Fabrication
Everything that decides how far down you get is made, not bought. This is where it is made.
Status: Live · relic recipes in development
Where#
The Warrens, B9, in the old workshop row. Three of the kilns still draw, which is a hundred metres of chimney doing something nobody has maintained in three centuries and nobody wants to think about too hard.
What comes out of it#
| Made here | Notes |
|---|---|
| Lamps | The only way to increase how long you can stay down |
| Tanks | Torch capacity — see Torchlight |
| Tools | Better pry bars: a wider give on the same lock |
| Hooks and line | Reach caches on the far side of a collapse |
| Provisions | The cookable kind — see Provisions |
Fabricated gear is bound. It cannot be traded, listed, gifted or sold. This is deliberate and it is the load-bearing rule of the whole economy: depth is earned, never purchased. Everything you can buy is cosmetic or consumable.
Inputs#
| Input | Where from |
|---|---|
| Brick and scrap | Tier I–II caches |
| Lead flashing | Tier II caches |
| Old ironwork | Tier III caches |
| Guild silver | Tier IV caches |
| Gloamglass | Tier V caches, the Gloam only |
| Cut lichen | The Cistern |
| Tallow | Everything |
Almost every recipe wants lichen. That is why the Cistern is the busiest floor in the game despite paying the least.
Recipes#
Recipes are not sold. They come out of relics: identify a relic and it gives up whatever the old city knew how to make. See Relics.
Relic recipes are partially in
The relic-to-recipe pipeline works for lamps and tools. Tanks and hooks are specified but not wired up yet. The recipe list a delver can actually make today is shorter than the table above.
Time#
Fabrication takes real time — minutes for a tool, hours for a good lamp. You can close the tab. There is no way to pay to skip it, in Tallow or in $GLOAM, and there will not be one.
Why waiting is not monetised
The moment you can buy your way past a timer, the timer stops being a design decision and starts being a price. We would rather have a shorter timer than a purchasable one.