# Crafted sights/scopes (or lack thereof)

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafted-sights-scopes-or-lack-thereof/14410>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [October 29, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafted-sights-scopes-or-lack-thereof/14410 "2017-10-29T17:12:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tamior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tamior](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tamior)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafted-sights-scopes-or-lack-thereof/14410/1 "2017-10-29T17:12:06Z")

</div>

I find it extremely weird you get auto-learn recipes for rifles and the like, even pretty complicated ones, and you get a low dispersion (compared to default rifle iron sights) BOW sights, but you can only loot (not craft) advanced rifle sights and scopes.  
Basically that means a longbow has better accuracy at medium ranges than a average rifle with just crafted gear.  
Is that intended? I mean, crafted scopes can still be inferior to pre-made ones and require non-craftable components (i. e. high quality lenses).  
But being downright impossible to craft in any meaningful way as an auto-learn recipe seems very strange (when player is established to be creative enough to think of a functional anti-material class gauss rail rifle all on your own).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafted-sights-scopes-or-lack-thereof/14410/2 "2017-10-29T20:30:47Z")

</div>

No one has added one, that’s all there is to it.  
Not sure what kind you’re talking about, scopes mean optics, which themselves are uncraftable.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tamior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tamior](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tamior)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafted-sights-scopes-or-lack-thereof/14410/3 "2017-10-29T22:01:09Z")

</div>

[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:2, topic:14410”]No one has added one, that’s all there is to it.  
Not sure what kind you’re talking about, scopes mean optics, which themselves are uncraftable.[/quote]  
Well, I would expect the optics would be handled the usual way, that is: you can craft the scope if you have the lenses, but you need to get those lenses elsewhere (binoculars or something similar).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafted-sights-scopes-or-lack-thereof/14410/4 "2017-10-30T03:22:42Z")

</div>

In that case there is definitely no problem, just hasn’t been added.