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Crafting 4 min readCheck tool durability before you mine a vein
Where Max Durability lives on tool cards, and how to stop breaking picks mid-vein on a cobalt-minded upgrade path.
Where Max Durability lives on tool cards, and how to stop breaking picks mid-vein on a cobalt-minded upgrade path. This Sphere Signal is written against HySphere's live extract (~3,219 items, ~975 creatures, ~2,109 recipes) so the workflow stays tied to real catalog pages.
Weapon and tool detail panes now surface Durability when the extracted tables have MaxDurability (including values inherited from parent templates).
How to use HySphere for this
The recipe book holds about 1,706 craft recipes and 403 salvage recipes. 19 crafts currently flag Knowledge required — mats alone will not unlock them.
Read every craft card for bench type/tier, inputs, and time. Filter the recipe book to the station you just placed before gathering another inventory of ore.
Numbers from the current extract
Craft recipes 1,706 · salvage 403 · knowledge-gated 19.
Step-by-step checklist
Run this list once, then keep the relevant catalog filters pinned.
- Find the output item in the catalog
- Read craft requirements (bench, tier, knowledge)
- Walk inputs backward (ore → ingot → piece)
- Filter /recipes to your bench type
- Salvage duplicates only when Used-as-ingredient says it helps
Pitfalls to avoid
Most wasted hours come from skipping one of these.
- Ignoring bench tier chips
- Rage-crafting Knowledge gated recipes
- Confusing Placeables with Materials
- Forgetting parent-inherited crafts on variants
Verify on live catalogs
Open the linked tools after every patch week. Sphere Signals are editorial; numbers live on item, creature, and recipe cards.
Related Sphere Signals
Continue with these adjacent write-ups so one question does not dead-end.
Frequently asked questions
What does Knowledge required mean?
A separate boolean gate from bench tier — chase the unlock, not more mats.
How do I see every recipe for a bench?
Open the recipe book and filter to that bench type immediately after placing it.
Craft vs salvage?
Craft consumes inputs to make an item; salvage breaks items down. HySphere splits both kinds.
Why did a variant gain a recipe?
Parent inheritance — many variants clone craft data from a Parent template.
Where are potions?
Under Consumables (101 items in that group) with craft and/or Dropped by.
Do benches matter early?
Yes — missing stations soft-lock more progress than missing single ores.
Does this guide replace the recipe book?
No — use it as a workflow. The Recipe book stays the live source of truth for numbers.