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While it’s plenty of fun to sail on your glider across the skies in Aloft visiting new islands and exploring archipelagoes, you’ll be collecting plenty of resources as you go along, and not all of it can be used in its rawest state once you get back to your home island.
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To break down raw materials in Aloft, you’ll need to find recipes for machines, which are hidden in the knowledge stones scattered across the sky. Each biome has its own materials and you’ll learn recipes to break down each one, all of which can be used in other recipes.
Use Machinery To Process Goods And Upgrade Your Island
You’ll learn new machinery recipes in Aloft as you continue to discover and read knowledge stones when exploring islands across different biomes. Most of them come from the Emerald Isles, since it’s where you begin the game, but continue to explore new areas and you’ll find all kinds of new resources. When you first get a new resource, if there’s machinery required to break it down, you’ll often find the recipe for the machine that does so not long after collecting said resource.
When processing goods into materials on your home island, you’ll need to use the focus wheel to craft faster by pressing the F key when the moving triangle is within the white bar on the meter. Resources process on their own slowly when you’re using the machine, but you’ll also want to build windmills to automate your machines once you’ve found the fresco that teaches you the recipe in the second biome, Fallen Heights.
After you’ve processed your resources, be sure to collect finished goods from the storage bar at the bottom of the machine interface, or they won’t be added to your inventory. If you don’t have the resource you need, try checking out your workbench to make new crafting recipes, especially if you’ve recently gathered new materials.
Every Machine In Aloft And What It Does
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Machinery in the Home Menu |
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Home Kite |
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Workbench |
Bring raw materials here and combine up to five of them at once to make new recipes and resources. |
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Glider Stand |
Allows you to make new gliders. |
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Sewing Table |
Combine processed fabrics and dyes to create new clothing, which typically has additional stat boosts or abilities. |
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Upgrade Station Frame |
This is only the base for what will become your upgrade station. You’ll need to discover the recipes for, craft, and add the three specialty upgrade stations to the frame. |
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Research Lab |
Collect different kinds of mykter samples and analyze them here to begin making antidotes for the corruption fungus, which you can use to help heal unhealthy ecosystems. |
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Campfire |
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A small fire, to which you can add a cooking plate to make prepared meals from your raw ingredients. |
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Fireplace |
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A larger fire also used for adding cooking plates to make meals, also with additional decorative pieces to make a proper fireplace when designing your home. |
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Cooking Plate |
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By placing one of these on a fire source, you can add three ingredients to the plate and whip them up into a cooked meal, which will replenish health and offer stat boosts. |
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Machinery in the Production Menu |
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Windmill Connector |
Linking Windmills to other machinery to improve and automate said machines. |
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Leaf Windmill |
Placed on islands to generate energy with wind so you can automate your machinery. |
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Sawmill |
Cutting raw wood into planks. |
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Millstone |
Grinding materials to process them into other usable materials.
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Pigment Pool |
Turns flowers and other raw materials into dyes you can use when making new clothing or customizing your glider. |
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Flax Break |
Processes raw flax into fibre, which can then be spun into linen fabric at a loom. It also breaks down mykter samples into standard mykter strands. |
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Spinner |
Process mykter strands or fibre into usable rope. |
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Loom |
Weave raw materials into usable fabrics. Using leaves makes leaf fabric, wool makes wool fabric, and broken-down flax fibre makes linen fabric. |
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Kiln |
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Processes clay into terracotta for use in designs. |
You’ll continue unlocking new machines in Aloft as you continue to explore, so always keep your eyes out for knowledge stones when you arrive on new islands!
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Keep a few lost keys in your inventory for immediate access to the frescoes behind locked doors or the loot inside locked chests.