What it does
Blueprints are guaranteed drops from life-pod chests, which makes every life-pod worth checking. Using one grants 25 INT experience and unlocks a random recipe, bypassing its normal intelligence requirement. That can open a powerful craft long before you would otherwise reach it.
The unlock is random, so the value varies wildly. A blueprint that teaches a late-game medical recipe is a run-defining find; one that teaches a wooden tool is merely useful. Either way, reading it costs nothing but a inventory slot.
Effects and usage
- Use from the inventory to consume it.
- Grants 25 INT experience.
- Unlocks one random recipe without its INT requirement.
- Guaranteed drop from life-pod chests.
How to get it
Guaranteed in life-pod chests.
This item is found as loot or bought from survivors; it has no crafting recipe in the current demo build. Its value scales with condition, charge or fluid volume, so sell it only after checking the trade value.
Field notes
- Check every life-pod chest before leaving the room.
- Use blueprints early; the INT experience compounds.
- Do not sell blueprints unless you have already read them.
- A blueprint unlock can make a high-INT recipe craftable at low INT, but failure risk still applies.