Veritus: Crafting and Cooking Guide

How to make gear in this game, and be confident it’s better than it was before.

Picks

Different materials in your pick can give different benefits. Here’s a list of what each materials does.

Handle

Binding

Metal

Log
No special effect.

Leather
No special effect.

Pure Steel
No special effect.

Writhing Vine
No special effect.

Hudan Leather
Heavily reduced charge time for charge attacks

Ancient Alloy
+1 damage

Brightbark
No special effect.

Beast Hide
+1 damage, reduced charge time for charge attacks

Kadocite
+1 damage during invincibility frames

Duskwood
No special effect.

Scaled Hide
+5 luck, reduced charge time for charge attacks

Shaedrite
+1 damage

Additionally, there are four special recipes that make unique picks. The picks still gain any benefits their materials would normally give them.

Handle

Binding

Metal

Pick

Log

Scaled Hide

Pure Steel

Dragon Pick
Attacking an enemy stuns them for a little longer.

Brightbark

Beast Hide

Ancient Alloy

Enetha’s Touch
(1+luck)% chance of instantly killing undead monsters on hit.
NOTE: Due to a bug this recipe does not work.

Writhing Vine

Leather

Kadocite

Ignia Pick
+X damage, where X is half your missing health.

Duskwood

Hudan Leather

Shaedrite

Shroud Nail
No special effect.

Boots

Boots work in the same way picks do, though the same material can have different effects in boots than it did in picks.

Lining

Cloth

Metal

Spikes
No additional effect.

Leather
No additional effect.

Pure Steel
+1 armour

Umbral Cloth
Heavily increased invulnerability period after taking damage.

Hudan Leather
Reduced charge time for charge attacks

Ancient Alloy
+1 armour

Ancient Plate
+1 armour, reduced knockback after getting hit.

Beast Hide
+1 damage

Kadocite
+2 armour

Discordant Ichor
Knockback immunity.

Scaled Hide
+1 armour

Shaedrite
+2 armour

Just like picks, there are four special recipes that make unique boots. The boots still gain any benefits their materials would normally give them.

Lining

Cloth

Metal

Boots

Spikes

Leather

Pure Steel

Guide Boots
Immune to slipping on ice.
NOTE: There is no ice in this game.

Ancient Plate

Scaled Hide

Ancient Alloy

Titan Boots
(1+luck)% chance of avoiding damage when hit.
NOTE: Due to a bug this recipe does not work.

Discordant Ichor

Beast Hide

Kadocite

Sidian Step
No special effect.

Umbral Cloth

Hudan Leather

Shaedrite

Reaper Greaves
No special effect.

Food

Food is slightly different from picks and boots. The individual ingredients do not matter at all, except to decide which of the 8 dishes it makes.
Similar to picks and boots, 4 of the dishes have set recipes, and the other 4 are chosen by their main ingredient (the first column).

Main

Side

Spice

Meal