How To Get Every Crafting Recipe In Atomfall

Crafting in Atomfall lets you create the equipment that you need on the fly. It takes time, and the world remains active while you’re in the menu, so you need to be in relative safety to be able to do it, but when you need a quick bandage or bomb, being able to whip one up can be a lifesaver.

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At the start of the game, you’ll only have once crafting recipe. The rest, you’ll have to find as you explore the Quarantine Zone. There are several copies of most recipes hidden throughout the game; this guide has the easiest way to get each.

How To Craft In Atomfall

Once you find a crafting recipe, you need to use it (either from your inventory or simply by interacting with it in the world). Once you do, the recipe item disappears but you’ll permanently be able to make the associated item, provided you have the necessary materials.

All you need to do to make any item is go to the crafting menu, select the item, and hold the button until the meter fills. Once it’s done, the item will be added to your backpack automatically. If there’s no room in your backpack, you won’t be able to craft the item.

The Crafting Manual, available from the Hardware Store in Wyndham Village, includes a skill that speeds up crafting considerably.

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All Crafting Recipes In Atomfall

You may find other copies of crafting recipes throughout your adventure; you can leave them behind use them for bartering. Once you’ve learned a recipe, additional copies are effectively useless.

Item	Recipe	Effect	Easiest Location
Antidote	Chemicals x3, Herbs x5, Cloth x4, Glass x3.	Cures Poison and increases Poison Resistance.	Buy from Mother Jago in Casterfell Woods.
Bandage	Alcohol x1, Cloth x4.	Heals, cures Bleeding, and provides Bleed Resistance.	Given to you by the wounded scientist at the start of the game.
Burn Salve	Cloth x4, Iodine x1, Water x5, Glass x3.	Cures Burn and increases Burn Resistance.	On the desk in the rear left room of Wyndham Village Hall, near June’s Lockbox.
Combat Stim	Herbs x4, Water x3, Glass x3, Chemicals x2.	Temporarily buffs melee damage.	In Bunker L9, the upper floor is filled with toxic gas. Either use the Signal Redirector to get power to the ventilation override on the right side of the building, or use an Antidote to boost your poison resistance and run through. Climb through the window in the gaseous office; on the catwalks above the main area, you’ll find a skeleton with a briefcase containing the Combat Stim recipe.
Explosive Lure	Poison x4, Scrap x2, Spores x2, Gunpowder x2.	Timed explosive; draws swarms to it before detonating.	Found inside the giant wicker effigy in Casterfell Woods at 20.4E, 89.2N.
Makeshift Grenade	Gunpowder x4, Scrap x6, Glue x1, String x2.	Timed explosive; not as powerful as military grenades.	Buy from Reg Stansfield in the Slate Mine Caves.
Molotov Cocktail	Cloth x3, Alcohol x6, Glass x4.	Explodes on contact when thrown; inflicts Burn on targets caught in blast and leaves an area of fire.	Buy the Metal Detector from Reg Stansfield, then return to the starting bunker and use it to dig up the recipe in the main room.
Nail Bomb	Scrap x10, Gunpowder x2, Gun Oil x1, String x5.	Timed explosive; inflicts Bleed on targets caught in the blast.	In Ilya’s hideout under Brinsop Manor on Skethermoor.
Painkillers	Iodine x1, Water x1, Glass x3, Herbs x4.	Temporary damage resistance buff.	Buy from Morris at the Hardware Store in Wyndham Village.
Poison Bomb	Cloth x2, Poison x2, Glass x4, Spores x2.	Explodes on contact when thrown, releasing toxic gas that deals damage and inflicts Poison.	In the room with the lever to free the prisoners in Skethermoor Prison. Check the briefcase on the desk to the left.
Radiation Resistance	Iodine x3, Alcohol x2, Glass x3, Poison x1.	Increases resistance to Radiation Fields.	Next to the body in the rear left-hand room of the Vehicle Depot Bunker in Skethermoor.
Shiv	Scrap x2, String x1	Weak melee weapon, inflicts Bleed.	Buy from Molly Jowett in Slatten Dale.
Sticky Bomb	Gunpowder x3, Glue x6, Scrap x4.	Timed explosive; sticks to the first surface that it contacts after throwing.	Get Agravaine’s Key from the helicopter crash east of the starting bunker, then use it to unlock the box inside the Railyard Depot in Slatten Dale.
Strange Tonic	Spores x4, Chemicals x1, Glass x3, Herbs x5.	Temporarily increases Infection Resistance.	On the apothecary workbench in the Druids’ Castle, the same room as Mother Jago’s Book.

You don’t necessarily need to learn every single recipe, but learning ten will earn you the Homemade Achievement/Trophy. Status prevention items, like Strange Tonic and Antidote, should definitely be prioritized, and it pays to have one or two options for crafting explosives handy in a tough situation as well.