The Survival Crafting Menu
Crafting is a major gameplay mechanic in Outward which allows the player to create items ranging from Equipment to Food, Drinks, Imbues and many other items.
Overview
To craft items, the player can either select a known recipe, or manually craft a new one either through trial and error, or by knowing the recipe in advance.
The Crafting menu accessible at any time covers Survival Crafting only. The player must use an appropriate crafting station such as a Kitchen, Cooking Pot, Alchemy Kit etc., in order to see the recipes for those stations.
In any crafting menu the player can select up to 4 ingredients (apart from campfire cooking, which only allows 1) and combine them to produce new items. They can also deconstruct some items into raw materials, or refuel lanterns.
Recipes
All craftable items have an associated recipe - knowledge of how to create an item with various crafting systems. Learned recipes will be listed in the appropriate crafting menu, and recipes will be learned automatically once the player crafts them for the first time, regardless of whether or not they own the associated recipe scroll.
Recipes can be learned several different ways:
- Through trial and error (or by knowing the recipe in advance)
- Purchasing the scroll from a vendor
- Finding the recipe scroll as loot, either from enemies, loot containers, or quests.
List of All Recipes
All recipes can be found on the Recipes page:
Types of Crafting
- Survival Crafting / Manual Recipe: Accessible from the player's crafting menu, this kind of crafting requires no station.
- Cooking: the player can cook food either directly on a campfire, or with a Cooking Pot or Kitchen.
- Alchemy: using an Alchemy Kit, the player can craft various magical items and potions.
- Blacksmiths can craft armor sets and weapons for the player if they bring them the appropriate materials, though the player does not craft these themselves.
The categories above cover all types of crafting, however there are some niche cases which are worth mentioning:
- The player can also dismantle certain items by placing them in the manual crafting menu by themselves, resulting in components such as Iron Scrap.
- The player can refuel their lantern by placing the lantern and Thick Oil in a manual recipe.