NPC merchants only offer very basic items for sale. Making items yourself therefore allows you to create objects that cannot be found in any other way.

Constructing an item requires you to follow a precise series of steps:

• Begin by placing a crafting tool in your hand (crafting tool).

• Then select which type of item you would like to craft (by activating an action in the action bar). This displays the list of plans that you have knowledge of.

• Then choose one of the crafting plans. This will open the crafting window.

• In this window you will finalise the crafting process by deciding which raw materials to make use of. Several slots will appear and each one corresponds to a type of raw material necessary to create your item.

• Add the quantity of material needed to each of the empty slots. You must fill every one of the slots with raw materials in order to create your object.

• You can view how the characteristics of your item will evolve depending on which raw materials you use. Each raw material has its own strengths and weaknesses and these have a direct impact on the performance of the item. Right-click on a raw material to view information about its qualities and defects.

• When you are satisfied finally with the item that is to be created, you can launch the crafting process. If you succeed, the characteristics of the item will be exactly those that were specified during the creation process. If not, the item's characteristics will be diminished somewhat.

• When you succeed in crafting an item, the icon of the created item appears. You can take it by selecting it or by clicking on the "take all" button.

• When you fail in crafting an item, no materials are used and a message in the sysinfo window warns you of the failure. Sometimes, the crafting action will succeed but will result in an object with a degraded quality. For example: You wish to craft an item of quality 200, however during the process you obtain a degraded item of quality 195 or 197. This object is fully usable and/or can be sold at merchants, however it will have lower statistics compared to a non degraded item of quality 200.