The quick answer
Crafting Stamina pays for activities such as cooking, medicine and talismans. It recovers 450 points at the daily reset and stores up to 2,500. This is a separate pool from the Energy used to claim challenge rewards and the Endurance used during combat.
On this page
Identify the pool you are missing
| Resource | Where it matters | What spending it does |
|---|---|---|
| Crafting Stamina | Crafting recipe and quantity panel | Produces consumables and other crafted items. |
| Energy | Eligible challenge reward claims | Pays for the associated reward claim. |
| Endurance | Moment-to-moment combat and movement | Supports actions such as dodging and attacks. |
A grey craft button is not necessarily a Stamina problem. Inspect the recipe level, ingredient quantity and output amount as well. Lowering the batch size can reveal whether the missing requirement is the pool or a material.
Plan around a daily grant
The documented recovery is a daily addition, not a complete refill. Use the reset shown by your server rather than converting a guide’s local clock time. Recovery also stops at the storage cap; a nearly full pool cannot hold an entire extra day’s grant.
Worked example: if you have 2,300 Stamina and spend none before a 450-point reset, the 2,500 cap leaves room for only 200. Spending 250 before that reset creates enough room for the full grant. This illustrates the cap; it is not a reason to craft items you cannot use.
Set a small crafting budget
- Reserve the amount needed for your next useful medicine or food batch.
- Check any profession task you intend to complete and its exact recipe.
- Craft those items before optional stockpiles.
- Recheck the remaining pool before using a maximum-quantity button.
Our recommendation is to plan from the recipe backwards. If a recipe costs 5 Stamina and you need 12 crafts, reserve 60. Use the actual per-craft cost on your screen: a batch may produce more than one item, so item count and craft count are not always equal.
What to do when the pool is empty
Continue gathering the ingredients and learning the recipes you need, then return after the daily recovery. Open-world exploration is not globally locked because you cannot craft another batch. If a required finished item is sold by an unlocked vendor, compare that price with waiting; buying ingredients alone will not refill Stamina.
Do not spend an Energy refill expecting it to solve a crafting limit. Read the item’s named resource before using it.
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Common questions
Does the daily reset refill Stamina to maximum?
No. It adds 450 points, limited by the 2,500 storage cap.
Will an Energy refill let me cook again?
Energy and crafting Stamina are separate. Check the resource named on the refill item.