Stonecutting Trade Skill Guide for New World

Stonecutting in New World: Aeternum is a vital and rewarding trrade skill that allows players to refine raw stones into valuable gems and materials, which are essential for crafting certain jewelry, consumables, and more.

Stonecutting is closely associated with the Mining, Furnishing, and Jewelcrafting trade skills, due to the importance of the necessary materials utilized in each.

Stonecutting is performed at a Stonecutting Table, which can be located in every settlement. Each Stonecutting Table will have a tier level that varies from town-to-town. The higher this tier level is, the higher-quality stone and gems you'll be able to craft.

Stonecutting has two refining reagents associated with it - one used for crafting bricks, and one used for cutting gems. When it comes to stone-related materials, you will need to use Obsidian Sandpaper, and when it comes to gem-related activities, you'll have to use Pure Solvent (which has an impact on your Jewelcrafting trade skill).

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 250, as the materials required are easier to find than gems.

Below is a basic table for stonecutting, which includes the different types of refined resources, the required materials for each, the level requirement, and the amount of experience gained once crafted.

Refined Resources	Materials Required	Stonecutting Level	Experience Gained
Stone Block	Stone x4	0	+60
Stone Brick	Stone Block x4 and Obsidian Sandpaper x1	50	+300
Lodestone Brick	Lodestone x6, Stone Brick x2 and Obsidian Sandpaper x1	100	+2,475
Obsidian Voidstone	Lodestone Brick x8, Lodestone x2, Loamy Lodestone x1 and Obsidian Sandpaper x1	150	+15,000
Runestone (10 per day)	Obsidian Voidstone x5, Lodestone x1 and Obsidian Sandpaper x1	200	+21,000
Eternal Heart	Death Mote x50, Life Mote x50 and Soul Mote x50	25	+40
Elemental Heart	Water Mote x50, Earth Mote x50, Fire Mote x50 and Air Mote x50	50	+600
Energy Core	Elemental Heart x1 and Eternal Heart x1	50	+30
Corrupted Fragment	Corrupted Sliver x5	25	+60
Corrupted Shard	Corrupted Fragment x4	50	+120
Corrupted Crystal	Corrupted Shard x3	75	+360
Corrupted Lodestone	Corrupted Crystal x2	100	+600
Monoecious Tuning Orb	Starmetal Chisel x1, Runestone x3, Energy Core x1 and Firefox x3	50	+120
Protector's Tuning Orb	Starmetal Chisel x1, Runestone x3, Energy Core x1 and Glowing Swamp Moss x3	50	+120
Siren Tuning Orb	Starmetal Chisel x1, Runestone x3, Energy Core x1 and Fancy Shell x3	50	+120
Runic Voidstone	Obsidian Voidstone x1, Powerful Gemstone Dust x1, Pure Solvent x4	205	+15,282
Prismatic Block (10 per day)	Runestone x1, Runic Voidstone x5, Pure Solvent x5	250	+82,680

As you can see from the tavel above, you will have the opportunity to craft unique items known as Tuning Orbs. These tuning orbs are required for you to enter certain PvE Trials in New World: Aeternum. These PvE Trials can result in great rewards and experience, as well as a chance at finding certain artifacts.

In some cases, you can actually charge other players to join your group in exchange for you using your tuning orb (as each group only requires one tuning orb for entering the trial).

Each of the 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 in the open world 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 (in Shattered Mountain)
Stonecutter's Shirt	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Ironcast Ingvald (in Reekwater)
Stonecutter's Gloves	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Disciple of Disorder (in Shattered Mountain)
Stonecutter's Pants	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Mordici the Mortician (in Ebonscale Reach)
Stonecutter's Shoes	Package of Specialized Stonecutting Materials or Smoothbore Samuel (in Reekwater)