Inkmilling

Inkmilling is one of the many trade skills available to adventurers in Achaea. It allows you to create your own inks and pigments as well as increase the speed of inking tattoos, create custom-dyed letters and posters, create warpaint, and more!

Inkmilling requires a mill, and various reagents. For example, if one was to mill for a red ink, the reagents are one red reagent and one common reagent. You would put a piece of red clay (or a sliver of red scorpion chitin), and a fish scale into your mill and MILL FOR RED.

Mills are available for purchase from various player-owned shops, as well as from Jingo in Delos.

Abilities in Inkmilling

Ability	Description
Milling	Mill reagents to create inks.
Syntax: PUT <reagent> IN <mill> MILL FOR [#] <ink colour> MILL [#] <red/yellow/blue> PIGMENT Details: Put the reagents into your mill and then mill them into ink(s). Note: when making pigments, the reagents need to be in your inventory or rift.
Reagents	Knowledge of the common ingredients.
Syntax: None Details: Inkmilling reagents are broken up into eight different types as follows: Red Reagents: a lump of red clay a sliver of red scorpion chitin Blue Reagents: an ink bladder a patch of lumic moss Yellow Reagents: a sliver of yellow scorpion chitin Gold Reagents: some flakes of gold Common Reagents: some fish scales Uncommon Reagents: a piece of buffalo horn Scarce Reagents: a shark tooth Rare Reagents: a wyrm tongue For categories that have more than one reagent listed, you may use either of the items in your milling. -
Redink	Create a red ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR RED Reagents: 1 x red, 1 x common Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Fluidity	Mastery of inkmilling increases tattooing speed.
Syntax: None Details: Inking tattoos is now slightly faster. This is cumulative with the bonus from being transcendent in Tattoos.
Blueink	Create a blue ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR BLUE Reagents: 1 x blue, 1 x uncommon Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Dyeing	Ability to dye white letters with inks.
Syntax: DYE <LETTER> WITH <COLOUR> Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance Details: You can change the colour of the elegant white letters available at Post Offices around Sapience with an ink of the required colour. This will not work on letters that have already been customised.
Yellowink	Create a yellow ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR YELLOW Reagents: 1 x yellow, 1 x scarce Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Warpaint	Create warpaints for people to wear.
Syntax: MIX <colour> INTO <vial> APPLY <warpaint> [style/extra] WIPE OFF PAINT Works on/against: Adventurers and self Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance Details: Mix two inks of the specified colour into a vial of water to create a vial of colour warpaint that can be applied to a person's face. Style can be one of swirling, checkered, tribal, or half-faced.
Supplies	Supplies for the Artists amongst us.
Syntax: MIX <red|blue|yellow> <chalk|pastel|oilpaint|watercolour|ink> Details: Using an artistry kit and red, yellow or blue pigments, you can create the various supplies an artist requires to prime their works.
Greenink	Create a green ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR GREEN Reagents: 2 x blue, 1 x yellow, 2 x uncommon, 1 x scarce Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Calligraphy	Further mastery of inkmilling increases tattooing speed.
Syntax: None Details: You can now ink tattoos substantially faster. This supercedes the bonus from Fluidity but is cumulative with the bonus from being transcendent in Tattoos.
Purpleink	Create a purple ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR PURPLE Reagents: 2 x red, 2 x blue, 2 x common, 2 x uncommon, 1 x rare Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Poster	Posters that can be hung in rooms like graffiti.
Syntax: POSTER <poster> DYE <colour> POSTER <poster> TITLE <title> POSTER <poster> DESCRIBE Details: After purchasing a blank poster you can - Only by the inkmiller: DYE: dye a white poster with an ink of the required colour. TITLE: give your poster a short title. DESCRIBE: enter the editor to describe what your poster looks like. By anyone: HANG POSTER to display your glorious artwork for all to see. Only one poster may be hung in any given location.
Goldink	Create a gold ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR GOLD Reagents: 1 x gold, 2 x common, 2 x uncommon, 2 x scarce, 1 x rare Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Mastery	Expert milling techniques can produce an extra ink.
Syntax: None Details: Through your expert milling technique, you will occasionally mill an extra ink per batch.
Blackink	Create a black ink.
Syntax: MILL FOR BLACK Reagents: 1 x red, 1 x blue, 1 x yellow, 1 x gold, 2 x common, 2 x uncommon, 2 x scarce, 3 x rare Cooldown: 1.00 second of balance
Potency	Absolute mastery of inkmilling gives tattoos more charges.
Syntax: None Details: Due to your transcendent understanding of inks, any tattoos, with multiple charges, that you ink will have 10 more charges than normal.