# Crafting recipes becoming bogged down with "OR"

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-recipes-becoming-bogged-down-with-or/1440>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 24, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-recipes-becoming-bogged-down-with-or/1440 "2013-05-24T22:42:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nighthawk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nighthawk/32/896_2.png) [@Nighthawk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nighthawk)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-recipes-becoming-bogged-down-with-or/1440/1 "2013-05-24T22:42:33Z")

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Title says it all, really. I’ve noticed that recipes requiring a sharp object are saying Hatchet OR Steak Knife OR Combat Knife OR Broadsword, OR yadda yadda yadda.  
Not only could this spoil some of the possible-to-get weapons in the game for new players, but if more are added, it’s going to be a pain to add each and every one to each and every recipe requiring it.

Maybe add a [sharp] tag to items and just have those recipes say “Requires Sharp Object”?

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-recipes-becoming-bogged-down-with-or/1440/2 "2013-05-24T23:34:28Z")

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[quote=“Nighthawk, post:1, topic:1440”]Title says it all, really. I’ve noticed that recipes requiring a sharp object are saying Hatchet OR Steak Knife OR Combat Knife OR Broadsword, OR yadda yadda yadda.  
Not only could this spoil some of the possible-to-get weapons in the game for new players, but if more are added, it’s going to be a pain to add each and every one to each and every recipe requiring it.

Maybe add a [sharp] tag to items and just have those recipes say “Requires Sharp Object”?[/quote]  
AFAIK this is exactly what they eventually plan on doing, giving each sharp item a “Cutting: 3”, blunt items “Hammering: 2” or some such, they also plan on making rot values persist through recipes which will all be pretty nice.

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**Author:** ![Soron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/soron/32/885_2.png) [@Soron](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soron)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-recipes-becoming-bogged-down-with-or/1440/3 "2013-05-25T11:48:14Z")

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Yeah, what Weyrling said. We’re definitely planning to move to a simpler attribute-based system, although it probably won’t be ready by the time 0.6 comes out (we’re hoping to actually have a stable release next version, which caused the dev who was coding the crafting change voluntarily put it on the backburner).

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**Author:** ![Nighthawk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nighthawk/32/896_2.png) [@Nighthawk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nighthawk)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-recipes-becoming-bogged-down-with-or/1440/4 "2013-05-25T21:36:05Z")

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Case closed. Thanks for telling me what’s up, guys. 🙂