Loftia Crafting and Refining Guide: Stations and First Recipes

Evidence status: The crafting loop is confirmed by official descriptions; specific recipes come from launch-week walkthroughs and are labelled as reports. Last checked: November 9, 2026.

How does the crafting loop work?

Loftia’s official description sums it up: gather and craft with resources and tools, powered by renewable energy. In practice the loop has three steps.

1. Salvage raw materials around Loftia City with your hammer and shears.
2. Refine them at the Refining Station into usable building materials.
3. Craft tools, stations, and furniture at the Project Station on your island.

Each step costs Battery charges, so crafting and energy management are really one system.

Which stations matter early?

Placement counts are limited by Building Permits from Amani’s Permits Office. Plan station space before you fill your island with decorations.

What does the Refining Station produce?

Player walkthroughs of Milo’s quest report these first conversions:

Higher Refining Station levels add more chains. Reports mention glass from sand and circuit boards from electronic scraps at Refining Station level 3. Processing orders run over time and can be queued, which makes a full queue before you log off a good habit.

Which early recipes do players report?

These are launch-week reports from quest walkthroughs and press. Confirm them in your recipe list, since balance changes during Early Access.

For the materials themselves, see the items and resources reference. For the full glider questline, see glider and traversal.

How do you craft more efficiently?

• Refine in batches. One refining batch costs a fixed amount of energy, so full batches give better value.
• Use the Crafting perks. The Crafting proficiency includes perks for carry limits, storage slots, faster processing, extra concurrent orders, and chances to refund materials or energy. See proficiencies and perks.
• Raise station levels. Trellises and the Hydrofarm appear only at higher Project Station levels. Leveling the station unlocks more than making more of the same item.
• Mind carry limits. Limits apply per material category, and refined materials have their own limits.

What is still unconfirmed?

Full recipe trees for Gridfall and Hanging Gardens items, exact refining times, and station-level upgrade costs are still being documented. This page will add them once they are confirmed in the current build, and it will not guess.

Sources and verification

• Official: loftia.gg (crafting and renewable-energy tools) and the Steam page. Checked November 9, 2026.
• Community: glider questline walkthrough (Refining Station and Glider recipes) and a hydroponics recipe page (Trellis and Hydrofarm). Launch-week reports.
• Press: TheGamer energy guide and resource location guide, November 2026 (Battery Lv.2, resource locations).