Processing

Processing Methods

 * Shaking - Shaking is a processing skill where two ingredients are mixed together to create other resources, mainly cooking ingredients.
 * Grinding - Grinding is a crafting skill which uses a single ingredient and grinds it in a stone mortar and pestle to create ingredients for cooking or other trades.
 * Chopping - Chopping is a crafting skill which allows you to chop timber to create planks to use in further crafting.
 * Drying - Drying has a variety of uses. It can be used to dry meat and fish, but also to extract salt from saltwater, making cheese from milk, and more. It is only available during the day when it is not raining, and only if you are not standing in water.
 * Filtering - Filtering is used for purifying water and refining feathers.
 * Heating - Heating allows a limited number of items to be heated, like metal ore to create metal shards.
 * Simple Alchemy - With Simple Alchemy, you can make lesser potions, and combine potions to make greater ones.
 * Simple Cooking - Simple Cooking is the most rudimentary form of processing food ingredients. Only very basic recipes can be made with Simple Cooking.
 * Imperial Cuisine - Pack dishes for Imperial Delivery.
 * Imperial Alchemy - Pack alchemy items for imperial delivery.
 * Manufacture - Craft various tools and siege weapons.

First Tier Processing
==== First Tier Processing is available from the start of the game. For example, it allows you to heat ore into melted shards and chop timber into planks, but processing the materials further requires second tier processing ====

Second Tier Processing
Second tier processing allows you to, for example, heat melted shards into ingots and chop planks into plywood. To unlock this tier, you need to complete the quest Learning Higher Processing Skills, which can be obtained in two ways: Have Gathering Apprentice 4 and get the quest directly from Ficy in Heidel City, or complete the questline started by the Black Spirit as you enter Heidel City.

The Black Spirit will ask you to go to Jemkas Wyrmsbane, who will have the quest Because I Like You, which requires you to either have Gathering Beginner 7 or have completed the quest Go to the Northern Heidel Quarry. Complete the rest of the questline to get access to Learning Higher Processing Skills: When accepting Learning Higher Processing Skills, Ficy will ask you to learn three types of gathering knowledge from experts in Heidel: Three other beginner skills are also available for you to learn:
 * Because I Like You
 * Nothing Our Friendship Can't Do
 * Settling Down in Heidel
 * Bustling Alejandro Farm
 * Helping With the Pumpkin Harvest
 * A Threatening Scarecrow
 * A Meat Dish for the Workers
 * In Search of Higher Processing Knowledge...
 * Complete Materials for Equipment Repair to learn Grinding: Beginner from Ornella.
 * Complete Working the Ash Tree to learn Chopping: Beginner from Lebyos.
 * Complete Pure Water for an Experiment to learn Heating: Beginner from Flaviano.
 * Complete Need Soft Hides! to learn Drying: Beginner from Techthon.
 * Complete Toys (?) for Kids to learn Shaking: Beginner from Lara.
 * Complete Filtering Feathers to learn Filtering: Beginner from Dora Fonti.

Third Tier Processing
Third tier processing allows you to, for example, process ingots into pure crystals and plywood into sturdy plywood. To unlock this tier, you need to complete a series of questlines starting with the one given by Vatudun in Keplan, which will teach you Heating: Skilled. The questline is started by talking to an unnamed villager in the workshop behind Adrian and getting the quest Excellent Magnate. The quest is only available if you have Gathering Skilled 10 and Processing Professional 5, and have completed all the beginner skills quests.

You must then complete these quests from Vatudun to learn Heating: Skilled: After completing Vatudun's quests, he will send you to Murghed in Trent to learn more about woodcutting.
 * A Man Better than Coal (?)
 * Materials for Skills
 * Pure Iron Crystal

Complete these quests to learn Chopping: Skilled: After completing his questline, Murghed will advise you to go to Behr and talk to Likke Behr to learn more about drying. The last quest in Likke Behr's questline requires you to know Shaking: Skilled, which you can get as an achievement reward for reaching Processing Artisan 1.
 * (Processing) Looking for a Woodcutting Expert...
 * Amazing Tree Art
 * Processing Wood with Fire

Complete these quests to learn Drying: Skilled: After completing the prior quests and having unlocked Drying:Skilled and Shaking:Skilled a few quests from Geranoa, a Material Vendor in Calpheon City located in the Market Street district, will be available.
 * Pride of Behr
 * The Best Hide

Complete these quests to learn Grinding: Skilled: After completing this questline, Geranoa will send you to Matheo Oberen in Oberen Farm, to the south of Calpheon City, to learn more about filtering.
 * Geranoa's Proposal
 * Gemstone Value
 * The Best Jewel

Complete these quests to learn Filtering: Skilled:
 * Troubled Oberen Farm
 * Gotta Pluck Them All
 * Usable Feathers
 * Need More Feathers
 * Hunting to Extinction

Processing Levels and Procs
Remember, with higher Processing levels one will find that more items are being created for each individual process.

If every 5 Iron Ore usually give 1 Melted Iron Shard at low levels, at higher Processing level one can see that not only this is gradually increased to give 1-4 Melted Iron Shards (maximum is 4), there's also the possibility of the process giving you a third tier processed item.

In this example, an Iron Ingot that is usually created when Heating 10 Melted Iron Shards can be received while Heating 5 Iron Ore to obtain Melted Iron Shards. Note: one will still receive the second tier item/s.

Advancement Quests
After a character arrives at both lvl 10 and Processing Beginner 10 the Black Spirit will show you the first Processing Advancement quest in the Guide section (to the right of its menu). These quests aren't required to advance in the Life Skill but will award a good amount of Processing exp and teach a wide variety of Processing recipes.
 * (Processing Advancement Lv10) Vype's Request (Req. lvl 10 & Proc. Beginner 10)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv15) Workshop Expansion (Req. lvl 15 & Proc. Apprentice 5)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv20) The Lord's Special Quest (Req. lvl 20 & Pr. Apprentice 10)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv25) Supplying Water to Glish (Req. lvl 25 & Proc. Skilled 5)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv30) Impatient Jeron (Req. lvl 30 & Proc. Skilled 10)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv34) To Exhausted Soldiers... (Req. lvl 34 & Proc. Professional 4)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv37) Hide for Trina (Req. lvl 37 & Proc. Professional 7)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv40) For Calpheon (Req. lvl 40 & Proc. Professional 10)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv44) Work for Tarif (Req. lvl 44 & Proc. Artisan 4)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv47) Have to Give... (Req. lvl 47 & Proc. Artisan 7)
 * (Processing Advancement Lv50) Altinova's Prestige (Req. lvl 50 & Proc. Artisan 10)