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Professions & Tradeskills

How crafting/gathering professions behave server-side. Sources: src/game/Handlers/SkillHandler.cpp, craft skill-up handling (Player::UpdateCraftSkill in src/game/Objects/Player.cpp), config keys in mangosd.conf.

Learning & Caps

  • Trainers teach professions; see the Trainer & Vendor Guide. Tradeskill trainers use trainer_type = 2; trainer_spell identifies the profession.
  • MaxPrimaryTradeSkill caps primary professions (vanilla = 2).
  • Current/max values per player live in character_skills; unlearned skills are remembered in character_forgotten_skills.

Skill-Up Chances

Crafting/gathering a yellow-or-better recipe rolls for a skill point using the colour of the craft (SkillChance.*, defaults shown):

Recipe difficulty Chance
Orange 100 %
Yellow 75 %
Green 25 %
Gray 0 %

Per-system gain multipliers: SkillGain.Crafting, SkillGain.Gathering, SkillGain.Defense, SkillGain.Weapon.

Gathering extras:

  • SkillChance.MiningSteps / SkillChance.SkinningSteps - for mining/skinning, the skill-up chance is halved every N skill points (0 = no decrease).
  • Fishing failure/success tuning: SkillFail.Loot.Fishing, SkillFail.Gain.Fishing, SkillFail.Possible.FishingPool; zone base levels come from skill_fishing_base_level.

Recipes & Bonuses

  • Recipe lists per trainer: npc_trainer / npc_trainer_template; rank chains follow spell_chain.
  • Bonus effects while crafting (e.g. extra items from tools/talent-like spells) are handled by spell-affect scripts bound through the spell_template script_name column.
  • Specialisations (Gnomish/Goblin engineering etc.) are plain spells: learning the spec spell gates its recipes via normal requirements.

Discovery Systems

Vanilla-era random recipe discovery is not database-driven in this codebase; scripted cases are implemented as spell/script effects. Do not expect a discovery table.