Ammo crafting

[Lamarga]

Hi, I'm trying to craft ammo. I found everything I need and the button is yellow. It won't start crafdting however. My lead plates have low durability, but more than five charges left (I got them from the scrapyard).

What am I doing wrong?

[Afro Moose]

I believe you need a workbench, if you can't make one yet, there are some machine shops with the equipment you need. Just bring all the materials with you

[Lamarga]

Hi, I have a workbench.

I have the same problem with rain collector, I just noticed. All the mats are there, can't start crafting.

[Deathwhisper]

Hello :),

When crafting make sure you have enough charges for the materials. 5/20 Lead Plate, 15/150 Gun Powder, 1 Scrap Metal 5/100 Toolbox Per crafting (5 Ammo round will be crafted per crafting.

If Materials with Less charges then needed are inbetween they can block the crafting. Put any items aside with not enough charges to clear the crafting or select everything by hand in your inventory screen and perform a right click on the machine to select from the sub menu the ammo you want to craft.

[Frle]

Hey Lamarga, did you succeed in crafting any of those items?
If not, you can seek out extra help on our official Discord -> https://discord.gg/scum

[Lamarga]

Yes, what Deatwhisper wrote seems to be true, almost empty lead plates in my inventory seemed to block crafting. It works now. Just not sure, which ammo is worth crafting or better be bought.

This game needs a forge to smelt lead plates, wire etc or at least let us combine them.

Thanks for all the help so far.

[Jab]

If you have 2 pieces of lead plate, one has 1/20 and the other has 5/20, the game will try to use the 1/20 before the 5/20 first. It wont craft though because the 1/20 doesn't have enough uses left, but the 5/20 is why the crafting button is yellow. You need to move the 1/20 far away first do it.
It's been this way for too long really.

[Baz]

Yeah, this should be fixed. We've been working around this every time we craft for years.

[oynlengeymer]

my lead plates of 4 or less are frizbee out the window XD

[TonyMax.Fr]

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

If Materials with Less charges then needed are inbetween they can block the crafting. Put any items aside with not enough charges to clear the crafting or select everything by hand in your inventory screen and perform a right click on the machine to select from the sub menu the ammo you want to craft.

Isn't it a bug? I have a lot of issues crafting too, and even if i only have new items with max charges, some crafts don't work at all since v0.8.500

[Joehunk]

The confusing behavior, which I think is fair to call a bug but has been there for the entire time I have been playing is this:
If you have a crafting material with enough uses AND a separate crafting material without enough uses, it will still refuse to craft until you get rid of the one with insufficient uses.

For instance, if your inventory (including vicinity) contains a gunpowder with more than 15 uses left and one with fewerr than 15 uses, you must somehow dispose of the one with fewer than 15 uses before crafting will be possible.

What would make sense is if the crafting system would select the item with enough uses if one is available and ignore the one without enough uses. However this is not how the system behaves.

[TonyMax.Fr]

The system should add up all amount, and let you choose what items you want to use.
It need to be reworked.
But thanks, i will try like you said @Joehunk !

[Deathwhisper]

The crafting is not the final result yet. As far as I know there will be changes here. That's why it's a bit "tricky" to say "bug" or wait for update. In this case, but rather waiting for an update.

[TonyMax.Fr]

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

The crafting is not the final result yet. As far as I know there will be changes here. That's why it's a bit "tricky" to say "bug" or wait for update. In this case, but rather waiting for an update.

Yes you're right. We need to keep that in mind and don't throw away items which don't have enough charge for crafting for now, just in case. ^^

[Deathwhisper]

Originally posted by TonyMax.Fr:

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

The crafting is not the final result yet. As far as I know there will be changes here. That's why it's a bit "tricky" to say "bug" or wait for update. In this case, but rather waiting for an update.

Yes you're right. We need to keep that in mind and don't throw away items which don't have enough charge for crafting for now, just in case. ^^

I personally throw any stuff that is not needed against puppets or if aviable naughty friends or just leave it where it was. ^^ However, there are receipes in BB elements that use Lead 1/20 the Metal chest.

[TonyMax.Fr]

Where can we find the exact recipes with charges needed? Discord?