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'''Gathering and Crafting''' covers how you get your first raw materials by hand and how you turn them into items: in pocket crafting from your inventory, or in machines such as furnaces and Fabricators. You need no tool item for any of it, and all vanilla recipes and benches are switched off.

[[File:BlockFactory_Felling_Tree.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Felling a tree by hand]]

== Gathering by hand ==
Stand in front of a tree or rock and '''hold left click'''. An axe or pickaxe appears in your hand. It is not an item and takes no inventory slot. The crack on the block shows your progress. When the time is up, the '''whole''' tree or rock disappears and the yield goes straight into your inventory.

If you stop hitting for more than a moment, or turn to another object, the timer starts over.

=== Trees and rocks ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Source !! Time !! Yield !! Rare extra
|-
| Tree || 2 s || 2–8 Wood (random each time) || —
|-
| Rock || 3 s || 20 Stone || 2 % chance each for 5–10 Iron Ore and 5–10 Copper Ore
|-
| Large rock || 5 s || 30 Stone, 15 Coal || 4 % chance each for 5–10 Iron Ore and 5–10 Copper Ore
|}

Bare trees without leaves give the same Wood as leafy ones.

[[File:BlockFactory_Mining_Rock.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Breaking a rock by hand]]

=== Nothing grows back ===
Wild trees and rocks are gone for good once you harvest them. Near the bunker you find two groves and many rocks, enough for a start. Later, Wood comes from the '''Tree Farm''' (Tree Farming research) and Stone from Stone Fields with a drill. See [[BlockFactory:Hunting and Farming|Hunting and Farming]] and [[BlockFactory:Mining|Mining]].

=== Ore by hand ===
You can also hold left click on a block of an ore field. Every '''2.6 to 4.6 seconds''' (random each time) you get one item of that field, and the crack starts over. The field block stays where it is; fields never run out.

{| class="wikitable"
! Icon !! Field !! Gives
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Iron_Ore.png|32px]] || Iron Ore Field || Iron Ore
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Copper_Ore.png|32px]] || Copper Ore Field || Copper Ore
|-
| || Coal Field || Coal
|-
| || Stone Field || Stone
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Sand.png|32px]] || Sand Field || Sand
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Clay.png|32px]] || Clay Field || Clay
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Gold_Ore.png|32px]] || Gold Ore Field || Gold Ore
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Uranium_Ore.png|32px]] || Uranium Ore Field || Uranium Ore
|}

Oil Wells give nothing by hand; oil needs an Oil Pumpjack.

By hand you are a little faster than one Wooden Drill standing fully on a start field (one ore every 4 s), but the drill keeps working while you do something else. Use your hands for the first plates, then let the machines take over.

=== Fuel at the start ===
Your first machines burn fuel. Wood (2 MJ) and Coal (4 MJ) both work. Large rocks give 15 Coal each, and the Coal Field near the bunker gives as much as you mine. Put a Wooden Drill on the Coal Field early.

=== What you cannot gather ===
Soil, sand, stone and water of the ground cannot be broken. Mountain walls only give way to TNT.

== Pocket crafting ==
Open your inventory and choose the crafting tab '''Factory'''. It is the only tab left; vanilla's tabs are removed. Pick a recipe and an amount, and the job starts.

* The ingredients leave your inventory '''at once'''.
* The products arrive one by one as each piece finishes.
* You can keep playing while the queue works.
* In Creative mode crafting is instant.

Pocket crafting does '''not''' make missing intermediate products for you. To craft a Wooden Drill you need the Iron Gears in your inventory first.

=== Crafting times ===
Most simple items take half a second each. Bigger things take longer:

{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Examples
|-
| 0.5 s || Iron Gear, Copper Cable, Electronic Circuit, belts, grabbers, chests, pipes, Brick Furnace, Steam Generator, Fabricators, power poles, Wooden Walls, floors, Landfill
|-
| 1 s || Cartridge, splitters, underground belts, Animal Trap
|-
| 2 s || Wooden Drill, Auto Drill, Steel Beam, Goblin Cart
|-
| 3 s || Blast Furnace, Storage Tank, Tree Farm, Shotgun Shell
|-
| 5 s || Flintlock Pistol, Goblin Hut, Cryo Capsule, Rangertower, Coal Plant, Chemical Plant, SlaughterHouse
|-
| 8 s || Gun Tower, Oil Processor, Nuclear Reactor, Grenade
|-
| 10 s || Goblin Research Center, Outlander Test Site, Solar Panel, Shotgun, Assault Rifle
|-
| 20 s || Flame Tower, Rune Tower
|-
| 30 s || Portal of the Ancient, Great Portal Altar
|}

The [[BlockFactory:Field Manual and HUD|Field Manual]] shows the exact time of every recipe.

=== The crafting queue ===
The panel at the '''bottom left''' of the screen shows the running job: item, pieces left in this job, how many jobs wait, and the progress.

* The queue holds up to 32 jobs. Adding the same recipe again extends the last waiting job.
* <code>/craftqueue</code> lists your jobs.
* <code>/craftqueue --cancel</code> cancels the job you added last; <code>/craftqueue --all</code> cancels all jobs. The ingredients of every unfinished piece come back, including the piece in progress.
* The queue is saved with your character.

== Crafting in machines ==
Machines craft without you, as long as they get ingredients and fuel or power.

* '''Furnaces''' (Brick Furnace, later Blast Furnace and Electric Furnace) need no settings. They pick the recipe from what you put in: Iron Ore becomes Iron Plate, Copper Ore becomes Copper Plate, 2 Stone become a Stone Brick, each in 3.2 s at speed ×1. See [[BlockFactory:Smelting|Smelting]].
* '''Fabricators''' (from the Automation research) make any factory recipe. Open one, choose a recipe, and feed it by hand, by belt or with grabbers. See [[BlockFactory:Fabricators|Fabricators]].
* '''Special machines''' have their own recipes: the Chemical Plant, Oil Processor, Stone Golems Refineries, Uranium Golems Refinery, SlaughterHouse and Tree Farm.

Some recipes exist '''only''' in a machine. Advanced Circuit, Engine Unit, Gold Wire and the Rune Modules need a Fabricator; Concrete, Processing Unit and Electric Engine need at least a Fabricator T2; plastics, sulfur, explosives and batteries need a Chemical Plant. The Field Manual names the machine for every recipe.

=== Copying a recipe ===
Crouch + right click on a Fabricator copies its recipe, and crouch + left click pastes it onto another Fabricator. This saves a lot of clicking when you build rows of identical machines. See [[BlockFactory:Controls and Building#Copying recipes|Controls and Building]].

== Locked recipes ==
Many recipes start locked and open through [[BlockFactory:Research|Research]] at the Outlander Test Site. A locked recipe cannot be crafted, neither in pocket crafting nor in a Fabricator. When your team completes a research, the new recipes are available to every member.

In the Field Manual, locked items carry a red mark, and the filter ''Only unlocked'' hides them. The first research, '''Steam Power''', unlocks the Water Pump, Water Boiler, Steam Generator, Small Power Pole, Auto Drill and Lamp.

War Golems leave '''Research Capsules''' when defeated. Redeem them at an Outlander Test Site for alternative recipes. See [[BlockFactory:Enemies|Enemies]].

== See also ==
* [[BlockFactory:Recipes|Recipes]]
* [[BlockFactory:Research Tree|Research Tree]]
* [[BlockFactory:Getting Started|Getting Started]]
* [[BlockFactory:Mining|Mining]]

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