Assassin’s Creed Origins Crafting Materials & Upgrades

This page contains info on all Crafting Materials & Upgrades in Assassin’s Creed Origins.

The AC-franchise received a major overhaul with the latest entry in the series, Origins. Set in the largest AC-environment yet, the game now features some key RPG-elements. Gathering and managing your resources, as well as crafting upgrades is a major component of the game now.

Resources

Here is a quick overview of the different materials used for crafting upgrades.

 Cedarwood

• Found on military transports, for example in Alexandria (use your eagle Senu to mark them).
• Obtained by dismantling bows, spears and maces.
• Randomly obtained while looting.
• Can be bought from Blacksmiths, once the skill Buy Materials is unlocked.

 Soft Leather

• Found on non-predatory animals like gazelles and some predators like hyenas.
• Randomly obtained while looting.
• Can be bought from Weavers, once the skill Buy Materials is unlocked.

 Hard Leather

• Looted from dead crocodiles and hippos.
• Randomly obtained while looting.
• Can be bought from Weavers, once the skill Buy Materials is unlocked.

 Pelt

• Found on predators like lions and other felines.
• Randomly obtained while looting.
• Can be bought from Weavers, once the skill Buy Materials is unlocked.

 Bronze

• Found on military transports, for example in Alexandria (use your eagle Senu to mark them).
• Obtained by dismantling swords, scepters and blades.
• Randomly obtained while looting.
• Can be bought from Blacksmiths, once the skill Buy Materials is unlocked.

 Iron

• Found on military transports, for example in Alexandria (use your eagle Senu to mark them).
• Obtained by dismantling blades and spears.
• Randomly obtained while looting.
• Can be bought from Blacksmiths, once the skill Buy Materials is unlocked.

 Silica

• Found in ancient tombs. Each tomb has a few of them.
• Randomly obtained while looting in military outposts.
• 50 of them are needed to unlock the Secret Isu Outfit. There is more than 50 of these in total.

 Carbon Crystal

• Found in little loot boxes inside ancient tombs and other caves.
• Randomly obtained while looting in military outposts.
• A very rare material, used only for high tier upgrades, see below.

How to Get Resources

There are a few ways to get a hold of the resources you need to upgrade your gear.

• The abovementioned skill Buy Materials opens the possibility to buy resources from merchants. The skill is located on the right-hand side on the Seer-tree and costs 2 points (plus 3 points to unlock this skill).
• If you have a Ubisoft Club (formerly Uplay) account, there is a way to get some free resources. You’ll get 10 of each for free and can get another 10 of each for spending 10 coins, which you earn for several different actions.
• Use Senu with to scan your surroundings, while hovering . Invest in the skill Eagle Tagging and synchronize viewpoints to enhance your companions vision. See the screenshot below for a visual of the use of Senu. It shows the type of resource, it’s status and – once you have upgraded Senu’s vision – also the amount on the right side. When you find something worth your time, simply press to mark the resource.
• The best farming spot for animals is in region “Herakleion Nome”. There are all types of animals close together in the swamps. The best farming spot for raw materials is Alexandria. There are always transports happening throughout the town which you can mark using Senu.

Upgrading your Gear

All of your six pieces of standard gear can be upgraded to improve their quality and use. See the costs of all upgrades below.

 Hidden Blade

• each upgrade adds to the Hidden Blades’ damage
• 10 upgrades available
  • 1: 20x Bronze
  • 2: 21x Bronze & 12x Iron
  • 3: 23x Bronze & 12x Iron
  • 4: 26x Bronze & 14x Iron
  • 5: 29x Bronze & 20x Iron
  • 6: 32x Bronze & 22x Iron & 18x Hard Leather
  • 7: 35x Bronze & 26x Iron & 21x Hard Leather
  • 8: 39x Bronze & 28x Iron & 22x Hard Leather
  • 9: 45x Bronze & 33x Iron & 24x Hard Leather & 3x Carbon Crystal
  • 10: 62x Bronze & 39x Iron & 27x Hard Leather & 5x Carbon Crystal

 Quiver

• each upgrade increases the total number of arrows you can carry
• 5 upgrades available
  • 1: 12x Cedarwood
  • 2: 13x Cedarwood
  • 3: 18x Cedarwood & 15x Hard Leather
  • 4: 17x Bronze & 21x Iron
  • 5: 20x Bronze & 24x Iron & 3x Carbon Crystal

 Stabilizer Glove

• each upgrade adds to your Ranged Damage
• 10 upgrades available
  • 1: 13x Soft Leather
  • 2: 14x Soft Leather & 20x Bronze
  • 3: 15x Soft Leather & 21x Bronze
  • 4: 18x Soft Leather & 23x Bronze
  • 5: 24x Soft Leather & 26x Bronze
  • 6: 27x Soft Leather & 29x Bronze & 20x Iron
  • 7: 30x Soft Leather & 32x Bronze & 22x Iron
  • 8: 33x Soft Leather & 35x Bronze & 24x Iron
  • 9: 39x Soft Leather & 39x Bronze & 26x Iron & 3x Carbon Crystal
  • 10: 52x Soft Leather & 45x Bronze & 29x Iron & 5x Carbon Crystal

 Bracer

• each upgrade adds to your Melee Damage
• 10 upgrades available
  • 1: 9x Hard Leather & 13x Cedarwood
  • 2: 9x Hard Leather & 14x Cedarwood
  • 3: 9x Hard Leather & 15x Cedarwood
  • 4: 11x Hard Leather & 18x Cedarwood
  • 5: 16x Hard Leather & 24x Cedarwood
  • 6: 18x Hard Leather & 27x Cedarwood & 17x Pelt
  • 7: 21x Hard Leather & 30x Cedarwood & 19x Pelt
  • 8: 24x Hard Leather & 33x Cedarwood & 20x Pelt
  • 9: 24x Hard Leather & 33x Cedarwood & 20x Pelt & 3x Carbon Crystal
  • 10: 33x Hard Leather & 52x Cedarwood & 26x Pelt & 5x Carbon Crystal

 Breastplate

• each upgrade adds to your total Health
• 10 upgrades available
  • 1: 8x Soft Leather
  • 2: 9x Soft Leather & 6x Hard Leather
  • 3: 9x Soft Leather & 7x Hard Leather
  • 4: 12x Soft Leather & 9x Hard Leather
  • 5: 18x Soft Leather & 13x Hard Leather
  • 6: 20x Soft Leather & 16x Hard Leather & 12x Pelt
  • 7: 23x Soft Leather & 18x Hard Leather & 12x Pelt
  • 8: 27x Soft Leather & 21x Hard Leather & 15x Pelt
  • 9: 32x Soft Leather & 25x Hard Leather & 19x Pelt & 3x Carbon Crystal
  • 10: 39x Soft Leather & 31x Hard Leather & 22x Pelt & 5x Carbon Crystal

 Tool Pouch

• each upgrade increases the total number of Darts and Bombs you can carry
• 5 upgrades available
  • 1: 12x Hard Leather
  • 2: 14x Hard Leather
  • 3: 14x Hard Leather & 20x Pelt
  • 4: 16x Hard Leather & 22x Pelt
  • 5: 18x Hard Leather & 26x Pelt & 3x Carbon Crystal

So for all your pieces of gear, there would be a total of 50 upgrades possible. You’ll need to craft 20 upgrades for the Handy Man-trophy.

What to do with items you don’t need?

There are different things you can do with items that you don’t want anymore.

Animal Goods

Sell them. There are just a limited number of side-quests where you actually need to get some animal goods – nothing you can’t obtain again within a few minutes. Some of them actually yield decent amounts of money.

Trinkets

Generally: sell them. But beware, there is a trophy called  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It requires you to sell 100 unnecessary items at once (only trinkets count, animal goods don’t). So, before you sell trinkets for the first time, make sure that you have more than 100 of them. As tempting as it might be to make a quick 1.000 coins or so, save those 100 items and sell them in a batch to get this trophy (make a backup savegame before selling, just in case). Getting 100 trinkets will take a long time (most likely 20-30 hours), so spend that time wisely.

Weapons & Shields

There are three things you can do with unwanted weapons:

• Sell them for money.
  Fairly simple – coins for goods. All blacksmith’s accept your goods.
• Dismantle them.
  When you dismantle old weapons, you get some resources out of them. See above for more information about which weapons usually yield which resources. Weapons of standard rarity (blue) give one resource back, rare items (purple) give two resources and legendary items (gold) give up to three different resources. Your items can be dismantled in the gear-menu with while hovering over the item.
• Upgrade them at the Blacksmith.
  If you have some nice rare or legendary weapons with good effects and want to keep them, although they’re a bit outdated now, there is a good solution. Every Blacksmith in the game can upgrade your beloved items in exchange for money. The upgrades will scale the items to your current level again and cost between 200 and 4.000+ coins, depending on the rarity level of the item and how many levels the item has to be upgraded to reach your current level.