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Essential Crafting
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Mods: Build 41, Balance, Building, Clothing/Armor, Food, Hardmode, Items, Literature, Military, Misc, Multiplayer, Realistic, Textures, Weapons
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Essential Crafting

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Description
This mod addresses the need for vanilla friendly crafting additions - such as refilling lighters, improvised can opening/rock crushing/fire making, weapon fixing, making raw tailoring materials, carving, tailoring and many others quality of life methods to make long term survival in a low loot environment better.




  • Open canned food the hardway - with all kinds of sharp objects - and risk a tiny chance of injury.
  • Lighters last twice as long and can be refilled with petrol/ethanol.
  • Crush rocks with hammers and other rocks into smaller pieces. Logs and tree branches can be cut into twigs that can be used to start a fire.
  • Use sheets as towels and dry yourself. You can squeeze water out of wet towels as well.
  • Can use knives/scissors to draw thread, twine and yarn from various clothings or from each other.
  • Use leather strips to tie various stuff to your spears. Can also untie them later.
  • Books/magazines can be scrapped into scapped paper that can be used to start fires. Both ordinary sheets and scrap sheets weight 10 times less. You can also bind empty papers together into notebooks. Some of the scrap paper can be sorted and made into empty sheets as well.
  • You can burn A LOT more items now. Everything that can BURN will BURN! Except some items that can be disassembled into more useful stuff. This including car tires, car seats, paint, radios and so on. You can also start a fire with a lot more items. Good for urban survival.
  • Smash certain object into shattered glass. A lot of wooden tools can be also be scrapped into unusable wood - metal tools can be melted with my Real Metalworking mod.
  • Campfire kit can be made with only twigs/paper and weights only 100 grams as its just a placeholder for the actual stuff you use for fuel and to light the fire with.
  • Tent kit needs wire, twine or duct tape to be crafted but also can use various long wooden items on its recipe. It also needs a level 1 carpentry skill so not every babushka can make a tent.
  • Carve/Craft various essential survivor items such as bowls, fishing tackles, needles, tweezers, duct tape etc etc.
  • Denim/Leather clothing can be ripped the hard way with various sharp objects(Tiny risk of injury.)
  • Almost all clothing items can be now ripped into sheets, denim, leather or scrap.
  • Make plaster powder. It gives you back the garbage bag once its emptied.
  • Mix paints together and paint light bulbs.
  • Tailor some essential items such as sacks, bags, shoes, tarps etc etc. Can disassemble bulletproof vests and tailor a new one with high tailor level.
  • Knit wooly clothing items with yarn or various holsters, boots and belts from leather.
  • Cologne/Perfume act as very unhealthy alcohol and can be used as disinfectant as well.
  • Sheet rope takes more materials to be crafted but they can be combined. Rope can also be scrapped into a sheet.
  • You can make weapons into usable weapon parts and fix other weapons with them - also needs a metalworking skill.
  • With high metalwork/tailoring skill you can fix tools with wire and leather strips.
  • Simple scarf that can be made from ripped sheets to protect your neck - changed scarf neck protection values from bites and scratches as well.
  • Make disinfectant from bleach/salt+water mixing.
  • Five-body mass graves. They will disappear on their own after 40 days.







This is part of... :
Project Realistic Overhaul - Set of mods I've created that will overhaul the vanilla game experience to be more hardcore and true to life, but on the other hand leaves you the option to make it through and survive. It makes items and actions have more value and makes the world more alive.

Credits :
Russian translation - Thank you Macintosh
S.Chinese translation - Thank you Eroge
Korean translation - Thank you 담담
Japanese translation - Thank you Mesosolatum
Spanish translation - Thank you Dr. Nitropic
German translation - Thank you brudermusslos
Art credits to Huggingface
And extra credits to tilarium and DmitriySenpai


Workshop ID: 2903127760
Mod ID: EssentialCrafting
Popular Discussions View All (9)
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13 May @ 10:50am
Some suggestions
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30 Dec, 2022 @ 4:11am
Cannot convert to Survivor Bag
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Maxene 24 Jun @ 9:21pm 
Does the crafting thing give any experience?
spiciernoodles 22 Jun @ 12:56pm 
Does this make sheet rope cost 16 ripped sheets and take about 5 min to craft the amount of sheet rope you need to bundle 4 logs?
froggx 16 May @ 7:52am 
love it how ppl wanna set graves on fire :hungry:
Rex 4 May @ 12:43pm 
@RATO_BR, I was wondering the same. Figured it out. Useless scrap is used in the Make Duct Tape recipe, but you need to learn it first from Essential Crafting 101 magazine.
Yeeoo 29 Apr @ 5:24pm 
You have to make sure when picking up the body you "PREPARE IT FOR MASS GRAVE" so it converts to the body type for a mass grave.
[2CA] satri 14 Apr @ 4:30pm 
Mass graves, as far as I understand them, work like this:

1/ Digging the grave: Have a shovel in your inventory, and pick a spot. I've only done it in forests/fields so far, as I assume it needs to be on actual soil.
2/ Preparing the bodies: to do this, you need to pick up a corpse (right click -> grab corpse). Once done, you will get an item called "Dead body". Drop it on/close to the empty grave.
3/ Filling the grave: You need 10 bodies and the empty grave item to show up in the "ground/floor" inventory window. Sometimes requires some shuffling around of the bodies.

All these steps need to be done in the crafting menu ("Misc" tab).
If done correctly, the grave will look like a mound of dirt.

@FunZed - As far as I'm aware, you don't set fire to the grave. You just bury the bodies, it's not a burn pit. According to the mod description, these graves should disappear after 40 days (can't confirm this yet).
FunZed 9 Apr @ 11:45am 
Same thing, i put 10 bodies in mass grave and can't set on fire...
velveticaa 6 Apr @ 5:01pm 
i can't get the mass graves to work :( any tips?
Tnaz.v 4 Apr @ 11:27am 
it's compatible?

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2713055926
Morgan 28 Mar @ 7:27pm 
May I add this to my modpack?