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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.

Recipes and Alchemy Machines

In order to begin crafting, you willl need to locate three key ingredients:

• A 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 you purchased the recipe find it in the Arsenal under Recipes and click on it to learn it. Once you've learned a recipe, you can craft the associated item as many times as you please.

• Crafting 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. Unsurprisingly, 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.

• An Alchemy Machine

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

Getting It Done

Once you have gathered the required materials, you can construct any recipe that is known to you at any Alchemy Machine. The process will expend your materials, as well as a small amount of Crowns and Energy. Note that crafting always succeeds, and there is no concept of crafting "skill": the Alchemy Machine does the tough work for you, and never fails! Technology is a wonderful thing.

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.

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.

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.

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	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.	Not yet confirmed.
	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.	Not yet confirmed.
	Plasma Cell	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Fluids

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Gel Drop	★☆☆☆☆	A drop of goo collected from a jelly. It's still quivering.	Jelly Cube
	Ecto Drop	★☆☆☆☆	A bit of ectoplasm meticulously collected from an unwilling undead volunteer. It's an unpleasant shade of green.	Not yet confirmed.
	Chroma Tear	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Philoso Feather	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Beast

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

Wood

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Redwood	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Blaze Pepper	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Ironwood	?	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Powder

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Blast Powder	★★☆☆☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Swordstone	★★☆☆☆	Unavailable	Devilite
	Soul Dust	★★★☆☆	The dust of the departed. Whether it still retains any shred of a soul remains to be seen.	Not yet confirmed.
File:Crafting-Sulfur.png	Sulfur	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed..
	Warp Dust	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Ash Wolver
	Rock Salt	?	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

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.

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Gel Core	★★☆☆☆	A fist-sized, gelatinous lump collected from a jelly.	Jelly Cube, Brute Cube
	Brute Core	★★★☆☆	An oozing blue lump from a particularly potent gelatinous opponent.	Brute Cube
	Toxic Core	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Zee Core	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
File:Unstable core.png	Unstable Core	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Super Blast Cubes
	Rocky Core	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Royal Core	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Coils

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Silver Coil	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Force Dynamo	★★★☆☆	Unavaiable	Not yet confirmed.

Textiles

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Frayed Fabric	★★☆☆☆	The worn remains of a Clockworks denizen's duds. It could probably be recycled.	Not yet confirmed.
	Fine Fabric	★★★☆☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Miracloth	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Gears

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Iron Gear	★★☆☆☆	A metal gear that was once a component of a complicated contraption.	Not yet confirmed.
	Heavy Gear	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Primal Ore	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Volcanic Iron	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Shadow Steel	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Bone

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Monster Bone	★★☆☆☆	An intact bone from a now-deceased beast.	Not yet confirmed.
	Blighted Bone	★★★★☆	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Reaper Rib	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

Miscellaneous

Icon	Material Name	Rarity	Description	Drops From
	Plague Essence	★★★★★	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.
	Trojan Horseshoe	?	Unavailable	Not yet confirmed.

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. For instance, the Jelly Helm below has an increase to elemental defense.