Fusion Crafting Guide

The Fusion tab in your Workshop offers flexibility in crafting materials, allowing you to combine lower-tier items to create higher-tier ones. Here’s a breakdown of the different types of fusion available:

Types of Fusion

  1. Reusable Instance (RI) Crafting:

    • Create a higher-level RI using lower-level RIs of the same type and crafting materials.

  2. Weapon Credit or RI Creation:

    • Make weapon credits or RIs using Fragments or specific materials (e.g., Blight Elements).

  3. Core Fusion:

    • Transform lower-tier Cores into higher-tier Cores.

  4. Pattern Fusion:

    • Craft Cores using specific ship Patterns.

Ingredient Sources

  • Ingredients can be found in crafting fleets on the Planet or Sector maps, purchased in the Market, or acquired through various in-game activities.

Important Details

  • Resource and Time Cost:

    • Creating an RI incurs both resource and time costs.

  • Non-Flagship Core Creation:

    • Making Non-Flagship Cores is free and instant.

  • Fragment Usage:

    • Using Fragments to create hulls and weapon credits is both instant and free.

  • Permanent Recipes:

    • Once you discover a Fusion recipe, it remains in your Workshop indefinitely.

Fusion Crafting Overview

What is Being Crafted | What is Used

  • Reusable Instance (RI):

    • Ingredients:
      • RI Fragments
      • Lower-level RIs
      • Lower-level RIs + Elements
      • Same-level RIs + Elements
      • Lower-level RIs + Alien Artifacts

  • Cores:

    • Ingredients:
      • Lower-level Cores
      • Ship Patterns

Core Fusion Recipes

Fusion recipes allow you to take four lower-tier ship Cores and craft one higher-tier ship Core. For example, you can use 4 T1 Frigate Cores to create 1 T2 Frigate Core.

Core to Core Recipe Specifics:

  • Unlocking Recipes:

    • Fusion recipes are unlocked when you find at least one Core that can be fused. However, you must find a minimum of four lower-tier Cores to perform the fusion.

  • Recipe Retention:

    • Once a recipe is discovered, it remains in your Workshop, regardless of how many of that Core you possess.

  • Instant Fusion:

    • Fusion recipes have no resource cost (aside from the lower-tier Cores used) and can be completed instantly.

  • Ship Class Specificity:

    • Fusion recipes are specific to ship classes. You cannot mix Frigate Cores with Battleship Cores.

  • Tier Progression:

    • Fusion will always advance one tier at a time. For instance, T1 Cores will always produce T2 Cores, which can then be used to make T3 Cores, and so forth.

Flagship Core Fusion

Important Note:

  • Flagship Cores:
    • Unlike regular fusion, Flagship Cores require only two T5 cores of the same class (mixing classes is not permitted) to create one Flagship Core. Currently, there is only one type of Flagship Core, simply called Flagship Core.

Fusion Recipe Research

As of the 4/2/17 deploy, players can now research new T6 core and Flagship Armament recipes in the Ship Lab under a new "Fusion" Tab.

Available Fusion Recipes:

  • Recipes to fuse T5 Cores into T6 Cores.
  • Recipes for Iron Star and Demon Corps Armaments into Flagship Armaments.

Utilizing the Fusion tab effectively can greatly enhance your crafting capabilities and improve your overall gameplay experience. Happy crafting!