Talk:Mission: The Desert Wind/@comment-50.24.93.112-20200927224703

The Artisan perk will substantially reduce the amount of Carbon Steel and Stainless Aluminum you will need to complete this project.

With max ranks of Artisan, you get a 20% discount, rounded up, so you want to make your components in batches of fives in the worktable so you don't get any rounding issues. But let me show you what I'm talking about here:

Each Steel Shell is a Steel Plate and a Steel Frame. Each Steel Plate is 3 Carbon Steel in a cutter. Each steel frame is five Carbon Steel. However, with the Artisan perk maxed, each Carbon Steel is only 4 each, and if you build in batches of 5 (which is needed for the quest anyway), you end up needing one fewer steel frame and plate for each quest. So instead of 5 Carbon Steel (frames) + 3 Carbon Steel (Plate) = 8 carbon steel per shell, for a total of 40 Carbon Steel per windmill, it's only 4 Carbon steel per frame, and you get away with 4 frames and 4 plates per five shells for a total of (4*4=16 + 4*3=12) 28 Carbon Steel per windmill. The Artisan perk is doing double duty since it reduces cost on not just the shells, but the frames needed for the shells.

As far as the Windwheels, they're normally 6 Stainless Aluminum each, which means 30 per windmill. But with Artisan perk, you end up with 24 instead. Here, you just get the straight 20% off the top discount, so long as you build in batches of 5.

tl;dr: With Artisan perk, instead of needing 120 Carbon Steel, you just need 84, and instead of needing 90 Stainless Aluminum, you just need 72. Unfortunately, it won't cut down on the amount of Tin Alloy you need, since Bearings are made on a Grinder instead of the Workshop, nor will it help with the Iron Wood for the planks.