Crafting, cooking and enhancing are three different systems reached from the same campfire, and mixing them up is why the menu you want is not where you looked. Ammunition needs its manual; dishes need a cook book; upgrades need Amber.
There is no single crafting menu. The campfire carries three separate systems — crafting ammunition, cooking dishes and enhancing equipment — and each is gated on something different: a manual for an ammunition type, a cook book for a dish, and Amber for an upgrade.
Where this is being asked · The question people arrive at after picking up a manual and finding nothing they can make with it, because they are looking in the wrong one of three menus.
A grade describes sourcing, not truth. Inferred means we concluded it and the reasoning is shown; unverified means someone asserted it and nobody stands behind it.
UnverifiedAn ammunition type is craftable at a camp once its manual is picked up.
Creator descriptions of the manual as a one-time permanent unlock. No client capture of the crafting menu itself has been published.
CorroboratedThere are 25 cook books, and the last two come from Kagura Rapport rather than exploration.
Fextralife and PowerPyx, counted independently and agreeing. Read 2026-08-05 and 2026-08-06.
UnverifiedEnhance Equipment splits into Sword, Projectile and Ranged Weapon tracks.
Read off the client in LaserBolt’s capture on 2026-08-06, including the projectile line’s own help text. One capture, one build.
InferredNobody has published what a Life Fruit does, or any evidence that a grapple exists.
Our search of every source this site holds. Life Fruit acquisition is corroborated by two walkthroughs; its effect appears in none of them. No source mentions a grapple at all.
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Ammunition: you craft a type once you have found its manual
Arrows and bolts are crafted at a camp, and each type is locked until you pick up its manual. Creators describe the manual as a one-time pickup that unlocks that type permanently — so having fired a type is not the same as owning its manual, and the "obtain the manuals for every arrow and bolt type" achievement is a set of pickups rather than a crafting total. There are twelve types on this site’s records, six arrows and six bolts in matched pairs: plain, acid, explosive, fire, poison and lightning on both sides. That pairing is the game’s rather than ours. Nobody has published what any single craft costs in materials.
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Cooking is a different menu with a different gate
Dishes are not crafted from the ammunition menu and are not unlocked by manuals. They come from cook books — 25 of them by two independent counts — and the last two are given at Kagura Rapport levels 8 and 10 rather than found. Fextralife publishes 25 dishes with their ingredients and named effects and no figures at all for any of them; the single exception anywhere is IGN’s Fried Egg at +5 HP and +1 Attack, which is the only published number for any dish in this game. If you are looking for what a dish actually does, that is the state of it.
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Enhancing is the third menu, and it is three tracks
The campfire’s Enhance Equipment option is not crafting and does not consume ingredients — it spends Amber, and it splits into three separate lines: Sword Enhancement, Projectile Enhancement and Ranged Weapon Enhancement. The projectile line’s own help text is "Use Amber to enhance arrows and bolts", which means ammunition is both crafted and upgraded, through two different menus, gated on two different things. This site had that wrong until the menu was read off the client: it previously said swords had an enhancement track and ammunition had manuals instead. They have both.
The Enhance Equipment menu, read off the client. Three tracks, not one — and the projectile line is what upgrades the arrows and bolts the crafting menu makes. LaserBolt — How To Upgrade and Enhance Weapons
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Two things people search for that nobody has documented
Recorded as gaps rather than guessed at. **Life Fruit**: two independent walkthroughs agree that every Dragon Vein Shrine grants three of them, and forty shrines are enumerated with Stim thresholds at 1, 10, 20, 30 and 40 — so the acquisition is well corroborated and what a Life Fruit actually does is published by nobody. **Grapple**: Google suggests "how to grapple" for this game and there is no evidence in any source this site holds that a grapple exists at all — no creator demonstrates one, no wiki lists one, and no tooltip names one. That is not the same as saying there is none; it is saying that if a page tells you how to grapple, ask it where that came from.
Expiry condition
What would have to change for this answer to be wrong
An answer about a live-service game without this is an answer with a hidden expiry date.
Anyone publishes a material cost for a craft, an effect for Life Fruit, or footage of a grapple. The first would come from a client capture of the crafting menu, which nobody has published; the third would settle a gap this page currently records as open.
Citations
Every source, with its date
A complaint posted before 30 July 2026 describes the playtest, not the game you bought, and a source whose publication date nobody captured cannot show that it postdates launch either. Both are flagged rather than quietly mixed in.
The campfire and Cleanse Walker workbench, the Amber economy and the enhancement tiers, and the Enhance Equipment menu listing Sword, Projectile and Ranged Weapon Enhancement as three separate tracks with the projectile line’s help text naming arrows and bolts. Read off the client on 2026-08-06.
That Fextralife publishes 25 dishes with ingredients, named effects and cook-book locations, and publishes no numeric effect for any of them. Evidence of what the wiki states, not that it is correct.
An independent second count of 25 cook books, numbered in collection order, with the last two given at Kagura Rapport levels 8 and 10 rather than found, and the set tied to the Gourmand achievement.
Related questions
At a camp, once you have picked up that arrow type’s manual. The manual is a one-time pickup that unlocks the type permanently, and there are twelve types on this site’s records — six arrows and six bolts in matched pairs. No source publishes what a craft costs.
