Days Gone: Crafting System - All about materials, blueprints and equipment
This guide to Days Gone shows you:
- How the crafting system works
- What ingredients are available
- What kind of blueprints you can find
In Days Gone you will have to deal with hostile humans and zombie-like Freakers. It goes without saying that you'll have to fight back. That's why the PlayStation 4-exclusive adventure also features a crafting system.
How exactly this works, which materials you can find and which construction plans you can implement, we'll show you in our guide.
Table of contents for the crafting guide
- Days Gone: How the crafting system works
- All resources in Days Gone
- Days Gone: All medicine blueprints
- Days Gone: All melee building plans
- Days Gone: All Throw Object blueprints
- Days Gone: All Distraction blueprints
- Days Gone: All Crossbow blueprints
1. Days Gone: How the crafting system works
One simple tip applies to the entire game: collect all the resources you can carry. You will almost always need them. With bottles, rags and kerosene you can make your own Molotov cocktails, and with buckshot you can repair weapons and your motorcycle.
In short: You should always take materials with you and process them directly if possible, because used resources make room for new ones. You can only carry a certain amount, like ten units of scrap at the beginning. You can double the inventory space by using the ability "Carry your pack".
If you hold down L1 in the running game, a ring menu opens. Here you select a category with the right stick, for example melee weapons. Then you can upgrade them with your resources, for example. You can also make medicine in this way.
The ring menu pops up on the right. Here you can upgrade your weapons and create new medicine.
Alternatively, you can swipe left on your controller's touchpad to access the inventory menu. However, you will always need the appropriate construction plans. You'll get them as a reward for completing main and side missions.
However, you can't produce everything: Grenades, ammunition and more can either be found in the world, just like resources, or bought in the various warehouses.
2. All resources in Days Gone
Resources are always lying around near cars, in houses or buildings. Use your instinct by pressing the right stick, and Days Gone will show you all the materials around - but only if they are hidden behind a wall. So always keep your eyes open as well.
The exception is the plants, which you'll find wherever something can grow. However, thanks to skills in the survival skill tree, the game conveniently marks them on the minimap.
The white icons on the minimap indicate plants - provided you have the necessary skill.
All materials at a glance
These resources can be found all over the world. Not all of them are suitable for crafting, but they can still be used. For example, you can't use the silencer, but you can put it on your weapons.
- Beer bottle
- Sterilizer
- Airbag
- Alarm clock
- Can
- Box with nails
- Handgun silencer
- Small pipe
- Kerosene
- Gunpowder
- Can
- Alarm system
- Primary silencer
- Special silencer
- Poison
- Electric detonator
- Rag Saw Blade
- Berry
- Herb
- Styrofoam
- Cedar sapling
- Water hemlock
- Nest residue
- Mushroom
The white triangles indicate resources and items when they are hidden by objects.
3. Days Gone: All medicine blueprints
| Item | Resources | Unlock |
| Bandage | Cloth (1x) Sterilizer (1x) | Available during the prologue. |
| Health cocktail | Rag (1x) Sterilizer (1x) Herb (1x) | After you visit Wizard Island for the first time. |
| Stamina Cocktail | Rag (1x) Sterilizer (1x) Berry (1x) | Kill all the enemies in Horse Creek ambush camp. |
| Focus Cocktail | Rag (1x) Sterilizer (1x) Mushroom (1x) | Kill all the enemies in Belknap Caves ambush camp. |
You should always craft medicine if you don't have enough with you.
4. Days Gone: All melee building plans
| Item | Resources | Unlock |
| Nail Chair Leg | Chair leg Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Complete the main mission "What good patriots become". |
| Chair leg axe | Chair leg Saw blade (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Completes the main mission "What becomes of good patriots". |
| Nail fence post | Fence post Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Completes the main mission "What becomes of good patriots". |
| Fence post axe | Fence post Saw blade (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Completes the main mission "What becomes of good patriots". |
| Nail wooden board | Wooden board Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Completes the main mission "What becomes of good patriots". |
| Wooden board axe | Wooden board Saw blade (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Lying around in the Open World - mainly investigates pickup trucks. |
| Nail baseball bat | Baseball bat Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Completes the main mission "What good patriots become". |
| Baseball bat axe | Baseball bat Saw blade (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Kill all the enemies in the Black Crater ambush camp. |
| Improved baseball bat | Baseball bat Small pipe (1x) Scrap (1x) | Kill all the enemies in Jefferson Rail Tunnel ambush camp. |
| Ripper Axe | Wooden board Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (5x) | Complete the main mission "They will never stop". |
| Ripper club | Baseball bat Small pipe (1x) Scrap metal (5x) | Completes the main mission "They will never stop". |
| Ripper sword | Chair leg Saw blade (1x) Scrap metal (5x) | Completes the main mission "They will never stop". |
Cartridges are expensive and even with nails a melee weapon is considerably stronger.
5. Days Gone: All throwable item blueprints
| Item | Resources | Unlock |
| Molotov cocktail | Beer bottle (1x) Rag (1x) Kerosene (1x) | Available during the prologue. |
| Napalm Molotov | Beer bottle (1x) Rag (1x) Kerosene (1x) | During the story you will get the recipe on Wizard Island from James Weaver. |
| Pipe bomb | Small pipe (1x) Gunpowder (1x) Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Complete the main mission "They will never stop". |
6. Days Gone: All distraction blueprints
| Item | Resources | Unlock |
| Smoke bomb | Can (1x) Rag (1x) Gunpowder (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Kill all the enemies in Beer Creek Hot Springs ambush camp. |
| Approach mine | Can (1x) Gunpowder (1x) Scrap metal (1x) Box with nails (1x) Electric detonator (1x) | Kill all the enemy in Berley Lake ambush camp. |
| Remote control bomb | Airbag (1x) Electric detonator (1x) Box with nails (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | In the course of the story you will receive the blueprint automatically towards the end. |
| Attractor | Can (1x) Alarm clock (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Completes the main mission "Can I rely on them?". |
| Attractor bomb | Can (1x) Alarm clock (1x) Gunpowder (1x) Electric detonator (1x) | Kill all the enemy in the Wagon Road ambush camp. |
Traps are also good for taking out freakers that rush out of nests.
7. Days Gone: All Crossbow blueprints
| Item | Resources | Unlock |
| Bolt | Cedar seedling (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Available during the prologue. |
| Residue bolt | Cedar sapling (1x) Scrap metal (1x) Nest residue (1x) | Completes the main mission "They do not sleep". |
| Fire bolt | Cedar sapling (1x) Rag (1x) Kerosene (1x) Scrap metal (1x) | Either kill all enemies in a total of eight ambush camps, or only in the Deerborn ambush camp. |
| Explosive bolt | Cedar seedling (1x) Scrap metal (1x) Gunpowder (1x) Electric detonator (1x) | Either kill all enemies in a total of twelve ambush camps, or only in the Aspen Butte ambush camp. |
| Poison Bolt | Cedar sapling (1x) Scrap (1x) Poison (1x) | Complete the main mission "I have a plan". |
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