One of the few problems with a magic bag full of loot is figuring out what to do with all your junk. Luckily, there is a great remedy for this issue: turning your junk into new kinds of junk, also known as crafting!
In Grindea, you can visit certain NPCs which will help you craft items close to their expertise. Mr Fabulous, the Evergrind hatter, will let you craft hats for example.
The screenshot above is the crafting view at his shop. You don’t need to unlock recipes in order to craft stuff. Instead, any recipe with at least one item that you already own will appear in the list. The little bar below the item icon is an indicator on how close you are to being able to craft this item! If you don’t have enough ingredients to craft an item, it will show up only as a silhouette. When you’ve gathered all the items required, the bar will turn green and the real icon will appear.
When you press on an item, you will be able to view more detailed information of what the ingredients are, how many you need, and how many you own of each ingredient. Of course, you can view this information even if you haven’t collected all the ingredients yet! If you have all the required parts, you can craft the item. In this case, a sweet slime hat!
Another crafting feature we implemented at the same time was the ability to browse recipes based on ingredient directly from your inventory!
When you press on an item that’s a part of any recipe, you’ll get an option called “Recipes”. Selecting this option will take you to a nifty little recipe browser, listing all items in the game that can be created using that particular item.
Note that even if you don’t have all the ingredients for an item, you can still see what type it is, as well as what stats it will have when you craft it. We don’t want players to farm blindly for an hour to make a new sword, only to find out that the weapon they had used to bash all those slimes had been better all along!
(…of course, a true collector will want to craft everything just for the bragging rights) :3
Crafting, like much else, is not mandatory in order to complete the main story. Neither will it be a breaking powergaming feature like in some modern RPGs, where crafting makes even the rarest of unique drops obsolete. We’ll try to create a balance where both crafted equipment and rare gear are equally powerful. Now, if you craft something from the rarest of components, however…
I love this weekly posts. The only negative side is that I’ll have to keep waiting to play the game.
Seriously, the game is looking pretty good (both visually and gameplay wise)
Dear devs,
when are you going to share with us any decent info about incoming beta? :))) Everyone is waiting for that!
btw. crafting system presents very well.
Hope you best wishes, good luck! :)
A balanced crafting system that uses normal junk instead of annoying to obtain crafting materials? Sounds like a recipe (heh, get it) for a great system.
It’s no fun when crafting is either entirely pointless because it’s inefficient or too powerful and makes everything else pointless.
Bra jobbat av er. fortsätt så:)
This SGA make this game… better popular…
YEA NICE :D
Ok, ok… Crafting is ok, but…
but…
F*ck i no get idea BUT! This game is amazing :) Make it good, oldshool game pls :).
Looks awesome. Good job :D
Will there be any way to view recipes for items that you have no ingredients for?
great job guys. Release a beta please
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 19/07/2012 16:19:@kvn We’re working hard to get to the point where we want to be when we expand the beta! We can’t be more specific than that since we’re not 100 % sure when that is. Basically we have a few additions and tweaks we’d like to do to get as much out of the beta as possible!
Also, we’re trying to work out the details surrounding distribution. We’ve sent an e-mail to Steam, because it would be cool to run the beta on their platform, but considering all this Greenlight-stuff that’s going on we don’t know if and when we’ll get a response from them. Otherwise, we’ll probably look into running it on Desura.
@Adam We have a couple of reasons for doing the recipe viewing the way it’s currently working. First off, there will be quite a lot off stuff to craft, so a list of everything in the game where almost every ingredient is darkened out might feel intimidating for someone early in the game, and also quite difficult to navigate.
The second reason is to give a sense of discovery associated with the crafting system. The way it works now, if someone clears a new area and return to town, they’ll find a new loadout of recipes relevant to where they are in the game. The items in the crafting menu are sorted by tier, so the newly discovered recipes are usually in the spotlight!
Of course, everything can change, and if it’s a common suggestion or there’s a compelling argument for changing how the system works, we’ll look over it again :)
@Theodore I understand :) can’t wait! Don’t worry about releasing beta, we all are patient :) Take care and good luck with Steam!
This is looking so awesome! Can’t wait to play it.