Scavland Crafting, Repair and Trading

Scavland’s economy runs on scavenging, crafting, and trading. A new crafting system, dedicated repair and weapon maintenance, and hundreds of items and equipment pieces were confirmed in the official pre-launch overhaul. This page covers the workbench, the stall, and the relationship between them.

The crafting system

Crafting in Scavland is tied to workbenches in safe areas and rest areas. Practical uses:

• Keep weapons firing — cleaning kits work anywhere, workbenches are faster
• Turn junk into trade goods the stall will not replace cheaper
• Feed jobs that want a specific object
• Stretch a small backpack. A bigger pack is often a mission carrot, not a default

NoShadow has not published a public recipe book with every component. Early Access will add more recipes during the 12–24 month window. Treat this as a method, not a spreadsheet.

Scavland demo let's look: inventory, looting, and the first town loop

Repair is the first craft

Before you dream about attachments, keep the gun you have:

• Cleaning kits are multi-purpose. Creators call them a must for any Vulture. Use them anywhere. They go faster at a workbench or a rest area.
• Condition is a combat stat. A pristine AK-pattern rifle is not the same gun as a dirty copy.
• Jams happen mid-fight. Worst case, the weapon becomes scrap.

The weapon tier list explains why condition affects rank. The combat page covers jams and cook-offs.

Workbenches and rest areas

Town workbenches exist so you stop paying the field repair tax. If a settlement dislikes you, the bench gets more expensive in the only way that matters: you have to walk farther. Reputation is access to tools, not only unique barrels.

Rest areas support both sleeping (Update 0.6.0) and faster repairs. A bunker safe room can be a repair stop mid-run if you packed the kit.

Do not strip a working S-tier rifle in a doorway to install a sight you do not understand. Builds starts with a magazine you can feed, then a sight you can read, then vanity.

Settlement traders

Five Scavland traders are confirmed so far: Grigory, Alexei, Anatoly, Nadja, and Petar. Each has a role and a stock that changes with reputation rank. Patch 0.5.169 adjusted trader stock; Update 0.6.0 rebalanced loot tables significantly, with Sasha’s weapon tiers becoming more predictable at each reputation level.

General trading rules:

• Turn in journal objects first. Money is easier to replace than a quest item
• Compare prices if two shops exist
• Buy calories first, ammo second, attachments third
• Rank adds limited item rows — check shops after jobs

What to sell and to whom

The trading economy rewards knowing which vendor buys what:

• Meat and food items — typically to food-focused traders
• Bullets and weapon parts — typically to weapons-focused traders like Grigory
• Mechanical salvage — spark plugs, wire coils, and mechanical parts have consistent demand
• Junk and cloth — low value individually, but积累 quickly

Items with high trade value for legitimate ruble farming:

• Spark plugs
• Lighters
• Wire coils
• Mechanical parts

Barter and prices

The scavland.wiki resources page documents confirmed barter prices and valuable junk values. Prices in the live Early Access build may differ from pre-launch estimates. Check the actual vendor window before assuming a value.

The key discipline: sell junk in town, not in the field. Hauling trash to a trader wastes carrying capacity you need for medkits and ammo.

Rank-gated trading

Raising reputation rank with a faction unlocks limited shop items. After Update 0.6.0, Sasha’s weapon tier progression is more consistent at each rank level. The practical implication: come back after jobs, not before.

If only one shop likes you, that shop is now part of survival. Food gated behind standing is a harder check than a mutant.

Loot that is actually a material

Demo footage treated mutant parts, cloth, and scrap as vendor weight. Some of that will be a recipe input after launch. Until a patch names the list, follow this order:

1. Keep cleaning kits, meds, food, matching ammo
2. Keep one extra magazine that fits the primary
3. Keep quest objects
4. Sell duplicate broken pistols and decorative rags
5. Park rare parts in town before a hatch

Jobs are shops that pay you

Contracts and jobs pay in money, standing, and sometimes gear. Distance raises reward. Distance also raises the chance you never collect. Turn work in before you go shopping so rank and coin arrive together. The journal on J is part of the stall.

See the jobs page for contract types and the traders page for the counter discipline.