Summary
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds players should prioritize essential stations like Bed Rolls, Crafting Tables, and Campfires early on.
- Crafting a Lodestone enables essential fast travel between locations in RuneScape: Dragonwilds.
- Players can use the Smithing Forge to access higher-level gear and tools, requiring a Vault Core and Bronze Bars.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is the survival crafting spin-off of developer Jagex's perennial MMORPG RuneScape. While its early access release still has a lot that needs to be implemented, most players agree that the game has launched with a solid foundation on which to build. Pardon the survival-crafting pun, but players will also need a solid foundation to engage with RuneScape: Dragonwilds' building system.
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Much like in other survival crafting RPGs, gameplay in RuneScape: Dragonwilds comes in three main forms: gathering, crafting/building, and combat. Building is a core part of this system, as players will need to craft both a home and a variety of additional workstations to keep expanding their crafting abilities throughout the game. With that in mind, these are the best things to build in RuneScape: Dragonwilds.
This topic is aimed at players who want to prioritize the most useful building pieces and crafting stations. While it doesn't list the numerous housing pieces here, players should be aware that many of the crafting stations need a roof over them in order to function, requiring them to build indoor spaces to house these items.
10 Bed Roll
Rest And Respawn
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
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Sleep through the night or rest to regain stamina |
The Bed Roll is an essential early item to craft in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. It has three functions. First, it sets the player's respawn point, so they'll come back to their bed if they die out in the world. Second, players can lay down on the bed in the daytime to regain lost stamina.
Lastly, players can use the bed to skip the night by sleeping. Beds need to be enclosed and have a roof over them, so players will also need a structure to put the Bed Roll in.
9 Crafting Table
Basic Crafting Options
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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4 x Ash Logs |
Access crafting for basic armor, weapons, and tools |
The Crafting Table is one of the few stations that can be placed freely, so players don't have to worry about putting it inside a structure. It's also used for most of the game's basic equipment crafting, including weapons, armor, and gathering tools, so players will want to build one right away.
Players will likely end up building numerous crafting stations as they explore the world of RuneScape: Dragonwilds, as they can also be used to repair gear, which can come in handy quite often.
8 Campfire
Food Buffs
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
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Cook basic food |
The Campfire is the first station players will want to build for food crafting. Campfires can only cook basic food, but players can later upgrade this with a cooking pot for more complex recipes. More advanced food items can provide buffs to the player, as well as being essential for filling the hunger meter.
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Campfires and Cooking Pots have to be built outdoors; they'll only function without a roof over them. Later in the game, however, players will be able to build a Cooking Range, which can be placed indoors.
7 Brewing Cauldron
Potion Brewing
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Access to potion crafting |
The Brewing Cauldron has an extensive recipe, but these items can all be found in early-game areas, and players will want to build this station as soon as they can. It grants access to potion brewing, which allows players to create potions with a range of effects - from healing potions to experience boosters.
To create the potions, players will also need Charcoal for fuel, a herb and a secondary ingredient for the recipe, and a Clay Vessel to hold it. The specific herb and secondary ingredient will depend on the potion the player wants to make. For example, a healing potion needs a Snapdragon and two Dwellberries, whereas an anti-poison potion needs a Harralander and a Bittercap Mushroom.
6 Crate/Small Chest
Storage Options
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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16 / 24 item storage slots |
The Crate is the smallest storage option in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, but it still holds 16 item stacks and is easily accessible to craft early in the game. Players will need to hoard a lot of resources for crafting in Dragonwilds, so building storage is a must.
Players can build Small Chests that hold 24 item stacks if they add 4 x Coarse Thread and 2 x Swamp Tar to the Ash Logs needed for the Crate. Since these smaller storage options are much more accessible than the large chest, which requires higher-tier materials, it's arguably more efficient to build multiple smaller storage chests than the larger, more expensive versions.
5 Grindstone
Material Processing
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Processes Stone, Sandstone and Granite |
The Grindstone can't be built until players are past the early-game, as it needs Oak Logs and some processed materials. It's an essential piece of refining equipment if players want access to higher-tier building parts, though.
Players put their stacks of Stone, Sandstone, or Granite into the Grindstone, and it processes the materials passively over time. There's not much more to it than that, but it's an essential step in the crafting/building loop.
4 Furnace
Smelting Ores
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Smelt ores into metal bars |
The Furnace is another processing station that marks an essential step in the building/crafting loop of RuneScape: Dragonwilds. This station is needed for processing metal ores like iron and copper into metal bars.
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These bars are needed to build more advanced crafting stations and gear, though players will need to progress the game beyond the point where they've conquered their first vault in order to access the materials for the Furnace. Players should note that the Furnace needs to be placed outside (or not have a roof) in order to function.
3 Lodestone
Fast Travel
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Access fast travel between two lodestones |
Once players have access to them, Lodestones become an essential tool for long-term exploration in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. The first Lodestone players build will only allow them to teleport back to the previously inactive stone in the Temple starting area. Once they have multiple, though, they'll be able to teleport between any two Lodestones.
It's an essential traversal tool, but teleporting isn't free; it costs Law Runes. Players should already have access to a Rune Altar by the time they build a Lodestone, but they'll need to bear this cost in mind. The Law Rune cost is a minimum of one, but it can be increased by distance traveled and the weight a player is carrying.
2 Smithing Forge
Higher Level Gear And Repairs
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Access crafting for advanced weapons, armor, and tools |
The Smithing Forge is how players access the higher tiers of gear and tools in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. They'll need a Vault Core and the ability to smelt Bronze Bars in order to build one, so it's not accessible during the early-game.
Still, this station is an essential tool for mid-game progress. From Iron and Bronze gathering tools to enchanted weapons and mage robes, the Smithing Forge gives players access to a laundry list of gear recipes with the right ingredients.
1 Rune Altar
Runecrafting
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Crafting Recipe |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Access Rune crafting and Wardstones |
The Rune Altar is available to craft from quite early in the game, and it should be built as soon as possible. This is how players access Rune Crafting, which is absolutely essential for general gameplay in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. That's because runes are commonly used to fuel abilities, as well as in crafting.
Special moves like Woodcutting's Axtral Projection require runes, as do actions like fast travel. As a secondary benefit, players can also create Wardstones at the Rune Altar, which can be used to increase one's Lifeward temporarily.
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- Survival, Open-World, Adventure
