Mineralogy, which allows the smith to gather and smelt the various metals and ores required for smithing.
Best paired with the gathering skill: Mineralogy
Artisanry
Artisanry covers a variety of artistry, including painting, glassblowing, pottery and the crafting of other décor. Glassblowing and pottery have a multitude of customisation options, allowing for colourful glazes, dyes and patterns to be chosen.
Best paired with the gathering skill: General Gathering
General Crafting
General Crafting covers a range of basic crafting knowledge from across the board. The abilities gained through General Crafting tend toward every day utility, allowing you to make simple backpacks, buckets, pick axes and other useful tools and objects.
Best paired with the gathering skill: Any
Lapidary
Lapidary is the art of shaping stones, metals, minerals and gemstones into decorative items and jewellery. It pairs well with Mineralogy, allowing the Lapidarist to mine for their own ores and gemstones.
Best paired with the gathering skill: Mineralogy
Tailoring
Tailoring is the art of making and sewing raw threads and fabrics into clothing. Many customization options are available, from fabric choices to dyes, even down to the ability to tailor sleeves, necklines, dress hems and more. Tailoring pairs well with the gathering skill of Farming for the harvesting of cotton and linen crops to be made into cloth.
Best paired with the gathering skill: Farming
Weapon Smithing
Weapon Smiths learn the art of forging various types of offensive weaponry. The skill pairs well with Mineralogy, which allows the smith to gather and smelt the various ores required for smithing.
Best paired with the gathering skill: Mineralogy
Woodworking
Woodworking is the art of crafting various types of wooden furniture and objects, from utility chests to decorative shelving. Woodworking allows for in depth customization, including abilities to alter your crafts with customized shapes and sizes, and staining or painting the final product.
Best paired with the gathering skill: General Gathering
✨ The Path of the Artisan ✨
Not everyone dreams of swinging swords or slinging fire. Some dream of kilns, chisels, dyes, and blueprints.
For those whose passion lies in creation over combat, Mystavaria offers the Path of the Artisan — a specialised route for dedicated crafters. Choosing this path lets you trade one major skill to gain two additional crafting skills and one additional gathering skill instead, giving you more to create, experiment with, and thrive in the art of making.
Artisans are often highly self-sufficient, capable of gathering most of the resources they need and turning them into functional, beautiful, or delightfully weird things.
💡 Tip: To embrace the artisan life, simply type CHOOSE ARTISAN in game. If you change your mind later, you can instead RENOUNCE ARTISAN.