EXPLAINED/UPDATED: Staves Weapon Guild

[Julen]

I've noticed an issue with the staves crafting guild that I wanted to bring to someone's attention. I'm not positive it's a bug, but it seems off to me and I think it deserves to be looked at. I've been a member of the guild for a while now and I've been tracking the result of each attempt I've made. To date, I've crafted 2 sourgum staffs, 16 ironshod staffs, and zero bladed feather staffs. I've always been notoriously unlucky, but this seems excessive, even for me. Given that the crafting requirements are 17gc for the letter of rights, 125gc for 1 iron bar and 1 wooden pole (or the equivalent time spent crafting them), and 150gc to even join the guild, I've spent the equivalent of 2,706 gold crowns and have yet to craft a single usable weapon.

I'd mainly like to be sure that something better than an ironshod is technicallly even possible, and at reasonable odds, but a revamp of the guild to produce something USABLE would be great too. Sourgums are great booby prizes, but no one is ever going to be thrilled about crafting an ironshod when a stroll to TV can get you a leatherleaf with better damage (4d6 vs 4d8) and comparable OB/PB/weight for about the price of the letter-of-rights. Can we just update the crafting table to produce leatherleaf staffs instead? Also, since there are no 1-handed crafting results, maybe a low chance at crafting a yew staff or something?

Here's a log of my most recent attempt, but all it shows is the process apparently working properly. There's no way to know if anything other than sourgums and ironshod can be crafted if that's all we ever see get crafted. Hopefully something behind the scenes will shed some light on my total lack of success. Cheers!


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Frimble Frickenbakker's Smithy
Straw and soot fight for dominance here with soot claiming victory on the
walls. A hot, fiery furnace makes up the back wall, and its reddish glow lights
the entire place. To the right is a soot covered bellows, and to the left is
an equally dark anvil and water barrel.
[ obvious exits: N S ]
Zone: Taren Ferry
A stout wooden barrel stands nearby.
Frimble Frickenbakker the blacksmith stands here.
A merchant guard eyes you warily, intent on keeping order.
A merchant guard eyes you warily, intent on keeping order.
An Illianer steed has arrived from the south.

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You are carrying:
a slim roll of paper
a bar of iron
a hammer
a smooth wooden pole

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ti
It is 7 o'clock am, on the 19th day of the month of Shaldine, year 1384.
According to legend and prophecy, this is the Zunth Turn of the Wheel.
Fight well, die bravely!

(Server: Thu Feb 18 16:59:14 2021 EST, up for 1 day, 2 hours, 44 minutes)

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show pole frimble
You show a smooth wooden pole to Frimble Frickenbakker.

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Frimble Frickenbakker says 'Ah good, good.'

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Frimble Frickenbakker says 'Go ahead, and start smithing.'

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smelt iron
Ok.

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You drop a bar of iron.
You place the iron in a smelting cup.

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Using a pair of tongs you take the cup from the oven.

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You carefully pour the hot iron into a mould.

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You leave the iron to cool down.

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Tic in 7 seconds!

You shake two caps from a mould.

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You can now rivet the caps to the staff.

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rivet caps staff
Ok.

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You drop a smooth wooden pole.
You slide the caps over the butts of the staff.

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You take a hammer and tiny rivets and carefully clop the rivets through the metal caps.

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With tiny clops you drive the rivets through the caps.

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You grab a file and carefully remove the sharp heads from the rivets.

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You put the staff in the barrel to wash the wire edges off.
Frimble Frickenbakker says 'You can drop a letter of rights on that stool there, and I will give you
the weapon.'

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drop slim
You drop a slim roll of paper.

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Frimble Frickenbakker says 'Excellent job, Julen. Well done!'

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Frimble Frickenbakker points to the wall and says 'There it is.'

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get staff
You get an ironshod staff of oak.

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You are carrying:
an ironshod staff of oak
a hammer

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Frimble Frickenbakker's Smithy
Straw and soot fight for dominance here with soot claiming victory on the
walls. A hot, fiery furnace makes up the back wall, and its reddish glow lights
the entire place. To the right is a soot covered bellows, and to the left is
an equally dark anvil and water barrel.
[ obvious exits: N S ]
Zone: Taren Ferry
A stout wooden barrel stands nearby.
An Illianer steed stands here proudly, its black mane glistening.
Frimble Frickenbakker the blacksmith stands here.
A merchant guard eyes you warily, intent on keeping order.
A merchant guard eyes you warily, intent on keeping order.

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sigh
You sigh.

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ti
It is 8 o'clock am, on the 19th day of the month of Shaldine, year 1384.
According to legend and prophecy, this is the Zunth Turn of the Wheel.
Fight well, die bravely!

(Server: Thu Feb 18 17:01:07 2021 EST, up for 1 day, 2 hours, 45 minutes)

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[Aureus]

This was indeed just bad luck, but not really unreasonable. The odds of crafting a bladed feather staff were so low (10%) that the costs did seem off relative to the investment and other options to get one, so I've improved the odds of crafting a bladed feather staff.