Crafting inAtomfalllets you create the equipment that you need on the fly. It takes time, and the world remains active while you’re in the menu, so you need to be in relative safety to be able to do it, but when you need a quick bandage or bomb, being able to whip one up can be a lifesaver.

At the start of the game, you’ll only have once crafting recipe. The rest, you’ll have to find as you explore the Quarantine Zone. There are several copies of most recipes hidden throughout the game; this guide has the easiest way to get each.

How To Craft In Atomfall

Once you find a crafting recipe, you need to use it (either from your inventory or simply by interacting with it in the world). Once you do,the recipe item disappearsbut you’ll permanently be able to make the associated item, provided you have the necessary materials.

All you need to do to make any item isgo to the crafting menu, select the item, andhold the button until the meter fills. Once it’s done, the item will be added to your backpack automatically. If there’s no room in your backpack,you won’t be able to craft the item.

The Crafting Manual, available from the Hardware Store in Wyndham Village, includes a skill thatspeeds up crafting considerably.

All Crafting Recipes In Atomfall

You may find other copies of crafting recipes throughout your adventure; you can leave them behind use them for bartering. Once you’ve learned a recipe,additional copies are effectively useless.

Cures Poison and increases Poison Resistance.

Alcohol x1, Cloth x4.

Heals, cures Bleeding, and provides Bleed Resistance.

Given to you by the wounded scientist at the start of the game.

Cloth x4, Iodine x1, Water x5, Glass x3.

Cures Burn and increases Burn Resistance.

On the desk in the rear left room of Wyndham Village Hall, nearJune’s Lockbox.

Herbs x4, Water x3, Glass x3, Chemicals x2.

Temporarily buffs melee damage.

In Bunker L9, the upper floor is filled with toxic gas. Either use theSignal Redirectorto get power to the ventilation override on the right side of the building, oruse an Antidoteto boost your poison resistance and run through. Climb through the window in the gaseous office; on the catwalks above the main area, you’ll find a skeleton with a briefcase containing the Combat Stim recipe.

Poison x4, Scrap x2, Spores x2, Gunpowder x2.

Timed explosive; draws swarms to it before detonating.

Found inside the giant wicker effigy inCasterfell Woods at 20.4E, 89.2N.

Molotov Cocktail

Cloth x3, Alcohol x6, Glass x4.

Explodes on contact when thrown;inflicts Burnon targets caught in blast and leaves an area of fire.

Buy theMetal Detectorfrom Reg Stansfield, thenreturn to the starting bunkerand use it to dig up the recipe in the main room.

Poison Bomb

Cloth x2, Poison x2, Glass x4, Spores x2.

Explodes on contact when thrown, releasing toxic gas thatdeals damage and inflicts Poison.

In the room with the lever to free the prisoners in Skethermoor Prison. Check the briefcase on the desk to the left.

Iodine x3, Alcohol x2, Glass x3, Poison x1.

Increases resistance toRadiation Fields.

Next to the body in the rear left-hand room of the Vehicle Depot Bunker in Skethermoor.

Scrap x2, String x1

Sticky Bomb

Gunpowder x3, Glue x6, Scrap x4.

Timed explosive;sticks to the first surface that it contacts after throwing.

Get Agravaine’s Key from the helicopter crash east of the starting bunker, thenuse it to unlock the box inside the Railyard Depotin Slatten Dale.

Spores x4, Chemicals x1, Glass x3, Herbs x5.

Temporarily increases Infection Resistance.

On the apothecary workbench in the Druids' Castle, the same room asMother Jago’s Book.

Trader locations can be found in ourTrading Guide.Upgrading guns is a special type of crafting, which can be unlocked bylearning the Gunsmith skill.

You don’t necessarily need to learn every single recipe, but learning ten will earn you theHomemadeAchievement/Trophy. Status prevention items, likeStrange TonicandAntidote, should definitely be prioritized, and it pays to have one or two options for crafting explosives handy in a tough situation as well.