Building - velour/wrecked GitHub Wiki

The player can combine items on the island to build new items. Items which can be built have a recipe--a set of items that, when combined, result in the buildable item. To build something, the player places all of the items in the recipe on the same square and performs a combine action on them (likely a 3-click). If the items on the square are not a valid recipe (either there are too many or too few items for any of the possible recipes) then a message appears stating, "You do not know how to combine these items." If the items are a recipe, then a progress bar appears over the player's head. The bar counts down for an amount of time specific to the recipe. If the player is attacked during this time then the build is interrupted and the items scatter to adjacent squares. Otherwise, if the building completes uninterrupted then the items in the recipe disappear and the result of the recipe replaces them.

Each recipe uniquely identifies a single item or set of items that are built simultaneously (e.g., combining a coconut and a rock gives you both the coconut meat and the coconut milk). However, the items of one recipe may be a subset of the items of another recipe. For example, logs + rope may be the recipe for a raft, and logs + rope + a compass may be the recipe for a dingy. In this way, there can be a progression of quality among build-able items, i.e., a dingy is somehow higher quality than a simple raft.