Profession Skills and Quests

Any adventurer needs to know how to survive, build and upgrade. Each Skill will have multiple tiers of upgrading. Association quests will lead you to towns, ports and fortresses that can teach you how.

## Hunting

Hunting serves many purposes for surviving in the wilderness. You can extract two resources from hunting. The more you hunting resources you extract the higher your hunting profession level raises. Raising your hunting level reduces the amount of hits it takes to either skin an animal for hide or for meat.

* Meat -Harvest meat from wildlife to cook and regain health. Meat can be harvested with a Hunting Knife.
* Hide -Harvest animal hide that can be used for building guard tents and making magic spell books.

## Farming

Farming is an amazing support skill to have at your disposal. Raising your farming level increases the amount of food you can harvest in a given period of time.

* Farming Shovel - Hit the ground to make a Dirt Clump. Place Dirt Clump onto the ground to prepare for farming.
* Carrot - You can chop carrots up and add with dirt to grow more carrots.
* Seed or Spore - You can find or make Seeds and Spores to place into dirt to grow health and magic replenishing food items.

## Cooking

Cooking skills synergize with hunting and farming resources. Cooking increases the benefits of health and magic recovery. You can stock up meals before quests and even share them with your friends in Co-Op Multiplayer. The more you cook the higher your cooking skill level increases. The higher your cooking level the faster you cook meals.

* Advanced Cooking - Add ingredients together for added benefit
* Basic Cooking - Place any kind of meat on campfires to eat. You cannot consume raw meat.
* Camp Fires - Camp Fires as used to cook meals and can be found everywhere. You can craft your own or find them at towns and camps
* Cooking bowl - Bowls used for creating advanced meals
* Meat Cleaver - Used to chop meat to be added to cooking bowls

## Smithing

Smithing is one of the most important skills in RFVR. It is highly recommended that you smith your weapons whenever you get a chance to. By doing this you will enhance both regular damage and charged elemental damage. Forge quests will show you how to use basic and advanced smithing techniques. The more you strike objects while smithing the higher your smithing level increases. The higher your smithing level is the less you will need to strike to smith them.

* Broken Weapons - Depending on the broken weapon you can add two to three metal ores and you can forge a unique item from it
* Forge - The forge is a crucial to smithing and refining items. You can find them everywhere on the island. You can make of purchase your own.
* Smithing Hammers - There are four different tiers of Smithing hammers can be used to level up your gear.

## Mining

Mining can be a very useful commerce skill. Ores, stones and crystals can be sold for cash or can be used in making items, spellbooks, smithing, armor and gun upgrades. Crystals can also be refined for higher tier crafting. The more you hit with your pickaxe the higher your mining level increases. The higher your mining level is the less you will need to hit with your pickaxe to make stone and extract ore.

* Pick Axe - Pick axes are used to extract stone and crystal ore. Any stone surfaces can be struck with the pickaxe to extract stone. Special stones can be found with crystals in them. Hit the crystals with the pick axe to extract crystal ore.