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Crafting & blueprints

  • How do I build a new ship?Craft it at the Forge in your hub, from a ship blueprint and materials in your hub stash.

    Craft it at the Forge in your hub, from a ship blueprint and materials in your hub stash.

    You'll need

    1. Get a blueprint from loot, your faction Quartermaster (for Merits) or the Greylock blueprint merchant.
    2. Put the blueprint in a forge bay. A Normal Seraph takes Veskar 144, Pirite 138, Helspar 143 and Solstine 18.
    3. Queue it. The Forge keeps working while you're offline.
    4. Collect the hull.
    5. Tether to the refit terminal with the harpoon, then use SWITCH SHIP in your stash.

    Good to know

    • Rarer blueprints need more material: Advanced +10%, Prototype +20%, Artifact +50%. Forge upgrades offset some of it. Each hull's page lists its costs.
    • Merchants and the Quartermaster also sell hulls.

    Tip

    Keep Dark Triton and Solstine for recipes.

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  • Where do blueprints come from?Loot, your faction Quartermaster, and a merchant in Greylock.

    Loot, your faction Quartermaster, and a merchant in Greylock.

    • Loot: breaches and random mobs. Look for the extra-blueprint breach modifier.
    • Your faction Quartermaster, for Merits. Its blueprints are Faction quality, T1 only and can't be traded. It's in your faction hub, Zhat Kali for Tzhal or Ganden for Ganden; since Beta Patch 1 vendors have yellow HUD markers.
    • The blueprint/industry merchant in Greylock.

    Quartermaster prices seen so far:

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  • What does researching a blueprint do?Spending ORE to research a blueprint raises its tier, from T1 up to T5.

    Spending ORE to research a blueprint raises its tier, from T1 up to T5.

    You'll need

    • the blueprint and enough
    • ORE
    1. Get ORE by recycling modules and minerals in the Recycler tab of your stash, at any hub.
    2. In the Forge, right-click the blueprint to research it.
    3. 'T2-T4' in the queue means research, not a craft.

    What a higher tier gives you:

    • Better odds of high quality. From T4 you can't roll Flawed.
    • For modules, more ports.
    • No rise in material costs (rarer blueprints do cost more).

    Tip

    Quartermaster blueprints start at T1, so research one before you build in bulk.

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  • Does a crafted item's rarity vary?No: a crafted item has its blueprint's rarity; only quality varies.

    No: a crafted item has its blueprint's rarity; only quality varies.

    • For a higher rarity, craft from a rarer blueprint. Rarer blueprints cost more materials.
    • For better quality odds, research the blueprint. From T4 you can't roll Flawed.
    • Extra modifiers are added afterwards with consumables: Hermes augmenter, Norn overclocker and Laplace matrix add them (max 4). Adding a modifier to a Normal item makes it Advanced.
    • A Ptah crucible rerolls quality after the craft.
    • The Forge keeps working while you're offline.

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  • What are the quality levels?Five levels, from Faction to Masterwork; the Flawed value is still unconfirmed.

    Five levels, from Faction to Masterwork; the Flawed value is still unconfirmed.

    • Faction: -15% (dev-confirmed). Quartermaster blueprints and the free starter Seraph come at this quality.
    • Flawed: figures differ, -10% or as low as -20%. A blueprint researched to T4 can't roll it.
    • Standard: 0%.
    • Superior: +10%.
    • Masterwork: +20%.

    Tip

    Higher research tiers give better odds of high quality, and a Ptah crucible rerolls quality, including a whole ship's.

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  • What do the consumables do?They change items after crafting: modifiers, quality, subsystems, rarity, ports and type.

    They change items after crafting: modifiers, quality, subsystems, rarity, ports and type.

    • Hermes augmenter, Norn overclocker and Laplace matrix add modifiers (max 4) to modules or hulls in the stash grid.
    • Probability matrix adds 4 modifiers to a Normal item.
    • Kairo removes a modifier, possibly dropping rarity (3 to 2 modifiers).
    • Ptah crucible rerolls quality, whole ships included.
    • Skuld omen rerolls subsystems.
    • Tyche's catalyst: 25% chance of turning an item into its artifact (possibly regalia) variant; failure destroys it.
    • Janus adds one port to a portless module; a developer didn't think one with ports can get more. Researched blueprints add ports at higher tiers.
    • Thoth adapters change a module's type.
    • Yata replicator copies a ship at the same level, affinity points unspent.

    Good to know

    • Forge cells take the same consumables for industry modifiers.
    • Breaches with the "more consumables" modifier drop more, like Norn overclockers.

    Tip

    Order of use matters.

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  • Can ships be artifacts?Yes: craft one from an artifact ship blueprint, or gamble a normal ship with Tyche's catalyst.

    Yes: craft one from an artifact ship blueprint, or gamble a normal ship with Tyche's catalyst.

    You'll need

    • Artifact ship blueprints drop. A crafted item keeps its blueprint's rarity. An Artifact blueprint needs 50% more materials than a Normal one.
    • Tyche's catalyst works on normal ships: a 25% chance to make the artifact variant; it destroys the item if it fails.
    • Each hull has an artifact version. Developers say they have a special modifier, some with unique abilities; Beta Patch 1 teased 13. Tek Resonance is a Rune artifact stat. Documented so far: Praedo (Condor), Dvergr (Augr), Solvarg (Skoll) and Tempestas (Typhon).
    • Modifiers apply top-down, so an artifact's downsides apply first.

    Tip

    Only use a catalyst on a hull you can afford to lose.

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  • Does the +1 breach tier forge modifier improve artifacts?No. Artifact modifiers always roll from the same ranges, whatever the breach tier.

    No. Artifact modifiers always roll from the same ranges, whatever the breach tier.

    So the +1 breach tier modifier won't give an artifact better rolls.

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  • What is the workbench?It's where your crafting and research jobs run.

    It's where your crafting and research jobs run.

    When you craft or research a blueprint, the job goes into the workbench and runs there until it's done.

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