Crafts and Credits
Everything your human makes, putting crafts on show, gardening, and selling crafts for credits.
Making crafts
Put the craft table in the habitat and your human sits on the stool and makes something. They go on their own when they are bored, especially crafty humans, and you can set them down next to the table to get them started. Very tired or grumpy humans refuse. Very hungry or thirsty ones keep working but grumble about it. Crafting trains artistry.
They mostly make their favorite kind of craft:
| Kind | What they make |
|---|---|
| Woodwork and handicrafts | Birdhouses, little chairs, pots, mittens and paper airplanes |
| Painting | Places they remember (the park, the beach, the mountains, the city, a field of flowers, a lake) and, if they trust you, a portrait of you |
| Crochet | Beanies, sweaters, blankets and even beards |
| Gardening | Carrots, and carrot hats |
Painting
Painters come in three tiers. Baby painters make crayon scribbles with a sun in the corner. Average painters make tidy flat pictures. Masters paint soft gradients, shading and reflections. Now and then they paint you: "a portrait of my wonderful owner." They always hang that one up, sometimes admire it, and when they are cross they glare at it.
Crochet and clothes
Drop a beanie or beard on their head, or a sweater on their body, and they wear it. Drop a blanket on the bed and it replaces the quilt. Fun-loving humans love it, grumpy ones hate it and pull it off, and easygoing ones shrug. Menu > Clothes and blankets takes things off again. Alien clothes from New Threads are worn the same way.
Gardening
Put the garden box in the habitat and they plant carrots, which sprout and grow over a couple of minutes. Two ripe carrots become a carrot hat. Aliens do not know carrots are food, but a hungry human with an empty bowl will happily eat one.
Crafts on show
When they have nothing pressing to do, humans pick up crafts lying around and look them over. If they like one, they put it on show: paintings, mittens and birdhouses get hung on the glass, and everything else goes on the display table (or the floor along the back glass).
Selling crafts for credits
Credits pay for everything in the stores. To sell crafts:
- Drop them into the open capsule (up to eight at a time). Once in, they stay in.
- Dock the capsule in the tube station.
- The cover lifts and the button is blue (SEND). Press it.
The capsule drops down the tube to the ship, and an empty one comes back up. A capsule with crafts in it will not take a human, and one with a human will not take crafts.
| Craft | Credits |
|---|---|
| Portrait of you | 80 |
| Painting | 4 (baby), 20 (average), 65 (master) |
| Blanket | 40 |
| Sweater | 30 |
| Carrot hat | 25 |
| Beard | 18 |
| Chair | 16 |
| Birdhouse | 14 |
| Beanie | 12 |
| Pot | 9 |
| Mitten | 6 |
| Paper airplane | 3 |
Other ways to earn credits
- Jobs from each planet (COMMS > Jobs). See Planets and Jobs.
- Events: 60, 35 or 20 credits for first, second or third place, and 10 just for taking part. See Events.
New games start with 150 credits.