Tinkering

Tinkering is the odds-and-ends craft that keeps every other profession running: it makes all the crafting tools, plus keys, lockpicks, clockwork (clocks and sextants), utensils, potion kegs, luck jewelry, skill-mastery items and container traps. A tinker even crafts their own tinker's tools, making the profession fully self-sufficient. See the Crafting Overview for the general crafting model.

Tools and workplace ↑ top

You need tinker's tools on your person — no station, so tinkering works anywhere. Tools carry limited uses; making a fresh set costs 20 ingots at 10–60 skill, so a tinker never runs dry. Ingots come from Mining.

The tinker's tools ↑ top

A set holds 100 uses, or 150 if it was crafted exceptionally — quality buys charges and nothing else. A set tinkered from colored metal adds exceptional chance on everything with a quality roll:

	Tinker's tools	Exceptional chance
	Iron	—
	Shadow Iron	+5%
	Copper	+10%
	Bronze	+15%
	Verite	+20%
	Valorite	+25%

The colored tools you make for other crafts carry their own bonuses — each craft's page has the table.

What you can craft ↑ top

Tools for every craft (5–95 skill, mostly 20 ingots each): sewing kits, smith's hammers, saws, fletcher's tools, scribe's and mapmaker's pens, mortars and pestles, skillets, pickaxes, hatchets, skinning knives, scissors and lockpicks (45–95, 25 ingots). Tools made from colored ingots carry real bonuses for their owner — exceptional chance and magic-roll pushes for the equipment crafts, success chance for the consumable crafts, better vein rolls for gatherers — so a Valorite smith's hammer is a prized commission. Uses never change with the metal; each craft's page tables what its tool gains per tier.

Parts and assemblies. Gears, springs, hinges and screws combine into finished mechanisms — clocks, sextants and the potion keg (75–100 skill; 1 keg + 10 bottles + 2 barrel lids + 1 barrel tap). Assembly steps themselves need no skill; the parts do.

Utensils and household items. Forks, spoons, knives, plates, goblets, pewter mugs, cleavers (0–90 skill), plus keys and key rings, candelabras (70–110), scales (80–120), globes, spyglasses, heating stands — and the lantern (100–120), which needs a learned recipe and a hefty 150 ingots.

Luck jewelry (80–120 skill). Rings, necklaces, bead necklaces and bracelets that grant Luck, one line per gem — Amber, Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby and Diamond. Each piece takes 1 gem, 2 ingots and 1–2 clovers (2 for the Sapphire/Ruby/Diamond tiers), and every piece needs a learned recipe. See Gems for the luck values per gem.

Skill-mastery items. Tinkers craft the prisms (2 gold ingots + a mastery gem), totems (4 gold ingots + a soul) and relics (6 gold ingots + a fragment) used by the Skill Mastery system — one of each per mastery.

Prospector's tool (100–120, recipe-gated) — upgrades an ore vein to the next tier for the next dig. It carries 5 charges, or 7 when crafted at exceptional quality. Besides ingots it needs a Mystic Crafting Material, a luck-only drop from kills on dungeon level 3 and in boss rooms.

The complete list ↑ top

Assemblies

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	axle with gears	0 – 0	1 × Axles, 1 × Gears	None
	clock parts	0 – 0	1 × Axles with Gears, 1 × Springs	None
	sextant parts	0 – 0	1 × Axles with Gears, 1 × Hinges	None
	clock (right)	0 – 0	1 × Clock Frames, 1 × Clock Parts	None
	clock (left)	0 – 0	1 × Clock Frames, 1 × Clock Parts	None
	sextant	0 – 0	1 × Sextant Parts	None
	potion keg	75 – 100	1 × Empty Kegs, 10 × Empty Bottles, 2 × Barrel Lids, 1 × Barrel Taps	None

Gathering

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	Prospector's Tool	100 – 120	20 × Ingots, 1 × Mystic Crafting Material	Prospector's Tool

Miscellaneous

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	key ring	10 – 60	5 × Ingots	None
	iron key	20 – 70	5 × Ingots	None
	globe	55 – 105	10 × Ingots	None
	spyglass	60 – 110	8 × Ingots	None
	heating stand	60 – 110	20 × Ingots	None
	candelabra	70 – 110	25 × Ingots	None
	scales	80 – 120	12 × Ingots	None
	Lantern	100 – 120	150 × Ingots	Lantern

Parts

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	barrel hoops	-15 – 35	10 × Ingots	None
	gears	5 – 55	5 × Ingots	None
	springs	5 – 55	4 × Ingots	None
	hinge	5 – 55	4 × Ingots	None
	clock parts	25 – 75	4 × Ingots	None
	Pack of Screws	30 – 80	20 × Ingots	None
	sextant parts	30 – 80	8 × Ingots	None
	barrel tap	35 – 85	4 × Ingots	None

Tools

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	scissors	5 – 55	10 × Ingots	None
	tinker's tools	10 – 60	20 × Ingots	None
	sewing kit	10 – 70	20 × Ingots	None
	mortar and pestle	20 – 70	20 × Ingots	None
	mapmaker's pen	25 – 75	20 × Ingots	None
	scribe's pen	25 – 75	20 × Ingots	None
	deciphering tools	25 – 75	20 × Ingots	None
	defuse kit	25 – 75	20 × Ingots	None
	skinning knife	25 – 75	20 × Ingots	None
	hatchet	30 – 80	20 × Ingots	None
	saw	30 – 80	20 × Ingots	None
	skillet	30 – 80	20 × Ingots	None
	fletcher's tools	35 – 85	20 × Ingots	None
	smith's hammer	40 – 90	20 × Ingots	None
	pickaxe	40 – 90	20 × Ingots	None
	lockpicks	45 – 95	25 × Ingots	None

Traps

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	dart trap	30 – 80	1 × Ingots, 1 × Crossbow Bolts	None
	poison trap	30 – 80	1 × Ingots, 1 × Green Potions	None
	explosion trap	55 – 105	1 × Ingots, 1 × Purple Potions	None
	militia gas trap	65 – 115	1000 × Militia Silver, 10 × Ingots, 1 × Green Potions	None
	militia explosion trap	65 – 115	1000 × Militia Silver, 10 × Ingots, 1 × Purple Potions	None
	militia saw trap	65 – 115	1000 × Militia Silver, 10 × Ingots, 1 × Gears	None
	militia spike trap	65 – 115	1000 × Militia Silver, 10 × Ingots, 1 × Springs	None
	militia trap removal kit	90 – 115	500 × Militia Silver, 10 × Ingots	None

Utensils

	Item	Skill	Resources	Recipe
	spoon (left)	0 – 50	4 × Ingots	None
	spoon (right)	0 – 50	4 × Ingots	None
	fork (left)	0 – 50	4 × Ingots	None
	fork (right)	0 – 50	4 × Ingots	None
	knife (left)	0 – 50	4 × Ingots	None
	knife (right)	0 – 50	4 × Ingots	None
	goblet	10 – 60	4 × Ingots	None
	pewter mug	10 – 60	4 × Ingots	None
	cleaver	20 – 70	10 × Ingots	None
	butcher knife	25 – 75	15 × Ingots	None
	plate	50 – 70	5 × Ingots	None
	food bowl	70 – 90	10 × Ingots	None

Container traps ↑ top

A tinker can arm an unlocked, lockable chest with a trap (30–105 skill depending on type):

Pick the trap in the menu, then target the chest. Trap strength scales with your Tinkering skill, and the trap only goes live once you lock the chest — one trap per container.

Colored metal and quality ↑ top

You can tinker from the six ingot tiers (Shadow at 60 skill up to Valorite at 120), but the color only shows on certain items — utensils, keys, candelabras, scales, globes, spyglasses, lanterns, scissors, lockpicks and all crafted tools. Exceptional quality works normally (worth chasing on tools: an exceptional tool holds 150 uses instead of 100); note that tinkered items cannot be repaired — when a spyglass or key ring breaks, you make a new one.

Raising the cap to 120 ↑ top

Tinkering reaches 120 via Crafting skill scrolls. At 120 you can work Valorite ingots — the top-tier tools every serious crafter wants: a tool's metal no longer changes its uses but what it does for its owner — valorite smith's hammers, sewing kits, saws and fletcher's tools add +25% exceptional chance and the best magic-roll push, valorite mortars, skillets, pens and tinker's tools +25% exceptional chance, valorite pickaxes, hatchets and skinning knives the richest vein shift — and you get reliable odds on the 120-capped recipes: scales, the lantern, luck jewelry and the prospector's tool.

Training path ↑ top

Iron ingots are the only real cost for most of the climb — pair Tinkering with Mining or buy ingots in bulk. Tools and lockpicks sell steadily, and luck jewelry (once you find the recipes) is a genuine money-maker at the top end.

Town Quests for tinkers ↑ top

Related ↑ top

• Town Quests — the Tinker's crafting quests
• Crafting Overview — success, exceptional and tool-use rules
• Mining — where the ingots come from
• Gems — luck jewelry values
• Luck — what luck does
• Skill Masteries — prisms, totems and relics
• Skill Scrolls — raising the cap past 100