Crafting is unlocked at level 15. Baron Urban offers to let you use his lab.
There are four parts to the lab.
Metal Factory[]
- 5 Bronze Stars make a Silver, with the option to pay 400
to get 3 instead.
- 5 Silver Stars make a Gold, with the option to pay 800
to get 3 instead.
- 5 Gold Stars make a Platinum, with the option to pay 1600
to get 3 instead.
Note: paying to get extras is 20% cheaper than the regular store price.
Transformatron[]
Toss 7 orbs of the same level in and get out a stronger orb. This can produce Stat, Ability, or Special orbs. This also has the option to pay gold to get 3x orbs. 560 is required when fusing rank 3s to make rank 4s. Depending on the result, this may or may not be cheaper than buying them in the store.
Supplies Lab[]
Fuse multiples of a supply item to get an improved item. Example: fusing 5 10% Mutosterone items to get a 50% Mutosterone item. The amount needed as input is based on the item being fused.
Black hole Experiment[]
This lets you fuse most inventory items, Orbs, Reactor tokens, med kits, almost anything. Certain combinations will produce specific results, while some combinations will spit out random items.
If items are placed into it in the same patterns that can be used in either the Metal Factory or Transformatron, the same result will be produced, and the option to boost with will also appear.
When throwing random junk into it, the value of the items used seems to affect the quality of the end result. Although, with as random as it is, the results may be weaker than what was used up.
See further: Black Hole Experiment Strategies