Weapon Oils

Weapon Oils

Oils that coat a melee weapon for a while, the way meads work on you. Brew a base at the cauldron, let it mature in an oil press, then rub the oil on your blade (or your bare fists) for twenty minutes of fire, frost, poison, lightning and more.

• Twelve oils, at least one for every biome. Each is made from what its own biome gives you, and opens up once the boss before that biome has fallen.
• They stay worth using. Every oil's bonus is a share of your weapon's own damage, so a cheap early oil still pulls its weight with an end-game weapon. Later oils are stronger, and each is chosen to work against the creatures where you make it.
• Brewed like mead. Cook an oil base at the cauldron, put it in an oil press, and twenty minutes later tap four finished oils.
• Rub it on. Use an oil with a melee weapon in your hand: your character holds the weapon out and draws a hand along the blade. Every kind of melee weapon has its own way: a blade in each hand is crossed and stropped, a greatsword is held up in a guard, a battleaxe, atgeir or sledge is shifted in the grip so the hand reaches its head. The weapon then glows and sheds particles in the oil's colour, in your hand, on your back and on the ground.
• Or on your fists. Use an oil with no weapon in hand and you rub it into your palms: your punches carry it, both hands glow, and its icon and time left show at the top right like a mead's. Claws (fist weapons) are rubbed the same way.
• See what's oiled at a glance. An oiled weapon shows a small drop in the oil's colour in your bag and on your hotbar, and its tooltip names the oil and the minutes left.
• Nothing is wasted. A weapon that is already oiled refuses a second oil until the first wears off (a server setting allows replacing), and upgrading an oiled weapon keeps its oil.
• Made to fit the game. Hand-made bottles of smoky glass with a cork, a leather band and a charm on a cord for their biome; mortars of paste for the bases; a screw press built on the game's own storage barrel.

The oils

| Biome | Oil | What it does | Opens after | |---|---|---|---| | Meadows | Ember | Fire damage (+20%) | from the start | | Meadows | Keen | Sharper: more physical damage (+12%) | from the start | | Black Forest | Troll Fat | Swings cost less stamina (-25%) | Eikthyr | | Black Forest | Barkhide | The weapon wears slower (-60%); axes and pickaxes chop and mine harder (+30%) | Eikthyr | | Swamp | Venom | Poison damage (+35%) | The Elder | | Swamp | Leech | Part of the damage you deal heals you (6%) | The Elder | | Mountain | Rime | Frost damage (+35%), and what you hit is chilled and slowed | Bonemass | | Plains | Storm | Lightning damage (+40%) | Moder | | Plains | Lox Fat | Blows stagger harder (+50%) | Moder | | Mistlands | Wisp | Added damage that no armour or resistance turns aside (+45%) | Yagluth | | Mistlands | Royal | Whatever you block with, shield or weapon, blocks harder (+40%) | Yagluth | | Ashlands | Cinder | Fire damage (+40%) and spirit damage that burns the dead (+40%) | The Queen |

The percentages are a share of the weapon's own damage (or of what it already does), so they grow with your weapons. A server can scale them all at once.

An oil lasts 20 minutes of world time by default. It keeps running while you're logged out, as the game's clock does. Oil on your bare hands is lost when you die, like your food; a weapon keeps its oil in your tombstone.

Making them

1. Build an oil press with the hammer, near a workbench: 25 Wood, 10 Stone, 8 Resin, 4 Leather Scraps.
2. Cook an oil base at the cauldron. Later oils need a cauldron with more of its extensions.
3. Put the base in the press. After 20 minutes, tap it for 4 oils.

| Oil base | Cost | Cauldron level | |---|---|---| | Ember | 8 Resin, 4 Honey, 3 Dandelion | 1 | | Keen | 6 Flint, 5 Resin, 4 Feathers | 1 | | Troll Fat | 2 Troll Hide, 6 Resin, 4 Thistle | 1 | | Barkhide | 10 Core Wood, 6 Resin, 4 Greydwarf Eye | 1 | | Venom | 6 Ooze, 3 Guck, 4 Entrails | 2 | | Leech | 6 Bloodbag, 4 Entrails, 3 Turnip | 2 | | Rime | 4 Freeze Gland, 4 Onion, 4 Resin, 1 Crystal | 3 | | Storm | 4 Needle, 4 Tar, 6 Barley | 4 | | Lox Fat | 3 Lox Meat, 3 Tar, 6 Cloudberries | 4 | | Wisp | 2 Wisp, 6 Sap, 4 Jotun Puffs | 5 | | Royal | 4 Royal Jelly, 6 Sap, 2 Carapace | 5 | | Cinder | 6 Sulfur, 6 Charred Bone, 1 Molten Core | 6 |

Every cost, the press's cost and station, and the press's time and yield can be changed by the server.

Using them

• On a weapon: hold the melee weapon and use the oil from your bag or hotbar.
• On your fists: put your weapons away, then use the oil.
• The oiling animation stops at once if you attack, and can be turned off or sped up in the settings.
• When an oil wears off you're told on screen.