Mods/Hydrocraft

Hydrocraft Guide For Dummies

Hydrocraft is a mod based around crafting and filling in the empty world of Project Zomboid with more stuff. It is inspired by survival crafting games like Haven and Hearth. It is very much a WIP and will be tweaked and added onto. Many independent mods were added to this mod, turning it into a collection of mods, which makes it rather difficult to give an overall guide.

There are two official Hydrocraft sites:

• Hydrocraft Mod in The Indie Stone Forums
• Hydrocraft Wiki

However, as of writing this (13th May, 2018), there is no real guide about Hydrocraft, so that's why I've started to make one. (I'm not part of the HC dev team, I'm just a normal player who started using HC some weeks ago)

About the Wiki

The term Hydrocraft Wiki may be a bit misleading, because it is quite different from normal Wikis. It was created by Nolan Ritchie and is powered by a script that can intelligently read the source of the game files and insert the information into a database. Because of this script based content loading design, the website can be updated with 1 click when the game developers push updates.

So basically it is just a collection of all items and recipes. If you want to know what you can do with a specific item or how you can get it, you have to go to the item's page (use the Search feature). On that page is information where the item may spawn and all recipes that create or use that item. If you want to create an item and the creation recipe contains more unknown items, you may have to dig through several item and recipe pages until you have the whole creation workflow. In this guide I will try to summarize some of these creation procedures.