This week's blog post is going to be all about the crafting system and it's nuances, although this may all be subject to change depending on how it feels through proper public playtesting!

The Invention Wrench

In every new world you start in Landraisers, you will start with one item - the Invention Wrench! This is your key to interacting with the crafting system and so will be necessary to keep on you at all times. As a result of it being such a core item, if you die with it in your inventory, it will stay in there instead of dropping on the ground to ensure you're never left without a way to get back on your feet!

The Invention... Bench?

To create your main crafting station, you will have to get started by chopping down a tree (original for a survival game, right?)

After obtaining a log, place it down with a good ol' click of the right mouse button, then select your Invention Wrench in your hotbar and right click on the log - and that's how you create the Invention Bench! Simple as that.

If you break an Invention Bench, it will turn back into a log again and will need to be created again on a placed log. This is to help out if you accidentally turn one of the log walls in your base into a bench!

Crafty!

And now we get onto the guts of the crafting system. Each item in the game that has a recipe has a list of items that go in to creating it. The Invention Bench can hold up to 9 items at once, and you add them it by selecting them in your hotbar and then right clicking on the Bench. After all the items are added, you can right click on the Bench with your Wrench and, if the items match up to one of the in game recipes, the item is created! Here you can see one of the simpler recipes, where 1 log turns into 2 planks:

Some core items in the game have more complicated recipes, a lot of which you will be able to find through in-game activities such as fishing, or random events such as messages in bottles floating to shore. However as an example I will give you one now, as it links onto the next topic!

3 Planks + 4 Sticks + 1 Log = Spinning Wheel

These more complicated recipes can have the items added in any order - as long as all the components are there when you right click with the Wrench, the crafting will complete! If the recipe is not valid, you will get any items you put into the Bench back again

Advanced Stations

There are some advanced stations in the game, such as Spinning Wheels, which allow you to craft specific items a lot faster, and also unique items! These stations work on a "1 in, x out" basis, so right clicking with a valid item will consume 1 of it and create the resulting item, which for example would be 1 Flax -> 1 String on the Spinning Wheel

Other examples include a Sawmill, a Millstone, a Furnace, and I'm sure many more will be developed as the need arises! These stations were created to make bulk crafting easier, as crafting planks in sets of 2 requiring 2 clicks and the scroll wheel becomes tedious after a while. Simply mashing right click is much easier! Most of these stations won't be available right off the bat as they require more advanced items - but it'll be worth it when you get there!

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Thanks for reading!