Crafting

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

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 Metal A discarded piece of metal that could easily be repurposed. Gun Puppy series ★★★★☆ Bronze Bolt A simple bronze bolt found everywhere throughout the Clockworks. Gun Puppy series Lumber series ★★★★☆ Power Cell A small device used to power complex machines. Gun Puppy series ★★★★☆ Fuel Canister A small receptacle once used to hold fuel for a complex machine. Gremlin Scorchers ★★★★☆ 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 series ★★★★☆ 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. ★★★★☆ Plasma Cell Gun Puppy series ★★★★☆ Gel Drop A drop of goo collected from a jelly. It's still quivering. Jelly series ★★★★☆ Ecto Drop A bit of ectoplasm meticulously collected from an unwilling undead volunteer. It's an unpleasant shade of green. Kat series Zombie series ★★★★☆ 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 series ★★★★☆ Chroma Tear Bull Chromalisk ★★★★☆ Philoso Feather Kat series ★★★★☆ Sharp Fang A particularly pointy premolar. Or maybe it's a canine? Wolver series ★★★★☆ Beast Scale A relatively intact scale recovered from a clockworks creature. Chromalisk series ★★★★☆ Critter Carapace A chitinous chunk carefully shucked from a Clockworks creature. It's in surprisingly good shape. Chromalisk series ★★★★☆ Bushy Tail Wolver series Gremlin series ★★★★☆ Drake Scale Bull Chromalisk ★★★★☆ Dragon Scale ★★★★☆ Redwood Redward ★★★★☆ Blaze Pepper Ash Wolver ★★★★☆ Ironwood ★★★★☆ Brimstone A smelly, stygian, sulfuric shard commonly found in the underworld. Devilite series Slag Walker Slag Guard ★★★★☆ Blast Powder Gremlin Demos ★★★★☆ Grave Soil Dreadful dirt dredged a creepy crypt. It is always a little cold to the touch. Zombie series Kat series ★★★★☆ Swordstone Devilite series Trojan series ★★★★☆ Soul Dust The dust of the departed. Whether it still retains any shred of a soul remains to be seen. Zombie series Kat series ★★★★☆ Warp Dust Wolver series ★★★★☆ Rock Salt ★★★★☆ Gel Core A fist-sized, gelatinous lump collected from a jelly. Jelly series ★★★★☆ Brute Core An oozing blue lump from a particularly potent gelatinous opponent. Jelly series ★★★★☆ Forbidden Fruit A sinful snack favored by famished fiends. Devilite series ★★★★☆ Toxic Core Droul Toxigel ★★★★☆ Zee Core Sloom series ★★★★☆ Unstable Core Super Blast Cube Ultra Blast Cube ★★★★☆ Ghost Bell A small, silvery bell worn by considerate ghosts that alerts the living when they are close by. Kat series ★★★★☆ Rocky Core Brute Cube Rock Cube ★★★★☆ Royal Core Rock Cube ★★★★☆ Force Dynamo Tortodrone Redward ★★★★☆ Silver Coil Gremlin series Gun Puppy MK II ★★★★☆ Frayed Fabric The worn remains of a Clockworks denizen's duds. It could probably be recycled. Kat Series Gremlin series ★★★★☆ Fine Fabric Kat Series Gremlin series ★★★★☆ Miracloth Kat series Wing series ★★★★☆ Silverweave Silkwings ★★★★☆ Iron Gear A metal gear that was once a component of a complicated contraption. Gun Puppy series Lumber series ★★★★☆ Heavy Gear Redward ★★★★☆ Primal Ore ★★★★☆ Volcanic Iron ★★★★☆ Shadow Steel ★★★★☆ Monster Bone An intact bone from a now-deceased beast. Wolver series Zombie series ★★★★☆ Blighted Bone Droul Slag Walker ★★★★☆ Reaper Rib Dust Zombie Slag Walker ★★★★☆ Trojan Horseshoe ★★★★☆ Flame Soul ★★★★☆ Plague Essence ★★★★☆