Draconia 101 - Crafting & Building

Way to early guide to how crafting and building works and where to find materials in Draconia.

Intro

Patch - pre-alpha 0.5.1.1

Hello, it's a me again with another early guide!

Many people who try out Draconia for the first time may be confused by the crafting interface, even more when they try out building for the first time. Here I'll leave you some info on how it works and what you need to know!

How to craft
A simple explanation of how the crafting works in Draconia.

Totem and building
All you need to know about the totem and building basics!

Materials & where to find them
A list of all available materials and a description of the spawnpounts.


Starting up with the most important info, these things are NOT collectable:

How to Craft

You may remember this part from my Beginners Guide. Crafting in itself is so simple that I'll keep this section in both guides for a while.











These 2 screenshots explain the system quite well. With your materials gathered and in your inventory, you switch to the crafting menu and select your desired item.
With the crafting button at the bottom ready to go and clicked, you'll have to wait a few seconds for the process to finish.

That's it! You can have up to 5 different items in your crafting queue. All recipes directly show their required materials too, so no need to look them up on wikis yet. Once you have all materials for a craft, the item will be brighter and colored in the list on the left to make it easier to see what you can currently craft and what not. If an item in that list is in greyscale, you are missing the required materials.

But keep in mind that we're on pre-Alpha territory here, guide updates are ensured. :)

Recipe Types

The game offers 3 different types of recipes: Default, Building and Clan. Each crafting tab can be extended and hidden to provide a better overview.

• Default recipes are the basics, containing recipes for various materials, food and your trustworthy stashes.
  
  
• Building recipes are a bunch of assets for base building. It includes different types of rocks for basics and decoration alike, decorative items like the tables and even first lightsources to light up your place.
  In this tab you'll also find the item generators and the totem you'll need to claim your place and build in the first place.
  
  
• Clan recipes. The last tab includes recipes exclusive to clans and is only visible to clanmembers. Here are the 2 massive 288 slot hoards and a big decorative pool. While this tab won't appear in singleplayer due to the missing clan functions, knowing the item IDs helps out.

Alchemy - Crafting Magic

In the future, you will be able to do some Miraculix cooking and brew funny potions for yourself and your friends!

We have little information about this feature, but you can already find 2 flasks in the bags and barrels of the villages you may be able to brew yourself in the future:

• Brewer's Flask of the Sea, fills your thirst bar
  
• Scavenger's Flask of Nourishment, filly your hunger bar

Once we know more about this feature and of course when it releases, I will update this section of the guide accordingly. So stay tuned!

Totem & Building

To start building, you'll need a totem to claim land. It only requires 50 rocks, but can't be placed where ever you want. Some areas such as the mountain throne are blocked from building for their future quest or lore importance, as well as unfinished islands to prevent buildings getting swallowed in the developing process.

Totem Care

Next step by step. You have found your spot to build and want to place your totem. While placing, you can see your totem and the potentially claimed area prior to placing it.

This helps finding the right spot and to estimate where you can build afterwards.



Now you have claimed your land! But the area is quite small, your totem has a health bar and why is there a red symbol next to it?
When placing a totem on a PvEvP server, it is set to PvP by default. You can just hold E on it and set it to PvE like your stashes with a 10 seconds timer. It's also set to PvP in singleplayer, but that can be fully ignored there, no worries.


Also, it decays like these stashes and needs to be repaired with rocks. A full decay takes 2 weeks, so you have enough time to farm some. Also fully ignorable in singleplayer.
The totem even has 3 inventory slots it feeds from, you can put the rocks in there to prevent decay for as long as you want or can.

Upgrading Items

Next, you can uprade your totem and stashes! This may not change the decay rate, but increases your claimed area and inventory slots. We messured the totems areas size with a level 50 Vodros.

Totem	Area	Inventory	Materials
Level 1	2 Vodros	3 Slots	50 Rocks, just placed
Level 2	4 Vodros	6 Slots	5 Azulite Crystals
Level 3	8 Vodros	9 Slots	10 Rib Bones

A helpfull tip: Your totem is server wide. This means all your characters on the server can access it, repair and upgrade it. When in a clan, you can also unlock it to allow clan members to maintain it that way!
Plus, once placed, your totems location will be marked by your compass. A dragon head will show up when you look roughly in its direction.

For the stashes, upgrading them increases their inventory from already fancy 80 slots on a T1 to impressive 112 (T2) or even 144 slots on T3!
You can have up to 20 stashes in your base.

But getting your stash there takes some additional materials of course, so prepare some extras if you want it maxed out fast!

Stash	Materials T2	Materials T3	Materials total
Bone	50 Soil 10 Ribbones 1 Vertebrae	50 Soil 10 Ribbones 5 Vertebrae	150 Soil 30 Ribbones 6 Vertebrae
Crystal	25 Soil 25 Rocks 10 Azulite Fragments	25 Soil 25 Rocks 5 Azulite Fragments 1 Azulite Crystal	75 Soil 75 Rocks 25 Azulite Fragments 1 Azulite Crystal
Oceanic	50 Sand 10 Tidara 1 Azulite Fragment	50 Sand 10 Tidara 5 Azulite Fragments	150 Sand 30 Tidara 6 Azulite Fragments

Building your base

Now that you know how to take care of your totem, the heart of your base, we can take a look at building the actual base! A great help with this are the item generators, specifically the Infinite Ore Deposit, which can generate rocks. They are expensive but worth it!












The building UI is the same as placing down your totem. You can move around, rotate your assets and scale them to certain points. To do so, hit Tab to change the buildmode: Camera to move - Mesh Roration to rotate - Mesh Scaling to change sizes.
Some assets can be scaled and rotated more than others and are harder to work with at first, so it does take some practice to get them right.

Once placed down, an asset cannot be picked up again. But when you destroy it within 5 minutes, you'll get 100% of the materials back. After that timer, only 50% will be retrieved. Your totem also feeds all placed objects, meaning more objects need more rocks are needed for the totem to prevent decay.

Materials & where to find them

Draconia offers a small amount of gatherable materials like different metals or crystals. Some can be found in specific areas, some basically everywhere.

This list will become longer with time while the development goes on.

Minerals

Rock Deposits
Drop: Rocks, rarely Azulite Fragments
You can find these in many areas like in the Great Forest, beaches and more.






Vitrolum Ore
Drop: Vitrolum, Rocks
Can be found in Eztalins lava area and through the Infinite Ore Deposit.






Katalite Deposit
Drop: Katalite
Keep an eye out at the big beach, just along the line where sand and grass meets. This is fairly rare.





Metal Ore
Drop: Cyprin, Gentin, Aurin, rarely Azulite Fragments
This metal is more commonly found all over the place, but rarer then rock deposits. While it drops all metals, their dropchances vary depending on their rarity.

Crystals & Gems

Viridite
Drop: Viridite Fragments
Currently only obtainable through the Prismatic Crystal Deposits.






Azulite
Drop: Azulite Fragments
The Great Forest and Great Lake are good spots to find Azulite, as well as the coast of the giant crystalline tree. It can rarely be found in other locations.




Rubenite
Drop: Rubenite Fragments
In the Lava Canyon in the north west of the 2nd island. They are fairly rare.






Kuarticide
Drop: Kuarticide Crystals
In the yellow crystal cave, NE of the Tektos Cuyuro waypoint.






Letticide
Drop: Letticide Crystals
In a small cave between Rakon the the upper entrance to the big lava cave.

Other

Bonepiles
Drop: Femur, Ribbones, Vertebrae, Ancient Tooth, Odd-looking Bone
Bonepiles can be found in Aphtaria's Hope, the Gore Canyon and Great Forest. a few piles are also found at the Broken Shores and in Dunarth.




Dirtpile
Drop: Soil, Clay, rarely stone
Best place is the Great Lake, these are all over its shores. Some more piles can be found in Aphtaria's Hope and Dunarth.





Sandpile
Drop: Sand, Mytelia, Bivania, Tidara, rarely Pearls, Vermentia and Giant Pearls
Found along the coasts of Altuis. Specially Broken Shores, they serve as the deposit for our first quest items to collect!




Aahnunka
Drop: Aahnunka
They grow in the big forest on island A and one specimen can be found in the garden house of Dunarth.





Woodpile
Drop: Wood Log, Large Wood Log, Branch, Stick, Large Stick, rarely seeds from Bombara, Comoya, Filia, Homilis, Kwadena, Pahri, Revona, Robeni and Unifara trees.
You can find them in the Great Forest near Aphtaria's Hope.



Pile of Meat
Drop: Small Meat, Meat, Large Meat, Heart, Lungs, Liver, Stomach
Found in multiple locations, mostly at houses and villages and places of interest.





Reeka Nest
Drop: Reeka Egg
Found at some cliffs near Dunarths south-west gate.







Hokura Nest
Drop: Hokura Egg
Found at the the beach near the fisher hut and Sonotal Cara waypoint.





Pebble Piles
Drops: Pebbles!
You find piles like this along the broken shore coastline, very close to the water.






Ipomo
Drops: Ipomo Roots
Ipomo plants grow all over Ignasley, the lava region. The plants with visible roots can be harvested.





Special: Bags & Barrels
Drop: different food items, coins, crafting materials, other items
These can be found near houses and in villages. They also serve as stashes every one can use together as i.g. an item bank.

Final Words

As before I'll drop you some helpful links for the game:

• Official Draconia Discord Server[discord.gg]
  
• Official Draconia Trello[trello.com]
  
• Fanmade Draconia Wiki[draconia.fandom.com]

When joining their Discord, make sure to check out the #info and #work-in-progress channels for more interesting links and a good look at what's cooking in the dev kitchen!


I hope this little guide on early crafting helped you out a bit and made some things clear.
I will keep it updated like my other Draconia 101 guides.

Talking about guides, here is a list of the rest:

• Draconia 101 Guides (Steam Group)

Thank you for your time and stay hydrated! :)

[Datlen]

Currently not. We have no crafting recipes that require ores but I can see them becoming a lot lore valuable in the future, maybe when actual gear gets added :)

[Kassian]

Quick question! is there nay uses for gathering ores atm other than quests?

[Datlen]

Thank you for the info, the files should show the update already ^^

[cavy]

The code for the large pool is clanpoola.

[vi_h]

ok, thanks!

[Datlen]

No, only one per server. All your characters can access it though.

[vi_h]

hi! Can I place 2 totems in the same server? With different dragons