Carpentry

Carpentry is the woodworking craft skill of Britannia — the saw, the plane, and the level. From a humble Foot Stool to a Cherry Armoire, from a Wooden Shield to the wooden-armor sets favoured by druids and elven scouts, every meaningful piece of wooden infrastructure in the realm flows through a carpenter's hands. The skill spans 233 craftables in twenty-odd categories, supporting almost every other profession at one remove: blacksmiths need anvils, mages need bookshelves and pentagrams, fishermen need fishing poles, archers need arrow shafts, and every player house needs furniture.

Grandmaster carpenters may take up the secondary discipline of Masonry, which extends their reach to stone construction.

Tools and Materials

A carpenter's toolset is broad — Dovetail Saw, Draw Knife, Froe, Hammer, Inshave, Jointing Plane, Moulding Plane, Nails, Saw, Scorp, and Smoothing Plane — but no specific tool grants a craft bonus. Any of them, bought from a Carpenter or Tinker NPC or crafted with Tinkering, will work the same.

Lumber is the universal raw material. It comes in two forms:

• Logs — gathered directly with the Lumberjacking skill from trees.
• Boards — milled from Logs, lighter and the actual input to most carpentry recipes.

Specialty woods unlock at higher Lumberjacking skill: Oak, Ash, Yew, Heartwood, Bloodwood, and Frostwood, each with progressively rarer crafting bonuses. Carpenters may also use Cloth (for upholstered furniture and instruments) and small amounts of Leather and Cloth on specific recipes.

How to Craft

Double-clicking any carpentry tool opens the Carpentry Menu, organised by category. The workflow:

1. Choose the type of wood by clicking the Wood button (the wood must be in the backpack).
2. Choose the category of item.
3. Click the arrow next to the desired item.

The menu also handles Repair Item (target a damaged wooden item to restore durability) and Enhance Item (apply a specialty wood to a finished item, granting that wood's properties at the risk of destruction).

Training

A reliable progression with a basic Lumberjacking partner skill or a stack of bought Boards:

• 0 – 30: train at an NPC Carpenter.
• 30 – 48: craft Medium Crates.
• 48 – 53: craft Large Crates.
• 53 – 60: craft Wooden Shields.
• 60 – 74: craft Fukiyas.
• 74 – 79: craft Quarter Staffs.
• 79 – 82: craft Gnarled Staffs or Shepherd's Crooks.
• 82 – 96: craft Black Staffs.
• 96 – 100: craft late-game items as supplies allow.
• 100 – 120: requires Power Scrolls; train on the high-end items in the Workspace, Crafting Stations, and Refinement Resins tables below.

The Craftables

The 233 carpentry recipes, sorted into categories. Skill is the minimum at which an attempt may succeed; success rate climbs as skill exceeds the minimum.

Materials

Containers

Seating

Tables

Bedroom

Workspace

Crafting Stations

Lighting

Decorative

Building & Signs

Pet & Garden

Arcane

Instruments

Shields

Weapons

Bowcraft

Wooden Armor

Refinement Resins

Power Scrolls

A carpenter's skill cap is raised from 100 to 120 by Power Scrolls in 5-point increments. Carpentry Power Scrolls drop from Champion Spawn bosses, like Power Scrolls for the other crafting skills.

Specialty Woods

Six specialty woods extend the carpenter's palette beyond plain wood:

• Oak — modest durability bonus.
• Ash — increased Swing Speed on weapon items.
• Yew — Hit Lightning chance on weapons.
• Heartwood — random magic property on the crafted item; the most variable and rewarding choice.
• Bloodwood — Hit Point Regeneration and Mana Regeneration boosts.
• Frostwood — Cold damage and resist bonuses.

Each requires increasing Lumberjacking skill to harvest and Carpentry skill to craft with successfully.

Masonry

A grandmaster carpenter may research and unlock Masonry, a secondary discipline that extends carpentry to stone construction — stone tables, urns, statues, decorative pillars, and the high-end stone furniture pieces. Masonry is not a separate skill; it is gated behind a one-time research action available at 100 Carpentry, after which stone-themed recipes appear in the carpenter's menu.

Related Skills

• Lumberjacking — the gathering partner skill; provides logs and the specialty woods that unlock advanced recipes.
• Bowcraft/Fletching — fork from carpentry for bow and arrow construction (most bows are crafted via Bowcraft, not Carpentry, but a few crossover items overlap).
• Tinkering — supplies the carpenter's tools themselves, plus the metal fittings on certain recipes.
• Tailoring and Inscription — pair naturally on a generalist crafter character.
• Imbuing — adds magic properties to carpentry-crafted weapons and armor.

Trivia

"You can follow a good carpenter across Britannia by the trail of easels he leaves behind."

The carpenter's craft was in Ultima Online from launch in 1997, though most of the modern recipe diversity arrived with later expansions: gargish furniture and the Crafting Stations bucket arrived with Stygian Abyss (2009); the Refinement Resins were added with the post-launch suit-refinement system. Wooden Armor (Darkwood, Woodland, Bramble, Ironwood Crown) is gated behind Carpentry Recipes obtained through Mondain's Legacy expansion content — a parallel to Tailoring's Tiger Pelt and Dragon Turtle Hide recipe drops.