Stonecrafting questions

It's a lot like leatherworking except with stone, i.e. mostly utility items that have no serious value or rarity. Think vases, boxes, izdari pieces, cutlery. I think you can make some random artsy shit as well like statuettes. Presumably a master stonecrafter could make mastercraft sculptures, but who really gives a fuck.

I'm pretty sure anything to do with gemstones falls under jewelrymaking, and tools under toolmaking.

Only stonecrafting tools that I know of are chisels and there's some kind of stoneworking drill.

Yup, those marbles are higher damage sling bullets.

hmm...good question. I always stopped using a sling after i stopped missing game and could afford or make arrows. It should though...I know a stone bola definitely does.

Stonecrafting has a few 50-100 id recipes, like the polished obsidian mirror or the white alabaster bowls.   Mostly, it is interesting for the ability to make props, to sell into a huge number of stores, and to make halves of recipes for other crafts like hafts, hammerheads, and several items than can be charged for component crafting.

Stonecraft is a decent venue. I prefer jeweler personally, but that's usually pretty dependent on location/pc jeweler or merchant population as to whether or not it's viable. It's a lot rarer to find a scenario where all the places that will buy stonecrafted stuff are fully stocked on it and/or broke than it is with (worthwhile/common) jewelry stuff.

I've always had a hard time taking any subguild purely for monetary reasons, such as tailor, jeweler or stonecrafter. Sids are pretty easy to come by. Not so much in the South, I'll grant. But in the North, it's ridiculously easy with all the plants and flowers laying about.

But even in the south, there's sid mining, spice sifting and salt grebbing. Which granted, have a tiny bit more risk.

Generally though, on all my characters, after 1-2 days of playing time, I'm creatively avoiding making sids, more than actually seeking them out. I've often wished in the past that the economy was harsher, such that a player bringing in meat to eat was a real boon.

Anyhow. In that sense, I've always picked subguilds based on what they could offer in other respects, and I think in 99% of all circumstances, that is the best way to go.

Having played one or two grebbers, I have to say that most of the money-making methods you describe are mind-numbingly boring, take forever and ever and ever and are dangerous to boot (mostly because of other players).

At least crafting has the advantage of 'less' danger and 'more' boredom... Besides, looking at the monetary side of things, sids 'are' easy to come by, starting at around mid-level play. Before that, when your grebber is selling tufted plant stems for 2 sids a branch, you kind of wish you were a crafter. I know I did, when I had an indie grebber...

Edit: Also, when I roll a crafter, it's to RP a crafter, not make money. Just saying...