AlbionUtil

Master Crafting Guide

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Resource Return Rate (RRR)

RRR is the percentage of materials refunded after crafting an item. Each Royal City (Thetford, Fort Sterling, Lymhurst, Bridgewatch, Martlock, Caerleon) provides specific production bonuses (+15% to +20% base, up to 47.9% with focus or higher in Hideouts). Crafting in the wrong city severely hurts your profit.

Crafting Specialties — Lymhurst

+15% Local Bonus|24.8% Base RRR|47.9% with Focus
Sword
Sword
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Bow
Bow
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Arcane Staff
Arcane Staff
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Leather Hood
Leather Hood
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Leather Shoes
Leather Shoes
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Golden Rule of RRR:

Crafting in the right city grants a 24.8% base return (versus 15.2% in cities without a bonus) and reaches up to 47.9% with Focus. In Hideouts with black zone bonuses it can exceed 53.9%. AlbionUtil automatically detects the ideal city for each item.

Crafting Focus & Masteries

With Premium you gain 10,000 focus per day. At level 0 specialization, crafting an item can consume over 8,000 focus. Leveling the item spec and its sibling weapons/armors to 100 reduces the cost below 500 focus, multiplying the number of items you can focus-craft each day by 15x.

Focus Calculator

Adept's Broadsword
Click to search item

Tier

Enchantment

Crafting Masteries
Warrior Weapons CrafterLevel / 100
Adept's BroadswordActive
BroadswordLevel / 100
Adept's Claymore
ClaymoreLevel / 100
Adept's Dual Swords
Dual SwordsLevel / 100
Adept's Clarent Blade
Clarent BladeLevel / 100
Adept's Carving Sword
Carving SwordLevel / 100
Adept's Galatine Pair
Galatine PairLevel / 100
Adept's Kingmaker
KingmakerLevel / 100
Adept's Infinity Blade
Infinity BladeLevel / 100
Base Focus

234

Without masteries
Real Focus

234

-0% Savings
Cross-Specialization Bonus (Siblings):

Leveling weapons or armor from the same group grants passive points that lower the focus cost of every item in that family. AlbionUtil lets you save your masteries so it always calculates the exact spend.

Worker Journals

Carrying empty journals in your inventory while crafting fills them automatically at zero extra cost. Full journals can be sold on the market for an extra 10% to 25% profit margin, or sent to laborers on private islands for free refined materials.

Worker Journals Calculator

Adept's Broadsword
Click to search item

Tier

Enchantment

Quantity

This item does not generate worker journals.
Step 1: Buy

Buy empty journals matching the tier and type of gear you will craft.

Step 2: Craft

Crafting fame fills the journals in your inventory automatically, for free.

Step 3: Profit (+20%)

Sell the full journals on the market or send them to your laborers.

Station Fees & Market Taxes

City crafting stations charge a fee per 100 nutrition consumed. In addition, selling on the market applies taxes: 6.5% with Premium (4% setup + 2.5% sales tax) versus 10.5% without Premium (8% + 2.5%). AlbionUtil accurately calculates these deductions.

Full journals are the exception: they pay only the 2.5% sales tax, with or without Premium.

Market Tax Calculator
Silver
Selling Method
Net Silver Received (Premium Account)
935.000Silver
You keep 93.5% of the total sell value.
Extra Silver Saved with Premium
+40.000 Silver

4.0% extra directly in your pocket when creating sell orders instead of losing it to fees.

Premium Account(6.5% Total)
935.000 Net Silver
Order Fee (4%):-40.000
Sales Tax (2.5%):-25.000
Total Deductions:-65.000
Without Premium (Free)(10.5% Total)
895.000 Net Silver
Order Fee (8%):-80.000
Sales Tax (2.5%):-25.000
Total Deductions:-105.000

Studying Items vs. Selling

At any crafting station you can 'Study' crafted items. This destroys the item but awards 275% of the crafting fame. It is the fastest strategy to power-level masteries from Tier 4 to Tier 6 before crafting Tier 7 and Tier 8 for market profit.

Phase 1: Leveling (T4 - T5)

Mass-craft Tier 4 and Tier 5 items in the bonus city and study them right away. With the 275% fame bonus you will reach specialization level 100 in a fraction of the usual time.

Phase 2: Monetization (T6 - T8)

With your specialization at 100 and a minimal focus cost (~500), craft high-value items with Focus and Journals. Sell them on the market or at the Caerleon Black Market to maximize your silver margin.

How to Use the Calculator?

The AlbionUtil crafting calculator gives you your real net profit before you spend a single piece of silver. Here is the step-by-step flow:

1

Pick your item, Tier and Enchantment

Use the sidebar on the left to browse by category (Weapons, Armor, Tools, etc.) or type a name in the search box. Select the tier and enchantment level you plan to craft.

Select an Item

Search items to craft…
Armor
Leather Armor
Mercenary JacketMercenary Jacket
Stalker JacketStalker Jacket
Hellion JacketHellion Jacket
Weapons

Tier

T4
T5
T6
T7
T8

Enchantment

.0
.1
.2
.3
.4
2

Configure the craft, and Advanced Settings

The Item Craft panel is where you configure your crafting run. Enable Premium Account if your subscription is active — it lowers market tax from 10.5% to 6.5%. Toggle Black Market if you plan to sell items there instead. Then set the quantity and the sell price of the finished item. Under Advanced Settings, Station Fee is the charge your crafting station applies per craft, and Extra Costs lets you log any other silver spent during the craft — food buffs and rerolls are the most common examples.

Item Craft

Premium Account
Black Market
Quantity20
Sell Price80.000
Advanced Settings
Station Fee
3.000
Silver / craft
Extra Costs
Transports5.000
Foods2.000
3

Enter your prices, Materials and Journals

Here you only need to enter prices. The calculator shows the materials and artifacts required to craft one unit, plus the associated journals — just enter the buy price for each. For journals, add the buy price of the empty ones and the sell price of the full ones. The total quantities needed for your complete craft are calculated separately and shown in the Purchase Summary.

Journals

x4
Hunter Journal — Empty5.900Buy price
x4
Hunter Journal — Full27.000Sell Price

Materials

x16
Hardened Leather4.597Silver / unit
x1
Morgana Artifact1.300Silver / unit
4

Set your Return Rate, and Masteries

The calculator automatically detects the best city for your item and sets the Return Rate — including the daily crafting bonuses, so the value is always accurate whether you use Focus or not. Only change it manually if you craft in a Hideout. Below, enter your Crafting Masteries and enable Use Focus to see exactly how much focus your run will consume based on your levels.

Return RateBetter in Thetford
Focus716
50.4%
Crafting Masteries
Use Focus
Leather Armor Crafter
80
Level / 100
Soldier Jacket
Soldier Jacket
45
/ 100
Hellion Jacket
Hellion Jacket
20
/ 100
Hunter Jacket
Hunter Jacket
65
/ 100
Jacket of Tenacity
Jacket of Tenacity
10
/ 100
Mercenary JacketActive
Mercenary Jacket
100
/ 100
Fey Jacket
Fey Jacket
5
/ 100
Undead Jacket
Undead Jacket
15
/ 100
Stalker Jacket
Stalker Jacket
30
/ 100
Base Focus

8.042

Without masteries
Real Focus

716

After masteries
5

Check the summaries, Purchase and Sales

The Purchase Summary shows the total quantities of materials, artifacts, and empty journals you need to buy for your entire craft run, along with the total cost for each. The Sales Summary shows the revenue from selling all crafted items and full journals — already discounted by market tax, so the numbers are exactly what lands in your bag.

Purchases Summary

×272

Hardened Leather

1.250.384

×17

Morgana Artifact

22.100

×4

Hunter Journal — Empty

23.600

Sales Summary

×20

Mercenary Jacket .2

+1.496.000

after tax

×4

Hunter Journal — Full

+105.300

after tax

6

Save your work, and Add to Planning

Once everything is filled in, hit Save Masteries to store your specialization levels — the calculator will always use them to give you the exact focus cost. Hit Save Prices to lock in your material and journal prices, so they reload automatically next time you craft the same item. Finally, Add to Planning groups the calculation into a session where you can combine multiple crafts, see your full consolidated shopping list, and track each item from in progress to crafted.

Save Masteries
Save Prices
Add to Planning

Frequently Asked Questions about Crafting

Direct answers to the most common questions regarding economy and crafting in Albion Online.

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