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To craft the hammer, you needone Gneiss Rock and two pieces of Sapwood.

Pax Dei: The player looks at several crafting resources

You need the hammer toaccess the game’s build modeandplaceany pre-fabricated assets you acquire.

Equipping the hammer will allow you to access theplot management screen, build mode, and select crafting recipes.

From the’Crafting' tab, you will find a few of the recipes necessary for unlocking categorized crafting stations.

Pax Dei Standing In Front Of Basic Forge

After building a hammer, enter the hammer’s ‘Crafting’ tab tocreate a Wood Chopping Block.

You need the Wood Chopping block to make the components necessary for aBasic Carpenter’s Workbench.

after you snag crafted the Basic Carpenter’s Workbench, you shouldhave access to any crafting recipesyou have unlocked.

Pax Dei: An image of the hammer in the crafting menu

How To Get Crafting Recipes

Crafting recipes areunlocked organicallyas you level up and improve your skills.

Once you reach certain skill level milestones,more recipeswill become available to you.

You will also learn recipes when youcreate crafting kits and stations.

Pax Dei: A closeup of the Simple Tailoring Table

For instance, crafting theWood Chopping Blockautomaticallyunlocks the Wooden Pegrecipe.

Crafting Stations

There aretwo setsof crafting stations to build.

The first set to unlock is thekit or categoryset and the second set isadvanced crafting stations.

Pax Dei: A closeup of the Stone Anvil

How To Unlock Crafting Categories

Crafting categories are unlocked through items like theBasic Fletching Tools.

When built, these toolsunlock the associated crafting categoryin the Crafting tab of the hammer’s build mode.

All three of the above crafting stations are unlockedafter crafting the Basic Tailoring Toolsat the Basic Carpenter’s Workbench.

Pax Dei: The player peruses the crafting menu at the Basic Carpenter’s Workbench

At every station, you need tomeet material requirementsbefore the crafting button becomes available.

Difficulty Levels

Crafting recipes havedifferent difficulty levelsthat change the success rate of your crafts.

As you level upyour skills, you will havebetter success rateswhen crafting items in those skill categories.

Pax Dei: An image of the Crafting tab of the hammer’s build mode

If a recipe is categorized aseasy or trivial, you will have ahigher chanceof succeeding in crafting that item.

If a recipe is consideredhard, you will have aharder timecrafting that item.

When you craft an item, you will see theblue progress barbeneath the difficulty level light up.

Pax Dei: A closeup of the Simple Tanning Rack

Thegoalis for your blue progress line toreach the center marker.

Difficulty level willdecrease the sizeof your available progress bar as you work.

Higher-difficultyrecipes willdecreasethe size of the progress barmore quickly.

Pax Dei: An image of the player crafting wooden planks at the Wood Chopping Block, indicating the difficulty level and progress bar in the bottom right

Your materials will be ejected onto the ground somewhere near the crafting station you were using.

It is also important to note thatall difficulty levelscome with achance of failure.

Even an easy recipe can fail if you aren’t lucky.

Pax Dei: A closeup of the Founder’s Crafting Table

However, the best way to ensure success is to verify you areleveling your skillsas much as possible.

The higher your skill level, the more likely your crafting recipes are to succeed in that skill category.

It is possible that they have the crafting station that you need.

A photo of a Pax Dei player posing in chainmail armor.

You canuse other people’s crafting stations, as long as you havebrought your own materials.

Sometimes, you may even findunclaimedcrafting stations littered around the map.

Try placing your base inresource-heavy areas.

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You should also endeavor to make achest systemthat organizes each resource.

Armor is important for the survivor of your character in Pax Dei.

Learn all the tools and tables that you’re gonna wanna start crafting!

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