Greetings, mighty Vikings! ✊
Although the title of Jarl is eminently honorable, it comes with great responsibility. Know that managing your own settlement 👑 is a difficult endeavor fraught with hardships, meaningful decisions, and deadly threats. Your life and that of your tribemates can be brought to an abrupt end by harsh weather, famine, cold, untamed wildlife or ferocious animals… and the list goes on. Fear not, however, as the wisdom of the sages and numerous valuable tips are coming to your aid.
This time we will focus on one of the most useful skills out there, which will be crucial in all stages of the game. Regardless of whether you are a naked shipwreck, the ruler of a small settlement, or the Jarl of a large community, this activity will accompany you all the time. 🛠️ Roll up your sleeves, everyone, we have a lot of work ahead of us!
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Your first contact with crafting 🫰
At the beginning of your adventure, as a lonely survivor, you will only have your wits and your hands at your disposal. And it is at this early stage that your career as a craftsman will begin! Remember that the environment around you contains plenty of resources that can be turned into useful tools 🪨 These may be sticks, stones, lumps of metal, or plant elements. Be sure to collect them all, as you never know when they will come in handy.
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The first tools you will craft will be stone tools - simple and low quality, but still helpful and ready to make without any additional help other than your own hands. Handcrafting will allow you to make, for example, a knife, a pickaxe, or a hammer, which will teach you the basics of crafting and tools usage.
During each crafting action, regardless of what item you are creating, the crafting panel will tell you exactly what resources and items you need to proceed. This way, you will always know if you are ready to start your work on the tool or weapon you need.
In pursuit of better quality ⚒️
Once you successfully reunite with your clan, you will quickly discover that stone tools are not enough. Fortunately, the workshop and its workbench will come to your aid. Thanks to the mentioned workbench, you will be able to prepare more advanced tools... as long as you manage to obtain the appropriate resources needed to create them first.
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The production of more advanced tools often requires not only valuable resources, but also the preparation of semi-finished products or elements. These may be metal bars, handles, or ax heads. Some of the items are simpler, while others are much more complicated, thus crafting them is more time-consuming and requires, for example, access to a forge or tannery.
As you probably guessed, higher quality tools will allow you to perform new activities (like mining harder varieties of metal ores) or make your work faster and more enjoyable (for example while chopping down the trees) 🌲. Remember that your clan folk can also use various types of tools that you have made for them, and their quality and type will significantly affect their effectiveness.
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Top tier weapons, armor and tools 🏅
The culmination of your career as a craftsman will be the creation of magnificent steel tools that are unmatched in speed and efficiency. However, the best of the best are famous for creating beautiful yet deadly weapons and armor 🛡️
When you go to the forest, where you can encounter various types of beasts, you will quickly appreciate the steel spear, which will give you a much better chance of survival than its stone counterpart. The same applies to your warriors, who need good equipment that will help them cope with even the most unfavorable conditions. When you give them high-quality swords, axes, spears, or shields, almost nothing will be able to stop them.
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As you can see, crafting is one of the most important skills you can learn. It will be useful to you at every stage of the game and will have a huge impact on the development of your settlement. Remember to always use your resources wisely so that you can freely craft what your Viking community needs the most. Happy crafting, Jarl!
Join the clan
We hope you find the seventh entry in our series helpful and interesting. Now that you have all the necessary knowledge about crafting, it's time for you to test your skills in practice.
Ah, one more thing - and this is important 😁 Do not forget to wishlist the Viking Frontiers Prologue version on this Steam Page » and sign up for the upcoming Playtest!
Thank you, Vikings! Until next time! 🖐️
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