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       Carpentry
       By: Blinksy Date: December 14, 2012, 9:58 am
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       Cheese's Carpentry Guide:
       It is very easy to get your carpentry up to a medium-high level,
       and it can be extremely useful, but it will require a few other
       skills. You need a basic skill in blacksmithing (for the
       creation of nails amongst other things like tools) as well as a
       woodcutting skill that is higher than your carpentry skill,
       otherwise you won't be able to get good enough logs to imp
       effectively.
       Carpentry has 5 separate subskills, 2 of which are "essential"
       in Wurm life. These are ship building and fine carpentry. If you
       grind these, then your main caprentry skill will go up at the
       same time too, so I'd recommend only grinding these 2
       sub-skills, or more if you think you will need them. Bow making,
       toy making and fletching are harder to grind and not as useful
       (unless you're an archer!)
       Ship building can be ground first by imping 5-10 seats until
       about skill 10, and then imping 5-10 oars for as long as you can
       stand it. Once you reach about level 15 this skill becomes very
       useful, as you can then start making boats effectively. Very
       easy to grind, you just need logs and some decent tools!
       Fine carpentry is extremely useful in the creation of storage
       containers, an essential in Wurm life, as well as carts and a
       range of other useful things. I recommend that you make as many
       small barrels as you need and imp them. Small barrels can be
       carried unlike large barrels, giving you a bit more flexibility
       with them. And when you aren't grinding the skill, they can be
       used as storage containers. They only require one small nails
       and 5 planks to make each one of them and they can be improved
       with logs, making them easy to make and imp. At higher levels of
       the skill you may want to start imping some more advanced items.
       Also quite easy to grind overall, and when you aren't imping the
       objects you can use them for storage too. (Bonus!)
       As ever, Coc will really help. It's especially useful if you
       don't have access to many trees. Talking of trees, woodcutting
       isn't too difficult to grind. It helps to have a good quality
       axe when you're getting wood for tree imping, but for just
       grinding use the worst axe you can find, as this will give you a
       higher skill gain; in exchange for bad logs not suitable for
       imping duties. Also, see if somebody somewhere needs a large
       number of trees cut down, as this can be a good skill gain
       opportunity. Otherwise, you'll have to stick to cutting down
       trees in your own back yard. To avoid upsetting your neighbours
       (and Greenpeace!) re-plant a sprout for every tree that you cut
       down. That way you'll have a sustainable wood resource and no
       grumpy neighbours, annoyed that their prize forest has just,
       vanished. So you could say that forestry helps too.
       Blacksmithing is less essential, but you need it to upkeep your
       tools and to make nails. I find that the best way to grind it is
       by imping needles. You can fit 100 in a bowl and they use next
       to no ore to improve. You will also need a decent mining skill
       to get the ore too... but I usually buy my tools from a merchant
       and use blacksmithing just for nails and maintenance. You would
       need weapon smithing to be able to make some tools, which sucks;
       weapon smithing isn't easy to grind. You may want to just take a
       shortcut here and find someone who will do tools for you; there
       are plenty of reputable merchants on here.
       Anyhow, carpentry is a big topic, but you will get a lot out of
       it. A carpentry skill of 30 is easily enough to build a well
       sized house! Ships are a useful form of transport, that you can
       even make money out of building, and fine carpentry is essential
       if you want to hoarde stuff in containers.
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