Team Fortress 2 Crafting Blueprints – How to create hats, weapons, and more in TF2

Team Fortress 2 Crafting Blueprints
A quick tutorial and list of blueprints (formulas) to create new hats and weapons in TF2
Like it or not, since the “WAR!” content update in December 2009, Team Fortress 2 has included crafting items. What this means is you can take those duplicate items you randomly find while playing (or idling!), combine them, and create a new desired item. There are specific formulas, called blueprints, to follow to guarantee you get the desired item. Below are all known blueprints / formulas and some important information and quick tutorial on how to create hats and weapons.
Creation Cost
Item to be created | Total cost |
---|---|
Scrap Metal | 3 weapons |
Class or Slot Token | 4 weapons |
Reclaimed Metal | 9 weapons = 3 Scrap Metal |
Class Weapon | 11 weapons = 1 Class Token + 1 Slot Token + 1 Scrap Metal |
Refined Metal | 27 weapons = 9 Scrap Metal = 3 Reclaimed Metal |
Random Headgear | 2 headgear, or 81 weapons = 27 Scrap Metal = 9 Reclaimed Metal = 3 Refined Metal |
Class Headgear | 112 weapons = (36 Scrap metal = 12 Reclaimed Metal = 4 Refined Metal) + 4 weapons |
As you can see above, unfortunately it requires quite a few items in order to create something specific you want, especially hats. Most casual players will likely only use crafting in order to get a couple of newly released class weapons sooner and without having to complete as many achievements.
Basic Blueprint Formulas
Blueprint | Requires | Produces |
---|---|---|
Smelt Primary Weapons | 3 Identical primary weapons Eg. Force-A-Nature + Force-A-Nature + Force-A-Nature | 1 Scrap Metal |
Smelt Secondary Weapons | 3 Identical secondary weapons Eg. Flare gun + Flare gun + Flare gun | 1 Scrap Metal |
Smelt Melee Weapons | 3 Identical melee weapons Eg. Ubersaw + Ubersaw + Ubersaw | 1 Scrap Metal |
Smelt Class Weapons | Any 3 weapons from the same class Eg. Ambassador + Dead Ringer + Dead Ringer (Spy Weapons) | 1 Scrap Metal |
Smelt Miscellaneous Items | 3 Identical Misc Weapons Eg. Camera beard + Camera beard + Camera beard | 1 Scrap Metal |
Combine Scrap Metal | 3 Scrap Metal | 1 Reclaimed Metal |
Combine Reclaimed Metal | 3 Reclaimed Metal | 1 Refined Metal |
Create Tokens
Blueprint | Requires | Produces |
---|---|---|
Fabricate Class Token | 4 weapons from one class Eg. Natascha + Sandvich + Sandvich + KGB | 1 Class Token Eg. 1 Heavy Token |
Fabricate Slot Token | 4 weapons from one slot Eg. Blutsauger + Huntsman + Force-A-Nature + Direct Hit | 1 Slot Token Eg. 1 Primary Token |
Rebuild Class Token | One Class Token (doesn’t matters which one) and another class’ weapon Eg. Sniper Token + Buff Banner | 1 Class Token Eg. 1 Soldier Token |
Rebuild Slot Token | One Slot Token (doesn’t matters which one) and another slot weapon Eg. Secondary Token + Axtinguisher | 1 Slot Token Eg. 1 Melee Token |
Note: If 4 identical weapons are smelted in the token blueprint, you are given the option of creating a class token or a slot token, but not both.
Create Headgear
Blueprint | Requires | Produces |
---|---|---|
Fabricate Headgear | 3 Refined Metal | 1 Random Headgear |
Fabricate Class Headgear | 4 Refined Metal + 1 Class Token | 1 Class Headgear |
Rebuild Headgear | 2 Hats | 1 Random Headgear |
Create Weapons
Blueprint | Requires | Produces |
---|---|---|
Fabricate Class Weapons | 1 Class Token + 1 Slot Token + 1 Scrap Metal Eg. Medic Token + Secondary Token + Scrap Metal | 1 Class Specific Weapon Eg. Kritzkrieg |
Crafting weapon classifications
The crafting system classifies some items as different than the regular inventory system. The below chart lists the slot the crafting system uses for each item.
Class | Primary weapons | Secondary weapons | Melee weapons | PDAs | Tokens |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scout | Force-A-Nature | Bonk! Atomic Punch | Sandman | Scout Class Token | |
Soldier | Direct Hit | Buff Banner | Equalizer | Soldier Class Token | |
Pyro | Backburner | Flare Gun | Axtinguisher | Pyro Class Token | |
Demoman | Scottish Resistance • Chargin Targe | Eyelander | Demoman Class Token | ||
Heavy | Natascha | Sadvich | KGB (Boxing Gloves) | Heavy Class Token | |
Engineer | Engineer Class Token | ||||
Medic | Blutsauger | Kritzkrieg | Ubersaw | Medic Class Token | |
Sniper | Huntsman | Jarate • Razorback | Sniper Class Token | ||
Spy | Ambassador | Dead Ringer • Cloak & Dagger | Spy Class Token |
Miscellaneous Notes
- You can use Slot Tokens for the Scrap Metal recipes.
- The Left 4 Dead Bill’s hat, the Ghastly gibus, the Mildly disturbing Halloween mask, and the Cheater’s lament can’t be used in the Rebuild Headgear blueprint.
- The Soldier’s GunBoats cannot be used to craft to tokens.
i wish i had as much stuff as everyone else.i had all the weapons because of the milestones,but i was tempted to get hats and i thought reclaimed metal made hats.it sucks cause now i have to idle 24/7.
Thanks for showing me how to get a flare gun, my previous one was crafted away :D
HOW TO CRAFT FOR THE DEAD RINGER
How do you get Bills hat? is there any other way than modding it?
How can i craft the force-a-nature?
Scrap metal is TWO weapons not three. All of your stats involving scrap to weapon equivelance is wrong.
not up to date
not to be rude or anything, but your facts suck and any other site shows a lot mre items. (Spy expert).
Please note the date of the article, it was written very near to the original release of the crafting system and it appears there have been some changes. Thanks for looking!
well its not that bad of a site just update it put some naked girls on the page and show more hats
I’m sure the answer to this question is “yes,” but…Does using a weapon to craft scrap metal, etc. destroy the weapon itself? Or, does it simply make it so you can use the weapon in-game, but can’t craft with it anymore?
To the previous poster; yes, it completely destroyes the weapons used in making scrap metal.
can you use the basic weapons in the crafting? but if you can, can you get them back since they are the basics?
does any one know how to craft the troublemakers tossle cap?
Awesome,I just crafted Wanka Pricker(Or whatevers is its name)today and its not on crafting list…How I did it?Just use the custom bluprint.So yeah puttin the class token,the slot token,a scrap metal(Didn’t tried the others)and you will get any weapon!A good example is spy knife(Wanka Pricker).I still try to get some better weapons though :I
its three.
three weapons for scrap metal.
it IS up to date.
you totally suck.
talkin to YOU NATHY!
lolrocket
can we craft 2 halloween hats(like 2 einstein hats) together to create a headgear ?
How to craft the spy’s creed assassin hat?
And how it’s, drop works?
HOW YOU CRAFT THE DEAD RINGER?
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