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Crafting: the Maker's Bench, the Forge and key recipes

Riventale has two crafting grids. The 2×2 grid in your inventory (E) makes boards, hafts, the Maker's Bench and a few simple blocks. Everything bigger needs the 3×3 grid of a placed Maker's Bench. Smelting happens in the Forge.

How the grids work

• A recipe is a shape. It can sit anywhere in the grid: three boards across the top or across the middle make the same thing as long as the shape is the same.
• Axes and hoes work facing either way; most other shapes do not.
• The recipe book beside the grid lists everything, with a search box and a Craftable filter. Click a recipe to lay its ingredients into the grid; missing ones show as ghosts.
• Shift+click the result to craft as many as your ingredients allow.
• Hover over any item (or tap it on a touch screen) for a card with its tier, damage, armour, food value, fuel time and what it smelts into.

The basics

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Tools and their tiers

Every tool uses the same shapes, with the material on top and hafts below. The wooden ones:

A better tier mines faster and hits harder, and some ores only drop for a good enough pickaxe. A pickaxe that is too weak shows the tool you need under the crosshair. Tools never break.

Tier	Made from	Sword damage	Its pickaxe can mine
Wooden	Oak Boards	4	Stone, Fieldstone, coal
Stone	Fieldstone or stone	5	Iron ore, copper ore
Iron	Iron ingots	6	Gold ore, Dawnspar ore, frost crystal ore
Gold	Gold ingots	7	The same as iron, faster
Dawnspar	Dawnspar	8	Wanestone ore, obsidian, rimeiron
Wanestone	Wanestone	9	The rarest ore, deepest in the stone
Tungsten	Tungsten ingots	11	Everything above, faster
Obitite	Obitite	13	Everything, fastest

Gold sits above iron in Riventale: gold tools are stronger, not weaker. Between Wanestone and Tungsten there is one more, rarer tier, found in the deepest stone. Tungsten comes from the Firstfolk Wastes and obitite from the Titan; see Biomes and lands and the Keepers.

Bows, crossbows and daggers

How each one fights, the arrows and the backstab are in the weapons guide. The recipes:

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Elemental arrows

Four arrows round a Keeper's elemental ore make four elemental arrows: Tidal (Water Ore), Blazing (Fire Ore), Quaking (Earth Ore) and Gale (Wind Ore). What they do is in the weapons guide.

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Daggers and the backstab

Every tier that has a sword has a dagger: one material over one haft. The numbers are in the weapons guide.

Armour

Armour comes in five pieces: helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots and gauntlets. Gauntlets also make every hit you land stronger. There is wooden, iron, gold, Dawnspar, wanestone, tungsten and obitite armour, but no stone armour.

Piece	Shape
Helmet	Three across the top, one at each side below
Chestplate	One at each side on top, then two full rows
Leggings	Three across the top, then one at each side for two rows
Boots	One at each side, two rows
Gauntlets	One at each side of a single row

Tungsten and obitite armour go past the usual armour limit: each tungsten piece takes off another 2% of damage, each obitite piece 4%. A full set of tungsten makes you immune to Wright lasers, the Titan's included. A full set of obitite makes you immune to lava.

The Firstfolk Lens Lectern

The Firstfolk Lens Lectern makes gear better. Build it at a Maker's Bench from four Dressed Chalkstone, two gold ingots, two wanestone and one piece of the rarer ore that lies below the wanestone. It gives light, and its lens floats over it. Right click it, pick a weapon, a tool or a piece of armour you carry, and pay. The price is shown before you pay, and paying always works: no chance, nothing lost.

Each item has one track: an axe is a weapon. The price is the same for every tier, so a wooden sword can be enhanced too, it's just a poor deal. An enhanced item shows gold pips in its slot and its level in its name (Keen II Iron Sword), and keeps its level when it is dropped, stored or handed to a friend. A material you have never held shows as ??? until you find one. Spells are enhanced at the Lectern too, in its Spells tab.

The Forge: smelting

Shift+click sends ore to the Forge's top slot and fuel to the bottom slot. Every item takes five seconds.

Put in	Get out
Iron, gold, copper or tungsten ore	An ingot of that metal
Fieldstone	Stone
Stone	Dressed Stone
Stone Bricks	Worn Stone Bricks
Cobbled Slate	Slate
Sand	Glass
Clay Ball / Clay	Brick / Terracotta
Any log	Charcoal
Cactus	Green Dye
Raw Pork, Raw Beef, Raw Chicken	Roast Pork, Roast Beef, Cooked Chicken
Potato	Baked Potato
Riverfish, Silver Perch, Mudcat	Cooked Riverfish, Cooked Silver Perch, Cooked Mudcat
Driftwood, Rusted Firstfolk Gear	Charcoal, an iron ingot

Fuel	Burns for	Items smelted
Lava Bucket (the empty bucket stays in the fuel slot)	500 s	100
Coal Block	400 s	80
Coal or Charcoal	40 s	8
Chest, Bookshelf, Boat	15 s	3
Log, Oak Boards, Maker's Bench	7.5 s	1.5
Wooden tool	5 s	1
Haft, Bowl	2.5 s	0.5

Buckets

A Bucket is three iron ingots in a V. Use an empty one on a still liquid to pick it up: water, lava, pitch or acid. Use a full one on a block to pour it beside that block; poured into grass, a flower or a torch, the liquid washes it away and it drops. A poured liquid falls straight down into any gap below it. Empty buckets stack to 16, full ones to 1.

Bucket	Fill it from	What else it does
Water	Any water	Poured beside acid, it turns that acid into Rust Rock
Lava	Lava pools and lakes	A Forge fuel: 100 items, then the bucket comes back
Pitch	Pitch in the Firstfolk Wastes	Fills a worn thrumpack in one go
Acid	Acid pools in the Firstfolk Wastes	Hurts whoever stands in it; Wrights don’t mind
Milk	Use an empty bucket on a cow	Drink it to clear every effect, good and bad, the Sun Shield too. You keep the bucket

In a world with other players, a bucket follows the claim rules: in someone else’s claim you can’t pick up or pour until they /trust you, and liquid you pour never flows into a claim. Lava and acid poured outside your own claim dry up after 10 minutes. Nobody can pour lava or acid within 3 blocks of a player who isn’t on their team, and within 40 blocks of the world spawn only water can be poured. Alone, none of these limits apply.

Food

Food fills the ember bowl on Medium and Hard (on Easy it heals you instead). The bowl holds ten embers; the numbers below are embers.

Food	Fills	How to get it
Roast Pork, Roast Beef, Pumpkin Pie	4	Smelt raw meat; a pumpkin alone in the grid makes a pie
Cooked Chicken, Mushroom Broth, Sun Carrot	3	Broth: red mushroom over brown mushroom over a bowl. Sun Carrot: a carrot in a cross of gold, Hedgeberries below
Bread, Baked Potato	2.5	Bread: three wheat in a row
Apple, Sunapple	2	A Sunapple (three gold ingots over an apple between two Resin) also heals 2 shards at once
Carrot, Snowberries	1.5	Wild on the plains; snowberry bushes in the snow
Hedgeberries, Melon Slice, Cookie	1	8 cookies: wheat, hedgeberries, wheat in a row
Cooked Silver Perch	3	Smelt a Silver Perch
Cooked Riverfish, Cooked Mudcat	2.5	Smelt the raw fish (fishing)

Eleven foods also give an effect, from the Sunapple's ward to a Cookie's Swiftstep: see effects and food. The Hearth Pot's dishes give effects too. One wheat in the grid gives two seeds. Plant seeds, carrots and potatoes on farmland; each stage takes about a minute and a half to grow.

The Hearth Pot

The Hearth Pot cooks dishes of several ingredients: eleven of them, two servings a pot. Its recipes, how to learn them and every dish are in cooking and fishing.

Fishing

A Fishing Rod lasts 64 casts; three Lakeweed, a fishing catch, twist into a Seamcord. How to cast, strike and reel, and the whole catch table, are in cooking and fishing.

Recipes worth knowing later

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The Keepers' ores make elemental gear: an obitite sword, pickaxe, axe or shovel beside a Keeper's ore makes an elemental tool, and the Poison Sword takes all four ores, two obitite and a haft. What each one does is in the Keepers guide.

Next: Cooking and fishing. All sections: the guides.