Talk:2023-11-30 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Artisanship Preview

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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another stream from Vera and we have a very exciting

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stream for you today. We are going to be going through the artisanship system and it has been

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a little while since we last talked about artisanship and showcased the gathering and

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we're gonna do a little bit of that today and we also during our last stream with Freeholds

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talked a little bit about processing and we're gonna be doing that today as well and we're also

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gonna be crafting something pretty interesting and I have joining me four of our glorious team

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here at Intrepid some of them regulars I think all of them actually regulars have been on the

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stream before we have two of our glorious designers Mike and Cory Mike Cory how you guys doing?

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Doing great, glad to be here. I'm excited to show off what you guys have been working on and how far it's

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come since people last saw it. Yeah same here it's it's very exciting for us. Yes we also have joining

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us one of our glorious engineers Alex how you doing buddy? Doing great how are you? Doing very

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good you have been doing a lot of work on the engineering side of things getting all these

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glorious designs up and running it's gonna be exciting to take a look at that today as well.

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Yeah it's been a challenge for all the wishes of my designers. They're like wait all of our wishes?

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The one that passed visibility. We also have joining us for this is your second time now

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Nathan our glorious producer. I know back-to-back. I know the artisanship is the peanut butter to the

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jelly that is node so I'm super excited to show how these start interacting with each other. Yes it

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is totally a hundred percent and you guys have done a great job so far I know you guys have been

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really pushing it this last this last sprint and it has definitely shown through to me so I'm excited

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to show the audience. Alright so why don't we talk a little bit a bit a little bit about what we're

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going to be doing today. Corey yeah yeah sounds good so you had brought up that you had done a

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little lumberjacking but we're kind of interested in getting into some mining and herbalism because

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you picked up a recipe I think it's like you're saying that's a pretty nice sword or something.

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Let me take a look at that. That's gonna be my inventory? Yeah it should be in your inventory. So I was

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thinking we could go out and get some of the stuff that we would need to make that sword. Some of them

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are a little harder to come by so I'm not sure whether or not we'll be able to get our hands on

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that if not I think we might have some stuff for you but yeah I guess we just need to kind of get

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our stuff together as you mentioned or as I mentioned you already did some lumberjacking

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but we'll probably need to get you herbalism sickle and maybe some extra bags so you have some space.

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So yeah let's make our way over to the agricultural supply I think there there's one of those built

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in Winstead right now so we can head down there. So now talk to me a little bit about obviously

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we have this recipe when players are looking to create different items in the game they're gonna

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need to go out and either purchase or get drops of recipes or trade with other players and when

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they acquire that recipe like I have here this it says night blade I can use the recipe and I will

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learn a weaponsmithing recipe for the night blade so I have a recipe book that I get to keep

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essentially I learn these recipes once. Yep pretty much there might be some unique cases where some

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recipes might have a charge count so when you craft it five times it might disappear but

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generally most of the cases all the recipes should be primarily learned. Okay nice that's very cool

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and right-clicking this is gonna consume it I assume but I'm I do get a preview of the materials

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that we need and Corey this is what you were talking a little bit about going out collecting

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some of these there's a night opal moonbell I assume that is some type of flower? Yeah so the

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night opal and the moon bells are those are the ones that I was kind of alluding to they're a

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little difficult to get our hands on the night opals you basically can't see them at all during

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the day but as it gets closer to night if they're in the world they'll sort of push away their shell

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and start shining a bit and then the the moon bells only bloom at night so we'll have to kind

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of you know it will work on some of the other things you need for that recipe and hopefully

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nighttime will come around and we can find some of those things. Okay very cool so I'm gonna

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right-click this recipe to learn it let's see here oh very cool okay it says learned new recipe

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night blade okay yeah now where are we gonna go to get this sickle mentioned oh yeah so right over

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here okay they got this area in kind of the back alley of the town yeah so if you head through here

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this is the agricultural supply this is one of the you know service buildings that you can build in

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the node this one kind of focuses specifically on artisanship and you'll find stuff for herbalism

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farming and animal husbandry here so if you talk to mr. Willy over here yeah so he if you talk to

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him he should give you some stuff that you can use to construct your first sickle okay and then

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once you have those things there's a little anvil here over here to your left and you can craft the

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sickle there and then I think once you have the sickle you can talk to him and it'll complete the

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quest and and give you your first sickle you'll be ready to go this guy is incredibly rude we need

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to have a conversation with the narrative team about how these these vendors speak to the citizens

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of this village this is unbelievable he can't teach just any drifter am I just any drifter

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does he not see the crown on this helmet I guess not yeah we'll have to add I mean mayoral narrative

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tags just so they can and up their respectful speech he's not even gonna pay me too for

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achieving these many tasks he has for me he's paying you in experience oh man I've had those

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jobs before okay I have achieved this quest it's called a feast of flowers awesome so you

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show him my crude sickle nice you should do that we'll turn away all right so what do I need to do

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with this come over here next to the anvil yeah yeah there's a little anvil right here we can

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interact with that and that should pull up the the crafting menu so as they as a gatherer you'll

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be able to craft your own tools they're gonna take you know resources that come from all sorts

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of different professions and you won't be able to you know always source all of those things just

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just yourself but luckily you know Willie's nice and he gave you some some components and you can

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kind of just throw them together to make your first your first sickle here so go through with

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the go through the craft you should get that thing and you know show it to him and he'll give you a

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little pat on the back all right so this is a this is a great example as we kind of players as

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you're entering into alpha 2 and you're wanting to get started into artisanship these different

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professions will have a number of quests available to introduce players to their first tool sets and

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then from their tool set sustainability but we'll be we'll be incumbent on the player to continue to

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gather the resources necessary to repeatedly create these tools because they have a durability

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that gets expended when interacting with the resources in the open world exactly all right

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okay so I'm gonna talk to him again and yes I made the sickle okay now he's criticizing my crude

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work okay okay all right but that's fine we all know what your first meal mayoral like this is

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going to be is you can preview it and Arden sister page actually yeah once you once you there you

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go you should have your words now equips to artisan tool slot very cool so now it is in my

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artisan tool slot should I open that and take a look here yeah perfect okay well so yeah so we

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have that panel open this is kind of like the the hub for all artisanship stuff I think we poked

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around here a little bit and some of the previous streams but on the right hand side there you can

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see all the different slots for the the tool types for each of our five gathering professions

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so it looks like you have one of each of the tools that we're looking to use today it also

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kind of notice very progressed in my in my lumberjacking oh yeah you said you're like

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what level you I'm like level nine I'm about to be level ten oh that's awesome okay so like while

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we're out and about you'll if you hit level ten you should be able to upgrade your certification

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to apprentice and that's one of our certification breakpoints and you know once you each hit those

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breakpoints it kind of opens up a whole new range of stuff that you can do new tools yeah exactly

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right a new portion of your skill tree so we should for sure get you that level ten and see

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what happens what up student we need to prepare for a journey oh yeah so get some potential bags

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okay yeah yeah yeah so we talked about this in the past with the with the Tetris inventory kind

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of having different spatial layouts of our bags and also our our resources and so we've been working

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on that a little bit and trying to set up bags that have spaces that are optimal for you know

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the shapes that are gonna be associated with the resources and having stats on the bags that will

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change you know that the stack size and how much you can stack stuff up so since we're going out

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we're gonna collect a bunch of stuff you should grab one of the bountiful bags from from Willy

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and then we'll go over to the stoneworks and see if we can grab that Willie has a number of different

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farmers shirts and novice herbalism or herbalist skivvies do I want any gear from this yeah it's

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up to you I mean there's so there's gear for all of the different crafting gathering and processing

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professions that'll help you you know do those different trades so it's up to you like if you

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you said you're higher level and lumberjacking so you know you could grab some of that stuff

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to kind of compound on the stats make you make you faster at chopping or should I go okay cool

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cool so from this guy let me purchase his bags yeah once you grab yeah grab the bountiful bag

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from him the bountiful ones are pretty great they I think they have the increased stack size on them

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so you can stack up more herbs in that bag than you can and in others and if you scroll down on

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the bottom there is a Lynn hair building basket okay so I'm gonna grab the basket yeah done I

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got one of those sweet awesome anything else any other bags yeah let's run over this way to the

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stone works there's another gentleman over here that we can talk to kind of standing by this

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crane and you can do the same thing from him throw throw a little gold at him and he'll give you some

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give you some bags and stuff from this guy the stone novice bountiful mining bag awesome so now

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those those bags should be in your inventory and if you right-click them they'll equip and

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then if you go over to your materials tab you should be able to see those new bags that we got

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okay so just real quick you were speaking earlier about the unique stack sizes as being part of the

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kind of asymmetric design for bag crafting and these bags have specifically curated benefits

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for stack sizes of the type of resources they relate to and that's the specific profession of

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gathering and the resources you would gain from those those different unique professions so by

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equipping this herbalism bag whoops let's see here and then also let me just open up the materials

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section I see now I've actually gotten a unique looking structure for the alien herbalism basket

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and those are the types of structures you would expect them to gather that are the gatherables

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for herbalism correct correct correct yeah so that's not necessarily to say that I can't collect

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non herbalism resources I could and I could put them in that bag but it just wouldn't utilize the

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most beneficial aspect of it which is the higher stack count for those types of herbalism resources

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yeah exactly we can also you know there can also be constraints on the on the shape right like we

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were talking about like you can kind of see I'm not sure what materials you you have in your bags

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but like I have a couple pieces of wood that are you know one by three and so you know in in the

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herbalism bag I'm not sure that there's any any slots for four pieces of wood that are that size

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right so some there'll be some constraints and benefits in terms of shape and then also you know

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the the stack size based on the on the type so okay cool yeah so now like a good like a good

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example would be if you equip the mining bag as well on top of the herbalism bag you'll be able

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to see the shapes are different but you can see the mining bags are two by twos and herbalism bags

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are one by twos so you can technically put herbs into your mining bags but you won't get the benefit

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of the stock bonuses of the mining stuff also the the earlier versions might be very restrictive in

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sizes so like the novice mining bags and all the herbalism bags are very shape restrictive but as

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you level up and then make better bags might be more generous of shapes so you could technically

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do some other things as well and then have more bigger sizes and have be able to hold more variety

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of things as well okay very nice that's I think that's pretty cool should should we go to the

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lumberjack to grab those were you talking about some equipment that he might have that might help

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us with our lumberjack oh yeah definitely yeah oh I see here I have another I also have a quest

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that relates to we rise after felling oh yeah that's so that's the certification quest so as

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you mentioned before you know there were where we're planning on having some some content related

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to you know onboarding players to the different professions and you know we're gonna need a tool

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for the first time and you're going to on the craft a thing for the first time and kind of

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learn how to do those things but we also want to extend that out to kind of more of a individual

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story arc like experience for players so as you as you become a better lumberjack you'll you'll

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you'll play out your story as as a lumberjack so these different certification quests are meant to

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be kind of keystone moments in that story progression so you know right now we have

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something kind of simple setup it looks like you already had collected all of the the wood that you

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needed right but you also need to reach the level needed to even be take on an apprenticeship so so

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I think yeah see see what he's got I'd check out some of the gear I think that will since you're

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already pretty pretty good with the wood chopper and you could probably get a little faster with

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the gear that he has so he does have he has a shirt pants and I think is that on a tool belt

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and yeah giving different benefits looks like I'm getting a lumberjacking speed from the pants and

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from the shirt and the tool belt is gonna give me processing oh I think you might be looking at

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lumber milling yes yeah so at this at this service building we're housing another three professions

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so there's there's carpentry stuff here there's the lumber milling stuff here and there's also

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the lumberjacking stuff here so what he's gonna have stuff from from all three if you're looking

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to do any you know woodwork and related activities he's your guy so that's sort of what we mentioned

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when we were showing the nodes in a live stream a few months ago was like your ability to build

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buildings to really cater to the important industries to your region or to your node

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yeah yeah let me just take a look here I know this is obviously guys this is I want to state

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this again we always state this in every showcase but everything you see here is still a work in

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progress we are working towards our alpha 2 that includes things like visual effects like UI these

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are all very functional states but not necessarily at their polished states so there's still a lot of

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work that needs to be done there I noticed that we have three slots for the the equipment that

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I just put on and they're not displaying visually but we do intend to provide that visual display

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as an option to the characters correct correct yeah it would be a toggleable thing that players

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could be do in the future when we get some assets all right let us so what's we do here

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what about gather some stuff yeah yeah so you know we're kind of scouting out there beforehand

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and we know we know a pretty good spot if you're if you're heading out kind of past the Smithy you

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should see a good old tower car fan out there in the distance and if you head a little bit east of

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that you can kind of see some like rock formations up there that's where we're at and there's a nice

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little little valley in there has I think it has pretty much everything that we're looking for so

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I love the autumn look out here I think the it fits perfectly for this time of year I mean

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definitely you could just have Thanksgiving feels kind of like Thanksgiving out here does does feel

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like Thanksgiving it's beautiful how I really like the colors turning out really good that's

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my favorite season so far I just never have Thanksgiving too or no hey no trying to get lower

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out of me this is an artisanship focus give us during a live stream I really love the least

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falling down effect speaking of leaks however I know that I am playing a Ranger class you might

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see a couple of early look at the Ranger skills here in case we run into any potential resistances

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but next month we are doing a Ranger update and it's gonna be pretty fun so there's a little leak

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little leak nice I see how it is it's okay for skill abilities but not for the lore unbelievable

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so we do have I'm supposed to someone's chopping out there that you need shopping yeah let's get

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falling in the distance that's great over to the left he's up on that hill yeah yeah

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that's what you could be helpful nothing just trying to become grandmaster before you steal

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exactly I will leave this land a barren wasteland no trees for you to chop all part of my master plan

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nice yeah I'd get the get a few of these oaks at least enough to level up and then we need to find

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some basalt basalt is gonna have the zinc and copper that you need oh here's some over on the

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ridge I optically yeah you see yeah wolf so now this area appears to have a little bit of

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a corruption that started seeping in yeah citizens of this town aren't doing their job

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fight back the corruption old neighborhoods go to hell yeah yeah I think you can grab those here

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yeah it's not this yeah the new rubies that we just introduced with chaos physics enabled

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oh nice yeah thanks to Noah and some magic from engineering when you see it gather it's you see

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that shutters oh that's awesome love that that's super cool additionally if you open your back

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space now you'll see that your mining bag as now rubies and it prioritize based on your stack size

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let me see here hold on first let me gather a little bit of the person basalt I think there's

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some over here to the right there's one right there yeah right here this is opal nope oh opal

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I can't even interact with the opal no it's right here yeah I think so I think we need

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night opal which is the one that only really appears at night I've gotten some and basalt

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nice okay so you got lucky you got like you got the drop chance so this gave me zinc as well yes

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yeah yeah so when you're when you're mining stone like we're trying to we're trying to do stuff that

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makes sense right with the drops so you know it's done you'll find metal and gems and you know

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depending on the you know the tier and the type of type of stone there'll be different kind of

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selection of gems and stuff that you can get in it or metals so you may if you're trying to target

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a certain you know metal you might want to consider some particular stone as well and

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as you get better at binding and doing stone related stuff you'll kind of learn learn the

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ropes there so you can make better decisions additionally as you gather you can actually

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notice that your durability goes down for your tools nice all right you got plenty of plenty

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of durability left it's good to good to repair when you get into town though so it kind of sucks

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when you find something real nice and your durability is low or tools broken and you won't

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be able to get it nice and I really love the physics it's like I remember in the gathering

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stream you know we're showing off the trees and kind of like set a precedent with how that looks

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and now we have to make all the other stuff just as cool so the the rocks and gems and metal were

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like kind of a big big hurdle for us and having it in a place where it's starting to look really

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good that was super exciting that's a definitely knock you over let's go oh my god that just killed

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Mike so you love it you leveled up you said yes okay well you got a okay so when you when you

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level up you're gonna get some skill points and you should be able to put those in your in your

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skill tree you should pop that open okay yeah I have a bunch already allocated but now I have two

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new points oh nice yeah you should spend those and poke around in the tree a little bit but yeah

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that is something that we're wanting to do with our artisanship both you know and are in all three

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of the branches you'll you'll have skill trees for your profession so those skill trees you'll

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be able to find you know passives that will give you the staff bonuses and you know predicates for

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extra functionality within whatever the profession is access the stations expanding out some of the

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various systems like you can see some of the surveying ones right like you can add extra

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pylons or extra the scanning range and lower the cooldown on how often you can survey so we're

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trying to make those trees interesting and give people you know different paths that they can

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progress through so obviously I'm looking at this as the skill tree right now and I see one side is

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dealing primarily with yield the other side is dealing with excuse me with rarity with quality

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the other side dealing with yield and then the survey system yeah talk to me a little bit about

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the survey system yeah so surveying is something that we're trying to use for gatherers to really

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kind of interact with the things that we want to do with our dynamic world one of that is one of

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those things is we want to be able to spawn stuff randomly and we want to put it in places in the

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world that will make people you know travel and bolster up our our local player to player economies

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have people you know kind of actually be out in the world looking for stuff and not standing in

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the same place waiting for a tree or a flower to respawn over and over again so we're kind of we're

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kind of having the best of the both worlds where we have our lower tier stuff that will fill out

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you know the the base look of our world so that it's always kind of looking good and then the

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higher tier stuff from apprentice onward will always kind of spawned randomly in places that

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we've deemed looks you know look good and makes sense for what that thing is so serving is a way

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that you can track that stuff down it will help you find places will help you find particular

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resources will help you find resources at a certain rarity and yeah so it should be you know

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something you could do as a gatherer on your own or group up with other people to bolster up the

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power of your survey or the range or reach of it so yeah says I need a higher certification for this

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tree oh gotcha we just leveled up so I bet you if we went back to town I would say the same thing

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if I saw that away from a gentleman yeah let's back up a little bit how you doing on big price by the way how am I doing what's again backspace yes I have three copper 22 basalt 17 zinc 5 ruby a number of dandelions and daffodils

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and a bunch of nice what and as you notice that all those materials actually sorted nicely in the

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appropriate bags based on your stack sizes oh yeah that is pretty nice so it didn't misplace

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them in a different bag than what is best yeah it prioritizes basically the best stock size first

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and then it's based the other empty spots after yeah quality of life feature definitely we we you

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know there's a lot of discussions about you know the spatial inventory and the different stack sizes

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and you know whether that could cause like confusion for players or you know extra stress on

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sorting of inventory and I was like all right well no matter what we do we got to try and make this

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as easy and usable for players as possible and luckily really smart people like Alex and Alec

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and our UI team Colby Colby and the gang that are helping us make you know that the system that we

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want function really really nicely so that's what that was one of those features that came on that's

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like all right well I don't have to every single time I get something you know look and see what

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bags the best for it to be in the the code can do it for us so nice oh we're ready to head back now

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yeah let's let's head back to town and get your your apprenticeship yeah now obviously you know

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let's talk a little bit about how gathering is a bit different in ashes and one of the most

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unique things about I think the world is obviously the number of different systems we have that change

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world state we just saw a corrupt zone we just saw a corrupt zone and that zone becomes corrupt

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after a period of time in which players are not addressing some issues that arise through certain

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events or through certain story arcs and that corruption can spread and corruption changes the

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spawners for resources and for monsters and that has a fundamental effect on the resource economy

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of the game yeah definitely it plays into you know scarcity it gets players out in the world

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searching for different things that are predicated on on the dynamic parts of our world right we can

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do stuff with day and night time we can do stuff with seasons we can have things that are specifically

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related to some event or story arc or you know corruption even particular locations right the

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regionality of a biome some you know frozen tundra place that's completely covered in ice

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versus you know the the riverlands and the lushness there so don't want to just have that

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stuff in and not be doing anything with it so we're we're trying to play on that for for gathering

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and open up the diversity of stuff that you can process and craft by finding those things so yeah

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i love that we mentioned actually a time of day and seasonality is being part of that world state

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change and as i understand whoops as i understand it we have a number of different oh let me see

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here and go over to um recipes can i look at um we have to don't we have to gather some recipes

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or some materials that are predicated on time of day yeah i think they were those are the ones that

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we're talking about they're part of your night blade right the moon bells and the night opals

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night opals like do not reveal themselves um during the daytime um surprise surprise

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and then the the moon bells are similar yeah they they only bloom at night so um you if you're

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looking for those in particular you want to take uh keep an eye on the day night cycle and um you

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know know where they're found um in the world and yeah i do have some powers if we want to perhaps

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change it to night time that i could use shall we because it'll take a little while probably for us

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to get to night time at least another hour or so yeah okay let's do it all right hold on stand by

• 35:28

oh my goodness there we go now oh okay it's looking good a little freaky out here you guys

• 35:36

will probably notice uh that the night time is significantly darker than when you guys last saw

• 35:44

our night time update um we saw feedback from the community that bringing in the field of

• 35:50

vision through the uh through the lighting in the environment was something you guys wanted to see

• 35:56

and that's what we have adjusted a bit um now i'm excited because i have a certification

• 36:03

that i can i think update now right yes you should be able to upgrade your uh lumberjacking

• 36:10

to apprentice which um give you access to new tool so we can craft one of those if you want

• 36:16

um you should make your you know chopping faster help you find some rare stuff um yeah all right

• 36:22

let's see here i'm gonna accept there we go yeah so you i think if you open your artisanship window

• 36:33

if you look at your lumberjacking i should say that you're an apprentice now here we go and you

• 36:38

got a nice little chunk of xp from that too yeah that was pretty good um cool so uh now that you've

• 36:44

done that uh go i think this anvil yeah this is the same anvil as the herbalism see see if you can

• 36:53

craft a a tool there what uh what materials do you need it says that i need um zinc fragments

• 37:01

and oak timber for novice lumberjacking the apprentice requires zinc fragments with copper

• 37:07

fragments and oak timber awesome okay well um that's all novice stuff so um so the way that

• 37:15

the certification stuff breaks down is that um every everyone gets to be a novice everything so

• 37:20

all 22 professions the players get to uh be novice of um and then it starts kind of like narrowing

• 37:26

from there so after that you'll only be able to be apprentice of five things um you can be a

• 37:31

journeyman in four things you could be a master in three things and you can be a grand master in two

• 37:35

things so you'll you'll need to narrow but you can also sort of diversify to support you know

• 37:41

the professions that you want to first push further in so now obviously those are um those

• 37:47

restrictions are in place in order to create a dependency cross player faction right for

• 37:54

how players specialize their progression in the artisanship trees yeah i mean like uh being social

• 38:03

is is uh important to us right like we we want players to interact with each other we want the

• 38:07

professions to make stuff for the other professions that uh that are useful you know um i um influenced

• 38:15

quite a bit by the star wars galaxies style crafting and you know just having people in your

• 38:20

network that can you know supply the the uh metal that you need to make your armor and the you know

• 38:25

the the flowers that you need to to make your potions and you know maybe the potions that you

• 38:30

need to make your enchantments uh that to me was really interesting and part of the the gameplay of

• 38:37

the economic gameplay of you know being being a good crafter being a good gatherer is having that

• 38:42

that system so and it really plays into the um the uh uh economic uh field of a particular server

• 38:53

right um you can come in and be like i want to be the the potion mogul here right and like having

• 38:58

good sources and you know having having a guild that supports you uh is just really really

• 39:04

interesting and without um without sort of narrowing down what you have access to yourself

• 39:11

um uh it's uh it takes away from from the ability to achieve that right so yeah so now okay we're

• 39:18

going to be creating this you said apprentice tools what do i need to do that it's a fragment

• 39:24

zinc fragments and um i think copper fragments awesome so the zinc fragments and copper fragments

• 39:30

are going to be from the metalworking profession and then the oak timber will be from the lumber

• 39:37

milling profession so since we're here we can do the lumber milling and this is the station that

• 39:41

you need right next to us so this is the debarker this is one of the the few stations that uh lumber

• 39:46

milling has is the debarker the head saw um i think the drying kiln along with the refinery so

• 39:55

this is the the novice station um and i think this is an apprentice version here um since we're at a

• 40:00

service building that's built um the service buildings usually come stocked with some some uh

• 40:05

some better base stations and then you can kind of progress them from there depending on how you

• 40:11

you expand the buildings but um so why don't you interact with this and uh yeah i think this is the

• 40:17

first time that we've ever done any processing yes absolutely now we alluded to it a little bit

• 40:22

when we were showcasing the uh the freeholds uh but this is everyone's first look at kind of how

• 40:30

processing works and as you said we're looking to make some oak timber here um and as i've clicked

• 40:37

on the oak timber to add fuel it says to the oak timber side talk to me mike a little bit about

• 40:45

what fuel does for processing the fuel is the basic requirements on top of the resources that

• 40:53

you need to craft the thing so every processing stations will require some kind of a fuel to

• 40:58

automate the process to make these processed uh resources though most of the resources or any type

• 41:07

of resource or items could technically have a fuel value attached to them and then each recipe will

• 41:12

require some kind of a fuel value to uh to be met to be able to process these things so think of it

• 41:19

as like if you're melting um or you need to put a fuel to fire to melt the ore right so that kind

• 41:26

of concept exists on all our processing stations so when you click on it uh you should be able to

• 41:32

put the oak wood or anything that you have gathered to yeah so i've added one of the oak wood and then

• 41:41

i see i also have a number of different um herbalism resources here as well do those act

• 41:47

as fuel potentially yeah um most of our resources will have some kind of a fuel value to it and like

• 41:52

i mentioned like some items too but for for this recipe you'll only need one some other recipes

• 41:56

might need 100 or 50 etc etc but the the thing is um some some items might be just um catered towards

• 42:05

being a fuel right so something like charcoal or something like coal something like um anything

• 42:10

that is just designated as a fuel will just have a very efficient fuel value so you kind of want

• 42:16

to save that for higher recipes or something simple like this one you can pretty much use

• 42:21

anything that's common or or lore or degrade or sorry the tier one items uh to be in the fuel okay

• 42:31

so i've so i've added in the wood for the fuel and now it's it has my fuel has been selected

• 42:38

and i can start the job it says that the duration is one minute i'm noticing at the top of the

• 42:43

processing station that we have uh three available slots is that a queue that players can use um

• 42:53

and is it shared is it for just themselves talk to me a little about that for node it's personal so

• 43:00

we didn't want to congest like only three spots for every single person in the note and that would

• 43:05

have been pretty bad um so it's the the queue system is only for yourself but um something

• 43:11

personal like free holds um would be uh station based so if five people wanted to use one one

• 43:17

station at the freehold you have to wait in line and then that kind of comes into the family system

• 43:22

we talked about on the freehold live stream where you want to have uh limited access to whoever is

• 43:28

viable for the fuels or for the stations um but for any service buildings in the node um it's all

• 43:35

personal so you can queue up as much as you want and then someone else can just come by and use the

• 43:39

same station and then kill for their station that's awesome additionally it will also be

• 43:45

influenced by nodes so like right now you see three but it could be five it could be two

• 43:49

simultaneous jobs etc based how your node grows got it so there are specializations that the

• 43:54

processor can take uh if the node should elect to do so citizens participate in that upgrade that

• 44:02

would increase that size or perhaps even the efficiency of the processing jobs as well both

• 44:08

speed uh quantity of receipt any rarity procs anything all of those play a role in upgrade

• 44:13

potential uh that the node might choose to specialize in right but um just like we discussed

• 44:19

in a freehold live stream as well the nodes um processing only goes up to journeyman so if you

• 44:25

want to do the highest tier of uh processing you you probably want to seek out the freehold owners

• 44:32

basically oh did i i might be full hold on i can't claim it yet i need to oh i need to

• 44:45

who needs this this cheap glint here

• 44:49

okay i only moved that down i didn't even like that whoops um are you just throwing money away

• 44:56

that's how rich you are pretty much additional thing i would like to add for processing as you can say

• 45:03

you could cancel the job um also so like let's say you accidentally scheduled wrong one and the

• 45:08

only thing that gets consumed is your fuel so fuel is basically a sink for this job got it okay so

• 45:16

fuel is always sunk regardless of if you cancel the job or not yeah another uh another thing as

• 45:21

well is that um uh when you're when you're choosing the job you'll see kind of on the

• 45:27

on the right hand side that we have something called job size and right now uh right now there's

• 45:33

only the ability to make one job size but um this in the same vein of um you know this having like

• 45:40

more jobs that you can queue and like you know better stats that make them go faster or proc

• 45:45

extra resources uh job size is another thing that we could do right um so you probably don't want to

• 45:52

use three entire slots just to make you know three pieces of oak wood but if you had a job size that

• 45:57

you know was 20 um you'd be able to make all 20 of those with the with the one job size so

• 46:04

so it's a little different than what people are used to with you know i i'm making exactly you

• 46:09

know 17 pieces of october you might need to you know do a job size of five plus one if you need

• 46:16

specifically six so um that's awesome yeah we we are also influenced by customization options that

• 46:22

the node can participate in uh as well and perhaps policies and or relics like all those things are

• 46:28

an intricate web of boons benefits and downsides that apply to these different game functions

• 46:34

exactly yeah very cool love it all right so we've made some timber gotcha yeah let's head let's head

• 46:41

down to uh the smithy over here there should be a crushing station you can crush up the the copper

• 46:47

and zinc that you got into fragments and then we should have what we need to make you a new pickaxe

• 46:52

or um axe um yeah this is the crushing crushing station right here nice all right it's really nice

• 47:04

of you to have built all of these uh artisanship service buildings look at look at all these jobs

• 47:09

that you're creating this guy stays here he gets to hang out all night crushing rocks doing stuff

• 47:15

that is awesome yeah great for the economy really really great mayorship uh decisions thank you

• 47:22

thank you very much that's why i'm a term after term mayor just no term limits at all it's the

• 47:27

way we like it here right my my personal investments have somehow miraculously just had

• 47:33

the greatest returns of any citizen of the mayor agreed i think there's only other than one other

• 47:39

mayor that was alec and i haven't seen him for a really long time so right that is right

• 47:43

his family members actually came by i'm looking for him too oh no okay so i need to make copper

• 47:53

fragments and zinc fragments yeah i'm gonna kick off i'm gonna add some fuel here um okay cool

• 48:00

that's cool put this and i'll kick that job off and then i'll use the zinc oh my god

• 48:07

you can see the npc working real hard yeah he's a go-getter i didn't even start the other job yet

• 48:14

he just immediately went to work he needs a raise there we go okay yeah and uh just uh just a comment

• 48:23

too on the on that right like um we're trying to sort of marry the the visuals with what's actually

• 48:29

going on with the station right so if you have a job queued uh i mean you're trying to you know do

• 48:34

errands throughout the node or in your freehold or whatever right like you should be able to look at

• 48:37

the station and know what's going on with it so you know he's there working and you know once he's

• 48:42

done he's gonna stop and you can be like okay you know there's there's stuff ready to pick up and

• 48:46

have some visuals associated with that so as much as we can have stuff you know rooted in the world

• 48:52

instead of you know throwing a bunch of ui in the player's face uh that's that's something that we're

• 48:57

trying to do and is important to us that's very cool yeah and to add to that it's uh personal

• 49:02

right so it's only like other people won't see you doing your processing got it yeah in nodes

• 49:09

right the free the freehold ones would be uh since they are relevant to any of the people

• 49:14

to have access to it you'd you'd be able to see that a job is going right this guy is a is a

• 49:23

dedicated worker yeah definitely so now just remind folks obviously when we talk about um

• 49:31

processing as one branch of the artisanship tree even though you have access to all branches

• 49:38

throughout the world up to some level of degree processing best processing is done on freeholds

• 49:46

and the best crafting is done in nodes right when we talk about workstation availability but there

• 49:52

is some overlap there as those of you who remember from our freehold uh uh live stream

• 49:59

you do have up to a certain point to progress available to you for both gathering processing

• 50:05

and crafting uh without needing necessarily a free yeah exactly so um go ahead up to journeyman

• 50:13

you'll be journeyman's type of gathering crafting and processing should be available pretty much

• 50:19

everywhere um and then this specialization really kicks in at the master and above

• 50:24

awesome all right i have i believe acquired now some fragments

• 50:34

and on well let's uh let's head back up to the crafting session um next to good old woody gungan

• 50:41

and make yourself an apprentice axe and i think we should be able to chop that corrupted tree down

• 50:48

yeah that's right and then also now that it's night while we're out there you guys can grab perhaps

• 50:53

some of the um what were the other ones that i needed uh the night opal yeah i think mike has high

• 50:59

enough mining to get the mine opal night opal um and then i think i think new moon bells are

• 51:04

novice so you should have access to those yep yep all right so i'll grab the moon bells perfect

• 51:11

all right i'm crafting my new apprentice lumberjacking axe it is equipped nice

• 51:19

let me see cool ah very sweet it's there how fast is it it's 30 lumberjacking speed

• 51:26

nice i think the other one was like only five so you should be fast when we get out there we should

• 51:30

race see if you can chop the tree down faster than me all right let's do it i'm ready

• 51:34

all right go um i actually really like the night time i think it was yeah it's looking really good

• 51:42

from the community to tune this a bit more on the darker side oh shooting star you see that

• 51:49

make a wish oh yeah look at the moon yeah i did it's a little bit dark

• 51:55

oh shoot i think it might need a little atmosphere

• 52:08

i like the uh the harbinger moon we'll see

• 52:15

the moon getting closer oh no that's not what we want to hear kill the moon so do it cory

• 52:26

tell me a little bit like when we right now we're in this night phase oh i love the fireflies too

• 52:31

noa did a great job on these yeah no no is next level we love noah no we love you

• 52:39

um obviously moving tonight now is going to give us access to these moon bells and

• 52:45

these night opals um but when things like the world state change whether it be corruption

• 52:51

related or time of day it's not just an introduction of rare materials it also

• 52:56

is a removal of some other materials as well potentially so it's a it is a um and some world

• 53:02

state changes like we talked about with corruption if not addressed can significantly alter the flow

• 53:08

of resources across the world in such a way that creates a bit of turbulence in the world market

• 53:13

and economy and that's what we're trying to achieve with these world state changes yeah you can see um

• 53:21

uh out in the open the night opals lit up those little blue lights all over the place that wasn't

• 53:28

there before yeah i can see moon bells as well by the trees oh yeah nice so you should be able to

• 53:37

grab this that's awesome those were just kind of just basic little rocks yeah so that's like a you

• 53:44

know we we we thought those were all opals and they were opals during the day but at night um

• 53:49

you know some of them are actually night opals so um pretty cool oh look leveled up again crushing

• 53:55

it my herbalism herbalism god literal herbalism god yeah these moon bells that exist before too

• 54:06

we're at the same spot yeah oh my god oh no the wolf give me a little uh protect him

• 54:22

mike no i'm like max level so i'm just slaughtering these

• 54:28

can you pet the dog stephen no but i can shoot it with an arrow in the face

• 54:31

see if you can do faster than me wait let's chop the trees down together right here right here

• 54:41

all right i'll start all right wait no no no

• 54:45

okay three two one go wait no we messed up we messed up we can do this we can do this how

• 54:50

many people does it take to chop down a tree i'm pretty sure it doesn't matter you way faster i have

• 54:55

no clue two three oh you just got wrecked excuse me this is where pvp starts excuse me sir

• 55:14

let's go cut down that uh corrupted tree oh yeah that's why we're here huh there we go

• 55:20

yes this this place looks so good at night oh man there's the spooky dude again he's just

• 55:30

chilling up there yeah he's i n s he's waiting challenger will we approach him stay away

• 55:42

looks like one shot city up there i can't get these uh blood boiled spirit

• 55:48

yeah i can tell you the lore behind that or um never mind

• 56:00

all right i got some of those i got this thing

• 56:08

oh bam tree explosion what do you think mike you want to take on this ancient minion over here

• 56:13

i think we need to know stephen i think that that was like less than two seconds yeah that was

• 56:19

really i was like in there and out of there well maybe a little balancing pass necessary

• 56:25

take that note down mike they're family incoming yeah way to go stephen already

• 56:32

nerfing lumberjack i know yeah all right let's so now we do we have all the materials we need

• 56:38

did you guys get the night owls yeah i got some all right sweet trade you back in town let's do it

• 56:47

let's get rid of this guy

• 56:52

are you good oh that's unfortunate you know we'll abuse peter

• 56:59

so now talk to me a little bit about the sword that we're going to be crafting um obviously

• 57:06

itemization in ashes of creation is not restricted um based on class right so anybody can wear kind

• 57:13

of anything whatever is most beneficial towards their particular strategy and class kit and build

• 57:21

but how do we influence that from a crafting perspective so the recipe that you learned is

• 57:28

somewhat of a unique sword we want to introduce as uh mid-level mid-level

• 57:33

uh we want to introduce as uh mid-level maybe a little bit high but generally for itemization

• 57:39

purposes we want to have a viable option for every build that players want to try

• 57:45

i know that's a full statement knows where his uh city is yeah where are we going we have a

• 57:54

mini map surprise guys come on is this way i always get lost out here when i take my nightly strolls

• 57:59

i'm just running over to the south so yeah okay all right sorry mike to your left

• 58:07

to the left okay um what was i saying anyways um i was saying that uh we want to support every kind

• 58:15

of build that player wants to try out and i know that's a bold statement but that is something that

• 58:20

we're going to attempt which means a lot of crafting recipes will need to support variable

• 58:24

stats variable play styles and for this weapon for particular it was um somewhat of a unique sword

• 58:33

because it's a sword that has magic penetration so something that mages maybe might be able to use

• 58:39

or clerics and then if we go to the crafter crafting station right here all right you should

• 58:49

give them the oh right you need my night opal all right uh i can trade you done

• 59:01

okay we got some night opals sweet something changed all right boom got some night opal

• 59:10

oh so now i see i have my learned recipe the night blade is under weapons category okay that's cool

• 59:22

yeah um not sure we touched on this on different live streams but uh our crafting menus will have

• 59:27

some required materials so those are the things that you must have at that certain rarity so the

• 59:32

night of opal and the moonbell that's required and then we have the selectable section where you can

• 59:37

put different uh rarity amounts um you want to do the uh the zinc one first steven so that's

• 59:45

a lot of there and then zinc one and then now you can see that the item itself was uncommon and then

• 59:52

if you add the fragments in oh i see what you're saying i see what you're saying yeah the i so the

• 59:57

uncommon night blade is here that's the default adding in these legendary zinc fragments yep if

• 1:00:05

you submit it now it turns rare okay and now you can see there's additional properties onto the

• 1:00:12

item uh so things change and then if you put the oak timber also at legendary also legendary oak

• 1:00:18

okay got it and then now it becomes a heroic version of it and then stats increase um so these

• 1:00:23

are the things that we kind of want to explore on the crafting side where we introduce maybe new

• 1:00:29

stat line or a different proportion or ratios of stats at certain tiers and when you craft these

• 1:00:36

items we're using better materials the rarity of the item increases um for demonstration purposes

• 1:00:43

we're using legendary but um basically when you use a higher tier than the recipe is intended for

• 1:00:49

so we could technically build this item with common right timber than zinc fragments and that

• 1:00:54

would produce an uncommon item but since we're showcasing this at legendary tier you can move

• 1:01:00

up the tiers and have the stats increase that's awesome and so obviously there's going to be a

• 1:01:05

number of different types of selectables that you can incorporate as part of the crafting process

• 1:01:10

each of them having unique results as part of the stat block for the weapon but also increasing the

• 1:01:16

quality predicated on the quality of the selectable that you're contributing right that

• 1:01:20

would be our sub recipe system that we'll kind of highly touch up on so um a common copper sword

• 1:01:27

might have sub recipes that changes the stat block completely which would be um let's say a brutal

• 1:01:33

copper sword which um specializes in crit damage but that would be changing the selectable items

• 1:01:40

it's from oak timber to ash timber for example right um and then when it's on a selectable level

• 1:01:45

we can choose the the rarity of those resources to increase the rarity of the item produced awesome

• 1:01:51

and each time you're kind of unlocking a different result with with regards to that particular

• 1:01:56

recipe you're learning that interaction between the selectable materials and the output that

• 1:02:02

comes from it so learning one recipe actually learns you a multitude of different potential

• 1:02:07

uh uh uh rewards from that one particular recipe yeah um we have something unique

• 1:02:16

yeah uh something unique in our crafting system where we want to have recipe xp of some sort and

• 1:02:22

then those sub recipes could be earned by leveling up your recipe which means that you have to craft

• 1:02:28

the night blade multiple times to level it up to have a better result so sub recipe could be from

• 1:02:33

a vendor recipe or world drops like we said earlier um but the idea is one type of item can

• 1:02:40

have potential to be multiple different outcomes cool awesome okay let me go ahead and craft this

• 1:02:47

weapon we've done it we've received a night blade the loop is complete oh my god we made it through

• 1:02:57

the entire loop let me just hold i know let's see let's take a look at what we have in our

• 1:03:07

inventory here so i see we have a heroic night blade that's doing some physical damage and

• 1:03:13

magical penetration with some magical damage as well and if i compare that currently to my long

• 1:03:19

bow obviously we have some comparable version there but let me go ahead and equip this

• 1:03:23

oh that looks good that looks awesome you're styling you are styling you put in the work

• 1:03:31

and now you're styling oh i love it that looks super cool sweet very nice

• 1:03:39

let me see you want to rate it up for the fam yeah i gotta i gotta i gotta get the right perspective

• 1:03:44

here hold on standby ladies and gentlemen we have crafted world first on the night blade

• 1:03:55

we have done it yeah

• 1:04:01

very cool so guys we just walked through from start to finish crafting one particular recipe

• 1:04:08

of course of many as itemization is a very key component of player progression within the within

• 1:04:14

the world of vera and as you can see from gathering to processing to crafting this is the type of

• 1:04:23

experience and the unique aspects of that process that is within ashes of creation we do these

• 1:04:30

demonstrations so that you guys get an early look during development on the direction of this

• 1:04:35

particular core loop this core system to ashes and we want your feedback on it what did you

• 1:04:41

think about the gathering the processing the stations those the times that it takes the queue

• 1:04:46

system for it the unique interactions with the recipes the progression of the recipes

• 1:04:52

the tool dependencies and the the skill tree that you saw the unique world state that influences

• 1:04:58

the economy and the ability of players to accumulate these resources and move them across

• 1:05:03

the world we're fresh off of a caravan stream as well where you kind of see how those materials

• 1:05:10

those resources that wealth gets accrued and trans transited across the world so all of these

• 1:05:17

things are things we want you to opine on in our youtube on the forums on different social medias

• 1:05:23

talk to us about what you saw today and how you feel about it where do you think that it could be

• 1:05:28

improved and how it relates to your previous experiences and other mmo's that you've played

• 1:05:33

what you've enjoyed about them but otherwise mike corey nathan alex thank you guys for joining me i

• 1:05:40

know the audience obviously appreciates all the hard work that you guys put in that everybody on

• 1:05:44

the team puts in and this is a very big group effort obviously to get these types of systems up

• 1:05:48

and running i know i appreciate that the audience does too thank you for joining us and chatting

• 1:05:53

with us a little bit about how all the stuff works and everyone i will see you guys back on stream

• 1:05:59

in just a moment see you all thank you