The Division 2 crafting system is something that you’ll need to be familiar with ahead of the game’s release on March 15. In particular, you’ll have to know how to unlock crafting, and how to get yourself crafting materials and blueprints. Learn all about The Division 2 crafting with our help.
The Division 2 Crafting | How to unlock
You might be thinking that The Division 2 crafting system is something that gradually unlocks as you progress through the story campaign. Thankfully, most crafting unlocks early in the game, so you won’t be waiting a while to be able to make your own items. There are elements that you will need to wait to do but, as long as you fly through the game, every available crafting option will be available as soon as possible.
Having the ability to craft enables you to modify your weapons, gear, and mods to help you in combat scenarios. You require crafting materials and a necessary blueprint to craft certain items though. Read on to find out more on what blueprints and crafting materials do, and how you can get them.
The Division 2 Crafting | Blueprints
The Division 2 crafting system, as we mentioned, requires you to get blueprints and crafting materials before you can make stuff. Blueprints can be found via a variety of diffierent activities in the game’s world. They are obtained from vendors, who require you to buy them, as well as supply drops found within the world, defeating control points held by other factions and what’s known as projects.
Projects are optional timed or compulsory tasks that you can complete in certain locations to earn specific rewards. They are weekly in nature, so you’ll only have seven days to complete each one in order to get a special blueprint.
Finally, once you reach the Endgame phase of Ubisoft’s title, you will unlock more blueprints. These will allow you to craft specific brands, gear mods, exotic gear — when they’re patched in later this year — and random skill mods.
The Division 2 Crafting | Crafting materials
Crafting materials, meanwhile, can be found throughout Washington D.C. and its surrounding areas. The best way to gain enough to make new items, though, is by breaking down gear, modifications, and weapons that you can’t use, or don’t plan to use. Some materials can only be secured by breaking down weapon and gear modifications too. You’ll have to decide what things you want to keep, and what is worth deconstructing, in order to fashion new items that you will use.
Crafting also allows you to unlock higher level items before you can find them in the game. This is perfect as they’ll give you better stats, make you stronger, and enable to fight out enemy factions more efficiently. If you end up finding this higher tier loot later on in the game, you can always deconstruct it and get the raw materials to make other stuff. That’s a win in anyone’s book.
Crafting gives you the opportunity to switch up your playstyle too. You may have become accustomed to playing as, say, a sniper and only have skills that give you strength at long-range. Crafting items will allow you to tweak this playstyle every so slightly, and make you more formidable at mid-range, or with healing fellow agents, or any other combination. Try different things out, and see what works.
The Division 2 Crafting | Crafting bench
Once you have the necessary blueprint and required number of materials, you can make your new item. Simply head on over to a crafting bench to begin the process. These are located in your Base of Operations and at liberated settlements, so you’re safe to make stuff there.
There’s also an option to upgrade your crafting bench too. Crafting materials become capped at a certain level, so you will need to level up the bench, or benches, that you use, in order to upgrade your gear. You will know when your crafting bench can be upgraded as there will be an exclamation point next to it.
This shouldn’t happen until you hit level 24 in the game though. After that, you should have the option to level up your crafting bench. You can further upgrade it at level 30 too, and these will allow you craft better gear for the Endgame phase of Ubisoft’s title.
Division 2 Apocalypse Travel Guide
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A Tourist's Guide of Gaming's Post-Apocalyptic Settings
It finally happened. The bombs went off. The zombies took over. The flood waters overtook the city. Valve released Half-Life 3. Whatever the case, you want to make the most out of your post-apocalyptic travel. In honor of The Division 2, we're taking to the skies and touring gaming's most luxurious wastelands. -
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Treat yourself to a luxurious overgrown wonderland of ruined buildings. Spy the warbots in the distance, but avoid their nasty claws and howling maws. Just grab some EMP devices and holograms and grapple to a prime sunbathing spot. No one will bother you up there. -
Far Cry New Dawn
Pristine Hope County was spared by the atomic blasts, which is great news for the end days traveler. Marvel at the intricate and colorful graffiti left by the local "Highwaymen." Enjoy the death races at the arena! Just keep your helmet on and lay low, you probably don't want to be a participant. -
Horizon Zero Dawn
From the newest dawn to Zero Dawn. Arrive in All-Mother's Embrace and sample local cuisine from the Nora tribe. Venture out towards Meridian on safari, snapping pictures of all the robotic wildlife. Just remember, steer clear of the Tallnecks. They can crush anything underfoot without warning. -
Metro Exodus
The Russian countryside is just as luxuriously gray as any other post-apocalypse. Find a local faction to call your own and scavenge for food from your new rivals. Or, hop on the train and journey towards the unknown as you battle mutants alongside this Artyom fellow. -
MotorStorm: Apocalypse
What's better than wandering through ruined buildings and chatting it up with starving locals? Zooming past them on your retrofitted motorbike! Race with other thrillseekers on the roads of civilization's end, avoid sinkholes, and deathtraps on your way to the assuredly dented golden trophy. -
Fallout: New Vegas
Roll the dice on New Vegas, the greatest little set of casinos in the Wasteland. Stay in the Lucky 38 and be Mr. House's special guest, or take your chances across the street at the Ultra-Luxe. Just don't try the steak unless you have a strong stomach. -
Mad Max
Drive the Magnum Opus out to the Plains of Silence for a luxurious desert vacation. Come for the delicious cans of Dinki-Di Meat and Veggies, stay for the parades of raider caravans gathering in the distance. Bring a sawed-off shotgun along for extra fun. -
Rage
Do you want to see the pink of end times Hope County but you need a few more superpowers on your stay? Saddle up to Wellspring and take in the world of Rage. Just sit down at Mick's Garage and get set up with your own Outlander racing vehicle. -
State of Decay
For a little extra with your end times, you'll always want to add the Zombies option. Perfect for groups or those with teamwork in their veins, Trumbull Valley offers plenty of opportunities for scavenging and exploring. Make new friends, rescue your old ones, and make a new home before the Breakdown. -
Wasteland
If you're looking for that rustic smell, only the classics will do. Jet over to Needles and take your time with turn-based combat and cozy graphics that only a classic PC franchise can provide. See the origins of your favorite vacation spot in this atomic blast from the past.
