Fabricate and the creation spells

[Saeviomagy]

"You convert material of one sort into a product that is of the same material. Creatures or magic items cannot be created or transmuted by the fabricate spell. The quality of items made by this spell is commensurate with the quality of material used as the basis for the new fabrication. If you work with a mineral, the target is reduced to 1 cubic foot per level instead of 10 cubic feet.

You must make an appropriate Craft check to fabricate articles requiring a high degree of craftsmanship.

This would seem to suggest that fabricate can only create an item, or items which are made from a single material - ie you can't make an axe with it (unless it's an all-metal axe or something).

You create a nonmagical, unattended object of nonliving, vegetable matter. The volume of the item created cannot exceed 1 cubic foot per caster level. You must succeed on an appropriate skill check to make a complex item.

Attempting to use any created object as a material component causes the spell to fail.

Easy enough, right? But what can you actually make? Can I make a loaf of bread? Can I make an alchemical healing salve (from A&EG)?

In short - what definition of 'vegetable' is being used? The word has meanings that range from "anything organic that isn't an animal" to "an edible component of a plant that doesn't contain seeds".

This spell functions like minor creation, except that you can also create an object of mineral nature: stone, crystal, metal, or the like. The duration of the created item varies with its relative hardness and rarity, as indicated on the following table.

Again - what can I actually do? Can I make an axe (part wood, part metal)? Can I make alchemists fire or acid?

 

[hong]

You know, "Fabricate and the creation spells" is actually not a bad name for a rock band.

 

[Thanee]

Yeah, those spells need a lot of judgement.

Also, could you use Fabricate to make part of an object into something else. I.e. part of a chest into a wooden chair, thereby opening the chest, obviously?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Saeviomagy]

Aww, and here I was hoping for old rules clarifications from days long gone...

Bummer.