Crafting material

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Crafting materials are items that can be used to craft (create) armor, weapons or rare materials in the game. Crafting is a service performed by crafter NPCs to whom you must pay gold and provide the necessary materials.

[edit] Types of crafting materials

[edit] Common crafting materials
Bolt of Cloth	Bone	Chitin Fragment	Feather	Granite Slab	Iron Ingot
Pile of Glittering Dust	Plant Fiber	Scale	Tanned Hide Square	Wood Plank

[edit] Rare crafting materials
Amber Chunk	Bolt of Damask	Bolt of Linen	Bolt of Silk	Deldrimor Steel Ingot	Diamond
Elonian Leather Square	Fur Square	Glob of Ectoplasm	Jadeite Shard	Leather Square	Lump of Charcoal
Monstrous Claw	Monstrous Eye	Monstrous Fang	Obsidian Shard	Onyx Gemstone	Roll of Parchment
Roll of Vellum	Ruby	Sapphire	Spiritwood Plank	Steel Ingot	Tempered Glass Vial
Vial of Ink

[edit] Acquisition

[edit] Salvage

Salvage is the basic method by which crafting materials enter the game. Salvage is heavily involved in farming. Most of the time farmers are out getting the loot or the amount of loot they want because it helps them get what they need.

[edit] Material traders and rare material traders

These NPCs sell crafting materials.

[edit] Artisans

These NPCs can convert common crafting materials and gold into rare crafting materials.

[edit] Trade

Other players are a source of nearly any item in the game.

[edit] Loot

Many common crafting materials drop frequently from certain types of monsters (e.g. Chitin Fragments from devourers). In Cantha and Elona some craftable rare materials, such as Linen, can also drop, although they seem to be more common in Cantha than in Elona.

[edit] Trivia

• Prior to the May 29, 2008 game update, some artisans carried a recipe for a rare salvage item "Clay Brick". However, there is no record of their common salvage ingredient, "Bricks of Mud", ever being obtained, and there was no known use for either item. Neither were ever given a slot in the Xunlai materials storage.