Item Crafting link

Bestia uses a flexible, discovery-driven crafting system. Every player can attempt to craft anything, but crafting always happens in two distinct phases:

1. Discovery – you experiment with raw materials to learn a blueprint. This is the risky part: it consumes the materials and can fail.
2. Production – once a blueprint is learned, you (or your Bestia) can produce that item repeatedly and reliably.

What you are even allowed to attempt depends on the crafting school you use — each tied to a Master Skill. There are six domains of craftable, user-generated content:

• Weapons (Blacksmith)
• Armor (Blacksmith)
• Magical Artifacts (Magic Artisan)
• Potions and Usables (Alchemy)
• Meals (Cooking)
• Buildings, Traps, non-magical Devices (Craftsmanship)

Some materials are exclusive to certain schools (a grape is useless for forging, and a Craftsman cannot forge a blade). The school is the only “category” you actively choose — and you choose it just by picking the craft action, never by typing a keyword.

Starter Blueprints link

A new player cannot be expected to discover their first tools. So every master knows a short list of starter blueprints from the start: the first meal, the first ingots, the first sword and armor. The server keeps this list in one config file (starter_kit.yml). A change to the list applies to every master, old and new.

Discovery starts after the starter blueprints. By then a player knows how the crafting window works.

Discovery: Learning a Blueprint link

Every craftable item lives at a point in a shared feature space. Each raw material carries its own coordinates in that space. When you combine materials, their vectors are averaged into a single point, weighted by amount. So the proportion of materials is the “shape” you are aiming for — far more flexible than a rigid grid pattern. A blueprint’s point is the average of its own recipe inputs, so the known recipe always lands exactly on it.

Your crafting skill defines a radius around that point. Every known blueprint that falls inside this sphere is a candidate. Starting from the lowest-level candidate, the game rolls against your skill and the item’s difficulty to see whether you learn it. A discovery attempt always consumes the materials and ends in one of four ways:

This resonance feedback removes the classic frustration of not knowing whether a combination is impossible or merely unlucky:

• Slipped means the blueprint exists. Keep trying with the same materials.
• Beyond skill means you are close, but your radius is too small. Level up the skill rather than swap materials.
• Nothing means you should swap materials. It also tells you where to go: it names the one or two axes with the biggest gap to the nearest blueprint you do not know yet, for example “too brittle, too light”. Each attempt moves you closer, so discovery is a search you can reason about, not a lottery. If the school has no unknown blueprint left, there is no hint.

Salvaging an item never teaches its blueprint. Discovery and shared recipes are the only ways to learn one.

The chance to learn drops with item level and rises with skill. It is floored at 0.1% for items up to Lv. 100 and 0.01% above Lv. 100, so in theory every blueprint is discoverable given enough attempts.

Example — telling a Health Potion from a Minor Poison. Both are light fluids with almost identical coordinates; the only meaningful difference is the Vitality axis, and that difference comes entirely from the ingredients, never from a label you pick:

                  State   Vitality   Arcane    (other axes ~0)
Health Potion   -0.9     +0.6       +0.3
Minor Poison    -0.9     -0.5        0.0
  

Drop a healing herb into your mix and it lands at positive Vitality (Health Potion territory); drop a deathcap in and the very same recipe lands at negative Vitality (Poison territory). Same skill, same station — a different mushroom.

The Crafting Window link

How the window opens and lists recipes is on Crafting Stations. This section is about its discovery view.

The feature space is hidden math, so the discovery view shows it as pictures:

• Material tooltips name the axes a material pushes, for example “fluid, restorative” for a healing herb. A player who wants a healing potion can reason that they need fluid and restorative materials.
• A radar chart with one spoke per axis shows the current mix as a shape. It changes as you add or remove materials. When you pick a blueprint you already know, its outline is drawn on top. Unknown blueprints are never drawn: finding them is the game.

The radar chart is only a view of the vectors. There is no grid, and the position of a material in the window does not matter.

Production: Crafting a Known Item link

Once a blueprint is learned it is saved to your blueprint list, and you or your Bestia can produce the item on demand. Production has no minigame. A craft by hand is not better than a craft by a Bestia.

The success chance uses two sources:

• The skill levels always come from the master, also when their Bestia crafts.
• The status values (DEX and WIL) come from whoever crafts: the master, or the Bestia they control. A Bestia with high DEX is a good crafter.

By hand, the materials come from the crafter’s own inventory, and the item goes there too. At a station, the materials are paid into the station when the craft is queued, see Crafting Stations. On a failed production the materials are lost.

Crafted By link

A crafted item remembers who made it and where: “Crafted by Alice in Genesis”. The maker is always the master, also when their Bestia did the work. Both names are copies taken at craft time, so they stay when the master is deleted or the world is reset.

This holds for stackable items too. Potions made by two masters never merge into one pile: you hold one pile of Alice’s potions and one of Bob’s. Looted, bought and starter items have no maker and stack with each other. A crafted pile sold to an NPC shop loses its maker, because a shop keeps only counts.

A learned blueprint can be inscribed onto paper as a shareable recipe and handed to other players, who consume the recipe to learn the blueprint themselves. Learning from a recipe takes time depending on the item level.

Some properties are not baked into the blueprint but inherited from the materials at production time. A single “elemental flask” blueprint yields a fire flask if you load embercoal or a frost flask if you load frost shard; a magical draught takes its school from the magical reagent you feed it. Some blueprints also demand a special ingredient that cannot be substituted. This keeps the feature space small while letting one blueprint cover a whole family of variants.

Construction Crafting Success Chance link

For the Craftsmanship domain specifically — workbenches, structures, traps and other non-magical devices built with Carpentry — the Production roll above is shaped by skill rank and status values, not material quality alone, much like Item Customization’s slot-cutting chance. A base chance falls off with the item level being attempted, on top of which Carpentry, Master Craftsman, temporary buffs and the Craftsman’s own status values are added. The DEX and WIL terms apply to every craft, not only to Craftsmanship, and they use the status values of whoever crafts (see Production):

  baseChance = 0.90 - max(0, itemLevel - 10) * 0.015
chance = clamp(baseChance + carpentryBonus + masterCraftsmanBonus + buffBonus + circleBonus + floor(DEX / 10) * 0.02 + floor(WIL / 10) * 0.01, 0.01, 1.0)
  

Levels 1-10 all share the same 90% base chance, so Carpentry alone gets you the rest of the way there: Lv. 1 (+5%) reaches 95%, Lv. 2 (+10%) already caps out at 100%. Every level above 10 removes another 1.5%, reaching 0% at level 70 and -30% at level 90 - firmly negative, meaning a level 90 build needs real investment across skill, buffs and stats to be worth attempting at all. Bonus sources:

• Carpentry rank — up to +50% at Lv. 10.
• Master Craftsman rank — up to +10% at Lv. 5.
• Temporary buffs (a support consumable, an ally’s blessing, …) — typically +5% to +10% while active.
• A Mana Circle — up to +45% with six participants on mana-rich ground.
• DEX — +2% per 10 points (see Status Values).
• WIL — +1% per 10 points (see Status Values).

Example: A Craftsman attempts a level 90 item with maxed Carpentry (Lv. 10, +50%), maxed Master Craftsman (Lv. 5, +10%), a +10% buff active, 150 DEX (+30%) and 50 WIL (+5%). baseChance = 0.90 - 80 * 0.015 = -0.30, so chance = -0.30 + 0.50 + 0.10 + 0.10 + 0.30 + 0.05 = 0.75 — a 75% success chance. Push the same fully-maxed build to a level 100 item and baseChance drops to -0.45, bringing the total down to 60%: raising skill and stats raises the ceiling, it never flattens the curve, so the chance keeps eroding the higher the item level climbs.

Ore Refinement Success Chance link

Raw ore is dead weight until it has been through a Furnace. Smelting is deliberately not blueprint-driven — there is nothing to discover, every ore has exactly one refined form — but each charge still rolls against a success chance, and a failed smelt turns the whole batch into slag: the ore and the fuel are lost.

The roll is governed by the Blacksmith’s Ore Refinement skill and, like Item Customization and Construction Crafting, starts from a base chance that falls with the level of the ore being worked:

  baseChance = 0.30 - max(0, oreLevel - 10) * 0.01
chance = clamp(baseChance + oreRefinementBonus + fuelBonus + circleBonus + floor(STR / 10) * 0.02 + floor(WIL / 10) * 0.01, 0.01, 1.0)
  

The two simplest ores — Tin and Copper — sit at or below Lv. 10 and therefore share the same 30% base chance, which a single rank of Ore Refinement already doubles. Every ore level above 10 removes another 1%, so the base reaches 0% at ore level 40, -30% at level 70 and -60% at Adamantium Ore’s level 100. See Refining for the level and base chance of every ore. Bonus sources:

• Ore Refinement rank — up to +90% at Lv. 3.
• Fuel — Coal is the reference fuel at ±0%; Charcoal burns cooler and costs -10%.
• A Mana Circle — up to +45% with six participants on mana-rich ground.
• STR — +2% per 10 points; working the bellows and turning a heavy charge is physical labour (see Status Values).
• WIL — +1% per 10 points; holding a furnace at temperature for hours is a matter of patience (see Status Values).

Example: A Blacksmith with maxed Ore Refinement (Lv. 3, +90%) burning coal, at 60 STR (+12%) and 30 WIL (+3%), attempts Adamantium Ore (Lv. 100): baseChance = 0.30 - 90 * 0.01 = -0.60, so chance = -0.60 + 0.90 + 0.00 + 0.12 + 0.03 = 0.45 — a 45% success chance on the hardest ore in the world, meaning even a maxed smith loses roughly every second batch. The same smith at 80 STR / 40 WIL reaches 50%; feeding the furnace charcoal instead of coal costs a flat 10 points off either figure.

Ore level 100 is a landmark, not a ceiling — the base chance is never capped and keeps falling by 1% per level beyond it, so an Epic-tier ore at Lv. 130 leaves the 60 STR / 30 WIL smith above at just 15%. Only the total is clamped, so an attempt is never above 100% nor entirely impossible.

The Feature Space Axes link

The feature space uses a handful of bipolar axes. Each runs from a negative pole through a neutral 0 to a positive pole, so an axis that is irrelevant to an item simply sits near 0 (a potion has no Edge, a sword has no Vitality).

Element type (fire/ice/…) and magic school (restoration/illusion/…) are deliberately not axes — they are the production-inherited facets described above. Forcing every element and school onto its own axis would explode the dimensionality; letting the dominant reagent decide keeps the space small and flexible.

Example — Mace vs. Sword vs. Hammer. All three are solid, resilient, mundane metal weapons, so they sit at the same place on every material axis. What separates them is pure geometry — exactly the Heft and Edge axes:

           Heft    Edge
Sword    -0.1    +0.7     light and keen
Mace     +0.4    -0.4     heavier, blunt
Hammer   +0.8    -0.6     massive, blunt
  

Without Heft and Edge these three would collapse onto a single point — which is why material properties alone were not enough to describe every item.

Craft Duration link

Craft duration is determined by the item level which the player is crafting. Skill points in the suitable skill tree (weapon, equipment, construction or alchemy, artifacts) reduces the build time. The baseDuration is given in real time seconds.

  baseDurationSeconds = 1.2 * itemLevel * itemLevel
baseDurationConsumablesSeconds = .3 * baseDurationSeconds
  

Forging and Random Stats link

Most weapons and armor in Bestia are forged by players. Every forged copy of an item can be a little different: it may roll extra stats and open sockets for bestia essences. Like in Diablo, two iron swords from the same forge are rarely equal.

An item has three parts:

• Base properties. Weapon attack and armor defense. They make a weapon a weapon. Every copy has the same.
• Fixed stats. Bonuses that every copy has, such as +4 STR on an iron sword.
• Random stats and sockets. Bonuses that the forge rolls for each copy from the item’s template.

The item level of a copy follows from all three. A copy with more or bigger stats has a higher level. See Item Level.

Forging itself (discovering a blueprint, the success chance, craft time) is described in Item Crafting and in the skills Forge Weapon and Forge Armor.

Templates link

The item data (items.yml on the server) describes what a copy may roll. An item without a template only has its fixed stats. An item without any stats is fine too.

  - id: 19
  item-db-name: iron_sword
  base-level: 20
  stats:
    STR: 4
    DEX: 1
  random-stats:
    affixes:
      - pool: ATTRIBUTE
      - pool: OFFENSE
        chance: 30
    sockets: [10]
  

• base-level is where the item level starts. It covers the base properties.
• stats are the fixed stats.
• Each entry under affixes is one slot. A slot rolls at most one stat. It names a pool to pick the stat from, or a single stat. chance is the chance in percent that the slot rolls at all (default 100). min and max limit the value, in the stat’s own unit.
• sockets has one chance per socket. A socket can only open when the socket before it opened.

This template gives every iron sword one random attribute. Three in ten also get an offensive stat, and one in ten gets a socket.

A slot can also name one stat with fixed limits. This linen tunic gives at most +3 INT:

  random-stats:
  affixes:
    - stat: INT
      chance: 60
      max: 3
    - pool: ARCANE
      chance: 50
  

Stat Pools link

Item Level of a Forged Copy link

Every stat is worth points. One point is what one attribute point gives a character. So all six attributes cost the same, and a derived stat costs what the attribute behind it would cost:

Sockets are worth points too. One socket is 5 points, about what a typical essence brings.

The item level is then:

  statLevel = 3 × (points of all stats + 5 × sockets)
itemLevel = round(√(baseLevel² + statLevel²))
  

So three item levels buy one point. Base level and stat level add like the two sides of a right triangle. More stats always raise the level. But a strong base absorbs a small bonus: +1 STR on a level 95 sword does not make it a level 98 sword. A drawback, such as AGI: -2 on a heavy cuirass, lowers the level, but never below the base level.

The item level is the level a character needs to wear the copy. It also sets the item’s category, and with it the refinement bonus and chances, the chance to cut another socket with Item Customization, and which Equipment Repair rank can fix it. The upgrade level is not part of the item level.

What the Numbers Mean link

At item level L, a top roll of a single stat is about L ÷ 3:

These numbers look big next to Ragnarok Online. They are not, because a level is worth few attribute points. A master gains about three attribute points per level. The server’s own combat formulas give, for a master against a master of the same level:

The forge takes the lower of two rolls (see Rolling), so an average copy rolls about a third of the top value. A full set of nine average items, spread over all attributes, makes a master about 1.5 times as deadly and 1.2 times as tough at level 65. The reference master that bestias are balanced against carries exactly such a set.

Rolling link

When a forge succeeds, the server rolls the template of the new copy:

1. It works out the cap: the highest stat level this forge can reach.
2. Sockets roll first, one after the other. Each open socket uses 5 points of the cap.
3. Each slot rolls its chance. If it rolls, the slot picks a stat from its pool.
4. The quality is the lower of two random numbers between 0 and 1. A top roll is rare: a quality above 0.9 happens in 1 of 100 rolls.
5. The value is quality × remaining points, in the stat’s own unit, kept between the slot’s min and max.
6. If all slots together go over the cap, every value shrinks by the same share. A value that becomes 0 is dropped.

Fixed stats do not count against the cap. Forge success and craft time use the base level, so a good roll can never make a forge fail.

The Cap link

The cap comes from the smith and from the material:

  cap = min(reliableItemLevel, mainMaterialLevel + 20)
  

• reliableItemLevel is the “Reliable Item Level” of Forge Weapon or Forge Armor: 10 per skill level. At skill level 10 the smith sets no limit, only the material does.
• mainMaterialLevel is the level of the input the recipe needs most of, for example the iron of an iron sword, not its coal.

The material levels are the ore levels from Refining.

Example. A smith with Forge Weapon Lv. 5 forges an iron sword. The cap is min(50, 20 + 20) = 40, so the roll has 13 points. The socket (10%) does not open. The attribute slot rolls STR with a quality of 0.23: 0.23 × 13.3 gives +3 STR. The offense slot (30%) does not roll. The copy has its fixed +4 STR +1 DEX and a rolled +3 STR. That is 8 points, and its item level is 31.

Loot link

Equipment that drops from a bestia will roll the same way, with the bestia’s level as the cap. This is not built yet: today a dropped item has no per-copy state until someone picks it up.

Sockets and Essences link

A socket is an open slot for a bestia essence, like a card slot in Ragnarok Online. Sockets come from two places:

• The template rolls them when the item is forged.
• Item Customization cuts them into an item later.

Every socket raises the item level by 5 points, both ways. So cutting a socket into an item makes it harder to wear, and harder to cut the next one.

An essence lives in a gem. Runic Etching binds the essence of a Bestia into a cut gem, and the result is an Essence Gem. Runic Etching is not part of the game yet. These rules are set:

• Every essence gem fits every socket. There is no level limit on the socket side.
• The gem limits the Bestia. A cut gem has no power of its own. Its only property is how strong an essence it can hold, and that follows how rare it is. A rarer gem holds every lower level too.
• An essence brings its own stats. It does not change the item level: the socket already paid for it.

Mining a gem voxel gives a rough gem of its kind, and Gem Cutting turns it into a cut gem. A failed cut and a failed etching both shatter the gem, so a strong essence costs a rare gem for every try. A Rough Gemstone from a Bestia’s digging or a treasure cache is one of the five, unknown until it is cut.

Item Level Calculator link

Enter an item’s base level, its stats and its sockets to get its item level. The second part shows the cap a forge puts on random stats, from the smith’s skill and the main material.