Guide:Crafting 101

Crafting Recipes
To access the crafting menu, press the Inventory key (which is Esc by default) while in-game. This will bring up your inventory, as well as equipment slots and other options. The crafting menu is located in the bottom left of your screen, as indicated in the image below. 📱On Mobile Version, press the button with 3 dots on it to access your full inventory.



The items that can be currently crafted will appear in this menu. Your options are determined by the items you have in your inventory, as well as your proximity to various crafting stations. Next to an item's icon is where the Recipes for the respective craftable items will appear. Also, once you see an item in the crafting tab, you can look at the recipe later, even if you're not close to the required Crafting Station.

To navigate this menu, you can click or use the mouse wheel to scroll through items. To craft something, click the icon of the item you wish to craft. The item will attach itself to your cursor, and from there it can be placed in your inventory or dropped by clicking to the outside of your inventory in the world. Large numbers of stackable items can be made by right-clicking and holding the icon to quickly create and stack that item until the stack is maxed. To exit your inventory, press the 'Esc' key again.

You can occasionally craft an item of exceptional or terrible quality, possessing a good or bad modifier. However, there is no way to predict what modifier you will get on an item, and some items cannot get modifiers at all.

Crafting stations


The most commonly used crafting stations are the Work Bench (all variants), Forges (Furnace, Hellforge, Adamantite Forge, Titanium Forge), Anvils (Iron Anvil, Lead Anvil, Mythril Anvil, Orichalcum Anvil), Alchemy Station, Sawmill, Altars (Demon Altar or Crimson Altar), Keg, Cooking pot, Loom, Tinkerer's Workshop, Dye Vat and a Table with Chair combination (all variants). There are a few more crafting stations, however they only allow you to craft a few recipes. When standing next to any of these stations, depending on the materials in your inventory, the crafting menu will have items you can craft. Most recipes require the player to be close to a specific crafting station.

Complete station


An example of a complete above ground crafting station. There is no Demon Altar or Crimson Altar as they can not be moved. There is also no Campfire because this picture is 1.2.3.1, and it is only used to craft a Cooked Marshmallow.



To create a crafting station capable of producing almost all basic items, place a furnace (or hellforge/adamantite forge if available), an anvil (or mythril anvil if available), a workbench, a sawmill, a bottle on the workbench and a table and chair close to each other. Also place a loom and a keg. The above image shows an example of this, allowing you to craft all items by standing on the anvil.



Varying crafting stations
There are a few different variants of anvils and furnaces as well. There are three variants of furnaces (listed in order from weakest to strongest): Furnace, Hellforge, and Adamantite/Titanium forge. The Hellforge is needed to craft hellstone-mythril/orichalcum bars, and an Adamantite/titanium is needed to craft Adamantite/titanium to cholorophyte. The different anvils are iron/lead anvils, and mythril/orichalcum anvils. Mythril/orichalcum is needed to make all items out of mythril/orichalcum and above (with the exception of the mythril anvil itself). And as rumored about 1.3, a new, more advanced type of alchemy/placed bottle station will be introduced.