Unable to craft fishing rod

[Jeff Kaos]

I have a score of 50 in Tinker and I've tried to combine: Rope + Electrical Tape + Nails + Empty Plastic Bottle and nothing happens. Am I missing something here?

[Furry Wrecking Crew]

Doesn't it give you a message at the bottom of why it didn't work?

[Jeff Kaos]

Originally posted by Vigi React:

Doesn't it give you a message at the bottom of why it didn't work?

It says that I don't know how to combine these items but I've made other items without a recipe so I'm not sure why this one isn't working.

[Sithicus]

Where can you fish in Krasnoznamenny?

[ManicWeasel]

You don't need to craft a fishing rod. In locations where you can fish (like Otradnoye where you learn how to harvest the bait components), there is already fishing gear by the water that you can use when you have the bait in your inventory.

[Shrike Alfare]

Originally posted by Jeff Kaos:

Originally posted by Vigi React:

Doesn't it give you a message at the bottom of why it didn't work?

It says that I don't know how to combine these items but I've made other items without a recipe so I'm not sure why this one isn't working.

I just realized that if you want to try crafting new recipes, you MUST click Experiment. Sometimes after crafting old recipes, you switch ingredients on the fly and forget to do this. That's why it fails even if you got the ingredients right.

E.g. you try crafting a rod immediately after making corned meat, you change the ingredients without clicking the Experiment tab, so the system still thinks you're trying to make corned meat.