Weapon Crafting
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Overview
This is my take on weapon crafting in Starfield, by utilizing new items called Weapon Kits! Weapon Kits are a new crafting component needed to craft weapons, in addition to using vanilla resources. A new workbench, the Weapon Crafting Workbench, has been added too - you'll use this to craft your weapons. So how does this all work?
Let's say you want to craft an AA-99. To do that, you first place down the new workbench in your outpost, ship or home! After that, you'll need a Weapon Kit - AA-99 and other resources to fully craft it. These new weapon kits can be purchased from various vendors or looted. Once you have all the resources, use the workbench and craft your weapon! This will also consume the Weapon Kit, these are one-time use only. Crafted weapons will be created based on your level, for example, the AA-99 may end up being an Advanced AA-99. However, no weapon attachments will be added during crafting.
Weapon Kits
- Each craftable weapon has its own weapon kit.
- They act like any other resource and are getting consumed during the crafting process.
- They are quite expensive, but still cheaper than buying the weapon you want to craft.
- Due to the nature of these kits, weapons don't need as many other resources for crafting.
Where to get Weapon Kits
Weapon Kits can be purchased from various vendors around the Settled Systems. Below is a list of vendors and which kits they sell.
- Arboron - Exclusively sells Arboron Weapon Kits
- Centaurian Arsenal - Allied Armaments, Melee Weapons, Old Earth Weapons, CombaTech, Kore Kinetics
- UC Distribution Center - Allied Armaments, Melee Weapons, Old Earth Weapons, CombaTech
- Aludra, The Key weapon vendor - Exclusively sells Crimson Fleet Weapon Kits
- Laredo Firearms - Exclusively sells Laredo Firearms Weapon Kits
- Rowland Arms - Melee Weapons, Old Earth Weapons
Weapon Kits can also be looted, and Va'ruun ones are only obtainable that way.
- Crimson Fleet Weapon Kits can spawn as loot on Crimson Fleet members
- Old Earth Weapon Kits can spawn as loot on Spacers
- Va'ruun Weapon Kits can spawn as loot on Va'ruun Zealots
- Furthermore, all Weapon Kits have a low chance to spawn as loot in rear loot containers, such as boss chests.
Other Crafting Requirements
Weapon crafting is locked behind the Weapon Engineering skill. Below is a list of which skill rank unlocks which weapons! I based the skill rank on which levels these guns usually spawn in as loot and at vendors.
Weapon Engineering 1 Sidestar | Barrow Knife | Coachman | Lawgiver | Rattler | Drum Beat | Eon | Equinox Grendel | Solstice | Combat Knife | UC Naval Cutlass | Ripshank | Rescue Axe Kraken | Maelstrom | Old Earth Shotgun | Old Earth Hunting Rifle
Weapon Engineering 2 AA-99 | Breach | Orion | Pacifier | Urban Eagle | Razorback | Regulator | Tombstone Beowulf | Kodama | Shotty | MagShot | Novablast Disruptor | Novalight Osmium Dagger | Old Earth Pistol | XM-2311
Weapon Engineering 3 Microgun | Negotiator | Bridger | Big Bang | Hard Target | MagPulse | MagShear | MagSniper Magstorm Tanto | Wakizashi | Va'ruun Starshard | Va'ruun Inflictor | Va'ruun Painblade | Old Earth Assault Rifle
Compatibility
I did not touch any vanilla records at all, should work just fine with everything else! Items have been added to vendors via scripts, to avoid touching any vanilla records.
Support
If you run into issues or have feedback, please join my Discord server: discord.gg/qVRcJNGJ69 I am also in the official BGS Discord as well as the Starfield Modding Discord!
Release notes
Xbox
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1.0.1a- Added PlayStation support
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1.0.1Removed two recipes from the Industrial Workbench that were leftovers from testing
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1.0.0Initial release
Playstation
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1.0.1a- Added PlayStation support
PC
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1.0.1a- Added PlayStation support
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1.0.1Removed two recipes from the Industrial Workbench that were leftovers from testing
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1.0.0Initial release
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