Atomfall Crafting and Unlocks Guide

This guide explains the Atomfall crafting system and tells you how you can unlock more crafting recipes to help you survive the Quarantine Zone.

How Crafting Works in Atomfall

Unlike many other survival games, the Atomfall crafting system works entirely from your inventory — no workbench required. As long as you have the required crafting resources, you can make any item at any time — even in the middle of combat.

That said, going into your Backpack does not pause what's happening in the game world and you can easily be killed while trying to craft a Bandage. You can speed up your crafting somewhat with the right Skill, but it's probably a better idea to wait until you're somewhere safe before you craft an item.

How to Unlock More Crafting Recipes

For the most part, you can unlock more crafting recipes by finding the recipes in the game world or purchasing them from a merchant. There are a handful of exceptions to this rule:

• You acquire the Bandages crafting recipe from the Scientist at the start of the game.
• The Strange Tonic crafting recipe is only found in one location as part of a quest from Mother Jago.
• The upgraded gun crafting recipes are acquired when you've taken the Gunsmith Skill and you've picked up the related gun at some point.

Atomfall Crafting Recipes List

Here is the full list of available Atomfall crafting recipes and where you can find them.

Note: Gun crafting recipes are covered in our Weapons Guide.

Antidote

• Unlocked by:
  • Sold by Mother Jago in Casterfell Woods, at 26.7E, 92.2N
  • Found in the locked storage area in the Protocol Field Station in Skethermoor
• Ingredients: 3 Chemicals, 5 Herbs, 4 Cloth, 3 Glass
• Effect: Cures Poison and gives Poison Resistance buff. Reduces Poison build-up. Reduces damage from Poison hazards.

Bandage

• Unlocked by:
  • Talking to the Scientist in the Derelict Bunker at the start of the game.
• Ingredients: 1 Alcohol, 4 Cloth
• Effect:  Restores a significant amount of health over time. Cures Bleed and gives Bleed Resistance buff. Reduces Bleed build-up.

Burn Salve

• Unlocked by:
  • Purchased from Iris Baxter in The Bakery in Wyndham Village at 33.4E, 80.2N
  • Found in the back of the Village Hall in Wyndham Village / Pinned on a corkboard in Casterfell Woods Dam at 20.3E, 90.9N
• Ingredients: 4 Cloth, 1 Iodine, 5 Water, 3 Glass
• Effect: Cures Burn and gives Burn Resistance buff. Reduces Burn build-up. Reduces damage from fire hazards.

Combat Stims

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sold by Corporal "Bootsy" Hughes in the Skethermoor Trader Camp at 36.3E, 76.2N
  • Found in the Protocol Workshop in Skethermoor at 38.0E, 77.4N
  • Found deep in the Protocol Field Station in Skethermoor at 41.3E, 74.9N
  • Found in The Interchange's Data Store C Store Room in a case
• Ingredients: 4 Herbs, 3 Water, 3 Glass, 2 Chemicals
• Effect: Gives Melee Damage buff. Increases melee damage.

Explosive Lure

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Found in the Skethermoor Prison underground using the Metal Detector, next to the underground stream
  • Located in a wicker man statue in Casterfell Woods at 20.4E, 89.2N
• Ingredients: 4 Poison, 2 Scrap, 2 Spores, 2 Gunpowder
• Effect: Bait attached to an explosive. Attracts swarms. Detonates shortly after pulling the pin.

Makeshift Grenade 

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Purchased from Reg Stansfield in the Slate Mine Caves in Slatten Dale
  • Found inside the Remote Bunker in Casterfell Woods, at 28.0E, 91.6N
• Ingredients: 4 Gunpowder, 6 Scrap, 1 Glue, 2 String
• Effect: Makeshift throwable explosive. Improvised explosive device. Detonates shortly after being thrown.

Molotov Cocktail

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​Found inside the Brewery Celler, at 30.5E, 80.5N
  • Found inside the outdoor L5 Bunker pinned to a corkboard at 31.7E, 74.9N
  • Found in a room with a barred door in the Waterfmill Cellar in Casterfell Woods at 22.5E, 86.7N
  • Found pinned to a corkboard in a Control room in the Sewer Tunnels, accessed via the Casterfell Woods entrance at 23.4E. 83.6N
• Ingredients: 3 Cloth, 6 Alcohol, 4 Glass
• Effect: Makeshift throwable explosive. Explodes on impact. Deals Burn damage in area.

Nail Bomb

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sold by Nora Thorndike in Skethermoor at Nora's Barn at 41.8E, 77.5N
  • Found in the Vehicle Storage Bunker in Skethermoor at 43.4E, 74.6N, in the room with the barred door on the far left side of the room.Crawl through the red vent in the adjacent room to get to it
  • In the Control Room of Skethermoor Prison at 41.1E, 70.8N
• Ingredients: 10 Scrap, 2 Gunpowder, 1 Gun Oil, 5 String
• Effect: Makeshift throwable explosive. Detonates shortly after impact. Deals Bleed damage.

Painkillers

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Found on Freya's Corpse at the Slate Mine Ruins in Skethermoor at 37.9E, 73.7N
  • Found on a small desk in the Waterfmill Cellar in Casterfell Woods at 22.5E, 86.7N
  • Potentially sold by Morris Wick in Wyndham Village
• Ingredients: 1 Iodine, 1 Water, 3 Glass, 4 Herbs
• Effect: Gives Damage Resistance buff. Reduces incoming damage.

Poison Bomb

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sold by Billy Gorse in Casterfall Woods, at 21.5E, 89.6N
  • Found next to the glowing blue wickerman in the caves underneath the Castle Ruins in Casterfell Woods at 19.6E, 83.7N
• Ingredients: 2 Cloth, 2 Poison, 4 Glass, 2 Spores
• Effect: Makeshift throwable explosive. Explodes on impact. Creates Poison cloud in area.

Radiation Resistance

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Found in the Admin office with 3 Ferals in it west of Data Store C in The Interchange
  • Found in the Vehicle Storage Bunker in Skethermoor at 43.4E, 74.6N, next to a corpse in a side room with storage shelves.
• Ingredients: 3 Iodine, 2 Alcohol, 3 Glass, 1 Poison
• Effect: Gives Radiation Resistance buff. Reduces Radiation build-up. Reduces damage from Radiation hazards.

Shiv

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Purchased from Molly Jewitt in the Trader Camp in Slatten Dale at 26.4E, 79.1N
  • Found in a building east of the Outlaw Camp in Slatten Dale at 31.1E, 75.5N
• Ingredients: 2 Scrap, 1 String
• Effect:  Melee weapon. Low Damage, Very Fast Attack Speed, Causes Bleed

Sticky Bomb

• Unlocked by:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Found in Agravaine's Lockbox in the Slatten Dale Railyard at 28.5E, 77.1N; requires Agravaine's Key from the Helicopter Crash Site at 28.2E, 71.1N in Slatten Dale
  • Found in the Cellar on the Northern Side of the Garden Centre in Casterfell Woods at 26.9E, 90.6N
• Ingredients: 3 Gunpowder, 6 Glue, 4 Scrap
• Effect: Improvised explosive device, sticks to impact point before detonating.

Strange Tonic

• Unlocked by:
  • Found in the upper level of the Castle Ruins, in a Library-esque Room in Casterfell Woods.
• Ingredients: 4 Spores, 1 Chemicals, 3 Glass, 5 Herbs
• Effect: Mother Jago's tonic. Gives Infection Resistance buff. Reduces Infection build-up. Reduces damage from infection-causing hazards.

That's the end of our Atomfall Crafting and Unlocks Guide. Make sure to check out our other guides below!