Recipe lines verified on the launch build where possible; chapter-gating follows day-two community reports. Numbers marked [RECON] inherit Breathedge 1 values — flag anything off on GitHub.
Improvised O2 Bottle
Scrap×2 + Wire×1+40% oxygen. The lifeline of the first two chapters: leaving without two bottles is streaking.
Unlock note: Unlocked by the tutorial, nobody misses it — yet day one already argued stockpiling bottles vs. saving scrap for grabber tiers.
Grapple Glove
Scrap×4 + Wire×2 + Plastic×2+60% pickup radius, pulls distant loot. The watershed for feel-good scavenging.
Unlock note: Blueprint mid-chapter one. Speedrun schism #1: glove-first or bottle-first — both routes cleared on day one.
Reinforced Visor
Glass×3 + Resin×1Oxygen drain -15%. A blue rim visually, a security blanket mentally.
Unlock note: Many found the blueprint only after shattering their own visor — this site strongly recommends otherwise.
Coffin Plating
Alloy×4 + Scrap×6Coffin durability +100, rams light bulkheads. Your home is armor — the series' core insight.
Unlock note: The official answer to chapter two's "door won't open" wall. Half of day-one help threads ended here.
Electrolysis Rack
Ice Water×6 + Circuit×1 + Battery×2Full base refill + slow offline regen. The first relic of the idle-inclined.
Unlock note: [RECON] Unlocks at the chapter-two base event. Community consensus: prioritize over the thruster — people before speed.
Coffin Thruster
Battery×4 + Alloy×2 + Wire×3The coffin becomes a vehicle, cross-region travel. The moment you boost past a billboard in a coffin, the black-comedy thesis lands.
Unlock note: Blueprint at chapter two's end. Chinese community calls it "hearse drifting" — the meme has already left the guide ecosystem for short-video land.
Wreck Scanner
Circuit×3 + Battery×2 + Feathers×2Highlights resource nodes within 200m. Why feathers are in the recipe, the devs' blog refuses to explain.
Unlock note: Early chapter three. Mandatory for achievement hunters — the full-collection achievement effectively assumes the scanner.
Crew Log Decoder
Crew Tags×5 + Circuit×2 + Resin×2Unlocks full crew logs = hidden-ending breadcrumbs. Lore-head mandatory, speedrunners skip.
Unlock note: [RECON] Found by first platinum "Deckard_L" via a chapter-two-end backtrack — pre-collected tags let you craft it a full chapter early.