User:Glflegolas/Crafting Recipes

When I was reading through Sinthoniel's ideas for more complex NPC interactions underneath Mevans' blog post, I came up with an idea of my own regarding faction-related crafting and NPC's.

When you get +1 alignment with a faction, you would initially be unable to craft anything on that faction's crafting table other than another crafting table. If you wanted to craft more items, you would have to talk to a naturally-spawned NPC. This NPC would have a chance to offer you a faction-related crafting note -- the chance of this occurring would increase as your alignment with the faction rises. For example, when talking to a Dwarf, he/she might give you a crafting note for the Dwarven Warhammer. Then, you would put this note in your hotbar and right-click it (this would show you the crafting recipe, too). For confirmation, a message in the chat would also appear.

New Recipe Unlocked: Dwarven Warhammer.

After looking at the note, you would have two options; to keep the note in your inventory for future reference, or to discard it. From that point on, you would be able to craft Dwarven Warhammers, even if you don't have the crafting note. Additionally, NPC's would have a high chance to give you a crafting note when you complete a quest for them. Note, that you would never get two crafting notes for the same item in the same world. For example, once you've unlocked the recipe for a Dwarven Warhammer, you would never get that particular crafting note again.

Getting all the crafting notes for a faction would earn you the achievement "[Faction] Craftsman".

What do you think of this idea? I think it makes logical sense that you wouldn't magically know how to craft a faction's items and blocks if no one ever told you how it's done, or you had never done it before.