Редактирование: Guide to Crafting (раздел)

==Crafting Methods==
===In Hand===
By holding a piece (or stack) of material in your hand, a menu will appear showing you a variety of things you can craft using that item.
Optionally, if the item can be stacked, multiples will be shown as well.

There are few advantages to crafting by hand, but it's still important to know how, here's why:
* Some items can only be crafted in hand and not by any other method
* Fabricators are not always readily accessible and hand crafting can be done anywhere as long as you are standing.

===Slap Crafting===
Slap crafting refers to making new items by using one item on another item.

Examples include making a [[Makeshift_weapons#Spear|spear]] by combining an iron rod with cable restraints to make a wired rod and then attaching a glass shard to the wired rod to get a spear, as well as making [[Guide_to_robotics#Bots|bots]] by attaching items needed to make them to each other in a particular order.

Most items that can be made with slap crafting can also be found in the visual crafting menu, but slap crafting can sometimes be faster than searching for the needed recipe and many slap-crafted items serve as intermediate items for multiple crafting recipes (like the aforementioned wired rod that can also be used for crafting [[Makeshift_weapons#Stunprod|stunprods]] or [[Makeshift_weapons#Teleprod|teleprods]]).

===Fabrication===
Instead of crafting items in your hand like a heathen, you can opt to place that material into an [[Autolathe]] and interact with it to show a crafting interface.

Crafting using a fabricator has several advantages:
* Wider variety of recipes available to craft
* Can craft items using more than one material
* Can craft multiples of any item even if they don't stack
===[[File:autolathe.png|64px]]Autolathe===
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The [[Autolathe]] is a frequently encountered machine capable of performing a large amount of crafting tasks, click on the link to read more.
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===[[File:proto.png|64px]]Protolathe===
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The [[Machines#Protolathe|Protolathe]] is an extremely versatile crafting station.  Each department is supplied with one, conveniently accessible for people with relevant access in a centralized location.
Each department's Protolathe comes with a specific set of recipes that are unlocked by default, and unlike the [[Guide_to_Crafting#Autolathe|Autolathe]] is linked to the [[Machines#Ore Silo|Ore Silo]]