Crafting is best done when you already have a good stock of everything you need of the recipes you're going to develop.

Upon crafting succesfully, you will unlock at least one more item, unlock the complete recipe or even unlock partial new recipes for higher tiers, depends on the level of the item you're crafting.

Basic rules for crafting in dungeon crusher:

1. Don't get into it too early! Usually we recommend Level 3000 as you then have a good stash and know your way around and not to waste the bottles. However - You can start "making" recipes early, but keep it easy, be careful always check the "chance" of crafting an item successfully and keep in mind 1 % fail rate is RNG =10% sometimes :-) so only do them if you have enough ingredients/mats!

2. Always start with the low level recipes! It benefits the success of the higher rarity items when you have the lower ones (by my experience)

3. NEVER craft without using catalysts, prefer luck potions over bottles always! Almost every recipe has the chance added if wiki shows only ?? check the similiar recipes for an estimate-

4. Favour your main DPS hero for gearing, or focus on gearing the siege main hitters. Be mindful of gearing high tier armor for stars, you might just have gotten a second blue star if you saved up in time! Orbs are hard to come by.

5. Be careful with luck potions and bottle recipes crossover materials. see Wiki Items page for other recipes your materials are used in.

6. Get all the recipes for expendables and bottles and Luck potions (catalysts). Yes all of them, there will be a time when you run low on some ingredients, it's good to have the altenate versions at hand.

7. Don't try to create new recipes before you know what you're doing. The wiki is full with recipes, go there first. The russian wiki is currently more active, if you like crafting and have some time try porting their recipes to english wiki :)

https://dungeoncrusher.fandom.com/wiki/Recipes