New World Crafting Guide: How to Make Better Gathering Tools

To craft better gathering tools in New World, you need to find better metal types, raise your Engineering level to 50 for steel tools, and add perks and Azoth. The Crafting system makes up a large part of Amazon's New World. In total, there are 17 craft-related skills, ranging from logging and mining to weapon making and jewel crafting. While producing large quantities of items can actually be done relatively quickly, gathering the necessary resources can be time-consuming. To cut a tree, you need to chop it with your axe. To skin an animal, you need to watch a long skinning animation. The whole process can be made faster and easier by having better gathering tools. It may not sound very pleasant, but having better tools makes farming for the resources you need much less of a chore. Here is how to equip yourself with increasingly better tools as you progress through the world of Aeternum. Here are the best ways to craft:

New World: The Best Ways to Craft

To make better gathering tools, you essentially need to find better types of metal. The recipe for each tool stays the same, but the ingot type changes for a higher-quality resource. For example, for an iron logging axe you will need two coarse leather, three timber and 12 iron ingots. When making a steel logging axe, the leather and wood requirements stay the same, but you will need steel ingots instead of iron. Better tool types significantly increase your harvest speed. While the iron logging axe has a 125% gather speed, upgrading to the steel logging axe provides a 250% gather speed boost. Remember to level up your mining and smelting skills at every opportunity so you can gather and smelt rarer metals.

Make Sure You Keep Your Engineering Level High

To build higher-tier tools, you need to raise your Engineering skill. Iron tools have no Engineering level requirements, but to make better tools, starting with steel tools, you need to get your Engineering level to 50. To help level up your skill, do not miss the chance to craft lower-level items at every opportunity. Remember that you do not need a high Engineering skill to use the tools, only to make them yourself.

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