There are two main modes in StW: the main areas, and Ventures. Ventures has a separate inventory, and you can't craft weapons, only traps.

In the main areas (you'll only have access to Stonewood at this point) you can craft weapons using schematics. You can view these schematics in the Armory tab.

Like others have said here; you can’t craft guns in ventures. Have to pick them up

Did you load into the Frozen Fjords Venture zone? That's the only reason why. Otherwise you'd have a few starter schematics and as you progress through the game you earn more schematics

If you've gone into the Frosty Fjords Ventures zone (or any other Ventures zone rather), you don't, you'll need to rely on Lady Luck for weapons

Leave ventures and go into stone wood, plankerton to craft a weapon out of the schematics you currently have

... potentially a stupid question, but you are using your habitat builder tool, right?

You need to find a habitat builder blueprint (then fabricate it). You can find them in different locations, but the easiest is on the island surrounded by smoke vents. You can't build a building from a fabricator. Too big.

There should be at least... 3-4 tablets around and under the island. Explore thoroughly.

There are a limited number of purple tablets in the game world. If, for some reason, some player decided to throw all his purple tablets into a garbage can, or if this unfortunate player is phenomenally bad at exploring and thus didn't pick up any purple tablets, then said player would be out of luck if he ever encounters a situation where he'd need a purple tablet to progress in the storyline. Thus, the game allows you to craft more tablets.

you will see... just go on ��

Meant like I keep getting recipes and I don’t know how to use them

Minecells ahh post.

You just bring the recipes to the collector, should be In the passage way to any new level.

The big blue guy

What

This ain't Minecraft bro.

You have multiple ways to unlock weapons, it's either from secret entrance or lore rooms or dropped from enemies by a low percent chance.

The affixes themselves aren't actually that hard with recomb, the problem is getting them on a 30% base. Max quality Karui Mauls seem to be around 5d on trade so I believe it's possible to do the recomb cheaper than a mirror as well, but getting the enchant to 49% will increase the price to "just mirror it". If you're fine with 20% quality and like 40% enchant, it should be doable in around 100-200d. You could consider getting 30% bases but you'll probably need to buy out the whole market; the steps are identical.

Step 1: Make bases

Buy or farm i84+ karui mauls, ideally ones that already have an influence. If they're not already shaper, use harvest to swap influence type. If using 30% bases, you'll probably need to add influence yourself with conqueror exalts.

Step 2: Carpal tunnel

Alt spam the bases for any desired mod. T1 % phys and hybrid phys are much, much rarer than the others, so get a few of the others and then just roll for those.

Step 3: Make 2-mods

Recomb your bases, just the magics if normal quality or regal for 30%, hoping to regal the mod type that isn't desired (so suffix if you have flat phys t1). For 30%, you then multimod + craft exclusive mods to get 6 mods of the desired type. Once you have two good affixes on a single item, lock prefix/suffix and scour to get clean 2-mods.

On the initial attempt, try to get two 2-mods which together have all mods except max endurance, since you can often save bad regals with cannot roll attacks. After the initial attempt, focus on getting the 1-2 mods that you need to add.

Step 4: Recomb the 2-mods

Craft multimod, exclusives and an aspect if it fits. Hopefully you can fill so both bases have six total mods. Then recomb them for around 60-70% chance of a 4-mod and otherwise a guaranteed 3-mod.

Step 5: Add the missing mod(s)

Craft another 2-mod which has all of the desired mods you're now missing, then craft multimod + exclusives on both bases. Should be around 25% to succeed on the final recomb if you manage to get 6 mods on both items.

Edit: formatting

I dont know but if i had to guess, finish prefixes with phys dmg essences on shaper base, lock suff and reforge influence. Then either lock suff and augment crit or veiled orb.

I dont know but if i had to guess, finish prefixes with phys dmg essences on shaper base, lock suff and reforge influence. Then either lock suff and augment crit or veiled orb.

Kill bugs, analyse their parts at science stations. What weapons you have at the moment?

Don't be shy to look up the guides and the wiki.

I found that the Red Ant Club carried me for most of the early game.

It helps to know where you are in the game and what labs you’ve completed

This is wiki/youtube guide game.

There are a lot of layers to advancing in this game that are not always obvious or easy to find.

If you want to advance and you're not sure what to do you’re gonna have to look a lot of stuff up.

Sooo each set of weapons is locked behind a tier of tools, and or chips from labs, id try to finish labs first, including optional ones. If you are struggling with an area, use peep.r to find weaknesses to damage types, some require special gear like a gas mask or bubble helmet or a dandelion tuff (if you cut down a bunch a trinket can drop for a permanent tuff)

Highly recommend having multiple weapon types for different types of bugs.

Bosses are mostly about being outfitted and learning how to deal with the fight, best general advice is to clear adds and bring lots of bandages and or smoothies especially on higher difficulties.

You might be talking about special weapons like pepper flake, some of these require using the remix.r which requires beating pretty much everything.

If you can unlock candy staves, a tick sword and a shield, you can deal with pretty much any enemy. Broodmother club requires beating a boss but it's great for fighting things with a shell like ox beetles or ladybirds, I use sword and shield to deal with mosquitos, spicy staff for thinks like ants, frost staff for fire ants or ladybird larva, a rusty salty javelin is good vs termites or a sour staff and kiting them around.

Crossbow is pretty good mid game for stuff but you have to learn when to block and when to attack.

Mutations Come at I think 40/100/200 kills, you can kill mites to level this up quicker but they can make weapons more effective.

That's the cool part, they removed weapon crafting :)
Now, you have to do 5 weeks of weekly quests, finishing the free hunt pass and farm seasonal events for a weapon (minimum time needed: 4 weeks + 1 hour into the 5th week).

That’s the neat part, you don’t.

When does the magic begin? 😂😂😭

they removed it completely and i hate it

You’re gonna want to sit down when we tell you this

Press tab click on the second icon on the top of the pda I believe it’s a wrench. Then scroll until you find the knife and click on it.

Question two, why does Robin hold the knife so haphazardly

Did you try to unpin it in the pda?

Because you pinned it

You pinned the recipe. Open up your recipes in your pda, and you can unpin it. You can also pin and unpin recipes by right clicking the item's icon when the fabricator interface is open.

You have to open Hephaestus's forge, which is a quest he should show up at your house to give you. Not sure just yet exactly what triggers it but he always showed up for me on his birthday. It may be friendship based.