Item Creation

Learn how to invent new recipes and create items in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Discover party roles, skill requirements, and ingredient duplication.

In Star Ocean: The Last Hope, you can create up to 321 items beyond those bought or found. This includes usable items, equipment, and ship furnishings. All Item Creation is overseen by Welch Vineyard and accessed via the Item Creation terminal on the Calnus. Here, you can either Invent new recipes or Create items for which you already have the recipe.

Inventing New Recipes

To invent new recipes, you can arrange party members into Invention Groups of one to three characters. Starting a session initiates brainstorming, consuming Party SP over time. The session ends when the group runs out of ideas or Party SP. New recipes appear in the Invention Log. Success depends on:

• The Field Skills your characters know.
• Which characters are in the invention group.
• Their Item Creation Skills.

Field Skills

Each character has an Item Creation specialty (e.g., Edge's Smithery, Reimi's Cooking). Each inventable item has a Skill Level (S. Lv) requirement. You must have a sufficient skill level in the relevant specialty to invent an item. Skill Points can be used to increase skill levels.

Invention Groups

To invent an item within a specific category (like Smithery), the character with that specialty must be in the Invention Group. Sometimes, a recipe requires knowledge beyond a character's primary specialty. For example, to invent a bow, you might need Edge (Smithery specialty) and Reimi (who knows about bows, even though it's not her specialty) in the group.

Item Creation Skills

Characters have a primary specialty skill level and also possess varying aptitudes in other Item Creation disciplines. The table below shows these skills:

The "Sense" stat appears to indicate a character's aptitude for discovering recipes outside their specialty. The Item Creation category tables (not included here) detail the specialty skill level required, the net skill level of the invention group, and necessary ingredients. Some items require specific characters in the group or can only be obtained via Recipe Memos.

Creating Items

Once you have a recipe (either invented or from a Memo), you can create the item if you have the required ingredients. Some ingredients can be farmed from Gathering Points or monster drops. After completing the main game, the Skill Manual "Duplication" can be found in the Cave of the Seven Stars. This skill, usable by Arumat or Faize, allows you to use Magical Clay to duplicate items, saving time when farming rare ingredients.