So you’ll need to find the guy who sells broken stuff in town. In Upside, the Hestia Used Parts Distributor – a fancy name for junk salesman – is conveniently standing nearby. Talk to him, select Projectile Weapons, then find the Broken: Projectile Weapons Discipline Training Kit item in the vendor list; it should be at or near the top. They only cost one clink each, so buy a couple. You should now see them in your inventory.

Mousing over the broken kit will tell you what components/commodities you will need to fix it. In the case of a Projectile Weapons Discipline Training Kit, you’ll need one Salvaged Metals and one Salvaged Nuts and Bolts. The good news is that you can commonly find these items in the Central Wastelands; you might have even picked them up already in your travels by blasting someone’s house to rubble or wiping out the local gang of Scav’s vehicles.

If you right-click on the kit you’ll now see the meat and bones of the crafting process – the Crafting window. The middle area not only lists the components you need to repair the kit, but it’ll show if you have the items in your inventory. You should see a percentage chance of success at the bottom left (if you have a 100% chance of success, there’s no way you can screw it up). If you have all the necessary components, the “Assemble” button on the bottom right should light up. If it doesn’t, you probably need to go out and do more killin’ and destroyin’. Note that you will also need to be near a Control Shop in order to repair an item.

Now that you have your supply of ill-gotten components and want to build something, go ahead and click on “Assemble”. After a few moments you will have fully repaired the broken kit. Your Projectile Weapons Discipline will go up a notch and you may be asked if you want to Memorize the item. Don’t worry, it’s not painful. By Memorizing the item, you now have a Limited Patent to build the item from scratch without needing to have a broken item in inventory. If you have more of the kit components/commodities you can quickly build more kits. Note that you can only build a certain amount (the Memorization display tells you how many) before you effectively lose the Limited Patent and can no longer build that specific item.

Let’s not forget that these kits are generally pretty useful; they just aren’t throw-away items but can really help you out in the wastelands. These kits are one-use items that can boost one particular attribute or skill for a lengthy period of time. The Projection Weapons Discipline Training Kit adds ten points to your Combat attribute for thirty minutes. You can also sell them too but won’t get too much money for them.