Step 3Updated September 3, 2026

Step 3 — Build a workshop and craft your first gear

Common recipes work anywhere. The good ones — smelting, gear, meals — need a Personal Workshop on your own land.

Menu ▸ Crafting lists every recipe you know. Each shows what it costs and a Craft button; tap Max to make as many as your materials allow. Crafting takes time and you have to stay put, but closing the window does not stop a run.

Why the workshop comes first

Some recipes only work standing next to a station. The Personal Workshop is the first one: it is where you smelt iron ore into iron, and iron is what a sword, a breastplate and most real gear are made of. The workshop can only be built on land you own — which is why the flag (Step 5) comes before it in the tutorial.

The Personal Workshop

Smelting

Your first set

Three pieces turn a new arrival into someone the wolves respect:

The Sword

The Wooden Shield

The Breastplate

Once crafted, open your bag and tap each piece to equip it. Armor changes cannot be made in the middle of a fight, so gear up beforehand.

What the tutorial asks

Gather the materials, build the workshop on your own land, smelt a little iron, then craft and equip the sword, shield and breastplate.

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