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Desperate Crafting

Desperate Crafting is a recipe pack meant to add common sense recipes that feel vanilla - in other words, recipes where you've thought "why can't I make this?" This mod is not complete, and more recipes will likely be added in the future. All recipes it adds can be found in the Survivalist tab in the Crafting menu. For the full list, see the forum thread.

Here is an example of some of the useful recipes added in Desperate Crafting:

"Cut Open [Canned Foods]"
All canned foods can be cut open with a knife or saw.

"Make Makeshift Shovel"
Allows you to create a shovel by attaching a trowel to a sturdy stick.

"Break Shovel Into Trowel"
Allows you to snap the head off a shovel and use it as a trowel.

"Make Sheet"
Allows you to sew together 8 ripped sheets to make a new sheet.

"Make Homemade Soap"
Using some gamified real life logic, allows you to concoct a fresh bar of soap near a campfire using fatty meat, a plank, and a lighter/matches.

"Make Towels"
Allows you to use knives or scissors to cut up various larger fabrics (sheets, clothing) into absorbent towels.

"Reclaim Thread", "Twist Twine", and "Make Rope"
A progressive set of recipes allowing you to create rope from twine, create twine from thread, and harvest thread from ripped sheets.

"Make Homemade Glue"
Allows the creation of basic white glue using flour and water.

"Make Big Hiking Bag"
If you have 2 Normal Hiking Bags, you can fashion them together into a Big Hiking Bag, but will need a knife/scissors to cut the normal bags, and a needle/thread to sew them together.

"Make Tarp"
Allows the creation of a waterproof tarp using the loose logic of sewing several sheets together and coating it in the wax from one candle.

Workshop ID: 1410901165
Mod ID: desperateCrafting