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Crafting & blueprints

  • 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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  • 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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