Mining Merchant Devlog #3: Crafting

Hope you're all having a great week. In today's devlog I want to talk about the crafting system in Mining Merchant. Please note that everything shown and mentioned in this post is a work in progress.

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Crafting

As you might know by now, Mining Merchant is not just a mining game like my previous games; it also has a big focus on shopkeeping. However, you obviously can't just sell raw materials in your shop, so you first have to craft your resources into jewelry to sell in your store.

The crafting process consists of 4 stages:

• Smelting

• Smithing

• Gem setting

• Packaging

Let's go over each of these in more detail!

Smelting

The first step in the crafting process is to smelt your raw resources into ingots. To do this, you enter the smelting workstation and select the ingot recipe you'd like to make. You can also select a quality level, which will determine the ratio of required resources. For example; a gold ingot contains gold and copper. Just like in real-life, the percentage of gold defines the value of your jewelry (for example 14 karat gold vs 24 karat gold).

Smithing

Once we've successfully smelted the resources into an ingot, we can now move on to smithing. The smithing process takes the ingot and turns it into basic jewelry such as rings, bracelets or earrings. The quality of ingots used will determine the quality of the final product. The products made are ready to be sold, or you can choose to refine them more by adding gems and packaging them.

Gem Setting

Once we've created a basic jewelry piece, we can add gems to it to increase their value even more. Some gems are rarer than others, so think carefully about what piece deserves your rarest gems.

Packaging

Now that we've created a masterpiece, we of course want to package it nicely to increase its value even further. Just like gem setting, this step is optional, but it's a great way to slightly increase the value of your best pieces. During this step, we polish the jewelry up and put it in a nice box.

Time to sell!

Now that we've made an amazing jewelry piece, there's only one thing left to do: make some money!! Stock your shelves, open up shop, and wait for customers to pull out their wallets!

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