Charters

Charters are Bucketry’s jobs. Sign a trade’s charter and you get paid for the work that trade does: a Miner earns on every ore, a Fisher on every catch, a Hunter on every kill. You level each charter up to 500, and the higher your level, the more each action pays.

Open everything with /charters (or the old /jobs).

Getting started

Run /charters and pick a trade. Use /charters info <trade> to see exactly what it pays for.
Sign it with /charters join <trade>. You start with three charter slots and earn more as you climb the ranks (Paddler 4, Minnow 5, Mariner 6, Swordfish 7, Wavebreaker 8). On top of those you always get one side slot for a side trade: Brewer, Beastmaster, Chef, Enchanter, Villager Trader or Blacksmith. Side trades can also take a normal slot, but a normal trade can never take the side slot. /jobs and /charters mark which trades are side trades and show how many slots you are using.
Just play. A quiet tally on your action bar shows what you are earning, and after a few minutes of rest you get a short shift summary. Turn it down with /charters ledger quiet or off with /charters ledger off.

Money is paid out in one deposit every few seconds rather than per block, so your balance ticks up in steps.

The fourteen trades

Pay below is the standing rate (which already includes the server’s permanent 3x Charter boost) at levels 1, 100 and 500. Rank perks and events can raise it further.

Trade	Paid for	Example action	Lv 1	Lv 100	Lv 500
Miner	Mining ores	Diamond ore	$74	$739	$1,653
Excavator	Dirt, sand, gravel, nylium, soul soil	Soul sand	$16	$164	$366
Lumberjack	Felling and stripping logs, planting saplings	Stripped log	$131	$1,310	$2,930
Farmer	Crops, melons, pumpkins, honey, Harvest crops and orders	Melon	$74	$739	$1,653
Fisher	Vanilla fish and Bucketry’s custom fish	Gold-tier fish	$788	$7,875	$17,609
Hunter	Killing mobs and bosses	Ravager	$3,938	$39,375	$88,045
Beastmaster	Taming, breeding, milking, shearing	Taming a horse	$492	$4,922	$11,007
Blacksmith	Crafting and repairing gear, smelting	Crafting a diamond chestplate	$1,723	$17,226	$38,519
Enchanter	Enchanting at the table	Sharpness V	$131	$1,312	$2,935
Brewer	Brewing potions and Tap & Tide brews	Brewing with dragon’s breath	$492	$4,922	$11,007
Chef	Cooking, baking, Harvest meals	Crafting a golden apple	$295	$2,953	$6,602
Artisan	Placing building blocks, crafting	Crafting a beacon	$59	$590	$1,320
Explorer	Discovering new land, brushing, rare finds	Picking up an elytra	$492	$4,922	$11,007
Villager Trader	Villager trades	Buying an enchanted book	$185	$1,846	$4,128

A few headline numbers: a Fisher earns $1,969 for a Diamond-tier fish at level 1 and up to $132,068 for a Mythical at level 500, on top of what the fish itself sells for. A Hunter earns $19,688 for the Ender Dragon at level 1. Pay grows steadily with level, so a level 100 trade earns ten times what it did at level 1. Explorers are paid most for being among the first to visit new land.

The quieter guild trades (Brewer, Beastmaster, Chef, Enchanter, Villager Trader and Blacksmith) earn XP quickly for each action, so they climb fast once you take them up. With the free side slot, there is no reason not to work one while you level your main trades.

From level 200 on, every trade earns triple XP for each action, so the climb from Adept to Master goes about three times faster than the curve alone would suggest.

What does not pay

Spawner mobs and mobs you barely touched. A kill only pays if you dealt at least 90% of the damage the mob took.
Extra logs from a tree-felling enchant pay only a small share. The log you chop pays in full.
Blocks you or others placed. Re-placing and re-breaking the same spot pays nothing for ten minutes.
Creative mode, and anywhere in the Frontier (the Pailhaven world) or the Motherlode event mine. Do your paid work in the claiming and resource worlds.
More than 20 owned furnaces, smokers, blast furnaces or brewing stands per player.

Boost days

Each weekday doubles Charter XP for a set of trades (Chicago time). Weekends boost everyone.

Day	Trades with 2x XP
Monday	Lumberjack, Miner, Excavator
Tuesday	Farmer, Fisher, Chef, Brewer
Wednesday	Blacksmith, Enchanter
Thursday	Explorer, Artisan, Hunter
Friday	Villager Trader, Beastmaster
Saturday and Sunday	Every trade

When you log in, the Today line of your welcome message shows which trades are boosted, and the harbor repeats it in chat every two hours.

Boost days add XP only. Your money rate never drops on a boost day. When a Wharf Contract fills, every Charter gets a money bounty for 48 hours on top.

Work Orders

Every day you get up to three Work Orders for each charter you hold, matched to your level: short tasks like “Mine 500 Stone” that pay a flat sum (that one is $20,000). Check them with /charters orders. You can skip two orders a day if you dislike what came up, and buy extra swaps with Guild Merit. Orders reset at 2 AM.

Standings

Your level in each trade earns a standing, shown in /charters and on your guild’s board.

Level	Standing
1	Greenhand
25	Deckhand
100	Able Hand
200	Adept
350	Veteran
500	Master

Every 50 levels the harbor hears about it, and milestones from 25 to 500 pay out in Job Mastery. Compare yourself with /charters top <trade> and /charters stats.

Every standing is also an advancement. Press L and open the Guild Charters tab to see each trade’s ladder from Greenhand to Master, with Grandmaster at the top. Standings you earned before the tab existed are filled in when you log in.

Hall of Masters

The first time you reach level 500 in a trade, the whole harbor hears it, and the guild raises a statue of you outside its hall: your skin, your name, the trade’s tool and the month you made it. Statues stand in the order players became Masters, so the first Masters of each guild are there for good. Master all fourteen and a Grandmaster statue joins the Guild Gate in Pailhaven.

Trade	Hall
Blacksmith	the Anvil Works
Enchanter	the Rune Loft
Villager Trader	the Exchange
Brewer	the Tap & Tide
Fisher	the Net Loft
Farmer	the Long Barn
Chef	the Galley
Lumberjack, Artisan	the Timber Yard
Miner, Excavator	the Quarry
Hunter, Beastmaster	the Wilds Lodge
Explorer	the Waystation

See who has a statue with /charters masters or /charters masters <trade>.

Maker’s Marks

Once you reach level 25 in a crafting trade, the things you make carry your signature, like ✦ Forged by YourName · Adept Blacksmith. The title shows your standing when you made it, so a Master’s work reads differently from a Deckhand’s.

Trade	What gets signed
Blacksmith	Weapons, tools and armor you craft or upgrade at a smithing table
Enchanter	Gear you enchant at an enchanting table (a second line, so one sword can show its smith and its enchanter)
Brewer	Potions from your brewing stand
Chef	Cakes and stews

You need the charter signed when you make the item. Marks are cosmetic: they never change stats, and signed gear sells, trades and hands in like any other. Food that stacks is never signed so it keeps stacking, and Tap & Tide brews already name their brewer.

Guild Merit

Working a charter also earns Guild Merit, a points balance you spend at the Guildmasters with /merit (or the Guild Merit button on any guild board). It cannot be bought or turned into money.

Item	Merit	Notes
Extra Work Order swap	10,000
Tide Crate key	25,000
Guild Ration	40,000	+25% XP in that trade for one hour, stacks by the hour
Reef Crate key	60,000
Rare book	75,000	A Rare enchant from that guild’s shelf
Guild Livery tag	150,000	Needs level 100 in the trade
Epic book	200,000	Needs level 200 in the trade
Patron of the Guilds tag	750,000
Harbour Benefactor tag	1,500,000	Announced to the whole harbor

Each guild keeps its own shelf of books that suit its work, so a Miner’s Rare book is a mining enchant and a Hunter’s is a combat one.