Cobbling items
Cobbling items are a collection of items that make or alter crafting items that assist cobblers in making cobbled shoes.
- Main article: Cobbling
In addition to the rental of a cobbling workshop at the local Cobbling Guild, cobbling requires several tools to make a piece of footwear. Several optional items can change how the final product looks, provide a way to craft cobbling components, or add scripts or other properties to the cobbled footwear.
Basic cobbling tools used as part of the creation process include marking chalk, a cutting knife, and a measuring cord. These three items are available in the storage room in the local Cobbling Guild cobbling supply shop. The knife and cord can be purchased once and used for the entire cobbling career. They each cost around 5,000 silvers. The chalk is used up slowly and costs 100 per piece. The cord allows the cobbler to measure a character's feet to make footwear "perfectly fit" to their size. LOOKing at a measuring cord will indicate who the cord was used on. Measuring cords can also be dyed in the dyer's tents for additional organization.
Cobbling patterns determine what the noun of the footwear will be. A book of patterns is purchased from the local Cobbling Guild, and in it are stored all patterns learned. The process of learning how to cobble slowly introduces the novice cobbler to other patterns, depending on the current skill level. There are four main footwear pattern types: shoes, boots, slippers, and sandals. Each type is grouped with a variety of subtypes, such as ankle-boots as a type of boot. In addition to the four footwear pattern groups, a fifth pattern group of embellishments allow for a cobbler to attach cobbling adornments in various ways.
Cobbling materials consist of two parts: Cobbling uppers and Cobbling soles. Uppers are required to craft any type of cobbled footwear and may be cloth, hide, leather, or wood. Soles are optional, however not using them significantly reduces the quality of the footwear made and also skips the opportunity to learn a rank in the cobbling skill, or "Aha" message. Soles are typically leather.
Cobbling dye can be used as part of the cobbling process or to directly dye cobbling uppers.
Cobbling materials can be purchased or crafted with a Cobbling Upper Maker Box. An unlocked Fabricator can also make cloth uppers in addition to storing them. The Leatherworking Tool and Silk Screen Press can further customize cobbling uppers, with one working on leather items and the other on cloth. The Leatherworking Tool has additional functionality with further unlocks to make other cobbling related items.
Cobbling adornments are optional decorations that can be added onto footwear as part of the cobbling process. Learning how to add adornments is considered a special type of cobbling pattern called an embellishment, which is apart from shoes, boots, sandals, and other types of footwear. The cobbling adornments themselves can take on a wide variety of appearances, and they can also be attached in a variable number of ways depending on the adornment type and the embellishment patterns known.
In addition to the NPC crafting options available to turn gemstones into beads and skinned animal parts into trim or fringe, a Cobbling Plates Maker Box can craft metal plates from appropriate ingots, which in turn can be used as buckles, caps, or toes for certain types of footwear. A Cobbling Settings Maker Box can also craft certain types of cobbling adornments from gems, including beads, buttons, studs, and insets.
A cobbling tote is useful for storing cobbling adornments, which it bundles. Cobbling materials can also be stored inside, however they do not bundle inside the tote.
A cobbling punch may be used to add a wide variety of scripts to cobbled footwear. Cobbling punches can also add a cobbler's personal hallmark.
Snap-on Heels and Snap-on Soles can also be applied to cobbled footwear, providing them with different long description options involving the added heels or soles.
Lastly, the Cobbling UCS Converter Box is a newer item that allows for cobbled footwear to be converted into 0x UCS footwear.