Processing FAQ

Heya, I'm Summer and I made this guide to help you out with any questions you may have about processing. It's essentially a processing guide in FAQ-style, so you can more easily search for specific info.

Enjoy :)

Preface - for very interested readers :)

What is processing?

Processing is about taking raw materials, for example produced by your worker empire, and refining them for use in further activities like trading, cooking and workshops. It's a low effort lifeskill and doesn't take a whole lot to get started. One of the coolest things about processing is that once you get further into it you can form elaborate recipe chains to craft valuable items, like

Rough Stone (gathering) ->

Metal Solvent (alchemy) ->

Pure Iron Crystal (processing) ->

Balenos Fishing Rod (workshops).

The state of processing

Processing for profit has seen better times, partly because some of the activities it feeds into, like trading and workshops, have seen better times too. The moneymaking potential has noticeably fallen behind comparable lifskills like bartering and cooking. Nowadays, the main appeal of processing is being low effort and afk-able.

On the bright side, leveling processing is fairly straight-forward (question 14). To earn money, you have a few recipes at your disposal (question 16). Processing markets these days are stable for the most part, which means I can share some for-profit recipes with you without negatively impacting the market. Beyond that, finding recipes has never been easier with tools like bdolytics.

Overview

Topic	Question
Basics	1. How to process?
	2. How can I stop processing from failing?
Mass Processing and Mastery	3. What is mass processing?
	4. What does processing mastery do?
	5. How much processing mastery do I need?
	6. Why can't I mass process this item?
Recipes, Proc Rates and Process Times	7. How many items does a craft yield and what affects it?
	8. How long can I afk process for?
	9. Why can't I chop plywood / heat pure crystals?
Gear	10. What gear do I need?
	11. How can I get processing artifacts?
	12. Do I need the pearl shop costume?
	13. Should I use mastery or silver embroidered clothes?
Leveling and Moneymaking	14. How do I level processing?
	15. Which EXP buffs can I run while leveling processing?
	16. How to make money with processing?
	17. Do I have to combine processing with trading to make it profitable?
	18. What about that 3 bil/H recipe on bdolytics?
Misc	19. Help, I can't equip a processing stone on my season character D:
	20. How do I increase my weight for processing?

1. How to process?

1. Open the processing window (L key)
2. Select a processing type
3. Input the materials
4. Press 'Start' or 'Mass Process' (more on mass processing in question 4)

Processing can have the follow outcomes:

Message	Meaning
Processing has succeeded	The craft succeeds.
Processing is not going as planned	The craft has 'missed' and will be re-tried. (question 2)
It is not working at all	You input the wrong recipe or are missing knowledge (question 9).
Insufficient ingredients to continue processing	You got the recipe right but don't have enough materials for a full craft.

Don't worry, materials will only be consumed if the craft succeeds.

2. How can I stop processing from failing?

Even if you meet all conditions to succeed the craft, the message Processing is not going as planned can appear which means your character has to re-try the craft. The chance of this happening depends on your processing success rate, which is 70%* at base and goes up to 100%.

Here's how to increase your success rate:

Category	Item	Success Rate
Pearl Shop Costume	[Nova] Venecil Dress / [Archer] Karki Suit	3%
Clothes	Silver Embroidered Craftsman's Clothes	6%-40%
Food	Seafood Cron Meal (2 hours)	10%
	Marvelous Eilton Meal (10 hours)	15%
Elixir/Draught	Verdure Draught (15 mins)	20%
Alchemy Stone	Life Spirit Stone	11%
	Sturdy Alchemy Stone of Life	11%
	Sharp Alchemy Stone of Life	14%
Artifacts	Sethra's Artifact - Processing Success Rate	5%, up to 2x
Lightstone Set	Clang! Clang!	20%

Items in the same category don't stack.

Is there a cap to processing success rate?

You may have heard that the success rate cannot reach 100% due to being capped. According to tests by the lifeskill community, we're almost certain that the success rate can reach 100%. However, some items seem to have a different success rate than indicated in the item description. This includes

Silver Embroidered Craftsman's Clothes, the

[Clang! Clang!] Processing Success Rate +20% Processing EXP +10% Processing Mastery +20 Weight Limit +30LT set and potentially

Verdure Draught. So to get 100% it helps to overstack success rate buffs by a few percent.

*We used to think that the base success rate is 67% but a recent source shows it to be 70%.

3. What is mass processing?

What it does

Mass processing lets you process multiple batches of items at once. It also takes 10x longer than regular processing. Example: processing timber into planks:

• Regular processing: 6 second craft time, 1 craft at a time
• Mass processing: 60 seconds craft time, 10+ crafts at a time

The number of mass processing crafts depends on your mastery (question 4).

You need a

Loggia Processing Stone /

Techthon Processing Stone /

Manos Processing Stone to get access to the 'Mass Process' button in the processing menu.

What you can mass process

Mass processing only works on stackable items. You can't mass dry for example fish because they take up 1 inventory slot each.

Also, it only works on Shaking, Grinding, Chopping, Drying, Filtering, Heating.

There is no mass processing for Simple Alchemy, Simple Cooking, Imperial Cuisine, Imperial Alchemy, Guild Processing, Manufacturing.

Use mass processing or regular processing?

There is no downside to mass processing. At worst, it's as fast as regular processing and gets faster the more mastery you have (fast as in crafts per hour, not craft time).

4. What does processing mastery do?

Processing mastery increases the number of crafts ('batches') you can perform at once through mass processing. For example, with 440 mastery you can perform 32 crafts at once.

Mastery does not affect how many items you get each craft (question 7)

Mastery	Batches	Mastery	Batches	Mastery	Batches
2	10	440	32	930	76
20	11	460	33	960	80
40	12	480	34	990	85
60	13	500	35	1020	90
80	14	520	36	1060	96
100	15	540	37	1100	112
120	16	560	38	1140	118
140	17	580	39	1180	124
160	18	600	40	1220	130
180	19	620	41	1260	137
200	20	640	42	1300	144
220	21	660	43	1350	154
240	22	680	45	1400	162
260	23	700	47	1450	170
280	24	720	49	1500	178
300	25	740	51	1550	186
320	26	760	53	1600	194
340	27	780	57	1650	203
360	28	810	60	1700	212
380	29	840	64	1800	222
400	30	870	68	1900	235
420	31	900	72	2000	250

Table: mastery brackets and mass processing batches. Note that processing mastery brackets are not evenly spaced out at every 50 mastery like in other lifeskills but they vary from 20 to 100 mastery.

5. How much processing mastery do I need?

In other lifeskills, more mastery is always better. That only applies to processing to a certain point. Having higher processing mastery lets you process items at a faster rate but weight is still a limiting factor. With high enough mastery it's possible that your character will run out of weight before checking back on your processing. Increasing processing mastery beyond that point won't increase the number of materials you can process in one afk session. Also processing mastery scales fairly linear. There are no major breakpoints.

So here's my advice:

6. Why can't I mass process this item?

The is no mass processing for Simple Alchemy, Simple Cooking, Imperial Cuisine, Imperial Alchemy, Guild Processing, Manufacturing.

Though some recipes have alternative '10x' versions which let you do 10 crafts at once by adding a certain item:

Processing Type	Recipe	Item	How to obtain	Requirement
Simple Alchemy	Caphras Stone, Black Gem, Concentrated Magical Black Gem	Black Stone Powder	Central Market	-
Simple Alchemy	Party Elixirs, Blue Elixirs, Draughts	Ibellab's Essence	Material Vendor	Alchemy skilled 1
Simple Cooking	Cron Meals	Nadia Rowen's Special Sauce	Cooking Vendor	Cooking skilled 1
Imperial Cuisine	Cooking Boxes	Heavy Duty Packaging Cord	Old Moon Manager	Cooking artisan 1, Carolin's Expert Packaging Skills (Cooking)
Imperial Alchemy	Medicine Boxes	Heavy Duty Packaging Cord	Old Moon Manager	Alchemy artisan 1, Carolin's Expert Packaging Skills (Alchemy)

Top: '10x' recipe - Bottom: regular recipe

7. How many items does a craft yield and what affects it?

Proc rates

Most recipes yield 1-4 items (~2.5 on average) but proc rates can vary between recipes. The table below shows proc rates as well as other info for common processing recipes. You can also check proc rates by going to a specific recipe on bdolytics and comparing the output materials to the number of crafts.

What affects the proc rate?

Shaking, Grinding, Chopping, Drying, Diltering, Heating cap out at a certain processing level. For example, timber caps out at artisan 6 and ore at master 1. Once you're master 1, you'll have the maximum proc rate on 99% of recipes. A few recipes, like

Jade Coral Ingot require guru 1 for maximum procs.

Simple Alchemy, Simple Cooking, Imperial Cuisine, Imperial Alchemy, Guild Processing, Manufacturing recipes have fixed rates and are not affected by processing level. You can let your beginner 1 alt do these recipes without worrying about losing out on procs :)

Common processing recipes

Recipe	Example	Process Type	Proc Range	Proc Avg	Level Req.	EXP	Time	Required Knowledge
Plank (T2)	Ash Plank	Chopping	1-4	2.5	Artisan 6	200/500	6/60	-
Plywood (T3)	Ash Plywood	Chopping	1-4	2.5	Professional 6	500	6/60	Chopping: Beginner
Sturdy Plywood (T4)	Sturdy Ash Plywood	Heating	1-3	2	Professonal 1	1000	6/60	Chopping: Skilled
Melted Shard (T2)	Melted Iron Shard	Heating	1-4	2.5	Master 1	200/500	9/90*	-
Ingot (T3)	Iron Ingot, Vanadium Ingot	Heating	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	500	9/90*	Heating: Beginner
Precious Ingot (T3)	Gold Ingot, Mythril Ingot	Heating	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	800	9/80**	Heating: Beginner
Mixed Ingot (T3)	Brass Ingot, Steel, Bronze Ingot	Heating	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	800	6/60	Heating: Beginner
Pure Crystal (T4)	Pure Iron Crystal	Heating	1-3	2	Professonal 1	1000	6/60	Heating: Skilled
Precious Pure Crystal (T4)	Pure Gold Crystal, Pure Mythril Crystal	Heating	1-3	2	Professonal 1	1500	6/60	Heating: Skilled
Hide (T2)	Tough Hide	Drying	1-4	2.5	Professonal 1	200/500	9/90	-
Fine Hide (T3)	Fine Tough Hide	Drying	1-4	2.5	Skilled 1	500	9/80	Drying: Beginner
Supreme Hide (T4)	Supreme Tough Hide	Shaking	1-3	2	Apprentice 1	1000	9/80	Shaking: Skilled
Feather (T2)	Lightweight Plume	Filtering	1-4	2.5	Professonal 6	200/500	6/60	-
Fine Feather (T3)	Fine Lightweight Plume	Filtering	1-4	2.5	Skilled 6	500	9/80	Filtering: Beginner
Supreme Feather (T4)	Supreme Lightweight Plume	Shaking	1-3	2	Apprentice 1	1000	9/80	Shaking: Skilled
Gem (T2)	Ruby	Grinding	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	500/1000	9/80	-
Resplendent Gem (T3)	Resplendent Ruby	Grinding	1-3	2	Skilled 1	1000	9/80	Grinding: Beginner
Special Gem (T4)	Blood Ruby	Shaking	1-2	1.5	Apprentice 1	2000	6/80	Shaking: Skilled
Usable Scantling (T2)		Chopping	1-4	2.5	Artisan 6	500/1000	6/60	-
Standardized Timber Square (T3)		Chopping	1-3	2	Professional 6	1000	6/60	Chopping: Beginner
Sturdy Timber Square (T4)		Heating	1-3	2	Artisan 1	1500	6/60	Chopping: Skilled
Cream		Shaking	1-4	2.5	Skilled 1	150	6/60	-
Butter		Shaking	1-4	2.5	Skilled 1	150	6/60	-
Cheese		Drying	1-4	2.5	Skilled 1	300	9/60	-
Corn Flour		Grinding	1-4	2.5	Professional 1	70	6/60	-
Corn Dough		Shaking	1-4	2.5	Skilled 1	150	6/60	-
Thread/Yarn (T2)	Flax Thread	Heating	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	500	6/60	-
Fabric/Wool/Silk (T3)	Flax Fabric	Grinding	1-4	2.5	Professional 1	1000	6/60	-
Black Stone Powder		Grinding	40-60	50	Artisan 1	80	9/80	-
Black Stone Powder		Grinding	60-100	80	Artisan 1	80	9/80	-
Purified Water		Filtering	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	300	6/60	-
Ship Repair Material		Chopping	1-3	2	Artisan 1	1000	6/60	-
Polished Stone		Grinding	1-4	2.5	Artisan 1	500	6/60	-
Cron Meal	Simple Cron Meal	Simple Cooking	1	1	Beginner 1	0	6	-
Draught	Verdure Draught	Simple Alchemy	1	1	Beginner 1	0	6	-
Party Elixir	[Party] Defense Elixir	Simple Alchemy	1-2	1.8	Beginner 1	0	6	-
Blue Elixir	Elixir of Steel Defense	Simple Alchemy	1	1	Beginner 1	0	6	-
Black Gem		Simple Alchemy	1	1	Beginner 1	0	9	-
Concentrated Magical Black Gem		Simple Alchemy	1	1	Beginner 1	0	9	-
Caphras Stone		Simple Alchemy	1	1	Beginner 1	0	6	-

Notes about this table

• Level Req.: Level required to gain the maximum proc rate
• EXP: Processing EXP. when two values are shown, the first one indicates the regular proc (e.g. ash plank: 200 EXP) and the second one the rare proc (e.g. ash plywood: 500 EXP)
• Time: regular processing / mass processing time in seconds

* Zinc shards/ingots take 6/60 seconds. Ores are a huge mess in general.

** Some 9 second recipes seem to take 80 seconds when mass processed. Don't ask me why.

Source for the data: Daz' sheets, bdolytics, in-game testing for the times.

8. How long can I afk process for?

It depends on the materials you're processing and your max weight. This list shows the weight of common materials:

Item	Weight (LT)
Timber	0.5
Ore, Gems, Stone	0.3
Hide, Fabric, Feathers, Flour, Dough	0.1
Cheese, Cream, Butter	0.01

On bdolytics, you can check how long you can process for before running out of weight:

1. Open the settings and enter your weight, fairy feathery steps level, processing mastery, success rate and whether you have the processing costume (more on the processing costume in question 13)
2. Go to the recipe page of the item you want to process.
3. Go to the WEIGHT tab.
4. Read the Max. Crafts and input it as the Craft Quantity.
5. Go back to the INPUT&OUTPUT tab and check the time.

Overnight Processing

Some items are so light that you can process them for multiple hours or even overnight.

Common recipes for overnight processing are

,

Cheese

0 $/h

and

Butter

-133,920 $/h

.

9. Why can't I chop plywood / heat pure crystals?

To chop planks into plywood (T3) you need

Chopping: Beginner. To heat ingots into pure crystals (T4) you need

Heating: Skilled and so on. You can get the knowledge entries through a quest chain, which is outlined below.

Beginner Knowledge Quest Chain

Starting quest	[Processing] Learning Higher Processing Skills
Starting NPC	Ficy in Heidel
Requirements	Apprentice 4 gathering OR have completed [Processing] In Search of Higher Processing Knowledge... -> This prerequisite questline can be completely skipped if you have Apprentice 4 gathering!
Rewarded knowledge	Shaking: Beginner, Grinding: Beginner, Chopping: Beginner, Drying: Beginner, Filtering: Beginner, Heating: Beginner

Walkthrough by X3no Pain on Youtube (it's for console but works the same way on PC)

You can track the quest in-game via the quest menu:

1. In the quest menu (O key), go to the 'Suggested' tab and look for [Life]Certificate Skilled Paradigm.
2. Make sure that you fulfill the quest requirements.
3. Make sure to have all quests are enabled.

Skilled Knowledge Quest Chain

Starting quest	[Processing] Excellent Magnate
Starting NPC	Villager next to the blacksmith in Keplan
Requirements	Gathering skilled 10 AND processing skilled 5 AND all 6 pieces of beginner knowledge
Rewarded knowledge	Shaking: Skilled, Grinding: Skilled, Chopping: Skilled, Drying: Skilled, Filtering: Skilled, Heating: Skilled

Walkthrough by X3no Pain on Youtube (it's for console but works the same way on PC)

Note: The skilled quest chain asks you to craft supreme hide, which requires

Shaking: Skilled. You have to collect this knowledge from your rewards tab (Y)

Help, I can't see the starting quest!

Possible Reasons:

• You don't fulfill the quest requirements (see table above)
• You don't have all quests enabled (see image above)
• You already have the knowledge: check the knowledge tab (H key) -> Life Skill -> Certificates
• You have already completed parts of the quest chain. Check if the quest chain in the 'Suggested' tab shows 0/4 (beginner) or 0/17 (skilled). If it shows for example 0/16 you have already completed the first quest in the skilled chain.

10. What gear do I need?

You technically don't need any gear to process. A processing stone is needed if you want to mass process recipes. Beyond that, increasing your mastery and processing success rate can massively speed up the rate at which you process items.

Here are my personal gear recommendations based on silver efficiency. Feel free to go for a different setup where you see fit.

Beginner

Slot	Recommended Gear
Processing Stone	TRI Loggia Processing Stone
Clothes	TRI Loggia Craftsman's Clothes

Total cost: ~300 mil

This gear will give a total of 260 processing mastery, which lets you process 23 batches at once. This does not include any additional mastery you may have from levels or from accessories.

Intermediate

Slot	Recommended Gear
Processing Stone	TET Techthon Processing Stone
Clothes	TET Loggia Craftsman's Clothes / TET Carta Craftsman's Clothes
Artifacts	Sethra's Artifact - Processing Mastery / Sethra's Artifact - Processing EXP / Sethra's Artifact - Processing Success Rate / Sethra's Artifact - Life EXP / Sethra's Artifact - Life Skill Mastery
Lighstones	[Clang! Clang!] Processing Success Rate +20% Processing EXP +10% Processing Mastery +20 Weight Limit +30LT

Total cost: ~1.5b - 3b

TET

Techthon Processing Stone is good bang for your buck. Depending on your budget, you can go for TET

Loggia Craftsman's Clothes or TET

Carta Craftsman's Clothes. If you can snipe TET

Carta Craftsman's Clothes from the market it's a great option. Enhancing it yourself will cost ~1.5b on average. For artifacts, it's fine to run whichever ones you have at the moment. The Clang!Clang! lighstone combo is great value and makes reaching 100% success rate a piece of cake.

Advanced

Slot	Recommended Gear
Processing Stone	TET Manos Processing Stone
Clothes	TET Carta Craftsman's Clothes / TET Manos Craftsman's Clothes
Artifacts	Sethra's Artifact - Processing Mastery / Sethra's Artifact - Processing EXP / Sethra's Artifact - Processing Success Rate
Lighstones	[Clang! Clang!] Processing Success Rate +20% Processing EXP +10% Processing Mastery +20 Weight Limit +30LT

Total cost: ~4b - 10b

The endgame setup will let you reach between 1000 and 2000 mastery depending on your processing level and accessories. TET

Manos Craftsman's Clothes require a high budget, which is why TET

Carta Craftsman's Clothes can be a great value option even for an endgame setup. If you have multipe artifacts to choose from, you'll be able to optimize based on which stat is needed (see question below).

Here is a general artifact, crystal and lightstone setup:

Which artifacts should I use?

In theory, the Clang!Clang! set (20%) and seafood cron meal (10%) together with the base success rate (70%) should get you to 100%. But as the Clang!Clang! set seems to give less success rate than indicated, you will need to add a verdure draught or one success rate artifact to reach 100%.

In general, I would prioritize mastery artifacts (if it makes you hit a bracket) > success rate artifacts (if you don't have 100%) > EXP artifacts.

Buy or enhance gear?

Lifeskill gear is generally cheaper to buy than to enhance yourself on average. You can check mastery gear enhance costs using this sheet.

11. How can I get processing artifacts?

Processing artifacts drop from imperial cooking turn-ins. The chance to get an artifact is quite low (you can expect one to drop maybe every 5-10 turn-ins) so it might take a while until you get the artifact you want.

You don't need to worry about having perfect artifacts. While working on getting processing artifacts, you can still run a lightstone set using general-purpose artifacts like

Sethra's Artifact - Life EXP or

Sethra's Artifact - Life Skill Mastery as placeholders. Once you get the processing artifacts, you can then extract the lightstones at a blacksmith with a

Lightstone Extraction Tool (bought at blacksmiths) and slot them into the new artifacts.

12. Do I need the pearl shop costume?

[Nova] Venecil Dress and

[Archer] Karki Suit can only be bought from the pearl shop, give 3% success rate and will let you process from storage. Note that you can only process from storage keepers, not storage containers.

When using a processing costume, the processed materials will go into your character's inventory. That means your character will only stop processing once you go overweight. Effectively, the processing costume lets you stay afk for longer (about 2 times longer as without the costume) before refreshing your processing. BUT the processing costume will not increase the afk time on recipes where the output materials are heavier than the input, like flour, dough, cream, butter and cheese. So the usefulness of the processing costume depends on what you are processing.

13. Should I use mastery or silver embroidered clothes?

Mastery clothes and silver embroidered (SE) processing clothes have different benefits yet similar effects:

• Mastery clothes: Processing mastery -> higher batch processing -> faster processing rate
• SE clothes: Processing success rate -> faster processing rate. Additionally, processing EXP.

However, the success rate from SE clothes won't have any benefit if your success rate is already at 100%. It's very easy to reach 100% success rate with mastery clothes, for example base (70%) + seafood cron meal (10%) + Clang!Clang! set (20%) + verdure draught (20%). In practice, the success rate is only useful when you don't have all buffs running.

Therefore:

• For profit: Always use mastery clothes. The extra mastery brackets are more valuable than success rate 99% of the time.
• For EXP: You have to weigh the extra mastery brackets from mastery clothes against the extra success rate and the processing EXP from silver clothes. Depending on your mastery and grade of clothes available to you, either one can be better. You can do an exact comparison using this sheet. Though based on this chart, mastery clothes are preferred when going for EXP in most cases.

14. How do I level processing?

Beginner to Professional

Chances are, you have

Flax or

Fleece from workers in your Heidel storage. Otherwise you can buy them quite cheaply on the market. You can heat

Flax ->

Flax Thread (500 EXP) or

Fleece ->

Knitting Yarn (500 EXP) to level up to professional.

Professional to Artisan

You can take the materials from leveling to professional and grind

Flax Thread ->

Flax Fabric (1000 EXP) or

Knitting Yarn ->

Wool (1000 EXP).

To liquidate the materials you can either try to sell them on the market or turn them into life clothes (e.g.

Silver Embroidered Fisher's Clothes or

Silver Embroidered Craftsman's Clothes)

Artisan to the moon (guru 50)

The ship repair material method is very popular for power leveling processing.

Some notes on the method:

• Expect very low afk times when chopping timber. See see question 20 for how to increase your maximum weight.
• The EXP bug is not limited to timber processing. It applies to all materials with a direct T3 proc on T1->T2 recipes, like ore, feathers and hide. It does not work for fabrics because the processing type switches from T1->T2 (heating) to T2->T3 (grinding), which means T1->T2 can not proc T3 materials.

Can I level processing and profit?

You sure can. Consider processing ore into ingots and timber into plywood, which will be slightly less EXP/H than the timber->SRM route but can be profitable depending on market prices.

You can check the bdolytics processing table for processing profits and EXP values.

Also, here is a link to Bearist's Processing EXP Calculator.

15. Which EXP buffs can I run while leveling processing?

I would pick buffs based on which ones you have access to and which buffs are reasonable to use.

Item	Life EXP	Source
Silver Embroidered Craftsman's Clothes	5%-40%	Marketplace
Craftsman's Clothes (Costume)	10%	Equipment Tailoring Coupon
Mastery Accessories	up to 75%	Marketplace / Enhance
Lightstone Combo (incl. stones)	20% / 25%	Marketplace
Sethra's Artifact - Life EXP / Sethra's Artifact - Processing EXP	3%/5%	Lifeskilling
Treant's Tear	30%	Season quest
Caphras - Journal of Nature	10%	Caphras Journal
Seafood Cron Meal (Food)	10%	Marketplace
Verdure Draught (Elixir)	20%	Marketplace
Perfume of Swiftness (Perfume)	20%	Marketplace
GM's Blessing 1 (1 Hour) - GM's Blessing 3 (1 Hour)	10-15%	Rewards
Secret Book of Old Moon (7 Days)	50%	Pearl Shop / Loyalties / Rewards
Sealed Book of Life (1 Day) / Extra Life EXP Scroll	50%	Pearl Shop / Rewards
[Villa] Turning Gates (180 min)	10%	Villa / Tent (Pearl Shop)
[Event] 5th Anniversary Cake	100%	Game Anniversary
Birthday Cake	100%	Account B-day
Secret Book of Florin	20%	Liana/ Events
Experienced Cry / Complete Perfection	10% / 20%	Guild
Guru's Touch	40%	Guild
Donkey Gear Buff	3% / 5/ 10%	[Donkey] Krogdalo's Barding
Pets	up to 50%	Pearl Shop / Rewards
Value Pack (7 Days)	30%	Pearl Shop / Rewards
Server-wide Event Buff or Olvia	50%-100%	Event / Olvia
[Event] Giovan Grolin's Support Scroll	20%	Event
[Event] Six-Leaf Clover	8%	Event
[Event] Hearty Grilled Turkey	10%	Event
[Event] Lara's Warm Black Tea	30%	Event
[Event] Special Coconut Juice	10%	Event
Mercenary's Life (60 min)	50%/150%	Rewards tab (Y)

16. How to make money with processing?

Where to start?

To get your foot into processing, you can take materials you or your workers collected and craft them into materials used for other lifeskills. For example, you can process

Melted Iron Shard,

Polished Stone and

Usable Scantling to produce

Advanced Cooking Utensil or

Advanced Alchemy Tool. You could also process your own

Purified Water for alchemy or

Corn Flour /

Corn Dough for cooking (side note: try to avoid processing wheat dough for your own usage, as it's less valuable than other doughs). It's usually profitable to process materials brought in by workers but I still recommend checking the profit for yourself.

If you process a lot, you will need to buy materials off the market. If you intend to process items for the market, you'll want to gain a basic understanding of which materials are in demand and what they go into, as shown below.

The processing market

The processing market can be broadly divided into three groups based on what is generating the demand for materials.

Market	Characteristics	Examples
Crates / Alch stone upgrades	High supply, high demand, stable profits	Ash Plywood, Bronze Ingot
Cooking	High supply, high demand, stable profits	Corn Flour, Corn Dough
Workshops	Low supply and/or low demand, high but unstable profit potential	Pure Iron Crystal, Sturdy Ash Plywood

Recipes like plywood, ingots, flour and dough are perfect for making money without much effort since they are in high demand. The profit on those recipes tends to be rather low though.

The bdolytics market processing table

You can check processing profits and additional info with the bdolytics processing table.

The table can be a bit overwhelming at first, so I'll explain the info it shows.

• Name: Name of the recipe
• Favourite: Lets you bookmark recipes by clicking on the heart icon
• Silver/Hour: Profit for one hour of processing when buying the materials and selling the product to the market (will adapt based on how you customized the recipe)
• Market Price: Market price of the product
• Price Change: Current Market Price compared to the Market Price 7 days before
• Daily Volume: Number of items sold per day, averaged over the past 7 days
• Volume Change: Current Daily Volume compared to the Daily Volume 7 days before
• Experience: Experience per craft. If two numbers are given, e.g. 200/500 it refers to the main result and rare proc

Sort and Filter

Additionally, you can sort the table by one or more columns and search for specific items through the search bar. For example, if you search for

Ash Plank, bdolytics will show the entry for

Ash Plank as well as all items it can be processed into, like

Ash Plywood or

Ship Repair Material, and further recipes based on those items.

Pitfalls

There are a few pitfalls you want to avoid when choosing items to process for the market:

1. Picking a recipe with low daily volume.

While it can make sense to process low-volume items, those usually require special attention (question 18). I recommend sticking to high-volume items. When I use the processing table, I tend to first sort it by Daily Volume before looking at the Silver/Hour of the recipes to ensure all recipes have sufficient volume.

2. Not checking the input material availability.

looks profitable on paper. Though

Bottle of River Water has a red mark next to it indicating that it's not available on the market. In this case, you can swap the

Bottle of River Water for

Bag of Muddy Water, which has a much higher supply. Though swapping input materials isn't possible for all recipes and some recipes will always have bottlenecks that you'll need to work around.

17. Do I have to combine processing with trading to make it profitable?

Short answer: No.

It can make sense to pack processed materials into crates for certain playstyles, for example when you process a lot or have no

Value Pack (7 Days). Turning in a big stack of crates for billions of silver is satisfying but trading in itself is not a huge moneymaker. Realistically, trading is an optional step on top of processing, which gives a bit of extra profit and requires a fair bit of work.

Long answer: See my post on this topic.

18. What about that 3 bil/H recipe on bdolytics?

This is a screenshot from the processing overview.

Processing is 3 bil/H?? I have to get on that! Where's the catch?

Problems

Problem 1: Limited demand

Dawn Fallen Silk 3 bil/H looks pretty good, huh? But take a look at the daily volume: 220 units sold a day. In an hour of processing at 2k mastery, you could produce 25k dawn fallen silk, which is enough to fully supply the market for almost 16 weeks. Therefore you should take the 3 bil/H figure with a huge grain of salt. Effectively what it means is: any time spent on this recipe is very much worth it but this time is heavily gated.

Problem 2: Limited supply

Pure Mythril Crystal requires

Mythril Ingot /

Melted Mythril Shard /

Mythril, which are extremely hard to come by. Pre-orders fill slowly and there is no way to gather them efficiently. So while the recipe is profitable, the real question is whether the profit is worth the effort of getting the materials.

Problem 3: Price fluctuations and razor-thin margins

Since supply and/or demand for those items is so small, prices tend to fluctuate a lot. Unfortunately, a slight change in input material or product price can easily make these recipes go from +3 bil/H to -3 bil/H.

Solutions

Niche market processing means researching recipes on your own and dealing with the inherent difficulties of these recipes. Here are possible solutions to the problems outlined above:

Solution to Problem 1

Expand your profit avenues by crafting and selling multiple items at once not to oversupply the market.

Solution to Problem 2

Address supply problems by pre-ordering items. You an also consider gathering them yourself, though you'll first want to evaluate whether that's a worthwhile use of your time.

Solution to Problem 3

Forming product chains can stabilize margins, for example turning self-made

Metal Solvent into

Pure Iron Crystal. By using self-crafted

Metal Solvent you get to save on the market tax compared to selling it. The tax savings can massively widen the margin and let you turn a profit where the recipe would otherwise not be profitable when buying the solvent.

I hope this outlines why niche market processing is a lot more difficult to get into than processing for the common markets. To get into niche market processing, you'll be spending initial time on research and then time each day checking prices and listing/re-listing items. The return on the time spent processing and managing your sales can far exceed the income on other activities. But I personally find it quite stressful.

That's why I like to look at niche market processing not as profit per hour but profit per headache. Make of that what you will :)

19. Help, I can't equip a processing stone on my season character D:

Season characters can't equip any gear that gives mastery, processing stones included. That means season characters cannot use mass processing. We can only hope that PA implements a solution for this in a future patch.

20. How do I increase my weight for processing?

Source	Weight
Verdure Draught	200 LT
Seafood Cron Meal (2H) / Marvelous Eilton Meal (10H)	100 LT / 300 LT
Crystals (see question 10)	up to 490 LT
Clang! Clang! lightstone set	30 LT
4x HAN Magic Crystal - Gervish or Combined Magic Crystal - Gervish in mainhand and sub-weapon	150 LT + 60 LT if using HAN crystals
Polar Bear	up to 50 LT (tier 4) per pet
Strength level	up to 40 LT at lvl. 30
Loyalty weight	50 LT, up to 4x
Pearl shop weight	Up to 1050 LT
Fairy skill (Feathery Steps I-V)	5% - 25% of total weight
Silver Embroidered Trader's Clothes	100 - 400 LT
Manos Golden Coral Belt	100 - 600 LT

Resources

• Lifeskill Discord
• Mastery gear cost sheet
• SE vs. manos clothes sheet
• Bearist's Processing EXP Calculator

Feedback is always welcome!

Thanks for reading :)

If you have questions, corrections or suggestions, here are some ways in which you can reach out to me:

• Leave a comment below this guide.
• Leave an (anonymous) response on the feedback form
• Write a message to Summer#8727 or @ me in the Lifeskill Discord.

Thanks to the people who pointed out mistakes / gave suggestions:

• Dr. Phil
• Suxage