Teleporters - Crafting with Savvy

   Hello again everyone! We sure have been busy here at Castle of Crafts, our actual website, Castle of Crafts is live and you can visit me in my attic and ask for suggestions of housing items that you can craft. You can also still visit my Midday Estate; I’m going to be keeping it on the tours so stop on by!

Castle Blocks...Again - Crafting with Savvy

     Alright, I don't know how much you guys have played with the castle blocks but I've realized that it takes a lot of blocks to make even a small extra building. Yes, the Midday Estate, Meadows at dusk and the Night Garden are bewitched to allow an extra 250 castle blocks inside and out but the castles pre-built already take that many or more! You can get elixirs to increase the amount of items you can set down but that only increases the amount total, not the bewitched castle blocks allowance. So if you don't want to spend a ton on elixirs the only solution I can think of is to use as many of the XL pieces as you can and try to avoid the small and XS where you can. My buddy Lloyd Fallingwater, you know, in the Shopping District, he pointed out some huge pieces that can really help you free up some space.

Craftable Music Players - Crafting with Savvy

     A while ago I had commented to Dezzy that it's a shame that there is only one kind of music player and how awesome it would be if there was one themed after each world, later that week the B.O.X.E.S. appeared and wouldn't you know, she got Dragon's Roost Player dropped. Alas, I'm not very lucky when it comes to creatures dropping what I want, but thankfully Rose Piper heard my complaint and by the time the B.O.X.E.S. reappeared she had mastered the recipes to not only the Dragon's Roost Player but a bunch of others as well! You should have heard her tooting her own horn!

Customizable Signs - Crafting with Savvy

     

     Ever since I first arrived at Ravenwood I have been fascinated with the chalkboards in the classrooms. I was excited to find that they are craftable but I became so busy saving the Spiral that I forgot all about crafting one until I stumbled upon the recipe in my book earlier. There are other craftable signs as well, some are themed, Grizzleheim, Marlybone and Wizard City while others could be added to any house, Framed, Gravestone and of course, Chalkboard. 

Castle Blocks - Part 2 - Crafting with Savvy

 

      After my previous experiments with castle blocks I decided to build the Midday Estate, maybe an entire house made out of the various blocks would be cool. When I got to my new home I began exploring, I didn’t like the house out front much so I tore it down, picked up all the pieces and started from scratch. I found that what is supposed to be a very simple process could become quite frustrating if things don’t line up just right. Nevertheless, there is something amazing about building a house exactly how you want it to be. Oh, you want a tower 6 levels high? You got it!

Castle Blocks - Part 1 - Crafting with Savvy

     

      In previous articles I have mentioned castle blocks, at first I wasn't sure about them. The possibilities are really cool but they seem to lack the personality that I was getting from using the tablet/marker combo. However, I decided that it was unfair to judge the newest items without giving them a chance first. Most of the recipes are fairly cheap and mainly use reagents that are easily accessible, which is nice. The pieces fit together with ease where as the markers had to be arranged in a certain way to form an extra room. Unfortunately the walls can not be placed at a diagonal and there are only two different styles.

Crafting with Savvy - Kitchen Items

     Today I’m going to discuss kitchen items; I mean we all have to eat right? We do eat eventually, right? Well, even if we don’t it will make for a nice place to craft pet snacks anyway. Besides, a house is just not complete without a kitchen. The recipes for almost everything you could want in a kitchen can be bought from the big ‘ol teddy bear, Tarold Wayfinder in Northgaurd, Grizzleheim. He sells recipes from kitchen cabinets to gold place settings.

Crafting with Savvy - Intro

     

As you may be able to guess by Savvy’s Attic holding the housing items, I love to decorate. Starting with an empty property and filling it with all sorts of things until it looks perfect, looks as though you actually live there instead of it just being storage, adding personality. The Spiral only offers so many styles of houses, so a lot of people end up having the same type. However if you've ever visited the different castles posted with Myrella Windspar you may have noticed that it all depends on what you decorate your house with that makes it home. In this series I’m going to point out some of the many wonderful housing items that you can craft so that you may also know the joy and sense of accomplishment of a fully decorated house.

The Attic

     Slowly but surely I've been adding housing recipes to the attic. I've finally reached the "S" section of the long list of housing recipes. I've found so much that I had no clue you could craft. For example, before there were castle blocks I would make walls with the different tablets and markers that are either Krokotopia, Dragonspyre or Mooshu themed. Typically I would buy them from the bazaar unless I was lucky enough to get a few dropped. They aren't very much but when you have several houses and use them regularly it does add up, not to mention that there are only so many of each in stock and only so many different variations.