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🧠 Crafting — What This System Does (and Doesn’t Do)

This page explains what the Crafting system is responsible for and what is intentionally left to you.

No code. No implementation details. Just boundaries.

✅ What Crafting does

Crafting is responsible for:

  • Turning recipes into jobs
  • Running those jobs over time
  • Handling preflight checks (inputs, currency, space, validators)
  • Managing job lifecycle (queued → running → completed / failed / cancelled)
  • Applying modifiers and routing
  • Handling refunds and compensation (best-effort, adapter-dependent)
  • Supporting offline job progression and restore-time reconciliation
  • Providing snapshots of active jobs for persistence systems
  • Emitting events for UI and gameplay systems

👉 In short:

Crafting owns the execution lifecycle of crafting jobs

❌ What Crafting does not do

Crafting intentionally does not provide:

Persistence

  • No save files
  • No cloud sync
  • No automatic save/load

You must decide:

  • when to save
  • where data is stored
  • when to restore

Networking

  • No replication
  • No prediction
  • No rollback or reconciliation

You must implement:

  • server authority
  • state sync
  • multiplayer behaviour

Authority Rules

  • No built-in multiplayer or gameplay authority rules

Crafting supports authority via interfaces, but:

👉 You define the rules

Game Systems

  • No inventory system
  • No currency system
  • No progression system
  • No UI

Crafting connects to these systems via adapters.

🧠 Responsibility Split

Responsibility Owner
Craft execution Crafting
Job lifecycle Crafting
Offline progression Crafting
Save/load system You
Networking You
Authority rules You
UI / UX You

🧩 The Mental Shortcut

If you’re ever unsure:

  • “What happens during a craft?” → Crafting
  • “When and where is data stored?” → You
  • “Who is allowed to craft?” → You
  • “How is it shown to the player?” → You

🎯 The Point

Crafting is designed to be:

  • Predictable
  • Modular
  • Explicit

It gives you:

👉 a reliable execution engine

It does not try to be:

👉 your entire game

TL;DR

Crafting runs the jobs.
You own everything around it.