Artisan Archive

Please post your Artisan related questions on this thread. Also feel free to contribute your favorite frequently asked Question/Answer.

This thread will become the Artisan FAQ, updated every Sunday.

Bianca Minola

How do I make a good item?
What do the different qualities mean in this resource?
Why can't I experiment on the items I'm crafting?

These questions any MANY more are answered in the advanced crafting guide:
http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=Advanced%20Guide%20Crafting

Here's another I see every 7-8 days:


Q: I'm standing on an 87% concentration of [insert surveyed resource here] but it tells me that the resource density is too low to collect a sample. Why?

A: This is a known bug with newly spawned resources. Wait a few hours and try again. If you place a harvester, it will be able to draw the resource.

Q: I finally got my first harvester, but I can't place it anywhere. What do I do?

A: Move farther away from cities, lairs, and structures.

Q: Every time I try to craft something, I get a message 'Failed to start crafting session'! Howdo I fix this?

A: Type in /stopcrafting or /stopcraftingsession

I put too many credits into my harvester's maintenence fund. Is there a way to get some of them back?

What is the maint rate and power consumption of each class of harvester ?

And in answer to the person that put too much money in your harvester, you cant' get it back BUT it will stay there when you redeed it. I put 70k on accident in a small mining harv and it will NEVER run out /sigh. But you cannot get it back.

Question: How do I survey for a fusion reactor? Is there a special survey tool?
Answer: It is using radioactive material, so any radioactive material will work. A normal mineral survey tool is all that is needed.

In answer to the harvester maintenance question, there is an EXCELLENT harvester calculator available at www.swgcraft.com

Q: Why is my bulky vendor so expensive to run?

A: Currently the vendor's maintinence is determined by the total value of items on that vendor. 1/1000 of the total value of those items is charged to you every 45 minutes. Get the Merchant profession and get an NPC vendor to avoid these astronomical vendor fees.


Q: How do I place items creatively around my house?

A: There are many tricks and commands useful in decorating your house.

First, if you don't have stairs then you cannot (as of September 03) place items higher than the ground. To place items higher on your walls ascend up some stairs and drop the item there. Then move the item into place anywhere in that room.

Second, to move and rotate items you can use the chat "commandline". These commands respectively move an item forward and back the maximum and then turn the item left & right (directions are opposite the item context menus. /move forward 40; /move back 40; /rotate right 90; /rotate left 90;

Every time you move forward/back the item's rotation angle is reset.

Third for expert stacking drop all of the items you are going to stack and move the items in series from the 3rd person perspective. Turn and resposition your character conservatively. Each movement you make inbetween /move commands will introduce error in the final positioning that is difficult to avoid.

Q: How do I color text?

A: Parts of SWG chat, item names, and most store signs use html-syntax color.

\#FF0000\This is RED
\#00FF00\This is GREEN
\#0000FF\This is BLUE

You can not currently remove power and maintenence from your harvesters, however, when you redeed - any extra (after the cost of the redeed) is maintained in the harvester for the next time you use it.

Bianca Minola

Q:Does potential energy matter when powering Harvesters? How does it work?

A: Great thread explaining it here - http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=artisan&message.id=17294

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