InMy Time At Sandrock, crafting is the name of the name of the game. From building materials and tools to the large, multistep machines, you’ll be crafting all sorts of things in order to progress through the game. Several recipes are unlocked in the beginning for you to start off with, but you’ll need more.

Without more advanced materials, you won’t be able to craft certain things, and without new machines, you might not be able to craft those materials you need, and they all need recipes. In this guide, we’ll show you all the different ways you may obtain new recipes, so you can keep on crafting and progressing.

Player character shopping at the Commerce Guild Store and selecting a purchasable recipe for a Curling Iron in My Time At Sandrock.

How To Buy Crafting Recipes

One of themain waysyou’ll be obtaining crafting recipes is frombuying them.

Most of your new crafting recipes can be purchased from theCommerce Guild Store, locatedat the counterinside theCommerce Guild.

Player character at the Research Center and researching an upgrade to the worktable in return for data disks in My Time At Sandrock.

you’re able to find recipes forprocessed crafting materialssuch as theRubber TubeandCopper Gearat the Commerce Guild Store, as well as those for handful of specialized tools like theFeather Duster.

The Commerce Guild Store also sells recipes forsome furniture itemssuch as theSingle Bed, fireworks, andstorage upgradeslike theWooden Storage.

Player character unlocking new recipes and the Recycler recipe after speaking with Yan during a tutorial mission in My Time At Sandrock.

How To Research Crafting Recipes

Another way you may obtain crafting recipes isfrom Qi, Sandrock’s resident researcher.

Once youobtain your first Data Disk,which can be found randomly when breaking downMixed Junk PilesatEufaula Salvage, mining in ruins such as theEufaula Salvage Abandoned Ruins, or purchased from the Eufaula Salvage store, you’llget a missionto seek out Qi.

Either byspeaking to himor by using theresearch machine at the Research Center, you may gain access toResearch.

With Research, you canunlock crafting recipesfornew machinessuch as the Grinder, Processor, or Dew Collector in return foran amount of Data Disks.

Each research takesat least one day to complete, and afterward Qi willsend you a lettercommenting on what he’s unlocked for youalong with the recipe, and it willbecome availableto make at your Assembly Table.

How To Obtain Crafting Recipes Via Quests

Some crafting recipesonly become availableonce you’veunlocked them via their particular mission.

Story missionsoften call upon you tobuild a specific machineand willgive you a new crafting recipeas part of the mission, such as the tutorial missions introducing the Pickhammer and Recycler recipes orPicking Up The Slack introducing the Crane Lift recipe.

Machines like the Crane Lift can becomeavailable as a commission requestafter their associated mission hasbeen completed.

Side missionslikeMade In the Shadecan also give you new crafting recipes or reward you with them. During Made In The Shade,Arvioasks that you build him aSunshade, and he’llgive you the recipefor one as part of the mission.