Darktide has a crafting feature, offering players ways to control their gear, its traits, and even the tier of the weapons. There’s quite a few uses to this feature, which players will naturally use from the start of the game, all the way to the end game. Here is everything you need to know about crafting in Darktide.

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Here is a quick look at the Darktide crafting feature. Image via Fatshark

Darktide Crafting Guide¶

There are four main functions for the crafting feature. These are

1. Consecrate
2. Refine Item
3. Blessing
4. And Re Bless

Consecrate is the name of the feature that allows you to upgrade your items quality. You can upgrade any item quality that you so desire, anywhere from, the salvaged white quality weapon, all the way to the master-crafted orange items. Upgrading your items will cost the following amount.

• Black Market: 150 Plasteel
• Frontier: 200 Plasteel, 50 Diamantine
• Militarum Issue: 400 Plasteel, 150 Diamantine
• Master Crafted: 900 Plasteel, 350 Diamantine

When upgrading a weapon to a new tier, you will unlock new perks and traits Perks at the bonuses your items get for being a tier, while blessings are the buff with icons at the bottom of the weapon tab. Upgrading a weapon to Militarum tier grants two perks, and one blessing. Meanwhile, the master crafted grant two perks and two blessings. If your gun has terrible blessings, you can then re bless the gun, and get new traits. This feature is not yet in the game, so will update this section how it properly works at a later date.

There is also an option to refine item. Refining an item allows you to reroll one perk on your weapon. However, doing so will lock the other perk onto the weapon forever. So, make sure you’re rolling a perk you’re not interested in. Note that rerolling selects a perk randomly from a list of weapon perks, which are typically damage against different types of enemies, such as infested, maniacks, carapace armor, unyielding, unarmored, pox walkers, and many many more.

There is also a feature in the crafting menu called Combine blessings. This is not yet in the game either, but chances are it will combine your blessings together and grant you another slot in which you can put a blessing. Once again, we will update this page as required.

Darktide Crafting Currencies¶

There are two main crafting currencies in Daktide which are Plasteel and Diamantine. Plasteel is the more common crafting item, which you can find lying on the floor on all maps. You can also loot it from storage boxes too. These are often available on most mission difficulties meaning all players can start getting them as soon as they can start doing level 2 mission reliably.

On the other hand, Diamantine is a very rare resource, especially on level 2 missions. Players can expect around 5 per level 2, while on the higher level missions, you can get significantly more. This is the harder to get currency, which will be used a lot for upgrading your items to master crafted and Militarum quality, which is necessary for upgrading those weapons and curios you but from the store with good stats, especially when you dry up your weekly shop currency.