A few minutes ago the doors opened to the new Engineering Society located in the city of Crossings, just east of the Trader's Guild!
Stone carving exercises much of the core functionality present in the new system and a successful deployment and test will allow us to move forward with developing the remaining of systems. Please ask any questions you may have in

the Lore folder and we will do our best to answer them.
A quick "Crafting for Dummies" guide can be found buy buying one of the Crafting Instruction books sold in the Society Hall, and reading its foreward. If you ever get lost in system snytax, try using ANALYZE on everything for feedback. The new CRAFT verb may also be helpful to gauge what you can learn, and remember you ASSEMBLE one ingredient WITH another. You can also ASK TALIA about TALIA for more instructions.
Oh, and before anyone asks - maker's marks, furniture carving, and the remainder of the image carving system weren't quite ready, but should be before too long.
Good luck!