Chernobylite crafting: How to expand your base

In this crafting guide to Chernobylite we will show you:

• How to find resources
• How to build the basic equipment for your base
• How to craft weapons and armor

The survival horror game Chernobylite is not a classic shooter, but relies on a mix of different gameplay elements. One of them is crafting. To survive the dangerous missions in the contaminated area, you need a stable base. We will show you how to properly equip your headquarters.

How do I quickly find resources in Chernobylite?

Right at the beginning in Chernobylite you will be equipped with a Geiger counter, which can also be used as an environment scanner. At the push of a button, it will find all items and resources within a certain radius and light them up in yellow. If you're looking for a specific type, such as mushrooms or herbs, select them on the device and they will light up green. This makes them stand out from the rest of the items and you'll find what you really need faster.

In Chernobylite there are the following resources:

• Chemicals
• Electrical parts
• Combustible parts
• Herbs
• Mushrooms
• Mechanical parts
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To make Igor more efficient in finding items and resources, you can improve his corresponding skills. To do this, you need to recruit the companion Mikhail and let him train you in the following skills:

• Gathering: You will find 15 percent more of each resource you collect.
• Perfect Gathering: You will find 30 percent more of each resource you collect.

An important tool for accessing secret storage rooms, armories and other locked areas is the lockpick. However, you will hardly find it in the game world. Once you have the basic equipment for your base, you should quickly build an industrial shredder. You can use it to make a lockpick from two mechanical parts and a chemical.

Use the environment scanner to find resources for crafting in Chernobylite.

What basic equipment should I build for my base?

To keep track of how your base is doing, occasionally open the crafting menu and take a look at the statistics. There you can see how you are doing in the critical base values comfort, energy surplus, air quality, radiation safety and sleeping place. In Sleeping quarters, it is sufficient if you always have as many beds as residents, i.e. if you reach a value of zero. All other values should always remain in the green range, otherwise you will harm yourself and your companions.

Some objects can only be built after you have fulfilled certain requirements. For example, to build a high-tech chernobylite structure, you must first make chernobylite tools. For high-quality furniture you need a laser cutting machine. However, for the beginning a work table is enough, so you can build simple furniture and satisfy the basic needs of Igor and his companions.

After that, you should invest the collected resources in a cooking station. In it you can make healing ointments, anti-radiation ointments and calming salts. The latter will improve Igor's mental state after monster encounters or battles. Of course, you also need electricity and beds in your base. So make a simple generator and a sleeping bag.

At the cooking station you'll prepare simple remedies for regeneration and healing in Chernobylite

List of the most important items for the initial equipment of your base

Use the very first mission to collect the necessary resources for the basic equipment. If you complete a mission in Chernobylite, you will have enough time to search for items afterwards. Only when you open a portal yourself with the portal generator will you return to the base.

For the important initial equipment you need the following resources:

• 4 mechanical parts
• 2 electrical parts
• 6 flammable parts
• 3 mushrooms
• 5 herbs

Since the crafting menu in Chernobylite is a bit confusing, we have given you the corresponding list in the table below.

Chernobylte crafting: How do I upgrade weapons and armor?

You can either find weapons and armor in the game world or craft them yourself. To do this, however, you need the appropriate workbenches. You can find them in the Crafting menu under the directory Objects to build / Igor's bag / Weapon bench.

You can build revolvers, shotguns and rifles on an electric lathe. The corresponding ammunition is made on a hydraulic press. In addition, there is a calibration tool for improvements for each type of weapon. Advanced weapons like the railgun and the molecular plasma launcher are built at the particle accelerator.

It is similar for the armor. Simple armor, camouflage armor and the necessary metal plates are made with sheet metal tools. Tactical armor, heavy armor and ceramic plates can be made with an industrial furnace. Advanced Chernobylite arm or can be made using the Negative Mass Maker. You can find it in the Crafting menu under the Objects to Build / Igor's Bag / Armor Bank directory.

You will rarely find weapons, so you will need to use crafting in Chernobylite to craft them.

Chernobylite Crafting: List of all weapons and the resources they require

Construction tools like the worktable are prerequisites for more advanced crafting tools in Chernobylite.

Chernobylite Crafting: List of all armors and the required resources

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