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Quality

Most items come in two qualities: Normal and High quality. High-quality items sell for more, and high-quality gear and food work better.

The short version

  • Each item you make or gather has a chance to be high quality. The action's page shows the chance.
  • The chance goes up with your level, your mastery, and gear with a high-quality bonus.
  • The bank always uses Normal items first, so your high-quality ones are kept.
  • You can turn Normal gear into High quality by tempering it at the Broken forge.

What is high quality worth?

  • Selling: +25% of the normal price.
  • Gear: every bonus on it is 1.5×.
  • Healing items: heal 1.5× their HP.
  • Potions: last 1.5× as many charges. The effect itself is the same.

Which quality gets used?

When the game takes an item from the bank for you (materials, food, potions), it takes Normal first. When you equip or sell an item yourself, you choose which quality.

How do I temper gear?

  1. Rebuild the Broken forge and travel there.
  2. Open the Bank and select a Normal piece of gear.
  3. Check the cost shown, then press Temper one. The piece becomes High quality.

Tempering cannot be undone. The cost depends on the piece: coins, plus some of the bars its recipe uses. Gear with no bars in its recipe, and gear that only comes from drops, costs coins only.

GearCoinsBars
Goose quills20coins only
Leather cap24coins only
Straw hat24coins only
Archer's gloves28coins only
Pine fishing rod28coins only
Walking staff28coins only
Copper helmet301 × Copper bar
Trader's pack30coins only
Leather trousers32coins only
Pine mallet32coins only
Pine shield32coins only
Tin whistle32coins only
Copper hoe361 × Copper bar
Copper shears361 × Copper bar
Copper sickle361 × Copper bar
Marching boots36coins only
Oilskin cape36coins only
Clay pipe40coins only
Copper axe401 × Copper bar
Copper pickaxe401 × Copper bar
Mortar and pestle40coins only
Copper saw441 × Copper bar
Leather vest44coins only
Copper sword481 × Copper bar
Mason's chisel481 × Copper bar
Traveller's cloak48coins only
Copper leg armour521 × Copper bar
Hunting bow52coins only
Carter's gloves60coins only
Sharpening stone60coins only
Padded body armour642 × Copper bar
Quarryman's clogs64coins only
Bronze helmet681 × Tin bar
Nail pouch70coins only
Seed apron70coins only
Plumb line76coins only
Bronze dagger801 × Tin bar, 1 × Copper bar
Crucible801 × Copper bar
Felt boots80coins only
Grain tally80coins only
Iron pen801 × Iron bar
Miner's lamp80coins only
Reaper's gloves80coins only
Bronze small shield881 × Tin bar
Iron chisel881 × Iron bar
Iron fishing rod881 × Iron bar
Iron sickle881 × Iron bar
Iron-tipped staff881 × Iron bar
Smith's apron90coins only
Spindle charm90coins only
Willow basket90coins only
Iron frying pan921 × Iron bar
Iron mallet921 × Iron bar
Iron scythe921 × Iron bar
Iron shears921 × Iron bar
Iron tongs921 × Iron bar
Iron axe961 × Iron bar
Iron pickaxe961 × Iron bar
Canvas trousers100coins only
Iron still1001 × Iron bar
Tin lantern1001 × Tin bar
Iron saw1041 × Iron bar
Dyer's smock110coins only
Herb pouch110coins only
Iron helmet1101 × Iron bar
Quilted coat110coins only
Timber sling110coins only
Winter shawl110coins only
Gatherer's bag120coins only
Iron boots1201 × Iron bar
Iron sword1202 × Iron bar
Surgeon's gloves120coins only
Tailor's thimble120coins only
Woollen cloak120coins only
Throwing net130coins only
Watchman's horn130coins only
Iron round shield1321 × Iron bar
Bowstring wax140coins only
Doctor's mask140coins only
Padded cap140coins only
Smoke hood140coins only
Well-water flask140coins only
Wheelbarrow140coins only
Scent ball150coins only
Archer's thumb ring160coins only
Forge gauntlets1601 × Copper bar
Tent160coins only
Canvas apron180coins only
Dire wolf cloak180coins only
Hand cart180coins only
Millstone1801 × Iron bar
Miner's lens1801 × Copper bar
Sparring gloves180coins only
Spyglass180coins only
Counting charm200coins only
Map maker's compass2201 × Silver bar
Soldier's sword belt220coins only
Archer's arm guard240coins only
Cobalt gauntlets2401 × Cobalt bar
Cook's book240coins only
Fang talisman240coins only
Gold tasting spoon2401 × Gold bar
Heartwood longbow240coins only
Oiled scabbard240coins only
Carpenter's book260coins only
Mason's book260coins only
Tollkeeper's shield2601 × Coal bar
Weaver's book260coins only
Builder's book280coins only
Hunter's hood280coins only
Moonstone pendant280coins only
Silver-edged sword2801 × Iron bar, 1 × Silver bar
Cotton body armour300coins only
Cobalt helmet3201 × Cobalt bar
Garnet ring3201 × Silver bar
Silver pen3201 × Silver bar
Cobalt chisel3801 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt fishing rod3801 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt leg armour3801 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt sickle3801 × Cobalt bar
Gold neck ring3802 × Gold bar
Cobalt cleaver4001 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt mallet4001 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt scythe4001 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt shears4001 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt-tipped staff4001 × Cobalt bar
Knucklebone charm400coins only
Messenger's coat400coins only
Cobalt axe4201 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt hammer4201 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt pickaxe4201 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt still4201 × Cobalt bar
Cobalt saw4401 × Cobalt bar
Official's ring440coins only
Ash warbow480coins only
Beryl clasp4801 × Silver bar
Parade boots480coins only
Cobalt sword5202 × Cobalt bar
Electrum helmet5202 × Electrum bar
Healer's charm520coins only
Speaker's cloak520coins only
Cobalt body armour5802 × Cobalt bar
Electrum leg armour5802 × Electrum bar
Gold relic box6001 × Gold bar
Silk slippers640coins only
Warden's plate armour6401 × Silver bar
Yew bow660coins only
Orichalcum boots6801 × Orichalcum bar
Perfumed gloves680coins only
The king's measure700coins only
Goldthread sash760coins only
Orichalcum helmet7601 × Orichalcum bar
Kingsflax cloak800coins only
Kingstone circlet8002 × Copper bar
Electrum longsword8402 × Electrum bar
Sapphire circlet8402 × Silver bar
Star gauntlets8401 × Star bar
Orichalcum tower shield8802 × Orichalcum bar
Highland greatbow920coins only
Electrum body armour9603 × Electrum bar
Star shield1,0402 × Star bar
Orichalcum war hammer1,2002 × Orichalcum bar
Star sword1,6003 × Star bar

Exact numbers

  • Each item you make or gather rolls once for quality.
  • High-quality sell price: normal price × (100 + 25) ÷ 100, rounded down. Sell bonuses from places, mastery and stations are added after that.
  • High-quality gear bonuses, healing and potion charges: × 1.5, rounded down.
  • Tempering cost: 2 × the piece's sell price in coins, plus half of each kind of bar its recipe uses, rounded up.