Creating
Activities concept
Anything dealing with creating new objects or things.
Alternate names: Constructing
Name variations: creation, construction
This is a container group; its children are:
| Constructing | Player spends significant amount of time personally building or managing the building of singular object or structure, such as a house, possibly several but each are worked on separately and with equal effort. | 1979 / 2023 | 47 games |
| Cooking | The player is able to do some cooking. (too short) | 1986 / 2023 | 122 games |
| Crafting | Features item crafting. (too short) | 1985 / 2023 | 472 games |
| Recrafting | Some crafted or otherwise player created items can be used as "ingredients" for other things they may craft. | 1 game | |
| Crafting worksites | Some or all crafting involves finding (or creating) a location where the things can be crafted, such as a workbench or tool set, or you can build one yourself. | 2003 / 2023 | 39 games |
| Crafting tools | Some or all crafting requires tools (other than those provided by potential worksites) to perform the job. | 2009 / 2012 | 6 games |
| Decomposing | Player can break down objects into base components, regardless if this preserves all that were used in their construction. | 2003 / 2016 | 13 games |
| Jury rigging | A type of crafting where various items can be combined in some manner to create other items. Unlike crafting, each combination can be done only once, sometimes few more times but in all cases these are situation specific or otherwise limited in usability. (too long) | 1993 / 2015 | 19 games |
| Manufacturing | (too short) | 2003 / 2013 | 3 games |
| Reverse engineering | Studying things until you know how to make them yourself, often involves taking them apart and possibly several times. | 1 game |