Devlog: Crafting arrives in World of Sopho

A new paws-on system just landed: crafting. For the first time, you can gather materials, weave and lash them together, and kit yourself out with home-made armor, tools, and healing poultices—all diegetically, through in-world actions and a simple in-game menu.

How to craft

• Type craft at any time.

• If you have the ingredients, a menu appears with everything you can make right now.

• Each recipe shows up only when you have enough materials.

• Crafting consumes in-game time and, for some advanced items, can fail. Failures produce a “ruined” item that you can salvage to recover some materials.

Where to gather materials

• Pup Section

• Use search to collect A pile of long grass (limited per day).

• Ravine-side Forest

• Use search to find a handful of berries, a bitter root, a smooth rock, and a strip of tree bark (each with daily limits).

• Northern Plains

• Use explore north|south|east|west to roam and randomly discover things like a sturdy stick, a shard of flint, a smooth stone, and more.

• Bonus find

• At the pines in the forest, search the tree to craft a sticky tree sap bomb.

New recipes and tiers

• Consumables

• Berry Pulp Poultice: 1× berries → heals in/out of battle; 5 min; 100% success.

• Chewed Roots: 1× bitter root → soothing paste; 5 min; 100% success.

• Grass Cap (head armor; defense scales by tier)

• Woven Grass Cap: 1× long grass; 60 min; 100%.

• Layered Grass Cap: 1× woven cap + 1× long grass; 60 min; 75% (fail → ruined cap).

• Impressive Grass Cap: 1× layered cap + 2× long grass; 60 min; 50%.

• Perfect Grass Cap: 1× impressive cap + 3× long grass; 60 min; 25%.

• Bark Leg Guards (legs; defense scales)

• Bark Leg Guards: 1× tree bark + 1× long grass; 60 min; 100%.

• Layered: prev + 1× long grass; 60 min; 75% (fail → ruined guards).

• Impressive: prev + 2× long grass; 60 min; 50%.

• Perfect: prev + 3× long grass; 60 min; 25%.

• Bark Chest Plate (chest; defense scales)

• Bark Chest Plate: 1× tree bark + 1× long grass; 60 min; 100%.

• Layered: prev + 1× long grass; 60 min; 75% (fail → ruined chest plate).

• Impressive: prev + 2× long grass; 60 min; 50%.

• Perfect: prev + 3× long grass; 60 min; 25%.

• Sturdy Stick tool tree (weapons; damage scales)

• Makeshift Hammer: 1× sturdy stick + 1× smooth rock + 2× long grass; 60 min; 75% (fail → ruined makeshift tool).

• Makeshift Axe: 1× makeshift hammer + 2× flint + 4× long grass; 60 min; 50%.

• Home Made Axe: 1× makeshift axe + 2× flint + 4× smooth rocks + 4× long grass; 60 min; 25%.

Salvage failed crafts

• Ruined tiers (e.g., ruined cap, ruined bark armor, ruined makeshift tool) have a salvage action.

• Salvaging has a chance to return some long grass, and for bark gear sometimes a tree bark too.

Equipping and combat impact

• Armor slots: head, chest, legs. Higher tiers grant higher defense.

• Tools/weapons equip to main hand and increase damage.

• Use wear [item] to equip; remove [item] to unequip.

Suggested loop to try now text explore north search craft wear grass cap craft

What’s next

• More recipes and discovery nodes.

• Additional salvage routes and specialty battle items.

• Added a menu-driven craft command that lists only craftable items based on your inventory.

• Introduced gathering loops: search in Ravine-side Forest and Pup Section, plus explore in Northern Plains.

• Added tiered recipes for grass caps, bark leg guards, bark chest plates, and sturdy-stick tools with success/fail chances and salvage.