Chapter 2.3 Construction Skills and Community Building
Skilled Construction and Written Blueprints
Blueprints are the specific constructions players can choose from to build. Players who have active skills in construction can create written crafts that contain some or a full set of a player's available blueprints. (These can be slotted or merely unlocked and active, more about skills in future sections.) Written crafts are books, scrolls, tablets, etc. Players can craft written crafts at a desk with the right resources.
Skilled Construction and Proficiency
Players who have the skills to construct can place a building and stakes down for it, without a construction workstation, and without written crafts. Using a skill will slowly increase the proficiency of it. Total proficiencies in a category will allow players to build and repair quicker than an unskilled player.
Unskilled Construction
All players can build basic survival structures from memory. However, without active construction skills, players will require both a workstation and linked resources to create anything beyond the basics.
Community Building - Construction and Repairs
After stakes are placed, players can assist other players with construction or repairs whether they are skilled or not. But their proficiency of assisting will vary. Each player will animate but they will see the results of a shared construction progression bar.
Community Construction - Workstations
Players can craft a workstation, which allows other players who are unskilled with workstations to have access to other player's blueprints. To link a player's constructions, they can add their written craft to the workstation. From there on, all players who have access to that workstation can use the linked blueprints. They will construct slower on their own, due to having less skill proficiency, but they will not fail a construction. (More on skill proficiency in future chapters.) More complex constructions will take more time.
Unlocking Hints
At a workstation, each player's current skill slots determine what buildings can be constructed. However, if players are struggling or want more direction, players can "study construction" with a short progression bar. Completing it will add a quest at the workstation, which helps direct a player to a nearby resource. Studying is shown as a player working at the desk, designing a blueprint. The time it takes to study more complex designs will increase as a player progresses.
You Won't Lose Your Study Construction Quests
If someone dissembles or a monster destroys a construction workstation, whatever study quests you have access to will be available at any other workstation you have access to.
Unlocking Hint Limitations
Hints will be to progress a player's current construction skill. To skip natural construction progression, a player can learn the skill from another player. (Teaching and learning is covered in a future chapter.)