Forge

Stone Scrap

Used to smelt metals to craft tools and weapons or stone to craft cement. Install tools to increase performance or unlock recipes. Can be used to warm up. Repair with Small Stone, Clay Soil, and Leather.

Crafting

Craft atHand/Inventorymakes 1

Harvest drops

Small Stone×40

Clay Soil×20

Leather×5

Drops when it collapses

Destroyed Stone×1 @ 75%

Version history (117)

V3.0changedForge open and close volume balancing

V3.0changedLowered the MaxVoices and MaxRepeatRate for the forge_item_complete sound due to anvil craft speed increases

V3.0changedAll forge tool mods can now be found in Hidden Stash and Construction crates

V3.0buffedIncreased chance of all forge tool mods in Working Stiffs crates and Destroyed Forges

V3.0addedExtract method to take all smelted materials if you switch from Smelter to Recipes for forge

V2.5changedReintroduced the Empty Water Jar recipe to the forge which requires a crucible to craft

V2.5changedJars can be crafted once you have a forge and a crucible.

V2.0changedUpdated particles and materials for Forge

V2.0changedImproved performance with updated particles and materials for Forge

V1.1fixedCan’t set forge to craft max quantity with Advanced Engineering perk

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V1.0fixedForge did not update effects when crafting stopped until the window closed

V1.0fixedParticleSystemSpawnRateLimiter added to forge workstation, chemistry station, camp fire, fire barrel, and torches. The emission scaling is now governed by the particles video setting percentage.

V1.0changedImproved forge rendering performance when burning or crafting

Alpha 21.2fixedForge allowing Anvil or Bulletproof Glass Block to be Crafted without the full amount of required iron/sand. And can return more iron/sand than it started with when crafting canceled.

Alpha 21.1fixedItems craftable in the forge can be tracked, but only show the name of the item, nothing else.

Alpha 21.1changedUpdated all forge recipes with is_trackable="false" parameter

Alpha 21addedForge flames are bigger and brighter when crafting

Alpha 21addedForge tools are shown based on tools in slots

Alpha 21changedForge Workstation

Alpha 20.6fixedOn/off button on a forge becomes unresponsive

Alpha 20.6fixedStore_grocery_03: On/off button on a forge becomes unresponsive

Alpha 20changedPushed back cull distance of forge and campfire

Alpha 20changedRemoved Metal Letter helper from forge crafting list as these are now in the shape menu

Alpha 19fixedForge tool slots arranged in a logical order

Alpha 19changedSchematics scaled in loot. Early on you will find more immediately useful ones like for a forge, basic recipes, seeds or medical bandages.

Alpha 19changedCampfire and forge tools have a small icon to show that they belong to a workstation

Alpha 18.4fixed“Required” for campfire and forge recipes is now

Alpha 18.2fixedForge max crafting will only allow 80% of

Alpha 18.1nerfedvehicle parts, perkAdvancedEngineering reduces cost of crafting forge recipes,

Alpha 18fixedOptimized forge texture ram, deleted old spec and unneeded metallic texture

Alpha 18fixedSmelt in system of forge carries over time to dragged over items.

Alpha 18fixedSmelt in system of forge carries over time to dragged over items

Alpha 18changedAdded forge crafting to Advanced engineering and reordered each perk and its requirements

Alpha 18changedRemoved hammer and forge perk tree.

Alpha 18changedThe anvil and tool&die set forge tools are not gating any recipes

Alpha 18changedSand that is smelted into forges will display as sand in the forge. Recipes will also list sand instead of glass.

Alpha 18buffedInstall a bellows into a forge to smelt faster. Install an anvil into a forge to craft faster.

Alpha 18changedGlass jars, drinks, windows, etc. scrap to broken glass. Sand or terrain blocks do not scrap but can be smelted in a forge

Alpha 18addedForge schematic

Alpha 18addedAdvanced Engineering reduces material cost of forge recipes up to 20%

Alpha 17.3fixedSmelt in system of forge carries over time to

Alpha 17fixedLast item in forge not smelted

Alpha 17fixedSmelted forge materials not registering in the recipe “HAVE” column

Alpha 17fixedJumping on active Forge does not set the player’s character on fire

Alpha 17changedForge input now has a timer indicating how long until the current item is finished

Alpha 17changedScrap iron frames are only craftable in the forge

Alpha 17changedHammer and Forge

Alpha 16.4changedForge input now has a timer indicating how long until the current item is finished

Alpha 16.3fixedForge craft halting when output is full is broken.

Alpha 16 Experimental (B119)changedCrafting steel ingots or bulletproof glass in a forge requires a crucible upgrade.

Alpha 15fixedFixed: Campfire / Forge Recipe List Index Requires Activation.

Alpha 15fixedFixed: Placing a complete pistol in a lit forge eats the weapon

Alpha 15fixedFixed: Forge tooltip shows up when anyone else near you discovers a forge.

Alpha 15changedChanged: Optimized campfire and forge particles, added Light LOD cutoff for their light sources.

Alpha 15changedChanged: The claw hammer is the “iron” upgrade to the stone axe and only requires a forge.

Alpha 14.7fixedFire particles for the forge are pink (missing texture)

Alpha 14.7fixedForge particle effect causes performance drop

Alpha 13.8fixedFixed: Recipe Stack resetting upon closing forge and reopening

Alpha 14.6fixedFixed: Any item can be placed in Tools slot in Camp Fire and Forge screens.

Alpha 14.6fixedFixed: Forge/Campfire – “0” value on fuel icon and colored “Turn on” option are present in turned off Campfire/Forge UI after turning on previous one.

Alpha 14.5changedFixed: Empty quality bar appears under item that serves as fuel in burning Forge/Campfire after reloading the game.

Alpha 14.5changedFixed: Game locks up when a single forge resource goes >= 30k.

Alpha 14.3fixedFixed: No Feedback for missing resources in the forge.

Alpha 14.3fixedFixed: Forge No feedback for missing resources.

Alpha 14.3changedChanged: Forged iron/steel can rarely be found as loot or harvested. A full nomadic playstyle without forge is now possible.

Alpha 14.2changedFixed: Made cosmetic fixes to Forge screen.

Alpha 14.2changedFixed: Standing on turned on forge does not deal any damage.

Alpha 14.2changedChanged: Cut melt time in half for ores in the forge.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Campfire/forge icon is shown as lit, when it runs out of fuel.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Missing dot at the end of FORGE description.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Forge burning underwater.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Forge will not let you use the lower input slot.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Forge and campfire can be burning underwater.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Removed redundant category in Forge Menu.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Campfire/forge duping – dedicated server.

Alpha 14fixedFixed: Pressing E in search box of campfire/forge closes workstation.

Alpha 14changedChanged: Scrapping in the forge time to to 1 second, instead of .5, maybe it only showed numbers of 1 or greater.

Alpha 13.7fixedFixed: Campfire/forge duping – dedicated server

Alpha 13.4fixedFixed: Forge now plays the ambient fire audio again.

Alpha 13.4changedChanged: Everything smelts twice as fast in the forge.

Alpha 13.4changedChanged: Rebar frames are now made in the forge and require an anvil. They take much less iron than before, but are not near as durable.

Alpha 13.4addedAdded: Forge recipes for scrap iron, brass, lead, small stone, clay lumps and broken glass so the user can quickly get his materials out of the forge. Note that this does not give any XP.

Alpha 13changedChanged: With the addition of the new recipe based forging system we have moved some recipes to the forge like buckshot, iron bars and brick based blocks stay tuned for more.

Alpha 13addedAdded anvil, calipers, and tool and die set as new tools for the forge replacing molds

Alpha 13changedStanding near a campfire or forge that is burning will warm up the player.

Alpha 12.4changedChanged recipe of forge to use bellows, a short metal pipe, small stones and clay

Alpha 12.4changedChanged forge ahead book no longer needed to make a forge

Alpha 11.4fixedFixed new forge dupe bug

Alpha 11.4fixedFixed several dupe bugs associated with the forge and campfire

Alpha 11fixedFixed reworked network communication for forge to decrease item loss and dupe bugs

Alpha 10.2fixedFixed Alpha channel for forge output preview was being overridden by custom tint

Alpha 10.2fixedFixed forge producing NullRef when first firing up

Alpha 10.2changedChanged the particle effects on the forge, campfire and torches for better performance

Alpha 10.2changedChanged the forge is now gated by an easy to find book called “Forge Ahead”. So you won’t be able to make a forge until you find this book.

Alpha 10fixedFixed culling distance on wall torch, campfire and forge

Alpha 10changedChanged updated particle system on wall torch, campfire and forge

Alpha 10changedChanged Forge and Campfire now operate if no player is nearby

Alpha 10addedAdded slight animated wobble to campfire and forge lights to create natural bouncing shadow effect, as a followup to the disabled flicker that caused headaches previously

Alpha 10addedAdded mold time to forge

Alpha 9changedChanged Zombies are no longer slowed by forge or campfire light at night, and never run in dark places during the day

Alpha 8fixedFixed item duping bug when swapping molds in the forge

Alpha 7.10changedChanged: Forge/Campfire input tray ignores stack limits

Alpha 7.10changedChanged: Forge/Campfire output tray: Right click picks up single item from output tray, Shift+Right click auto moves single item to bag

Alpha 7.10changedChanged forge is made from small rocks instead of stone

Alpha 7.8fixedFixed time sync on client side campfire. Now works like the forge, fuel wise

Alpha 7.8fixedFixed an incorrect rotation of forge particles prefab

Alpha 7.4fixedFixed item duplication bug when changing molds in the forge

Alpha 7.6fixedFixed all LOD levels on forge was switched on

Alpha 7.6changedChanged forge recipe to require a short metal pipe in addition to the stones

Alpha 6.2changedForge didn’t sync between clients

Alpha 6changedbug where 2 players can now activate the forge at the same time

Alpha 6changedChanged ladders so they burn as fuel in the forge

Alpha 6changedChanged all metal objects now have weight so they can be scrapped into metal for the forge

Alpha 6changedAdded forge and Iron Wall block and recipe

Alpha 6changedAdded new tooltip hints when placing items in the forge

Alpha 6changedAdded Forge GUI backdrop, animation and Forge particle system

Alpha 6changedAdded tooltip line sound and gui that shows help for some special recipes, weapon repair, weapon breakdown and new forge functions