Learn how crafting works in Fantasy Life i. Discover which Lives create gear, how to craft high-quality tools, and what skills and materials you need to upgrade your equipment fast.
How to Craft Good Quality Gear in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
In Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, your character’s Life (aka class) determines not just how you fight or gather—but also how you craft. Whether you’re chopping down trees, forging swords, or sewing stylish armor, every Life has its role, and crafting the best gear starts with mastering both Gathering and Crafting Lives.
Let’s break it all down so you can start making high-quality gear in no time. You can also check how to find salt.
🧰 Life Categories and Equipment Overview
There are 14 Lives (classes) in the game, each fitting into one of three categories:
- Gathering: Woodcutter, Miner, Angler, Farmer
- Crafting: Carpenter, Blacksmith, Alchemist, Tailor, Painter, Cook
- Combat: Paladin, Mercenary, Hunter, Magician
🎨 Note: Painter and Farmer Lives are unlocked later through story progression.
Each Life comes with its own tool or weapon:
- Combat Lives: Use weapons (e.g., swords, bows, staves).
- Gathering Lives: Use tools (e.g., axes, fishing rods).
- Crafting Lives: Use specialty tools (e.g., hammers, saws) during minigames only.
You’ll start with basic, ordinary-rank gear when you reach Fledgling rank in any Life. These don’t come with special skills, so you’ll eventually want to upgrade to Good, Great, or even Top Quality equipment—which requires using the right Crafting Life and materials.
🔨 Which Lives Make What?
To upgrade your gear, these Crafting and Gathering combos are key:
- Miner Life: Break ore deposits to gather crafting metals.
- Woodcutter Life: Collect wood needed for tool and furniture crafting.
- Tailor Life: Create cloth materials, sometimes required for armor (like capes).
- Carpenter Life: Make furniture, tools, and some gear.
- Blacksmith Life: Forge weapons and metal tools from mined ingots.
Everything ties together. Want a better sword? You’ll need to mine ore, smelt it, and craft it using your Blacksmith Life.
🧵 How to Craft Better Gear
Head to your Crafting Station (found at each Life’s HQ in Eternia Village), and choose your recipe. Here’s how to raise the quality of what you make:
💡 Step 1: Know the Recommended Crafting Skill
Each recipe shows a Recommended Crafting Skill level. You’ll find this number at the bottom of the recipe screen. Compare it to your own Crafting Skill stat on the left. The closer or higher your stat is, the better the results.
You can boost Crafting Skill by:
- Leveling up
- Equipping better tools (like an Oak Saw instead of your starter saw)
- Unlocking nodes in the Skill Tree
🎮 Step 2: Master the Crafting Minigame
Once you pick your recipe, you’ll jump into a timed minigame. It works like this:
- You’re given a number of turns (shown top-right).
- Follow button prompts at each station (tap, hold, or mash).
- Keep an eye on the time bar and upcoming actions.
Your final result gets graded as Failure, Done, Good, Great, or Perfect—aim for Great or better to produce high-quality items.
✅ Tips to Craft Good or Great Quality Gear
Here’s what really helps:
- Skill Level: Match or exceed the recipe’s recommended Crafting Skill.
- Minigame Performance: Hit Great/Perfect scores. Don’t run out of time!
- Tool Quality: Use tools marked as Fine or higher rank and with Good Quality.
⚠️ Pro Tip: Rank and Quality are not the same. A Fine tool with no quality might still be worse than an Ordinary one with Good Quality—especially if you’re crafting quest-specific items.
🧙♀️ Upgrades That Matter
🏠 Tools to Upgrade First:
- Carpenter: Saw
- Blacksmith: Hammer
- Tailor: Needle
These tools affect both crafting quality and Skill number. Focus on improving them first to speed up your gear grind.
🗡 Weapon Priorities:
Choose based on your favorite Combat Life. For example:
- Magician: Craft a Fine Pine Rod
- Paladin: Forge a strong sword with Good Quality
Good/Great/Top quality gear often adds extra perks like elemental resistance, bonus SP, or extra attack power.
👯♂️ Bonus Tip: Use Strangelings
Once you start collecting and curing Strangelings, you can assign them to help during crafting. This temporarily boosts your Crafting Skills for that session, and you can even switch characters mid-minigame to take advantage of their bonuses.
Whether you’re building swords, sewing armor, or whipping up magical staves, the path to amazing gear in Fantasy Life i is all about balancing your Lives, boosting your skills, and nailing those crafting minigames. Get those tools sharpened and happy crafting!
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