How to craft

[WaffulMann]

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You're not alone OP, but the crafting system is still very much in development. Even as a long time player, I can't figure out shit so I'd suggest you do as I do and leave it alone for the moment.

Plus, to speed up things build bigger factories. Works for me, 60% of the time, all the time.

 

[FunnyBunny14]

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You're not alone OP, but the crafting system is still very much in development. Even as a long time player, I can't figure out shit so I'd suggest you do as I do and leave it alone for the moment.

Plus, to speed up things build bigger factories. Works for me, 60% of the time, all the time.

Though I am quite glad that you are trying to figure out the new crafting system, I will have to agree with @WaffulMann . It will be a lot easier to first have a huge factory. It might be better if you built a non-legit (not just the crafting system, or maybe even cheat) factory. Just because it will then be easier to handle the crafting system.

You can automate a lot. I'd suggest playing around with all the different aspects of the factory (linking factories and filtering with chests) before you actually attempt to do everything yourself. Even I get overwhelmed at times with everything. But then I link a couple of factories together and everything is fine again.

 

[Progeekzy]

Ya it does seem as if its a lot like minecraft with hoppers going to furnaces and what not. Just a heck of a lot more advanced.

I got really really good with redstone. So i have no doubt that eventually i will get a handle on this as well.

 

[Calbiri]

We are working on re balancing the crafting recipes based on community feedback, at the same time I am trying to keep a clean looking crafting tree that you will hopefully be able to reference with ease.

 

[aceface]

We are working on re balancing the crafting recipes based on community feedback, at the same time I am trying to keep a clean looking crafting tree that you will hopefully be able to reference with ease.

simply make it so that one ore/crystal gives 100 capsules, at the feedupyourbeast server we have changed it like that and we find no problems at all any more with the crafting system

 

[Kraetzin]

simply make it so that one ore/crystal gives 100 capsules, at the feedupyourbeast server we have changed it like that and we find no problems at all any more with the crafting system

Hey I was just wondering how you were able to change this? I took a look and can't find a recipes file or whatever to change, but I'm probably just being blind. I wanted to bump up the refined capsule amount from 10 to 50.

 

[OdraNoel]

am i the only one whos been playing with only using the crafting system and nothing else?

and funny, how you guna suggest to make a non-legit mega factory (blasphemy!) if goin legit is like 90% of the fun! D:

ok yes the current crafting system is a bit wonky recipe wise, and you gota mine TOOOOONS of stuff. but it is so rewarding!!! and honestly i like that things are rather expensive, as it really makes you break your ballz to get your mega ship. which is how it should be. i think a lot of players have been rather spoiled due to the games current "creative mode" nature and have grown accustomed to those massive titans as the norm. those should be exceedingly rare/difficult to aquire in a proper survival play. i guess i just love "hardcore" survivalism, which is why i used to love better than wolves. (until HC spawn was added.....f*ck HC spawn :D )

 

[Progeekzy]

I gave myself enough mats to build a very good harvester, and i know thats cheating but i wanted the ability to jumpstart collection of mats.

Other then that i have been playing legit. I sold enough stuff to make station. Other then that no market and no other space stations. I have been making everything. Slowly. I will say it takes a very very very long time to produce enough items to make it worth wild.

I have harvested 5 planets total, all of the mats from each planet and a ton or asteroids. So raw mats is not the issue. Its the amount of time it takes to go from raw mats to, say, 10k green hardened hull. that 1 item alone takes ages. Then you move onto the next item. Then the next. It is rewarding in the end to end up with a good looking space station, but i also feel like weeks is a very long time to get there.

 

[aceface]

Hey I was just wondering how you were able to change this? I took a look and can't find a recipes file or whatever to change, but I'm probably just being blind. I wanted to bump up the refined capsule amount from 10 to 50.

honestly don' know its my friend bob who did it, he said there was a file where you modify what you get from each ore and he had to change it for every single ore!

 

[FunnyBunny14]

I suggested to try making a non-legit factory first so he could see how it all worked. And once that has been figured out, it would of ckurse be logical to go legit.

 

[Kraetzin]

honestly don' know its my friend bob who did it, he said there was a file where you modify what you get from each ore and he had to change it for every single ore!

Found the recipes under data/config/BlockConfig.xml. Changed all the ore and crystal outputs to 50 capsules and now I'm a lot more happy. Thanks anyhow.

 

[Ithirahad]

am i the only one whos been playing with only using the crafting system and nothing else?

and funny, how you guna suggest to make a non-legit mega factory (blasphemy!) if goin legit is like 90% of the fun! D:

ok yes the current crafting system is a bit wonky recipe wise, and you gota mine TOOOOONS of stuff. but it is so rewarding!!! and honestly i like that things are rather expensive, as it really makes you break your ballz to get your mega ship. which is how it should be. i think a lot of players have been rather spoiled due to the games current "creative mode" nature and have grown accustomed to those massive titans as the norm. those should be exceedingly rare/difficult to aquire in a proper survival play. i guess i just love "hardcore" survivalism, which is why i used to love better than wolves. (until HC spawn was added.....f*ck HC spawn :D )

Uhhhh, no... Ships should be expensive, but not THAT expensive... As it is now, it would be unrealistic to try and build anything larger than a large fighter or smallish gunboat with just crafted blocks. And even for the smallish gunboat I'd catch hell trying to mine all of that stuff without mining out the entire solar system and turning all the planets ugly. (Which I'd really rather avoid.)

 

[OdraNoel]

Uhhhh, no... Ships should be expensive, but not THAT expensive... As it is now, it would be unrealistic to try and build anything larger than a large fighter or smallish gunboat with just crafted blocks. And even for the smallish gunboat I'd catch hell trying to mine all of that stuff without mining out the entire solar system and turning all the planets ugly. (Which I'd really rather avoid.)

hmm, i guess i half agree with you. iv harvested about a planet and a half now (iv uped their default size to about 200) and was able to make a fairly large sized hull for a ship(still no systems), a decent fighter/bomber, and the all mighty devourer of worlds salvaging super ship, and not to mention the now few hundred power blocks and energy storage blocks i needed to power my stations large arrays of factories, and all the decorative blocks! and i have about 150,000 - 200,000 capsules of every ore and crystal left over.

so yes things are rather expensive and such. but considering all i was able to make (some of the recipes have changed since i first started my crafting only lets play. like thrusters are now a lot cheaper then they were at first. as are power cubes) and the resources i have left, i feel it was a fairly good trade off. i know ill probably have to harvest another half a planet or so to really make all the systems for my mother ship (i made her biiiiig, for me at least. shes shown in my latests lets play episode 8) but it just seems proper to me that way.

so in all i think the crafting system is going to be just fine. yes there are still some recipe issues (like glass is still wayyyy to expensive) but on the whole iv been enjoying my self. but yes i realize it may still be a bit to hardcore for most. but more balancing is on the way. but basically my main point is that currently it CAN be done. it just takes a bit of elbow grease and patience. (perhaps a bit more then most are willing to put up with at the moment) but it was so satisfying to slowly work myway up the resources and getting more and more specialize blocks (like shields) i dont think ill ever use the in game shops again. it so much more rewarding to just make everything.

and to @Progeekzy if your going to try and make everything with using only a handful of factories, then yes your going to go crazy jsut waiting for everything to be made. you have to make A LOT of factories. like when i started makeing the hull to my mother ship i needed a good few thousand hull. so i had about 6 - 8 factories all makeing grey hull. that way i was able to get the blocks i needed without having to wait on one or two factories taking forever to make everything. if you want check out episode 8 of my lets play series in the off topic section and go to about the half way point. there i show my main factory floor so you can get a sense for things. keep in mind tho i may have gone a wee bit over board and not everyone will have a factory for EVERY block in the game. but i just got tired of constantly changing my factories out put blocks. so i said screw it. ill make a factory for every block! :D