The crafting system in Outriders is a powerful tool that allows you to enhance and modify your gear to suit your playstyle. As you progress through the game, you’ll unlock access to Dr. Zahedi, your main crafting NPC, and gain the ability to manipulate weapons and armor through five main systems:

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1. Improve Rarity

You can increase the rarity of items from common (green) to rare (blue) or epic (purple):

• Upgrading from green to blue costs iron.
• When upgrading to blue, you get to select one of three available mods.
• Upgrading from blue to epic requires titanium (50 units), which is quite rare during early progression.

Important: Once a piece of gear has two mods (epic or higher), only one mod slot remains editable.

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2. Raise Attributes

Each item comes with secondary stats called shards (e.g., weapon life leech, close range damage).

• Shards are gained by dismantling gear with shard icons.
• These can be used to increase an item’s stat multiple times, consuming shard points.
• These bonuses are essential for fine-tuning your damage, survivability, or healing.

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3. Mod Gear

• Modding allows you to replace one mod on an item.
• Mods are organized into three tiers (T1, T2, T3).
• Dismantling an item adds the mod to your mod library, if not already unlocked.
• Tier 3 mods are exclusive to legendary gear and provide powerful effects.

Mod rules:

• You can only change one mod slot (not both).
• Once one mod slot is edited, the other becomes permanently locked.
• You can mix and match mods from your library to suit your playstyle or ability focus.

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4. Swap Variants

Certain weapon types can be altered to change how they function:

• Example: Assault rifles can be changed from standard to tactical (burst) or sharpshooter (semi-auto).
• Pistol variants include burst, full-auto, high caliber (revolver style), etc.
• Legendary weapons cannot have their variants changed.

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5. Level Up

• Leveling up gear improves base stats but requires titanium.
• High-level gear (e.g., level 50+) will cost significantly more.
• Legendary weapons cost a lot of titanium to level and cannot be upgraded infinitely without farming.

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Crafting Materials Summary

• Scrap: Used for vendor purchases; gained by selling gear.
• Iron: Used for improving rarity and modding; gained from dismantling weapons.
• Leather: Used for armor upgrades; gained from dismantling armor.
• Titanium: Used for high-level upgrades and rarity boosts; rare, found from bosses or elite enemies.
• Shards: Used to enhance attributes; gained by dismantling shard-bearing items.

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Tips for Crafting Efficiency

• Dismantle gear with unique mods to unlock them in your library.
• Sell duplicate mods to vendors for scrap, which you can use to buy epic gear for further dismantling.
• Focus on building around a specific skill (e.g., Twisted Rounds) using multiple gear mods.
• Avoid wasting titanium during leveling; prioritize upgrading only key gear.
• Use the wrench icon indicator to track which mod slot has been altered.

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Crafting is essential to shaping your build and adapting to Outriders’ increasing difficulty. Whether you’re maximizing damage, survivability, or support potential, learning how to manipulate your gear is key to success.

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For more on mod combinations, titanium farming, or legendary upgrade strategies, stay tuned for future guides.