Building

Building covers carpentry and masonry. Workbenches make wooden weapons, arrows, furniture and tools; mason's benches produce Cut Stone, Mortar and stone decorations.

Building supplies bows and staves, household furniture, Baskets and materials for guild fortifications. First-time recipe bonuses make it relatively quick to reach Journeyman.

Wood	Weapon material equivalent
Pine	Iron
Oak	Steel
Cherry	Silver
Teak	Elven
Mahogany	Mithril
Ironwood	Adamantium
Ghostwood	Ebony

Making money

Best fixed-demand silver route: fill funded Cut Stone, Mortar or construction orders. Best tested NPC-gold product: higher-wood Long Bows, especially Ghostwood at rank 70. Furniture and siege work are best made after a buyer or guild has asked for them.

Rank	Route	Numbers that matter	When to use it
0	Cut Stone for orders	2 Rough Stone normally make 1 Cut Stone; 50 gold per batch	Compare the output offer with selling both raw stones
10	Mortar	1 Sulphur + 1 Lead + 5 Rough Stone make 10 Mortar	Batch up to 100 mixes for one fee, only when buyers need the volume
50	Quarryman or Joiner	Quarryman makes 2 Cut Stone from 2 Rough Stone; Joiner halves furniture planks, rounded up	Choose the perk matching actual stone orders or furniture commissions
60	Ram Kit for a funded guild request	40 Oak Planks + 20 Iron Ingots + 4 Bear Hides	A guild writ can offer at most 162 silver; 5% tax leaves 154 before materials and the craft fee
70	Ghostwood Long Bows	4 Ghostwood Planks + 1 Resin each	Compare the NPC gold offer with selling rare wood for silver

A funded guild order at the current Cut Stone price ceiling gives this example:

Order detail	Value
Cut Stone delivered	100
Price per Cut Stone	3 silver
Tax	5%
Net payment before costs	285 silver
Rough Stone used with Quarryman	100
Bench fee for the batch	50 gold

The guild must post the order and fund it. These figures do not represent an automatic NPC purchase.

Long Bows for NPC gold

Under the same full-condition, Standard-quality, default-settings comparison used in Smithing, with shop quality 10 and Mercantile/Personality 50:

Rank	Piece	Needs	Example NPC offer (gold)
55	Mahogany Long Bow	4 Mahogany Planks, 1 Resin	627
70	Ironwood Long Bow	4 Ironwood Planks, 1 Resin	1,255
70	Ghostwood Long Bow	4 Ghostwood Planks, 1 Resin	2,511

Deduct 50 gold per bow, any sawing fees and the value of logs and Resin from the NPC offer. These additional examples use the same comparison:

Piece	Planks	Resin	NPC offer (gold)
Ghostwood Short Bow	3 Ghostwood	1	1,255
Pine Staff	—	—	4

The Ghostwood Long Bow makes better use of scarce wood. A Pine Staff sells for less than its craft fee even before material costs.

Joiner reduces furniture plank costs:

Furniture	Normal planks	With Joiner	Linen Bolts
Chair	2	1	—
Large Table	6	3	—
Bed	8	4	2

Bowyer plus clean planing at Building 50 guarantees Masterwork Pine bows before other modifiers. Furniture and bows need a paying buyer. Arrows cannot be Market-listed; Ram Kits use the guild work system. Building has no daily crafting writ. See Market fees.

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