Alchemy/Blacksmith

[egeslean05]

Until now I haven't made anything with either a blacksmith or alchemist so I'm not sure how it all works. It says it'll take 10+ hours to make something for blacksmith and 1 day for alchemist, if I rebirth will they still be working on those things or will it reset the time? Also, is there anyway to have more than one alchemist/blacksmith work on the same item to speed up the time?

[Fel]

Both alchemists and blacksmith continue to work without being impacted by rebirths.
They can also be fed while crafting.

You can make the crafting faster but it is by making a hammer for blacksmiths and a pot for alchemists.
They craft faster as their class level goes up (their class level tends to go up a bit faster than other classes as well).
If the element of the item matches the element of the pet, it also ets a small bonus to the crafting speed.
You can also spend 300k pet stones to increase it by 25% (only once) and 100 ChP for 1% (up to 10 times).

But yes, crafting for these two classes takes a lot of time so you kind of want to start with them fairly early on so that you have whatever items and equipments for when you start needing them instead of always trying to catch up to the demand.

[egeslean05]

I just finished 50 DRC and I'm working on CBC right now (finished 3, working on 4th). I have my blacksmiths making hammers right now. It's only been fairly recently that I've been getting a decent number of crafting mats. If I had realized how useful (maybe even essential) pets were I would have put more focus into them before recently XD

I know each item has a quality grade that can be increased, but is it possible to upgrade an item to its better version? Like, can the forging hammer be made into a shaping hammer later or does that have to be crafted/upgraded on its own?

[Fel]

It's not just possible, to craft a higher tier item you need its lower tier at least at a certain quality and upgrade level.
For tier 2 items like the shaping hammer you need a quality of B or above forging hammer and +5 or above in upgrades (it keeps half of the upgrades and a higher quality means better chances of good quality for the result).

When you are working with tier 1 equipments because of a lack of materials to make tier 2, it's often cheaper to just scrap the low quality items and craft them again (or to just equip them as is on pets because smaller bonuses are better than nothing).

[MaceX]

Originally posted by egeslean05:

I just finished 50 DRC and I'm working on CBC right now (finished 3, working on 4th). I have my blacksmiths making hammers right now. It's only been fairly recently that I've been getting a decent number of crafting mats. If I had realized how useful (maybe even essential) pets were I would have put more focus into them before recently XD

You use the term hammers. You would only want 1 hammer per blacksmith. At your stage and how many pets you have, I would say you would only want 1 black smith and 1 alchemist. I set my mouse as a blacksmith and my bee as a alchemist. I would say that you only need a second alchemist when you decide you are good enough to create Unidine pet.

[egeslean05]

Right now I have 2 blacksmiths (hermit crab and mouse) and 2 alchemists (frog and bee).