Grid Crafter

Minecraft-style crafting for Foundry VTT. Players place items on a 3×3 grid, press Craft and get a new item. Works with any game system.

This page is a short overview. The full documentation is in the GitHub repository.

What it does

• Players drag items from their character sheet onto the grid and press Craft. The ingredients are removed from the sheet and the result is added to it.
• The GM writes the recipes. A recipe can be shaped (positions matter, but it still works anywhere on the grid or mirrored) or shapeless (only the items matter).
• Two visual themes, Forge and Arcane, with animations and sounds. The GM can replace the sounds.
• Each player has a recipe book. Recipes they have already crafted are saved there and can be placed on the grid with one click.
• The GM can share a recipe with the players. They see the pattern, but not what it makes.
• Optional chance to lose the materials on a failed craft, set for the whole world or per recipe.
• Every attempt is posted to chat.
• Slot and weight limits are respected. If the result does not fit in the inventory, nothing is spent.
• With Canvas Loot you can drag the crafted item straight onto the map.
• Other modules can add their own recipe packs through the API.

How to use

GM: creating recipes

1. Open the Items directory and click Recipes (or run GridCrafter.recipes() in a macro).
2. Click New Recipe. Drag the ingredients onto the grid and the resulting item onto the circle on the right.
3. Choose Shaped or Shapeless, how many items one craft makes, and the chance to lose materials on failure.
4. Save.

To show a recipe to the players, open it and click Share Recipe.

GM: settings

Go to Game Settings → Configure Settings → Grid Crafter:

• Craftable Item Types: which item types can go on the grid. If none is selected, all types are allowed.
• Crafting Sounds: volume and sounds for crafting, success, failure and shared recipes. Leave a sound empty to use the one from the theme.
• Visual Theme: Forge or Arcane, for everyone at the table.
• Quantity Path: where your system stores an item's quantity, for example system.quantity.
• Failure: Chance to Lose Materials: the world default. Each recipe can override it.

Players: crafting

1. Your user needs an assigned character (User Configuration → Character). Crafting uses that character's inventory.
2. Open the Items directory and click Forge (or run GridCrafter.forge() in a macro).
3. Drag items from your character sheet onto the grid. Right-click a cell to empty it.
4. Press Craft.

If you already know a recipe, click it in your Recipe Book and the grid is filled from your inventory. A greyed-out recipe means you are missing an ingredient.

More information

More details and the developer API are in the repository: https://github.com/brunocalado/grid-crafter