Gear & tools

Gear & tools

Gear is worn from the inventory (tap it → Equip). A weapon decides what you train; a shield, helmet, body and legs add defence. Each piece asks a level of Melee, Ranged or Defence to wear -- the skill ladder in the chooser says when.

Tools -- pickaxes, rods, axes -- do not fight; a better one gathers faster. Their level needs are on the smithing ladder. Gloves are the thief's tool, worn on the hands: sewn in Crafting from a hide and the charm the same kind of beast drops, and a better pair lifts the stalls faster in the same steps a pickaxe mines faster.

Mounts are a tool too, for the road: the horse has a page of its own below.

Leather. The ranged hand's armour: coif, jerkin and chaps in seven tiers, cut at the bench by Crafting from the hides monsters leave -- pelt, bogskin, chitin, fur, scale, then troll hide at 95 and drake hide at 99. Less defence than plate, and accuracy on top, worn against the Ranged level. Like the cloth below, it is cut for one hand: its accuracy counts for a bow and against a blade or a staff, so leather is worse than nothing to anyone not drawing a bow. Plate and shields are cut for the blade the same way: anyone with the Melee level may wear them for their cover, which always counts, but their accuracy and strength count against a bow or a staff.

Cloth. The staff hand's armour: hood, robe and skirt in five tiers, sewn at the bench by Crafting from bolts a thief lifts off the stalls -- the fifth, Wightweave at 90, is voidweave stiffened with the shard an ice wight leaves. It covers less than half as well as the leather beside it and carries a third more accuracy, worn against the Magic level. Like the leather beside it, cloth is cut for one hand: cloth counts for a staff and against a bow or a blade, so its accuracy comes off anyone who picks up the wrong weapon while wearing it. It still covers you either way -- badly, but it covers you. Each style wears its own armour, in short, or its bonus turns against it.

Jewellery. Crafting cuts the rough gems the rocks give up and sets them in silver, gold or meteoric at the bench. A ring goes on the ring finger and sharpens the blow (accuracy and strength); an amulet goes round the neck, turns a blow aside (defence) and adds luck to every gather, the way a rarer tool does. A ring needs the Defence level it was made at; an amulet needs nothing, so a gatherer wears one as soon as they have it (a craft never rolls rarity, so it does nothing for crafting). A rarer or enhanced amulet carries more luck, on the same ladder as its defence.

Rarity. Anything you gather (ore, fish, logs), a kill's hide or bone, and the seeds a harvest gives back can come out Uncommon, Rare, Epic or Legendary. A craft never rolls: a bar or a sword takes the rarity of what it is made from -- coal and monster charms always go in plain, so rarer coal is worth something only to the house, the guild or the market. Coins, pets, Voidshards and gift boxes have no rarity.

Base odds, for that tier or better: Uncommon 1 in 40, Rare 1 in 400, Epic 1 in 8,000, Legendary 1 in 150,000.

Two numbers change them. Luck is what you hold and wear: a rarer tool in its own skill (Uncommon +25%, Rare +75%, Epic +200%, Legendary +500%) plus your amulet; they add. A tool counts only for gathering and thieving, not for fights, fields or crafts. Rare-find is everything else: the Hunter's brew, the Vein Blessing, the hot skill, a town event, the lucky shrine and the Rare-find mastery; these add to each other.

Odds = base × (1 + luck) × (1 + rare-find). Example: a Legendary pickaxe (+500% luck), an amulet with +150% luck, a Legendary Hunter's brew (+75%) during a hot mining turn (+25%): (1 + 5 + 1.5) × (1 + 1) = ×15. Legendary ore goes from 1 in 150,000 to 1 in 10,000; Uncommon or better from 1 in 40 to 3 in 8.

Extra drops are different: a gem in the ore, a seed off a tree, a stall's extra come at the fixed odds shown on the job; luck and rare-find only decide what rarity the extra drop is. A monster's special drop is the one exception: its odds are multiplied by (1 + amulet luck) × (1 + rare-find). A found horse rolls its rarity on amulet luck alone. Two brews of one kind do not stack: the rarer plays out first.

Rare gear has better numbers (×1.3, ×1.6, ×2.2, ×3) and rare pieces give more Enhancing xp (×1.5, ×3, ×8, ×25). Crafting from rare materials makes the rare version.

Offhands. The shield slot is not only for shields. A quiver is the ranged hand's: sewn in Fletching from a hide and a log of the bow's own wood, seven tiers on the Ranged ladder, and it adds accuracy and strength instead of defence. A grimoire is the staff hand's: sewn in Crafting from three bolts of cloth and a cut gem, five tiers on the Magic ladder, the same trade. A shield still fits any hand that wants the defence more.

Coats. The shop sells tunic colours, worn under the armour and seen by everyone.

Skins. The shop sells looks for the character under Looks, in five steps: Everyday (300 gems), Founder (1,100 gems), Founder · standout (2,600 gems), Legend (7,000 gems), Prestige (15,000 gems). A skin keeps your head, face and body -- a player always looks like a player -- and changes the skin, hair and tunic, with one thing that moves: flame hair, a pair of wings, falling snow. It shows on foot and in the saddle, and everyone sees it. In a skin the helmet, body and leg armour are not drawn; what you hold still is. Five are limited -- Gilded Founder, Voidshard, Ghost of the Vein, Stormcaller, Frost Wight -- sold only while the founder packs are, and never part of one; the rest stay on sale. A skin bought is yours for good, window or no window.

Golden Week gift box. During Golden Week any work -- gathering, crafting, thieving, fighting, a harvest -- can turn up a gift box, online or away, about one in an hour and a half of it and at most eight a day. It goes to storage. Open it from the bag or storage for one reward sized to your level: coins, a stack of the best raw material you can gather, three Uncommon draughts, a few Rare seeds, a protection scroll, or the Osmanthus Spirit skin, which nothing else sells. Odds: coins 52.45% · materials 25% · draughts 15% · seeds 5% · protection scroll 2.5% · Osmanthus Spirit 0.05%. A skin you already own pays 8,888 coins instead. Boxes cannot be traded, and they still open after the week.