Bulk Order Deeds

Bulk Order Deeds — universally abbreviated BOD — are the structured craft-quest system that drives Britannia's high-end crafting economy. A BOD is a contract: an NPC requests N copies of a specific item at a specific quality, with optional material requirements; the crafter fills the order, returns it, and receives points and rewards. Originally introduced for Blacksmithy in November 2001 (Publish 14), the BOD system was the development team's first-pass attempt at giving crafters a sustained progression loop. After Tailoring BODs followed in Publish 16, the system stalled until Publish 95 (December 2016) re-energized it via the Artisan Festival, adding Alchemy, Carpentry, Cooking, Fletching, Inscription, and Tinkering.

How a BOD is obtained

To request a BOD, a character must have at least 0.1 in the relevant skill. Visit the appropriate NPC vendor (a Blacksmith, Tailor, Alchemist, etc.), open their context menu, select Bulk Order Info.

If a BOD is available, a gump appears showing:

• The item type requested (Cutlass, Cookies, Greater Cure Potion, etc.)
• The quantity required (typically 10, 15, or 20)
• The quality requirement (Normal or Exceptional)
• Optional material restriction (Iron, Cloth, Bloodwood, etc.)

The crafter accepts or declines the deed. Publish 74 introduced significant changes:

• BODs are limited to one every six hours per NPC, regardless of skill.
• NPCs cache up to three BODs / 18 hours' worth. Players can claim all three in succession after a long absence.
• Turning in a BOD adds a new deed to the cache, up to the cap of three.

The cache mechanic means a once-a-day BOD-runner can grab three deeds per NPC at the start of each session. Multiple NPCs of the same skill (different cities) refresh independently — a smith can hit four city blacksmiths and pull 12 BODs total.

Bribery

Publish 74 also introduced the Bribe mechanic. NPCs accept bribes to upgrade an empty (not-yet-filled) BOD's quantity, quality, or material to a higher tier:

• Select Bribe from the NPC context menu.
• Pay the requested gold to upgrade.
• NPCs become greedier over time — each successful bribe raises the next bribe's price.
• Higher-tier BODs require larger bribes.
• NPCs with too many recent bribes come under "Guild scrutiny" and refuse bribes briefly before resuming.

The bribery system gives crafters a way to filter — pay to convert a low-tier 10-Dagger/Iron BOD into a 20-Halberd/Valorite BOD without waiting for the natural roll.

Small vs. Large BODs

Two formats exist:

Small BOD (SBOD)

Single-item type. Fill the requested quantity and quality, return for points and a small reward.

Large BOD (LBOD)

A meta-deed that requires the crafter to fill multiple specific Small BODs first, then combine them all into the Large. LBODs reward the most desirable items in the system but require methodical SBOD farming. Each LBOD specifies the SBODs it requires; once each SBOD is filled, it can be combined into the LBOD slot.

Filling a high-tier LBOD is the BOD endgame — Valorite Large Plate or Spined Female Large Tailor LBOD turn-ins are the source of high-tier rewards on every shard.

Large BOD breakdown by skill

The BOD system covers different LBOD families per skill. Representative LBODs:

Blacksmithy LBODs

Tailoring LBODs

Major LBOD families: Cloth Sets, Leather Sets, Studded Sets, Bone Armor Sets, Female-only sets (Plain Dress, Fancy Dress, etc.), Hats, Pants and Skirts, Shirts.

Alchemy LBODs

Carpentry LBODs

Cooking, Tinkering, Fletching, Inscription LBODs

Each follows the same pattern with skill-specific items. Cooking includes Barbeque, Dough, Fruits, Miso, Sushi, Sweets, and Unbaked Pies.

Points and rewards

As of Publish 95, BODs return a point value when turned in. Points can be:

• Spent immediately at full value on rewards from the appropriate BOD reward vendor (Bulk Order Reward NPCs at the relevant guildmaster).
• Banked at a loss for future use — points stored at a partial conversion ratio (typically 5%-20% banking penalty, depending on the system).

Reward vendors stock skill-specific items: Power Scrolls (Tailoring + Smithy only), Runic Tools, special crafting reagents (Heartwood saws, special threads), bonus craftable recipes, and unique decorative items.

The community criticism of the post-95 system is that point value does not scale with material cost. A 20-Dagger / Iron / Exceptional BOD and a 20-Halberd / Iron / Exceptional BOD return the same 250 points (or ~5 banked points), despite the Halberd consuming roughly 10× the iron. This makes Halberd / large-item BODs less efficient per point, and fast-craft items (daggers, knives) the actual gold-per-hour winners.

Key BOD rewards

Smith / Tailor Power Scrolls

The only source for Blacksmithy and Tailoring Power Scrolls. A 120 Smith or 120 Tailor scroll requires substantial BOD point banking — the system is the gate for Legendary craft-skill caps.

Runic Tools

Smith and Tailor BODs reward Runic Hammers and Runic Sewing Kits. The progression: Dull Copper → Shadow Iron → Copper → Bronze → Golden → Agapite → Verite → Valorite for smithing. The high-tier runics (Verite, Valorite) are the single highest-impact craft-quality items, producing high-property item rolls in the standard runic-craft formula.

Heartwood Saw / Heartwood Runic Tool

Carpentry and Fletching BOD rewards. Heartwood is the Carpentry equivalent of Valorite — high-tier runic crafting.

Recipe Books

Special crafting recipes that unlock high-end items not available from standard NPC training.

Strategy notes

• Cache cycle daily. The 18-hour cache maximum means a once-a-day BOD claim collects 3 BODs per NPC, 12+ from a 4-city circuit. Build a daily script to hit all the relevant NPCs.
• Bribery is gold-positive at scale. Pay 50,000 gold to bribe a low-tier BOD into a Valorite-Large-Hammer; the LBOD reward dwarfs the bribe cost. This is the central BOD-economy lever.
• Small-item BODs are the point efficiency winner. Daggers, Cookies, Refresh Potions — all return the same 250 points as their large-item counterparts but cost a fraction of the resources to fill.
• LBODs are the gold-makers. A Valorite Large Plate Set turn-in returns a top-tier Runic Hammer; the runic produces a high-end armor piece worth tens of millions of gold. The LBOD path is slow but disproportionately profitable.
• Imbuing scrolls don't come from BODs. Despite Imbuing being a craft skill, its Power Scrolls come from the Mastering the Soulforge quest, not BODs. Plan accordingly.
• Multi-skill BOD farming. A character with Smith + Tailor + Alchemy + Carpentry + Cooking + Tinkering + Fletching + Inscription pulls 8 different BOD streams per NPC cycle. The all-skill crafter is the BOD optimization endpoint.

See also

Blacksmithy, Tailoring, Alchemy, Carpentry, Cooking, Tinkering, Bowcraft & Fletching, Inscription, Bulk Order Book, Power Scrolls, Runic Hammer, Runic Sewing Kit, Runic Saw, Runic Fletcher Tool, Mastering the Soulforge, Artisan Festival, Heartwood, Valorite, Verite, Agapite, Publish 14, Publish 16, Publish 74, Publish 95, Bulk Order Reward, Crafter, NPC Vendor.