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Basic Tinkering

Basic Tinkering skills are ones that any player may use, even without a single tinkering skill trained. There's no skill check involved and any quality salvage may be used with success. Using either Leather or Ivory will not count as one of your 10 possible tinkering applications to an item.

Ivory was introduced in the Festivus event. Use Ivory on certain no-give quest items to make them able to be given. Item that have been tinkered with Ivory become attuned and may only be used by the one who tinkered it. It's a great way to free up some pack space!

Leather, introduced during A Swelling Tide, is used to give items the retained property. Retained items cannot be sold and may not be salvaged. Anyone who has ever accidentally salvaged a pair of Sword Mastery VI sollerets will rejoice!

Text: On the Abilities of Salvaged Ivory

Additional items have been added to the Ivoryable list in various patches:

From Festivus

Hollow Missile Weapons
Deadly Hollow Melee Weapons
Phantom Weapons
Gaerlan's Wands and Robes
Martine's Mask and Robe

From The Iron Coast

Palenqual Weapons
Composite Bows and Crossbows
Silifi of Crimson Stars
Upgraded Singularity Weapons
Siraluun Clothing
Caulnalain, Fenmalain and Shendolain Shields
Caulnalain, Fenmalain and Shendolain Orbs

From The Slumbering Giant

Saulandoi
Taulandoi
Canescent Mattekar Robes
Certain Hopeslayer Items
Aerfalle's Pallium and Staff
Gelidite Robe
Tremblant's Ivory Staff
Dull Dagger
Dagger of Tikola
Impious Staff (Old and new)
Focusing Stone
Orb of the Bunny Booty
Wedding Ring
Behdo Yii's Jewelry
Quiddity Orb
Sacrificial Dagger
Mi Krau-Li's Improved Jitte
Hamud's Pyreal Katar
Mace of the Explorer
Asmolum's Dagger
Sword of Lost Hope
Propylaeum Bracelets
Encrusted Bloodstone Jewel
Nuhmudira's Bestowments, Endowments, and Benefactions

From That Which Is Ours

Hilted Bandit Weapons

From A Perfect Paradox

Overlord's Sword

From Heart of Woe

Black Fire Atlan Weapons
Shadow Atlan Weapons
Oswald's Dirk
Panaq

From the Tinkering FAQ

Q: Will Retained items (tinkered with leather) still be tinkerable?

A: Yes.

Q: Are Retained items also Bonded (no-drop)?

A: No, Retained items will still be droppable on death.

Q: Can Retained items be destroyed by using a mana stone on them?

A: At this time, yes. We would like to change this in the future.

Q: Will they be only wieldable by the tinkerer, like the Ivory tinker?

A: No.

Q: Can quest items be Retained?

A: Not at this time, although this is something that we will look at in the future, time allowing.

Tinkering Resources
Letter to the Players on Tinkering
Letter to the Players (Aug 2002)
Letter to the Players (July 2003)
Turbine's Tinkering FAQ

Tlosk of HG's Salvage Table
Tlosk of HG's Salvage Table - old version
Surge of MT's Tinkering Research Page
Bob the Dreadlord of TD Weapon Calc.
Caerthalion's Tinkering Skill Calculator
Caeryn Dryad's Weapon Damage Calc.
Isudus's Tink Calc - Decal Plug-In

	Ust
A tool used to extract materials from treasure items. Use to salvage materials from treasure items.
Value	10
Burden	40
Locations	Vendor locations

Basic Tinkering
	Salvaged Ivory
Shavings of ivory material salvaged from old items. Apply this material to any of a set of specific quest item in order to unattune it from your soul. Note that this action will also cause it to only be wieldable by you. Applying this material does not require a tinkering skill, does not add a tinker to the target's count, and cannot destroy the target.
Value	varies
Burden	100
	Salvaged Leather
A strip of leather material salvaged from old items. Apply this material to a treasure-generated item in order to render that item "Retained". Retained items cannot be salvaged or sold to vendors. Applying this material does not require a tinkering skill, does not add a tinker to the target's count, and cannot destroy the target.