New Additions

Searching for a particular recipe? The “Get Recipes” button opens the LOTRO Store to the Crafting Recipes section, listing all available recipes for the currently-selected crafting profession.

Want to earn more crafting experience? The “Increase Craft XP” button opens the LOTRO Store to the Enhancements/Boosts section, where you will find Scrolls of Craft Acceleration that increase the amount of craft XP earned for many recipes (more on Craft Acceleration Scrolls below).

Looking for ingredients? The “Get Ingredients” button opens the LOTRO Store to the Crafting Ingredients section, where you will find Ingredient Packs that can be used in place of normal craft materials for the currently-selected recipe (more on Ingredient Packs below).

Crafting Acceleration Scrolls

New to the LOTRO Store in this update, Scrolls of Craft Acceleration can be used to temporarily increase the amount of crafting XP earned for completing recipes. Scrolls of Lesser Craft Acceleration increase the amount of earned craft XP by 25%, while Scrolls of Greater Craft Acceleration provide a substantial 50% bonus.

Scrolls of Craft Acceleration

In the following example, the 50% bonus for a Scroll of Greater Craft Acceleration is in effect, causing the Rough Cloth Armor recipe to provide 9 craft XP instead of 6. Note that the total amount of craft XP earned for a given recipe is displayed in green text when the craft accelerator effect is active:

Crafting panel displaying a 50% bonus to craft XP for this recipe

Ingredient Packs

Also new to the LOTRO Store in this update are Ingredient Packs. These items can be used in place of normal crafting materials to produce an enormous variety of items for any character on your account.

Ingredient Packs

Recipes that can use ingredient Packs display the Use Ingredient Packs checkbox in the ingredients portion of the crafting panel. Clicking this box will change the required ingredients for the recipe to use Ingredient Packs instead of normal crafting materials.

A recipe with 'Use Ingredient Packs' selected

With Ingredient Packs in your inventory, the crafting panel also displays the number of times you can use a particular recipe (accompanied by a red backpack icon).

It is very important to note that all items crafted with Ingredient Packs are bound to your account on creation! These items can be given to other characters on your account, but they cannot be traded or sold in the Auction Hall to other players.

Additionally, if the crafted item is set to Bind on Equip the item will become bound to the first character who equips the item.

Armour crafted with an ingredient pack