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Free & Instant Crafting and Building
"Craft and build without materials, and without the wait."
How do I install Free & Instant Crafting and Building?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Free & Instant Crafting and Building for ZED ZONE in one click.
</>What does Free & Instant Crafting and Building do?
Free & Instant Crafting and Building takes the two things that slow you down in ZED ZONE, gathering materials and waiting, and gives each its own switch. Free Crafting lets you craft any recipe you know without its materials. The craft screen shows every material as available, and nothing is taken from your bags or nearby storage. Tools still wear as usual. Craft Max queues Craft Max Amount crafts at a time (10 to start). Free Building fills construction sites without taking materials from you. The game makes each material as it goes in, the same way its own test building works. Walls and floors also cost nothing to place. Taking a building down still gives its materials back, as it normally does. Instant Crafting & Building speeds up the waiting. Switch it on and every work job gets Work Speed times its normal progress: hand crafting, station crafting, cooking and the other timed stations. Construction sites take in materials Work Speed times as often, and the dismantle hold shrinks by the same amount. At the default of 100 most jobs finish almost the moment you start them. Set Work Speed lower, down to 2, if you'd like work that is just quicker. You still need every ingredient and building material, and a job costs the same fatigue as before. Offline, a craft also lets far less game time pass, so you lose less of the day to the workbench. Switch it off and crafting, building and dismantling take their normal time again.
</>What is Free & Instant Crafting and Building?
This mod removes the material grind and the waiting from ZED ZONE's crafting and building. Free Crafting crafts any known recipe without materials, Free Building fills construction sites and places walls without taking anything, and Instant Crafting & Building makes every crafting job, construction site and dismantle hold up to 100 times faster. Each part has its own switch.
</>Common questions about Free & Instant Crafting and Building
How much faster does Free & Instant Crafting and Building make work in ZED ZONE?
As much as you set with Work Speed, from 2 to 100 times. At the default of 100 a crafting job is done almost as soon as you start it and a building site fills in a moment. Lower values keep a little of the wait: 10 means a job takes a tenth of its usual time, and 2 halves it. You can move the slider while you play, and the next bit of work follows the new value straight away, the dismantle hold included.
Do I still need ingredients and building materials?
Not with the free switches on. Free Crafting crafts any recipe you know without its materials, and Free Building fills construction sites and places walls and floors without taking any. With only Instant Crafting & Building on, recipes and buildings still need their materials, and only the waiting is shorter. Tools still wear as usual either way.
Is it any different in co-op?
Your own crafting and building speed up wherever you play. As a crewmate, each building material still waits for the host's game to accept it, so building can be a little slower than in your own world. Stations that run on the world clock, such as cooking, speed up when you are the host or play alone. Free Crafting and Free Building work on your own crafting and building. While the mod is loaded, the in-game computer won't upload your character.
Does switching it off undo anything I made?
No. Everything you crafted or built while it was on stays as it is. From then on crafting, construction and dismantling take their normal time again, and the dismantle hold goes back to 1.5 seconds, also on objects you had already walked up to. Things you crafted or built for free stay, like anything else you made.
Does it also speed up salvaging wrecks or garbage piles?
No. Salvaging wrecks, clearing garbage piles and removing planting pots keep their normal hold, because the game times those separately. The shorter hold applies when you dismantle objects you have built yourself, and it follows the Work Speed you choose, so at 10 it takes 0.15 seconds.
What options does Free & Instant Crafting and Building include?
Free Crafting
Every recipe can be crafted without its materials, and crafting takes nothing from your bags or nearby storage. Tools still wear as usual. Switching it off makes crafting use materials again.
Instant Crafting & Building
Crafting jobs, building sites and the dismantle hold run at Work Speed. Switching it off puts the normal times back.
Craft Max Amount
How many crafts the Craft Max button queues while Free Crafting is on.
Work Speed
How many times faster the work goes: 2 is twice as fast, 100 finishes almost at once.
Free Building
Construction sites fill without taking materials from you, and walls and floors cost nothing to place. Switching it off makes building use materials again.
Free & Instant Crafting and Building is a ProjectMods mod for ZED ZONE that lets you craft and build without materials and makes crafting jobs, construction sites and the dismantle hold up to 100 times faster.
System Requirements
What features does Free & Instant Crafting and Building include?
- Free Crafting: any known recipe crafts without its materials, and nothing is taken from your bags or storage.
- Free Building: construction sites fill and walls and floors place without taking materials.
- Craft Max Amount sets how many crafts Craft Max queues while crafting is free.
- Crafting at the workbench, lathe, chemistry station and by hand finishes up to 100 times faster.
- Construction sites take in materials up to 100 times as often as the usual one every half second.
- The hold to dismantle a built object drops from 1.5 seconds to a blink.
Best For
- You found a recipe but not the parts, so switch on Free Crafting and make it now.
- Your base needs walls before the horde arrives, so switch on Free Building and Instant Crafting & Building and they go up at once.
- You'd rather keep some waiting but less of it, so set Work Speed to 5 and work goes five times as fast.
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