Not to be confused with the Craft tab of the Workbench on your Home Island
¶ Crafting Box
“A box for crafting various items.”
Crafting is a game mechanic that will allow you to make certain items with the raw ingredients you collect on your farm, as well as making new ingredients entirely. To begin, collect 100 Wood and 5 Stone, then find the Crafting Box on the Build tab of your Workbench. Find a place to set it down and let's get making!
¶ Crafting Grid
The 3x3 crafting grid may look familiar, but fortunately you will be able to store everything you make in a recipe, and even earn new recipes from your travels around Sunflorea. To make a recipe for the first time, click on one of the items below, then click on a space in the grid. Assemble your creation and click Craft. If a recipe exists for your arrangement, it will begin crafting right away. Otherwise, it will fail and inform you that you need to rearrange it.
Most crafting recipes take time, though some are instant. You can spend Gems to instantly complete a project, or just go about your day and come back when it's complete. The Crafting Box will animate while it is working, though no timer appears below it like with some other buildings.
Once your project is done and you collect the item, the grid configuration remains and you can immediately craft another item, if you have enough resources.
¶ Recipes
Once you successfully craft something, it is stored in your box's memory as a Recipe. You can easily build it again by clicking the hammer icon for the recipe, which automatically populates the grid for you.
You may find recipe pages lying around your farm, especially when expanding or upgrading your land, or you may receive them as rewards when making deliveries to NPCs. As of the time of this writing, though, there is no restriction on crafting an item that you do not have a recipe for in-game. If you find the layout on https://sfl.world/info/crafting or someplace else, you can craft it. There are still some recipes that have yet to be discovered, though, so keep experimenting!
¶ What you can make
Currently there are only two major categories of item you can craft: beds and dolls. Many decorations used to be craftable, but they have all been moved to the Landscape builder and now cost coins and resources instantly.
¶ Beds
Beds are required to hire Farmhands, which are additional characters that live on your farm. The purpose of a Farmhand is to allow you to equip more wearable items than normal. If you have two hats, both of which provide a bonus, you can give the other to your Farmhand and enjoy both.
The Basic Bed is constructed from Timber and Cushions, which take Wood and Feathers, respectively. You can only place one unique bed in your farmhouse, but after you place the Basic Bed, your default Bumpkin takes it over immediately. You will need to build another bed to actually be able to hire a new Farmhand.
By entering your farmhouse and clicking the Add Farm Hand button on the top, you can see the recommended progression of beds. Each one requires successively more expensive and rare resources than the one before, so take your time and establish your farm first.
If you haven't played in a while and had Farmhands before the Crafting Box was introduced, you will be given a bed for each one automatically.
¶ Dolls
The other major item that you can craft is dolls. These are relatively new to the game, and already have a host of uses. They are requests on the Mega Bounty Board, you will need them to be a Contributing Member for your Faction Pet, and you can also give them to any of your barn animals to wake them up instantly. Some NPCs have begun to request them for deliveries as well. Or, you can just place them on your farm and admire them!
Every doll starts with a basic Doll, which is just called Doll in the game. It requires Leather and Wool, which will probably require you to do some marketplace trading. After you have one, you can then “decorate” it with other items, making one of a whole host of dolls that are currently available. Try different things out and see what you come up with!
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