Woodcarving

Woodcarving is the branch of crafting concerned with creating objects from wood, primarily working with branches to carve bows, musical instruments, and some simple armor. A simple branch of crafting, it provides many of an adventurer's common necessities, particularly for those with more ranged styles. A good woodcarver never fears running out of arrows, and can find their materials quite readily.

Quick Reference

While each step will go into more depth, the quick reference allows you to at a glance follow the steps to work items from leather.

• Select the item that you would like to craft from any of the Woodcarving Tables.
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for that item.
• Use your woodcarver’s tools to craft the option using the number of hours listed in the Crafting Time column, or during a long rest using the crafting camp action if the crafting time is 2 hours or less.
• For every 2 hours, make a crafting roll of 1d20 + your Dexterity + your proficiency bonus with woodcarver’s tools.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the item is complete. On failure, the crafting time is lost and no progress has been made during the 2 hours. If you fail 3 times in a row, the crafting is a failure and all materials are lost.

Related Tool & Ability Score

Woodworking works using woodcarver’s tools. Attempting to craft items with Woodworking without these will almost always be made with disadvantage, and proficiency with these allows you to add your proficiency in them to any Woodworking crafting roll.

Materials: Wood

Woodworking is a bit more straight forward than other types of crafting in that it primarily has only category of material: wood. This can come in several different form factors, but is measured in branches, consistent pieces of useful wood.

Crafting Roll

Putting that together means that when you would like to make an item, your crafting roll is as follows:

Woodworking Modifier = your Woodcarver’s Tools proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier

Success and Failure

For Woodworking, after you make the crafting roll and succeed, mark your progress on a crafting project. If you succeed, you make 2 hours of progress toward the total crafting time (and have completed one of the required checks for making an item). Checks for Woodworking do not need to be immediately consecutive. Failure means that no progress is made during that time. Once an item is started, even if no progress is made, the components reserved for that item. If you fail three times in a row, all progress and materials are lost and can no longer be salvaged.

Carved Branches

Woodworkers can increase the rarity of a branch through expert carving techniques. A wooden branch of higher quality produced through woodcarving can’t be used as the material to make a branch of even higher rarity, but otherwise a carved branch serves as a branch of their finished rarity for crafting (such as enchanting or other woodworking items that call for a branch of that rarity).
Effectively, carving the branch can only increase the rarity of a branch by one step.

Type

Artisan