Work In Progress: Campbell’s Basic Framework

Campbell’s Basic Framework is one of the new components coming in the May 1st release. This art’s great, and I think the Elysians would enjoy using a double helix as a basic component of their technology.
Malcolm Campbell, the craftsman in Crystal Center, is one of my personal favorite characters. His first mission introduces new arrivals to the Crafting terminal, and offers them the blueprint for Tropical Shades, to encourage new players to take up crafting. In his second mission, Axonic Diodes, Malcolm’s heard about poor Samuel’s ongoing logical problems, and he’s going to MacGyver up a solution to replace his damaged axonic diodes.
Anyone who helps Malcolm with what he needs for this must be an apprentice crafter, and a fellow artisan like that might be interested in another of Malcolm’s inventions, Campbell’s Basic Framework. Making this framework will require:

1 Papoo Tail
1 Boar Tail
20 Vibrant Sweat​

Campbell’s Basic Framework uses some simple, common materials to create a basic component. I like the gameplay this will add for lower-level players, and the nice effects this will have on the Next Island economy, and creatively I think that’s something an inventive crafter like Malcolm would develop!

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