Animal (bones, skins, tendons) Level Element Dog 1 Water Tiger Fish 2 Wood Wolf 3 Fire Boar 4 Earth Tiger 5 Metal Bear 6 Earth Monster Paoxiao 7 Water Monster Zhuyan 8 Metal Monster Shanyi 9 Wood

Type of Ore Level Element Low Grade Copper 1 Fire Low Grade Iron 2 Earth Low grade Silver 3 Water Low grade Gold 4 Metal High grade Copper 5 Fire High Grade Iron 6 Earth High Grade Silver 7 Water High Grade Gold 8 Metal Kunwu Red Copper 9 Wood

Type of Wood Level Element Red Pine 1 Fire Plum Pine 2 Wood Wuling Pine 3 Earth Sandalwood 4 Water Rosewood 5 Metal Black-yellow Sandalwood 6 Earth Longan Wood 7 Wood Flame Tree Wood 8 Fire Sky-scraping Wood 9 Water

Stats Modifications	Weapon	Armor	Necklace	Ring
+ Common/Elemental Attack Power	All	-	-	-
+ Common Defense Power	-	All	-	-
+ Elemental Defense Power	-	All	Yes	Yes
+ HP, MP	All	All	Yes	Yes
+ Shoot Rate, Dodge Rate	All	All	Yes	Yes
+ Stats Points (STR, WIS, SAVVY, etc.)	All	All	Yes	Yes
+ Visual Field	-	All	Yes	Yes
+ Attack Range	All	-	-	-
+ Attack Speed	All	-	-	-
+ HP & MP Absorbing	All	-	-	-
+ Movement Speed	-	Boots Only	-	-

This book is needed to learn how to craft a new type of item. The Paladin can initially craft Falchion, with a Book of Luban, you can learn another item from the blacksmith (I think it's a random choice). The Book of Luban is a RANDOM drop.

For example, you are crafting a firestaff, you have 2 plum pines (wood nature) +4 & +6 and a wolf bone (fire nature). Well since the bone is put into the yellow box, so it is the main ingredient and the wood nature of the pines would not affect the final product, it is still fire in nature. The next thing is the the +4 & +6 wood attack will be used and now will be turned into fire attack so you will have a total of +8- +12 fire attack from your wood ingredient added to the base damage of the type of staff produced. This does not applies only to wood, applies to all material. No matter what nature of damage, all the damage will be converted to the nature of the main ingredient.

(Comments from me): ONLY Elemental Damages are convert into the MAIN RM's element. Common Attack Power doesn't convert into Elemental Power Attack. And Elemental Power Attack doesn't convert into Common Attack Damage.

As you know there is sometimes 1 of the 5 elements on the raw material you find, it's important to use the element advantage when you are crafting. For example if you have a Water element pine (the main material which is put in the yellow box) and a Metal element ore and you want to make a Dagger-Axe. Since Metal promote Water, so the dagger axe is most likely to turn out to have a higher damage than average and some extra bonus such as +15 MP or +56% HP Regen. I saw this tips on the chinese site, people were sharing crafting knowledge and I tried many times, it does have a higher chance to craft a better item. But I also find out that if you use materials that are same elements you can also get some kind of bonus, this one I'm still testing.

It is better to put 2 elemental types of RM that promote or all RM of the same element. Most of the time, it brings out the hidden stats. There are fixed hidden stats like Strength, Dexterity, Shoot Rate, etc, for certain RM. Savvy, Charm, HP Absorbing, Critical Rate, MP Absorbing, Stun Rate, Frozen Rate, etc are random hidden stats. Some of them only appear for offensive equipment while some for defensive equipment only.

This will depend on the level of your crafting skill (Make-Things), basically what is being crafted out is the combination of the various attributes of the RM used. The difference is that the Paladin has a higher potential to get more attributes to be added in when his crafting skill is higher (around lvl 6 which will be higher than that of town blacksmith whose highest lvl is 5). Thus at lower level of crafting what you craft has a higher possiblity of being as the same quality as what the blacksmith in town craft and slowly when you gain level, what you craft will become better item that the town blacksmith. Thus to summarise, the quality of your item will depend on your level of crafting that will in the end determine the quality of your items.

This again will depend on the quality of the item produced, if you have notice, there will be different level of the same item, thus if you use roughly the same kind of higher level of RM to make a item , you will get a higher level final crafted product that will give more gem slots.For example copper ore is lvl 1, iron ore is lvl 2, silver ore is lvl 3 and gold ore is lvl 4. Thus in order to make a second level item, you will have to use all if not most lvl 2 RM and the same goes for lvl 3 items.

Everytime you craft, there is a possiblity of additional randomized attributes being added in, this may not happen all the time.

There is a possibilty since the later into the game you go into, the level of the town blacksmith will slowly increase from Lvl 1 to lvl 5 but I do not know from the first town Yangzhou until hanzhong, will the level of the blacksmithing increase, thus the best thing to do is to go to the furthest blacksmith you can find.