Rare Crafting Ingredients and Single-Use Recipes

(Note: This is an advanced crafting guide. If you're just getting started with crafting and need some help with the basics, you should head over to our excellent Crafting Guide.)

If you've done your fair share of crafting or if you've read my guide on crafting mastery items, then you already know how important it is to hang on to the mastery items you find while slaughtering monsters and brigands. But there's still one other aspect of LoTRO's crafting system that might throw you for a loop: single use recipes. These are recipes that you learn like any normal recipe, but once you craft the item they disappear from your crafting list forever (until you find another copy and learn it again). They'll stay in your crafting list until you use them, too, so if you think you'll want to make the item someday go ahead and learn the recipe so it stops taking up valuable space in your inventory or bank (being non-stackable right now). The only unfortunate thing is that you can't "queue up" a few of these recipes at once, so if you plan to make several copies of an item from one-use-only recipes, they're going to eat up bank space while you hoard them. This might seem like a bit of a hassle, but single-use recipes are used to make very powerful weapons and armor that are better than generic crafted items and many quested or dropped items.

There's also one other catch: single-use recipes require specific ingredients from rare and unique monsters. Each of them lists a unique ingredient with no hints as to where or what you might get it from, and it's up to you to track it down. Fortunately, the beta community has compiled a great list of almost all of the unique monsters which drop special items, what the special items are, and where you can find the monster. You can see it below (it's even sortable!). These items are even more sought-after than mastery items due to their rarity and how difficult they can be to obtain, so should you stumble across one that you don't need, make sure to give it to a friend or sell it on the AH. Vendoring these puppies is a big no-no. Your crafter friends would be sad.

Just in case you find one and you aren't sure what to do with it, there's a list below of the different professions that use each of these items and the single-use recipes they go to. These lists are probably another resource it wouldn't hurt to print out and take adventuring with you. Now go out there and get to killing! You have recipes to find and components to hunt down.

- Cameron "Aelryn" Sorden

Notes: E = elite, EM = elite master, and S = signature.

The list can be resorted by clicking on a column heading (if you have Javascript enabled).

Creatures

Name	Level	Species	Region	Coordinates	Roaming	Notes	Component
Achathling	50E	Spider	Angmar		Y	Spider Den, North East of Himbar in East Angmar.	Achathling's Mandible
Asht	20	Warg	Lone Lands	35.3S, 39.0W	N	In Minas Eriol (the area with Arnorian Rubble). Can spawn at any of the warg positions.	Asht's Tooth
BlackClaw	18S	Bear	Breelands	36.2S, 55.0W	Y	Barrow Downs, far south by the elite trees	Blackclaw's Claw
Bleakwind	33EM	Drake	North Downs	6.5S 41.0W	Y	Nain Amlug west at the "w" on the map	Bleakwind's Tongue
Colnor	52EM	Drake	Angmar	8.0N, 24.0W	N	In the valley on the right of the road to Minas Caul (Nan Gurth, E Angmar)	Colnor's Scale
Darkheart	31EM	Huorn	Lone Lands		Y	Agamaur north of the undead area	Darkheart's Black Heart
Driftmane	41	Lynx	Misty Mountains		Y	Stealthed. NE of Gloin's camp and east of Cirith Imladris	Driftmane's Fang
Eitor-kalsak	18E	Spider	Old Forest		Y	Roams The Weaver's Den	Eitor-kalsak's Mandible
Gloom-Gaze	15	Bat	Breelands	34.9S, 58.1W	N	Old Forest	Gloom-Gaze's Fang
Gnashmaw	48E	Worm	Angmar		Y	Ravine in Gorothlad, around the L. Another circles the canyon around the LAD in gorothlad	Gnashmaw's Tongue
Grish	33E	Warg	North Downs	15.4S, 39.6W	Y	Dol Dinen south of the binding stones	Grish's Tail
HoarTusk	46EM	Mammoth	Misty Mountains		Y	Giant Area, West of "The Lornstone"	Hoartusk's Horn
Ironhide	20E	Boar	Lonelands	28.9S, 36.8W	Y	Echad Sul, hill north of Weathertop	Tuft of IronHide's Fur
Karnasht	37E	Wolf	Trollshaws	35.0S, 13.9W	Y	Drauglad, wolf den south of the road	Karnasht's Tooth
Khurshat	27S	Warg	North Downs	11.3S, 43.5W	Y	South of Esteldin near The Snares	Khurshat's Tooth
Kindle-Maw	43EM	Drake	Misty Mountains			On the slopes above the western half of Caldwells Pool	Kindle-Maw's Fang
Kraur	26S	Warg	Lone Lands	32.8S, 26.3W	Y	Near Haragmar and the East-West Road	Kraur's Paw
Moss-back	30E	Bog-lurker	Lone Lands	30.8S, 27.5W	Y	Roams Haragmar east of Ost Guruth	Green Moss
Nurzum	33S	Warg	North Downs	12.1S, 37.0W	Y	East of Esteldin on the road south into Dol Dinen	Nurzom's Tail
Raugzok	33E	Warg	North Downs	14.7S, 37.7W	Y	Roams the east side of Dol Dinen	Raugzok's Ear
Silverclaw	35E	Wildcat	North Downs	8.2S, 45.4W	Y	S of Othrikar near the wildcat lair	Silverclaw's Claw
Skulkmire	28S	Bog-lurker	North Downs	15.4S, 43.2W	N	Meluinen south of the Orc camp at Merenost	Skulkmire's Moss
Steelmaw	39E	Bear	Trollshaws	30.3S, 16.3W	Y	Western edge of the forest north of Thorenhad	Steelmaw's Paw
Skybreaker	48EM	Drake	Angmar			Under the Th in Maethad	Skybreaker's Scale
Sawtooth	18S	Wolf	Lonelands	28.6S, 41.6W	N	Spawns in Den near Weatherway bridge	Sawtooth's Tooth
Sagrurz							Sagrurz's Tooth
Snowback	49E	Snowbeast	Misty Mountians	20.4S 2.3W	Y	In the open field South of Helegrod raid instance (roughly west of the instance for Book 5 Chapter 8)	Snowback's Claw
Thaukoth	24E	Warg	North Downs	8.3S, 49.5W	Y	Annundir near the Burial Mounds	Thaukoth's Tail
Trampletusk	21S	Auroch	North Downs	12.0S 45.2W	Y	South of Gatson's Farm	River Maiden's Thread
Umling	42E	Spider	Trollshaws			Trap Door ruins at the north end of the Wovenvales	Umling's Mandible
Wildthorn	17E	Huorn	Old Forest	34.2S, 57.6W	N	Forlorn Glade, south of Tom Bombadil's house	Wildthorn's Bark
Windscreamer	31S	Lynx	Trollshaws		Y	Patrols the High Moor	Windscreamer's Claw

Single Use Recipes

Info gathered by Battlehawke and the USA LOTRO Beta Community.

Profession	Recipe	Rare Component Required	Tier
Jeweller	Engraved Adamant Necklace	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Jeweller	Engraved Adamant Ring	Windscreamer's Claw	Artisan
Jeweller	Engraved Beryl Necklace	Sagrurz's Tooth	Master
Jeweller	Engraved Beryl Ring	Gnashmaw's Tongue	Master
Jeweller	Engraved Bloodstone Ring	Blackclaw's Claw	Journeyman
Jeweller	Engraved Opal Necklace	Sawtooth's Tooth	Journeyman
Jeweller	Engraved Ruby Ring	Darkheart's Black Heart	Expert
Jeweller	Engraved Sapphire Necklace	Silverclaw's Claw	Expert
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Large Shield	Colnor's Scale	Artisan
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Large Shield	Asht's Tooth	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Kite Shield	Asht's Tooth	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Light Forged-Crafted Kite Shield	Asht's Tooth	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Gloves	Blackclaw's Claw	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Small Shield	Asht's Tooth	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Helm	Eitor-Kalsak's Mandible	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Armour	Sawtooth's Tooth	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Shoulder Guards	Wildthorn's Bark	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Leggings	Sawtooth's Tooth	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Forged-Crafted Boots	Tuft of Ironhide's Fur	Journeyman
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Armour	Grish's Tail	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Helm	Skulkmire's Moss	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Gloves	Kraur's Paw	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Boots	Green Moss	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Leggings	Grish's Tail	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Helm	Skulkmire's Moss	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Large Shield	Bleakwind's Tongue	Expert
Metal Smith	Heavy Gondorian Kite Shield	Bleakwind's Tongue	Expert
Metal Smith	Light Gondorian Kite Shield	Nurzum's Tail	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Small Shield	Nurzum's Tail	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Large Shield	Windscreamer's Claw	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Small Shield	Steelmaw's Paw	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Boots	Windscreamer's Claw	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Helm	Umling's Mandible	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Gondorian Shoulder Guards	Khurshat's Tooth	Expert
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Shoulder Guards	Khurshat's Tooth	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Armour	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Leggings	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Metal Smith	Strong Westernesse Gloves	Steelmaw's Paw	Artisan
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Armour	Achathling's Mandible	Master
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Boots		Master
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Gloves		Master
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Helm	Hoartusk's Horn	Master
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Leggings		Master
Metal Smith	Polished Ancient Shoulder Guards		Master
Tailor	Superb Scholar's Gloves	Steelmaw's Paw	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Scholar's Hat	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Scholar's Leggings	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Scholar's Shoulder Guards	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Scholar's Armour	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Hunter's Boots	Windscreamer's Claw	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Hunter's Gloves	Steelmaw's Paw	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Hunter's Helm	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Hunter's Leggings	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Hunter's Shoulder Guards	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Hunter's Armour	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Tailor	Superb Galadrim Armour	Colnor's Scale	Master
Tailor	Superb Galadrim Gloves	Snowback's Claw	Master
Tailor	Superb Galadrim Leggings	Colnor's Scale	Master
Tailor	Superb Galadrim Shoulder Guards	Achathling's Mandible	Master
Tailor	Superb Galadrim Helm	Hoartusk's Horn	Master
Tailor	Superb Galadrim Boots	Sagrurz's Tooth	Master
Tailor	Superb Outrider's Leggings	Grish's Tail	Expert
Tailor	Superb Outrider's Armour	Grish's Tail	Expert
Tailor	Superb Outrider's Boots	Silverclaw's Claw	Expert
Tailor	Superb Outrider's Gloves	Kraur's Paw	Expert
Tailor	Superb Outrider's Boots	Silverclaw's Claw	Expert
Tailor	Superb Outrider's Gloves	Kraur's Paw	Expert
Tailor	Superb Traveller's Armour	Grish's Tail	Expert
Tailor	Superb Traveller's Gloves	Kraur's Paw	Expert
Tailor	Superb Traveller's Hat	Grish's Tail	Expert
Tailor	Superb Traveller's Leggings	Grish's Tail	Expert
Tailor	Superb Traveller's Shoes	Silverclaw's Claw	Expert
Tailor	Superb Traveller's Shoulder Guards	Green Moss	Expert
Tailor	Loose Linen Armour	Sawtooth's Tooth	Journeyman
Tailor	Loose Linen Leggings	Wildthorn's Bark	Journeyman
Tailor	Loose Linen Gloves	Blackclaw's Claw	Journeyman
Tailor	Loose Linen Shoulder Guards	Gloom-Gaze's Fang	Journeyman
Tailor	Loose Linen Shoes	Tuft of Ironhide's Fur	Journeyman
Tailor	Loose Linen Hood	Tuft of Ironhide's Fur	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Leather Armour	Sawtooth's Tooth	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Leather Gloves	Blackclaw's Claw	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Leather Leggings	Wildthorn's Bark	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Leather Shoulder Guards	Gloom-Gaze's Fang	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Leather Boots	Tuft of Ironhide's Fur	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Leather Helm	Tuft of Ironhide's Fur	Journeyman
Tailor	Superb Radiant Armour	Colnor's Scale	Master
Tailor	Superb Radiant Boots	Sagrurz's Tooth	Master
Tailor	Superb Radiant Gloves	Snowback's Claw	Master
Tailor	Superb Radiant Helm	Hoartusk's Horn	Master
Tailor	Superb Radiant Leggings	Colnor's Scale	Master
Tailor	Superb Radiant Shoulder Guards	Achathling's Mandible	Master
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Greatsword	Asht's Tooth	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Headsman's Axe	Asht's Tooth	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Dagger	Blackclaw's Claw	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Sword	Sawtooth's Tooth	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Mace	Wildthorn's Bark	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Halberd	Wildthorn's Bark	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Forged Steel Axe	Eitor-Kalsak's Mandible	Journeyman
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Dagger	Khurshat's Tooth	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Axe	Skulkmire's Moss	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Greatsword	Silverclaw's Claw	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Mace	Grish's Tail	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Sword	Grish's Tail	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Halberd	Darkheart's Black Heart	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Gondorian Headman's Axe	Silverclaw's Claw	Expert
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Axe	Steelmaw's Paw	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Dagger	Windscreamer's Claw	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Greatsword	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Mace	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Greatsword	Colnor's Scale	Master
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Headman's Axe	Driftmane's Fang	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Halberd	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Westernesse Sword	Karnasht's Tooth	Artisan
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Axe	Snowback's Claw	Master
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Halberd	Gnashmaw's Tongue	Master
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Headman's Axe	Colnor's Scale	Master
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Dagger	Sagrurz's Tooth	Master
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Mace	Skybreaker's Scale	Master
Weapon Smith	Polished Ancient Steel Sword	Hoartusk's Horn	Master
Woodworker	Smooth Ash Staff	Wildthorn's Bark
Woodworker	Smooth Ash Bow	Wildthorn's Bark
Woodworker	Smooth Ash Crossbow	Wildthorn's Bark
Woodworker	Smooth Ash Hammer	Sawtooth's Tooth
Woodworker	Carved Yew Hammer	Silverclaw's Claw
Woodworker	Carved Yew Spear	Khurshat's Tooth
Woodworker	Carved Yew Bow	Darkheart's Black Heart
Woodworker	Carved Yew Crossbow	Darkheart's Black Heart
Woodworker	Carved Yew Staff	Darkheart's Black Heart
Woodworker	Carved Lebrethon Staff	Driftmane's Fang
Woodworker	Carved Lebrethon Spear	Windscreamer's Claw
Woodworker	Carved Lebrethon Hammer	Steelmaw's Paw
Woodworker	Carved Lebrethon Bow	Karnasht's Tooth
Woodworker	Carved Lebrethon Crossbow	Karnasht's Tooth
Woodworker	Smooth Ash Spear	Blackclaw's Claw
Woodworker	Carved Black Ash Hammer	Colnor's Scale
Woodworker	Carved Black Ash Spear	Snowback's Claw	Master
Woodworker	Carved Black Ash Crossbow	Hoartusk's Horn	Master