Crafting window: katana grades, queue and weapon stats

About this game

Developer: Lo-Fi Games · Publisher: Lo-Fi Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

Kenshi's crafting window is a production desk, not a recipe book. The left column names the benches, the middle scrolls the catalogue by maker and grade, a Guardless Katana exists as Refitted Blade, Mk III, Edge Type 1 and Catun No.3, quality as a supply chain of named manufacturers rather than a colour of rarity, and the right holds the queue, three Edge Type katanas deep, with a REPEAT QUEUE toggle for when the outpost becomes a factory. The description pane reads like an engineering sheet (cutting 1.49, blood loss 1.30x, -39% against robots, 32 hours, 7 materials) because in a game where limbs are health pools, a blade is a set of consequences. That the whole apparatus is one tab of seven, alongside MAP, FACTION, RESEARCH, SQUADS, DIALOGUE and AI, states the scope plainly: this is not a crafting minigame bolted on, it is one desk in the management office of a small economy. Frame at about 1:09 in the Kenshi - Gameplay Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the window opens at ~67s between scene cuts; the 2 fps fine probe fine/res_013.png is the settled CRAFTING tab, copied to manual-crafting-69.png).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

crafting-panel crafting-list tabbed-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Tabs Map Toggle Build queue Dialogue box

Screen inventory

• one window, seven tabs, MAP, FACTION, RESEARCH, CRAFTING, SQUADS, DIALOGUE, AI, Kenshi's entire management layer is filed behind a single tabbed panel; CRAFTING is open here over the same outpost the Weapon Smith panel describes at the frame's edges
• three columns divide the work: STATIONS (two Weapon Smith III benches), ITEMS (a scroll of weapons by maker and grade, Guardless Katana as Refitted Blade, Mk III, Edge Type 1 and Catun No.3, then Spiked Clubs and Flesh Cleavers in the same grades) and QUEUE, where three 'Guardless Katana, Edge Type' orders wait with red X cancels above a REPEAT QUEUE toggle
• the DESCRIPTION pane prices a blade like a test report: Guardless Katana [Katana class], Cutting damage 1.49, Blunt damage 0.00, Blood loss 1.30x, Armour penetration -30%, Attack bonus +6, Defence bonus -6, Damage vs robots -39%, plus Estimated Craft Time 32 hrs and Materials Costs 7; quality is a manufacturer and a grade, never a rarity colour
• nothing closes behind the window: the Weapon Smith III panel at lower left still reads Crafting: Guardless Katana (the very item whose stats fill the pane), the Your Outpost panel keeps its Power 31/30 at right, and the SQUAD strip runs beneath, production is scheduled from inside the running base

Top 3 colors

#786a5c 28%#1e1915 22%#403730 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Lo-Fi Games, Kenshi screenshot: Steam trailers (Kenshi - Gameplay Trailer / Kenshi - v1.0 Release Date Announcement Trailer), Lo-Fi Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Lo-Fi Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: manual extraction manual-crafting-69.png @ ~69.0s in the Kenshi - Gameplay Trailer (2 fps fine probe fine/res_013.png, same file), MD5 f40ac0dd20edc99a6ab1e9c7dd146c65, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (80,653,604 B, MD5 c5f1e367619e6337c5234f80f4c19717; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-233860-Kenshi-Gameplay-Trailer.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the seven window tabs, STATIONS / ITEMS / QUEUE columns, the three queued Edge Type katanas and the Guardless Katana description stats all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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