Carving

Carving
(Skill - The Human Body)
Learned From
	School of The Human Body
Tuition
Wood	100

Carving

Carving is a multi-level self-taught skill. In order to Carve an object, you must have a Knife equipped. Higher levels of Carving allow construction of higher level blades and carving additional items and will decrease the focus timer incurred when performing carving tasks.

Levels

Level	XP Needed to advance	Unlocks
0		Sharpened Stick Long Sharp Stick Rawhide Strips Tinder Ability to construct a Stone Knife
1	40	Crudely Carved Handle Personal Chit Wooden Peg Ability to construct a Flint Knife
2	80	Barrel Tap Large Crude Handle Wooden Pestle Quill Ability to construct a Bone Knife
3	180	Bottle Stopper Cotter Pin Intricately Carved Handle Ability to construct a Utility Knife
4	1700	Empty Tackle Blocks Wooden Cogs Ability to construct a Paring Knife
5	28,000	Ability to construct a Butcher Knife
6	320,000	Ability to construct an Ancient Knife

Actions

Action	XP Value
Carve a Long Sharp Stick	1
Carve Leather into Rawhide Strips	1
Carve a Sharpened Stick	1
Carve Wood into Tinder	1
Assemble a Stone Knife	1
Carve a Crudely Carved Handle	5
Carve a Personal Chit	5
Carve a Wooden Peg	5
Assemble a Flint Knife	5
Carve a Barrel Tap	10
Carve a Wooden Pestle	10
Carve a Large Crude Handle	10
Assemble a Bone Knife	15
Carve a Quill	20
Carve a Bottle Stopper	100
Carve a Cotter Pin	100
Carve a Intricately Carved Handle	100
Carve an Empty Tackle Block	1000
Carve a Wooden Cog	1000
Assemble a Butcher Knife	200

Knife Types

Stone Knife (First Degree)
Flint Knife (Second Degree)
Bone Knife (Third Degree)
Utility Knife (Fourth Degree)
Paring Knife (Fifth Degree)
Butcher Knife (Sixth Degree)
Ancient Blade, hinted at but not yet implemented

Knife Abilities

Carving tasks seem to be divided into Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Stone Knife Carves wood and leather.
Flint Knife Slaughter cattle, carves wood and leather.
Bone Knife Slaughter pigs, cattle, carves wood and leather.

Knives able to slaughter will eventually become too dull to kill. These knives can be used to carve wood and leather until they disintegrate. For example, a bone knife which is too dull to slaughter a cow can still be used to make 9 Barrel Taps.

Durability and Sharpening

All items within one's carving ability can be made with any knife provided the knife is still sharp enough. Knives have a limited number of uses before they wear out and become unusable. Higher level knives are more durable and can survive more use before wearing out or becoming dull.

The Stone Knife, Flint Knife and Bone Knife will simply break and disappear from the player's inventory when they wear out. However, the Utility Knife, Paring Knife and Butcher Knife will become dull, and can be sharpened to become usable again. Sharpening is currently free, but may eventually have a cost associated with it. Sharpening does not restore all of a knife's durability - 5 Basic uses of the knife are permanently lost each sharpening, and as a result knives will become unusably dull after too many sharpenings. With a good-quality blade, this may take considerable time.

To sharpen a dull knife, navigate to the following menu

:Inventory>Knife>(Select knife)>Sharpen this knife
or 
:Skills>Carving>Knives>Sharpening/(Select knife)

All knives of Utility grade or higher can be sharpened, regardless of whether the blade used to create the knife was acquired from a cache or created by a player.

When carrying multiples of the same knife, the knives at the bottom of the list are the sharpest. You can choose to equip the duller knives listed first, for carving wood and leather and save the sharper ones for slaughtering cattle and pigs.

Other skills needed for making knives

Knapping learned in Tasks/New Beginnings
Flint Knapping learned at School of Architecture for 7 Flint. Also requires Knapping level 2
Bone Knapping learned at School of Architecture for 7 Animal Bones. Also requires Knapping level 5.