The Planet Crafter Crafting and Unlocks Guide

Our The Planet Crafter Crafting and Unlocks Guide will tell you how Crafting works and how you can unlock more Crafting recipes!

As you might expect from the name, a big part of The Planet Crafter is Crafting. You'll have to make all sorts of new devices for extracting Ore, Cooking Food, and even selling goods in space with Trading -- read on to learn more!

How Crafting Works in The Planet Crafter

You can craft in The Planet Crafter by going to a workstation and producing the objects you'd like to make. There are nine kinds of core Crafting workbenches:

• T1 Craft Station
• T2 Craft Station
• Advanced Craft Station
• Biology Lab
• DNA Manipulator
• Launch Platform
• Incubator
• Auto-Crafter
• Cooking Station

Bear in mind that

Can You Recycle Items in The Planet Crafter?

Yes, you can recycle items in The Planet Crafter. You'll need a Recycling Machine (which is unlocked with a Blueprint Microchip) to break a non-building object into its component parts. As for Buildings, you can recover 100% of the building costs with a Microchip - Deconstruction.

Can You Destroy Items in The Planet Crafter?

Yes. you can destroy items in The Planet Crafter. You'll need a Shredder which is unlocked with a Blueprint Microchip.

How to Unlock More Items in The Planet Crafter

There are five ways to unlock more items in The Planet Crafter:

1. Progressing Terraforming
2. Increasing Biomass on the planet
3. Finding Blueprint Microchips and unlocking them
4. Receiving Mail at certain Milestones
5. Purchasing Blueprints with Trading

Where Do I Unlock Items in The Planet Crafter?

Most items are automatically unlocked when you reach the requisite milestone for each item. Blueprint Microchips and Blueprints purchased through Trading must be unlocked at Screen - Blueprints. Some Blueprints are delivered through Mail, which requires checking Screen - Transmissions.

The Planet Crafter Terraforming Unlocks

Terraformation

• T2 Backpack: 300 Ti
• Solar Panel T1: 1.00 kTi
• T3 Backpack: 2.50 kTi
• T2 Solar Panel: 17.50 kTi
• Double Bed: 25.00 kTi
• Locker Storage: 50.00 kTi
• Advanced Craft Station: 175.00 kTi
• Launch Platform: 345.00 kTi
• Microchip: T1 Blueprint Pinning: 550.00 KTi
• Atmospheric Water Collector: 875.00 kTi
• T5 Backpack: 5.00 MTi
• Lake Water Collector: 50.00 MTi
• Machine Optimizer: 70.00 MTi
• Biomass Screen: 200.00 MTi
• Screen - Orbital Information: 550.00 MTi
• Seed Spreader Rocket: 650.00 MTi
• DNA Manipulator: 700.00 MTi
• Super Alloy Rod: 750.00 MTi
• T3 Exoskeleton: 1.00 GTi
• Air Filter: 2.00 GTi
• Auto-Crafter: 2.50 GTi
• Incubator: 5.00 GTi
• Water Filter: 7.00 GTi
• Teleporter: 25.00 GTi
• T3 Tree Spreader: 32.00 GTi
• Osmium Rod: 39.00 GTi
• Fusion Energy Cell: 45.00 GTi
• Drone Station: 62.50 GTi
• T1 Aquarium: 120.00 GTi
• T3 Mutagen: 122.00 GTi
• Circuit Board: 160.00 GTi
• Pulsar Quartz: 175.00 GTi
• Portal Generator: 250.00 GTi
• T6 Backpack: 350.00 GTi
• T4 Mutagen: 425.00 GTi
• Amphibian Farm: 425.00 GTi
• Mutagen T4: 425.00 GTi
• Huli Frog Eggs: 450.00 GTi
• Animal Shelter: 1.25 TTi
• Animal Feeder: 1.25 TTi
• Extraction Platform: 5.00 TTi

Oxygen

• Indoor Ladder: 1.00 ppt
• T2 Heater: 1.85 ppt
• T3 Oxygen Tank: 5.00 ppt
• Food Grower: 12.00 ppt
• T3 Vegetube: 30.00 ppt
• T3 Heater: 80.00 ppt
• Grass Spreader: 150.00 ppt
• Flower Pot: 420.00 ppt
• T4 Heater: 63.00 ppb
• T2 Tree Spreader: 6.00 ppm
• Water Life Collector: 155.00 ppm

Heat

• T2 Vegetube: 500 pK
• Screen: Progress - 2.00 nK
• Beacon: 5.00 nK
• T2 Exoskeleton: 10.00 nK
• T3 Drill: 21.00 nK
• Biodome: 100.00 nK
• Sign: 500.00 nK
• T1 Algae Generator: 2.00 uK
• T2 Biodome: 12.00 uK
• T4 Drill: 41.00 uK
• Nuclear Fusion Generator: 750.00 uK
• T2 Machine Optimizer: 1.85 mK

Pressure

• T2 Oxygen Tank: 70 nPa
• Living Compartment Window: 250 nPa
• T2 Drill: 1.20 uPa
• Living Compartment Glass: 4.00 uPa
• Communication Antenna: 4.00 uPa
• Screen - Transmissions: 4.00 uPa
• T1 Nuclear Reactor: 60.00 uPa
• Ore Extractor: 155.00 uPa
• T2 Nuclear Reactor: 1.50 mPa
• Flower Spreader: 2.50 mPa
• Gas Extractor: 100.00 mPa
• T2 Ore Extractor: 364.50 mPa
• T3 Ore Extractor: 13.33 Pa

The Planet Crafter Biomass Unlocks

Biomass

• Biolab: 865 g
• T2 Algae Generator: 25.00 kg
• Plant Rocket: 175.00 kg
• T2 Flower Spreader: 500.00 kg
• T2 Food Grower: 35.00 t
• Tree Spreader: 45.00 t
• T5 Heater: 8.30 kt
• Insect Spreader Rocket: 17.70 kt
• T5 Drill: 23.00 kt
• Provios Fish Eggs: 30.00 kt
• Gerrero Fish Eggs: 35.00 kt
• T2 Aquarium: 42.00 kt
• Genetic Synthesizer: 70.00 kt
• Strabo Frog Eggs: 80.00 kt
• Animals Spreader Rocket: 90.00 kt

Plants

• Beehive: 80.00 t
• Butterfly Dome: 140.00 t
• Chevrone Butterfly Larva: 550.00 t
• Aemel Butterfly Larva: 870.00 t
• Liux Butterfly Larva: 2.00 kt
• Butterfly Farm: 3.25 kt
• Shreox Tree Seed: 5.70 kt
• Imeo Butterfly Larva: 8.40 kt
• T2 Gas Extractor: 15.50 kt
• Serena Butterfly Larva: 22.10 kt

Insects

• Cernea Tree Seed: 500 g
• High Quality Food: 15.00 kg
• Elegea Tree Seed: 100.00 kg
• Humelora Tree Seed: 500.00 kg
• Silk Generator: 800.00 kg
• Fabric: 950.00 kg
• Aemora Tree Seed: 1.10 t
• Outdoor Farm: 1.50 t
• Butterfly Display Box: 2.50 t
• T2 Mutagen: 50.00 t
• T2 Beehive: 225.00 t
• Genetic Extractor: 800.00 t
• T2 Butterfly Farm: 925.00 t
• Trajuu Frog Eggs: 12.00 kt

Animals

• Ulani Fish Eggs: 50.00 kg
• Aelera Fish Eggs: 250.00 kg
• Fish Display: 2.50 t
• Fish Farm: 5.50 t
• Lirma Seed: 7.80 t
• Common Larva: 22.00 t
• Afae Frog Eggs: 35.00 t
• Frog Displayer: 67.00 t
• Rare Larva: 92.00 t
• Generic Frog Eggs: 165.00 t
• Amedo Frog Eggs: 600.00 t
• T4 Jetpack: 1.00 kt

The Planet Crafter Blueprint Microchip Unlocks

You can read about all of the things you unlock with Blueprint Microchips in our dedicated guide.

That's it for our The Planet Crafter Crafting and Unlocks Guide! Why not take a look at some of our other guides, too?