Custom crafting & items

Settlers III adds a handful of its own items and changes a few recipes. This page lists each one.

Whale blubber

Whale blubber is thick fat cut from a whale. It does everything honeycomb does in vanilla:

• Waxing copper. Use blubber on any copper block, door, trapdoor, grate or bulb to wax it, so it never oxidises. Waxed copper also stays at full strength, since oxidised copper is structurally weaker (see Gravity).
• Waxing signs so nobody can edit them.
• Candles: string and blubber make a candle.
• Blubber blocks: four blubber make a block (vanilla's honeycomb block).
• Beehives and anything else that uses honeycomb in a recipe.

Getting it means sailing out to deep water. Whales are curious and will come to look at your ship, but they drift away if you hurt them. See The open ocean.

Rails

The rail recipe (six iron ingots and a stick) makes 32 rails instead of vanilla's 16. Rail lines are one of the few ways to move people and goods over land quickly, and iron is scarce outside the Rainlands, so rails go further here.

Feathers

Chickens drop 2–3 feathers (vanilla drops 0–2), and wild birds such as robins, finches and gulls drop 3–6. Chickens only live on the Spiderholme Isles, so everywhere else, fletchers rely on birds.

Sand

Natural sand drops nothing when broken. Sand comes from panning gravel streams with a bowl, which also turns up gold and iron nuggets and flint.

Gold as money

Gold nuggets, bars and blocks are the currency, traded through player-run shop keepers. See Gold & shops.

Trees fall

Chopping through a trunk fells the whole tree, and saplings grow into the region's own trees. See Tree felling.

For things that have been switched off entirely, see Banned & changed.