Crafting and Sockets
Status: Working
Crafting and socketing deepen found equipment without making random drops irrelevant. Tubal-Cain is the primary known guide for turning war relics and contaminated matter into usable forms.
Design rules
Section titled “Design rules”- Preserve item identity.
- Favor changed behavior over flat arithmetic.
- Keep the interface legible for a small-team ARPG.
- Let authored materials and socket combinations create build-specific transformations.
Open questions
Section titled “Open questions”Recipes, material economy, socket counts, removal rules, failure states, and the boundary between crafting and Dinim corruption.