anecorbie on Jun 18, 2014 wrote:

In the post "horrible boss rewards" you hinted that crafting would be coming to Pirate 101. I won't ask when; I know you don't talk schedule. But you said that we could get reagents from boss drops.
Question # 1: Will there be other ways to get reagents?
#2 : Besides personal equipment, what other items will we be able to craft?

That's all the questions I have for now. I know you're busy with a certain 'nefarious' tower ( besides other things ) Just want to say, that I'm excited by the prospect of crafting. Ki and Pirate 101 rocks!

You should expect Crafting in P101 to follow the general outlines of Crafting in W101-- but improved, based upon things we've learned from W101.

You know... like we did with Pets.

As both a player and a designer, I love love love Crafting...

Crafting...What exactly is it?

Hehehe...Crafting...What is this? Minecraft? HA! Oh, BTW Ratbeard, is this Crafting Feature also going to be added with Book 15? I wouldn't want to be disappointed just for another Improvement update like last time.

Oh, and how can we tell when the update is close?

Petty Alicia Cog

itsamemario4 on Jun 19, 2014 wrote:

Crafting...What exactly is it?

Hehehe...Crafting...What is this? Minecraft? HA! Oh, BTW Ratbeard, is this Crafting Feature also going to be added with Book 15? I wouldn't want to be disappointed just for another Improvement update like last time.

Oh, and how can we tell when the update is close?

Petty Alicia Cog

You get to make your own equipment & housing items ( sometimes a complete house, but that's for high level crafting ) Hopefully, for P101 they will add ship crafting

O YES!!!!! I can't wait for crafting to come, I bet when it comes the old rabbit in the bazaar will get A LOT more bussiness. It certainly would be cool to make ship parts or even good gear, much more fun than farming bosses

Just thought I'd add my little "whoo hoo!" to the Crafting chorus. Looking forward to it!

I was never really into pet breeding and crafting in W101, but ever since seeing what you guys have done with it here in P101, I am actually VERY excited about what possibilities could be unlocked with Crafting 2.0! If it's as good as the new Pet training regimes, Crafting should be a BLAST!!

itsamemario4 on Jun 19, 2014 wrote:

Crafting...What exactly is it?

Hehehe...Crafting...What is this? Minecraft? HA! Oh, BTW Ratbeard, is this Crafting Feature also going to be added with Book 15? I wouldn't want to be disappointed just for another Improvement update like last time.

Oh, and how can we tell when the update is close?

Petty Alicia Cog

I think the way you can tell if an update is close is when Ratbeard, One-Eyed Jack, and Blind Mew all stop posting as frequently. That means they're busy!

Crafting is when you gather 'reagents' which are sort of like ingredients in a recipe, and you combine them to create new equipment, housing items, pet snacks, transmute reagents, etc. Each item has its own 'recipe' you have to purchase (for gold) and you create the items with the required number of each reagent in the recipe using a Crafting Table.

Some of the equipment is more powerful and can give you a better boost than something you'd buy at the Bazaar or get from a boss drop.

That's how crafting works in Wizard101, but it is a NIGHTMARE to gather reagents.

Question for Ratbeard: Will reagent drops, amounts per harvest, and respawn time (for the reagents out in the worlds) be more player-friendly? On Wizard101 I was stuck for a very long time in both Marleybone's and Dragonspyre's crafting quests due to the low drop/harvest rates on some of the reagents, and I do not want to have to go through that mess again.

icewizard6589 on Jun 27, 2014 wrote:

O I forgot to add this to my first post, so we now have pet training, crafting is in the making but there is 1 more thing that is awesome in w101 and would be awesome if it was added to p101. Farming!!! Is farming also on the to-do lost?

We may farm to get reagents, but I hope not. Not my favorite thing to do, besides I'm a skysailor pirate not a dirt-farmer!

anecorbie on Jun 18, 2014 wrote:

In the post "horrible boss rewards" you hinted that crafting would be coming to Pirate 101. I won't ask when; I know you don't talk schedule. But you said that we could get reagents from boss drops.
Question # 1: Will there be other ways to get reagents?
#2 : Besides personal equipment, what other items will we be able to craft?

That's all the questions I have for now. I know you're busy with a certain 'nefarious' tower ( besides other things ) Just want to say, that I'm excited by the prospect of crafting. Ki and Pirate 101 rocks!

well, i am a very intense minecraft player, it would be awesome if they put it in the game lol

Kelsey Fireheart on Jun 30, 2014 wrote:

I honestly think gardening is totally wrong for this game. However, fishing is perfect! I would love to fish for reagents. It suits pirates better anyway!

Also, I wonder if they will add a Crafting task for our companions which will collect reagents for us?

Kelsey, gardening, really not fitting to the Pirates' theme, but fishing, that we can do. Fishing is somewhat of a sport to many, and I would no doubt fish for anything there. We may either get a new Companion Order based on fishing, or have our Companions fish with us. The more to fish, the more we get, right?

If Crafting does get to Pirate101, no doubt we would get a new Companion Order for our Companions to collect reagents, even rare ones, too! Have they even thought of that?

anecorbie on Jun 30, 2014 wrote:

Lazy ways are always the best ways! Yar, send companions out fer reagents, says I

Hehehe, I have to agree with you there. I'm to the point where I'm not farming ships for Nautical XP, I just send out 5-7 companions to collect it for me. I give a hearty YAR to ye, and agree mightily with the idea of havin' companions fetchin' reagents! (My wizard wishes to add that it would make things much easier for the pirates should their companions be able to gather reagents.)

I hear tale that we'll actually get different bits and items, each with their own stats, then, sort of like stitching, we'll be able to combine them. The different items will make some hybrid weapon or ship or whatever, and it will have the stats of each of these items. So if I have creepy wood, ghostly string, and bone arrows, I'll get some scary undead bow and arrow, with the stats that each of those items had.

This could come in handy if I ever have some random items from The Hydra, or the minotaur, or something else powerful and scary, but there wasn't exactly anything I could do with them... until I realized I might be able to make a powrful Aquilan sword or something. This would add a whole new meaning to farming, as well as giving us strong items that could be used for even more farming. It's like the circle of life, but better!

...not to mention the really messed up ships we could make...