I want to craft all the best gear but...

[Drudge Jedd]

If I wanted to craft all the best stuff what's the max i should have my chem bio mech tailor and electric... ? Is there an advantage for totally maxing out these skills what's the bare minimum to craft the best?

While I'm at it what's the best lockpick and hacking skill to get up to in order to get through all content bare minimum? Do you need to max lockpick and hacking to unlock everything in the game?

[I Have Yet To Earn My Name]

How much you need to put into your crafting skills depends on your build. For most builds, a total skill of 135 for Mechanics, Electronics, and Tailoring. 112 max for Chemistry unless you're using Chemical pistols and traps, and 130 in Biology for crafting Medicines, Poisons, and using Regenerative Vests. There's no point in maxing out crafting since you'll be able to buy crafting tables that will boost your crafting skills.

For lockpicking and hacking, having a skill of 115 in each is good enough to unlock mostly everything. You can put 135 in Hacking if you want to make a fight in the Deep Caverns easier and learn some more of the game's lore.

Keep in mind that I don't mean put 135 skill points toward a skill but put enough skill points in that skill for it to hit 135. For example with 7 Intelligence you'll hit 135 in Mechanics with just 108 skill points, but if you put 135 skill points into Mechanics you'll have a total skill of 169.

[Qiox]

You can check the guide by Destroyer. It is rather long and involved but you will find the answers to all your questions.

Just keep in mind that most builds won't need the max for all the crafting skills.

And there's no guarantee you will find the best possible quality ingredients which in turn will require that maxed out skill level.

Here's a sample build that I played with the goal of hitting many of the maxes acrosses several skills:

http://underrail.info.tm/build/?GQgHAwQOAwfChykAAAAAAF9NAEZ2b0dgWwAAAGwAQwE7KBYwMkoVSUUpMUtPbRo

This is a Metal armour wearing Assault Rifle build.

130 Hacking without tools, is highest check at a computer terminal.
130 Lockpicking with Jacknife and Mark 3 tools. 135 with Huxkey tool, but there is only 1 lock with that requirement.
112 Traps with Jacknife allows you to set Mark 5 traps (95 highest requirement) and disarm most enemy traps, but not all.
110 Perusasion to pass all checks.
105 Mercantile to pass all checks.

170 Mechanics with Crafting Bench in your house. Highest possible check 169 but extremely unlikely you would find the ingredients that good. This covers Metal Armor and Assault Rifle.
159 Electronics with Crafting Bench in your house. Matches highest possible requirement for an Energy Shield.
112 Chemistry with Crafting Bench in your house is required for Mark 5 Grenades and Traps. Only reason to go higher is if crafting Chemical Pistols.
130 Biology without bench is required for Super Soldier drug. That's highest requirement.
131 Tailoring with Crafting Bench in your house. This is good enough for Tabi boots I would make on the build. A leather armor build would need 159 for highest possible requirement with perfect ingredients.


This should give you an idea. But keep in mind, the best ingredients you are likely to find would require probably 20 to 30 below the theoretical max skill requirement for crafting Mechanics, Electronics and Tailoring.

Chemistry and Biology have set requirements depending on what you are crafting and those can be looked up on the Wiki.

[Drudge Jedd]

tyvm guys this is exactly what i was looking for also what is the max level the max amount of feats and attribute points you get to allocate as well if I may press my luck a bit more XD

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Ninjai:

tyvm guys this is exactly what i was looking for also what is the max level the max amount of feats and attribute points you get to allocate as well if I may press my luck a bit more XD

I recommend playing around in the Online Build Tool I linked to you. It answers all that :)

Level 25. Will go up to 30 when the DLC comes out.
You get 6 attribute points during leveling, at 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and level 24.
You get 14 feat selections total. Two at character creation then 1 every even level starting at level 2. You can also get two other feats from completing a quest for each one: Fisherman and Hunter.

[Drudge Jedd]

hey i am going for chem pistol what biology and chem do you recommend?

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Ninjai:

hey i am going for chem pistol what biology and chem do you recommend?

Never went with that build before. You'd have to check Destroyer's guide. He has a section specific to Chem pistol crafting requirements.

[Drudge Jedd]

this guide is pretty sweet thanks again.