Arkenstone's Bonecraft Guide (0-100)Follow

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Feel free to use, reproduce, replicate, alter, copy, change, and distribute as you see fit. I no longer check this board, so I'm not sure about this guides current relevance. Just put a link to the original, and have at it. :)

~Ark

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Arkenstone's Bonecraft Guide (0-100)

Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of bonecraft. Bonecraft is one of the lesser explored crafts, but can be fun and profitable. This guide will serve as a reference to help you gain skill and find materials. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to reply!


Purpose: A easy to read 0-100 bonecraft guide and a list of bonecraft material sources.

Recipe Guide: Recipes will follow this syntax:

Synthesis Result (N) -- Crystal, Ingredient1 x1 + Ingredient x2   what to do with them

For example:

Bone Arrowheads  (9) -- Wind, Bone Chip x2   AH in San d'Oria

where N is the recipe level cap.

Table of contents:
I) 0-9 Lots of Little Chips
II) 9-25 Mad Mandy and Many Rings
III) 25-53 Arrowheads Galore
IV) 53-60 It Tastes like Fiend Blood
V) 60-82 Demons, Scorpions, and Tigers (oh my)
VI) 82-100 The Final Stretch
VII) Test Synths
VIII) Ingredients and How to Get Them
IX) Guild Points
X) References
XI) Acknowledgements

I) 0-9 Lots of Little Chips
Almost every recipe in bonecraft requires a bonechip. Go early to the bonecraft guild and buy em, get them from the AH (Windurst AH will be the most expensive), excuvate them, or go to Gusgen mines and farm skeletons.

 
Bone Hairpin    (4) -- Wind, Bone Chip x1   npc: ??? gil 
Bone Arrowheads (9) -- Wind, Bone Chip x2   AH in San d'Oria

Bone Hairpin is a very simple synth, sell at AH for slight profit, or to vendor for break even.

Arrowheads are gold in bonecraft (usually), and you will learn to love em. Sell them in San d'Oria for profit or level wood working and make your own arrows for the most profit.


II) 9-25 Mad Mandy and Many Rings
The first synth looks like a sink, but if you're creative, you will break even. The second two will break even on AH or be a loss to vendor. Dont worry about losing money here, stage III will bring it back!

 
Cornette    (14) {Gold (14)} -- Wind, Bone Chip x1 + Brass Ingot x1  madragora mad quest 
Bone Ring   (17) -- Wind, Sheep Tooth x1 + Bone Chip x1              npc: 309 gil (high fame) 
~~Bone Pick (23) {Wood (6)} -- Wind, Giant Femur x1 + Ash Lumber x1  npc: ??? gil 
Beetle Ring (25) -- Wind, Beetle Jaw x1                      AH any city, npc: 603 gil (high fame)

Cornettes can be a break-even or small profit synth, if you are creative about it. First level goldsmithing to 3 from {Copper Ingot (3) -- Fire Crystal, Copper Ore x4}. Sell the copper ingots at the AH in Bastok for profit (if you buy copper for 10 gil at guild or airship vendor). Then level goldsmithing to 9 from {Brass Ingot (9) -- Fire Crystal, Copper Ore x3 + Zinc Ore x1) and save these for the cornettes. Make as many cornettes as your inventory will hold.

Then create a mule character in windhurst and give all the cornettes to that character. The mule will then turn the cornettes in for the Mandragora Mad quest, and eventually earn enough fame to get a scroll of aspir. See When You Get Tired of Farming for details ;). Thanks Jute! When you sell the scroll, you will have earned enough to break even on the whole package!

Bone Ring sells for break even to vendors, or you can try your luck at the AH for a little more profit. If you like sheep farming, kill some in Konstant Highlands and your bound to get tons of these. You can also use the skins to start leveling leathercraft, because your gonna need it at later levels.

If you want to bridge the 8 level difference you can try to make some bone picks(With ~3 or greater woodworking skill). I didn't; I went straight to Beetle Ring.

Beetle Jaws are fairly expensive and rare, and npc sellback for Beetle Ring is a loss. You can try your luck at beetle farming in Junger Forrest(or anywhere beetles roam), but I warn you that the jaws are hard to come by. You can also try to desynth (Beetle Jaw (25) -- Lightning, Beetle Ring x1) the ring to get back a beetle jaw and a chance at skillups. Beetle rings are also used for the Give your moogle a break quest, so you might be able to sell alot during the saturday-sunday-monday time frame.


III) 25-53 Arrowheads Galore
Welcome to the wonderful world of arrowheads. For the next 28 levels you will skill solely off these wonderful things. Arrowheads are great synths, because if you sell them in San d'Oria, you usually can make out with a slight profit. Arrowheads are constantly in demand from woodworkers, because most woodworking guides follow the same pattern of synthesizing arrows. (beetle -> fang -> horn -> scorpion). So sell them in sandy, ah them there, mule them there, park your bazzar out of the wood workers guild, these suckers will fly off the shelves. And if you are a syntaholic like me, you can level woodworking and bonecraft at the same time off these suckers!

 
Beetle Arrowheads   (33) -- Wind, Bone Chip x1 + Beetle Jaw x1        AH in San d'Oria 
Fang Arrowhead      (38) -- Wind, Black Tiger Fang x1 + Bone Chip x1  AH in San d'Oria 
Horn Arrowheads     (43) -- Wind, Ram Horn x1 + Bone Chip x1          AH in San d'Oria 
~~Carapace Mask     (45) -- Earth, Crab Shell x1 + Dhalmel Leather x1 npc: ??? gil 
Scorpion Arrowheads (53) -- Wind + Scorpion Claw x1 + Bone Chip x1    AH in San d'Oria

For beetle arrowheads, you can farm the beetle jaws from beetles in Junger Forest or elsewhere.

For fang arrowheads, you can farm the fangs off the tigers in Junger or Beaudacine Glacier. The AH price per fang will probably always be priced higher than 700 gil because of the San d'Orian quest (3 fangs for 2100),

For horn arrowheads, you can farm the horns off rams in La Tiene or Konstant. This is also a great time to level Leathercraft using Ram Leather, otherwise you can sell the skins in San d'Oria.

If you want to do a bridge synth, make a few Carapace Masks. I just went straight to scorpion arrowheads and did not regret it.

For scorpion arrowheads, you can farm the scorpion claws off of scorpions in Maze of Shrakahami, but by just purchasing claws from the ah, you can make 400-800 gil a synth on my server! Skillups slow down drastically at 50, as you need to do about 30 synths per level from now on. Advanced synth support is a must for the large gap here.


IV) 53-60 It Tastes like Fiend Blood
Just two more synths and you've made it all the way to 60! Go ahead and celebrate, and make some beetle ring +1's. You've earned it!

 
Blood Stone   (57) -- Wind, Fiend Blood x1 + Grass Thread x1 + Giant Femur x1  AH any city 
Scorpion Ring (60) -- Wind, Scorpion Shell x1                                  AH in Jeuno 

Blood Stone consistently sell at any ah for about breakeven (on my server). But if you have to npc them, they only net 23-26 gil ><.

Scorpion rings sell at the jeuno AH for about breakeven (if you dont flood the market). Otherwise you can sell them to NPC for a big loss. Another option is to desynth the rings you make, and if you get a scorpion shell back, go ahead and craft the ring again. Dont stay too long on these because you may be able to profit significantly off the next synth (you guessed it, arrowheads).


V) 60-82 Demons, Scorpions, and Tigers (oh my)
So you've decided to take the road of bonecraft past 60. Join me on this new adventure of more expensive ingredient and more potential for loss and gain. I am slowly gaining in skill each day, and as I do, I will continue to share my insight and wisdom. If there are any +60 bonecrafters out there who can give me a few hits, reply below so I can share your knowledge.

 
Demon Arrowheads    (63) -- Wind, Bone Chip x1 + Demon Horn x1            AH in San d'Oria 
Scorpion Mask       (64) -- Earth, Ram Leather x1 + Scorpion Shell x1     npc: ??? gil 
~~Scorpion Leggings (65) {Leather (--)} -- Earth, Pugil Scales x1         npc: ??? gil 
                         + Scorpion Shell x1 + Ram Leather x2 
~~Scorpion Subligar (67) {Leather (--)} -- Earth, Scorpion Shell x1       npc: ??? gil 
                         + Ram Leather x1 + Linen Cloth x1 
Bone Patas          (68) -- Fire, Carbon Fiber x1 + Giant Femur x2        npc: ??? gil  
                         + Crab Shell x1   
~~Demon's Ring      (70) -- Wind, Fish Scales x1 + Demon Horn x1          AH in Jeuno 
Tiger Fangs         (79) -- Wind, Black Tiger Fang x2 + Scorpion Shell x1 npc: ??? gil 
                         + Carbon Fiber x1 
Saintly Ring        (81) -- Earth, Fish Scales x1 + Ascetic's Ring x1     AH in any city 
Eremite's Ring      (82) -- Earth, Sheep Tooth x1 + Hermit's Ring x1      AH in any city

Demon arrowheads look to be a good profit. I quickly looked at this and if I buy the horns at the AH for 15k each, I can sell stacks for 36-40k and make a 6-10k profit; sweet! I think I will try to start these at 58 or 59 for more profit.

If the Scorpion Gear sells to npc for a decent price it may be worth the hassle. If not, move on to Bone Petas. Make your own ram leather if possible. Forget about making the Scorpion Harness for a while as a Venonous claw goes for 4 million gil + on my server.

I am told Bone Petas will sell for a loss to npc, but the ingredients are reasonibly cheap, so the loss isn't as much. Save one for your guild test.

If Demon's ring is a big money loser, move onto tiger fangs. Losing a scorpion shell is nothing compared to blowing up a demon horn.

Tiger Fangs, from what I'm told, will sell to npc for break even. You may fail alot in the beginning, but it's better than losing a demon horn. Advanced synth support is a must for the early levels ,as you will be doing this synth for 11 levels! Breaks will be common at the start, but as you skill up, they will be less common. Now may be a good time to stop and gather some guild points. The bonecraft specs and apron will cut the 11 level gap to a more resonible 9. If this truely is break even milk it all the way to 68.

The Saintly and Ermite's upgrade should be a nice treat. Ascetic Rings can be aquired eaisly in King Ranperres Tomb by killing the worms. Hermitt's Rings can be aquired eaislt in Dangruff Wadi by killing worms there. Both are frequent, I've had farming trips where I've ended up with 6! Even purchasing them off the ah will result in profit.


VI) 82-100 The Final Stretch
This will probably be an extremely expensive time. If I ever do make it to 100 i'm gonna celebrate sign myself a scorpion harness+1 :D. I have merely included all the remaining synths, as I don't know which will be worthwile. Behemoth's horns go for a million on my server, so I think behemoth ring and behemoth dagger will be out of the question. I hear that post 90 skillup rate drops in half again, so your doing ~60 Synths per level. Again more words of wisdom to come as I reach this level.

 
Dragon Mask          (87) -- Wind, Sheep Leather x1 + Wyvern Scales x2             npc: 8036 gil  
Carapace Gauntlets   (92) -- Earth, High Quality Crab Shell x2 + Leather Gloves x2 npc: 6000 gil 
Carapace Helm        (93) -- Earth, Copper Ingot x1 + High Quality Crab Shell x2   npc: ??? gil 
                          + Sheep Leather x1 + Ram Leather x1  
~~Mammoth Tusk       (94) -- Wind, Giant Frozen Head x1                            npc: 2800 gil 
~~Acheron Shield     (96) -- Earth, Adamantoise Shell x2 + Ram Leather x1          npc: ??? gil 
Scorpion Gauntlets   (96)  -- Wind, High Quality Scorpion Shell x2                 npc: 5800 gil 
                          + Leather Gloves x2 
Scorpion Helm        (97) {Leather (--)} -- Earth, High Quality Scorpion Shell x2  npc: ??? gil  
                          + Sheep Leather x1 + Tiger Leather x1 + Copper Ingot x1 
Scorpion Breastplate (99) -- Earth, High Quality Scorpion Shell x4+ Ram Leather x2 npc: ??? gil 
                          + Sheep Leather x1 
~~Dragon Ring        (99) -- Earth, Dragon Talon x2                                ???  
Cursed Harness       (100) {Leathercraft (--)} -- Earth, Coral Fragment x1         AH: Jeuno 
                          + Tiger Leather x2 + Oxblood x1 + Angel Skin x1       
Gavial Mask          (100)  -- Earth, Titanticus Shell x1                          npc: 500 gil :( 
                          + High Quality Pugil Scales x1 + Sheep Leather x1 
Chronos Tooth        (100)  -- Wind, Colossal Skull x1                             npc: 2800 gil

From 82-87 begin making Dragon Masks. You can sell these to NPC for 7.8k each (i hear), so if the wyvern scales are ~3.5k each you can profit by making your own sheep leather or by desynthing leather belts (selling iron ingots = free sheep leather).

From 87-92 move on to caraprace gauntlets, I am told these will net a fair price from npc and you will only lose 2-3k a synth. A good source of the gloves is the armor vendors in Southern San d'Oria or Port Windhurst. I

Caprace Helm will probably sell to npc for about the same price as the gauntlets, so continue and make this for one level.

After 93 i'm not sure what to do next. Gavial gear look like it will be extremely expensive with the Rainbow Thread and Titanticus shell and the npc rate is horrible (i hear). I've never seen a giant frozen head, and i dont know what a mammoth tusk is for, so this doesnt look like a good synth. Carapace breastplate includes a carapace harness, and with all the ingredients for both synths it will probably be undervalued when sold to NPC.

Scorpion gauntlets look like the best bet for the next synth from 93-96. Leather gloves can be purchased from the armor vendors in Southern San d'Oria or Port Windhurst for cheap. Scorpion helm looks like a good follow on synth for 96-97 if you have the leathercraft levels (I'm guessing 60).

Scorpion Breastplate will probably be the best bet from 97-99 and should npc for similar prices to the gauntlets and helm (and hopefully more).

And when you reach 99, you can have fun making a few Cursed Harnesses (for arjubuation), or Chronos Tooth (used to upgrade a relic weapon). If you are one of the few bonecrafters this high, there may be a demand for chronos tooth. Your other option is Gavial Mask which i am told that npc's will give you a measely 500 gil for all the expensive ingredients. Titanticus Shell can be obtained from desynthing the Titanticus fish, and HQ Pugil scales can be obtained from desynthing Gavial Fish or Armored Pisces.

Whew!

As far as the sub craft levels for these synths, i can't possible believe they are higher than 60. Allakahazam has Wyvern Helm as 98 bone, 98 leather, but that just isn't possible. Since you can only have 40 levels above 100, the max it can be is 62. I will report back when i get there.



VII) Test Synths
Every 10 levels, Peshi Yohnts, the bonecraft guildmaster, will ask you to give her an item in order for you to advance in rank. For the first item, you can give her a shell ring between levels 8-10. If you dont you will be capped at level 10, and will not be able to advance in skill. You can either craft these items, or purchase them at the AH.

Recruit - test 8-10
Shell Ring (7) -- Wind, Seashell + Fish Scales

Initiate - test 18-20
Bone Ring (17) -- Wind, Sheep Tooth + Bone Chip

Novice - test 28-30
Beetle Earring (27) -- Earth, Silver Earring + Beetle Jaw

Apprentice - test 38-40
Horn Ring (37) -- Wind, Fish Scales + Ram Horn

Journeyman - test 48-50
Carapace Gorget(49) -- Earth, Iron Chain + Crab Shellx2

Craftsman - test 58-60
Astragalos (52) -- Wind, Beastman Blood + Black Ink + Giant Femur

Artisan - test 68-70
Bone Patas (68) -- Fire, Carbon Fiber x1 + Giant Femur x2 + Crab Shell x1

Adept - test 78-80
Coral Hairpin (77) -- Wind, Black Pearl x1 + Coral Fagment x1 + Pearl x1

Vetran - test 88-90
Coral Bangles (87) -- wind, Giant Femur x1 + Coral Fragment x2


VIII) Ingredients and how to get them

Bone Chips - Kill skeletons in Gusgen Mines, King Ranperes Tomb.

Sheep Tooth - kill sheep in Konstant Highlands

Beelte Jaw - kill beetles (i've been doing Junger Forrest (near Percival Panzer's spawn area), is there a better place out there)

Tiger Fang - kill tigers in Junger Forrest or Beaudacine Glacier

Giant Femur - kill dhamels (more common excuvation result too), desynthing shell shields

Scorpion Claw - kill scorpions in Maze of Shrakahami, Crawlers Nest, excuvation

Scorpion Shell - kill scorpions in Maze of Shrakahami, Crawlers Nest, excuvation (rare)

Turtle Shell - rare excuvation result in Korolka Tunnel, desynthing shell shields


IX) Guild Points
When you reach Apprentice level (38), you can begin to collect guild points. Guild points are use to purchase items to increase your bonecrafting skills, items allow you to syntesize with anima, and high quality crystals that allow you to sign items you synthesize. Each earth day, Samigo-Pormigo, in the Bonecraft guild in Windhurst, will ask you to make an item for the guild. Trading the item to here will give you a number of guild points. Once you have enough guild points, you can trade them for the items.

Items you can get

 
Any Rank: HQ Cryatals -- allow you to sign your synth 
 200 GP      Inferno, Glacier, Cyclone, Terra, Plasma, or Torrent Crysals  
 500 GP      Aurora, or Twilight Crystals                                  
 
Journeman Rank (48) or higher needed 
  70000 GP   Protective Specs   Lv.1 All Jobs; DEF:1 [Earth]+1 Bonecraft skill +1       
 
Artisan Rank (68) or higher needed 
 100000 GP   Boneworkers Apron  Lv.1 All Jobs; DEF:3 [Earth]+1 [Dark]+1 Bonecraft skill +1 
 
Vetran Rank (88) needed 
 150000 GP   Drogaroga's Fang   Furnishing:This enormous fang is said to have come from  
                                the Heavenly Dragon itself. 
  raises bonecraft skill a yet to be determined ammount (between 1-3 point) 
 
Anima Items: 
  40000 GP   Bone Purification  allows you to make Smooth Beetle Jaw used in Mist Crown  
                                or vivified Coral used in Reraise Groget. 
  50000 GP   Bone Enscrollment  ??? 

Items you will be asked to make

See www.titanictus.com/tools/guild.php?trade=Bonecrafting for the item that you should craft each Earth day. The item is usually changed between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM EST.


X) References
Mystery Tour crafting section:
Allakahazam Bonecraft recipe list:
Bonecrafting 1-60 by Fairyman
When You Get Tired of Farming
Bonecraft 60-92 (possibly higher)

XI) Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the following posters for helping me out:

Nynjaa -- npc sell info, guild point info, CN scorpion info.
RngNapp -- guild point info
TheWulf -- bonechips in King Ranperes Tomb.
CaptainofMoria -- npc sell info
TheChong -- Drogaroga's Fang info

Edit: Version 0.1 preview version.
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Edit: Version 0.2 almost ready
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Edit: Version 0.3 more high level info found, more farming places added.
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Edit: Version 0.4 profreading and formatting updates/ more prose / high level updates
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Edit: Version 0.5 yet more high level updates/ guild point info.
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Edit: Version 0.6 updated npc prices / high level info - thanks CaptainofMoria

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From 1-55 I made a slight profit from turning all the arrowheads into arrows.

From 60-82 I think i can make it with 400k. This all depends on npc sell back rate tho.

82-90 will probably cost a million, and 90-100 will cost millions (I dont want to think about it yet).

Thanks for the tips NynJaaa and TheWulf. Your comments have been added,

Nice guide Rate ups....Keep us informed on new stuff....Good luck and Happy Hunting XD


Mohit

Thanks for the guild point info RngNaap and Nynjaa, your npc price info was also helpful Nynjaa.

Edited, Sat Jan 8 14:49:23 2005 by Arkenstone

AHHHHHHHH!!!!! hees got the same name as me! and i thought i was unique...... /cry

A few corrections for 82-100. I believe my NPC price for dragon masks (with maxed fame) was 8,036.

Carapace gauntlets were around 5900-6k to NPC's I think, so you are looking at at least a 6k loss per synth (on my server at least).

After those do Carapace helms + Mammoth tusks -> 93/94. The giant frozen heads are a drop from dynamis. You can also mix in some Scorpion Gauntlets; after Carapace Gauntlets materials will be rare, so you need to make whatever you can when any of these materials are available. A good source of Leather gloves is the armor NPC in Port WIndurst or the Armor shop in Southern San d'oria.

As early as 92/93, you can start making the two items that will take you to 100: Gavial Masks and Chronos Teeth. You will find yourself making more masks since Colossal Skulls don't sell too often. For masks, try to find some high level fishing buddies and ask them to fish Gavial Fish + Titanicus + Armored Pisces. (You desynth these for HQ pugil scales and Titanicus shells). At times I had 4 friends fishing for me at once, they would put fish in bazaar, I would buy and synth on the spot to save space.

Also, the recipe for Carapace Breasteplate here is wrong. It doesn't invlove a Carapace Harness; the recipe is Earth + Sheep Leather + 2 Ram Leather + 4 HQ Crab shells.

For all recipe's refer to this site: http://www.ffrecipe.com/

Very nice guide. Its not in the sticky because its relatively new. Its also a composite of two guides basically (a guide from 0-60 and a guide from 60-92 with commentary that leads up to 100) which are already stickied. Nonetheless it is nice to have info all together.

Scorp shells vary from server to server. When I leveled bone I paid 1k each. But currently they are up to 1.8k a shell. However blood stones DO NOT SELL on my server. When I check the AH history 1-2 sell a day in each town. Thats way too much running around and tieing up of valuable AH space to get back a couple hundred gil.

Scrp shells on Bahumat go 1-2k, but Blood Stone sell for 1k in San d'oria which is actually nice cuz theres not that much threat of failing sinc im 53 and they're 57. My wind fame sucks hardcore, i'm San D'orian and Blood Stone Sell 25gil to the little shop next to the Bonecraft guild. I cant sell them to the Bonecraft guild =/

Excellent guide ark ^^

A great area to farm for black tiger fangs is Carpenter's Landing- farming there is getting me through Fang Arrowheads.

Also, rate up ('_^b) This is more or less the plan I have on levelling, particularly arrowheads trhough 53.

I'm at 56, and I seem to make a good profit by HQ-ing beetle rings, and I still make arrowheads occasionally, which are good profit. As I move up i see more opportunities to hq gear, and hq arrowheads.

Scorpion arrowheads alone nets about 800 gil profit a synth on my server, which isn't so great, but honestly these sell faster than i can put them up for auction. When i get to level 85(53+32) I should be able to hq them at a consistent rate, and make a lot of profit there.

If your high enough in level, any craft can be profitable.

I like bonecraft, because often the NQ synths seem to sell to vendor for the price of the ingredients.

You must have a very good arrow economy on your server. It's been a while since I've leveled up my bonecraft, but when I was doing it I lost money on all arrowhead synths except Scorpion Arrowheads. I was selling them to the AH in San D'Oria too, it was just a sucky economy for arrowheads.

BTW, that was on Pandemonium. I am on Hades now, but I haven't leveled Boneworking since my move. I remember doing Horn Ring and Carapace Mask (sold both to NPC) when I had the chance and only used arrowheads to bridge the gap.

This is driving me crazy now. I have tried about 80 scorpion shells and even someother different Syn. Took me 3 days to farm and leveling. Finally got to lv64 cap last night from lv60.

I thought skill up will be speed up again once i pass lv60, yes it is kind of speed up, but still very slow.

My server price of scorpion shells, bonechips, crab shells are gone crazy, Scorpion sheel is now about 3k , boneechips is about 3-4k a stack, and crab shells are 500-1000. And most of the time, they are sold out in mins.

I still remember the bonechip used to be so cheap like 500 each stack, T.T, too bad i didn't level that time. crab shells is not big deal since i can farm 40-80 shells a night with 2 rounds and npc all the land crab meat even with better price than AH, 20 Stacks of meat can NPC about 60k. But the Scorpion shells are really the pain. The drop rate is like 10% which took me about 3 hours to get only 10 shells in maze.

I was so sad and happy last night when i finally hit lv64 and don't need to do scorpioin again. But when i check the bonepatas, i almost cry.............
Fibers are no where to be found in all cities, and i don't have my alchmey Lv. all the crabs shells are sold out, Giant Femur .. only found 7 within all cities's AHs....

only thing i can think about now is camping AHs for fibers, and farm the crab shells for a while untill i have enough to syn again.

Does anyone know how many shell will i need to take lv64-68 bonepatas?

If anyone else has any better data let me know, but I think the average is about 30 synths per level after level 50. I dont think it will slow any. I hear it stays at this rate till you get to level 90, when it jumps to 60 synths per level. This is what i have read in the forums, but i haven't taken a craft this far yet, so i dont know for sure.

0-50 about 15 synths per level
50-90 about 30 synths per level
90-100 about 60 synths per level

So if you want to compute total costs to level, you should probably use these figures. As far as carbon fibers, while they are a popular leveling sytnth for alchemists, they are also highly used in leveling synths for other crafts. In clothcraft you need them for silk headbands for about 10 levels I hear.

I plan to get sufficent alchemy levels before i reach this stage, so i can make my own carbon fibers.

Giant femurs are used in many bonecraft synth, so sometimes people can buy them as quick as they go on the AH, and drive the price up. If you go to T.... caynon, you can excuvate about 20 of them an hour with about 2 stacks of pickaxes. You may get lucky and find a bazzar in windy selling them for cheap.

As far as crab shells, i think they are a rare drop from crabs, so you will have to test your luck at the ah.

Edited, Wed Jan 12 13:51:19 2005 by Arkenstone

I have no problem with crab shells, its really not a hard drop. I usually went out a night for 3-4 hours and got 40 shells at least. the drop rate of shell i would it's about 25-35% and the land crab meat is about 70-80%, and finally the rock salt is about 99%.

The scorpion shells is the real pain, the drop rate is bad, i would said, it's about 10% or less. i spent same amount of times and not even got 10 drops in Maze or Ozozo.

May what you heard was that the "Bone Patas" is cheapest you can go at that lv.

On my server, ramuh, Fiber (1000) + Gaint F. (900-1000)x2 + crab shell (600-1200) + earth crystal (100) = 3500 to 4000 a syn and you can only npc this for about 1200 in windy. (my fame is not max tho, i think i am only lv5), so for me if i npc them, i am taking like 3k lost each syn, what i did today was just desyn all of them and then started syn bone patas again. maybe i was just lucky, but i got 1 lv up after 15 syn, and got 12 items(Gaint F. x8, crab shell x3, fiber x1) back.

PS. when i did desyn, i was facing south, watersday, halfmoon 53% maybe that's why i have about 80% succcess rate of desyn??? idk

Actually Desynthing is alot different as far as the HQ rate. You will often get one of your HQ pugil scales back.

/zoey on ragnarok /tell for guild service 100 plus all bone itmes and leather gloves
u forgot to mention you should get leather to 60 alchemy to 60 for blm jse.as well need most of the other sub guilds. ALso from 98 to 100 only gavial mask would skill for me also the guild npc only gives that recipe at that time as well. i didnt see a skill from skulls since 96. In my opinion its better to start making gavial masks at 93 94 or so you will skill up faster. many of the ways you have skilling listed you waste alot of gil by only making items 1-2 lvls from its max. use image and do items 3-5 below at least then switch recipes.

I wish every day that I leveled bonecraft instead of clothcraft. It is just so much better.

Good luck prospective crafters!

It's true that this is a very nice guide, but yes, please at least acknowledge Kwontos' guide, since he has been by far the most influential and informative bonecrafter on the allakhazam tradeskill forum.

I for one am excited to see more information out there for this not-so-common craft and will try to write up some of my experiences when I get back to town (still vacationing in Japan^^). Thanks for writing this!

Also, Bone Patas usually sell very well on the AH because they are used by goldsmiths to make hydro patas. On Unicorn they sell for 4k and all 7 will usually sell overnight. And the person who said they had all the guild items, can you tell us what Mogenhancement: Bonecraft actually does?