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Since cross-skilled item, posting in both smithing and brewing threads as pertinent to both.
As a behind the scenes tradeskiller since pre-kunark, I've decided to try and take a more active role in the community.
I've been mulling over something in broader's diaries that some have eluded to: Making brewing casks.
"Halflings and elves hold the secrets to making aged oaken casks."
I may be reading too much into this, but just in case, here are some ideas.
First RL situation: How to make a brew barrew/Cask
(Yes, I watch the learning channel)
Old style, done over an open fire (smithing)
Use Oak or wooden staves, and start hammering consecutively smaller metal hoops around them (with it all places around the fire to heat the wood)
Don't need to get too deep into it. All that really matters is tools involved:
-hammer
-metal hoops/bands
-wood (oak) staves
-open fire
-water (sloshed onto the inside of the wood surrounding fire so as to keep it from burning and making it more plyable)
Now for the in-game mechanics.
The obvious is oak first of all.
We have recently seen that Shadewood Bow Staff + Whittling Blade = shadewood clasps, indicating fletching = a form of woodworking.
It may be possible to combine a whittling blade with any of the following:
-oak bowstaff
-branch of sylvain oak
-branch of planar oak
-possibly that Faydwer twig that has been a ground spawn in GFay as well.
-(did I miss anything?)
Maybe we don't even need to go that far, and just use the branches, bowstaff directly.
The mention of halflings and elves to me implies that the metal banding will either be mithril(wood/high elves), High Quality Ore (halflings) or Adamantite (just to include Dark Elves), so we would either use:
-*metal* bits
-*metal* boning
-sheet of *metal*
-AGAIN, to avoid reading too much into it, maybe it's regular metal used....
Other possible components necessary would be:
-smithy hammer (to hammer rings/metal around oak)
-flask of water
-morning dew (just because of the elves, and for posterity)
The obvious permutations are huge.
Then again, maybe it's just a refference to the brew barrels on location. Who knows, but a thought worth considering since there are confirmed unknown recepies.
Won't be online for a bit, but watching threads, wanted to add some thoughts.
As a behind the scenes tradeskiller since pre-kunark, I've decided to try and take a more active role in the community.
I've been mulling over something in broader's diaries that some have eluded to: Making brewing casks.
"Halflings and elves hold the secrets to making aged oaken casks."
I may be reading too much into this, but just in case, here are some ideas.
First RL situation: How to make a brew barrew/Cask
(Yes, I watch the learning channel)
Old style, done over an open fire (smithing)
Use Oak or wooden staves, and start hammering consecutively smaller metal hoops around them (with it all places around the fire to heat the wood)
Don't need to get too deep into it. All that really matters is tools involved:
-hammer
-metal hoops/bands
-wood (oak) staves
-open fire
-water (sloshed onto the inside of the wood surrounding fire so as to keep it from burning and making it more plyable)
Now for the in-game mechanics.
The obvious is oak first of all.
We have recently seen that Shadewood Bow Staff + Whittling Blade = shadewood clasps, indicating fletching = a form of woodworking.
It may be possible to combine a whittling blade with any of the following:
-oak bowstaff
-branch of sylvain oak
-branch of planar oak
-possibly that Faydwer twig that has been a ground spawn in GFay as well.
-(did I miss anything?)
Maybe we don't even need to go that far, and just use the branches, bowstaff directly.
The mention of halflings and elves to me implies that the metal banding will either be mithril(wood/high elves), High Quality Ore (halflings) or Adamantite (just to include Dark Elves), so we would either use:
-*metal* bits
-*metal* boning
-sheet of *metal*
-AGAIN, to avoid reading too much into it, maybe it's regular metal used....
Other possible components necessary would be:
-smithy hammer (to hammer rings/metal around oak)
-flask of water
-morning dew (just because of the elves, and for posterity)
The obvious permutations are huge.
Then again, maybe it's just a refference to the brew barrels on location. Who knows, but a thought worth considering since there are confirmed unknown recepies.
Won't be online for a bit, but watching threads, wanted to add some thoughts.
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