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Crafting is the fine art of taking a set of items and turning them into something greater than the sum of their parts.

Crafting an Item

Once everything needed is acquired, an item can be constructed out of any recipe at an Alchemy Machine. The process will expend the listed materials, Crowns, and Energy. Crafting always succeeds, and there is no concept of crafting "skill": the Alchemy Machine does all the tough work, and never fails! Technology is a wonderful thing.

Things Needed

In order to begin crafting, three things need to be located: a recipe, the materials detailed in the recipe, and an alchemy machine.

Recipe

Recipes are purchased from shops. The Bazaar in Haven has a Stranger with a small stock of basic equipment recipes. Hover over the recipes to see details on the item it will create. After a recipe is purchased it can be found in the Arsenal under Recipes. Once a recipe is learned, the associated item may be crafted as many times as desired.

In general, the cost of recipes increases by a constant factor of 5 as you go to the next star level:

• 1 star: 50 crowns
• 2 stars: 250 crowns
• 3 stars: 1250 crowns
• 4 stars: 6250 crowns
• 5 stars: unknown

Materials

Crafting materials can be found in The Clockworks. Certain recipes may also require other pieces of equipment, or even leveled up pieces of equipment. The items created by such recipes are typically very powerful. Press F5 or select Recipes from the Menu in the upper left corner to bring up the Recipe Manager. Here you can get more information on which materials are needed to create the item. Notice that the Recipe Manager can't create the item, for that you need the Alchemy Machines described below.

Alchemy Machine

Alchemy Machines are located throughout town areas. For example, Haven has an Alchemy Machine in the Bazaar, Arcade, and Main Square.

The cost of crafting an item depends on its star level, and generally doubles with each additional star.

• 1 star: ?? (dusk drop costs 200 crowns, 5 energy; may be a special case)
• 2 stars: 400 crowns/ 50 energy
• 3 stars: 800 crowns / 100 energy
• 4 stars: 1600 crowns/ 200 energy
• 5 stars: ??

Usually, this is much cheaper than buying the item pre-made from a shop, and crafting gives the added possibility of creating a unique variant (see below). Pre-made items increase in price as their star level increases- thus, items with a high star level are generally cheaper to craft than to buy pre-made.

• 0 stars: 200 crowns
• 1 star: 1,500 crowns
• 2 stars: 3,750 crowns
• 3 stars: 11,250 crowns
• 4 stars: 33,750 crowns
• 5 stars: 101,250 crowns

Unique Variants

When crafting an item, you will sometimes be informed that you have crafted a "unique variant." These items have a stat bonus.

The variant's bonus is described in the tooltip and marked with a star icon.

Crafting Materials

Shards

The most common crafting material found in The Clockworks, shards are tiny pieces of mineral which are too small for use in gate construction, but are well-suited to making equipment. Shards come in five colors, each corresponding to one of the common mineral types found on Cradle: Red Shards, Green Shards and Blue Shards are all readily available, while Light Shards and Dark Shards are a little rarer.

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Blue Shard A shard of Moonstone that is too small to be used in powering gates but highly useful in alchemy. Any Monster ★★★★☆ Red Shard A shard of Crimsonite that is too small to be used in powering gates but highly useful in alchemy. Any Monster ★★★★☆ Green Shard A shard of Valestone that is too small to be used in powering gates but highly useful in alchemy. Any Monster ★★★★☆ Light Shard A shard of Luminite that is too small to be used in powering gates but highly useful in alchemy. Any Monster ★★★★☆ Dark Shard A shard of Dark Matter that is too small to be used in powering gates but highly useful in alchemy. Any Monster ★★★★☆

Scrap

A number of Clockworks denizens are either made of or frequently utilize machinery, and thus when they are mercilessly beaten by roving bands of Spiral Knights, they have been known to drop pieces of scrap that are usable in crafting. Types of scrap you'll most likely encounter include Scrap Metal and Bronze Bolts.

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Scrap Metal A discarded piece of metal that could easily be repurposed. Gun Puppy ★★★★☆ Bronze Bolt A simple bronze bolt found everywhere throughout the Clockworks. Lumber Gun Puppy ★★★★☆

Cells

Scavenged cells from broken or discarded machines are the most common way that Spiral Knights add elemental affinities to their equipment. Cells in good working order are somewhat rare finds in The Clockworks, but the types you are most likely to come across in your travels are the fiery Fuel Canister, the chilling Cooling Cell and the rather shocking Power Cell.

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Power Cell A small device used to power complex machines. Gun Puppy MK II ★★★★☆ Fuel Canister A small receptacle once used to hold fuel for a complex machine. Gremlin Pyros ★★★★☆ Cooling Cell A small device used in complex machines to keep them from overheating. Also handy to keep in your pockets on hot summer days. Gun Puppy MK II ★★★★☆ Cursed Idol A small, stone statue carved into the form of one of the thousands of arch fiends of the Underworld. The shadowy surface color seems to move and shift like smoke. Not yet confirmed ★★★★☆ Plasma Cell Unavailable Gun Puppy MK II ★★★★☆

Fluids

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Gel Drop A drop of goo collected from a jelly. It's still quivering. Jelly Cube Brute Cube ★★★★☆ Ecto Drop A bit of ectoplasm meticulously collected from an unwilling undead volunteer. It's an unpleasant shade of green. Undead Monsters ★★★★☆ Phial of Phear A glass tube containing a small dose of phearium, a strange chemical said to induce panic into anyone who even gets so much as a sniff of this stuff. Devilite Overtimer ★★★★☆ Chroma Tear Unavailable Bull Chromalisk ★★★★☆ Philoso Feather Unavailable Kats ★★★★☆

Beast

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Sharp Fang A particularly pointy premolar. Or maybe it's a canine? Wolvers ★★★★☆ Beast Scale A relatively intact scale recovered from a clockworks creature. Chroma Whelp ★★★★☆ Critter Carapace A chitinous chunk carefully shucked from a Clockworks creature. It's in surprisingly good shape. Bull Chromalisk ★★★★☆ Bushy Tail Unavailable Wolver ★★★★☆ Drake Scale Unavailable Bull Chromalisk ★★★★☆ Dragon Scale Unavailable Not yet confimed ★★★★☆

Wood

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Redwood Unavalible Redward ★★★★☆ Blaze Pepper Unavalible Ash Wolver ★★★★☆ 34px Ironwod Unavalible Not yet confirmed ★★★★☆

Powder

List of known crafting materials

Icon Name Description Drops From Recipe Uses Rarity Brimstone A smelly, stygian, sulfuric shard commonly found in the underworld. Devilite ★★★★☆ Blast Powder Unavalible Gremlin Bomber ★★★★☆ Grave Soil Zombies Kats ★★★★☆ Rock Salt Unavalible Not yet confirmed ★★★★☆ Swordstone Unavalible Devilite Trojans ★★★★☆ Soul Dust The dust of the departed. Whether it still retains any shred of a soul remains to be seen. Zombies Kats ★★★★☆ Warp Dust Unavalible Ash Wolver ★★★★☆

Cores

The sentient jellies that roam the Clockworks' halls are made up of a quivering material that has a few practical uses when collected. The notion may seem disgusting to you, but when you've crash landed on a strange planet, you take what you can get! The most common type is the Gel Core, ranging all the way up to the most rare Royal Core. It's said that both are rather delicious when prepared properly.

Coils

Textiles

Gears

Bone

Miscellaneous