Repair Recipes
| Repair Recipes | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Recipes |
| Type | Crafting Menu Category |
| Skills | Maintenance, Carpentry |
| Stations | Grindstone |
| Made | In Hand, Any Surface |
| Recipes | 14 |
| Must Be Learned | 1 |
Repair Recipes cover patching worn items and keeping blades sharp. Tape, glue, zip ties and epoxy mend damaged gear, and whetstones, files and the Grindstone restore an edge. Saws get new blades or a touch-up with a file.
The craft trains Maintenance, the skill that keeps weapons and tools in good order. A survivor leans on these recipes to stretch the life of a favourite weapon or tool. The menu also gives some Carpentry experience through wood glue. It fits with Assembly, where heads and blades are refitted to new handles, and with the forge, where blades are made.
Skills
Most repairs need no skill. Fix With Adhesive Tape, Fix With Duct Tape and Fix With Glue are open from the start. So are all three ways of sharpening a blade and the hacksaw blade swaps.
Low levels add a few more options. Fix With Zipties and Make Improvised Whetstone need Maintenance level 1. Fix Saw needs Maintenance level 2. Fix With Wood Glue needs Carpentry level 2 instead.
The epoxy repairs come last. Fix With Epoxy needs Maintenance level 3. Fix With Epoxy And Rags needs level 4.
Each repair gives some Maintenance experience. Fix Saw and Fix With Epoxy give the most. Some repairs can fail and damage the item.
The recipes by the skill level they ask for.
| Skill | Level | Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance | - | 6 |
| None | - | 2 |
| Maintenance | 1 | 2 |
| Carpentry | 2 | 1 |
| Maintenance | 2 | 1 |
| Maintenance | 3 | 1 |
| Maintenance | 4 | 1 |
Learning
Every recipe here is known from the start except Make Improvised Whetstone. That one must be learned first.
It unlocks by itself at Maintenance level 2. These magazines teach it: Everyday Smithing - June 1993, Wilderness Survival and Cultures of Prehistory. The Blacksmith occupation, the Blacksmith Knowledge trait and the Bushcrafter trait start with it known.
These magazines, books, traits and occupations teach recipes from this category that have to be learned.
| Name | Image | Type | Recipes | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blacksmith | - | Occupation | 1 | - |
| Blacksmith Knowledge | - | Trait | 1 | - |
| Bushcrafter | - | Trait | 1 | - |
| Magazine: Cultures of Prehistory | 
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Magazine | 1 | /additem Base.PrimitiveToolMag2
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| Magazine: Everyday Smithing - June 1993 | 
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Magazine | 1 | /additem Base.SmithingMag1
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| Magazine: Wilderness Survival | 
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Magazine | 1 | /additem Base.HerbalistMag
|
Materials
The repair supplies are used up. Adhesive Tape, Duct Tape, Glue, Wood Glue, Zip Ties and epoxy all appear. The epoxy repairs also take fibreglass tape or rags.
The item being repaired is kept, along with the tools. Each item only accepts certain fixes. Some take tape, some take glue, and some take epoxy.
Sharpening uses a whetstone, a file or the Grindstone. A file sharpens poorly, as the recipe name says. Make Improvised Whetstone turns two Stone into a whetstone when none can be found.
New hacksaw blades replace worn ones in a Hacksaw or Small Hacksaw.
The materials these recipes use up most often.
| Material | Image | Recipes | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epoxy | 
|
2 | /additem Base.Epoxy
|
| Adhesive Tape | 
|
1 | /additem Base.Scotchtape
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| Duct Tape | 
|
1 | /additem Base.DuctTape
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| Fiberglass Tape | 
|
1 | /additem Base.FiberglassTape
|
| Rag or Denim Strips | 
|
1 | /additem Base.RippedSheets
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| Glue | 
|
1 | /additem Base.Glue
|
| Wood Glue | 
|
1 | /additem Base.Woodglue
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| Zip Ties | 
|
1 | /additem Base.Zipties
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| Stone | 
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1 | /additem Base.Stone2
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| Hacksaw | 
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1 | /additem Base.Saw
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| Hacksaw Blade | 
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1 | /additem Base.HacksawBlade
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| Small Hacksaw | 
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1 | /additem Base.SmallSaw
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The tools they ask for most often. A tool comes back after the craft.
| Tool | Image | Recipes | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Axe | 
|
10 | /additem Base.Axe_Old
|
| File | 
|
2 | /additem Base.File
|
| Hacksaw |
|
1 | /additem Base.Saw
|
| Scissors | 
|
1 | /additem Base.Scissors
|
| Whetstone | 
|
1 | /additem Base.Whetstone
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Stations
Sharpen Blade with Grindstone is the one recipe that uses a workstation. The rest are done in hand or on a nearby surface. Tape, zip ties, sharpening and saw fixes work in hand. Duct tape, glue and epoxy repairs need a table, counter or other flat surface.
The workstations these recipes run at.
| Station | Image | Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Grindstone | 
|
1 |
Recipes
Early on, Fix With Duct Tape and Fix With Glue are the common patches. Duct tape gives twice the experience of adhesive tape.
Blade care runs all game. Sharpen Blade with a whetstone is the standard. Sharpen Blade with Grindstone does the same at a station. Sharpen Blade Poorly with File is the fallback.
Saws need their own care. Fix Saw touches up a saw with a file. Replace Hacksaw Blade and Replace Small Hacksaw Blade fit fresh blades.
Later, Fix With Epoxy and Fix With Epoxy And Rags handle items that take epoxy. Fix With Wood Glue gives Carpentry experience as well as Maintenance.
Every recipe in the Repair menu is listed with what it makes, what it uses up, the tools it hands back, the skill it asks for and where it is made. A "Yes" under Learned means the recipe has to be learned first. Each tab holds one kind of thing made.
| Name | Image | Recipe | Crafting Materials | Tools | Skill | Station | Learned | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacksaw |
|
Replace Hacksaw Blade |
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- | None | In Hand | No | /additem Base.Saw
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| Small Hacksaw |
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Replace Small Hacksaw Blade | - | None | In Hand | No | /additem Base.SmallSaw
| |
| Improvised Whetstone | 
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Make Improvised Whetstone | 2x Stone | - | Maintenance: 1 | Any Surface | Yes | /additem Base.CrudeWhetstone
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| Name | Image | Recipe | Crafting Materials | Tools | Skill | Station | Learned | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | Fix With Adhesive Tape | 3x Adhesive Tape | Axe | Maintenance: 0 | In Hand | No | /additem Base.Scotchtape
|
| - | - | Fix With Duct Tape | 2x Duct Tape | Axe | Maintenance: 0 | Any Surface | No | /additem Base.DuctTape
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| - | - | Fix With Glue | 2x Glue | Axe | Maintenance: 0 | Any Surface | No | /additem Base.Glue
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| - | - | Sharpen Blade | - | Maintenance: 0 | In Hand | No | /additem Base.Axe_Old
| |
| - | - | Sharpen Blade Poorly with File | - | Maintenance: 0 | In Hand | No | /additem Base.Axe_Old
| |
| - | - | Sharpen Blade with Grindstone | - | Axe | Maintenance: 0 | Grindstone | No | /additem Base.Axe_Old
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| - | - | Fix With Zipties | 1x Zip Ties | Axe | Maintenance: 1 | In Hand | No | /additem Base.Zipties
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| - | - | Fix Saw | - | Maintenance: 2 | In Hand | No | /additem Base.Saw
| |
| - | - | Fix With Wood Glue | 2x Wood Glue | Axe | Carpentry: 2 | Any Surface | No | /additem Base.Woodglue
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| - | - | Fix With Epoxy |
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Maintenance: 3 | Any Surface | No | /additem Base.Epoxy
| |
| - | - | Fix With Epoxy And Rags |
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Axe | Maintenance: 4 | Any Surface | No | /additem Base.Epoxy
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Notes
- Some repairs can fail and damage the item, so keep spare supplies on hand.
- Make Improvised Whetstone needs only two Stone.
- The kept tools still wear, losing uses, durability or sharpness over time.
- Fix With Duct Tape gives more Maintenance experience than Fix With Adhesive Tape for fewer pieces of tape.
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