Bonecrafting 101

[Target_Master]

For sure, I'm glad I didn't bother farming beetle jaws. I buy all of my jaws for 500-700 gil... *sometimes* 800 but that's very rare.

When I sell the beetle rings I get between 800-1000 gil. They go for even more in jeuno but I can't be bothered to ride down there just to make a few hundred more gil, it's not worth the time or money required to get there.

I've already planned out the items I'll most likely make after I'm done with these rings....
I'm at lvl 20 bonecrafting and decided to forecast what I'll make before lvl 40 bonecrating....

Beetle Ring > Beetle Earring(?) > Beetle Mask/Gelatin > Horn Hairpin (?) > Beetle Gorget > Beetle Arrowheads >
> Turtle Shield > Horn Ring(?) > Fang Arrowhead > Bone Cudgel

Those are the items I'm looking at. If anyone see's anything wrong with me thinking about making any of those items then tell me why and I'll look into my decesion.

Thanks in advance!

[Target_Master]

Level 24.3 boneworker now. I figure I'll retire from my beetle rings, I made about 40 last night and went from 20-24 and got 3 +1 rings which sell for 4-5k each. Sweet deal.

Now I'll be moving onto gelatin which will be 100% profit (with the exception of crystals maybe). All I have to do is go to the canyon and mine up femurs and bonechips then synth while i'm out there. I won't have image support but i'll be able to stack the femurs everytime I dig one up if I use that method. Plus I won't be losing gil so who cares. I'll probably buy......4 stacks of wind crystals then take the bone chips I already have, 3 stacks of pick axes and have a field day.
I have mining gear too so it should be quite an eventful day.

Stacks of gelatin go for 2400 gil if I'm not mistaken so other than the......400 gil or so per 3 crystals that it'll take me to make a stack that's 2k profit per stack.

This will take me to 28 in boneworking if I'm not mistaken so I'll get that by today or tomorrow.



Anyone have any suggestions for where I should be heading after that in terms of synthing?

[Target_Master]

Ok, Beetle Masks and gelatin for me right now.

Gelatin sells for 2k a stack and is almost 100% profit because I mine the femurs in tahrongi canyon.
I also do beetle masks so that I can have some variety in what I sell to keep the profits rolling in. Beetle Masks only nets about 200 gil profit though.


Does anyone know where I could get cheap silver earrings to make beetle earrings? All the one's I've seen cost like 2k to buy and I'd lose gil if I was to try synthing Beetle Earrings...

[Kerriel]

I just wanted to say thank you so much for the list I'll try it and hopefully it will help me skill up. Thanks!

[goudaba]

For the silver earrings, you could TRY to fish them in mhaura, but be warn that the chances of getting one is rare, or you could start leveling goldsmith and mine your own silver, selling other ores.

[Target_Master]

I haven't posted on this for a while....

Level 31.5 boneworker now. I'd be higher but haven't been playing all that much recently.

I skipped making Beetle Earrings due to the fact that they cost too much to make. The only one I made was the one I needed to pass the exam.

Getting to 28 in Bonecraft was enjoyable since I had two good items to make. Mixing up my synths enabled me to maintain a stead flow of income coming back rather than making 30 beetle masks only to have 3 sell a day for 2 weeks.
The gelatin stacks sell a little slower than the masks though, so I made more beetle masks than gelatin stacks.

After reaching lvl 27-28 I tried making some Beetle Leggings only to discover after a 40% success rate that I needed a rank of 8 in leather craft to help with the bonecraft. So I skipped making any more of those and went to beetle arrowheads.

Now these are good, costs about ..... 1200-1500 to make a stack and they sell for 2k.
They also sell extremely fast in Sandoria which makes sense because the woodworkers guild is there.

After I'm done with these I'm either gonna try and hunt down some cheap turtle shells to make turtle shields with and resell them to the guild or I'll skip over that and go for the Horn Rings.
I don't expect those to sell well in the ah though.... by that level all ranger only buy the +1 rings for the most part.
I may possibly have to stretch a bit and go for fang arrowheads but I hear those don't generate any profit at all (unless you farm the black tiger fangs). We'll see, I could always bite the bullet just to get past a few levels.

...that's all from me.

[guyincorporated]

Heya, just started bonecrafting this weekend for the sole purpose of getting those awesome-looking sunglasses. Problem is I seem to have O.C.D. Got OBSESSED with it and ground out 30 skill in 3 days.

Hopefully we can revitalize this thread a bit. Tonight I'm thinking about farming the hell out of the sheep in ronfaure, latheine, valkurm, getting leathercraft up to the 9-11 range then having some more options beyond throwing away gil on ram horns or making fang arrowheads (dunno if they sell well.)

[Target_Master]

Arrowheads sell really well but if you buy your materials you usually end up at a loss.
Fang arrowheads on my server flucuate between 1000-1500 gil. 1000 = bad, 1500 = break even or so. That's if you buy your stuff.

Horn arrowheads I haven't checked yet, and if I did I don't remember what the price was.

Getting your leathercraft up is a good idea though, I just recently finished getting it high enough so that making beetle armor would raise my leathercraft. Beetle stuff makes me about 1k profit and it'll raise my leathercraft to 9. I got it to 7 using..... hmm, sheepwool > rabbit mantles... there was something before sheep wool.... or after it, but I don't remember. Once you get to 7 thought you can make bettle stuff then carapace stuff and keep sailing. If you wanna make scorpion stuff however.... you'll have to build leathercrafting on it's own because you need 31 to make scoripion gear.

I'm gonna go with bone knives for a while then switch up to Carapace Rings.

Have fun dude

[guyincorporated]

I'm plesantly suprised with how well beetle arrowheads sell. Expecially after the horror of bone arrowheads. $2,400/dozen in sandoria. This is one of the few synths I've found that is actually a legitimate profit.

Wind Crystal - 160
Beetle Jaw - 600
Bone Chip - 150
= 910 gil for a 1,200 gil synth.

And yeah, I did leathercraft to 5 last night....god LORD it is expensive. I foolishly did the sheepskins -> sheep leather -> headbands route instead of doing sheep wool.

Dark Crystal = 2500/dz
Wind Crystal = 1900/dz
Tea Leaves = 450/dz
Water = 300/dz
Sheepskins = 1800/dz
= 6950 in costs

assuming no failures, I'd get 12 leather bandannas which sold for about 144 apiece, iirc...
= 1728 in profit.
Net loss of $5,222/dz. And I did 3 stacks. /cry

So now I'm at skill 5, and except for rabbit mantles, which have already slowed down and cap at 7, every recipe for the next 10 levels or so uses at least two sheep leather or two lizard skins. I'm hoping to cap it at 7, then use the cross-skilling to raise it through to the teens. Dhalmel leather will be easy, as I can farm the hell out of dhalmels in bubirmu, craft leather on the spot, do something with the femurs and resell the meat.

[onorok]

Originally posted by Target_Master
I'm gonna go with bone knives for a while then switch up to Carapace Rings.

I'm sitting at 38 right now, did fang arrowheads for a bit and they do not sell that well. I actually farmed all the parts though, since I could pop out to Batallia Downs while waiting for my party to get filled out. I looked into bone knives, and the walnut lumber is like 2100 gil a piece on my server, so I'm going to try and farm ram horns and do horn arrowheads till about level 43, whatever the cap is. And I'm going to start leveling leathercraft a bit more.

[guyincorporated]

So during last night's full moon lightsday and darksday I synthed up a ton of beetle gear. Got bonecrafting and leathercrafting up about 2.5 and 3 points, respectively.

Omg I'm so broke. It will be better once all my beetle armor sells, but yeesh, I haven't had this little liquid gil since January...

[Target_Master]

Heh, I'm making beetle armor too to get my leathercraft up. It's at 8 right now, about 8.6 I'd say. A few more subligars and harnesses and I'll hit 9 which is the cap for now. That's set me pretty for making Carapace Armor which starts at 11.
I might make a few Solea's to get me to lvl 10 Leathercraft before I do that just to ensure success rate.

I'm still at lvl 37 Bonecraft too :p. I'm gonna look into the selling price of Bone Knives, if they don't go for at least 3k or so I won't bother with them but I suspect they might. The 2k for lumber kinda turns you off but if you think about it at such a high level crafters wouldn't sell the material so low that they'd lose gil. Break even at the worst I'd say but I think there may be a 500-1000 gil profit per knife, I just don't think they'll sell very well if anything.

I was gonna do Carapace Rings after but those sell at a loss, at least in the smaller cities. Mythril Ingot costs too much :p
I'll have to check the jeuno prices (since that's where all the high level rangers are) but if I can't break even with that synth, sigh..... Level 35-41 for bonecrafting is a hard hill to climb.

Once we get to Carapace Armor though it'll get better, that stuff sells in Jeuno about once or twice a day so if you just even out your synthing then you can sell at the same rate that you make so AH price doesn't decline.

Oh well, I'm done, later fellow crafters

[guyincorporated]

Funny, I'm right there with you. 37 bonecraft and 8 leathercraft. I haven't been crafting at my insane pace lately just because these next few points look really brutal.

[Target_Master]

lol, I know dude. I know.

Fang Arrowhead 38 Wind Crystal Black Tiger Fang x1, Bone Chip x1
Bone Cudgel 39 Wind Crystal Giant Femur x1, Bone Chip x6, Grass Cloth x1
Bone Cudgel +1 39 Wind Crystal Giant Femur x1, Bone Chip x6, Grass Cloth x1

Bone Knife 41 Wind Crystal Walnut Lumber x1, Giant Femur x1

Bone Knife +1 41 Wind Crystal Walnut Lumber x1, Giant Femur x1

Carapace Ring 42 Goldsmithing (0) Wind Crystal Mythril Ingot x1, Crab Shell x1

Carapace Ring +1 42 Goldsmithing (0) Wind Crystal Mythril Ingot x1, Crab Shell x1
Horn Arrowheads 43 Wind Crystal Ram Horn x1, Bone Chip x1


Those are my options for the next little bit. I have yet to check the selling price of the Bone Cudgel. If it has a decent selling rate then I may use that to get to 39.

The bone knives and the Carapace rings both don't sell very often and when they do they sell it's pretty much at a loss. If I want to get past that point without hurting my wallet too much I'll have to try farming the materials but.... stuff like that gets boring really quickly because generally you find everything but what you actually want.

Oh well, I'll just raise it slowly until I get into the 50's. Then I'll just start making a bunch of lower level +1 synths to remake my gil so I can continue to skill up.

[onorok]

Do the Horn Arrowheads from 38 to 43, it worked out well for me and these were selling for like 2500 a stack in Windurst AND San D'Oria, so it wasn't hard to move these at all. I actually went out of town for a few days, and all the stacks I put up on AH were sold The bone cudgel or knife (can't remember) just didn't seem to be worth making for skill-up, since they too so long to sell. But now I don't know what to do, basically made 4 carapace masks and 4 horns last night at a lose, just to get .6 skill. So that's where I'm at right now. Should just work on leathercraft when I get a chance, get that up to 11 or so.

I also used a bunch of the extra bonecraft items I had lieing around, made a couple sets of bone and beetle gear (maybe 1 or 2 of each) and put myself in bazaar mode while I was gone. Sold a ton of stuff, so I went from dead broke to a little chunk to get some of my level 50 gear.

EDIT: forgot to mention, for the Horn Arrowheads I was just buying ram horns from San D'Oria and Jeuno. For some reason on my server they were well stocked, and usually sold for 1000 to 1200 in those two AH's. Everywhere else it was 1500.