Masonry Skill

Masonry

Class	Skills
Type	Skill
Skill Group	Crafting
Max Level	10
Total XP	32,775
Skill Books	Masonry Skill Books
Best Occupation	Construction Worker (+2)

The Masonry Skill governs building with brick and stone. It covers walls, door frames, window frames, cooking pits, stone mills and stone tool heads. It belongs to the Crafting group.

Brick and stone buildings can be stronger than wooden ones. That makes masonry a good choice for a lasting base. Cooking pits give a place to cook without a stove, and the stone mill and quern grind grain. Bricks come from the Pottery skill, so the two skills work well together. A higher level makes stronger and better constructions. The Construction Worker starts with the most Masonry. The Carpenter, Engineer and DIY Expert each start with a smaller head start.

How to Level Masonry

Masonry experience comes from masonry crafting and building. Each recipe and each piece built gives experience.

Breaking a large stone into stones is a simple early recipe. Stone cabinets and tile floors are also available at level 0. Removing stones from the ground with a pickaxe gives experience too.

Some grassy tiles in forests and wild areas have large stones sunk in them. Those stones can be removed from the ground and placed as items. This is one of the best ways to gather large stones.

From level 1, making a stone block from stone gives a good amount of experience. Brick walls, stone walls and their frames give more from level 2.

Mineral deposits hold limestone, flint and stone. Stones, large smooth stones and large stones lie around the world as well.

The Crafty and Fast Learner traits each raise the experience rate to 130 percent. The Slow Learner trait lowers it to 70 percent.

The first level comes from crushing large stones. That is the single recipe that trains the skill from level 0 to level 1. A small pile of large stones from the forest is enough to get started. After that, stone blocks become the main training recipe.

Stone blocks are cut with a mason's chisel and a hammer. Cutting blocks where the stone lies saves carrying heavy rock across the map. The blocks then go straight into walls and frames.

Plan materials before breaking many stones. Walls need many blocks, and frames need fewer. Knowing the count ahead of time stops a lot of wasted work.

The XP each Masonry level asks for, with the running total from level 0.

Level	XP Needed	Total XP
1	75	75
2	150	225
3	300	525
4	750	1,275
5	1,500	2,775
6	3,000	5,775
7	4,500	10,275
8	6,000	16,275
9	7,500	23,775
10	9,000	32,775

Masonry Level Effects

Each level opens new stonework. Level 1 brings the simple cooking pit, the stone mill, the stone quern and stone blocks.

Level 2 is a big step. Brick walls, stone walls, stone door frames and window frames all open here. The cooking pit, the stone anvil and stone wheels also arrive.

Level 5 brings the good brick wall, short brick wall, brick fence and craftsman window frame. These are the strongest brick pieces.

The high levels turn to tool heads. Level 6 allows chiselling a large stone axe head. Level 7 adds the stone maul head, and level 8 brings the stone mace head.

Masonry buildings can be stronger than wooden ones. A brick or stone wall makes a strong outer layer for a long term base. The cooking pit gives a place to cook with fuel once the power is gone.

Masonry Skill Books

The Masonry Skill Books come in five volumes. Each volume speeds up experience for two levels. Masonry I: "A Bricklayer's Life" covers the first two levels. Masonry V: "Statistical Analysis of Historic Masonry Constructions" covers the last two. Reading each volume just before its levels gives the most benefit.

The five volumes, the levels each one speeds up, the XP bonus while those levels are trained, and how long each takes to read. Reading times are game time at the default two minutes a page. Sitting down and wearing Reading Glasses each cut the time by a tenth, the Fast Reader trait cuts it by about a third, and Slow Reader adds a third.

Volume	Levels	XP Bonus	Pages	Read Time	Spawn ID
Masonry I: "A Bricklayer's Life"	1 to 2	x3	220	7 h 20 min	`/additem Base.BookMasonry1`
Masonry II: "Flooring: Do It Yourself"	3 to 4	x5	260	8 h 40 min	`/additem Base.BookMasonry2`
Masonry III: "Dibnah's Guide to Bricks"	5 to 6	x8	300	10 h	`/additem Base.BookMasonry3`
Masonry IV: "Secrets of a Professional Mason"	7 to 8	x12	340	11 h 20 min	`/additem Base.BookMasonry4`
Masonry V: "Statistical Analysis of Historic Masonry Constructions"	9 to 10	x16	380	12 h 40 min	`/additem Base.BookMasonry5`

Set of Masonry Books bundles all five volumes in one item and unpacks into them.

Item	Image	Spawn ID
Set of Masonry Books		`/additem Base.BookMasonrySet`

Masonry Starting Levels

The Construction Worker begins with two levels of Masonry, which opens brick and stone walls at once. The Carpenter, Engineer and DIY Expert each begin with one level. The Mason trait adds two levels, and the Handy trait adds one.

A character with two levels can build stone walls on the first day.

These occupations and traits start a character with levels in Masonry.

Name	Type	Levels	Points
Construction Worker	Occupation	+2	-2
Mason	Trait	+2	-2
Carpenter	Occupation	+1	-2
DIY Expert	Occupation	+1	-2
Engineer	Occupation	+1	-4
Handy	Trait	+1	-8

Masonry Recipes

At the lowest level, masonry covers simple stone jobs. Large stones break down into smaller stones. Stone cabinets and tile floors can be built.

The low levels add the simple cooking pit, the stone mill, the stone quern and stone blocks. Brick and stone walls follow, along with door frames, window frames and a full cooking pit.

The stone anvil and stone wheels support metalworking and milling. The higher levels bring the best brick walls and fences, and finally stone tool heads for axes, mauls and maces.

Most masonry needs a mason's trowel. Some recipes also need a mason's chisel, a hammer or a club hammer.

Masonry works best as part of a chain. Pottery supplies bricks. Knapping supplies stone chisels when no mason's chisel turns up. Carpentry supplies the brick molds. A group that shares these skills can build a full stone base from raw material.

The stone anvil at level 2 gives a metalworker a place to work. Together with the mill, the quern and the wheels, it makes masonry useful even for a character who never builds a wall.

Every recipe that asks for Masonry or trains it, one tab per level asked.

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
10x Stone		Break Large Stone into Stones	1x Large Stone	Club Hammer	Masonry: 0	In Hand	No	`/additem Base.Stone2`
Stone Cabinet	-	Build Stone Cabinet	1x Bucket of Concrete 10x Stone 2x Large Smooth Flat Stone	-	Masonry: 0	-	No	-
Tile Floor	-	Build Tile Floor	1x Bucket of Concrete 4x Ceramic Tile	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 0	-	No	-

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
Simple Cooking Pit	-	Build Simple Cooking Pit	1x Bucket of Concrete 10x Stone 3x Tree Branch or Wooden Rod	-	Masonry: 1	-	No	-
Stone Mill	-	Build Stone Mill	1x Stone Wheel 2x Small Stone Wheel 1x Large Handle 1x Wooden Rod 10x Stone Block 1x Bucket of Concrete	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 1	-	No	-
Stone Block		Make Stone Block from Stone	1x Stone	Claw Hammer Stone Chisel	Masonry: 1	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneBlock`
Stone Quern	-	Stone Quern	1x Stone Wheel 2x Small Stone Wheel 1x Medium Handle	-	Masonry: 1	-	No	-

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
Brick Wall (Poor)	-	Brick Wall	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	`/additem Base.BucketConcreteFull`
Brick Window Frame (Poor)	-	Brick Window Frame (Basic)	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	`/additem Base.BucketConcreteFull`
Brick Door Frame (Poor)	-	Build Brick Door Frame (Poor)	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	`/additem Base.BucketConcreteFull`
Cooking Pit	-	Cooking Pit	10x Stone Block 1x Bucket of Concrete	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	-
2x Small Stone Wheel		Make Small Stone Wheel	1x Large Stone	Claw Hammer Stone Chisel	Masonry: 2	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneWheelSmall`
Stone Anvil		Make Stone Anvil	1x Large Stone	Claw Hammer	Masonry: 2	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneAnvil`
Stone Wheel		Make Stone Wheel	1x Large Stone	Claw Hammer Stone Chisel	Masonry: 2	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneWheel`
Stone Door Frame	-	Stone Doorframe	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Stone Block	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	-
Stone Wall	-	Stone Wall	2x Bucket of Concrete 6x Stone Block	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	-
Stone Window Frame	-	Stone Window Frame	2x Bucket of Concrete 5x Stone Block	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 2	-	No	-

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
Brick Wall (Good)	-	Brick Wall	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 5	-	No	`/additem Base.BucketConcreteFull`
Brick Fence (Good)	-	Brick Wall (Short)	1x Bucket of Concrete 2x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 5	-	No	`/additem Base.BucketConcreteFull`
Brick Window Frame	-	Brick Window Frame (Craftsman)	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 5	-	No	-
Brick Door Frame (Good)	-	Build Brick Door Frame (Good)	2x Bucket of Concrete 4x Brick	Wooden Trowel	Masonry: 5	-	No	`/additem Base.BucketConcreteFull`

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
Large Stone Axe Head		Chisel Large Stone Axe Head	1x Large Smooth Flat Stone	Club Hammer Mason's Chisel	Masonry: 6	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneAxeHead`

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
Stone Maul Head		Chisel Stone Maul Head	1x Large Smooth Flat Stone	Club Hammer Mason's Chisel	Masonry: 7	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneMaulHead`

Name	Image	Recipe	Crafting Materials	Tools	Skill	Station	Learned	Spawn ID
Stone Mace Head		Make Stone Mace Head	1x Large Smooth Flat Stone	Club Hammer Mason's Chisel	Masonry: 8	Any Surface	No	`/additem Base.StoneMaceHead`

Masonry Building

These pieces in the build menu ask for Masonry, from the lowest level up.

Name	Image	Build Skill
Simple Cooking Pit		Masonry: 1
Brick Door Frame (Poor)		Masonry: 2
Brick Wall (Poor)		Masonry: 2
Brick Window Frame (Poor)		Masonry: 2
Cooking Pit		Masonry: 2
Stone Door Frame		Masonry: 2
Stone Wall		Masonry: 2
Stone Window Frame		Masonry: 2
Brick Door Frame (Good)		Masonry: 5
Brick Fence (Good)		Masonry: 5
Brick Wall (Good)		Masonry: 5
Brick Window Frame		Masonry: 5

Notes

Dig large stones out of grassy forest tiles for easy material.
Bricks come from Pottery, so train both for brick buildings.
Level 2 opens stone and brick walls.
A cooking pit allows cooking without a stove.
Keep a mason's trowel with the building kit.

All Character Categories

All Skills

Skill	Type	Total XP	Spawn ID
Axe	Skill	32,775	`/additem Base.Axe_Old`
Long Blunt	Skill	32,775	-
Short Blunt	Skill	32,775	-
Long Blade	Skill	32,775	-
Short Blade	Skill	32,775	-
Spear	Skill	32,775	-
Maintenance	Skill	32,775	-

Skill	Image	Type	Total XP
Aiming		Skill	32,775
Reloading		Skill	32,775

Skill	Type	Total XP
Carpentry	Skill	32,775
Carving	Skill	32,775
Cooking	Skill	32,775
Electrical	Skill	32,775
Glassmaking	Skill	32,775
Knapping	Skill	32,775
Masonry	Skill	32,775
Blacksmithing	Skill	32,775
Mechanics	Skill	32,775
Pottery	Skill	32,775
Tailoring	Skill	32,775
Welding	Skill	32,775