Fabricate

A system-agnostic crafting and gathering module for Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

Fabricate works with any game system. It is not tied to D&D 5e, Pathfinder, or any single ruleset. GMs can create as many independent crafting systems as they like, with their own recipes, ingredients, tools, essences, gathering environments, tasks, and events. You should be able to create almost any crafting system you can imagine with Fabricate (at least, that’s the hope)!

Players conduct the whole loop in a single Fabricate window. They brew and experiment with unknown ingredient combinations from the Alchemy Workbench, break items down for parts through Salvage, collect materials in the Gathering tab, and track every run in the Journal. Then, they browse recipes, pick a character or characters to source the materials from, roll any required crafting checks, and craft all in the Crafting tab.

The player window, with the recipe browser, the selected recipe, and the shopping list side by side.

GMs author single or multi-step recipes in the Crafting Admin panel across the overview, ingredients, results, tools, and validation tabs, with an access or books and scrolls tab appearing according to the system’s recipe visibility mode.

The Crafting Admin panel, where a GM manages every crafting system in the world.

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What can Fabricate do?

Feature	Description
System-Agnostic	Works with any Foundry game system, with no dependency on a specific ruleset
Crafting Systems	Define independent systems with their own component libraries, essences, and rules
Player Crafting	Browse recipes, choose an actor and component sources, roll checks, and craft from the Crafting tab
Recipe Authoring	Author complete recipes in the GM admin panel, with tabs for overview, ingredients, results, tools, and validation, plus an access or books and scrolls tab according to the system’s recipe visibility mode
Resolution Modes	Simple, routed by ingredients, routed by check, progressive, and alchemy crafting with optional and mandatory skill checks, depending on the resolution mode
Multi-Step Recipes	Chain steps that must be completed in sequence, with optional time gates
Tools	Required-but-reusable, breakable prerequisites shared across crafting, gathering, and salvage
Salvage	Players break components down into their constituent parts
Gathering Environments	GM-authored places where characters can gather components to craft with
Shopping List	Queue recipes in the Crafting tab and see one consolidated list of the materials you still need
Journal	Player-facing tab to monitor crafting, gathering, and salvage runs and continue crafting runs
Canvas Interactables	Place Tools and Gathering Tasks as Scene Regions players activate by walking a token in
Essences	Abstract properties on items for flexible ingredient matching
Visibility & Knowledge	Control which recipes players can see, learn, or unlock, with recipe books and scrolls that teach them
Effect Transfer	Transfer active effects from ingredients to crafted items
Import & Export	Back up a whole crafting system or move it between worlds as a JSON file (and a compendium for the items - manual for now)
Macro Integration	Customise crafting checks, property generation, and success/failure hooks
Alchemy Workbench	Hide recipes and let players discover formulas by experimentation
Recipe Graph	Planned feature. Visualise recipe dependencies as an interactive graph in the GM admin panel
Handling Huge Crafting Systems	Fabricate can handle crafting systems with thousands of components and recipes, as well as actor inventories with hundreds of items/item stacks without slowing down

Use the search bar in the sidebar to quickly find settings, configuration options, and examples across the documentation.

Get help

Visit the Help page for:

• A Quickstart guide for installation and your first Gathering Environment.
• The Troubleshooting guide for solutions to common issues.
• A set of How-To Guides covering common tasks like recipe discovery, degrading tools, and effect transfer.