Crafting You don't have the skill to make anything from that

[ashjpd]

I was crafting something and it ended up with, You don't have the skill to make anything from that. Could someone explain please? Thanks in advance.

[wizturbo]

Um...it means...you don't have the skill to make anything from that.

[ashjpd]

But you see.. I was already in the process of making something.
I put:
craft item item item into item
you set to work crafting
(moments later, it ends with)
You don't have the skill to make anything from that.

[Bestatte]

If someone gave you (or slipped something into) your inventory that had the same keywords as the materials you're using, the code will automatically switch and try to create the finished product using the new object.

If someone stole one of the materials out of your inventory you'd probably get the same error message.

I don't know of any other things that could cause it.

[eska]

ashjpd wrote:

put:
craft item item item into item
you set to work crafting
(moments later, it ends with)
You don't have the skill to make anything from that.

Well I guess you make the mistake at the stage of
craft item item into item part
You probably using the articles 'a' or 'an' in this part. Try out without those and see the result

[EvilRoeSlade]

Bestatte is correct.  Your use of a or an, though it would indeed be detetrimental to the craft wouldn't result in that, from what I know.

[ashjpd]

Well, yes, it was an arrow? So use just a instead of an?..

[Delirium]

Also, you can't target a second or third object with the same word in your inventory. Say you type:

craft marshmallow 2.stick into roasted marshmallow

It will do the craft, but at the end of it it will give you an error message once the craft delay is up.

[ashjpd]

Eh, that is what I did, I did 2.feather, thanks then.

[Delirium]

Say you're crafting three marshmallows into a giant squishy marshmallow..

You would type:

craft marshmallow marshmallow marshmallow into giant squishy marshmallow

NOT

craft marshmallow 2.marshmallow 3.marshmallow into giant squishy marshmallow

The second option will give you an error message.

However, say you're trying to cook a green marshmallow and a blue marshmallow..

>inv

You have:
a green marshmallow
a blue marshmallow
A long stick

And you want to craft the stick and the blue marshmallow into a roasted marshmallow. You would need to type:

>craft blue stick into roasted marshmallow

NOT

>craft 2.marshmallow stick into roasted marshmallow

The second option will go through the craft but leave an error message.

Learned this the hard way, myself. Hope that made sense.

[ashjpd]

Yeah, it made sense, I already understood it though, but thanks anyways. :wink:

[Tmp]

One of the rationale behind Delirium's explanation of being unable to use 2.item 3.item in your crafting is that somewhere during the crafting process the items in your inventory that you are crafting with will be shuffled around, so when crafting halfway checks for 2.item it will no longer be there or it will refer to the wrong item, thus returning the "You don't have the skill to make anything from that." message.

At least, that was the impression I got when I last encountered this problem.

[Anonymous]

I used to get this when trying to craft meat and having a shriveled piece of meat already in my inventory.  Just eat the damn food, dude.