This guide is going to fully explain how the crafting system works in Anthem, including how to unlock blueprints. It will also cover the many different things you can craft, along with the different available rarities.
Crafting Basics in Anthem
Before crafting, you should first know how to determine the rarity, or quality, of items in the game. These are the rarities from most to least common:
Common (White) Uncommon (Green) Rare (Blue) Epic (Purple) Masterwork (Orange) Legendary (Yellow)
The color indicated is what the item looks like when you loot it during a mission. You are able to craft up to Masterwork quality, and you will need a number of materials to do so. The required materials depend on what you are crafting, and you will also need the blueprint for the specific item, which will be explained later.
These are the materials you will need for each type of craftable item:
Weapons Chimeric Compound Chimeric Alloy Ember Weapon Parts Universal Components Chimeric Compound Chimeric Alloy Ember Class Specific Items Chimeric Compound Chimeric Alloy Ember Class Parts
How To Get Crafting Materials
The materials needed for crafting are found in a number of ways:
Chimeric Compound Chimeric Alloy Ember Weapon Parts
Chimeric Compound Chimeric Alloy Ember
Chimeric Compound Chimeric Alloy Ember Class Parts
Chimeric Compound comes from gathering from plants in the world as well as salvaging items. Chimeric Alloy comes from gathering from minerals and parts in the world as well as salvaging items. Embers come randomly when gathering from anything in the world, but they aren’t guaranteed. You can also get them when salvaging items of uncommon rarity or higher. There are different types of Embers, and they are related to item rarity. For example, salvaging Masterwork items will grant Masterwork Embers, which you will need to craft Masterwork weapons. Weapon Parts can be found in gathering piles sometimes or by salvaging any gun. Class Parts can be found in gathering piles sometimes and by salvaging a class specific item. For example, if you salvage an Interceptor-specific component, you will get Interceptor parts.
To note, all of these items can be bought from the store with Coin, the in-game currency. That said, I would not recommend buying materials unless there is absolutely nothing else you want to purchase.
Currently, crafting materials come very easily, with Masterwork Embers being a possible exception. These Embers are the only things I would consider buying with Coin, and I would only do so after finding something really good to craft.
How to Unlock Blueprints
The other extremely important aspect of crafting is unlocking the necessary blueprints. How this is done differs depending on what you want to craft, so I’ll explain the method for each category.
Weapons
Common weapon blueprints are unlocked the first time you receive that weapon. From there, you must unlock the higher rarity versions of the weapon by completing challenges with the weapon equipped.
To note, you can’t just kill 10 legendary enemies and unlock the Epic version of a weapon. Instead, you need to complete the Uncommon challenge, then the Rare challenge, and then you can work on the Epic challenge.
These challenges require you to kill enemies. The number and rank of the enemies that you need to dispatch depends on the rarity of the blueprint you want to unlock:
Uncommon: Defeat 50 enemies with the weapon. Rare: Defeat 25 Elite enemies with the weapon. Epic: Defeat 10 Legendary enemies with the weapon. Masterwork: Defeat 10 Legendary enemies with the weapon.
You don’t need to get the killing blow in order to complete these challenges — you only need to damage the enemy. You can also check you weapon and gear blueprint progress by opening the Challenges menu and then selecting either gear or weapons.
Gear (Abilities)
Like weapons, gear blueprints are unlocked by completing challenges with the Ability equipped. The challenges are:
Uncommon: Complete four Missions or World Events on Normal+ difficulty with the Ability equipped. Rare: Complete eight Missions or World Events on Normal+ difficulty with the Ability equipped. Epic: Complete 12 Missions or World Events on Normal+ difficulty with the Ability equipped. Masterwork: Complete 35 Missions or World Events on Grandmaster 1+ difficulty with the Ability equipped.
Blueprints for components and sigils are unlocked through Anthem’s Faction and Rep system. If you want more details on this, check out the Anthem Faction, Rep, and Rewards guide.
This is what is required to unlock these blueprints:
Components Class-Specific: Increase Sentinel Rep for all three ranks. Universal: Increase Freelancer Rep for all three ranks. Sigils Weapon Sigils: Increase Arcanist Rep for all three ranks. Elemental: Complete Strongholds.
Class-Specific: Increase Sentinel Rep for all three ranks. Universal: Increase Freelancer Rep for all three ranks.
Weapon Sigils: Increase Arcanist Rep for all three ranks. Elemental: Complete Strongholds.
That’s everything you need to know about crafting in Anthem. Now you can work on unlocking all those blueprints and make some really nice weapons and gear.
