Underqualified Gunman's Crafting Tweaks
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.8% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #57 of 131 Quality of life mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Modifies various crafting recipes to either make use of underused items, adjust them to be less harsh to acquire for, or to make some later game items available somewhat earlier, or just because it'd make more sense.
Modifies a bunch of crafting recipes to my own tastes but with a consideration towards balance. some changes were made to respect your time (antethermite), others to ease pressure off items with high in game economy values (staplers and carbon specifically), or because certain items feel better to obtain earlier (wooden mannequins or teleporter pads).
List Of Adjustments
Teleporter Pads
2 transuranic alloy --> 2 Personal teleporter
pest trap, and energy brick
No longer requires a crafting bench
No longer requires a crafting bench
power cell ---> energy brick
- changes made to make playing in a night only world not require usage of chair clip, and to make the game not require any rope clips with the only adjustment required being a sandbox setting change to disable bridge and building limits in theory (the nachos in the security office still might not spawn)
Antethermite 1 --> 2
antegel 10 ---> 4
Nyxshade seed
leyyak essence 5 ---> 2
night essence 10 ---> 2
antewheat seed ---> snag vine seed
snagvine seed --> raw carbuncle
Diving Goggles
Quantum glass --> glass
Diving Suit
Coil winding --> 1 diving goggles
Armor Stand
2 hexwood ---> 5 wood
Woman and Mannequins
2 Staplers ---> 4 screws
all paint brushes except glitch
pigment item ---> wooden planks
- this change i made mostly so i could help my PS5 friend find the right container to store things in quicker
pipe wall lights 1 --> 4
carbon plating 1 --> 2
heaters 1 --> 3
lab burners 4 --> 2
- makes crafting them take 3 total carbon instead 6
make shift cooking pot --> cooking pot
staplers --> 2 wood
-a change to take off some pressure from staplers i find make shift pots ugly and dislike using them
-when abiotic schema comes out you'll be able to craft both of these items again.
Note the image shows teleporter pads costing 1 PTP the base cost for it is 2 personal teleporters but that the cost is reduced to 1 when you get to level 20 in the crafting skill.
How to install
Place the Paks folder in AbioticFactor\AbioticFactor\Content
Known Incompatibilities
Any mod that modifies DT_Recipes.uasset
or otherwise adds a new recipe.
https://fmodel.app
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https://github.com/trumank/retoc
Tool for unpacking/repacking files and converting them to a older UE file format
Retoc With Gui
https://www.nexusmods.com/aliensdarkdescent/mods/70
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https://github.com/atenfyr/UAssetGUI
Tool that can read and modify older formats of UE assets
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Abioticfactor Mods
- Author
- Underqualified Gunman
- Version
- v1-for-1.3
- Downloads
- 1,062
- Endorsements
- 19
- Category
- Quality of life
- Created
- 9/8/2025
- Updated
- 5/14/2026
- Tags
- Gameplay, Fair and balanced, Quality of Life
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