This is a comprehensive tutorial on the various crafting elements of the Persistent World mod for Mount & Blade: Warband. To start off, here are various useful links:

• Persistent World download page[forums.taleworlds.com]
  
• All crafting recipes[loppen.com]

In Persistent World there's many ways to make money. Mining, crafting and even joining a faction can make you a fair bit of denars. But in my opinion, one of the most fun way to make money in the game is by cooking food and crafting items. Cooking food is a diverse job which, unlike mining, almost always involves several actions. For instance, bread haves you harvest wheat as well as filling water buckets, whereas meat pies also require you to hunt on animals. The same goes for the crafting system, which has you build armor from the ground up. People mine iron, you smelt the iron into bars, you obtain some linen cloth, and you make armor with it.

In this guide, I will be giving concise, step-by-step guides on how to craft, cook and build in Persistent World 4.

If you have any feedback regarding the guide, please leave it on the comments of the guide. All constructive criticism is welcome!

Updated for version: Persistent World 4 beta 7.

In order to perform certain actions during cooking or crafting, you need to have a class capable of performing that action, depending on their skill. Some skills are shared between classes, although the highest skill will be faster with performing that action.

To train as a certain class, just go to a training station and hold F on a training pole until you are fully trained.

The classes that are mostly used in this tutorial are:

• Serf: Has the labouring skill, which is used for actions such as mining and cooking.
  
• Craftsman: Has the tailouring and a low engineering skill, which is used for creating low-tier clothing and armor.
  
• Engineer: Has a medium engineering skill, which is used for creating mid-tier armor.
  
• Master Smith: Has a high engineering skills, which is used for creating high-tier armor.

• Average street selling price: 250-500 gold.
  
• No selling points.
  
• ±50% food refill.

1. Train as a class with the labouring skill, preferably the serf class.
2. Buy a scythe.
3a. If the field does not have any grown weed, import the wheat sack and throw the seeds on the field.
3b. To speed up this process, buy a bucket, fill it with water at a well and use it on the field.
4. When the wheat has grown, start slashing into the field with the scythe.
5. When you have three wheat sheaves, go to a grinding stone and grind the sheaves into a flour sack.
6. Buy a bucket if you haven't already, and fill it with water at a well.
7. Head to an oven, and use it with the flour sack in your hands, and the bucket of water in your inventory.
8. You can either sell the bread, or eat it yourself and rest at a bed to restore your health.

• Average street selling price: 200-500 gold.
  
• Selling points in most cooking areas.
  
• ±40% food refill.

1. Obtain two wheat (see the "Bread" tutorial above for a guide on how to obtain these).
2. Obtain a bucket, and fill it with water at a well.
3. Find a brewery, and brew the two wheat and bucket of water into beer.
4. Serve the beer cask at a bar (which you can most often find in a tavern), or sell it to a stockpile. Alternatively, you can drink and rest at a bed to restore you health.

• Average street selling price: 150-500 gold.
  
• Selling points in most cooking areas when salted.
  
• ±50% food refill.

1. Obtain either a fishing net or fishing spear, or both.
2. Head to any river, and either:
3a. Start stabbing into the water to obtain fish.
3b. Put down a net, which will catch fish for you over time.
4. Head to an oven, and hold F to cook the fish. Alternatively, you can salt it (see the "Salting" section).
5. You can either sell the fish, or eat it yourself and rest at a bed to restore your health.

• Average street selling price: 400-750 gold.
  
• Selling points in most cooking areas when salted.
  
• ±50% food refill.

1. Buy a butchering cleaver.
2. Find either a boar, deer or cow, and kill it with any weapon. The animals spawn randomly on the map. Make sure you are the "Huntsman" class, or you will not be able to retrieve the meat.
3. Crouch down at the dead body of the animal and slash it with the cleaver, and retrieve the meat from the ground.
4. Head to an oven, and hold F to cook the meat. Alternatively, you can salt it (see the "Salting" section).
5. You can either sell the meat, or eat it yourself and rest at a bed to restore your health.

• Average street selling price: 250-500 gold.
  
• No selling points.
  
• ±50% food refill.

1. Buy a butchering cleaver.
2. Find either a boar, deer or cow, and kill it with any weapon. The animals spawn randomly on the map.
3. Crouch down at the dead body of the animal and slash it with the cleaver, and retrieve the meat from the ground.
4. Obtain a flour sack (see the "Bread" tutorial above for a guide on how to obtain these, or buy them from a stockpile).
5. Head to an oven, and use it with the raw meat in your hands, and the flour sack in your inventory.
6. You can either sell the meat pies, or eat it yourself and rest at a bed to restore your health.

• Average street selling price: 300-750 gold.
  
• Selling points in most cooking areas.
  
• ±40% food refill.

1. Obtain a knife.
2. Find a vineyard, which you can most often find in a village, and prune the vines with a knife by hitting them.
3. Wait several minutes for the grapes to grow.
4. Take three grapes, and bring it to a presser. Continue this process four times, so that you have four must barrels.
5. Use the four must barrels on the presser to create a wine barrel.
6. Serve the wine cask at a bar (which you can most often find in a tavern), or sell it to a stockpile. Alternatively, you can drink and rest at a bed to restore you health.

• Average street selling price: N/A.
  
• Selling points in most cooking areas for salted food.
  
• Lower food refill for salted food than cooked food.

1. Obtain a salt sack (or buy it from a stockpile).
2. With the salt sack out, hold F on a preserving table (a small wooden table) to turn it into four salt pinches.
2. Take a single pinch of salt, and three pieces of fish or meat.
3. With the food out, hold F on a preserving table to salt it.
5. You can either sell the salted food, or eat it yourself and rest at a bed to restore your health.

In order to craft the items, just head to the selling point of the respective armor, clothing, horse or weapon and hold F with the necessary materials out to craft the item. This will add a single piece to the total stock count of the item.

In total, you will receive a crafting reward depending on the cost of the materials and the stock count of the item, as well as approximately 20% of the buying price of the item.

For a list of all crafting recipes, head to this website[loppen.com].

1. Obtain a sickle.
2. Find a herb on the map. The location of herbs differ from map to map and server to server. The herbs look like green buches with a blue top.
3. Hold F on the herb to pick it.

1. Obtain a small mining pick or a large mining pick.
2. Find a mine, and start "attacking" the iron vein (the vein is gray with brown spots) with the pickaxe.
3. Keep hitting it until a piece of iron pops ups.

1. Obtain a piece of iron ore (make sure it is not a small iron ore) or buy it from a stockpile.
2. Find a furnace, and with the iron ore out, hold F on the left side of the furnace. The two long iron bars will appear on the ground.

1. Obtain a small piece of iron ore or buy it from a stockpile.
2a. If you have a small iron ore, find a furnace, and with the iron ore out, hold F on the left side of the furnace. The two short iron bars will appear on the ground.
2b. If you have a long iron bar, find a furnace, and with the long iron bar out, hold F on the right side of the furnace. The two short iron bars will appear on the ground. Alternatively, find an anvil, and hold F on the anvil.

1. Obtain a short iron bar or buy it from a stockpile.
2. Find a furnace, and with the short iron bar out, hold F on the left side of the furnace. The two iron pieces will appear on the ground.

You need to be a class with the labouring skill in order to obtain leather (such as a serf).
1. Buy a butchering cleaver.
2. Find either a boar, deer or cow, and kill it with any weapon. The animals spawn randomly on the map.
3. Crouch down at the dead body of the animal and slash it with the cleaver, and retrieve the leather from the ground.
4. Find a tanning station, and hold F with the leather out to turn it into rolls.

1. Obtain a leather roll or buy it from a stockpile.
2. Find a pair of scissors, and hold F on it with the leather out to turn it into four leather pieces.

1. Find a flax field. These can often be found close to crafting stations.
2. Hold F on the flax to pick it.
3. Head to a spinning wheel, and turn the piece of flax into two pieces of linen thread.

1. Obtain two linen thread or buy it from a stockpile.
2. Find a loom, and hold F with two thread out to turn it into a linen cloth.

1. Obtain a linen cloth or buy it from a stockpile.
2. Find a loom, and hold F with two thread out to turn it into a linen cloth.
3. Find a pair of scissors, and hold F on it with the linen out to turn it into four small linen cloth.

1. Obtain a small mining pick or a large mining pick.
2. Find a mine, and start "attacking" the salt (white), silver or gold (gray) vein with the pickaxe.
3. Keep hitting it until a piece of salt, silver or gold pops ups, depending on the vein.

1. Obtain four pieces of silver or gold.
2. As a class with the engineering skill, hold F on the left side of a furnace to smelt the four pieces into a bar.

1. Obtain a woodcutter's axe.
2. Start "attacking" a tree until it falls down, and keep chopping to make the wood blocks and branches pop up.

1. Obtain a wood block or buy it from a stockpile.
2. At a wood processing table, hold F with the wood block out to turn it into a plank.

1. Obtain a branch or buy it from a stockpile.
2. At a wood processing table, hold F with the branch out to turn it into a wooden pole.

1. Obtain a wooden pole or buy it from a stockpile.
2. At a wood processing table, hold F with the wooden pole out to turn it into a short wooden pole.

1. Obtain a short wooden pole or buy it from a stockpile.
2. At a wood processing table, hold F with the short wooden pole out to turn it into a stick.

1. Obtain a herding crook.
2a. Find a herd of boars, deers or cows, and hit one of the animals with the crook. This will make the herd move somewhat into the direction you were hitting to, depending on your herding skill. An overhead will make the herd move twice as fast as the stab does.
2b. To make an animal stop and attach itself to the nearby herd, use the alternative attack of the crook (using X).

1. Find at least two or more adult animals. If they are not part of a herd yet, use the alternative attack of the herding crook. Animals can also be bought at certain locations by holding F on the import sack.
2a. Make sure the herd is in open grounds, and wait until the animals reproduce.
2b. If the herd is not in open grounds, you will have to feed the animals by attacking them with food (make sure it's an upper or sideway attack). If you do not do this, they will starve.

1. Obtain a lockpick.
2. Make sure you are a class with the looting skill. This can either be the ruffian, engineer or master smith (2 looting skill) or brigand (4 looting skill). The higher the skill, the higher the chance of succeeding.
3. With the lockpick out, hold F on a door or chest. If you hear a clicking sound, the lockpicking has failed. If you hear a single click at most, the locking has succeeded and the door or chest is unlocked.
4. To lock a lockpicked door or chest, just open, close or use it once.

1. Obtain a repair hammer.
2. Make sure you are a class with the engineering skill: either the engineer or master smith. The higher the engineering skill, the less wood and time is needed to repair or build.
3. Obtain one or more pieces of wood (may be a branch, block or plank).
4. Find an item to repair or build. Most wooden doors, as well as wooden item and money chests can be repaired. Spread across the map are also "build boxes", boxes that allow you to build barricades or ladders. These are often found outside of castles, and have an icon of a ladder or barricade on them.
5, With the repair hammer out, start hitting the door, chest or build box until the health bar is full. The wood items will disappear from your inventory as you use them up. Keep hitting the door, chest or build box until a message pops up, saying that you lack the resources. If the door, chest or build box is not repaired fully yet, you will have to get new pieces of wood.

1. Find a ship.
2. Make sure you are trained as a class with the sailing skill, the higher the sailing skill, the faster the ship will move. Good options are sailor or traveler, although many other fighting, engineering and outlaw factions also have the sailing skill.
3. Walk close to the sails or rutter of the ship, and press the arrow keys to move it.