Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Ah the Crafting post….where I give you the how-to and break down each and every item available to craft, so you don’t miss a thing!
Love it or hate it, EA has proven over the last couple of years that crafting is here to stay. While the prizes themselves are pretty self-explanatory, collect this to earn these prizes, crafting is a whole other “animal”. Crafting requires some self-direction. You decide what you want and collect the items to craft accordingly. Sometimes this is successful and sometimes it’s not. And, as with all things, for some events crafting is easier than others.
Act 2 brought eight new craftables to Springfield, so let’s take a closer look at the new items…
So in this post I’m not going to get into the details of how to craft etc, I already covered that in the Act 1 post. I’m also not going to talk about the items that were available to craft during Act 1 because, well, I talked about them in the Act 1 Crating Post. So if you’d like information on either of those check out the Act 1 Crafting Post here.
Now here’s the breakdown for Act 2 (when Act 3 hits we’ll post about the breakdown on those items as well):
Item: Phone Booth
Cost: 200 
Size: 2×2
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity +100
Heist Bonus: 2%
What Does it Do: Not a whole lot. Lights inside turn on when tapped.
Unique?:No.
Item: Police Call Box
Cost: 200
Size: 2×2
Conform-O-Meter: Obedience +5
Heist Bonus: 2%
What Does it Do:Not a whole lot. Lights inside turn on when tapped.
Unique?:No.
Item: Queen’s Guard
Cost: 200
Size: 1×1
Conform-O-Meter:Obedience +5
Heist Bonus: 2%
What Does it Do:Not a whole lot. Shakes a little when tapped
Unique?:No.
Item: Beefeater
Cost: 200
Size: 1×1
Conform-O-Meter: Obedience +5
Heist Bonus: 2%
What Does it Do:Not a whole lot. Shakes and hits his staff (?) a couple of times on the ground when tapped
Unique?:No.
Item: Darby O’Guzzlin’s
Cost: 500
Size: 3×7
Build Time: 4hrs
Earns: $90,10xp/4hrs
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity +200
Heist Bonus: None
What Does it Do: CBG has a 4hr task there “Vape and Drink”. Animated when in use, lights on smoke out
Unique?: Yes
Item: British Roundabout
Cost:500
Size: 4×4
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity +100
Heist Bonus: None
What Does it Do: Nothing, just a static decoration. It’s not even really a roundabout. It’s just a statue on a round base.
Unique?:No.
Item: St. Paul’s Cathedral
Cost: 1,000
Size: 6×12
Build Time: 4hrs
Earns: $300,30xp/24hrs
Conform-O-Meter: Vanity +200
Heist Bonus: None
What Does it Do: Quimby has a 4hr task there “Consider Becoming Anglican”. Animated when in use, Lights on silhouettes in the windows.
Unique?:Yes
Item: Land Token
Cost: 300
What Does it Do: Land tile that can be used to unlock new land.
Unique?:Yes
My Personal Opinion on Craftables…
As always get what you like/what will work for your town. However, keep in mind you need certain craftables to boost your heist bonus. So focus on that, and once that’s maxed out you can go with the order items.
So again…don’t kill yourself trying to get all this stuff. Sometimes less is more. Craft what you have a use for in Springfield….
Hope that helps some of you who have been stressing out over crafting!
And there you have it my friends…the details behind Act 2 of The Springfield Jobs Crafting!
What are your thoughts on crafting? Which items are you digging? Which would you pass on? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
One thing that stuck out for me is that there is no form of walls/fences, or foliage. Would have really liked that, never have enough of those in storage for later designing. 😊
You can place it on pavement and create a circular drive through careful placement of foliage. I credit Tapebelt as the originator of this concept with his amazing Monsarno HQ. Under the design guide menu, go to Springfield Showoffs, click the link to Monsarno and scroll down to Tapebelt. For a larger perspective, go to Monsarno 2 and look for the trapezoidal picture on a diagonal. You want to learn how to design roads that looked curved, seemingly go up and downhill? Tape’s the master!
Whoops, this was still in my comment box so Ithought it hadn’t gone through. It’s an updated reply to Azul Pantalones’es comment.
I love that EA brought back buildings to craft in this event but I do wish that another character had a task at Darby O’Guzzlin’s because CBG already has plenty of 4 hour tasks at other buildings. Other than that it is great to have a selection of buildings from an event that are available from crafting, donuts and prizes.
Got all I want will be in great shape for act 3. With all premium characters I have over to chill or collect bonuts
I’m upset because once the rollback bug hit my town, I can’t craft anymore Act 2 items.
That’s a different rollback. We’re hoping that one gets corrected with Act 3…
Ok thanks. I have all the rollbacks I guess… oh well.
Question, do you think that the Act 2 crafting items will be available to craft if they fix the rollback in Act 3?
It should be. But with EA who the heck knows these days…
Good luck
In real life….whats the difference in duties of beefeater vs guards?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomen_Warders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomen_of_the_Guard
Im learneding. Thanx😉👍
Did it hurt ? LOL 😹
🎬🎥🐒 . SEE YA BYE . 👽
Beefeaters are at tower of London. Guards are at Buckingham Palace (in the simplist terms anyway!)
Saving for expensive items in act 3. Then we shall see if I have any spare. Did not get land token though.but it’s a good idea if you do not want useless stuff and have extra craftable currency
It’s not a roundabout. Its the Victoria Memorial from in front of Buckingham Palace. Admittedly in real life it does have a roundabout around it, but what you get from crafting is the memorial. I’ve made it and stuck it in front of the palace for effect.
Traffic now only passes it on one side so it’s no longer a roundabout
I think the ‘British Roundabout’ was incorrectly named, there may be a reason they didn’t call it Queen Victoria Memorial but there must have been a better alternative considering the memorial isn’t a roundabout…
You can make a squareabout, since the roundabout can be placed on the road. It’s not much, but it’s something.
squareabout
You can place it on pavement and create a circular drive through careful placement of foliage. I credit Tapebelt as the originator of this concept with his amazing Monsarno HQ. I bet a search of the Showoffs, design tutorials or Flickr page would turn up a screenshot. There is also a curved go cart track.
Does anyone recall if we’ve seen craftable buildings from past events show up in mystery boxes? I know that some buildings from those prize tracks have appeared.
Even if one doesn’t particularly like the look or SIZE of these (I’m looking at you St. Pauls…), I’ll be crafting and storing them to avoid any chance of paying donuts for them if/when they return in the future.
Yes – there has been craftable->premium in the past.
That’s even happened for small decorations, not just buildings.
I think this event is a lot nicer than the last one, and a large part of it is being able to craft everything at first
But I do miss the easy way of finding stray tappables that came with the crafting levels.
yeah, maybe
I like to craft buildings that earn cash/xp. It’s free income for my Springfield. In the past there have been some really good options.
Gunna wait until a couple days left in act 3 before spending my crafting currency and grab all land tokens, then all unique items, then whatever I like what I have left