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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--craft-quality
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id: rpg-grind--craft-quality
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title: Quality-focused crafting
summary: Repeated crafting targets result quality determined by process or expenditure.
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  - Gathering and production
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  - id: source-b53d4143633e26ea
    title: Final Fantasy XIV
    url: 'https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/'
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Quality-focused crafting
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      Repeated crafting targets result quality determined by process or
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      width: 640
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      caption: Item quality and ingredients in a crafting recipe
      alt: Item quality and ingredients in a crafting recipe
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    tips:
      - Let the crafting process influence quality alongside repeated attempts.
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      - title: Final Fantasy XIV
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  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
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# Quality-focused crafting

id: rpg-grind--craft-quality
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--craft-quality
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--craft-quality/

Repeated crafting targets result quality determined by process or expenditure.

## At a glance

![Item quality and ingredients in a crafting recipe](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-restoration-33.webp)

[Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Quality is tracked separately from crafting completion

- Let the crafting process influence quality alongside repeated attempts.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/)

## How it works

Repeated crafting targets result quality determined by process or expenditure.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="craft-quality-options"></a>

- Choose an operation sequence for quality. <a id="craft-quality-option-1"></a>
- Use higher-quality raw materials. <a id="craft-quality-option-2"></a>
- Rework poor batches into useful components. <a id="craft-quality-option-3"></a>

## Design example

A crafter spends better blanks on an order requiring precise workmanship.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/) (id: source-b53d4143633e26ea)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors