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{{Toc-right}}'''Crafting''' is the process of gathering and refining resources in order to create a variety of useful items such as armour, class items, essences, jewellery, potions, and weapons depending on the crafting [[profession]] the player has chosen.

== Getting Started ==
To start crafting, the player must complete the [[Novice|introduction]] and move out into the wider world. In various towns throughout Middle-earth, [[Master of Apprentices|Masters or Mistresses of Apprentices]] will teach players crafting [[profession]]s. The crafting system offers 10 professions, and each character can learn up to three of these. It is possible to purchase an [[LOTRO_Store#Crafting_Guilds|additional craft slot]] from the LOTRO store for 995 LP per character.  A profession determines the types of items the player can create, the recipes it can learn, the resources it can collect, and the crafting guild it can join.

Players may change a profession at any time by speaking to a Master or Mistress of Apprentices, however, they will lose all [[#Crafting Levels|progress]] and [[#Recipes|recipes]] memorized in that profession and start the new profession from the beginning.

[[NPC_Supplier|Suppliers]], Novice-level [[Game_Terms#Crafting_Vendors|Crafting Vendors]] and crafting facilities are usually near [[Master of Apprentices|Masters and Mistresses of Apprentices]]. Suppliers and crafting vendors sell most of the items needed to begin crafting. All crafts require the correct [[:Category:Crafting Tools|tools]], [[:Category:Crafting Resources|raw materials]], and a [[:Category:Crafting Facilities|workplace]] to execute a recipe. For instance, woodworking requires a set of woodworking tools, a supply of wood, and a workbench. Crafting facilities are found in many locations in most towns and can also be purchased and placed in player [[housing]].

== Professions ==
{{Main|Profession}}

Professions are divided in two groups: gathering and crafting. Gathering professions harvest materials from the [[landscape]] and refine them into ingredients used by the other professions. For example, a Prospector harvests skarn from resource nodes and smelts it into ingots, which are then used by Jewellers, Metalsmiths and Weaponsmiths. Scholar is both a gathering and crafting profession as it harvests and processes its own ingredients into finished products.

Choosing a profession can benefit the player's class. The following tables show which classes benefit from the different professions.

=== Profession vs. Item Class ===

{| class="altRowsMed centerTableFirst"
|-
! [[Profession]] !! [[Armour]] !! [[Weapon]] !! [[Master Item Index#Class-specific Items|Class-specific Items]]
|-
| [[Cook]] || N/A || N/A || [[Lore-master]] • [[Minstrel]]
|-
| [[Jeweller]] || N/A || [[Rune-keeper]] || [[Brawler]] • [[Champion]] • [[Lore-master]]
|-
| [[Metalsmith]] || [[Beorning]] • [[Brawler]] • [[Captain]] • [[Champion]] • [[Guardian]] • ([[Minstrel]] and [[Warden]] for shields) || N/A || [[Guardian]] • [[Rune-keeper]]
|-
| [[Scholar]] || N/A || N/A || [[Captain]] • [[Champion]] • [[Hunter]] • [[Lore-master]] • [[Minstrel]] • [[Rune-keeper]] • [[Warden]]
|-
| [[Tailor]] || [[Burglar]] • [[Hunter]] • [[Lore-master]] • [[Mariner]] • [[Minstrel]] • [[Rune-keeper]] • [[Warden]] || N/A || [[Burglar]] • [[Captain]] • [[Rune-keeper]]
|-
| [[Weaponsmith]] || N/A || all except [[Lore-master]] and [[Rune-keeper]] || [[Burglar]] • [[Guardian]] • [[Warden]]
|-
| [[Woodworker]] || N/A || all except [[Brawler]], [[Mariner]] and [[Rune-keeper]] || [[Captain]] • [[Champion]] • [[Mariner]] • [[Minstrel]] • [[Rune-keeper]] • [[Warden]]
|}

=== Class vs. Item Class ===

{| class="altRowsMed centerTableFirst"
|-
! [[Class]] !! [[Armour]] !! [[Weapon]] !! [[Master Item Index#Class-specific Items|Class-specific Items]]
|-
| [[Beorning]] || [[Metalsmith]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Scholar]]
|-
| [[Brawler]] || [[Metalsmith]] || [[Weaponsmith]] || [[Jeweller]]
|-
| [[Burglar]] || [[Tailor]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Tailor]] • [[Weaponsmith]]
|-
| [[Captain]] || [[Metalsmith]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Scholar]] • [[Tailor]] • [[Woodworker]]
|-
| [[Champion]] || [[Metalsmith]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Jeweller]] • [[Scholar]] • [[Woodworker]]
|-
| [[Guardian]] || [[Metalsmith]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Metalsmith]] • [[Weaponsmith]]
|-
| [[Hunter]] || [[Tailor]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Scholar]]
|-
| [[Lore-master]] || [[Tailor]] || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Cook]] • [[Jeweller]] • [[Scholar]]
|-
| [[Mariner]] || [[Tailor]] || [[Weaponsmith]] || [[Woodworker]]
|-
| [[Minstrel]] || [[Tailor]] • [[Metalsmith]] (Shields) || [[Cook]] • [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Scholar]]
|-
| [[Rune-keeper]] || [[Tailor]] || [[Jeweller]] || [[Metalsmith]] • [[Scholar]] • [[Woodworker]]
|-
| [[Warden]] || [[Tailor]] • [[Metalsmith]] (Shields) || [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]] || [[Scholar]] • [[Weaponsmith]] • [[Woodworker]]
|}

=== Profession vs. Class ===

{| class="altRowsMed centerTableFirst"
|-
! [[Profession]] !! [[Beorning]] !! [[Brawler]] !! [[Burglar]] !! [[Captain]] !! [[Champion]] !! [[Guardian]] !! [[Hunter]] !! [[Lore-master]] !! [[Mariner]] !! [[Minstrel]] !! [[Rune-keeper]] !! [[Warden]]
|-
| [[Cook]] || Food || Food || Food || Food || Food || Food || Food || Food || Food, CSI || Food, CSI || Food || Food
|-
| [[Jeweller]] || Jewellery || Jewellery, CSI || Jewellery || Jewellery || Jewellery, CSI || Jewellery || Jewellery || Jewellery, CSI || Jewellery || Jewellery || Jewellery, Weapon || Jewellery
|-
| [[Metalsmith]] || Armour || Armour || || Armour || Armour || Armour, CSI || || || || Shield || CSI || Shield
|-
| [[Scholar]] || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls || Scrolls || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls, CSI || Scrolls, CSI 
|-
| [[Tailor]] || Cloak || Cloak || Armour, Cloak, CSI || Cloak, CSI || Cloak || Cloak || Armour, Cloak || Armour, Cloak || Armour, Cloak || Armour, Cloak || Armour, Cloak, CSI || Armour, Cloak
|-
| [[Weaponsmith]] || Weapon || Weapon || Weapon, CSI || Weapon || Weapon || Weapon, CSI || Weapon || || Weapon || Weapon || || Weapon, CSI
|-
| [[Woodworker]] || Weapon || || Weapon || Weapon, CSI || Weapon, CSI || Weapon || Weapon || Weapon || || Weapon, CSI || CSI || Weapon, CSI 
|}

'''CSI''': Class-specific Item

== Gathering resources ==
{{Main|Resources}}

Crafting materials are found throughout Middle-earth from vendors, as loot drops, as [[:Category:Resource Spawns|resource nodes]], in the assorted chests and crates around the world, and, later, in special [[:Category:Crafting Instances|Crafting Instances]]. Raw materials consist of [[ore]], [[wood]], [[hides]], [[:Category:Gemstones|gems]], seeds, cooking ingredients, dye components, and lore items.

=== Resource nodes ===
* Artifact nodes produce raw materials for Scholars and sometimes critical ingredients.
* Crop nodes that are found in the wild produce ingredients for Cook.
* Crop nodes planted by a Farmer in a Farmland produce crops and sometimes dye ingredients for Scholars and critical ingredients.
* Ore nodes produce raw ore and sometimes gems for Jewellers, dye ingredients for Scholars and critical ingredients.
* Wood nodes produce raw wood and sometimes critical ingredients.

==== Tracking skills ====
Upon learning a gathering profession, the player will learn a skill to track nearby resource nodes on the mini-map.

:{{:Track Artifacts|mode=imlink}} -- [[Scholar]]
:{{:Track Crops|mode=imlink}} -- [[Farmer]]
:{{:Track Mines|mode=imlink}} -- [[Prospector]]
:{{:Track Wood|mode=imlink}} -- [[Forester]]

=== Other resource locations ===
* [[Hides]] are found as loot drops from many creatures. 
* Seeds and [[:Category:Cook Component Items|cooking components]] can be purchased from Suppliers or tradesmen.
* Lore items are found as loot drops on humanoid enemies or in and around ruins inside ancient [[Artifacts]].
* [[Crafting Rare Components|Rare items]] for high level crafting and single use recipes may be found in Farming fields as well as any appropriate level resource node. They may also drop from "Rare Elite" or "Rare Signature" creatures. See [[:Category:Crafting Rare Components|Crafting Rare Components]]
* Most crafting materials can also be found in chests on the landscape and in instances.
* [[Mission]]s and [[delving]]s are another source of crafting materials. [[Quest:On a Mission (Weekly)|On a Mission (Weekly)]], [[Quest:On a Continuing Mission (Weekly)|On a Continuing Mission (Weekly)]], and [[Quest:Delve Deepest (Weekly)|Delve Deepest (Weekly)]] offer a selectable reward of [[Item:Missions: Bonus Crafting Materials|a Bonus Crafting Materials Box]], one of the subcomponents of which is a [[Item:Crate of Crafting Materials|Crate of Crafting Materials]], which provide a crafting resource of any type and any tier.
* Certain [[the Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins]] missions contain Master (tier 5) resource nodes, regardless of the level of the player. [[Quest:Mission: The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 2|Chapter 2]] and [[Quest:Mission: The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 5|Chapter 5]] contain [[Item:Lebethron Branches|Lebethron branches]] and [[Item:Dwarf-iron Ore|Dwarf-iron Ore]] nodes.
* Some boss chests for the [[Woe of the Willow]] and [[Agoroth, the Narrowdelve]] instances, drop a random crate of crafting materials, from which materials of any tier of the relevant crafting profession can be selected, even if the instance is set to minimum; level 20 for '''Woe of the Willow''', or level 45 for '''Agoroth'''.

==== Crafting instances ====
{{Main|Crafting Instances}}

Starting with [[Moria]], crafting instances provide another way to gather resources. These instances feature a high concentration of resource nodes though usually accompanied by mobs. Additional crafting instances can be found in [[Hytbold]], the [[Entwood]], and [[Gundabad]].

Some instances not designated as crafting instances may also be sources of crafting materials. For example, the wargs in the scalable instance [[Warg-pens of Dol Guldur|Warg Pens]] drop hides for a crafting tier commensurate with the level at which the instance is set upon launch.

== Recipes ==
The crafter must have learned the recipe for items it wants to craft. Recipes are either given automatically when achieving a crafting tier, purchased, dropped from mobs, or obtained as treasure.
{| class="altRowsMed centerTableFirst" width="500"
!width=100px| Type of Recipe !! Description
|-valign="top"
| Basic || Each tier has a number of [[Game Terms#Crafting|basic recipes]] that are provided for you once that tier is available.
|-valign="top"
| Vendor || Recipes can be purchased from a Novice or Expert profession NPC.
|-valign="top"
| Guild || Recipes can be purchased or bartered from the appropriate [[Crafting Guild|Guild Representative]].
|-valign="top"
| Reputation || Recipes can be purchased from the certain faction representative. Recipe access and use is normally controlled by reputation Level.
|-valign="top"
| Dropped || Recipes can be obtained as loot from various [[:Category:Creatures|creatures]] or from certain [[World Instance|instance]] chests.
|-valign="top"
| Single use || Recipes that can only be crafted once and then it is removed from your recipe list.
|-valign="top"
| Quest || Certain quests require the use of a crafting recipe. If the player does not already have the recipe, the quest will usually bestow it. These are generally single-use and do not offer crafting XP.
|-valign="top"
| Processing || Processing recipes use a two-step-process to transform raw ingredients into an intermediate form and back again at the rate of half the input of the resource resulting primarily in Craft XP.
|}


{| class="altRowsMed centerTableFirst" width="500"
! width=32px | Icon !! [[:Category:Crafting Recipes|Recipes]] !! [[Master Recipe Index|Recipe Indexes]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Cook Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Cook Recipes|Cook Recipes]] || [[Cook Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Farmer Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Farmer Recipes|Farmer Recipes]] || [[Farmer Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Forester Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Forester Recipes|Forester Recipes]] || [[Forester Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Jeweller Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Jeweller Recipes|Jeweller Recipes]] || [[Jeweller Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Metalsmith Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Metalsmith Recipes|Metalsmith Recipes]] || [[Metalsmith Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Prospector Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Prospector Recipes|Prospector Recipes]] || [[Prospector Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Scholar Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Scholar Recipes|Scholar Recipes]] || [[Scholar Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Tailor Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Tailor Recipes|Tailor Recipes]] || [[Tailor Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Weaponsmith Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Weaponsmith Recipes|Weaponsmith Recipes]] || [[Weaponsmith Recipe Index]]
|-
| [[File:Journeyman Woodworker Recipe-icon.png]] || [[:Category:Woodworker Recipes|Woodworker Recipes]] || [[Woodworker Recipe Index]]
|}

=== Executing recipes ===
Executing a recipe requires the correct [[:Category:Crafting Tools|tools]], [[:Category:Crafting Resources|raw materials]], and a [[:Category:Crafting Facilities|workplace]]. Completing a recipe can result in either a standard or critical success.

[[LOTRO_Store_Crafting#Ingredient Packs|Ingredient Packs]] can take the place of a recipe's ingredients, however, items crafted with ingredient packs are Bound to Account. Ingredient packs are rewards for the [[Master of Apprentices#Quest_Involvement|crafting introduction quests]], found in [[Hobbit Gifts]], and purchased from the [[LOTRO Store]].

=== Critical Successes ===
{{:Critical success}}

== Crafting Facilities ==
{{Main|Crafting Facility}}

Every profession has an appropriate place to actually do the work. The gathering professions, Scholars, Prospector and Forester, primarily harvest [[Resources|resource nodes]], in the wild. Farmers grow resources in [[Farmlands]], then process them at Workbenches.
However once harvested, these resources must then be "refined" in the same Crafting Facility used to create crafted items.

The Cook and Scholar can craft certain items without a crafting facility.

{| width=450px class="altRowsMed centerTableFirst" 
!width=150px| Profession !!width=300px| Facility
|-
| [[Cook]] || [[Camp-fire]] • [[Oven]]
|-
| [[Farmer]] || [[Farmlands]] • [[Workbench]]
|-
| [[Jeweller]] || [[Workbench]]
|-
| [[Metalsmith]] || [[Forge]]
|-
| [[Scholar]] || [[Study]]
|-
| [[Tailor]] || [[Workbench]]
|-
| [[Weaponsmith]] || [[Forge]]
|-
| [[Woodworker]] || [[Workbench]]
|}

=== Crafting Halls ===
{{Main|Crafting Hall}}

There are many places found throughout [[Middle-earth]] where most crafting facilities are grouped up for convenience. These are often found within a [[Crafting Hall]]. Many of the larger cities and settlements have them.
{{:Crafting Hall}}

== Crafting Tools ==
{{Main|Crafting Tools}}

Once you have spoken to a [[Master of Apprentices|Master or Mistress of Apprentices]] and chosen your professions, they will give you a set set of ''inferior'' crafting tools. These can be immediately replaced with more durable tools from novice or expert crafting NPCs as well as [[NPC Supplier|supplier]]s.

Improved crafting tools and toolsets are crafted by [[Metalsmith]]s. For the gathering professions, these improved tools decrease the time necessary to gather a [[Resources|resource node]]". Higher ranked tools also provide an increase in the critical chance associated with their use.

Modifiable crafting tools were introduced with crafting events. These tools are upgraded with resources earned during the events. When upgrading, players first choose from a variety of appearances and the enhanced tools provide bonuses such as increased recipe critical chance, decreased gathering duration, and increased chance to find rare materials when gathering.

== Crafting advancement ==
<div style="float:right; clear:right; margin: 0em 0em 0em 1em; background: transparent;">
{| class="altRowsMed centerTable" 
!width=75px| Tier Level !!width=100px| Proficiency !!width=75px| Points Needed !!width=100px| Mastery !!width=75px| Points Needed !!width=100px| Resources**(***)
|- 
| 1 || Apprentice || 200 || Master Apprentice || 400 || 75(39)
|- 
| 2 || Journeyman || 280 || Master Journeyman || 560 || 105(54)
|- 
| 3 || Expert* || 360 || Master Expert || 720 || 135(69)
|- 
| 4 || Artisan || 440 || Master Artisan || 880 || 165(84)
|- 
| 5 || Master || 520 || Grand Master || 1,040 || 195(99)
|- 
| 6 || Supreme || 600 || Supreme Master || 1,200 || 225(114)
|- 
| 7 || Westfold || 680 || Westfold Master || 1,360 || 255(129)
|- 
| 8 || Eastemnet || 760 || Eastemnet Master || 1,520 || 285(144)
|-
| 9 || Westemnet || 840 || Westemnet Master || 1,680 || 315(159)
|-
| 10 || Anórien || 840 || Anórien Master || 1,680 || 315(159)
|-
| 11 || Doomfold || 840 || Doomfold Master || 1,680 || 315(159)
|-
| 12 || Ironfold || 840 || Ironfold Master || 1,680 || 315(159)
|-
| 13 || Minas Ithil || 630 || Minas Ithil Master || 1,260 || ???(???)
|-
| 14 || <profession> of Gundabad || 630 || Master <profession> of Gundabad || 1,260 || ???(???)
|-
| 15 || <profession> of Umbar || 630 || Master <profession> of Umbar || 1,260 || ???(???)
|-
| align="left" colspan="6" | '' * Allows crafting guild access ''
'' ** Resources refer to prepared resources needed to achieve mastery in a tier. For example: this would be ingots, not ore, boards, not wood, and leathers, not hides. Double this number if you are starting with ore/wood/hides/etc. It takes into account that most players want some resources left over after they have completed a crafting tier, therefore, with crafting XP scrolls and speed potions, this number can be considerably reduced, especially if leftovers are not desired. You would process half of this number into shavings (for example), and then return them to their intact state to complete a tier. You should expect considerable loss of resources whenever you use Processing.''
<br />
'' *** For Processing, add the amount of experience needed to achieve mastery in a tier (proficiency and mastery together) using the formula: [exp/16]+1. I.E: [600/16]+1 = 39.''
|}
</div>

Every time you complete a recipe, you gain Craft Experience Points (Craft XP) in the respective profession. You advance in a profession by gaining Craft XP.

Each profession is broken up into tiers, and each tier has two requirements furthering your progression towards the higher crafting tiers. See the table for requirement per tier. Each requirement you reach, you earn a new [[:Category:Crafting Titles|crafting title]] which provides new abilities.

'''Proficiency''': Completing the Proficiency part of a tier (denoted with a bronze anvil) enables you to achieve '''''critical successes''''' while crafting items from that tier (see below), and, furthermore, it opens up the first part of the next tier, and for gathering professions it allows you to harvest nodes for the next tier.

'''Mastery''': Completing the Mastery part of a tier (denoted with a gold anvil) enables you to begin earning mastery points of the next tier. Until Mastery is completed you can just earn crafting points to complete Proficiency of the next tier, but not any further. Once Master of a tier you do not earn any more crafting points from crafting items of that tier. Critical success on a tier '''requires''' Mastery of all previous tiers.

The following explains the four levels of crafting progress per tier:
{|
|-
| [[File:Crafting level-beginning.jpg]] || An empty bronze anvil: you are currently working towards Proficiency.
|-
| [[File:Crafting level-proficiency-no-mastery.jpg]] || A bronze anvil: you have gained Proficiency.
|-
| [[File:Crafting level-proficiency.jpg]] || A bronze anvil and an empty gold anvil: you are currently working towards Mastery.
|-
| [[File:Crafting level-master.jpg]] || Two filled-in anvils: you have also gained Mastery.
|}

== Crafting Guilds == 
{{Main|Crafting Guild}}

[[Crafting Guild]]s provide additional paths of advancement for the crafting professions. Crafters can join a guild after advancing to Expert (tier 3) in a profession. Farmer, Forester and Prospector do not have a crafting guild.

Crafting guilds offer improved recipes which produce slightly better items than most other recipes of the same tier with critical success. While levelling, this is typically the best armour, weapon, and jewellery available.

Players advance with crafting guilds by using crafted reputation items. At higher reputation levels, better recipes become available.

=== Guild Halls ===
Crafting Guild Halls can be found in the following locations around Middle-earth.

{{:Crafting Guilds}}

== See also ==
* [[Crafter interdependence]]
== Navigation ==
=== Crafting pages ===
{{Crafting Information Guide}}
{{Masteries}}

=== Crafting Guilds ===
{{Crafting Guilds}}

=== Recipes ===
{{Cook Recipe Index}}
{{Farmer Recipe Index}}
{{Forester Recipe Index}}
{{Jeweller Recipe Index}}
{{Metalsmith Recipe Index}}
{{Prospector Recipe Index}}
{{Scholar Recipe Index}}
{{Tailor Recipe Index}}
{{Weaponsmith Recipe Index}}
{{Woodworker Recipe Index}}

=== Items ===
{{Item Index}}

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