Midnight Engineering Guide: Recipes & Knowledge Points

This guide covers everything you need to know about Midnight Engineering. You will find all Knowledge Point sources, specialization breakdowns, the Recycling system, profession equipment, and full recipe lists.

If you need help leveling Engineering from 1 to 100, check out my leveling guide:

Midnight Engineering Leveling Guide

Midnight Engineering Changes

Engineering got a pretty big overhaul in Midnight. In The War Within, the whole system revolved around Inventing prototypes, disassembling them, and scouring through scrap to discover recipes. In Midnight, that entire loop is gone. Instead, you Recycle crafted reagents from other professions to get components like Aetherlume and Song Gear, and you discover most of your recipes through Recycling.

• Quality Changes: Consumables and reagents now only have two quality levels (Silver and Gold) instead of three.
• Artisan Engineer's Moxie - The BoP currency Artisan's Acuity from The War Within has been changed to a profession-specific currency, Artisan Engineer's Moxie. You can now only use it for Engineering-specific recipes.
• Epic Profession Gear: New Epic-quality profession gear is available. They give the same Skill as Rare gear, but have higher secondary stats like Resourcefulness, Multicraft, and Ingenuity.
• Outdoor Embellishment Slot instead of Tinkers: There is a new outdoor embellishment slot on Engineering gear where you can pick one outdoor-only effect.
• Recycling replaces Inventing: The old Invent/Disassemble/Scour cycle is completely gone. You now Recycle crafted items from other professions to get your base materials and discover new recipes.
• Boots: Engineers can now craft boots for all armor types, in addition to goggles and bracers.
• No Explosives: This category was removed. There isn't any new bomb.
• No more Safety Components: The whole system of optional reagents and talent points to prevent your gadgets from malfunctioning is gone. Everything just works now.
• No new mounts, pets, or toys: The only "toy" is the Wormhole Generator.
• Ranged weapon enchants and buff items: New temporary weapon buffs that add extra effects to your auto-attacks, plus permanent ranged weapon enchants.
• Only 2 Parts: The old 7-part system (Bismuth Bolts, Gyrating Gear, Whimsical Wiring, etc.) has been simplified down to just 2.

Weekly Engineering Knowledge in Midnight

In Midnight, there are four weekly sources of profession knowledge. You can earn around 20 Knowledge Points every week. Patron Crafting Orders are your main source, but you also get points from treasure drops, a weekly quest, and an Inscription treatise.

Source	Details
Patron Crafting Orders (~16 KP)	Patron orders are the main source of Knowledge Points. You will get multiple orders throughout the week. Some of them reward you with Glimmer of Midnight Engineering Knowledge, but not all orders give knowledge points.
Weekly Quest (1 KP)	Your profession trainer offers a weekly quest that asks you to complete 3 Crafting Orders. This rewards a Thalassian Engineer's Notepad worth 1 Knowledge Point. It resets every week.
Weekly Drops (4 KP)	Each week, you can loot 1 of each of the following items from treasures scattered around the new zones: Dance Gear and Dawn Capacitor.
Inscription Treatise (1 KP)	To get a Thalassian Treatise on Engineering, you need to submit a Public Crafting Order because they are bind-on-pickup (BoP). Treatises are Warbound, so if you have an alt with Inscription, you can craft them and send them to your main.
Darkmoon Faire (3 KP / month)	Once a month, the Darkmoon Faire comes to town and you can complete a quick profession quest for +3 Knowledge Points and +2 Profession Skill. It's not a weekly source, but you shouldn't skip it. The Faire starts on the Sunday before the first Monday of each month.
Catch-up System	If you fall behind or start late, you will get Flicker of Midnight Engineering Knowledge from Patron orders instead of Glimmers. Flickers give more Knowledge Points per item, so you can catch up to other players.

One-Time Engineering Knowledge in Midnight

These are one-time sources of Knowledge Points that you can collect once per character. Treasures are scattered across all Midnight zones and give 3 KP each.

Renown Knowledge Book

Beyond the Event Horizon: Engineering is sold by the Voidstorm Renown Quartermaster.

Midnight Engineering Treasures

There are 8 Engineering treasures in Midnight, giving 24 Knowledge Points total (3 KP each).

/way #2393 51.2, 74.6 One Engineer's Junk
/way #2393 51.3, 57.0 What To Do When Nothing Works
/way #2395 39.6, 45.8 Manual of Mistakes and Mishaps
/way #2536 65.3, 35.0 Offline Helper Bot
/way #2437 34.2, 87.8 Handy Wrench
/way #2413 68.0, 49.8 Expeditious Pylon
/way #2444 54.1, 51.1 Ethereal Stormwrench
/way #2444 28.9, 39.1 Miniaturized Transport Skiff

Engineering Specializations

There are four specialization trees available. You unlock access to them at Engineering skill levels 25, 50, 60, and 75.

• Combat Analytics: Epic Aetherlume goggles, bracers, and boots for every armor type, plus the Epic gun.
• Market Mobility: Profession tools and accessories for Jewelcrafting, Tailoring, Fishing, Mining, and your own Engineering gear.
• Bits and Bots: Battle pets, gadgets, and utility items including the Meddy combat rez pet.
• Recycling: Salvage crafted reagents to recover Aetherlume and Evercores, plus crafting stats.

I have a separate guide that walks through the best builds for each playstyle with step-by-step Knowledge Point allocation.

Midnight Engineering Specialization Guide & Best Builds

Profession Equipment

Epic profession gear is new in Midnight. In The War Within, professions only had Green and Rare gear. Epic gear gives the same Skill as Rare, but has higher secondary stats like Resourcefulness, Multicraft, and Ingenuity.

Gear for Engineers

Engineering is unique because you craft your own Tool and one Accessory. The second Accessory comes from Leatherworking.

Slot	Crafted By	Green Quality	Blue Quality	Epic Quality
Tool	Engineering	Junker's Multitool	Turbo-Junker's Multitool	Turbo-Junker's Multitool v9
Accessory	Engineering	Junker's Junk Visor	Sin'dorei Headlamp	Head-Mounted Beam Bummer
Accessory	Leatherworking	Tinker's Handguard	Sin'dorei Engineer's Gloves	Thalassian Scrapmaster's Gauntlets

Craftable Profession Equipment

Engineers can craft profession tools and accessories for Jewelcrafting, Fishing, Mining, and Tailoring.

• Green quality recipes come from the profession trainer.
• Blue recipes are unlocked through the Market Mobility specialization tree.
• Epic recipes are sold by Lyrendal in Silvermoon City for 150 Artisan Engineer's Moxie each.

Profession	Green Quality	Blue Quality	Epic Quality
Jewelcrafting	Farstrider Clampers	Sin'dorei Clampers	Giga-Gem Grippers
Fishing	Farstrider Hobbyist Rod	Sin'dorei Angler's Rod	Sin'dorei Reeler's Rod
Mining (Tool)	Farstrider Hardhat	Sin'dorei Gilded Hardhat	Rock Bonkin' Hardhat
Mining (Acc)	Farstrider Rock Satchel	Junker's Big Ol' Bag	Heavy-Duty Rock Assister
Tailoring	Farstrider Fabric Cutters	Sin'dorei Snippers	Self-Sharpening Sin'dorei Snippers

Recycling

Recycling is a spell you learn at level 1 that lets you feed any crafted reagent from any Midnight profession into it. It doesn't have to be an Engineering reagent. You can recycle linen bolts, pigments, inks, scribing vellums, tailoring bolts, or whatever you have on hand.

How It Works

Each reagent recycles into either Evercore or Aetherlume. As a general rule, basic reagents produce Evercore and advanced reagents produce Aetherlume, though there are several exceptions. Evercores are used in most Bits, Bots, and Gadget recipes, while Aetherlume goes into top-tier crafts and Epic gear.

Each recycle takes 5 items and produces around 3 Evercores or Aetherlume when fully specced (with 30 points in the Recycling spec tree, which doubles the base output). The quality of what you get out is based on your crafting difficulty, not the quality of what you put in. With a full spec build you can get high-quality output even from normal-quality inputs.

Recipe Discovery

Recycling doesn't teach you new recipes by default. You have to put 10 points into the Recycling specialization first to unlock recipe discovery. Once you do, every recycle has a chance to discover a new recipe. Most Bits, Bots, mid-tier armor, and all House Decor are learned this way, so you basically just keep recycling until you've got everything.

What to Recycle

The best and cheapest items to recycle will likely be Powder Pigment or Bright Linen Bolt for Evercore, and Soul Sprocket or Imbued Bright Linen Bolt for Aetherlume. Check the Auction House for whatever is cheapest in each category.

Not every recyclable item is actually worth recycling. For example, Arcanoweave Bolt gives the same Aetherlume yield as Imbued Bright Linen Bolt, but it costs 6 Imbued Bright Linen Bolts to craft one. You'd always be better off just recycling the bolts directly. The table below only lists the reagents that are actually worth considering. Check the Materials column and compare prices on the AH before you buy anything.

Reagent	Profession	Output	Materials (per craft)
Bright Linen Bolt	Tailoring	Evercore	1x Bright Linen
Powder Pigment	Inscription	Evercore	Milled from Tranquility Bloom. You can also use the pigments from other herbs but this will probably be cheaper.
Refulgent Copper Ingot	Blacksmithing	Evercore	5x Refulgent Copper Ore
Song Gear	Engineering	Evercore	10x Refulgent Copper Ore, 5x Umbral Tin Ore
Imbued Bright Linen Bolt	Tailoring	Aetherlume	2x Bright Linen Bolt
Soul Sprocket	Engineering	Aetherlume	5x Refulgent Copper Ore, 10x Umbral Tin Ore
Gloaming Alloy	Blacksmithing	Aetherlume	6x Umbral Tin Ore, 3x Refulgent Copper Ingot
Sterling Alloy	Blacksmithing	Aetherlume	6x Brilliant Silver Ore, 3x Refulgent Copper Ingot
Arcanoweave Lining Sunfire Silk Lining Blessed Pango Charm Devouring Banding Primal Spore Binding	Various	Aetherlume	You would never want to craft these just for Recycling, but it's worth mentioning here because people use these for leveling Professions and they were often pretty cheap in previous expansions.

Combat Gear

Engineering crafts goggles, bracers, and boots for every armor type.

Cloth Leather Mail Plate

Cloth Gear

Recipe	Slot	Source
Aetherlume Eye Wrap	Head	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Silken Cuffs	Wrist	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Softsteppers	Feet	Spec: Combat Analytics
Evercore Zoomshroud	Head	Trainer (20)
Evercore Wrist Latch	Wrist	Trainer (35)
Evercore Swiftfeet	Feet	Trainer (35)
Quel'dorei Cloth Goggles (Warbound)	Head	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Silken Cuffs (Warbound)	Wrist	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Softsteppers (Warbound)	Feet	Trainer (1)
Thalassian Competitor's Cloth Goggles	Head	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Cloth Cuffs	Wrist	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Cloth Tip-Toes	Feet	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)

Leather Gear

Recipe	Slot	Source
Aetherlume Optics	Head	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Bands	Wrist	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Runners	Feet	Spec: Combat Analytics
Evercore Shade	Head	Trainer (1)
Evercore Binding	Wrist	Trainer (35)
Evercore Stichwraps	Feet	Trainer (35)
Quel'dorei Leather Optics (Warbound)	Head	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Bands (Warbound)	Wrist	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Runners (Warbound)	Feet	Trainer (1)
Thalassian Competitor's Leather Optics	Head	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Leather Bands	Wrist	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Leather Sliders	Feet	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)

Mail Gear

Recipe	Slot	Source
Aetherlume Vision Shroud	Head	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Bracelets	Wrist	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Clonkers	Feet	Spec: Combat Analytics
Evercore Reconissance	Head	Trainer (20)
Evercore Chainguards	Wrist	Trainer (35)
Evercore Turbochains	Feet	Trainer (35)
Quel'dorei Mail Shroud (Warbound)	Head	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Bracelets (Warbound)	Wrist	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Clonkers (Warbound)	Feet	Trainer (1)
Thalassian Competitor's Mail Visor	Head	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Mail Links	Wrist	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Mail Footlinks	Feet	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)

Plate Gear

Recipe	Slot	Source
Aetherlume Sun Guard	Head	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Guards	Wrist	Spec: Combat Analytics
Aetherlume Stompers	Feet	Spec: Combat Analytics
Evercore Vision Guard	Head	Trainer (15)
Evercore Gear Weight	Wrist	Trainer (35)
Evercore Greaseplates	Feet	Trainer (35)
Quel'dorei Visor (Warbound)	Head	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Guards (Warbound)	Wrist	Trainer (1)
Quel'dorei Stompers (Warbound)	Feet	Trainer (1)
Thalassian Competitor's Plate Guard	Head	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Plate Bindings	Wrist	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)
Thalassian Competitor's Plate Dunkers	Feet	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)

Guns

Engineering crafts ranged weapons again in Midnight.

Recipe	Description	Source
Evercore Dome Dinger	Rare ranged weapon	Trainer (20)
P.O.W. x3	Epic ranged weapon	Spec: Combat Analytics
Thalassian Competitor's Rifle	PvP ranged weapon	Vendor: Mirvedon (Silvermoon City)

Gadgets

Bots are deployable companions and battle pets. Bits are consumable gadgets like scopes, ammo, and utility items. Cogwheels are optional reagents that customize secondary stats on Engineering crafts, and Embellishments are optional reagents that add special effects to crafted gear.

Outdoor Embellishments

You can only use outdoor embellishments in outdoor zones, and they will not work in dungeons or raids.

You can only equip one outdoor embellishment at a time.

Recipe	Effect	Source
HU5H, Nonchalant Pup	Invisibility for 4-18 sec	Bits and Bots - Bots (30)
Kinetic Ankle Primers	Shoots you up in the air. (Feet slot only)	Recycling
M3DDY, Travel-Sized	When you die, M3DDY will revive you. Works like a Combat ress.	Bits and Bots - Bots

Optional Reagents

These optional reagents add embellishment effects to crafted gear. You can equip up to 2 embellished items at a time.

Recipe	Effect	Source
B0P, Curator of Booms	Your damaging or healing spells and abilities have a chance to fire up to 5 Big Booms	Recycling
B1P, Scorcher of Souls	Fire damage in a cone in front of you for 6 sec.	Recycling

Bots

M3DDY is a standout utility bot because it can combat-rez your whole raid on death.

Recipe	Effect	Source
M3DDY	Raid combat rez (on death)	Spec: Bits and Bots
W-47CH D0G	Pauses Flask/Phial/Well Fed timers	Recycling

Enchants, Utility

Consumable gadgets like scopes, ammo, and the Wormhole Generator.

Recipe	Effect	Source
Emergency Soul Link	Combat ress (usable by non engineers)	Recycling
Farstrider's Hawkeye	Scope: +Crit Strike on ranged weapon	Recycling
Smuggler's Lynxeye	Scope: +Mastery on ranged weapon	Recycling
Laced Zoomshots	Ammo: auto-attacks apply a poison bleed	Recycling
Weighted Boomshots	Ammo: attacks trigger fire explosions	Recycling
Wormhole Generator: Quel'Thalas	Teleport to a random Midnight location	Recycling

Fun stuff

These don't really do anything, but they're fun to have and show off.

Recipe	Effect	Source
Curious Red Button	Pressing the button a couple of times will kill you.	Recycling
Lucky Keychain	+1 Sparkle. I tested this but did not see any visual difference.	Recycling

Cogwheels

Cogwheels are optional reagents slotted into Engineering crafts to customize secondary stats.

Recipe	Source
Perfected Cogwheel	Trainer (1)
Flux Cogwheel	Trainer (5)
Greased Cogwheel	Trainer (20)
Consistent Cogwheel	Trainer (25)

House Decor

Engineering crafts tech-themed decorations for player housing. If you want to make these, just keep using Recycling until the recipes show up.

Recipe	Source
Ambient Aethercharged Crystal	Recycling
Ren'dorei Crafting Framework	Recycling
Ren'dorei Lightpost	Recycling
Ren'dorei Stargazer	Recycling
Ren'dorei Void Projector	Recycling
Ren'dorei Warp Orb	Recycling
Small Telogrus Lamp	Recycling