The Witcher 3 Crafting lists: How to craft runestones, components, repair kits, glyphs and crossbow bolts

The Witcher 3 crafting takes many forms - and with all these ingredients out there and waiting for you to be put to good use, this wouldn't come as a surprise.

Along with Alchemy, Crafting is an essential part of becoming more powerful in The Witcher 3. Learning how to put together some of the more powerful items will help you augment your weapons and even help you get the materials needed to craft the weapons themselves.

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Witcher 3 Components Crafting list

Alongside the base items you find around the world, there are also plenty that you need to craft yourself. It's worth knowing how to do so, as they can help finish off those various Witcher School armour sets.

Witcher 3 Repair Kits Crafting List

While you can restore your equipment to its best state by visiting the armourers and blacksmiths of the world, that's not always an option. Sometimes you need to get your hands dirty with elbow grease, or something. For those times, you need the repair kits.

Witcher 3 Glyph Crafting list

If you like to use Signs to battle, then you're going to want to use Glyphs. Each one enhanced the power of the relevant sign, with Lesser Glyphs boosting the power by 2% and the Greater boosting them by 10%.

Witcher 3 Runestone Crafting list

Where Glyphs boost the power of your signs, Runestones boost other combat relevant things like giving you a chance to inflict bleeding, or even deflect damage. They're incredibly useful and allow you to really fine-tune your build.

Our Witcher 3 walkthrough and guide can help you with the main story, including the Wandering in the Dark and Family Matters missions, and eventually, one of several Witcher 3 endings. There's plenty of side content, too, including Witcher 3 Contracts, White Orchard quests, Velen quests, Novigrad quests and Skellige Isles quests. Elsewhere, learn about the best Witcher 3 builds, the best Witcher 3 mods, how to make money in Witcher 3, find Places of Power locations, and learn how to do Witcher 3 crafting and Witcher 3 Alchemy And when you're done with all those - we can help you through expansions with our Hearts of Stone walkthrough and Blood and Wine walkthrough.

Witcher 3 Crossbow Bolt Crafting list

While the basic bolts are infinite, you can also craft a number of specialised bolts for your crossbow. Each one of these does more damage or has a special effect. Crafting them will give your ranged attacks a significant upgrade.