If you’re trying to navigate the skies inAloft, you’ll likely want to make exploring such a large map as easy as can be. Thankfully, once you get the hang of your tools and weapons early on in the game, you’ll then unlock options to install some pretty powerful upgrades into them.
Afteryou’ve found the recipefor the Upgrade Station, as well as the recipes to add the three upgrade parts to the frame for it, you’ll be able to buff your tools and weapons in three powerful ways: sharpening them, coating them, and decking them out with Trinkets.
Improve Weapons And Tools With The Upgrade Station
As you progress across the map and begin to ventureinto each of the three biomes, you’ll begin to uncover therecipes for pieces of the Upgrade Stationsas you explore. These come fromknowledge stones, so be on the lookout for as many of them as you can find spread out across these skyward isles. There appears to be one upgrade in each biome, andunlocking the first upgrade unlocks the Upgrade Station framein addition to the piece you unlocked.
When you’ve found theframe for one of the Upgrade Stations, you’ll be able to build and place iton your home islandas soon as you’d like, but withoutany upgrade part recipesfor it, you’re not going to get too far. There arethree different upgradesthat you can find and install into the Upgrade Station in Aloft, and using them can pull right from the storage on your island when you’re ready to put them to use.
Just keep in mind that you ought tovisit the Upgrade Station oftento be sure you’ve still got all the extra buffs on your tools before you head out for the next off-island expedition to see what the sky has to offer -effects wear offafter a certain amount of uses, so you’ll need to stay afloat with keeping everything as boosted as can be.
One of these upgrades is theCoating Station, and once you’ve gotten underway with everything using the Research Lab, you’ll want to keep revisiting this station tocoat gear in fungicidebefore you head out to starthealing corrupted islands, since having this antidote coatingany of your weaponsor tool will reward you with healthy mykter samples that you can then bring home tostudy more on at the Research Lab. You can get it bycompleting the first level of research.
Next, theSharpening Stationis where you’ll put all those hardstones you’ve been collecting to good use. Requiringtwo hardstone per use, you’ll be able to bring any tool or weapon andrefine it to do more damage. This sharpness is indicated by a small diamond icon on the tool or weapon, just below the icon for said tool or weapon in your inventory.
Last but not least, theCustomization Station, which is where you’ll finally be able to put all those Trinkets to use on your gear! This is where you caninstall any Trinket you’ve craftedonto your tools and weapons for all kinds of additionalstatus boosts, ranging from additional damage dealt to enemies or resources, better damage during certain weather types, and so many more. Experiment with Trinkets to see which ones are the best suited to your playstyle.
