level up crafting with leves only?

[VanillaChinchilla]

Hi, im starting to craft and so far every recipe I have gotten has ingredients I dont have. Searching on the internet it looks like I have to either buy them from vendors or they are from higher level gathering areas I cant get to yet. Like the recipe for "Fine Sand" needs river sand which I cant gather yet. Or I got a recipe for arrows, but I cant gather feathers and I dont know how to make bronze ingots.

And Weaving is the same problem, I got the recipe for black straw hat. But I cant make straw hats and black dye is only from fish in some place I dont know how to get to. All of the weaving recipes ive gotten are the same, they are "X item" of "Y color".
But I cannot make "X item" and dyes are expensive on the market.

I was hoping that there would be some use for the mounds and mounds of stuff ive gathered, but nothing ive gathered allows me to craft anything. I was hoping to craft some neat stuff for myself, but doesnt look like its possible without buying things from vendors, and I dont know if I should be spending money on that yet.

So should I just do leves to level up crafting?
thanks for any advice

[Skies]

Oh, dear.
Just to start, the "X item of Y Color" items are ALL from Dated recipes, that is, they are recipes that are being phased out of the game. Whereas Lodestone has all the recipes if you go to www.mooglebox.com and select only (new) recipes it should be giving you a list of recipes that are easier to use to level.

As for levelling up your craft. You will depend on five different sources of materials: Your DoL classes that you will gather stuff by yourself, Your DoW/DoM classes by taking stuff that are monster drops (a fair few things are monster drops only but certain other ones are both gathering and drop), the Market Wards by buying stuff others got to sell, Leves which actually grant you items when you finish them, and the crafting materials given for the Leve itself.

Other than that, there are Leves, which I sincerely, ultimately prefer over any other sort of levelling. I actually levelled most of my Weaver levels using materials I had earned from fighting monsters or that LS mates of mine had done the same with (cotton bolls mostly).

[Kiote]

So should I just do leves to level up crafting?

Yes, Grinding at low levels is just a waste of money. Take the highest level leves you can do, usually 5 levels over your level, and just do them repeatedly.

Unless you intend to go out an gather all your materials yourself, grinding on Single crafts is a massive waste of money.

[VanillaChinchilla]

Oh, dear.
Just to start, the "X item of Y Color" items are ALL from Dated recipes, that is, they are recipes that are being phased out of the game. Whereas Lodestone has all the recipes if you go to www.mooglebox.com and select only (new) recipes it should be giving you a list of recipes that are easier to use to level.
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thats too bad that the recipes I am being rewarded for doing crafting leves are outdated and being phased out.
I was thinking I would look good in a black straw hat. kinda sad I cant make one.
If I keep doing the crafting leves will I eventually be rewarded one of the new recipe I can use?

[VanillaChinchilla]

Yes, Grinding at low levels is just a waste of money. Take the highest level leves you can do, usually 5 levels over your level, and just do them repeatedly.

Unless you intend to go out an gather all your materials yourself, grinding on Single crafts is a massive waste of money.

I was actually intending to try to gather everything for myself, which is what I usually do in other games. I never buy off any auction houses unless I have to and prefer gathering it.
But so far my inventory is full of stuff I have no idea what to do with or is used in any recipe I have been rewarded yet. Beans, eggs, twigs, silex, sap, minimum, grapes, tin ore, various mushrooms, grass, pelts, mistletoe, logs, blood, ect.
I have about 120 things in my inventory, and nothing I can use lol
not sure where to even start or what to do with all this stuff
If I am just going to use crafting leves to level up, should I just try to sell everything?

[Taika]

You should check if you can use those items later on when you get to higher level in your craft. Moogle box is a great site for that, as Skies already mentioned. Then you can just sell the others at the wards or to a NPC, which ever is better for you.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Depending on the crafts you plan to focus on, may determine your inventory.

Alchemy and culinary, you will probably have more diverse inventory.

[Skies]

thats too bad that the recipes I am being rewarded for doing crafting leves are outdated and being phased out.
I was thinking I would look good in a black straw hat. kinda sad I cant make one.
If I keep doing the crafting leves will I eventually be rewarded one of the new recipe I can use?

Hrm! I may have used the english language poorly, it's not my mother language, I apologize. By "X item of Y color" I meant the 'part' recipes like "Hempen Outer Cowl (Brown)". The finished colored items are actually part of the non-dated new recipes.

However, you do not need to actually earn the recipes through Leves to be able to craft them! If you simply throw, say a Hempen Yarn, Sheep Leather and Undyed Hempen Cloth in your 'ingredient list', you will have a list of ALL possible recipes with these items, it's generally just one but it can be more. The Awarded Recipes are simply to facilitate your selection and to teach you what you can do, however sites like mooglebox will list all the recipes for you, hell, they're also buried somewhere within the Lodestone.

Once again, apologies for the misuse of the language

[REDace0]

thats too bad that the recipes I am being rewarded for doing crafting leves are outdated and being phased out.
I was thinking I would look good in a black straw hat. kinda sad I cant make one.
If I keep doing the crafting leves will I eventually be rewarded one of the new recipe I can use?

You can make a Black Straw Hat. You'll just have to buy the materials from the wards. The All-Purpose Black Dye will probably be the most expensive item.

You also don't need to earn a recipe first to make it. That will be the case in 2.0, but you'll acquire recipes by more means than just leves. You just have to select a square in the grid and then select an item from your inventory to add it.

[VanillaChinchilla]

However, you do not need to actually earn the recipes through Leves to be able to craft them! If you simply throw, say a Hempen Yarn, Sheep Leather and Undyed Hempen Cloth in your 'ingredient list', you will have a list of ALL possible recipes with these items, it's generally just one but it can be more. The Awarded Recipes are simply to facilitate your selection and to teach you what you can do, however sites like mooglebox will list all the recipes for you, hell, they're also buried somewhere within the Lodestone.

Ok thanks so I dont need the recipe to craft something? So there is a use for all this stuff I gathered?

I just tried it out, I put two pieces of Moko Grass in the boxes and it let me make hempen yarn.
But, it only showed the recipe when I had all of the ingredients in place (one piece of moko grass in each box)

I didnt see a list of recipes when I just had one piece of Moko Grass in a box, I had to look the recipe up on Mooglebox.
Did I do something wrong? It would be easier if it did show a list of all the recipes possible from just one ingredient