Raw materials ore objects that can be used to repair or create items, some materials can only be used for certain things, be sure to ask or explore to learn more. ShadowMUD offers several different types of raw materials that can be used to fix or create armors or create new items Ores: Ores are different sizes of raw metals, stone, or crystal that can be found mining and similar ways, different locations will give you different types of ores. Blue ice: Blue ice is a rare and magical ice that is created in only a few ways, and is found by killing ice elementals, or in several cold locations. Blue ice comes in many shapes and sizes which limits what can be from different pieces. Gems: Gems can be used to create jewelry or adorn other items, they are found by mining, and other ways so be sure to explore. Leather: Leather is formed from the tanned skins of animals or even humaniod creatures, most people learn to skin a corpse at some point and later have a tanner create leather. Leather pieces may also fall off broken armors and can be used to repair or reconstruct the broken armor. Skins: Snake, gator, dragon, and lizard skins are simalar to leather but formed from reptiles and may provide more protection then more simple leathers and are created the same way as normal leathers by visiting a tanner. Scales: Dragon or nagascales are hard outer layers formed from hard scales of dragons and nagas and is harder and less flexible then normal leathers and in most cases found as is in natural. Most scales can be worked like leather but also can be carved or chiseled if hard enough. Wood: Pieces of wood can be found in most places, you will have to learn how to harvest to get usable pieces to use as raw materials Cloth: Cloth is formed from weaving animal hair or plant fibers togather, most are rolled into what is called a bolt that can be used to sew clothing and armors. Qualities: inferior, poor, rough, ordinary, average, fair, good, fine, exceptional, flawless See also: gems, metals, textiles