Original Sin 2 Crafting
Crafting and Blacksmithing are two helpful but optional Abilities characters can take. Characters can upgrade, repair, or outright create their own items, weapons, armor, spell scrolls, and more. Because money is hard to come by early, this can save you a lot of gold and keep your party well-outfitted for those difficulty early battles.
Once you unlock the Hall of Heroes in the Homestead (generally in Part 2 of the Walkthrough), you'll be able to hire additional heroes to journey with you. Therefore, one possible strategy is to not put points into Crafting or Blacksmithing with either of your Source Hunters. Let your Source Hunters spend all their Ability Points in their weapon, magic, or defenses as applicable. Instead, once you can hire additional heroes, put all of their points into Crafting or Blacksmithing (or both!), and just keep them inactive unless you need them.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 includes some big changes to the series in terms of races, classes, spells, and stats. While some of the recipes will look familiar to those who played the first game, others have been tweaked considerably throughout Early Access. Crafting and Blacksmithing are two helpful but optional Abilities characters can take. Characters can upgrade, repair, or outright create their own items, weapons, armor, spell scrolls, and more.
The downside is that your characters won't be able to craft or repair in the field, which is an immensely helpful skill. Simple repairs to your gear only require a character to carry a repair hammer, so if one of your normal party members takes Blacksmithing and carries a Repair Hammer at all times, he will be able to repair gear for free even in the middle of a deep dungeon. Just keep an eye on your gear durability!
Creating a piece of gear from scratch requires ore, which can be smelted by dragging metal onto a blacksmith's forge. Forges are not portable, but there are many around; the first one you can find is out in the open behind the abandoned house in Cyseal. Repairing gear, or crafting normal items such as potions, do not need additional items to be crafted.
To craft most items, you only need to drag one ingredient on top of another. For example, to craft a simple Minor Healing Potion, you need a Penny Bun Mushroom and an Empty Potion Bottle. To craft it, simply drag either item onto the other. Assuming your Crafting level is high enough, the item will be created. If your level is not high enough, you will be informed as such. Blacksmithing, including repairing gear, works the same way.
Some recipes require combining two of the same item. For example, to create a Medium Healing Potion, you must combine two Minor Healing Potions. If you have multiple Minor Healing Potions, they are likely stacked on each other. In order to combine them, you'll need to split the stack. To do this, hold SHIFT, then click-drag the Minor Healing Potions into an empty inventory slot. You'll be asked how many you want to put in the new slot. Then, combine the two stacks, and you'll prompted to either combine the stacks or craft something better, assuming your level is high enough.
Around the world, you may find recipe books. Double-clicking a book will spawn a “Recipe Unlocked!” message, and the recipe is copied to your journal. You can then sell the book, and the recipe will be retained. Further readings bring no benefit.
That said, most recipe books are not required to craft. As long as your respective level is high enough, you will succeed in the crafting. Failure is only possible if your level isn't high enough, and even if it's not, your ingredients are not lost.
Note that some incredibly high-level items will need recipe books.
We'll do some of the heavy lifting for you here. On the next few pages are several recipes sorted by crafting level. If we missed any, please add them to the wiki!
Crafting Recipes Table of Contents[edit]
Blacksmithing Recipes Table of Contents[edit]
Original Sin 2 Crafting Armor
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 is out now, and reviewer Brett Todd described it in GameSpot's review as 'one of the most captivating role-playing games ever made.' It's also a very robust game, which means it can be difficult to learn all its intricate systems.
In particular, the crafting system in Divinity: Original Sin 2 requires a lot of trial and error. That can be intimidating when you're trying to navigate its many menus and learn how everything works. But you're in luck; click forward to see 10 of the more useful--and interesting--crafting recipes you'll want along your adventure.
For more on Divinity: Original Sin 2, check out our guides roundup, and be sure to read our review. You can also watch the video version of this guide for more help.
Skillbooks
If you've been playing for a bit, you might have a few spell scrolls you haven't used. Scrolls are useful in a pinch, but they're one-use; if you want to memorize the spell itself, you can combine it with a book from the same school of abilities to make a skillbook and unlock the full spell. For example, combining a Fireball scroll with a basic Pyrokinetic book will get you the Fireball skillbook.
Combination Skills
Once you have some skill books, you can create hybrid spells by combining skill books from different sets. There are a total of 48 new skills you can create by crafting an elemental book with a non-elemental book. For example, you can combine Necromancer and Hydrosophist skillbooks to get the Blood Rain skillbook.
Glowing Idol Of Rebirth
Want to cheat death, but you're low on resurrection scrolls? If you talk to Dorotya in the Undertavern beneath Driftwood during Act 2 and start the quest A Web of Desire, you have the opportunity to get an item called Ashen Idol of Rebirth. (If you miss it, you can always just pickpocket her.) If you combine it with a resurrection scroll, it will become the Glowing Idol of Rebirth, which will automatically resurrect you if you die.
Snow Boots
If you aren't careful, you and your party members can slip on icy surfaces, and slipping will cost you a turn in combat. But, if you combine nails with any footwear, it will permanently grant you immunity to slipping and falling. Definitely craft these before taking on cryomancers.
Poison Weapons
If you stumble upon an Ooze Barrel while out exploring, hold onto it! If you combine any weapon with a barrel of poison, that weapon will permanently gain poison effects. It won't add a ton of damage, but it will help you chip away at your enemies' health.
Attar Of The Blood Rose
If you've explored Radeka's Cave in Act 1, you'll know about the Blood Rose. There is only one in the game, so get it before you progress. If you combine the Blood Rose with an empty potion bottle, you'll get Attar of the Blood Rose. It gives a +1 bonus to all attributes until you die, so as long as you keep the party member who drank it alive, that's a fantastic permanent stat increase.
Charming Arrowheads
These are some of the most useful arrows in the game. You can craft them easily with honey; combine an arrow with a honey source to get a Charming Arrowhead. (We recommend beehives, since they have infinite nectar.) Hitting an enemy with one of these arrows will charm them into fighting for you for a few turns.
(Mostly) Infinite Lockpicks
Original Sin 2 Crafting Skills
Whenever you're running low on lockpicks, you can craft your own! You can combine nails and a repair hammer or soap and a key, and you'll get brand-new lockpicks for all your totally legitimate needs. Note that undead party members can also use their finger as an unlimited supply of lockpicks.
Potion Mixing
Original Sin 2 Crafting Skillbooks
This one might seem obvious once you think about it, but it's very useful! You can combine minor healing potions to increase their potency, which is great when you've leveled a bit and the minor potions aren't cutting it. You can take a minor healing potion to a regular one all the way up to a giant healing potion for tons of health regen.
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Prankster Poison
This one's for when you feel like messing with your co-op partner. Combine a flask of poison with red dye to get a 'healing potion' that… will poison them, just for giggles.