Pathfinder Crafting Calculator: DC, Time & Materials
🔨 Pathfinder Crafting Calculator
Crafting DC, time estimates & material cost breakdown
⚡Quick Presets
📋Crafting Inputs
🔨 Crafting Results
🧩Crafting Quick Stats
4
Base Days
50%
Upfront Cost
DC 14
Level 0 DC
DC 34
Level 15 DC
10%
Crit Fail Loss
1
Formula Required
+2
Crit DC Bonus
20
Max Item Level
📊Crafting DC by Item Level
| Item Level | DC | Min Proficiency | Earn Income/Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 14 | Trained | 5 cp |
| 1 | 15 | Trained | 2 sp |
| 2 | 16 | Trained | 3 sp |
| 3 | 18 | Trained | 5 sp |
| 4 | 19 | Trained | 7 sp |
| 5 | 20 | Expert | 9 sp |
| 6 | 22 | Expert | 1 gp 5 sp |
| 7 | 23 | Expert | 2 gp |
| 8 | 24 | Expert | 2 gp 5 sp |
| 9 | 26 | Master | 3 gp |
| 10 | 27 | Master | 4 gp |
| 12 | 30 | Master | 6 gp |
| 15 | 34 | Legendary | 10 gp |
| 18 | 38 | Legendary | 30 gp |
| 20 | 40 | Legendary | 70 gp |
🎯Earn Income Rates (by Level)
| Task Level | Trained | Expert | Master | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5 cp | 5 cp | 5 cp | 5 cp |
| 1 | 2 sp | 2 sp | 2 sp | 2 sp |
| 3 | 5 sp | 5 sp | 5 sp | 5 sp |
| 5 | 9 sp | 1 gp | 1 gp | 1 gp |
| 7 | — | 2 gp | 2 gp 5 sp | 2 gp 5 sp |
| 10 | — | — | 4 gp | 5 gp |
| 15 | — | — | — | 10 gp |
📝Crafting Check Outcomes
| Result | Effect | Material Impact | Time Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Success | Expert earn income rate | Reduce remaining faster | Saves extra days |
| Success | Standard earn income rate | Reduce remaining at rate | Normal progression |
| Failure | No progress this day | No loss, can retry | Lost 1 day |
| Critical Failure | Lose 10% materials | Lose 10% of setup cost | Must restart |
💡 Reduce Costs: After the initial 4 days of crafting, each additional day reduces the remaining cost by your earn income rate for the item's level. Spending extra time can halve the total gold spent.
🎯 Formula First: You must have the item formula before crafting. Common formulas can be purchased in settlements, while uncommon or rare formulas may require adventuring to obtain.
Creating items in Pathfinder are made up of two different systems: everyday craft and magic creation. By means of the skill Craft you can produce new items or fix them. Similarly to Intelligence, Knowledge, Performance or Pro, Craft actually has many various skills.
Between the most common are alchemy, armor, baskets, books, bows, calligraphy, carpentry, cloth, clothing, glass, jewelry, leather, locks, paintings, pottery, sculptures, shipbuilding, shoes, stonemasonry, traps and weapons
Making Items in Pathfinder
The production of everyday items is a very slow process. Average artisan usually has +5 bonus to his skill: 1 spot from the rank, 3 because of class skill and 1 because of Intelligence of 12. Because you can take 10 during use of the skill, the average creator easily succeeds DC 15 checks.
Even so, you alone would require between two and nine years for making full Adamantine Full Plate valued at 16,500 gp. Otherwise, a wizard of level 9 can simply use the spell Fabricate on Adamantine materials and have the armor in some seconds.
In the Pathfinder RPG there are two main ways to produce items. One is the creation of magic items by means of various feats. Adventurers commonly use that to produce mighty tools that help them explore, search treasures and beat mean monsters.
For create magic item, you must do a Spellcraft Check against DC of 5 plus the level of the caster. Each lacking need for the creation expands the DC by 5 spots. Also here you may take 10 according to the rules of creation.
Magic and wondrous items are the main reasons why players want to craft, because the savings are great. Combining Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat, you can create a character that is not only a multi-talented creator, but yet very useful when he does not work. Even so, Pathfinder recommends to limit how much money a player can save by means of the creation of his own gear.
The fastest and cheapest creator of magic items is a Dwarf Wizard, because of the racial bonus that boosts the daily progress of creation. Choosing one from the 5% cost traits together with the Duskwalker Agent trait also helps, if the character stays near his home city to receive 10% discount on materials and 10% more when he sells something. An artisan can work during downtime, but not during active adventuring.
For certain choices, you require at least 10 ranks in one Craft skill. In the Second Edition of Pathfinder, crafting items works a bit differently, it is almost identical to making income by means of any skill, but the creator subtracts the cost of the item instead of only receiving gold directly.
