Recipe Book

Recipe Book

The Recipe Book is the Avatar's in-game reference for crafting basics, Crafting Skills, and learned Recipes. Its shortcuts help move required ingredients from inventory to the appropriate Crafting Station, while the station interface handles the craft. The default key recorded for opening the book is B; customized keybindings may differ.

Release 28 reorganized the book into crafting-school subcategories and improved its readability, while related interface work brought recipe information into crafting stations. Recipe discoverability and teaching were deliberately restricted by tier in Release 36.

Individual recipe pages remain the source for exact ingredients, skill requirements, teaching status, and the release in which each recipe was last verified.

Quick start

If you want to…	Start here
Find a known recipe	Open the Recipe Book or the appropriate crafting station, then select its discipline and subcategory
Learn a recipe document	Use the document in inventory; obtain documents from merchants, quests, loot, or other players as applicable
Discover a recipe experimentally	Confirm it is Discoverable, then place the exact ingredients and tool at the correct station and craft it
Learn from another player	Confirm it is Teachable or Re-Teachable, then use the recipe-book trade workflow
Compare material bonuses	Start with Crafting Component and Material Crafting Bonus
Improve finished equipment	See Armor Enhancement, Weapon Enhancement, Focus Enhancement, or Jewelry Enhancement
Check exact quantities or availability	Open the individual recipe page and compare its last-seen release with the current crafting interface

Learning recipes

Recipe documents

Using a recipe document teaches its recipe if the Avatar does not already know it. Documents may be sold by an appropriate NPC merchant or another player, awarded through a quest, or found as loot; availability is recipe-specific. Older interfaces distinguished learned and unlearned documents by title color, but color alone should not be relied on without checking the current tooltip.

Player teaching

A player can teach a recipe only when its classification permits it. The recorded workflow is to open a trade with the learner and drag the recipe from the Recipe Book into the trade window; both players then accept. The recipe entry represents knowledge, not a physical document consumed from inventory.

Classification	Can the knower teach it?	Can the learner teach it onward?	Discoverable?
Not Teachable	No	Not applicable	No, unless the individual recipe record explicitly says otherwise
Teachable	Yes	No; the learner receives it as Not Teachable	No
Re-Teachable	Yes	Yes	Yes

Release 36 established this tiered model: common recipes could be re-taught and discovered, the next tier could be taught once, and rarer recipes could be neither taught nor discovered. The official community-resources page continues to describe Re-Teachable recipes as Discoverable. Follow the individual recipe's current label when it differs from a broad rule.

Discovery

A Discoverable recipe can be learned by placing its exact ingredients and required tool at the correct station and completing the craft. The recipe is then added to the book. Recipes that are merely Teachable or Not Teachable cannot be unlocked by guessing their ingredient combination.

Using a recipe

1. Go to the crafting station required by the recipe.
2. Make sure the required tool and ingredients are available to its interface.
3. Select the learned shortcut, or place ingredients manually when attempting a Discoverable recipe.
4. Review quantities, output count, skill requirement, success information, and component substitutions.
5. Craft the item and inspect the result before repeating a batch.

A shortcut is not a bag of free ingredients: it selects required items from what the Avatar can access. If the craft button remains unavailable, check the station, tool, quantities, recipe knowledge, skill requirement, and whether one ingredient is an incompatible variation.

Material substitutions and variations

Some recipes accept a component family rather than one exact material. The chosen components determine the finished item's inherited Material Crafting Bonuses and may change its displayed name.

Equipment	Choose among	Comparison guide
Plate or chainmail armor	Sheets or wire, bindings, and recipe-specific straps	Material Crafting Bonus and Armor Enhancement
Bladed or hafted weapon	Compatible blade or head, hilt, or handle	Weapon Enhancement
Bow	Compatible bowstave and bowstring	Weapon Enhancement#Bowstaves and Weapon Enhancement#Bowstrings
Wand or staff	Heartwood and cloth or leather straps	Focus Enhancement
Ring or necklace	Metal recipe, followed by an eligible jewel	Jewelry Enhancement

The same raw material can provide different values in different component families. Confirm the component tooltip instead of assuming every Bronze, Maple, or Fustian ingredient behaves alike.

The three crafting rings

The Crafting Sigil groups skills into three broad rings: Gathering obtains raw resources, Refining converts them into usable materials, and Production creates finished goods.

The Crafting Sigil groups Gathering, Refining, and Production skills.

Ring	Purpose	Disciplines
Gathering	Collect raw resources	Mining, Forestry, Field Dressing, Foraging, and Fishing
Refining	Convert or cultivate resources into usable materials and components	Agriculture, Smelting, Milling, Textiles, Tanning, and Butchery
Production	Turn resources and components into finished items	Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Tailoring, Cooking, and Alchemy

Gathering tools

Tool	Typical use
Pickaxe	Ore, gems, and salt
Harvesting Axe	Wood and bark
Sickle	Cotton and compatible plants
Skinning Knife	Hides and other animal resources

Agriculture uses seeds and water through its planting workflow; optional fertilizer is not currently part of that workflow.

Crafting-discipline index

Discipline	Ring	Typical outputs or activities	Related guide
Mining, Forestry, Field Dressing, Foraging, and Fishing	Gathering	Ore, wood, hides, reagents, fish, and other raw resources	Gathering
Agriculture	Refining	Cultivated plants grown from seeds and water	Agriculture
Smelting	Refining	Ingots, sheets, wire, and metal weapon components	Crafting Component
Milling	Refining	Timber, boards, poles, strips, and wooden components	Crafting Component
Textiles and Tanning	Refining	Cloth, leather, straps, and related components	Material Crafting Bonus
Butchery	Refining	Meat, fish, and processed creature materials	Cooking
Blacksmithing	Production	Metal weapons, shields, heavy armor, jewelry, repair, salvage, and masterworking	Armor Enhancement, Weapon Enhancement, and Jewelry Enhancement
Carpentry	Production	Bows, hafted weapons, wands, staves, furniture, repair, salvage, and masterworking	Weapon Enhancement and Focus Enhancement
Tailoring	Production	Cloth and leather armor, clothing, containers, repair, salvage, and masterworking	Armor Enhancement
Cooking	Production	Food, drink, brewing, and pet food	Cooking
Alchemy	Production	Potions, poisons, scrolls, gems, jewels, enchanting, and socketing	Enchantment, Gem, and Jewel

The Obsidian Forge has specialized recipes for Obsidian equipment and components and should be checked separately from ordinary Blacksmithing.

Equipment-modification recipe families

These generated lists collect recipes that act on crafted or artifact equipment. Their output reflects SotAwiki's semantic records and may include historical entries.

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Enchantment	Alchemy Prof	1	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Crafted Equipable x 1 Mandrake Root x 10 Gold Ingot x 5

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Gem Socketed One-handed	Alchemy Prof	60	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Gem x 1 Crafted/Artifact One-Handed Weapon, Shield x 1 Mandrake Root x 10

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Imbued Gem Socketed One-Handed	Alchemy Prof	120	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Imbued Gem x 1 Crafted One-Handed Weapon, Shield x 1 Obsidian Chip x 15

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Gem Socketed Two-handed Weapon	Alchemy Prof	60	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Gem x 2 Crafted/Artifact Two-Handed Weapon x 1 Mandrake Root x 10

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Imbued Gem Socketed Two-Handed	Alchemy Prof	120	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Imbued Gem x 2 Crafted Two-Handed Weapon x 1 Obsidian Chip x 18

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Gem Socketed Chest Armor	Alchemy Prof	50	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Crafted/Artifact Chest Armor x 1 Gem x 1 Mandrake Root x 10

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Imbued Gem Socketed Chest Armor	Alchemy Prof	120	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Imbued Gem x 1 Crafted Chest Armor x 1 Obsidian Chip x 15

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Jewel Socketed Ring or Amulet	Alchemy Prof	60	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Jewel x 1 Crafted/Artifact Ring or Necklace x 1 Mandrake Root x 5

Used in recipes

Item	Skill	Lvl	Tool	Recipe
Imbued Jewel Socketed Ring or Amulet	Alchemy Prof	100	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Imbued Jewel x 1 Crafted Ring or Necklace x 1 Obsidian Chip x 4
Necklace of the Meticulous Forester	Alchemy Prof	100	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Imbued Jewel of the Meticulous Forester x 1 Crafted Ring or Necklace x 1
Ring of the Meticulous Forester	Alchemy Prof	100	Mortar and Pestle x 1	Imbued Jewel of the Meticulous Forester x 1 Crafted Ring or Necklace x 1

Salvage and repair

Salvaging breaks eligible equipment or decorations into scraps, components, or other recoverable materials at the appropriate station. Minor and Major repairs address durability through their respective recipes and materials. Exact results depend on the item, skill, and current rules; consult those dedicated pages rather than the old Release 105 instructions previously reproduced here.

Version and data notes

Recipe pages commonly include a lastseen field. It records the release in which that recipe was checked; it is not the release that introduced it and does not guarantee that it remains unchanged. Generated lists can therefore contain entries verified in very different releases.

When the wiki and the current crafting interface disagree, record the exact item, station, ingredients, output, and game release before changing the recipe page. Do not silently copy one component's quantities or bonuses to another material variation.

See also

• Crafting
• Crafting Skills
• Recipe
• Learning
• Crafting Station
• Crafting Component
• Material Crafting Bonus
• Salvage Item