Stonecutting Trade Skill Guide for New World

Stonecutting is one of the five Refining Trade Skills in New World. Stonecutting involves processing all of the raw gems and stones gathered from the Mining skill and crafting them into cut gems and blocks to be used in the gem sockets in gear and to craft tuning orbs for dungeons, respectively.

Stonecutting is performed at a Stonecutting Table in any settlement. Each Stonecutting Table will have a tier level that varies from town to town and a higher tier level Stonecutting Table will enable you to craft higher tier materials such as Runestone, Runestone Stopwatch, and Cut Pristine Onyx.

Stonecutting has two refining reagents, Sandpaper for Stone-related materials like Lodestone Brick and Solvent which is used for Gem-related materials. These refining reagents are required when trying to craft up your materials, and the higher rank of reagent you use is, the higher chance you have to craft bonus materials.

The three available types of Sandpaper are: Coarse Sandpaper, Fine Sandpaper, and Obsidian Sandpaper. The three available types of Solvent are: Weak Solvent, Potent Solvent and Pure Solvent. Generally, Obsidian Sandpaper and Pure Solvent are the best reagents to use, as they will provide you the highest chance at bonus items and are usually quite cheap.

Stonecutting is a fairly simple skill to level up: the most experience you can acquire is from the highest tier materials you can craft, so always craft up for maximum experience.

However, you can take a cheaper route and continue to only craft the lower materials which are extremely useful and can still sell for plenty of gold, as many players would rather just buy those lower level resources than farm them themselves.

Generally, if you purely want to level your Stonecutting as easily as possible, you will focus on crafting up blocks all the way up to 200, as the materials required are easier to find than gems. Below is a basic table for cutting and fusing gems with the list of materials/levels they require. As a note, each type of gem will require a different elemental mote/wisp/essence/quintessence.

Refined Resources	Materials Required	Stonecutting Level	Experience Gained
Cut Flawed Gems	Flawed Gem x1 and Elemental Mote x2	0	+129
Cut Common Gems	Common Gem x1, Elemental Wisp x2 and Solvent x1	50	+1090
Cut Brilliant Gems	Brilliant Gem x1, Elemental Essence x2 and Solvent x1	100	+5420
Cut Pristine Gems	Pristine Gem x1, Elemental Quintessence x3 and Tannin x1	150	+30942
Fuse Common Gems	Flawed Gem x3, Elemental Wisp x1 and Solvent x1	50	+1308
Fuse Brilliant Gems	Common Gem x4, Elemental Essence x1 and Solvent x1	100	+7588
Fuse Pristine Gems	Brilliant Gem x5, Elemental Quintessence x1 and Solvent x1	150	+41256

With the removal of Tuning Orbs after the release of Brimstone Sands, a new crafting material was used to serve a purpose for Runestone. Each day you can craft a Runestone Stopwatch which will act similar to a Timeless Shard. If you choose to craft with it, you will have a 598-600 Gearscore item and it will only be able to roll with Constitution. This roll only requires the base materials and a Perk mod.

Item	Quantity
Azoth	500
Umbral Shard	500
Runestone	10

Tuning Orbs are required to Trials (Formerly known as Arenas) in New World. They were previously used to enter expeditions, but they are no longer required and have been removed.

Refined Resources	Materials Required	Stonecutting Level	Experience Gained
Stone Block	Stone x4	0	+36
Stone Brick	Stone Block x4 and Sandpaper x1	50	+180
Lodestone Brick	Lodestone x6, Stone Brick x2 and Sandpaper x1	100	+1539
Obsidian Voidstone	Lodestone Brick x8, Lodestone x2, Loamy Lodestone x1 and Sandpaper x1	150	+9240
Runestone (10 per day)	Obsidian Voidstone x5, Lodestone x1 and Obsidian Sandpaper x1	200	+5390
Eternal Heart	Death Mote x50, Life Mote x50 and Soul Mote x50	25	+1350
Elemental Heart	Water Mote x50, Earth Mote x50, Fire Mote x50 and Air Mote x50	50	+1800
Energy Core	Elemental Heart x1 and Eternal Heart x1	50	+18
Corrupted Fragment	Corrupted Sliver x5	25	+45
Corrupted Shard	Corrupted Fragment x4	50	+36
Corrupted Crystal	Corrupted Shard x3	75	+27
Corrupted Lodestone	Corrupted Crystal x2	100	+18
Monoecious Tuning Orb	Starmetal Chisel x1, Runestone x3, Energy Core x1 and Firefox x3	50	+72
Protector's Tuning Orb	Starmetal Chisel x1, Runestone x3, Energy Core x1 and Glowing Swamp Moss x3	50	+72
Siren Tuning Orb	Starmetal Chisel x1, Runestone x3, Energy Core x1 and Fancy Shell x3	50	+72

Each of the five Refining Trade Skills have a gear set that increase the total yield you receive while refining by +2% per item. For Stonecutting, it is the Stonecutter's Gloves, Hat, Pants, Shirt and Shoes. You can generally find these as drops or on the Trading Post, however some pieces can be much rarer than others.

Armor	Drop Source
Stonecutter's Goggles	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Archmagister Vocus - Shattered Mountain
Stonecutter's Shirt	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Ironcast Ingvald - Reekwater
Stonecutter's Gloves	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Disciple of Disorder - Shattered Mountain
Stonecutter's Pants	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Mordici the Mortician - Ebonscale Reach
Stonecutter's Shoes	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Smoothbore Samuel - Reekwater