Alternate Craftsmen Classes

[YianKutku]

What I wanted to know was: do they also create and use paper?

Off the top of my head, orchestrion rolls are made from paper.

Blank spools of paper onto which scores of sheet music can be transcribed by means of perforation.

Apart from that, there's also "Bamboo Paper", classified under "Lumber" for some reason:

Thinly sliced bamboo used to preserve the aroma of rare fragrant wood.

(I admit I only remember Bamboo Paper because I got some from a treasure map chest, and then had no idea what it was used for, and so the stack sat in my inventory for a couple of months.)

Interestingly, there is a game in Eorzea implied to be equivalent to rock-paper-scissors, called "stone-parchment-shears" (as mentioned in the description for the Fiend Worm FSH bait). Which suggests that for the majority of people, parchment is what they think of when it comes to thin, flat writing material.

From here, I wondered, if parchment/paper exists, then which craftsman trade is in charge of making it? Presumably it would be CRP for paper and LTW for parchment, guilds which happen to share a home city.

CRP makes the Blank Orchestrion Rolls. Also, the Arcanist grimoires made by ALC usually involve wood logs in their crafting recipes, which implies that the pages are made of paper. (Grimoire recipes also usually have leather, but it's implied to be for the covers.)

Parchment is a bit harder to look up. I'll let others more well-versed in lore pick that up.

For example, glass is a common material in Eorzea, and glassblowing is an entire trade all its own. Yet, none of the 8 crafter classes we have so far seem to include glassblowing as part of their scope.

ALC creates the various glass-related items, but I admit I don't know if they actually blow glass, or if it's done by some form of fantasy alchemical magic. You're right that there really should be a whole separate trade for glassblowing, or at least that Alchemists will probably be spending most of their time handling orders for glass.

[Mysterysword]

Parchment is a bit harder to look up. I'll let others more well-versed in lore pick that up.

I assumed leatherworkers would handle the manufacture of parchment, since it's animal skin. It also makes sense that that would be what the Xaela tribes use as writing material, since the Azim Steppes are relatively low on suitable plant matter for paper, and they keep a lot of animals.

Mechanics wise, I can understand why glassblowing isn't a crafter class in-game - what kind of items would a glassblower make that an adventurer would actually use? But it does make me curious about what other trades we haven't seen yet that ought to exist.

[YianKutku]

Mechanics wise, I can understand why glassblowing isn't a crafter class in-game - what kind of items would a glassblower make that an adventurer would actually use?

If we want to go into "realism" in game mechanics at the expense of actual player fun, there's always potion bottles. As it is, potion creation just kind of comes with their own bottles, particularly decorative for cordials and ethers.