Research Kit
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Skill level: minimum 15, maximum 55
More Information about Research Kits
Item Research is a perk that is found under Lore → World Lore in the skills menu. You need a 30% skill in World Lore to buy it. As the perk description details, you need the following items to conduct research:
Acacia Gum (You need about 30% horticulture and the Harvesting I perk to get this from Acacia Trees)
A Research Book (crafted by artisans – it can fail even at 100+ skill)
Beeswax (found in bee hives – about 30% horticulture should get you all the plant materials you need for research if you take the Harvesting I perk to get secondary resources)
Drafting Ink (made by artisans, but you need horticulture to gather blue flowers, which you then turn into paste with a plant mortar and then into drafting ink with a paint kettle)
Vellum (artisans, from logs with a pulp vat)
In addition to the above, heretics may need small soul pieces (read: Moriums), which are made from their own Animus or found as loot, to perform magical research. Researching ordinary, non-magical items should not take Moriums.
You can open a research book as if it were a container. When you click the book once, you open a context menu that gives you the option to Start Researching and Stop Researching. You must place the required components (usually: acacia gum, beeswax, drafting ink, vellum, etc. ) inside the book before you may begin. The result is a recipe copy, the quality of which depends on your INT and World Lore skill.
Research progresses in real time while you are online, and you may have only one active project at a time. The speed at which you conduct research depends on your skill, which is linked to the item you are researching. Notice that you need to know a power word before you can research or craft anything based on it – including the word itself! The same is not true for other kinds of research.