Crafting

The Crafting system in Grim Dawn provides a means of producing powerful equipment and consumables. Blueprints and Recipes can be collected from slain enemies, chests or quest rewards, then added to the crafting compendium within the Blacksmith's UI.

Blueprints can require various rare items and materials, and higher tier Blueprints can use lower tier crafted items as ingredients, resulting in a pyramidal build-up to the most powerful of crafted accessories.

The player can begin crafting items as soon as the Blacksmith is unlocked during a side-quest in Act 1, and comes with a selection of item blueprints ready to craft.

The types of items that are available to craft include:
 * Weapons, armor and accessories
 * Components
 * Relics
 * Consumables

Blacksmith

 * see main article: Blacksmith.

Numerous Blacksmiths can be found throughout the game world. In addition to regular Crafting services, various Blacksmiths will offer unique special services, such as exchanging Crafting Materials, crafting Dynamite or random Legendary items. They will also apply different Crafting Bonuses to items.

Components
A number of Components are obtainable only by crafting, either from the Blacksmith's baseline crafting list, or from Blueprints found as random loot. Faction vendors also sell blueprints for some components.

Dynamite/Salvage
Dynamite, in addition to its use in Detonation Sites, can be used by the Inventor to break un-needed equipment down into Scrap and Components; the higher the rarity of item the the more powerful the component recovered. Epic and Legendaries can produce rare crafting materials which can it turn be use to craft other items.

Basic Item Production
Random Magical (with a chance of Rare) items of all types can be crafted by the Blacksmith. These will have a random prefix and suffix, as well as one of the Blacksmith's custom stats. The player can select the preferred damage type of crafted Weapons and Off-Hand items.

Levelling Rares
A variety of Rare items can be crafted either from looted blueprints or the Blacksmith's base collection. These come with specific stats as well as one bonus custom stat of the Blacksmith. Rare items you craft directly (unlike random magical items that can be crafted and have a chance at being a rare and can have double affixes) will only have one affix when crafted.

Epics and Legendaries
Many Epic and Legendary items can be crafted after finding their Blueprint. In addition, on Elite and Ultimate difficulties, Legendaries can be crafted by the Blacksmith Etram Faid in the Tyrant's Hold, Bella Fald in the Tomb of Herald Mathis, and Algosia Fald in the Tomb of Nephos.

Etram will craft random Legendary items from 5 categories, appropriate to the player's level, for a cost of 75,000 Iron Bits, 1 Polished Emerald, and a quantity of rare crafting materials:

If the player does not have enough of a desired crafting material, The Blacksmith Horrus (in the Gates of Necropolis) can exchange Hearts, Brains and Bloods for a fee.