Work Orders & Apprenticeships

Work Orders

Work orders are a way for your character to earn money, experience, and raise your maximum skill through the use of crafting skills. You can get a work order from a merchant of the type of skill you want to do work for. So for example, if you want to do some blacksmithing work for a town shop, you can visit a blacksmith’s shop in town and ask about any available work. Note: the option to ask for work will only appear in the dialog if your character has the skill that merchant is looking for.

In response to your inquiry they will notice that you are skilled in that crafting skill and provide you with a list of items they would like you to complete. Some items may have additional requirements associated with them such as durability requirements. In those cases the item must be crafted to a certain quality for it to be used to fill a work order. Work orders are randomly generated based on your skill level and knowledge of materials.

You can review a work order after it has been issued by the npc merchant from your inventory. If it appears too difficult, you can always discard it and ask the vendor for another one.

You can specify to fill the work order while crafting items from the craft menu, or you can manually fill your work order from the work order window UI by clicking the Fill Work Order button and selecting an item you crafted from your pack.

Apprenticeships

Unlike other non-crafting skills, crafting skills require the completion of apprenticeships in order to raise your maximum skill. Your maximum skill will start at 50 for crafting skills instead of 100. Meaning you can raise your skill to 50 skill points before having to complete an apprenticeship. Once you reach the skill cap while its under 100, you will be reminded that you reached the skill cap and you will need to get an apprenticeship at a shop for that specific crafting skill. Note: you will not be able to get an apprenticeship until you are at the skill cap. Once reaching a skill cap you may inquire an npc merchant for an apprenticeship.

They will agree to teach you but only after completing some work for them without pay. This work will typically be more challenging than standard work orders, and unlike work orders, these are not randomly generated but a preselected list of items for each maximum skill level; so there is no use in discarding the apprenticeship work order.

You complete these items just as you would a regular work order and return it to the vendor, telling them you have completed the apprenticeship they gave you. They will intern teach you more about the crafting skill and raise your maximum skill cap by 10 points. You will still need to raise your skill to the new maximum cap. Once at the new cap, you will be able to do another apprenticeship. Each apprenticeship will get commutatively harder.

Note: Currently as of version 0.8.0, 50 – 60, and 60 – 70 apprenticeships are available. We will be adding more soon.

If you do not want to participate in the apprenticeship system, you may disable apprenticeships and have a regular skill cap of 100 for crafting skills on characters in your world by changing the apprenticeship setting in World Settings under Character Development.