Crafting System

[Zouls]

talked about it in my automated timesinks

@Zouls

I am a master blacksmith and i have been asked to craft one of the best possible swords that i can, i have the highest tier metal that i can get called mithril, but it is just not strong enough, i need Shadow infused mithril to create a sword who is stronger and faster than the ordinary.

I head over to my infusion forge and scramble in the chest beside it to find what i need

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Insanely overkill example but bear with me

I pick up the mithril

which i then proceed to place in the forge, and i then head to my energy shard container and with great care takes out my shadow shard

and place it next to the mithril. i make the preparations and then put both into the forge and closes it. i leave the forge because the essence is now fusing with the mithril and will be done in roughly 17 hours.

17 hours later

i head back to my forge and opens the forge and inside is the mithril lying with a dark aura around it, i take the mineral to my anvil and starts to make the sword.

after some hard work i finally finishes it and i now have a sword much stronger than what i could have ever made from normal mithril.

That is one of the best ways i can imagine adding it, so allowing you to combine rare energy gems/shards with normal materials to get stronger and more unique materials. so if you want to make the best sword you cannot just gather the mats and mass produce them, you need to get the materials and the fuse them, so every 17 hours you have made materials for 1 sword, making them worth more and making them more unique.

for me its not really to prevent them, but rather to make them more rare, i really like the idea cause it could create a niche, say if you need alot of materials to make the forges and there would be no restrictions, meaning that a person or a guild might use all of his time on forging that one special material and other people could buy it from him,

automated timesink vs a cooldown, point of automated time sink being you have to log back in and collect it rather than get it instantly, making people value what they craft a bit more, especially if we have no crafting professions.