Crafting in 4.7

​Crafting

• Crafting is now available in Star Citizen, allowing players to use gathered materials to produce items via a new deployable machine called the Item Fabricator.

The Item Fabricator

• The Item Fabricator is a placeable crafting station that can be purchased from refinery shops and retrieved through the freight elevator.

• Once placed in a hangar or base, it serves as the central hub for crafting and dismantling activities.

• The Fabricator's door must be closed before the unit can be moved with a tractor beam.

Blueprints

• All crafting is done through blueprints, which define what materials are needed and what the output will be.

• Players begin with a set of default blueprints already on their account. For 4.7 the only blueprints are for FPS weapons and armor.

• Additional blueprints can be earned as mission rewards and will appear in the Fabricator once obtained. Blueprints are bound to the player's account and are retained through death.

• Missions have been set up with their own blueprint pools, allowing blueprints uniquely designated to specific missions. For example, the following factions have blackbox recovery missions with blueprint pools:

  • Vaughn FPS

  • Headhunters FPS

  • NorthRock

  • BitZeros

• Blueprints are also given by these missions:

  • RCD Exclusive and Contested missions

  • CFP Recover Cargo and Destroy Items missions

• Guaranteed blueprint chance for missions that give them.

Material Quality

• All mineables gathered through mining now have a quality value.

• This value can be viewed in the mining UI, inventory, and the crafting interface.

• Quality is preserved when materials are refined (for example, turning Iron Ore into Iron carries the quality rating through to the refined output).

• The quality of materials placed into a blueprint directly influences the resulting item's stats, so higher quality inputs yield better performing outputs.

Crafting an Item

• To craft an item, open the Fabricator and select a blueprint.

• Each blueprint displays the required material slots alongside which stats each slot influences.

• Players can manually assign materials to slots or use the auto-fill option to automatically populate slots with either the best or worst available materials.

• Double-clicking a material will place it into the first valid slot automatically.

• Slots may have minimum quality requirements and will not accept materials below that threshold.

• Materials can be freely removed from slots before confirming the craft.

• Before confirming, players can set a delivery location for the finished item, either to a local inventory if within range or to the machine's cargo grid. The selected delivery location is remembered when switching between blueprints.

• Crafted items display their specific crafted stats in the tooltip.

Crafting Queue

• Upon starting a craft, players are taken to the queue view.

• The Fabricator maintains separate queues for crafting and dismantling.

• Queued items can be moved between in-progress and pending states, and delivery locations can be adjusted per item.

• The machine also keeps a history tab showing previous completed jobs.

Dismantling

• Items that have a crafting recipe associated with them can be dismantled in the Fabricator to recover materials.

• Items that were originally crafted by a player will return materials at the same quality used to make them.

• Items found in the world rather than crafted, such as looted weapons, will return materials at a flat default quality value.