How important is crafting skill really?

[maestro]

I see YT vids saying not to bother levelling crafting skill yet wikis say it directly affects the quality of things crafted.
I'm still really new to mid and endgame stuff. Is this something I want to invest in or no?

[🦊 Hermit]

It's worth it to use a mindwipe, respec into crafting, then mindwipe again afterwards and respec back to what you had before. It's not worth getting crafting skill as a permanent investment, unless it's on a mule character who's specific purpose is to craft.

There's a lot of RNG involved in the crafting bonus, and you could waste a lot of resources. But if you get a good roll, you could potentially end up with huge bonuses. For example, you could skill a saddle blueprint with 50 defense, and end up with a product which boasts over 100 def in the end. Or a weapon with greatly increased damage potential.

But yes, it's all dependant on RNG, you could potentially skill up and get nothing more than a 1% bonus, losing all the resources from the craft in the process. And skilling a character in crafting permanently would make them very weak in other areas.

[Samadhi]

Crafting skill only affects items crafted from Blueprints, it has no effect on any other crafted item.

Normally you dont put any points in crafting skill until you need to do a big crafting session, then use a mindwipe and put ALL points in crafting skill to give you the best chance of crafting high level items from your BPs.

[william_es]

I've used mindwipe tonic, respeced, then respecced again, and to be honest...it's tedious. The increase in stats on items crafted from blueprints isn't really that huge an increase. I wouldn't bother with anything except ascendant level stuff, and dang good ascendant bp's.

[Dark]

it depends on what you want to do with it. there's actually 2 effects that come with scrafting skill - crafting speed, and crafting quality. the higher you go into crafting skill, the faster you'll be able to make things in your char's inven, but also the higher quality items come from blueprints. so basically like i said, depends on what you want to do with it. if you dont care about crafting speed or quality in looted bp's, means nothing.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by william_es:

I've used mindwipe tonic, respeced, then respecced again, and to be honest...it's tedious.

There are mods to make it less tedious though, if one wanted to go down that route.

[Liralen]

I'm a crafter/builder at heart, but I agree with those who have said that putting points in crafting is only useful when crafting items to make really uber blueprints.

[maestro]

Ok I won't worry about it then thanks.

[BaoBaB]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

Originally posted by william_es:

I've used mindwipe tonic, respeced, then respecced again, and to be honest...it's tedious.

There are mods to make it less tedious though, if one wanted to go down that route.

what is a mind wipe how do you proceed i'm very curious as to how its done and why thanks.

[The_Kuervito]

Originally posted by BaoBaB:

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

There are mods to make it less tedious though, if one wanted to go down that route.

what is a mind wipe how do you proceed i'm very curious as to how its done and why thanks.

Dododex,consumables

[burningmime]

Originally posted by BaoBaB:

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

There are mods to make it less tedious though, if one wanted to go down that route.

what is a mind wipe how do you proceed i'm very curious as to how its done and why thanks.

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Mindwipe_Tonic

On official servers you can only use it ever 24 hours but many unofficial servers let you use it right away. If you're playing single player, there's a mod to make it even easier:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307661303

Basic idea is that when you want crafting skill, you want ALL of your points there and all other times you want no points there.

Originally posted by Samadhi:

Crafting skill only affects items crafted from Blueprints, it has no effect on any other crafted item.

Not exactly; it speeds up crafting. But that's kind of a minor thing.

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by burningmime:

Originally posted by Samadhi:

Crafting skill only affects items crafted from Blueprints, it has no effect on any other crafted item.

Not exactly; it speeds up crafting. But that's kind of a minor thing.

You wouldn't be putting points into crafting skill for the speed bonus, so its moot.

[burningmime]

Originally posted by Samadhi:

Originally posted by burningmime:

Not exactly; it speeds up crafting. But that's kind of a minor thing.

You wouldn't be putting points into crafting skill for the speed bonus, so its moot.

Next you'll say people wouldn't put points into food so they can eat more

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by burningmime:

Originally posted by Samadhi:

You wouldn't be putting points into crafting skill for the speed bonus, so its moot.

Next you'll say people wouldn't put points into food so they can eat more

No, you dont put points into food, lmao bob

[DreadCthulhu]

I actually did level crafting skill for the speed boost, when my tribe was making a stone castle on Gen2. When you have people on stryders linked to dedicated storage, my crafting speed ended up being the bottleneck. Once we got it done, I mindwiped to more normal stats.

Crafting skill is also very important for creating the custom consumable items; if you mindwipe to craft blueprints you should also make recipes for those.

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Custom_Consumable