Crafting recipes changes in Project Zomboid

Searching in a workstation for something with no matching recipes now shows No Recipes Available instead of empty ingredient slots.

Fixed some media items teaching the wrong recipes

Fixed Engineer & Farmer not granting all of their intended crafting recipes

The game no longer crashes when a recipe uses items that are missing.

Crafting recipes that use drainable items, the kind that get used up bit by bit, now work properly.

Fixed crafting recipes that use Drainable items

Fixed error when crafting some recipes while keeping the crafting magazine in the inventory

TVs and radios are now taken apart with one shared dismantle recipe instead of separate ones.

Consolidated dismantle TV/Radio into one single recipe.

Pottery glazing is gone, along with its recipes and items.

Removed recipes and items relating to the craft recipe of glazing pottery.

Fixed items being erroneously marked as Inputs for Favourited Recipes

Fixed Favoriting recipes (Craft and Build menu) being reset after relogging

Clothes ripping recipes now skip the check for whether clothing is worn or equipped when that clothing is on a corpse.

Added checks to see if clothing items are worn or equipped for clothes ripping recipes will be bypassed if the parent container for the clothing item is a corpse.

Kiln recipes now play a timed action, as a temporary fix.

Making a jar of produce and making a jar of roe are now one recipe.

Merged Make Jar of Produce and Make Jar of Roe recipes.

Ripping and cutting clothing is now much faster, taking 40% of the time it used to.

Ripping/cutting clothing etc. recipes take 40% of the time they previously did.

The Improvised Gas Mask recipe now also accepts the rare pop bottle, so more bottles can be used to make one.

Crushed Limestone has been removed from the game, and steel manufacturing recipes now use plain Limestone instead.

• Removed Crushed Limestone from the game
• steel manufacturing recipes now use Limestone instead of Crushed Limestone.

The Slice Fish recipe now accepts knives.

Fixed SliceFish recipe not accepting knives.

Crafted Jars now have weight and work in crafting recipes that need jars.

Fixed Crafted Jars being weightless, and allowed their use in crafting recipes that require jars.

Baking recipes no longer duplicate baking pans, and eating raw cake no longer makes the pan disappear.

Fixed baking recipes duplicating their baking pans / baking pans disappearing when eating raw cake

Recipe search now shows every recipe that contains the characters you type.

Recipes that open sealed drinks, like opening a canned drink or uncorking wine, now use the Unseal input flag instead of onCreate code.

Craft recipes to open sealed fluid containers, such as opening canned beverages or uncorking wine, now uses the Unseal input flag instead of onCreate code.

Using Show Craft / Build Recipes Used In from an item's right-click menu no longer gives an error.

Fixed Error received when checking "Show Craft / Build Recipes Used In" from an item's RMC context menu

Finishing a recipe at a crafting station that is not currently loaded no longer causes an error.

Fixed exception when a recipe completes in a crafting station that isn't currently loaded.

Calorie burn is rebalanced so most common activities, recipes and resting use less and a few intensive ones use a bit more, which affects survivor weight in long games.

Rebalanced metabolics multipliers for calories consumption and moved some recipes/timed actions from Default to better categories.

• Rebalanced metabolics multipliers for calories consumption and moved some recipes/timed actions from Default to better categories. This should lead to overall less consumption for most common activities/recipes and resting, and a bit more for a few intensive activities/recipes. This should have an impact on survivor weight in long playthroughs.

Added recipe for making a mirror.

Crafting a jar now makes a new crafted Jar item instead of the looted version.

Added a crafted version of the Jar item and updated the recipe to create it instead of the looted variation.

Drying racks can now dry different numbers of items at once, with drying recipes updated so one rack can hold several items.

Add functionality to allow drying racks to dry variable numbers of input items.

• Add functionality to allow drying racks to dry variable numbers of input items. Updated drying recipes and drying racks to allow variable inputs for multiple items per rack.

Reaching level 10 now teaches your character every growing seasons recipe not already known.

When a character hits level 10 they learn all growing seasons recipes not already known.

Churning butter is now a single recipe that accepts cow milk, sheep milk or a mix of both.

Consolidate Churn Cow/Sheep Butter into one craft recipe.

• Consolidate Churn Cow/Sheep Butter into one craft recipe. Allow mixture of Sheep/Cow milk for Churn Butter recipe.

Pumpkin can now be added to more evolved recipes.

The stone chisel recipe now needs a lower skill level to craft and is learned automatically at a lower level.

Fixed missing craft recipe for making the glass for lanterns

Dismantling a fishing net no longer gives back enough wire to make 2 traps, so you now get less wire from it.

Fixed various recipes not returning the correct items, and some that couldn't be done.

Katanas, machetes, scrap and broken swords and the carpentry chisel now have recipes you can research.

Fixed Katana, Katana_Broken, Machete, ShortSword_Scrap, Sword_Broken, Sword_Scrap, Sword_Scrap_Broken and CarpentryChisel not having researchable recipes.

Search in the craft menu highlights recipes better, and the list now only highlights the recipe you picked yourself.

Improved Auto-highlight of first recipe in craft UI on search.

• Improved Auto-highlight of first recipe in craft UI on search. List will now always only highlight player-selected recipe.

The Molotov recipe no longer needs a second fluid container, so it takes less to craft.

Updated Molotov recipe so it no longer requires a second fluid container.

Right-clicking a recipe magazine now lists the recipes in it that you can see or know, and clicking one opens it in the crafting menu.

Craft recipes in recipe magazines that the player can "See" or knows can be viewed in the crafting UI via navigating with right click on the magazine to see a list of clickable recipes.

Recipes in the discovered recipes tab can now be clicked to open them straight in the crafting menu.

Craft recipes that the player can See in the discovered recipes tab in the discovered stuff UI can be clicked on to see the craft recipe in the crafting UI.

Recipes that need a workstation can no longer be crafted without one in some situations.

Fixed being able to perform craft recipes that are supposed to require a workstation being performable under some circumstances without the workstation.

Building recipes can now be opened and browsed from recipe magazines and the discovered recipes list.

Building Recipes can be navigated-to/"browsed" from Recipe Magazines and the Discovered Recipes List.

The recipe for making magnesium shavings from a magnesium firestarter is back, so you can craft them again.

Fixed the recipe for making magnesium shavings from a magnesium firestarter being missing.

The Extract Iron and Extract Steel from Smaller Items recipes now ask for the correct amount of input.

Fixed required input amount for Extract Iron and Extract Steel from Smaller Items recipes.

The scrap metal gloves recipe now actually needs metal.

Fixed recipe for scrap metal gloves not requiring any metals.

The Extract Metal from Smaller Items recipe now uses the correct amounts for each item you can put in.

Fixed Extract Metal from Smaller Items recipe amounts for each possible input.

Recipes that need a workstation now say so plainly in the recipe information box.

If a craft recipe requires a workstation the workstation requirement will be plainly stated in the recipe information box.

Clicking a growing season in the literature recipes tab now jumps to the growing seasons tab, though it does not yet scroll to that season.

Clicking on a growing season recipe in the LiteratureUI recipes tab will switch the tab view to the growing seasons tab; however it will not scroll to the growing season in question yet.

Recipe magazines with growing seasons you know now have a See Growing Seasons right-click option that opens the growing seasons tab, without scrolling to a specific season.

Recipe magazines that contain growing seasons that they player knows will have a right click option "See Growing Seasons"; this will open the discovered literature UI to the growing seasons tab.

• Recipe magazines that contain growing seasons that they player knows will have a right click option "See Growing Seasons"; this will open the discovered literature UI to the growing seasons tab. This does not scroll to any specific growing seasons, it just provides a contextual shortcut for the player to navigate to or find the growing seasons list.

The list of recipes in the media and recipes UI will display the icon for a recipe.

If you know a recipe but are one skill level short, you can now still craft it when an item that teaches the recipe is in your inventory or nearby.

• If a player knows a recipe but is 1 skill level short of being able to fulfill a skill level requirement to perform a craft recipe, having an item that teaches the recipe in their inventory or vicinity will allow for the item being used as a "cookbook" type reference to perform the recipe.

You can now harvest Aramid Thread from bulletproof vests, limb armor and firefighter clothing, even broken ones, which gives you armor and leather crafting materials without Sinew.

Added a recipe to harvest Aramid Thread from bulletproof vests and limb armor, and firefighter clothing, including broken items.

• Added a recipe to harvest Aramid Thread from bulletproof vests and limb armor, and firefighter clothing, including broken items. As police and firefighter zombies, are relatively common, this serves as a means for players to gather armor/leather crafting resources w/o Sinew.

You can now learn the Stone Awl recipe by researching Sharp Flint Flakes.

Stone Awl craft recipe can be researched from Sharp Flint Flakes.

A couple of railspike weapon recipes now need a drill, so you need one on hand to craft them.

A couple of railspike weapon craft recipes now require a drill.

You can now make drinks and other evolved recipes that need water with mixed water.

Beverages and other evolved recipes that require water can now be prepared with "mixed water".

The recipes for smelting iron and steel were missing some scripts and now have them, so they should work.

Fixed missing craft recipe lua functions for smelting iron and steel.

Fixed "Sew Kneepads" recipe providing elbow pads instead.

The coffee machine's recipes get back a missing function, so they should work properly now.

Fixed missing function for the coffee machine's recipes.

The recipes for portioning food into bowls now give the right bowls back.

Fixed issues with bowl outputs in the portioning into bowls recipes.

Added recipe for dying clothes using Industrial Dye.

Fixed the Stone Awl craft recipe not providing enough xp.

Fixed kettle maul craft recipe not consuming kettle.

Many leather, hide and armor recipes now need Sinew Thread instead of normal Thread, with some exceptions left for wilderness starts.

Many leather/hide/armor recipes, but not all (there's some allowances for wilderness scenario starts), now require Sinew Thread and not normal Thread.

The Mill Sunflower Seeds recipe now uses up food by Hunger Value instead of by item count.

Updated the Mill Sunflower Seeds craft recipe input for crafting, now consumes food inputs by Hunger Value and not item count.

Smelting iron and steel now mostly works by adding metal to a crucible that is either empty or already holds iron or steel.

Most recipes for extracting/smelting iron and steel now involve a crucible that's either empty or already has iron or steel in it, and adding metal to it.

Most iron recipes now need a medium-tier Furnace or an Advanced Furnace, except making Iron Blooms from ore and extracting Iron Chunks from blooms or iron items.

Additionally, most Iron Recipes, beyond producing Iron Blooms from Iron Ore, extracting Iron Chunks from an Iron Bloom, and extracting Iron Chunks from Iron Items, require a medium-tier Furnace or an Advanced Furnace.

Blacksmiths can now forge a Wrench, which also gives the Calipers item a use.

Added a craft recipe to forge a Wrench; giving the Calipers item some functionality.

Ammo straps for shells and for bullets can now be crafted, and crafted straps are always Brown while found ones can be Black or Brown.

Added craft recipe and item for crafted ammo straps, both shells and bullets/cartridges. "Normal" (non-crafted) ammo straps can be Black or Brown; crafted ones will be Brown.

Furred Coat and Jacket recipes come from the Cowboy Tailoring magazine, are known by characters with the Sewer trait, can be researched and can show up in Survival Schematics.

Furred Coat and Jacket Recipes are in the Cowboy Tailoring recipe magazine; known by characters with the Sewer Trait; can be researched; and are in the Survival Schematic recipe pool.

Added a craft recipe to make Sinew Thread from Sinew.

Sheet ropes can now be untied with a new craft recipe.

• Added a craft recipe to Untie sheet ropes
• in previous builds sheet ropes could be made from many clothing items, and under the assumption that this was still true in b42, the recipe wasn't added as untying sheet ropes to recover specific clothing items becomes problematic.

Several axes and axe heads now have researchable recipes, giving more ways to progress toward crafting them.

Added several researchable recipes for crafting progression to multiple axe and axe head items.

Full football shoulder pads and crash helmets now have their own nail-spiking recipe, separate from other items.

Added a separate craft recipe to nail-spike full football shoulder pads and crash helmets as they both visually have more spikes than other items, and also to handle the nail # paradox of spiking full football pads versus single-side pads.

You can now make an improvised Prison Lighter from a Battery, Tape and either Steel Wool, Aluminum Foil or Electrical Wire, and take the Battery back out later.

Added items and craft recipes for making a Prison/Improvised Lighter from a Battery, Tape, and Steel Wool, Aluminum Foil, or Electrical Wire, as well as recovering the Battery from the Lighter.

You can now craft ammo straps for both shotgun shells and bullets or cartridges.

Added craft recipe and item for crafted ammo straps, both shells and bullets/cartridges.

The Coffee Machine now has separate recipes for mugs and teacups, using the water already in the cup, including mixed water, to make a coffee you can add more ingredients to.

Coffee Machine now uses 2 recipes, one for mugs and another for teacups, these recipes now use water from the mug or teacup (and accept mixed water) to create a "coffee beverage" item that can receive additional ingredients.

You can now craft leather masks, elbow pads and knee pads.

Added items and craft recipes for the player to make leather masks, elbow pads, and knee pads.

Tarps can now be cut into Tarp Pieces, which are a new item.

Added a Tarp Piece item and a craft recipe to cut a Tarp into Pieces.

With Tarps cut into Tarp Pieces, a small tailoring item no longer uses up a whole Tarp, and you are not forced to make several copies of it from one Tarp.

• As Tarps are fairly common items, and there a a fair amount of Tailoring craft recipes that use Tarps, cutting Tarps into Tarp Pieces was added so that players didn't have to use an entire Tarp to make a single smaller item, or be forced to make multiple instances of the small item from one Tarp.

You can now craft Tarp sling bags, sacks, handwraps, footwraps, hats and framepacks.

Added items and craft recipes for Tarp sling bags, sacks, handwraps, footwraps, hats, and framepacks.

Fanny Packs can now be crafted from Tarp Pieces.

Added items and craft recipe for crafting Fanny Packs out of Tarp Pieces.

The Cut Head Sack recipe now makes the matching Head Sacks from Tarp Sacks, Hide Sacks and Crafted Pillows.

The appropriate Head Sacks can be produced from Tarp and Hide Sacks, and Crafted Pillows, from the Cut Head Sack craft recipe.

Breaking Large Stones into Stones is now a simpler recipe, so it is easier to do out in the field.

Simplified the craft recipe for breaking Large Stones into Stones so it would be easier to perform in the field.

Casting iron or steel now mostly means using metal from a crucible together with the right items.

Most recipes for casting iron or steel involve using metal from a crucible with the appropriate items.

Metal smelting, extracting and casting now use crucibles of metal, which cuts down the total number of separate recipes.

Using crucibles of metal will help in reducing the total number of smelting/extracting/casting recipes.

Tools wear down less in gentler crafting recipes such as cooking, baking and electrical ones, so they last longer.

Reduced the "intensity" of tool damage from being used in several craft recipes that would be more easy-going on the tools, such as cooking, baking, and electrical recipes.

Recipes for taking apart tools and weapons now accept broken items, and an item that can be taken apart should split into its handle and head when it breaks, though mods may get in the way.

• Recipes for dismantling tools and weapons will now accept broken items; in general, any item that can be dismantled should have an OnBreak interaction performed on it when it breaks that separates the handle and head parts as-is, but there may be circumstances, such as mods, that interfere with that process.

More armor crafting recipes now need Sinew Thread specifically, though not all of them do.

Several more armor craft recipes, but not all, require Sinew Thread specifically.

Several hide crafting recipes now only accept hides of the right size, so oversized hides must be cut into pieces first.

• Changed several hide-type craft recipes that previously accepted oversized hides, so players could perform the crafts without being arbitrarily limited, to only accept appropriately sized hides; the player will now have to cut oversized hides into pieces beforehand.

Duct Tape now joins Rags, Twine and Leather Strips as an option in some crude weapon and tool crafting recipes.

Duct Tape can be used alongside Rags, Twine, Leather Strips, etc., for some improvised/crude weapon and tool craft recipes.

The Hide Fanny Pack now needs a higher skill level and has to be learned before you can craft it.

The Hide Fanny Pack craft recipe now requires a higher skill level and also needs to be learned/researched/known.

The recipes for knapping large stones and limestone into pieces are gone, because masonry recipes already do the same job.

Removed the recipes to knap large stones into stone and limestone into pieces as they are redundant with masonry recipes that perform the same tasks.

The simple/crude blade recipe is easier to make.

Tweaked the simple/crude blade recipe to make it easier to perform.

Fixed error with the Assemble Small Framepack recipe.

Several plant drying recipes have been fixed to work with the hunger values of their ingredients, which now work properly.

Fixed several craft recipes for drying plants now that hunger values for inputs are working properly.

The Cast Steel Bar from Iron recipe now uses Bar Molds instead of Ingot Molds.

Fixed the CastSteelBarFromIron recipe using Ingot Molds and not Bar Molds.

Bucket recipes can now use mixed water.

Fixed Bucket recipes not being able to use "mixed" water.

The Make Jar of Roe and Open Jar of Roe recipes now work correctly.

Fixed Make Jar of Roe and Open Jar of Roe recipes.

The Rip Sack recipe now works with all the sack items it should accept.

Fixed Rip Sack recipe not using some sack items.

Fixed the Hide Robe craft recipe producing a Hide Coat instead.

You can now craft a Jar of Roe with a new recipe.

Added Jar of Roe recipe.

Added missing craft recipe to make a Carpentry Chisel.

Added the craft recipe and items for carving Bone and Wood Dice.

Crafting recipes no longer show skill requirements of 0, which worked the same as having no requirement.

• Changed the craft recipe parser to not process skill level requirements of 0
• mechanically, it's the same as not having any skill level requirement, but the appearance of 0-level Skill Requirements in the UI might confuse some people.

Added a craft recipe to carve wooden cutting boards from a plank.

New recipe magazines teach leather tailoring (Real Gladiators, Leather Crafts, Cowboy Living), medicinal herb growing seasons (Herbal Remedy Growing) and some bomb recipes (Homemade Explosives).

• Added recipe magazines for several new craft recipes, these include "Real Gladiators", "Leather Crafts", and "Cowboy Living" to teach some leather tailoring recipes, "Herbal Remedy Growing" (medicinal herb growing seasons), and "Homemade Explosives" (some bomb recipes).

Items that can go into your favorited recipes now show a star on their icon and colored tooltip text, green by default, so they are easier to spot in your inventory.

Added a crafting QOL feature where items that can be used as inputs for favorited recipes will have a user-defined-good-color, which defaults to green, a star overlay on their inventory icon, and good color text in their item tooltip.

Crafting recipes are now sorted into fewer categories, and confusing placements have been fixed, so recipes should be easier to find.

Revised the categories for craft recipes by reducing the number of categories and fixing confusing categorization.

The rope and twine recipes have been merged, so one recipe now takes any of the materials, such as dogbane or hemp.

Consolidated the craft recipes for making rope and twine, as their only differences were the material type (dogbane vs hemp, etc) being consumed.

Putting out a candle or a hurricane lantern now takes less time.

Reduced the time required to perform the Extinguish Candle and Extinguish Hurricane Lantern craft recipes.

Fixed the Hide Bandeau recipe outputting a skirt.

Making toast now uses up a whole slice of bread.

Fixed Toast Bread recipe not using a whole slice.

Hand scythes can now only be dismantled with one craft recipe instead of two.

Fixed being able to dismantle hand scythes with two different craft recipes.

Hand and surface crafting recipes from the Survival category are now listed under Miscellaneous.

"Survival" category recipes have all been moved into "Miscellaneous".

Added a craft recipe to craft a wall trophy item from a Stag's head.

You can now craft Spiked Full Motorcycle Helmets and Football Shoulderpads.

Added items and recipes for Spiked Full Motorcycle Helmets and Football Shoulderpads.

You can now craft Hide and Leather Aprons and a Tarp Chest Rig.

Added items and recipes for Hide and Leather Aprons, and a Tarp Chest Rig.

You can now craft Twine Shoes.

Added items and recipe for Twine Shoes.

The Advanced Furnace can now turn iron objects and Coke into Steel Chunks.

Added craft recipes for making Steel Chunks from iron objects and Coke using an Advanced Furnace.

Burning wood charcoal has more recipes for items of different sizes, and you can mix inputs a little as long as they are the same size.

Added some more recipes for burning wood charcoal using items of different sizes allowing for limited mixed inputs using items of the same size.

You can now craft Small File Sets and Small Metalworking Punch and Chisel Sets.

Added craft recipes for making Small File Sets and Small Metalworking Punch and Chisel Sets.

Garbage Bag Dresses and Tank Tops now need a known recipe, so you can no longer craft them without learning it first.

Garbage Bag Dresses and Tank Tops now require knowing a recipe to make.

Forging Jar Lids now uses Small Steel Sheets and makes 5 lids per craft.

The recipe for forging Jar Lids now uses Small Steel Sheets and will produce 5 Jar Lids.

Schematics that pick recipes at random now keep the same recipe list and no longer reroll it every time the item loads.

Fixed schematics with multiple randomly-chosen recipes getting a new random list of recipes each time the item was loaded.

Fixed error with inputs for the saw bat recipe.

Fixed toothbrush shiv recipe consuming tools.

You can now craft simple hide hats, robes and wallets.

Added items and recipes for simple hide hats, robes, and wallets.

The "Can Research Craft Recipe" tooltip now also shows for items that are not in your inventory, and when it is too dark to research an item.

"Can Research Craft Recipe" is displayed in tooltips for items outside the player's inventory, and when it is too dark to research the item.

The crafting menu no longer stretches out when you close it with the possible items panel open on an empty Favourites category.

Fixed craft menus extending, when closed with 'possible items' open, on favourites category, with no favourited recipes.

You can now shorten the sleeves on shirts with a new recipe.

Added recipe for shortening shirt sleeves.

Dogbane twine and rope recipes now take the same amounts as the Hemp versions.

Adjusted Twine and Rope recipe inputs for Dogbane to be 1 and 2, matching the Hemp recipes.

The crude Hide clothing recipes accept either Thread or Twine, which helps in scenarios where Thread is hard to make.

The crude Hide clothing recipes can use Thread or Twine interchangeably; this is because Thread may be difficult to produce in some scenarios.

Crafting now uses up food by hunger amount instead of whole items, so recipes can take only part of a food item where that applies.

Fixed crafting system to consume food items by hunger-based units instead of whole items, ensuring recipes correctly use partial amounts where applicable.

The Brain Tan recipe can now be crafted.

Recipes that make two pieces of armor have new names, so they now appear next to the other recipes for their set in the list.

Renamed recipes that create 2 pieces of armor so that they show up closer to their sets' other recipes in the list.

Seasoning Salt can now replace Salt in baking recipes.

Seasoning Salt can be used in place of Salt for baking recipes.

Fixed Mix Bucket recipes being unable to count water inside the bucket.

You can now sew a Raccoon Hat.

Added Sew Raccoon Hat recipe.

Several improvised weapon recipes that use Carpentry or Maintenance now have different skill requirements, spread over a longer progression, which leaves more room for blacksmithing to be the better option.

Rebalanced the skill level requirements of several improvised weapon recipes involving Carpentry or Maintenance.

• Rebalanced the skill level requirements of several improvised weapon recipes involving Carpentry or Maintenance. This is to make the weapon recipes, less bottom heavy, skill level requirement wise, with a more drawn out progression, and providing more room for blacksmithing to be a superior option (assuming materials and workstations).

The Spade Head can now be forged, since there was no recipe to make it before.

Added missing recipe Forge Spade Head, this item had no recipe to create it.

New recipes let you make an Improvised Screwdriver, chop firewood from logs and large branches, and bundle or unbundle firewood, and Firewood with Nails now uses the general nails weapon recipe.

Added recipes to make an Improvised Screwdriver; Chop Firewood from Logs and Large Branches; Bundle Firewood; Unbundle Firewood; Firewood with Nails can be made using the general nails weapon craftRecipe.

Recipes that use a crucible now need the crucible to be empty.

Updated recipes that use crucibles so that they need to be empty.

Melt Sand and Melt Glass now need a lighter or another way to start the fire.

Updated Melt Sand and Melt Glass recipes to need a lighter or other way to start the fire.

Researching the right items can now teach you how to forge Spade Heads.

Added recipe research allowances for Forging Spade Heads to relevant items.

More tools can now teach recipes through research, including masonry trowels and chisels, sickles, tweezers, files, whetstones, buckets and crowbars.

• Added recipe research progression for several "tool" category items: masonry trowels; masonry chisels; (more) fleshing tool; (more) sickles; tweezers; forceps; files; whetstones; nails and heading tools from nail-spiked weapons; buckets; crowbars; trowels; etc.

Melee weapon schematics can now teach the recipe for carving a baseball bat.

The CarveBat recipe was added to the pool of recipes that can be on a melee weapon schematic.

The small scrap weapon recipe now only makes the Sawblade Hatchet; it used to make a scrap cleaver as well, but the scrap cleaver already has its own recipe.

Changed MakeSmallScrapWeapon to MakeSawbladeHatchet; it was a multi-recipe that could also make a scrap cleaver, but also there was already a scrap cleaver recipe.

Researching recipes now takes half as long.

Halved the time required for the recipe research action.

Crafting recipes that need liquids can now take them from different containers.

Making rope from dogbane now uses the same recipe as making it from hemp, and the twine recipes for dogbane, hemp and flax now use the same tools and crafting times.

Made the recipe for making rope from dogbane the recipe for making it from hemp, and the recipes for making twine from dogbane and the recipe for making it from hemp or flax consistent in regards to their tools, durations, etc.

Small Stone Wheels, Large Stone Wheels and Stone Anvils now require Masonry 2 to make.

Similarly the recipe for making Small Stone Wheels, Large Stone Wheels and Stone Anvils requires Masonry 2.

• Similarly the recipe for making Small Stone Wheels, Large Stone Wheels and Stone Anvils requires Masonry 2. Some of these arguably should be greater, to provide progression and more XP, but this is the initial rebalancing pass.

Stone Mauls and Large Axe Heads can now be made through stonemasonry with a Club Hammer and Masonry Chisel; this needs a much higher skill level than knapping them but does not have to be learned.

Added stonemasonry recipes for making Stone Maul and Large Axe Heads using a Club Hammer and Masonry Chisel.

• Added stonemasonry recipes for making Stone Maul and Large Axe Heads using a Club Hammer and Masonry Chisel. These have a much higher skill level requirement than the knapping versions, and also don't need to be learned. This is to provide some high level options for the stonemasonry skill, and it doesn't seem unreasonable as well when using proper tools.

The new Pioneering Carvers recipe magazine teaches Carve Knitting Needles, and the bone Awl and Sewing Needle carving recipes have moved to it from another magazine.

Added recipe magazine "Pioneering Carvers" that teaches the Carve Knitting Needles recipe; the recipes for carving bone Awls and Sewing Needles were also moved to this magazine from another one.

The Flint Saw can now be used as a tool in several crafting and building recipes.

Added the Flint Saw as a valid input for several crafting and building recipes.

The Siberian Bear Hunting magazine now also teaches the recipes for forging spear heads.

The Siberian Bear Hunting recipe magazine also teaches the recipes for forging spear heads.

Several carving recipes now take more consistent crafting times, and in many cases more generous ones.

Rebalanced several carving recipe time requirements; they should be more consistent and sensible, as well as more generous in many cases.

Several carving recipes, including forks, buckets, goblets and spades, now have to be learned before you can make them.

Several carving recipes, including forks, buckets, goblets and spades, require being learned.

These carving recipes are taught by the matching traits and recipe magazines.

Appropriate traits teach these recipes and appropriate recipe magazines teach them.

Researching Tires and Tire Pieces now only teaches Shin and Forearm tire armor, but crafting and researching those pieces unlocks more tire armor recipes.

Tires and Tires Pieces both provides less Tire Armor research recipes, only teaching Shin and Forearm Armor; however crafting those and researching them will teach additional tire armor recipes.

Metal masks now use one crafting recipe per material instead of several separate ones.

Consolidated the metal mask craftRecipes by material into one recipe.

Taking apart long and longer tools and weapons now uses a single recipe that should give you the right head and broken handle for whatever you dismantle.

Several disassembly recipes for long and longer type implements were consolidated into one craftRecipe; it's outputMapper should produce the correct head and broken handle for the dismantled object.

Metal Baseball Bat type weapons can now be broken down into Aluminum Scrap.

Added recipe for rendering Metal Baseball Bat type weapons into Aluminum Scrap.

Aluminum Scrap can be broken down further into Aluminum Fragments, which work alongside Aluminum Foil in some bomb and radio recipes.

Aluminum Scrap can be further rendered into Aluminum Fragments, which alongside Aluminum Foil, can be used for some Bomb and Radio recipes.

Carve Short Bat now needs a higher skill level and has to be learned first, through the right professions, traits, magazines or research.

Adjusted the Carve Short Bat recipe to require a higher skill level, and to be learned, based on feedback; this is taught by appropriate professions, traits and magazines, and can be researched.

Carve Wooden Spade now needs a higher carving skill level, so you can make it later in your progression.

Adjusted the Carve Wooden Spade recipe to require skill level 4 and not 3 also based on feedback.

Smashing a watermelon now uses its own action, which lets its sound and animation issues be fixed.

Updated Smash Watermelon recipe to use its own timed action, so sound and animation issues can be solved.

Several recipes no longer have duplicate condition settings.

Fixed several recipes having duplicate condition fields.

Several knapping weapon and tool recipes that stick heads onto sticks now sit in the Assembly crafting category instead of Survival, alongside almost all other assembly recipes.

• Changed the category of some knapping-related weapon and tool assembly recipes from "Survival" to "Assembly" as almost all weapon and tool assembly recipes are in that category, especially ones involving sticking heads onto sticks like these ones.

The Wooden Bucket carving recipe now needs a higher skill level, so you can make it later in your progression.

The Wooden Bucket carving recipe requirement has been increased to 4 from 3.

Pots, cutlery, pans, saucepans and kettles can now be researched, though their crafting recipes are still switched off.

Added research progression for pots, cutlery, pans, and saucepans and kettles (although their craft recipes are commented out).

Item research now unlocks a progression of recipes, such as tongs from pliers and vise grips, plus shears, scissors, lower tier knives, many clubs, bats, maces, axes and fleshing tools.

• Includes Tech-tree-progression via item recipe research for tongs (from pliers and vise grips); shears and scissors; and lower tier knife progression; many baseball bat, spiked club, and mace type weapon recipes; tree branch, wooden stick, large branch/cudgel, medium handle, baseball bat and short bat type weapons, axes, and fleshing tools.

Crafting now has a first version of a research system that lets you learn recipes by studying items.

Finalized first draft of a system for reverse engineering recipes from items.

Items you can learn recipes from now show a "Research Craft" option with a light bulb when you right-click them.

If a player can learn any recipes from an item with this system, right-clicking on the item will provide a right-click option with a light bulb option to "Research Craft".

New carpenter or repairman characters, and new characters with the handy trait, now start out knowing suitable improvised melee weapon recipes.

New characters that start the game with the carpenter or repairman profession, or the handy trait, will know appropriate improvised melee weapon recipes.

The make firecracker recipe now gives its own crafted firework item instead of a string of red firecrackers.

The make firecracker recipe now produces a distinct crafted firework item instead of the string of red firecrackers.

The Bowl of Oatmeal and Cereal recipes now need the liquid already in the bowl instead of in a separate container, and use less of it, as much as a bowl holds.

Updated Make Bowl of Oatmeal and Cereal recipes to require fluid in the bowl instead of a separate container, reduced amount from 0.4L to 0.3L as that's how much a bowl holds.

The Create Brain Tan recipe now needs the water already in the bowl and uses less of it, as much as a bowl holds.

Updated Create Brain Tan recipe to require water in the bowl, reduced amount from 0.5L to 0.3L since that's how much a bowl holds.

Crafting remote triggers, sensors and traps with electronic parts now gives Electrical xp, with more xp for recipes that need a higher skill level.

Recipes for remote triggers and sensors, and traps that use electronic parts now grant Electrical xp, scaling with their skill level requirements.

The Refill Lighter recipe no longer destroys the lighter, works with any refillable lighter and uses lighter fluid only once; if the lighter is not full yet, you can just craft it again.

Fixed issues with Refill Lighter recipe, it doesn't destroy the lighter, accepts any item with the RefillableLighter tag, and only uses lighter fluid once, no funky math involved, if your Lighter isn't full you can craft the recipe again.

Watermelon now works in the Collect Seed recipe.

Fixed missing Watermelon in the Collect Seed recipe.

Several recipes now accept the crafted bowl, but you get a standard bowl back once it is used.

Fixed several recipes not accepting the crafted bowl, there are no separate resulting items for now, so once consumed these will return the standard bowl.

Recipes for forging some axe heads that were missing are now available.

Fixed missing recipes for forging some axe head items.

Characters with smithing professions or traits now get the missing axe head and fleshing tool recipes, and smithing magazines now teach them too.

Fixed missing recipes (axe heads, fleshing tool) to characters with smithing professions or traits, and to smithing magazines.

Item tooltips now clearly highlight when you can research recipes from that item, so they are easy to spot.

If an item has researchable recipe(s) for a player, the item's tooltip will include, in prominent good-color text, that information.

Fixed duplication of Bowls for Make Bowl of Beans recipe.

Fixed odd anumation with Tongs in the Forge_Armored_Gloves recipe.

Recipes now accept any proper bucket through a new Concrete tag, instead of only specific bucket items.

Added Concrete tag to all proper buckets and made it so recipes use the tag instead of specific bucket items.

Several packing recipes no longer let you pack different items together into one package.

Fixed several packing recipes allowing for mixed items.

Crafting now counts some recipe ingredients correctly, so recipes should not wrongly ask for more of an item or accept too little of it.

Fixed issue where recipe input items missing module declaration (such as 'Base.') would be counted incorrectly for crafting requirements.

Fixed smelting recipes not consuming certain items, like pans.

Fixed Create Brain Tan recipe duplicating Bowls.

Molotovs now have a crafting recipe, so you can make your own.

Added recipe for crafting Molotov.

Added a craft recipe for Sawing a Plank from a Large Branch.

The Wooden Spade is a new item that you can make with its own carving recipe.

Added Wooden Spade item and carving recipe.

The new Purify Water recipe uses Water Purification Tablets to make up to 1L of tainted water safe.

Added Purify Water recipe, it uses Water Purification Tablets to purify up to 1L of tainted water.

You can now carve planks from a Large Branch.

Added recipe for carving Planks from a Large Branch.

A Handguard Dagger can now be forged.

Added recipe for forging a Handguard Dagger.

Dogbane can now be made into twine.

Added recipe for making twine using dogbane.

An iron band can now be cut into 4 small iron bands.

Added recipes for turning an iron band into 4 small iron bands.

Saws and sawblades can now be repaired with a file.

A new Bundled Sterilized Rag item lets you bundle sterilized rags together and unbundle them again.

Added Bundled Sterilized Rag item, can be bundled and unbundled through recipes.

The glass and toothbrush shiv recipes no longer need a Maintenance level.

Removed the Maintenance level requirements for the glass and toothbrush shiv recipes.

The forged cooking pot now has its own items, recipes and evolved recipes.

Added items, recipes, and evolved recipes using forged cooking pot.

Pasta and rice recipes now accept copper saucepans, so you have one more pot to cook them in.

Added copper saucepans to pasta and rice recipes.

You can now smash stag skulls to get antlers.

Added a recipe to smash stag skulls in order to get antlers.

The firecracker recipe now accepts any kind of scissors, not only basic Scissors.

Changed the MakeFirecrakers recipe to accept Scissors by tag, and not only by type Base.

• Changed the MakeFirecrakers recipe to accept Scissors by tag, and not only by type Base. Scissors.

You can now knap a Large Stone into Stones, which gives you a way to train Knapping.

Added a recipe to Knapp Large Stone into Stones for Knapping xp training.

Loot tables were adjusted to fix problems with recipe magazines and skill books, and some items that were missing from the tables can now be found.

Tweaked distributions to address recipe magazine/skill book issues, as well as some items missing from the tables.

Automatic recipe learning is more forgiving, so recipes should unlock on their own more easily.

Changed the autoLearn mechanic for learning recipes to be more forgiving.

You can now find some new recipe magazines while foraging.

Added some new recipe magazines to the foraging tables.

The Small Hacksaw can now be used in several crafting recipes where it makes sense.

Added functionality for the Small Hacksaw for several appropriate craft recipes.

The Refill Lighter recipe has been updated and no longer gives you an empty lighter.

Updated Refill Lighter recipe, removed unnecessary OnTest function and fixed it spawning an empty Lighter.

Twine now needs 20 Dogbane and a surface to craft, and it takes longer to make.

Updated recipe for Twine, it now needs 20 Dogbane items, a surface, and craft time increased from 140 to 180.

Blacksmith recipes now accept any charcoal instead of requiring one specific charcoal item.

Fixed blacksmith recipes that required Base.Charcoal instead of the Charcoal tag.

Some packing recipes can now be marked as favorites.

Fixed some packing recipes not allowing for favorites.

Recipes for the rain barrel, double wooden door, spinning wheel, barbed wire fence, metal stairs, metal wall and metal window frame have been fixed.

Fixed related recipes: Building Rain Barrel, Double Wooden Door, Spinning Wheel, Barbedwire Fence, Metal Stairs, Metal Wall, Metal WindowFrame.

ArmorMag4 now teaches the codpiece and the gorget recipes instead of the codpiece recipe twice.

Fixed ArmorMag4 having 2 duplicate codpiece recipes instead of having recipes for both the codpiece and a gorget.

The improvised tent kit recipe now uses the stick items that exist in the game today.

Updated the improvised tent kit recipe to use the stick items that currently exist in the game, as it predated their existence.

Crafting recipes can now ask for specific items instead of a value such as hunger.

To make a Pot of Soup from opened cans of soup, you now add them to a Pot of Water as an evolved recipe, which closes the Super Soup exploit and lets you add extra ingredients.

Note: To make Pots of Soup with Opened Cans of Soup you must now add them to a Pot of Water, as an evolved recipe soup.

• Note: To make Pots of Soup with Opened Cans of Soup you must now add them to a Pot of Water, as an evolved recipe soup. This fixes the Super Soup exploit and will allow players to also add additional ingredients to the Soup. The other way of making Pots of Soup was an obsolete and in many ways incompatible method from before the evolved recipe system.

The Clean Tray recipe now works on trays of Biscuit Dough and on rotten or cooked food, so you can always get a tray back.

Updated the Clean Tray recipe so it works with trays of Biscuit Dough, and also so that it works with rotten and cooked ingredients, so players can always recover a tray from rotten trays of food.

The broken Pour on Ground recipe for Shortbread Cookies has been replaced with a recipe to Empty Baking Trays.

Fixed "Pour on Ground" Shortbread Cookies recipe, replaced it with a recipe to Empty Baking Trays.

Recipes like the Mildew Spray Cure and emptying sacks of produce now accept rotten items.

Recipes such as the Mildew Spray Cure, and Emptying Sacks of produce now have the field "AllowRottenItem:true" which allows rotten items to be used in that recipe.

The Make Pot of Soup recipes have been removed because the evolved recipe system now handles making soup.

Commented out the "Make Pot of Soup" recipes; they're obsolete given the evolved recipe system which handles this matter better.

Soup now has the same values whether you make it with the standard recipe or the evolved recipe.

Fixed different values between standard and evolved recipes for Soup.

The Meat Cleaver can now be used to slice onions but no longer works for carving a Jack-o'-lantern.

Added the Meat Cleaver to the Slice Onions recipe.

• Added the Meat Cleaver to the Slice Onions recipe.
• Removed it from the Jack-o'-lantern recipe.

The two Muffin recipes have been merged into one.

Fixed unnecessary extra Muffin recipe.

• Fixed unnecessary extra Muffin recipe. United the two existing Muffin recipes into one.

Fixed missing recipe for Opening Canned Fruit Beverage.

Basil can now be used in more recipes.

Added Basil to more recipes.

The recipes for tearing denim and leather work again, as a temporary fix until they are improved.

Fixed recipes to tear denim and leather - temporary fix pending improvement.

Many recipes now accept a wider range of ingredients, so it is easier to find something that works.

Many recipes adjusted to allow for more ingredient flexibility.

Canned Condensed Milk is a new item that works in the same recipes as milk.

New Canned Condensed Milk item; can be used for the same recipes as milk.

Onigiri, Baguette Dough, Biscuit Dough, Meat Patties, scooped Ice Cream and trays of Cookie Dough can now be made with new recipes.

Recipes for Onigiri; Baguette Dough; Biscuit Dough; Meat Patty; Scooping Ice Cream; and Trays of Cookie Dough.

Cheese Sandwiches can now be crafted, and cooking one turns it into a Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

New recipe for a Cheese Sandwich item; cook a Cheese Sandwich to make it into a Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Ice Cream Cones, Sweet Pies, Bread, Toast, Oatmeal, mixed drinks and glasses of wine and beer now take extra ingredients, so you can make things like cheese bread or oatmeal with berries and honey.

Evolved Recipes for Ice Cream Cones; Sweet Pies; Bread; Toast; Bowls of Oatmeal; Mixed Beverages; and Glasses of Wine and Beer.

• Evolved Recipes for Ice Cream Cones; Sweet Pies; Bread; Toast; Bowls of Oatmeal; Mixed Beverages; and Glasses of Wine and Beer. This makes it possible to make foods such as Ice Cream Cones with candy and fruit on them, chocolate, cheese, or sunflower seed Bread, Toast with beans or avocado on it, Bowls of Oatmeal with berries and honey, cocktails, and such.

Canned Condensed Milk is a new item that works in any recipe that uses milk.

Canned Condensed Milk item; can be used for the same recipes as milk.

A new Prepare Pizza recipe makes the base item for an evolved recipe pizza.

Added Prepare Pizza recipe to make a RecipePizza base evolved recipe item.

Baloney, Salami, Ham, Onions and Watermelon now have to be sliced before they can go into evolved recipes.

Baloney, Salami, Ham, Onions, and Watermelon must be sliced before being able to be used in evolved recipes.

Some recipes now need a bowl plus a spatula, spoon or fork to mix ingredients, so you need more kitchenware on hand.

Some recipes now require a bowl as well as a spatula, spoon or fork, to mix ingredients.

Evolved recipe items now show up to 3 ingredients in their names, so dishes are easier to tell apart.

Longer evolved recipe names; now up to 3 ingredients will be displayed in the display name of compound recipe items.

A new Slice Onion recipe lets you make Fried Onion Rings.

Added a "Slice Onion" recipe so Fried Onion Rings can be made.

The Burger evolved recipe is no longer marked as cookable.

Removed Cookable:true from the Burger evolved recipe.

Muffins from the Get 6 Muffins recipe now count as cooked, so they get the extra hunger reduction that cooked food gives.

Muffins produced by the "Get 6 Muffins" recipe are marked "Cooked", so the hunger-reduction bonus due to being cooked is applied.

Some recipes that open boxes of rounds or shells now play an opening sound, and they take a little longer so the sound can finish.

Added BoxOfRoundsOpenOne and BoxOfShellsOpenOne sounds to some recipes.

• Added BoxOfRoundsOpenOne and BoxOfShellsOpenOne sounds to some recipes.
• Increased the time of these recipes to allow the sound to play. The time is still quite short (was 5 ticks, now 15 ticks). Probably nobody will die waiting.

Muffins from the Get 6 Muffins recipe now have their ingredient in the name, such as Apple Muffin.

Muffins produced by the "Get 6 Muffins" recipe have the name of the ingredient added to the muffins, if any, such as "Apple Muffin".