Crafting
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| “ | For years you have been able to create weapons with your bare hands, using raw steel, in real life. What if we were to tell you there’s now a way to SIMULATE that in-game? Because we just did!
— Crafting publicity blurb
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Crafting is an in-game system that allows players to create specific items for use in Team Fortress 2. Crafting was introduced with the WAR! Update on December 17, 2009 Patch. The items that can be created include weapons, hats, and materials that can be used for further crafting, such as Scrap Metal or Class Tokens. Crafting is usually conducted by utilizing unwanted or duplicate items gained through the item drop system. In order to create items, the player must follow blueprints, all of which are initially available to players with a "premium" account. After following a valid blueprint recipe, the player will gain the item specified by the blueprint. If the player attempts to craft an item without the proper ingredients, an item will not be crafted whatsoever. Non-premium users cannot craft Rare or Special items[1], and tools cannot be crafted under any circumstances.
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Blueprints
Crafting items
Metal
Tokens
| Blueprint | Requires | Produces | Example | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabricate Class Token[2] | Any 3 weapons wielded by the same class | 1 × Class Token | | 3 |
| Rebuild Class Token[2] | Any 1 Class Token and any 1 weapon belonging to an alternative class | 1 × New Class Token | | 4 |
| Fabricate Slot Token[3] | Any 3 weapons equipped in the same slot | 1 × Slot Token | | 3 |
| Rebuild Slot Token[3] | Any 1 Slot Token and any 1 weapon equipped to an alternative slot | 1 × New Slot Token | | 4 |
| Smelt Tokens | Any 3 tokens | 1 × Reclaimed Metal | | 9 |
Standard items
All-class
Scout
Soldier
Pyro
Demoman
| Blueprint | Requires | Produces | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabricate Ali Baba's Wee Booties | |
| 2 |
| Fabricate Splendid Screen | 2 x |
| 13 |
| Fabricate Persian Persuader | |
| 4 |
| Fabricate Half-Zatoichi | |
| 8 |
| Fabricate Loch-n-Load | |
| 7 |
| Fabricate Ullapool Caber | 2 x |
| 5 |
| Fabricate Claidheamh Mòr | |
| 2 |
| Fabricate Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker | 2 x |
| 37 + Haunted Metal Scrap |
| Fabricate Scotsman's Skullcutter | |
| 2 |
| Fabricate Pain Train | |
| 3 |
| Fabricate Loose Cannon | |
| 9 |
| Fabricate Sticky Jumper | |
| 9 |
Heavy
Engineer
Medic
Sniper
Spy
Rare items
| Blueprint | Requires | Produces | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabricate Headgear | 3 × |
1 × Random Headgear | 54 |
| Rebuild Headgear | 2 × Headgear | 1 × Random Headgear | 108 |
| Fabricate Class Headgear | 4 × |
1 × Class specific random Headgear | 75 |
| Fabricate Bonk Helm[4] | |
| 2 + Headgear |
| Fabricate Milkman | 4 × |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Bonk Boy | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Big Elfin Deal/Bootie Time | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Grenadier's Softcap | 4 × |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Jumper's Jeepcap | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Armored Authority/Fancy Dress Uniform | 4 × |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Lord Cockswain's Pith Helmet/Novelty Chops and Pipe | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Attendant | 4 × |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Bubble Pipe/Moonman Backpack | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Sultan's Ceremonial | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Buccaneer's Bicorne/A Whiff of the Old Brimstone | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Capo's Capper | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Brainiac Hairpiece/Brainiac Goggles | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Ol' Snaggletooth | 4 × |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Desert Marauder | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Fruit Shoot | 4 x |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Familiar Fez | 4 × |
| 73 |
| Fabricate Cosa Nostra Cap/Made Man | 4 x |
| 73 |
Special items
| Blueprint | Requires | Produces | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabricate Saxton Hale Halloween Mask[5] | |
| 0 + 9 Headgear |
| Fabricate Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker[5] | 2 × |
| 37 + Haunted Metal |
| Fabricate Haunted Headgear[5]† | 4 × |
| 72 + Haunted Metal |
| Fabricate Pile of Ash | 4 × |
| 5 |
| Fabricate Power Up Canteen | 4 × |
| 8 |
| Fabricate Pile of Curses | 7 x |
| 7 |
| Custom Blueprint[6] | Matches items from existing blueprints | Result for matched blueprint | n/a |
†When crafting Spine-Chilling Skull 2011, the player will receive a version of the Spine-Chilling Skull 2011 hat that only has one of the three possible styles. The style of the skull cannot be changed to the other styles. Only hats purchased through the Mann Co. Store will have the option of switching between the three styles.
Crafting weapon classifications
In contrast with the weapon slots presented in-game, the crafting system classifies some weapons in different slots. For example, the Spy's Revolver is classified as a secondary weapon despite how in-game, it is equipped in the first item slot. Below is a list of all the usable weapons and slots that the crafting system uses. Note that the table does not include the Stock weapons for the classes, such as the Scattergun, as these are not usable in crafting. However, if one has a stock weapon that has been renamed or described, it can be used to craft into scrap.
Craftability
Some items which are obtained by special means, such as promotions and items bought from the Mann Co. Store, cannot be crafted either as an ingredient or as a result.
Weapons
| Weapons that cannot be used in or received from the Smelt Class Weapons, Fabricate Token, or Fabricate Class Weapons recipes. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promotional | | | | | | | |||
| Lugermorph | Big Kill | Frying Pan | Iron Curtain† | Enthusiast's Timepiece† | Black Rose | ||||
| Distributed | | | | ||||||
| Golden Wrench | Saxxy | Robo-Sandvich | |||||||
| Quality | | | | | | ||||
| Normal | Community | Self-Made | Valve | Items purchased from the Mann Co. Store. | |||||
| Note |
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Hats and Misc. items
Item numbering
Crafting numbers are a cosmetic value attached to any crafted weapon, misc. item, or hat introduced during the May 5, 2011 Patch, as well as most items added in any later update. This number represents the order that a given item was crafted in; for example, a "Brain Bucket #1" would be the very first Brain Bucket to have ever been crafted. While the craft number goes into the thousands on third-party backpack viewers, #100 is the maximum value displayed in-game. For example, a "Brain Bucket #101" would only appear in-game as "Brain Bucket".
Golden Wrench
- From July 5 to July 9, 2010, players crafting any items in-game had a chance of finding an extremely rare item, the Golden Wrench, of which only 100 were made available. Valve used a list of specified times to help smooth the frequency with which Golden Wrenches were found. When a player crafted an item after one of the times specified, a random drop could occur giving the player their crafted item and a Golden Wrench. When a Golden Wrench was found, it would be announced to all online Team Fortress 2 servers at once in the form of a dialog box in the center of the screen and an accompanying sound bite. This was only available before and leading up to the Engineer Update until all 100 wrenches were found. An announcement was also shown when one of these Golden Wrenches was destroyed.
- Smelt, Reclaimed, and Refined Metal blueprints were temporarily disabled due to this event until all of the 100 Golden Wrenches had been acquired in order to stop people from endlessly smelting and re-crafting their Metal until they got one. These blueprints were disabled up until the Mann-Conomy Update, even though the Engineer Update had completed and no more Golden Wrenches could be found.
Related achievements
Ghostchievements
| Sackston Hale Craft the Saxton Hale Mask. |
Update history
- Added item crafting.
- Added a chat message when players craft an item.
- Added an "equipped" tag to currently equipped items in the Backpack and Crafting screens.
- Crafting improvements:
- Spy's Camera Beard can now be smelted into scrap metal.
- Recipes can no longer produce items matching any of the items used in the crafting.
- Added some recipes.
- Minor fixes to the crafting UI:
- Changed the item layout in the crafting panel to better fit the backpack panel.
- Each 1 of the 4 crafting pages now shows half of 1 of the 2 backpack pages.
- Fixed the crafting panel next/prev page buttons being hard to use while dragging.
- Fixed the "equipped" label in the item panels stealing the mouse focus from the item panel itself.
- Fixed the Towering Pillar of Hats, Noble Amassment of Hats, and Modest Pile of Hat being included in the crafting of class-specific hats using class tokens.
- Updated Troublemaker's Tossle Cap, Killer's Kabuto, Triboniophorus Tyrannus, Hustler's Hallmark, Hound Dog, Hotrod, Shooter's Sola Topi, and Magistrate's Mullet so they can be crafted.
- Updated the Camera Beard and Physician's Procedure Mask so they can be crafted as hats.
- Moved Crafting button out to the root class/backpack selection panel.
- [Undocumented] Added Smelt Reclaimed Metal, Smelt Refined Metal, Fabricate Gunboats, Fabricate Dalokohs Bar, Fabricate Homewrecker, Fabricate Pain Train, Fabricate Crit-a-Cola and Fabricate Bonk Helm recipes.
- [Undocumented] Updated the Gunboats so they could be crafted with other Soldier weapons.
- [Undocumented] Updated the Smelt Class Weapons recipe to only require 2 weapons wielded by the same class.
- [Undocumented] Updated the Fabricate Class Token and Fabricate Slot Token to only require 3 weapons of the same class or loadout slot.
June 10, 2010 Patch (Mac Update)
- Achievement items and store promotion items are now usable in crafting.
- Gifted items are now craftable.
- Attempting to craft a non tradable item will result in a warning that the items produced by the craft will also be marked as non-tradable.
- Community, Self-Made, and Valve items are not tradable or usable in crafting.
- Changed "Not Craftable" description to "Not Usable in Crafting" to increase clarity.
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for the Gloves of Running Urgently and the Vita-Saw.
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for Polycount Pack set hats.
- Added several crafting recipes.
- The "Fabricate Class Headgear" recipe no longer has a chance of creating all-class hats.
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for the Sharpened Volcano Fragment and the Sun-on-a-Stick.
- All recipes are now known to all players.
- Reduced the cost of most recipes:
- Amputator changed from 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Vita-Saw to 1 Scrap Metal and a Vita-Saw.
- Brass Beast changed from 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Natascha to 1 Reclaimed Metal and a Natascha.
- Buffalo Steak Sandvich changed from a Sandvich and a Crit-a-Cola to 1 Reclaimed Metal and a Sandvich.
- Crusaders Crossbow changed from 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Huntsman to 2 Scrap Metal and a Huntsman.
- Dalokohs Bar changed from a Bonk! Atomic Punch and a Sandvich to 1 Scrap Metal and a Sandvich.
- Fists of Steel changed from 2 Scrap Metal and a Gloves of Running Urgently to 1 Reclaimed Metal and a Killing Gloves of Boxing.
- Gloves of Running Urgently changed from 1 Reclaimed Metal and a Killing Gloves of Boxing to 1 Scrap Metal and a Killing Gloves of Boxing.
- Homewrecker changed from an Eyelander and an Equalizer to 1 Scrap Metal and Equalizer.
- Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker changed from 2 Refined Metal, a haunted Scrap Metal metal, and a Scotsman's Skullcutter to 1 Refined Metal, a haunted Scrap Metal metal, and a Scotsman's Skullcutter.
- Jag changed from 2 Scrap Metal and a Southern Hospitality to 1 Scrap Metal and a Southern Hospitality.
- Loch-n-Load changed from 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Scottish Resistance to 1 Reclaimed Metal and a Scottish Resistance.
- Sharpened Volcano Fragment changed from 1 refined, a Degreaser and a Powerjack to 2 Reclaimed Metal and an Axtinguisher.
- Sun-on-a-Stick changed from 1 refined and a Boston Basher to 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Boston Basher.
- Ullapool Caber changed from 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Sandman to 2 Scrap Metal and a Pain Train.
- Vita-Saw changed from 1 Reclaimed Metal and an Übersaw to 2 Scrap Metal and an Übersaw.
- Warrior's Spirit changed from 2 Reclaimed Metal and a Gloves of Running Urgently to 1 Scrap Metal and a Gloves of Running Urgently.
- Items previously crafted using recipes that will be reduced in this update have been upgraded to Vintage quality - These included the Australian Christmas sets, the Sharpened Volcano Fragment and the Sun-on-a-Stick, and the Shogun Pack Weapons.
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for weapons in the Shogun Pack.
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for the SpaceChem Pin and Fishcake.
May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)
- Crafted items will now remember/display who crafted them.
- [Undocumented] The Brain Bucket, Dead Cone, Janissary Ketche, and Hetman's Headpiece are made craftable.
- Fixed a bug when crafting class tokens.
- Removed the ability to delete the craft count attribute from items.
- The Furious Fukaamigasa, the Hero's Hachimaki and the Connoisseur's Cap are now craftable.
- The Sign of the Wolf's School, Three-Rune Blade, and Hero's Tail are now craftable.
- The Conjurer's Cowl and Maul are now craftable.
- The Crafting interface has been redesigned to accommodate the fact that crafting blueprints are always known to players now.
- [Undocumented] Renamed Stock weapons can now be used in crafting.
- Added a new "Custom Blueprint" option to the Special blueprints.
- Made these items craftable: Copper's Hard Top, Security Shades, Tam O' Shanter, Stately Steel Toe, Nessie's Nine Iron, Rogue's Col Roule, Prairie Heel Biters, and The Big Steel Jaw of Summer Fun.
- Removed the redundant Smelt Primary/Secondary/Melee/Misc item blueprints.
- [Undocumented] The Postal Pummeler is now craftable.
- [Undocumented] Fixed crafts not being shown in the text chat box.
- Made The Original, The Dragonborn Helm, The Pip-Boy, The Anger, and The Wingstick craftable.
- Made the El Jefe and the Mask of the Shaman craftable.
- [Undocumented] Made the A Whiff of the Old Brimstone craftable.
- Fixed the following items not being able to be used in the Rebuild Headgear recipe: Lo-Fi Longwave, Loyalty Reward, Spiral Sallet, Summer Shades, Flip-Flops, Lucky No. 42, Summer Hat, Killer Exclusive, Ball-Kicking Boots, Merc's Pride Scarf, Manniversary Paper Hat.
- Fixed a bug where an item with an empty
craft_classcould be obtained via crafting.
- Made the Cold War Luchador, Mark of the Saint, and Apoco-Fists craftable.
- Added crafting recipes for the Wrap Assassin, Phlogistinator, Manmelter, Third Degree, Pomson 6000, Eureka Effect, Spy-cicle and Holiday Punch.
- When selecting items for use in crafting, the items selected will show their Quality in addition to the item name.
- Ellis' Cap can now be used as a crafting reagent.[7]
- [Undocumented] The Killer Exclusive is now craftable.
- [Undocumented] Bill's Hat can now be used as a crafting ingredient.
- Updated these items so they can be crafted: Warsworn Helmet, Bolgan, Bolgan Family Crest, Merc Medal, Battle Bob, Bushman's Boonie.
June 27, 2012 Patch (Pyromania Update)
- Added crafting recipe for Pile Of Ash.
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for Baby Face's Blaster, Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol, Beggar's Bazooka, Scorch Shot, Hitman's Heatmaker, and Cleaner's Carbine.
October 26, 2012 Patch (Spectral Halloween Special)
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipe for Pile Of Curses.
December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)
- [Undocumented] Added crafting recipes for Vaccinator, Loose Cannon, Rescue Ranger.
- Updated The Rescue Ranger so it can be used as an ingredient when crafting
- [Undocumented] Updated these items so they can be crafted: Last Straw, Grizzled Growth, Prize Plushy, Winter Wonderland Wrap, Cut Throat Concierge, Der Wintermantel, Cool Breeze, Soldier's Slope Scopers, Cold Killer, Doc's Holiday, Digit Divulger, Tough Stuff Muffs, Heavy's Hockey Hair, Mutton Mann, Merc's Muffler, Barnstormer
- Added crafting recipes for the Sticky Jumper and the Rocket Jumper
Other undocumented changes:
- When Miscellaneous items were first separated from Hats, due to players wanting to equip the Camera Beard and other Spy hats simultaneously, the Camera Beard began dropping at the same rate as weapons. It was not unusual for players to find many in the course of a week. Despite the Camera Beard being considered as a 'headgear', two could not be combined to get another hat but could be crafted together to create another Miscellaneous piece of headgear. After the Camera Beard drop-rate was patched in a subsequent update, it became possible to craft two of them together to make a hat.
- Grenade, Building, Head, and PDA(1) Slot Tokens were once listed in the items_game.txt file and were valid items, but none of them were given blueprints, and as such these items were removed from the game during the Mann-Conomy Update. It was previously possible to craft a Head Slot Token by placing 4 hats in the crafting window due to an oversight, but the blueprint and all instances of the item were finally removed when the Mann-Conomy update was launched (for example, this backpack before and after the update).
Notes
- As of the May 5, 2011 Patch any hat or weapon crafted will display "Crafted by PLAYERNAME" in the description of the item. Additionally, using the Restore button in the backpack will give an option to remove the crafter's name from the item.
- Smelting refined or reclaimed metal only partially made from untradable reclaimed or scrap metal will yield all metal produced to be untradable.
Bugs
- Some cases have been reported of players "finding" Scrap Metal. This is most often caused by player losing connection to Steam after clicking the craft button. This means the items are used in the craft recipe, yet the result of the craft remains uncollected until the player dies in a server: giving the "PLAYERNAME has found: METALTYPE" alert.
- Untradable metal, and items made with untradable metal, were reverted to tradable due to a glitch until a subsequent patch was released. This behavior was observed during the Scream Fortress Update event with the Voodoo Jujus and Spine-Chilling Skulls crafted using untradable Haunted Metal Scrap. Halloween Hats crafted prior to the November 10, 2010 Patch became tradable after the update, but hats crafted after that have reportedly remained untradable suggesting Valve has fixed the glitch.
Demonstration
Notes and references
- ↑ Team Fortress 2: Free-to-Play FAQ
- ↑ a b If the player uses a Multiple Class weapon with a Class Token, or 3 Multiple Class weapon and chooses to create a Class Token, it will always result in the token of the first class that can equip the weapons those using in crafting (e.g. 3x Pain Train will result in Soldier Token or 3x Freedom Staff will result in Scout token).
- ↑ a b Miscellaneous items cannot be used to create a "Misc. Token".
- ↑ The Batter's Helmet's consumed with this blueprint will not retain its properties. This includes level, rarity, applied paint, customized name and customized description. The level will be randomized.
- ↑ a b c These blueprints require specific items not obtainable through crafting.
- ↑ This blueprint allows the user to craft items in the manner before the Uber Update, by simply placing items in the craft window.
- ↑ Ellis' Cap was not actually changed to be used as a crafting ingredient. Ellis' Cap was updated to be craftable on January 12.
