Offical Dev Log #1

Crafting: (The Best of both worlds)

The FreeWorld: Apocalypse Portal’s crafting system will be friendly toward hardcore and casual crafters alike. We understand that true crafters need to build things from scratch and we also understand the needs of players that only have a few hours to play here and there. Below I will describe how we plan to deal with both of these issues and more.

1) HARDCORE CRAFTING: I know all of you hardcore crafters out there hate it when a crafting system is as simple as buying a sword blade and then hooking it to a hilt. In FreeWorld: Apocalypse Portal you will be able to build things from the ground up. Lets go over a task as an example. Hmm… lets see… Which task… making beer, yeah that’s a good one.

Steps to making beer:
1)First the crafter will need to have a farming skill, they use there farming skill to grow hops and barley.
2)Then after you have grown hops and barley you will need to mill the hops and barley to prepare it to be used in the beer making process.
3)Then you will need a glass blowing skill to make bottles for the beer
4)First you will need to collect sand to melt down into glass
5)Then when you have the glass you blow it into beer bottles
6)Now you will need to have a brewing skill
7)Combine your milled hops and barley with water and a few other ingredients
8)Then after the mix ferments you pour it into the bottles and you have beer
9)Sell beer to players that use “drunken brawl” skill

All of the crafting will be this complex. This was only the simple task of making a bottle of beer. How many steps do you think it would take to make a sword?

2) CASUAL CRAFTERS: now to some of you the above process may seem a little to extreme just to make a few beers. Well, FreeWorld: Apocalypse Portal will be set up for the casual crafter as well. The steps may go like this:

1)Buy milled barley from NPC
2)Buy beer bottles from NPC
3)Buy other ingredients needed
4)Use brewing skill to combine ingredients and bottle after fermented

So, if it were so simple why would anyone want to craft it from scratch? Well, NPC will charge a premium from their goods, so a bottle of beer would be a lot cheaper if you made it from scratch. You can also combine the two methods above to make the process cheaper but go faster.

3) Will crafted items be better then basic NPC items? YES!
We do not feel people should take there time making something thats not going to be better then the stuff you can just buy off the streets. Crafted items are not the best in the game, but they will be better then anything you can get from a vendor.

The way it is balanced is like this
1)Basic NPC merchant items are at the bottom
2)Then Crafted items are better then them
3)Then Rare/Quest only items will be better then crafted items

This will make it worth crafters while to make and sell their goods.

I could go on and on about crafting, but I think ill leave it at that for today. Hope you enjoyed the dev. Log and always KEEP FREEWORLDING!!