In this Metro Exodus Crafting Guide, we will show you how crafting works in the game, what and where you can craft the items you want, and where you can find the crafting components that are basically ingredients for the final product.

Metro Exodus is an hostile world that emphasizes your gameplay to be about survival on limited resources. Anything that you can scavenge can be used to craft something vital and useful. From Medkits to ammo that you will need to combat, everything is craftable using just bits and pieces of what would otherwise be trash.

Metro Exodus Crafting Guide

Below will detail the items that can be crafted, how you can find the resources, and where you can craft them.

What can be Crafted

As mentioned before, anything of vital importance is craftable in the game. you will find yourself running out of medkits and ammo when you have been out in the open for a long time. This is where you need to have resources to craft medkits, ammo, gas mask filters and more.

Starting with the ammo for weapons, there are four types of ammo that can be crafted in the game. There is ammo for pistols, assault rifles, shotguns and sniper rifles. You can also craft throwable weapons like grenades, Molotov cocktails, throwing knives and trash cans to distract enemies.

Crafting can also be used to upgrade your gear, such as your armor vest and helmet to make them better and provide you more safety. However, upgrading parts need to be found to upgrade your gear on a workbench.

How to Craft

There are basically two ways you an craft items in Metro Exodus. While out in the open word, you can access your backpack and craft items like med kits, gas mask filters, and ammo for your air powered weapons.

The second method, which is the one that allows all types of crafting, is the Workbench. These workbenches can be found in safes houses and your home base Aurora. Here you can craft ammo for your regular weapons, upgrade gear and throwable items like Molotov cocktails and grenades.

Crafting can be done by navigating through your menus to highlight the item you want to create, and interacting with it to begin crafting. This method works for both options when you are crafting from your backpack or a workbench.

Crafting Materials

There are basically two items that you will come across in the open world that are resources for crafting items. These are metal parts and chemicals. These two items are the basic ingredients for any type of crafting and required for almost any item to be crafted.

Crafting Ingredients

This list contains the amount of materials required you craft a specific item you are looking for.

• Medkit: This item requires 5 Metal Parts and 20 Chemicals.
• Gas Mask Filter: This item requires 10 Metal Parts and 30 Chemicals.
• Buckshot Ammo: This item requires 16 Metal Parts and 6 Chemicals.
• Assault Rifle Ammo (30x): This item requires 30 Metal Parts and 10 Chemicals.
• Sniper Rifle Ammo (5x): This item requires 25 Metal Parts and 5 Chemicals.
• Handgun Ammo (6x): This item requires 12 Metal Parts and 6 Chemicals.
• Incendiary Ammo (10x): This item requires 40 Metal Parts and 40 Chemicals.
• Bolts: this item requires 10 Metal Parts.
• Decoy: This item requires 5 Metal Parts.
• Explosive Bolts: This item requires 7 Metal Parts and 7 Chemicals.
• Throwing Knife: this item requires 10 Metal Parts.
• Hand Grenade: This item requires 30 Metal Parts and 15 Chemicals.
• Molotov Cocktail: This item requires 10 Metal Parts and 40 Chemicals.

Where to Find Crafting Materials

This is the part where you have to be watchful and look in every room for resources. You can look in shelves of buildings and rooms, or the toilets, corpses in the middle of the road, everything contains a little bit of material that can all amount to enough materials in the end.

Look around for specific containers that will surely contain some loot that you can use. Small blue lock boxes and lockers always contain items that are very useful. Dead bodies always contain something or the other with them look for crafting material in this type of loot.

Once you find some material, you will be indicated that it is a metal part of chemical with an icon that pops up, followed by the prompt to pick up the material.

You can also strip a dead enemies weapon of their attachment which you can save in your inventory, and then later equip on your weapon from the workbench. If you have no material and are in dire need for some material, say for medkits or gas mask filters, you can dismantle any type of consumable for materials needed to craft a med kit. However, you only get 20% of the item’s cost back, so you should only do it in desperate times.

Crafting Gear Upgrades

Gear upgrades are usually found as special parts that can be attached on your gear. This includes items on your weapons or armor that can enhance their capabilities, allowing you more resistance and better combat in the open world.

There are many upgrade items like ammo pouches that you can add to your vest, to carry more ammo. Or you can find armored glass upgrade on your helmet to reinforce its resistance capability.

Once you have the upgrade in your inventory, you can go back to your home base, or look for any workbench in safe houses where you can equip them. We have located all the upgrades that you can find in the game in our Metro Exodus Upgrades Location Guide.

Check out more Metro Exodus guides below.

• Metro Exodus PC Optimization Settings Guide
• Metro Exodus Weapons Guide
• Metro Exodus Endings Guide
• Metro Exodus Upgrades Guide
• Metro Exodus Moscow Collectible Locations Guide
• Metro Exodus Winter Collectible Guide
• Metro Exodus The Volga Collectible Locations Guide
• Metro Exodus Spring Collectible Locations Guide
• Metro Exodus Yamantau Collectible Locations Guide
• Metro Exodus Enemies Guide

This concludes our Metro Exodus Crafting Guide. Feel free to comment below.