Wooden Weapons

The wooden weapons are an eight-piece weapon family introduced with Publish 123 on 13 May 2026. They are crafted via Carpentry and also drop as rewards in the Spoils of War Trader catalogue, designed to give the wood-crafting trade a foothold in the combat-weapon space alongside the existing metal-and-leather weapon roster.

All eight share a common special-move profile: Feint as the primary move and Nerve Strike as the secondary, regardless of which combat skill the weapon belongs to.

The roster

1-Hand Weapons (2 s base swing speed)

2-Hand Weapons (3.5 s base swing speed)

The matrix is deliberately balanced — three weapons each cover Fencing and Mace Fighting (across 1- and 2-hand grips), and two cover Swordsmanship. The Gargish-race-flagged Bokuto, Tanto, and Otsuchi expand the Gargoyle weapon roster, which had been narrower than the Human/Elf options for these skills.

Crafting

All eight are craftable via Carpentry and accept the standard wood-tier matrix — Plain, Oak, Ash, Yew, Heartwood, Bloodwood, and Frostwood. Wood-tier substitution gives crafted wooden weapons access to the same flavour bonuses as other wood crafts: a Bloodwood-enhanced weapon gains the +HP / Spell Channeling / Mage Armor properties of Bloodwood at the cost of durability; a Frostwood weapon swaps its physical damage portion to cold damage in the same way a Frostwood bow does (Damage Types).

Crafting follows the standard Carpentry workflow:

• Bulk Order Deeds — wooden weapon BODs roll into the existing Carpentry BOD pool.
• Arms Lore — applies the +1%/20-skill exceptional Damage Increase bonus.
• Runic tool reforging — the Heartwood runic-tool family applies, since these are all wooden items.
• Imbuing — works as for any crafted weapon, with the Heartwood Bloodwood/Frostwood preservation rules intact.

Special-move profile

The shared Feint + Nerve Strike profile is the family's defining tactical feature. Both moves are oriented toward PvP and dueling rather than PvM, which positions the wooden weapons as a complement to the Spoils of War PvP system that also launched in Publish 123.

• Feint (primary) — a Bushido-mastery special that mitigates incoming melee damage from the target for a short window. Useful in 1v1 duels for trading windows.
• Nerve Strike (secondary) — a Ninjitsu-aligned strike that deals physical damage scaling with the attacker's Bushido skill. Publish 123 explicitly buffed Nerve Strike to also scale with swing speed:
• At 1.25 swing speed: 5–15 damage (at 120 Bushido)
• At 3.50 swing speed: 15–25 damage (at 120 Bushido)
• Note: this damage scaling applies only to PvP damage against other players. PvM Nerve Strike behaviour is unchanged.

This means the wooden weapons are tuned for Bushido/Ninjitsu hybrid combat templates, particularly the Sampire-adjacent dueling builds. The 1-hand 2-second weapons favour fast-swing Feint chaining; the 2-hand 3.5-second weapons trade Feint frequency for the upper end of the Nerve Strike damage curve.

Sources

Three independent acquisition paths:

1. Carpentry crafting — the canonical source. Crafters of GM Carpentry can produce all eight in any wood tier.
2. Spoils of War Trader rewards — wooden weapons rotate through the Spoils of War reward catalogue at Bucs Den / Ocllo / Nujel'm. Trader-sourced weapons are typically pre-imbued or arrive with set property rolls.
3. The Spritelight Trader does not stock wooden weapons. The two Publish 123 reward systems are deliberately partitioned: Spritelight → cosmetic/decorative; Spoils of War → combat-relevant.

See also

• Carpentry — the crafting skill
• Spoils of War — secondary Publish 123 source
• Feint, Nerve Strike — the shared special-move pair
• Heartwood — wood-tier system reference (Bloodwood, Frostwood, etc.)
• Bushido — the skill that scales both special moves
• Publish 123 — the launch publish