
Blacksmithing gives you a notable bonus to the damage and defense rating of the forged items as well. This does not affect the attribute / skill / resistance bonus of crated items, but only their damage + defense rating as well as their price. The crafted items that are not consumable have the same level as your crafter. If everything seems to fail try one of the simple recipes like the food stuff (Pizza Sauce = Tomato + Hammer) to make sure that you are doing it right.ĭoes my level or skill level affect the items? The quality of some items scales with both your level and how many skill points you have in crafting / blacksmithing. In DOS:EE, if your crafting/blacksmithing level isn't high enough, rather than yielding a new product, you will see a question mark in the crafted item box, and your materials will not be consumed. If your crafting/blacksmithing level is not high enough, a message is going to appear over the head of the crafter, so make sure that this isn't being blocked by something like the inventory screen (DOS). Help! It doesn't work! The inventory management can be a bit annoying, so make sure that you have actually selected your crafter after moving components around from inventory to inventory. After one of your characters has read the book the text of the whole book will be permanently listed in the recipe tab (click on the note symbol next to the minimap) and stay there even if you sell the book afterwards. What do the books with recipes do? The recipes are typically described there with some kind of back story. How do I unlock recipes? It is not necessary to unlock the recipes, but some of them require a certain skill level in crafting / blacksmithing. For DOS:EE simply drag two different stacks into the crafting window boxes and you will be able to craft your Large (Iron or Steel) Bar for example. When you combine the piles again, you can select whether you want to craft or stack the items and how many of them you want to create (DOS1). How do I craft recipes involving 2 stackable items? If you want to make a large iron bar by combining 2 normal iron bars, but only have a single big stack of iron bars, you have to split the stack first by holding the SHIFT key and dragging the pile to an empty slot in your inventory.

You will come across your first anvil, forge and whetstone wheel in Cyseal to the south west of the mortician. If you’ve found any recipes (usually obtained by reading books or finding key items), you can click on the Recipes tab on the top left of the crafting screen to see your requirements.īe sure to check back with Twinfinite for more information on Divinity: Original Sin 2.How do I craft stuff? Crafting involves either dragging and combining items in you inventory or dragging them to an anvil, forge or whetstone wheel depending on the recipe (DOS1), or using the Craft menu (DOS:EE), right-clicking an interactable crafting "station" or "tool" on the ground (such as anvil, forge, oven, or whetstone wheel, and clicking "combine with". This will open up the crafting screen, where you can select other ingredients to use in the process.

Right-click the ingredient that you want to use in a recipe, and click the Combine option. To craft an item, press I to bring up your inventory menu, and take a look at the items you have in your bag on the right-hand side of the screen. With the right materials, you can cook food for buffs and restoration, or even craft various potions to help you out in fights as well.

You can start crafting items once you’ve gathered a few ingredients and raw materials, which are scattered basically everywhere in the world. Recipes feel more streamlined this time around, and a lot more accessible as well, allowing you to craft items far more easily.

Crafting wasn’t very well received in the first game because of its odd recipes and ingredients, but the system has been improved quite a bit in Divinity: Original Sin 2.
