Crafting and base building: confirmed scope

When you can play, record the selected structure, its displayed ingredients and the tools or station required. Include a screenshot and the game build. That is the minimum evidence needed to turn a camp experiment into a dependable crafting reference.

A recipe’s existence does not prove that it is available at the start. When checking a recipe, record its unlock condition, station, ingredient counts, output and any observed co-op difference. None of those values is supplied by a general crafting announcement.

The store supports gathering, crafting and shelter building as part of the survival loop. It does not supply a complete resource list, base defence specification, structural support rules or an automation system. A material calculator would be misleading until recipes are verified.

Since Hotfix 0.1.1 (October 24), building mode shows how many pieces you have placed and how many remain, so the game does cap placements. The notes do not state the cap.

Hotfix 0.1.2 (October 25) adds more cloth at certain map locations and makes iron sheets more durable against zombie attacks. The notes name neither the locations nor the new durability, so treat cloth routes and wall strength noted before October 25 as out of date.

Hotfix 0.1.3 (October 26) increases chest capacity, adds stacking for some inventory items and a missing-material indicator for foundations, and reports fixes for building on loaded foundations, leftover doors and chest items disappearing during a death with the chest open. No capacity, stack limit or recovery guarantee is given. The same note warns that older saves may crash or corrupt after updating.

Hotfix 0.1.4 (October 28) makes crafted structures take more damage before breaking and fixes chests interfering with each other or losing items after a load, but only in games started after the update. Hotfix 0.1.5 (October 30) fixes foundations left floating, trees that would not fall, campfires that would not light and saving mid-craft, and adds key prompts for craftable items. No durability numbers are given.

Hotfix 0.1.6 (November 2) fixes crafted house doors, ladders, log-cart logs and metal-holder metals disappearing after a load, and ladders that could not be seen. The crafting guide now marks tents as single-use and flags items that save the game. The note does not say whether pieces already lost return.

Hotfix 0.1.7 (November 6) makes sticks larger, gives more sticks from harvested bushes and fixes the crafting guide's Save label sometimes showing under the wrong item. No new stick yield is stated.