Manufacturing occurs outside of deployment and brings a whole new activity to Vanguard. You can access it by pressing on "MANUFACTURING" at the top left of your menu screen.
Many items needed for Manufacturing can be found while on Deployments to various Planets. A breakdown of the Manufacturing process can be read below.
Main Manufacturing Window
Different items have different costs. For example, the "Stabiliser 3B" Specialised BP (Blue Grade Chipset) will cost you the following materials:
- 1,000 Credits
- 3x Gyro Accelerometer
- Found on Drones
- 6x Osmirid
- Found in mineral despots on AFTERMATH
- 8x Micro Transceiver
- Found on Drones
- 150x Spectrumene
- Found in mineral despots on AFTERMATH
Each Blueprint available will cost you materials, credits and time, like Industry on EVE Online.
However, there are also Blueprints that give you a chance to obtain a variant, and not a defined outcome. For example:
This opens the possibility of you needing to deploy more often than you'd have first thought to receive the Blueprint you wanted to find.
Item Fabrication
This window lets you create a Mod if you already have the Blueprint. Blueprints can be found in the Black Market as shown above, it also costs nothing to create mods.
Picking a Blueprint to create the item.
Once you have a blueprint selected for fabrication, you'll be given the choice of item you wish to create.
This Blueprint grants you a guaranteed chance of one of three PowerMod 2 Weapon Chipsets.