Underqualified Gunman's Crafting Tweaks

⭐ — (19 endorsements) 📥 1,062 downloads 📌 vv1-for-1.3 📅 9/8/2025
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By Underqualified Gunman · Quality of life

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 5/14/2026 📅 Created: 9/8/2025

🔍 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

Tool used for reading UE assets, good for finding where things are or datamine under the hood stats etc

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

Tool for adding a user friendly interface for retoc

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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