Crafting

2016-12-29T22:30:13Z

Lindes: /* See also */ adding a (about to be made) crafting requirements matrix page.

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[[File:Receipe-cheatsheet.jpg|400px|thumb|Recipe cheatsheet, taken from [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-6 Factorio Friday Facts #6].]]

The process of 'crafting' is to produce an end product off of input products using a recipe. The [[player]] or [[Assembling machine]]s can craft. Smelting is achieved by using [[Furnace]]s. Since smelting cannot be done by the player, it is impossible to craft some items directly from raw resources. Some crafting even beyond raw resources still requires an assembling machine.

In the beginning of the game, it is easy to make everything manually, but as the game advances manual crafting is less and less efficient of a way to create. Products that require liquids and a few others (such as engine units) cannot be manually crafted. This is to encourage automation.

== Achievements ==
{{Main|Achievements}}
The concept of crafting is directly connected to the following achievements:
; Lazy bastard
: Win the game by crafting no more than 111 items manually.
; You are doing it right!
: Construct more machines using robots than manually.

== Manual crafting ==

Manual crafting is the most basic form of crafting. To manually craft an object, open the player's inventory (Default keybind {{keybinding|e}}), and select an object to manually craft on the right. Left click for one, right click for five, and shift click to make as many as possible. If the image of the item is greyed out, ensure you have the materials necessary to craft the object. If you lack a resource, it will be shown highlighted in <span style="color:#FF0000">red</span> text if you mouseover the product. Materials that you don't have but you can craft will be highlighted in <span style="color:#FF530D">orange</span> text, and will be chain-crafted to reach the product you selected. Common candidates being [[copper cable]] or [[Electronic circuit]]s, which will be automatically crafted if you choose an item that contains them.

While manually crafting, there will be icons in the bottom left of the screen, which contain the current crafting operation. When an item is selected for crafting, the resources will be preemptively taken from the player's inventory. If that operation is then cancelled, the items will be fully returned to the player.

To cancel a manual crafting operation from the queue at the bottom left of the screen, left click (to cancel one operation), right click (to cancel five operations), or shift-left click to cancel all crafts of that item. This is useful if you accidentally queue the wrong product, or too many of a product. All the materials taken to craft the item will be returned to your inventory. Manual crafting can be cancelled at any time, but already-crafted intermediate products will not be uncrafted.

== Automated crafting ==

Automated crafting is done outside of the player's inventory, allowing for multiple products to be produced at once, in synchronous harmony. This is where most crafting should take place.

Key structures in automated crafting are:
{| class="wikitable"
| {{imagelink|electric-mining-drill|Mining drill|Mining drills}} || Collecting [[Items#resources|resources]] to provide them to the [[Transport network]].
|-
| {{imagelink|stone-furnace|Furnace|Furnaces}} || Smelting raw [[Items#resources|resources]] to [[Items#Intermediate products|intermediate products]].
|-
| {{imagelink|assembling-machine-1|Assembling machine 1|Assembling machine}} || Assemble [[Items#Intermediate products|intermediate products]] to [[Items|needed items]].
|-
| {{imagelink|assembling-machine-2|Assembling machine 2|Assembling machine tier 2}} || Assemble [[Items#Intermediate products|intermediate products]] to [[Items|needed items]].
|-
| {{imagelink|assembling-machine-3|Assembling machine 3|Assembling machine tier 3}} || Assemble [[Items#Intermediate products|intermediate products]] to [[Items|needed items]].
|-
|}

== Basic ==
As an introduction to crafting, let's craft some simple iron plates.

'''Task''': create [[Iron plate]]s.

Steps:
# Place a [[Burner mining drill]] onto an [[Iron ore]] resource field. This is a silvery patch that is fairly common.
# Place a [[Furnace]] directly in front of the output (press {{keybinding|Alt}} to show output arrow), so that the miner outputs the ore into the furnace, which can receive on any side.
# Fill both the miner and the furnace with [[Fuel]], such as coal or logs.
# Wait. After a few seconds, the first piece of [[Iron plate]] is smelted and available for collection. Either collect it manually, or pull it out with an [[Inserters|inserter]].

This entire process is commonly referred to as 'smelting'. [[Copper ore]] must also be smelted.

== Advanced ==

Crafting of [[Items]] can be automated. To automatically craft items, place a [[Assembling machine]], and select the recipe. Note that if the recipe is complicated enough, higher tiers of assembling machines may be necessary. Then, place all requested ingredients into the input slots, and the assembling machine should craft the item. Note that unlike manual crafting, each step of the craft requires another assembly machine. For example, crafting a [[lamp]] requires a machine to make [[copper cable]], a machine to make [[iron stick]]s, a machine to make [[electronic circuit]]s, etc. ''Assembly machines cannot automatically chain-craft like the player.''

To keep up continuous production ingredients must be provided via [[belt transport system|belts]] and [[Inserters]]. The manufactured items can also be extracted by [[Inserters]] and are then available for further usage elsewhere in the factory.

== See also ==
* [[Electric system]]
* [[Belt transport system]]
* [[Inserters]]
* [[Assembling machine]]
* [[Furnace]]
* [[Module]]s
* [[Crafting requirements matrix]]
* [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5715 Deciding which items to re-make and which to keep on belts?].

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