Crafting

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Crafting is the process of making an item from its constituent parts. It is an integral aspect of 7 Days to Die that is accomplished via the Crafting Window. Most items and blocks found in-game can be crafted with few exceptions. By utilizing Crafting, the player can obtain access to items that will aid in their survival without relying on their luck in finding items through Looting.

Overview

Crafting can be done in the player's inventory and in any of the workstations: a Campfire, a Forge, a Workbench, a Cement Mixer and a Chemistry Station. Most of these workstations have their own unique recipes that can only be crafted in that workstation.

Ingredients used for crafting are typically obtained via Looting, Farming, Harvesting, or Trading. Some ingredients need to be crafted from other base components. Once the player has obtained all the necessary ingredients, found an appropriate crafting station and any possible crafting implements needed, and unlocked any required recipe, they can proceed to craft the item.

Crafting an item

To craft an item, the player must select the specific recipe in their Crafting Window and have the needed resources used to craft that recipe in their Inventory before finally clicking the Craft button. Optionally, prior to crafting the recipe, the player can select the Quality and how many of an item to craft by clicking the left and right arrows located at the top left on the right panel. This amount can also be changed by entering an amount in the input panel located between the two arrows. Clicking on the item from the crafting window while holding Shift will automatically set the crafting amount to the max that can be made from the resources in the player's inventory.

Crafting Time

Crafting time is determined in 2 ways: either a set time (e.g. Vehicles & Crafting Bundles) or a calculated time. This time is expressed in minutes and seconds (mmm:ss) using the 'Rounding to nearest, half up' method of rounding. This rounding is for display only, the actual calculated time is used by the game (as seen by crafting large quantities of an item).

The calculated time is a simple multiplication:
Amount of Resource needed * Time value (which can be found here: Template:Recipe_Time/doc, default = 1s)
Do this for each type of resource needed and add the total together = Crafting Time

Example Bullet Tip: 

<Bullet Tip>
- 2*Lead (0.5s)
- 1*Clay (0.5s)
    = 3 * 0.5s = 1.5s > displayed as 00:02 ingame (rounded to nearest halfup)


Example Box of AP 7.62MM Ammo: 

<Box of AP 7.62MM Ammo>
- 160 * Bullet Tip > 160s
- 400 * Gun Powder > 400s
- 80 * Bullet Casing > 80s
    = 160s + 400s + 80s = 640s <time = 10:40>
    BUT <craft_time="360"> SO <time = 06:00>
(Craft time can be found in recipes.xml if specified)


Issues when crafting

If an item cannot be crafted (colored in light grey or craft button missing completely), it is because of one or more of the following reasons:

  • The player has insufficient resources in their inventory or in the forge. This is accompanied with a message "You don't have the necessary resources to craft this" when pressing the craft button.
  • The player does not know the crafting recipe. In this case there is either no craft button at all or it is replaced by an 'unlocks' panel. On the recipe list, next to the item, a grey lock can also be seen, indicating that the recipe is locked.
  • The player is using the wrong workstation (if any at all). In this case the icon next to the name is something other than a padlock and there is no craft button. The said icon indicates the correct one: a hammer and an anvil means the forge, a table means the workbench, a campfire means a campfire and a cement mixer means a cement mixer.
  • The workstation (a campfire, a forge or a chemistry station) doesn't have fuel. This is accompanied by a message "You don't have the required fuel to craft this" when pressing the craft button.
  • The workstation (a forge or a campfire) doesn't have correct appliances. This is accompanied by a message "You don't have the required tools to craft this" when pressing the craft button.

Workstations

As mentioned previously, there are five different workstations:

  • Campfire.png The Campfire is the first workstation available to the player, and it is crafted as a part of the Basic Survival tutorial questline. It is mainly used to cook food and drinks, but some chemicals are also available for crafting. The campfire can have three implements: a Cooking Pot, a Cooking Grill and a Beaker. It requires fuel to function.
  • Forge.png The Forge is the second workstation the player can access. It is used to craft multiple useful items, most notably Cement, Forged Iron, Forged Steel, Bullet Casings, Bullet Tips and both Steel and Iron Arrowheads. The forge has its own inventory where the crafting materials are taken from. Resources can be put into this inventory by smelting certain items and removed by crafting any of the basic resources in the forge. This workstation can have three implements in it: an Anvil, Advanced Bellows and a Crucible. The forge requires fuel to function.
  • NewWorkbench.png The Workbench differs from the other workstations by a bit. While many recipes require it to be crafted, the workbench can also be used to craft the same items that are craftable in the player's inventory. This can be helpful when crafting large amounts of resources, such as Cobblestone Rocks. The workbench doesn't have any appliances nor does it require any fuel.
  • CementMixer.png The Cement Mixer is a workstation that is mostly used to craft either blocks or ingredients to those blocks. The most notable resources are Concrete Mix that is used in Upgrading blocks and Crushed Sand that is used to craft concrete mix. This workstation doesn't have any appliances nor does it require any fuel.
  • ChemistryStation.png The Chemistry Station is used to craft many scientific items, such as chemicals and medicine. Most notable items include First Aid Kits, Gas Cans, Antibiotics and Beer. Stacks of Gun Powder and Gas Cans are also crafted through the chemistry station. This workstation doesn't have any appliances but requires fuel to function.

Getting a workstation

Workstations can be crafted by the player if they are at the required level of the Workstations Crafting Skill, which is leveled by reading Forge Ahead Crafting Skill Magazines. Some workstations can be found across the world in several Points of Interest, but all of these are broken. Every Trader has one instance of each destroyed workstation inside their compound. Destroyed workstations have a chance of containing a Forge Ahead magazine to advance workstation crafting. Workstations can also be bought or obtained through quest tier rewards from a trader.

Unlocking recipes

Crafting recipes are primarily unlocked with Crafting Skills, which are leveled by reading Crafting Skill Magazines. Some recipes are unlocked by reading Perk Books or Schematics instead.

Leveling certain Perks increases the chances of finding one or more specific magazines.

More effective crafting

There are certain ways to allow more efficient and/or faster crafting for certain items.

Workstations

Perks

Perk Books

Crafting Skills

Craftable items

Due to the number of craftable items and server limitations, the comprehensive table had to be split:

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