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Crafting

From Star Trek Online Wiki

Overview

Crafting in Star Trek Online is done a bit differently than in many other MMORPGs. Instead of manufacturing or creating items yourself using base ingredients, you instead upgrade purchased or looted items using Data Samples primarily collected from anomalies in space and on ground missions. If you have the item to be upgraded and sufficient data samples in your inventory, you can use the research stations in Memory Alpha to fabricate an upgraded item.

Skills

The crafting system is skill based; you gain skill points by fabricating upgraded items. As your skill levels increase, you gain access to more upgrades and higher tiers. There are seven skills in tree tier groupings:

• general applies to Mk II items,
• specialized skills apply to Mk IV and Mk VI items,
• advanced skills apply to Mk VII and above items.

You can unlock the specialized skills if you have 500 points in the general skill and can unlock an advanced skill if you have 500 points in the appropriate specialty. In both cases, you need to speak with the appropriate NPC in Memory Alpha.

The specialized and advances skills relate roughly to the three officer classes:

• Energy Field R&D is Engineering officer oriented,
• Physical Sciences R&D is Science officer oriented,
• Technology R&D is Tactical officer oriented.

Sometimes the same item can be upgraded by more than one specialty.

Upgrading Items

You open a research station by double clicking it or choosing the "Research and Development" action; this opens up the station window. The window has a tab for each specialty; this shows a list of possible upgrades. Each entry shows the upgraded item, the data samples and item needed as input, the number of skill points earned, and if the item is greyed out, the minimum skill level required.

If the number of each input sample and item is white, you can click "Fabricate" to upgrade the item. However, if any of the numbers are red, you need to go collect more; fortunately there are NPCs in each room eager to sell up upgradeable items at only slightly more than normal prices (they also are stingy when buying items from you).

When upgrading items the data samples and other items can be in your bank. It is not necessary to have them in your inventory when using a research station.