Items can be obtained by the player and carried around. The number of items each entity can carry is determined by its Inventory. Each Bestia (and many other entities) has its own inventory with a different size.

Items are mostly crafted by the players. It’s quite rare to obtain direct item drops from killed enemies. Instead it’s very common to loot resources when enemies are killed.

Item Level link

Each item has a level assigned. This level is important to determine how hard or easy it is to forge this item, upgrade it and so on. It also affects how spells interact with the item entity.

Weapon Refinement link

Weapons and armor can be refined, which translates into extra damage dealt when the weapon is used. Each upgrade step can result in the destruction of the equipment.

A refined weapon has increased base damage per level:

Upgrade Chances link

These are the base upgrade chances. The chances can be altered via skills, buffs or equipments. If an upgrade fails the weapon is destroyed. It is then completely unusable and also the resources are lost. As you can see the chance of success gets lower and lower the higher the weapon is upgraded, and then caps (depending on the weapon level, between 5% and 15%).

Example: You upgrade a superior weapon to level 12. Until level 7 the chance of success is at 100%. Then it drops for every level: 0.9 * 0.81 * 0.72 * 0.63 * 0.53 = 0.17, so the total chance of success for this upgrade chain is 17%.

The refine level is not capped but each higher refinement process can destroy the weapon/equipment with an increasing chance. The upgrade chances can be increased by leveling up the relevant Master Skill (e.g. Weaponry Research).

Armor Refinement link

A refined armor grants increased hard defense. Each refinement level adds 10 armor points. These armor points are then converted into a hard-defense percentage with diminishing returns: the value asymptotically approaches 100% but never reaches it, so every additional percent of hard defense costs progressively more armor points. There is no hard cap — extremely high defense is possible in theory, just increasingly expensive.

  hardDefense = armorPoints / (armorPoints + 100)
  

Upgrade Chances link

The refine level is not capped but each higher refinement process can destroy the weapon/equipment with an increasing chance. The upgrade chances can be increased by leveling up the relevant Master Skill or by buffs and items.

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.

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 sum into a single point, so the proportion of materials is the “shape” you are aiming for — far more flexible than a rigid grid pattern.

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 three ways:

This resonance feedback removes the classic frustration of not knowing whether a combination is impossible or merely unlucky: a Slipped result means the blueprint exists — keep trying with the same materials, while Nothing means you should swap materials. If a blueprint sits just outside your radius, the game instead hints “something faint lies beyond your skill” — telling you to level up rather than swap materials, since the radius grows with skill.

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.

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 success is determined by the level and quality of the raw materials used — higher-level materials mean a higher success chance. On a failed production the materials are lost.

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.

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
  

Damaging of Items link

As with any item in Bestia, it can be damaged. There will be professions capable of repairing items. The durability of an item is given via a percentage. Items will function normally within a wide range of their condition. At a certain level, they slowly lose their properties (armor loses its defense value, weapons hit less often, magic staffs suffer a damage penalty, etc.), until the items become unusable. If you then inflict further damage on them, they can be completely and irretrievably destroyed.

Items on the ground can suffer damage from attacks. They are affected by Area Of Effect spells and can be targeted manually, although they are not auto-targeted like enemies.

Item Status Values link

In order to let items participate in the battle system they need status values. An item’s status value distribution is based upon their type (weapon, potion, book etc) and the total amount of points to distribute is given by the item level. See Status Values for how these points translate into combat stats.

  availableItemStatPoints = itemLv
  

Inventory link

The inventory is an important system for interaction between the player and the game mechanics. It must be easy to access and logically built. Each Bestia has its own inventory. So the player must be careful to exchange items between the Bestias in time. Trading must be fast to do to reduce the annoyance.

If a Bestia/Entity is killed and has had some items inside its inventory usually the items are dropped and can be looted. If a player killed a mob, the loot will be protected for 30 seconds so they can exclusively loot it.

Weight Limit link

Items weight is given by units of about 1kg per unit. The smallest division is 0.1 units which approximates to 100gr. The maximum amount a Bestia can carry is dependent on its strength and its vitality. The Maximize Carry Capacity and Enlarge Weight Limit skills can increase the carriable weight limit. The formula is given as:

  weightLimit = STR / 2 + VIT / 5 + 15 + LEVEL / 5
  

Please note that depending on your used up weight limit regeneration of certain status values might be affected.