Carving

Source

Carving is a multi-level skill taught at the School of Body.

Tuition

Degree	Level	Cost
First	1	100 Wood
Second	3	10 Tinder 10 Sharpened Stick
Third	6	10 Glass Blade 10 Wooden Peg
Fourth	10	10 Barrel Tap 10 Wooden Pestle
Fifth - Needed for Preservation. (Note: The following comment is NOT true.) Available for some reason, this level of Carving skill adds nothing to what you can do and is left over from when Teppy contemplated, but never implemented, Jagged Knives, Tackle Boxes, Wooden Cogs, and wood chips. They cannot be made.	14	10 Bottle Stoppers 10 Cotter Pins

Use

Timer: Focus

Each degree of Carving allows you to carve certain items, using a knife with quality equal or better than that level. It also allows you to assemble the next level knife (so you can craft the tuition for the next level).

When you carry multiple knifes with you and carve, the highest quality knife is used, and if more than one of that level is carried, the one which has been used the least.

A flint knife breaks at the 25th use
An iron knife at the 100th
A sharp-edged knife at probably about 200-300 uses.

Therefore, always use the lowest level knife needed for the item to be carved and unequip higher level knives.

Level	Knife Available	Knife Cost	Carve
First	Knife:Flint	2 Flint 1 Twine 1 Wood	1 Sharpened Stick from 1 Wood 1 Tinder from 1 Wood 2 Rawhide Strip from 1 Leather
Second	Knife:Glass (quality 2)	1 Glass Blade 4 Rawhide Strip	1 Small Wooden Peg from 1 Wood 1 Crudely Carved Handle from 1 Wood 1 Personal Chit from 1 Wood
Third	Knife:Iron (quality 3)	1 Crudely Carved Handle 1 Knife Blade 2 Small Wooden Peg	1 Barrel Tap from 1 Wood 1 Large Crude Handle from 1 Wood 1 Quill from 1 Ibis Feather 1 Wooden Pestle from 1 Wood
Fourth	Knife:Sharp Edge (quality 4)	1 Crudely Carved Handle 4 Rawhide Strip 1 Sharp Edged Knife Blade of at least 8500 quality 2 Wooden Peg	1 Cotter Pin from 1 Wood 1 Bottle Stopper from 1 Wood 1 Intricately Carved Handle from 1 Wood - These, for some reason, can be made but have no purpose. They are for Jagged Knives, which exist only in the Carving menu.
Fifth	None		Tackle boxes, Wooden Cogs, and wood chips do not exist except in the Carving 5 menu to make them, which you cannot do.