Creating a separate character for crafting is the absolute best way to play UO Outlands. Since your main character can already fight and Farm Gold, your new crafting character doesn’t need to carry any weapon skills. this guide will break down the Best Crafter Templates, with Creation Screen Setup, and Crafter Stats Setup.
Starting as a Crafter
Character Creation Screen Setup
Do not pick any crafting skills on the creation screen. Instead, set your starting skills to:
- Magery: 50 Points
- Meditation: 50 Points
- Stats: 60 Strength, 10 Dexterity, 50 Intelligence
Why this setup? This gives your new crafter a free starter spellbook, full mana, and the immediate ability to cast Recall, Mark, and Invisibility. This is vital so your crafter can teleport to mining caves, bank resources safely, and hide from Player Killers (PKs).
After Spawning
The moment your new character spawns into Shelter Island, do not go to the dungeon. Instead, open your backpack and use your Training Credits Deed on town NPCs:
- Deed 1: Use on Alchemy (or your primary crafting skill).
- Deed 2: Use on Inscription (or your secondary crafting skill).
- Deed 3: Use on Mining or Lumberjacking (if you get a third deed from the account).
This instantly jumps your trade skills to 50 for free, using the gold your main combat character farms to buy the raw materials needed to push from 50 to 100.
Best Crafter Templates
Crafter Stats Setup
- Strength (STR): 100 (Absolutely mandatory. Heavy raw ore, ingots, and logs will instantly overweight a weaker character).
- Dexterity (DEX): 25 (Gives you a tiny bit of stamina to move when slightly over-encumbered).
- Intelligence (INT): 100 (Ensures you have a vast mana pool to repeatedly cast Recall and Invisibility without running dry).
The Grandmaster Artisan (Blacksmith / Carpenter / Tinker)
The Blacksmith / Carpenter / Tinker Crafter build is known as the “Grandmaster Artisan” or “Heavy Industry” template. It is highly prized because these three skills share complete material synergy, meaning the items you make with Tinkering and Carpentry directly require the iron or logs you gather.
On UO Outlands, Carpentry also includes Bowcraft and Fletching, making this single character your supreme source for armor, melee weapons, bows, furniture, lockpicks, and ship deeds.
This is the perfect template if you want to operate completely on your own without needing to buy raw materials from other players. It allows you to gather your own resources and turn them immediately into finished goods.
- 120 Blacksmithing: For metal weapons, armor, and repair kits.
- 120 Carpentry: For wooden shields, weapons, furniture, and ships.
- 100 Tinkering: Required to make tools (tongs, hammers, pickaxes) and lockpicks.
- 100 Mining: To harvest high-tier colored ores from mountain paths.
- 100 Lumberjacking: To harvest rare wooden logs from wilderness forests.
- 100 Magery: Your vital utility skill for casting Recall to reach mining spots or escape PKs.
- 80 Tailoring (or Item Identification): Tailoring finishes the “Big Four” crafter package to let you sew leather armor, while Item ID lets you decipher magical monster loot.
The The Artificer Template (Alchemy / Inscription)
The Alchemy and Inscription Mage-Crafter template is exceptionally popular because both skills belong to the Artificer Society. This means a single character can efficiently complete two separate types of weekly society jobs for massive points and gold. because Inscription requires you to have the matching Magery level to physically craft high-tier spell scrolls, your template must have a solid magical foundation.
This build is maximized for structural utility. It stays safely in your house or public areas, crafting scrolls, brewing potions, identifying magical loot, and maintaining a player vendor shop.
- 120 Alchemy: For potions, plant care items, and aspect distillations.
- 120 Inscription: For spell scrolls, Potion Codexes, and runebooks.
- 100 Magery: Required to craft higher-circle scrolls (Circles 1–6).
- 100 Meditation: Passive mana regeneration so your scroll macros never run dry.
- 100 Item Identification: Allows you to identify rare magical items, links, cores, and relics your main combat character farms.
- 100 Tailoring: Creates the Blank Scrolls needed for your Inscription, making you a completely self-sustained paper mill.
- 80 Taste Identification: Increases your herbalism yield and identifies unknown potions.
The Chef Template
This template combines Cooking with matching resource skills to make you completely self-sufficient. It gives you the ability to harvest your own fish/meat, brew dyes, and cultivate high-yield botanical greenhouse plants.
- 120 Cooking: For baking bread, roasting raw meats into high-satisfaction gourmet plates, and crafting specialty Fish Bait.
- 120 Taste Identification: Boosts your Food Satisfaction bonuses to maximum tier. It also lets you use a Planter’s Spade to identify ideal heat, water, and soil conditions for rare house plants.
- 100 Fishing: Your primary gatherer skill to reel in rare sea creatures and mass-harvest raw fish steaks to feed your stove.
- 100 Forensic Evaluation: Essential for a hunter-chef; using a skinning knife on dungeon monster corpses yields massive amounts of leather and raw cooking meat.
- 100 Alchemy: Pairs perfectly with Taste ID for plant growing and lets you craft the chemical components needed to make specialty Fish Bait.
- 100 Magery: Essential for safe Recall travel across the seas and continents to collect ingredients.
- 80 Meditation: Quickly replaces mana used while recall-banking heavy shipments of food.
Final Thoughts
Building a dedicated crafter on Ultima Online Outlands is the single best long-term investment you can make to support your primary combat character. once your crafting characters is fully established, you will have a self-sustaining network capable of producing your own aspect gear, potion kegs, food buffs, and custom furniture completely free of charge.