Crafting
Crafting can be a very tedious and expensive thing to do, however it is a very common trade to have on the server. whether you want to earn money by selling weaponry and ammunition to other players, or craft the items for yourself.
The Menu
To get the crafting menu in front of you, click F1 and head over to Crafting.
Here you can find all the craftable items, clicking on an item will show you what materials, genes and skills you are missing. The materials can be purchased at the Hammer Plus store, the genes can be purchased at the Hospital if you do not have them already, and the skills can be obtained through crafting.
In order to craft anything you will need a workbench; you can buy this at the NPC in Ol' Stool
This is the bare minimum you need in order to start crafting.
After you've bought it you'll need to return to your property, open the Q menu and click the workbench in order to equip it
In your property you will find predefined locations for this workbench when you stand too far away it will appear red, meaning you cannot place it.
As you walk closer this red colour will turn into green meaning you can place the workbench you can do so by left clicking.
Note: If there are props in the workbench location, it will remain red until you remove the obstruction
Congratulations, you have placed the workbench! Now you can go ahead and start crafting!
Furniture
Some furniture you can buy from the shops however, many of the furnitures has to be bought off of other players or crafted by yourself! Since a lot of furniture is made out of wood, you'd need the required Wood working level. To level your Wood working skill, start with items that require Wood working level 1 in the furniture tab in the crafting menu. Once level 2 you unlock a new tier of craftable furnitures, this continues to Wood working level 8.
Other furniture that you can find in this menu is based around genetics and skills rather than wood working. An example of this is given on the image below. so make sure you have to correct skills!
By crafting furniture you can level up your crafting level and have handy props you can engage in roleplay with. But for the people that would like to make some money, there is a more profitable way to level up the crafting level which brings us to the next part of this guide.
Firearms and Tips
Whether you want to raid, defend or just sell them to others, weapons are very useful to have. However, getting started might prove difficult and expensive, hence why there's a dedicated section for you here to learn the most inexpensive and swift way to level up your firearms level.
You want your Firearms level to eventually be around 85 so you can craft Assault Rifles as those tend to be in high demand, and will sell with good profit.
Baseball Bats
Click on 'Craft' and it will be added to the crafting queue like this
The crafted item will be placed in the workbench storage; you can access this by pressing E on it.
Craft your way up toFirearms Level 3 and start making Pistol Ammo as you can sell these for some good profit (everyone wants ammo, especially pistol ammo, as it can be used for the majority of the concealed weapons).
Continue making Pistol Ammo until you reach Firearms Level 20. At this point you'll want to craft either lockpicks (these always get bought by other players) or double-barrelled shotguns until you reach Firearms Level 35.
You can now craft Remington 870s and Shotgun Ammo and you should do this along with different types of weapons and ammo until you reach Firearms level 66. At level 66 you can craft Sniper Ammo, this can be sold for some good profit and will level your firearms up quite quickly. Continue crafting these until you reach Firearms Level 85, and you can now craft Assault Rifles, which are always in high demand.
The Crafting Queue
While crafting items, you are able to queue multiple items to craft as long as you have the required materials and enough craft time limit left. The craft time limit for multiple items is 3 minutes. To add an item to the craft queue, make sure you have selected the item you want to craft, then click 'Craft'. Though that seems like a short time, it is designed so that you can craft items with shorter craft times in bulk, for example, crafting large amounts of Stim Packs as shown below.
The craft limit time stops you from queuing multiple items that have longer craft times. For items with longer craft times you will need to craft them one at a time, clicking 'Craft' each time. You will be notified if the craft time limit has been hit on the right hand side of your screen.