Beginners Guide to Processing in Ashes of Creation
Processing is one of the three essential artisan skills in Ashes of Creation, serving as the crucial middle step in crafting final products like weapons and armor. First, you will need to gather resources using the gathering skill. Then, you can use a processing station to refine these materials, making them ready for the crafting stations where you can create the final product.
All the processing stations that are available are Weaving, Stonemasonry, Animal Husbandry, Farming, Metalworking, Cooking, Lumbermilling, Alchemy and Tanning. All stations are marked with a purple icon on your map.
Weaving
The weaving skill in Ashes of Creation allows you to create essential materials like thread, warp, and fiber. To get started with this process, you’ll need to gather resources such as flax and cotton, which can be found all around the map.
Once collected, these raw materials can be taken to the weaving station in a main town where you can transform them into the correct thread, which is a crucial component to used with the Tailoring skill.
Stonemasonry
Stonemasonry is a very interesting processing skill in Ashes of Creation, as it ties perfectly with the mining gathering skill. This is because it allows you to turn all the mined ores that you have gathered, like basalt and zinc, into a variety of different things, such as stone blocks or molds. Crafting molds will always be needed if you wish to create weapons or armor.
Additionally, stonemasonry allows you to cut all the gems you have found too, which is perfect if you wish to take up the crafting skill of jewelcrafting.
Animal Husbandry
Animal Husbandry is a skill that can give you the chance to craft a rideable mount or a tame that can be used for your caravan, this will be needed when you decide to move some cargo from one town to another.
In order to obtain one of these, you will first need the hunting skill. Then you will need to look for specific types of animals to hunt throughout the world. If successful, you can then take it to the animal husbandry station with around 55 silver too, where you will have the chance to craft one for a possible outcome of a mount to ride and show off to other players or a tame which can be ready to pull your caravan.
Below is a list of the animals you can attempt to capture for a tame so far:
- Horse
- Wolf
- Pallas Cat
- Bear
- Deer
Farming
Farming is a skill that will often be used when you manage to get your own plot within a town. There are a variety of things you can do within the farming station. One of the main things to use it for is to create mulch from animal droppings that you have found when killing beasts with a combination of plants such as daffodils that you have gathered with herbalism.
Crafting mulch will be a must when farming in Ashes of Creation because it enables you to grow various fruits and vegetables. To do this, you’ll need the seeds of the desired fruit or vegetable, some water, and mulch. With these ingredients, you can create a wide range of different produce.
Metalworking
The metalworking station is going to be one of the key stations that you will use the most when you play Ashes of Creation. This is because it acts as the “middle man” when you want to turn your raw gathered ore into something else such as jewelry, weapons or armor.
A metalworking station is essentially just another name for a smelting station which allows you to place ore such as copper and zinc into it, where it produces fragments of that ore, you will now have one of the key resources which is now ready to be used in a craftng station of your choice.
Cooking
Cooking is a vital skill within Ashes of Creation, as there is no real way of healing yourself without playing with a healer class in your party. This means you will be relying on rations and salve for the most part. Unless you have some good recipes for cooking, this will allow you to be able to create better food that can either regenerate your health and mana faster or just give you better stats.
The cooking station is important as it allows you to take all the fish you have found or from all the animals you have hunted and turn them into meat. Upon changing it to meat, you can then turn this into one of your favorite recipes.
Lumber Milling
Lumber Milling acts exactly like metalworking, but instead of ore, it is for wood. This station allows you to take any wood that you have chopped down with the lumberjacking skill and refine it into either timber or woodchips.
Although there are many reasons to use timber or woodchips, we have noticed timber is mainly used with the Arcane Engineering skill, which allows you to create survey pylons, and woodchips can be combined with animal droppings in the farming station to create mulch for farming.
Alchemy
The Alchemy skill allows you to break down resources such as flowers and gems into a powder. This powder can then be turned into ink or salve,
Crafting salve is highly recommended when you are first starting out as it allows you to gain a set amount of health or mana every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, which helps massively when you are leveling or questing.
Although if you decide to craft ink instead, you can then use this ink as a base resource at the scribing station to create scrolls. Scrolls can give you additional stat buffs for a set amount of time. An example of a scroll that can be used is one that gives you more experience for a period of time.
Tanning
Tanning is another vital skill for players as it works very well with hunting and leatherworking. When you hunt animals out in the wilderness, you can have the chance to get a carcass of it, which you can then bring the carcass to a tanning station. Here it gives you the animal skin, bones and animal fat from the carcass.
The animal skin, you can take this to either the leatherworking or the tailoring station. Where you can craft either light or medium armor. Bones can be taken to the Arcane Engineering station to create pylons and spellbooks and then the animal fat can be turned into oil.
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