In The Division 2, you can craft and recalibrate equipment. Here are all the information and tips for crafting at the crafting station, for recalibrating station, and for the materials in the guide.
In The Division 2, you obtain equipment not only by killing enemies and looting their drops. You can also loot containers, buy items – or craft the stuff yourself.
This is done at the crafting station in the Operations Base, where you can craft items.
How to unlock the crafting station
How to activate crafting: The crafting station is made available to you early in The Division 2. You just need to reach the first level of the Theater settlement, and you will get the NPC Inaya al-Khaliq for the White House.
Location of the crafting station: Walk straight through the main entrance of the White House past the quartermaster, turn left and go directly through the first gate on the left side. There, Inaya is next to the crafting station.
How crafting works in The Division 2
Basic information about crafting:
- You can craft items (weapons, armor pieces, mods, projects) at the crafting station
- The prerequisite is a blueprint of the item you want to craft
- Blueprints can be bought, found, or obtained as rewards (e.g. through projects and missions).
- For crafting, you need certain materials which you can discover throughout the open world (through boxes, backpacks, due to enemy kills etc.) or obtained by disassembling excess equipment.
- The crafting station needs to be upgraded to craft higher-quality items.
Information about blueprints:
- The blueprints in your possession scale with your character. If you get a blueprint at character level 5, you can craft items at level 5. When you reach level 6, you can craft items at level 6 with the same blueprint.
- To craft better items than “blue” items, you need to upgrade the crafting station. This requires many materials, and you need to have progressed sufficiently in the game. There are several upgrade levels – you need to upgrade the station from blue items to purple items, from purple items to high-end items and in the endgame from world tier to world tier:
Information about crafting materials
You have 2 standard materials:
- Closure components – needed for crafting weapons. Can be obtained through disassembly
- Protective material – needed for crafting armor. Can be obtained through disassembly
Here are the other crafting materials:
- Steel – needed for firearms, often found with the True Sons
- Ceramics – needed for armor pieces, often found with the Outcasts
- Polycarbonate – needed for various items, often found with the Hyenas
- Carbon fiber – needed for lightweight equipment components, often found with the True Sons
- Electronics – needed for enhanced equipment components, often found with Hyenas
- Titanium – needed for lightweight but durable weapons, often found with the Outcasts
- Printer filament (purple quality) – needed for mods (for gear and skills), obtained by disassembling mods
If you need a specific material, you can play a mission from the corresponding faction and have the chance to obtain a relatively large amount of this material through enemy kills and upon mission completion.
Note: In the endgame, the Black Tusk can drop all rare crafting materials.
Carbon fiber, electronics, and titanium are rarer than ceramics, steel, and polycarbonate.
Additionally, crafting costs you E-Credits, which you can obtain by selling items or loots (sewing kits, cameras, solar calculators, etc.) that you find everywhere.
These are high-end materials: In addition, there are many high-end materials with which you can craft armor pieces of certain brands:
You obtain high-end materials for the brand sets by disassembling equipment pieces of that brand.
Tips for crafting – When should I start?
Tips for crafting:
- You should not craft weapons or armor pieces at the start. Because you level up relatively quickly and find better loot soon, so the crafted items will only be useful for a short time.
- It’s best to save your materials for the endgame – specifically for World Tier 5 – as soon as it goes live. Because the required materials are the same for all world tiers and levels, and you will benefit most and longest if your items are at the highest possible Gear Score.
- What you can already craft in advance: Weapon mods. If you find a weapon mod blueprint, you can create the mod directly. Because it remains permanently with you and always has the same stats – no matter when you craft it.
- So only use your materials before World Tier 5 to craft weapon mods and to upgrade the crafting station.
- Unlock the benefits “Crafting Materials” and “Disassemble” with SHD Tech at the quartermaster to increase storage capacity for materials and to obtain more materials when disassembling.
Information about the recalibration station
How to unlock recalibration: While crafting is unlocked early in the campaign, recalibration is only possible after a few gameplay hours.
You need to recruit Emma Richards at the Campus settlement, which is possible after three missions for the Campus settlement.
Location of the recalibration station: This station is located directly to the right of the crafting station.
How recalibration works:
- With recalibration, you can transfer a talent or a stat bonus from one item to another item
- You first need an item that has the desired stat to transfer that stat to the other item
- The items must belong to the same category. In other words, to recalibrate a chest piece, you need another chest piece that has that stat. The same applies to weapons.
An example: In this screenshot, a stat bonus on a mask is replaced through the stat bonus of another mask by recalibration:
- The item that “donates” the desired stat bonus is destroyed after recalibration
- Recalibration costs credits and materials
- Recalibration does not work with items you crafted
Advantage (compared to Division 1): You now know directly what new stat you receive on the item after recalibration. The randomness is removed.
However, you first have to find an item that has the stat you want.
In the video by MarcoStyle, you can see crafting and recalibration in motion:
Have you already dared to craft?
