Farmer

It is the trade with the fewest recipes and the cleanest ladder. Two measures of wheat become flour, two of milk become butter at level 2, and from there it is cheese: a wedge at level 3, a wheel at level 4 with four milk, and the Eidar wheel at level 5 with five milk and two of another component. Harvesting and milking pay on their own, before any recipe.

Almost everything the farmer makes ends up in somebody else’s kitchen. Flour is the base of bread, cheese and butter go into half the cook’s recipes, and the fields also feed the alchemist. It is the calmest trade to level and the one that most needs a partner to be worth gold.

Two trades per character, five levels in each. Experience comes from gathering and from making, and the thresholds are 1,000, 6,000, 15,000 and 30,000 points.

Gathering takes from the world: an ore vein, a tree, a downed animal, a field. Making needs the right station nearby, the forge for metal, the cooking pot for food, and the components in your pack.

Recipes are gated by level, and most of them ask for material another trade produced. That is what keeps the server economy turning around people instead of shops.