Crafting

Crafting allows players to create brand new Items out of raw materials. To craft an item you may need to have the necessary crafting profession, the required resources, sometimes a specific tool, and in many cases the appropriate Blueprints. You can craft some:

• Armor, including Combat Armor
• Weapons, and Ammo
• Explosives like various grenades, Dynamite, and Plastic Explosives
• Drugs, including Buffout, Nuka-Cola, Psycho, Super Stimpaks and the rest
• ...and a limited selection of Food items

Crafted Items and Chance for Bonus Stats

Advanced Combat Armor

Possible buffs for Armors

• + (max 5) Normal/Laser/Fire/Plasma/Explode Thresholds
• + (max 10) Normal/Laser/Fire/Plasma/Explode Resistance
• + 1 SPECIAL stats (Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck)
• + 1 Action Point
• + (max 30) Radiation Resistance
• + (max 30) Poison Resistance
• + (max 20) Carry Weight
• + (max 5) Healing Rate
• - (max 5) Crit chance mod
• - (max 5) Crit power mod

Unique Plasma Rifle

Possible buffs for Helmets

• + (max 5) Normal/Laser/Fire/Plasma Thresholds
• + (max 10) Normal/Laser/Fire/Plasma Resistance
• - (max 5) Crit chance mod
• - (max 10?) Crit power mod

Advanced Laser Pistol

Possible buffs for Weapons

• + (max 5) Crit chance mod
• + (max 10) Crit power mod
• + (max 25) Min Damage
• + (max 25) Max Damage
• + (max 25) Accuracy
• + (max 2) Range

Each item with buffs has a prefix, based on the number of buffs

• 1 - Quality (25% chance)
• 2 - Improved (12% chance)
• 3 - Superior (7% chance)
• 4 - Advanced (3% chance)
• 5 - Unique (1% chance)

There is almost 50% chance that a crafted item will have at least 1 bonus stat.
Moreover, all bonuses other than Normal/Laser/Fire/Plasma/Electrical Resistance/Threshold (and possibly -critical chance/power) will still apply even if the equipped armor is fully broken.

Three examples of actual distribution of crafting bonus stats:

This is how often you might expect bonuses...
Quantity Crafted	Quality		Improved		Superior		Advanced		Unique		Total
	Quantity	%	Quantity	%	Quantity	%	Quantity	%	Quantity	%	Quantity	%
Sample Size: 300	73	24.33%	32	10.67%	24	8.00%	6	2.00%	1	0.33%	136	45.33%
Sample Size: 300	62	20.67%	36	12.00%	20	6.67%	10	3.33%	5	1.67%	133	44.33%
Sample Size: 400	88	22.00%	46	11.50%	28	7.00%	13	3.25%	5	1.25%	180	45.00%

Item Enchanting

Player can improve his Weapon/Armor with crafting bonuses in following NPCs:

* Flick in Den - Small Guns
* Marcus in Broken Hills - Big Guns
* Skeeter in Gecko - Energy Weapons
* Sulik in Klamath - Melee and Throwing weapons
* Balthas in Modoc - Armors

It costs 10k Caps and you have to keep an item you want to enchant in main hand slot.

Possible results:

* 25% - adding 1 additional crafting bonus (can be added to items that already have them but won't go over max number of bonuses)
* 35% - item will be destroyed, player will get some junk depending on item type
* 10% - item will be fixed - current and maximum condition will be increased by 10 (won't go over 100)
* 30% - nothing happens

See Also

Craftable Items	Professions	Resources	Mines

And also...	Blueprints	·	Books	·	Crafting tools	·	Gathering Cooldown	·	Workbench	·	Fixboy