UO Carpentry Skill Guide
Carpentry is a core crafting skill in Ultima Online used to build wooden items like furniture, weapons, armor (for elves), and even house add-ons. It’s vital for crafting house decorations, runebooks (with Tinkering), and BOD systems on crafting shards.
Carpentry is a crafting skill in Ultima Online, rated as Easy difficulty to train. This guide walks you through everything you need to raise Carpentry from 0 to grandmaster, including the most efficient training methods, the targets and items to use at each skill range, and the gains you can expect along the way. Whether you are building your first character or optimizing a finished template, the breakdown below will help you train Carpentry as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Below you will find an overview of what Carpentry does, a step-by-step training guide, recommended skill ranges, any bonuses Carpentry provides, and the templates that pair well with it. If you would rather skip the grind, UO King can deliver a ready-made character or the gear you need to support a Carpentry build on your shard.
Carpentry is the woodworking trade of Ultima Online, using a saw or carpenter's hammer to shape boards and logs into furniture, containers, instruments, staves and a large catalog of house add-ons. It leans on Lumberjacking for its raw boards much as smithing leans on mining, and it opens the door to Bowcraft/Fletching and Stonecrafting for players who want the full builder's toolkit.
Carpenters are the main suppliers of player-housing decor, from chairs and tables to beds, dressers and bulletin boards, and they craft wooden weapons and shields as well. Some recipes call for a secondary skill such as Magery or Tinkering to be met, but once that minimum is reached, raising the secondary skill further gives no extra benefit to the craft.
Uses the standard UO formula (skill − item minimum) ÷ (100%-skill − item minimum). The 100%-success skill is usually about 30 points above an item's minimum; adjust it to match the exact item.
Skill gain is based on item difficulty. Start with simple boards, then move to more advanced or resource-heavy creations. Success rate and exceptional chance increase as your skill rises.
| Skill Range | Recommended Items |
|---|---|
| 0.0 – 30.0 | Train from Carpenter or Bowyer NPC |
| 30.0 – 50.0 | Wooden shafts, bowls, stools |
| 50.0 – 70.0 | Chairs, small tables |
| 70.0 – 90.0 | Wooden chests, armoire, training dummy |
| 90.0 – 100.0 | Golems (requires Tinkering), house add-ons |
| 100.0 – 120.0 | Bulk Order Deeds, elven wood armor, advanced furniture |
0.0 – 30.0
30.0 – 50.0
50.0 – 70.0
70.0 – 90.0
90.0 – 100.0
100.0 – 120.0
A Grandmaster carpenter's exceptional pieces are more durable and, where allowed, carry the maker's name. Every menu entry notes whether it can be signed, keeps its color, or needs a recipe. Key rules:
- Maker's Mark: exceptional items that permit it can bear the crafter's name.
- Retains Color: pieces made from colored wood keep that color where the item supports it.
- Requires Recipe: many elven and specialty furnishings need their recipe learned first.
- Secondary skills: once you meet a recipe's secondary requirement (for example 75.0 Magery for a pentagram), pushing that skill higher does not improve success.
- Skill Required: the number shown is the minimum to attempt, not a guaranteed success.
Carpentry trains cheaply because early boards-only recipes cost little and can be recycled for more lumber. The summary below shows how the crafting menu is grouped and the skill range covered by each category.
| Crafting Category | Craftable Items | Lowest Skill | Highest Skill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armor | 19 | 0.0 | 90.0 |
| Blacksmithy | 5 | 73.6 | 100.0 |
| Containers | 31 | 10.0 | 94.7 |
| Furniture | 26 | 11.0 | 90.0 |
| Instruments | 13 | 57.8 | 85.0 |
| Misc. Add-Ons | 28 | 15.7 | 100.0 |
| Other | 23 | 0.0 | 100.0 |
| Tailoring and Cooking | 8 | 63.1 | 94.7 |
| Training | 2 | 68.4 | 73.6 |
| Weapons | 16 | 52.6 | 90.0 |
These board-only, low-requirement items make good early training fodder:
| Skill Req. | Item | Resources | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | Large Stone Shield | 16 Granite | Armor |
| 0.0 | Arcanist Statue* | 250 Boards or Logs | Other |
| 0.0 | Barrel Staves | 5 Boards or Logs | Other |
| 0.0 | Board | 1 Boards or Logs | Other |
| 0.0 | Squirrel Statue* | 250 Boards or Logs | Other |
| 0.0 | Warrior Statue* | 250 Boards or Logs | Other |
| 10.0 | Small Crate | 8 Boards or Logs | Containers |
| 11.0 | Foot Stool | 9 Boards or Logs | Furniture |
| 11.0 | Stool | 9 Boards or Logs | Furniture |
| 11.0 | Barrel Lid | 4 Boards or Logs | Other |