Synthweaving Crafting Materials Guide

There are over 75 materials that Synthweaving crafters can use when crafting robes for Jedi and Sith. This guide will go through all the ways to get materials for Synthweaving in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and a list of every Synthweaving crafting material and how to get it.

SWTOR Synthweaving Crafting Guide

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Contents

Synthweaving Materials
Materials Bay
Crew Skill Missions
- Archaeology
- Underworld Trading
Crew Skills Vendor – White-bordered Materials
GTN
Jawa Junk
Conquest Decorations
Other Ways
Synthweaving Materials List

Synthweaving Materials

Synthweaving crafting require Artifact Fragments and Power Crystals, which come from the Archaeology crew skill, and Luxury Fabrics, which come from the Underworld Trading crew skill.

Power Crystals

Gleaming Phond Crystal material, from Patch

Iridescent Bondar Crystal material, from Patch

Premium Lustrous Bondar Crystal material, from Patch

Prototype Lustrous Bondar Crystal material, from Patch

Artifact Lustrous Bondar Crystal material, from Patch

Artifact Fragments

Lost Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Sacred Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Ancient Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Galactic Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Hypertech Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Primeval Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Primordial Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Enigmatic Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Gleaming Alien Fragment material, from Patch

Iridescent Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Premium Lustrous Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Prototype Lustrous Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Artifact Lustrous Artifact Fragment material, from Patch

Luxury Fabrics

Denebrillan Star Silk material, from Patch

Nanite Threaded Cloth material, from Patch

Premium Woven Syntex material, from Patch

Prototype Woven Syntex material, from Patch

Artifact Woven Syntex material, from Patch

Crafting Materials

Fibrous Nylite Solution material, from Patch

Thermoionic Gel Suspension material, from Patch

Standard Veda Cloth material, from Patch

Rare Materials

Exotic Isotope Stabilizer material, from Patch

Dark Matter Catalyst material, from Patch

Strategic Resource Matrix material, from Patch

Refined Isotope Stabilizer material, from Patch

Charged Matter Transubstantiator material, from Patch

Encrypted Memory Core material, from Patch

Iokath Recombinator material, from Patch

Superior Resource Matrix material, from Patch

Void Matter Catalyst material, from Patch

Processed Isotope Stabilizer material, from Patch

Solid Resource Matrix material, from Patch

Materials Bay

An important thing to know about all crafting materials is that they don’t go in to your inventory most of the time – instead they automatically go in to a special type of bank called your Materials Bay.

To open your Materials Bay, click the symbol of a diamond on the top left of your inventory.

This Materials Bay is shared by all your characters on your server and anything you craft will automatically pull from your Materials Bay supply. You may have even already earned some Synthweaving crafting materials while you were playing that went straight to your crafting bay!

Crew Skill Missions

You can send your companions out to gather materials for you. Once you have picked up the Archaeology and Underworld Trading crew skills, you can open the crafting panel with the B key on your keyboard.

Your companion’s influence level affects a lot of the crafting activities, and you can see your companion’s influence in the circles on the right. A companion with a high influence level can craft and gather faster, have a chance of crafting double items or an augmented items, and a better chance of succeeding and bringing back a better reward from gathering missions. To learn more about raising your companion’s influence, check out my Companion Gift Guide video.

Archaeology

If you open up your Archaeology missions, you’ll notice that the missions tell you what they reward – in this case, your first two available missions reward Grade 1 Power Crystals and Artifact fragments, which is exactly what the first schematic you need to craft as a Synthweaver requires.

Power Crystals

Artifact Fragments

Crew Skills Missions

You can send your Companions out to gather by double-clicking the gathering mission. To send your companions to go get Artifact Fragments, Power Crystals and Color crystals, send them on Archaeology missions.

More missions will unlock as you level up your Archaeology skill by sending your companions out on missions or by gathering materials in the open world. Here are the levels at which the next Grade of materials are unlocked…

Grade 1 Materials: Archaeology level 1
Grade 2 Materials: Archaeology level 80
Grade 3 Materials: Archaeology level 160
Grade 4 Materials: Archaeology level 240
Grade 5 Materials: Archaeology level 300
Grade 6 Materials: Archaeology level 350
Grade 7 Materials: Archaeology level 400
Grade 8 Materials: Archaeology level 450
Grade 9 Materials: Archaeology level 500
Grade 10 Materials: Archaeology level 550
Grade 11 Materials: Archaeology level 600

Open World

In addition to getting crafting materials from sending your companions out on crew skill missions, with Archaeology, you’ll also be able to pick up archaeological finds you find on the ground in the open world by right clicking them. The closer your Archaeology level is to the recommended level of the material, the more materials you will get, so you can gather higher-level materials, but you won’t get very many if you have a low Archaeology level.

How to Gather

You can spot materials in the open world by looking for the star symbol on your mini map, or the star symbol in a small radius around your large map, or watching out for colorful crystal formations and archaeological artifacts with blue glowing text near them. You can right click these to send your companion to go get them, and you can even gather a different node by right clicking it and gather it yourself as your companion gathers a different one. If you can’t see the yellow star shapes on your map, you may need to open your map with the M key and check the “Resource” checkbox on the bottom left.

Not all items can be gathered from the open world. Your second related gathering skill, Underworld Trading, will only allow you to gather materials by sending your companions out on missions – you’ll never find Underworld Trading materials out in the open world.

Gathering Planets

SWTOR Crafting Materials Gathering Guide (by all planets and material grades)

Here is an easy list of worlds where you can find Archaeology materials to gather for free. This is a quick summary of Kel Gryphon’s in-depth guide with videos which you can see here.

Grade 1 Archaeology Materials: Coruscant (Republic – Jedi Temple), Dromund Kaas (Empire)
Grade 2 Archaeology Materials: Nar Shaddaa (also has Grade 3), Taris (Republic) and Balmorra (Empire)
Grade 3 Archaeology Materials: Nar Shaddaa (also has Grade 2), and Alderaan
Grade 4 Archaeology Materials: Balmorra (Republic – Sundari flatlands) and Taris (Empire)
Grade 5 Archaeology Materials: Belsavis (Tombs), Voss (also has Grade 6)
Grade 6 Archaeology Materials: Voss (also has Grade 5), Corellia, Ilum (also has Grade 7)
Grade 7 Archaeology Materials: Ilum (also has Grade 6), Makeb
Grade 8 Archaeology Materials: Yavin 4
Grade 9 Archaeology Materials: Zakuul (Swamps) and Darvannis
Grade 10 Archaeology Materials: Iokath and Ossus (Jedi Temple)
Grade 11 Archaeology Materials: Onderon (Caves) and Mek-Sha

Underworld Trading

Underworld Trading crew skill missions work almost the same way as Archaeology missions – the only difference is that you can not find Underworld Trading materials out in the open world. More Underworld Trading missions will unlock as you level up your Underworld Trading skill by sending your companions out on missions (there are no Underworld Trading materials out in the open world to gather).

Luxury Fabrics

Here are the levels at which the next Grade of materials are unlocked…

Grade 1 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 1
Grade 2 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 80
Grade 3 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 160
Grade 4 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 240
Grade 5 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 300
Grade 6 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 350
Grade 7 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 400
Grade 8 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 450
Grade 9 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 500
Grade 10 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 550
Grade 11 Luxury Fabrics: Underworld Trading level 600

Crew Skills Vendor – White-bordered Materials

White-bordered materials are a bit different – you can either send your companions to gather them if you have a mission available for them from Archaeology, or buy them directly from a vendor called the Crew Skills Trade Vendor in the Strongholds & Crew Skills section of the fleet who sells them pretty cheap.

Crafting Materials

GTN

Crafting Materials can also be bought and sold on the GTN.

Buying Materials: To buy materials from other players, you can go to the Fleet, and go to the Galactic Trade Market section of the map. Once there, right click the big green terminal, and then click in the search box. If you’re looking for a specific material, and aren’t having luck with your crew skill missions, or want to get ahold of the materials quicker, you can type the name of the crafting material in to the GTN, click search, then sort by price per unit lowest to highest. Even better, if you have the schematic window also open, click in to the search box, and SHIFT+LEFT CLICK on the material to automatically put the name of the material in to the GTN search box.

Selling Materials: If you want to make some easy credits, you can sell any materials you aren’t using on the GTN to other players who are crafting – just remember to set the sell price to the number of materials you are selling times the price you want to sell them each at. To take crafting materials out of your Materials Bay to sell, open your Materials bay, and right-click the item. To split a pile of materials or any other item, SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK the pile and type in how many you want to separate out. For normal crafting materials, like what you get from Archaeology, players usually want to buy them in piles, rather than 1 by 1.

Jawa Junk

Jawa Scraps are a type of currency that you can turn in for crafting materials. There are three types of this currency, green, which is called Scavenged Scrap, blue, which is called Assorted Droid parts, and purple, which is called Jawa Junk, which is also what players often call this type of currency. Jawa Scraps can come from many sources, but the most common is by completing your Conquest goal for the week. Almost all crafting materials can be bought with Jawa Scrap, and each type of material costs different amounts.

To spend your Jawa scrap, head to the Fleet, and go to the Cartel Bazaar, which is the northern elevator Republic side and the Southern elevator Imperial side. There you’ll find a group of Jawa vendors who will sell you materials for scrap. Turning scrap in to materials and then selling the materials is also a great easy way to make credits.

All green, blue, and purple Archaeology and Underworld Trading materials Grades 1 – 11 are available from the Jawas at varying prices. Be warned – the Grade 11 materials are very expensive.

Conquest Decorations

You can also get a special type of decoration from Conquest that is like an open world gathering node – but you can place it down in your stronghold and you can gather from a few of them every four hours or so. Some of these decorations reward specific materials, while others can give you a variety of materials in a certain gathering skill. All conquest crafting decorations can be bought and sold on the GTN.

Synthweaving can gather Archaeology materials Grades 1 – 8 from Conquest Decorations.