Crafting Bench
The Crafting Bench is a manual crafting station, allowing to craft all unlocked components, except for:
- Equipment, which has to be crafted in an Equipment Workshop
- Alternate recipes, radioactive items and all Space Elevator project parts, all of which have to be made in machines
- Recipes involving fluids, which have to be made in the Refinery, Packager, or Blender
- Recipes made in the Particle Accelerator
The HUB has a Crafting Bench built into it, while additional Crafting Benches can be constructed elsewhere in the world using the build menu. Only one player can use a Crafting Bench in multiplayer, so building multiple is advised.
Usage
To craft a part, it has to be selected (or searched for) in the left side of the UI. If there are enough ingredients in the inventory, the Craft button turns yellow. The button can be pressed either by clicking on it , or held down automatically by tapping Space, which is useful for crafting a large amount of items.
After continuously crafting for a while, the hammer button will start glowing red, and boiling sounds can be heard. This has no effect on the game (any more[1]).
Recipes are unlocked by completing HUB Milestones and MAM Researches.
Early game crafting speed comparison
Recipes in a Crafting Bench are marked with hammer icon, which indicates how much time is required to produce one batch of items. A single hammer is equal to approximately 0.25 seconds (250 milliseconds).
Let's consider an example. The Iron Ingot recipe has size of a batch that equals to 1. This means that 1 Iron Ingot is produced per recipe execution. Iron Ingot recipe has a cost of 3 hammers - that is, one Iron Ingot takes approximately 0.75 seconds (750 milliseconds) to be crafted. This results in production rate of 1.33 Iron Ingots per second.
Below is the comparison of manual crafting speed vs machine crafting speed. This should give you some idea about which items should be prioritized for automation. Items with low manual crafting speed should be automated first. 'Machine' refers to either the Constructor or the Smelter, which both operate at 4 MW.
Item | Manual crafting speed (item/min) |
Machine crafting speed (item/min) |
Manual speed multiplier |
---|---|---|---|
Iron Ingot | 80 | 30 | 2.66 |
Iron Rod | 240 | 15 | 16 |
Iron Plate | 160 | 20 | 8 |
Copper Ingot | 80 | 30 | 2.66 |
Wire | 240 | 30 | 8 |
Cable | 240 | 30 | 8 |
Screw | 320 | 40 | 8 |
Concrete | 120 | 15 | 8 |
Biomass (leaves) | 1200 | 60 | 20 |
Biomass (wood) | 2400 | 300* | 8 |
Solid Biofuel | 96 | 60 | 1.6 |
Copper Sheet | 80 | 10 | 8 |
*Note that while a single Mk.1 Conveyor Belt can supply the Wood required by a single Constructor, the output of 300/min is too high for early-game belts, so multiple Constructors should be used if you wish to automate wood Biomass production.
Recipes
See above for a list of which recipes cannot be crafted manually.
Recipe | Ingredients | Produced in | Products | Unlocked by |
---|---|---|---|---|
AI Limiter | Assembler 12 sec |
MAM Caterium Research - AI Limiter OR Tier 7 - Control System Development | ||
Alclad Aluminum Sheet | Assembler 6 sec |
Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Alien DNA Capsule | Constructor 6 sec |
MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Bio-Organic Properties | ||
Aluminum Casing | Constructor 2 sec |
Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Aluminum Ingot | Foundry 4 sec |
Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Biomass (Alien Protein) | Constructor 4 sec |
MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Bio-Organic Properties | ||
Biomass (Leaves) | Constructor 5 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6 | ||
Biomass (Mycelia) | Constructor 4 sec |
MAM Mycelia Research - Mycelia | ||
Biomass (Wood) | Constructor 4 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 6 | ||
Cable | Constructor 2 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 2 | ||
Caterium Ingot | Smelter 4 sec |
MAM Caterium Research - Caterium Ingots OR Tier 5 - Petroleum Power | ||
Circuit Board | Assembler 8 sec |
Tier 5 - Oil Processing | ||
Computer | Manufacturer 24 sec |
Tier 6 - Industrial Manufacturing | ||
Concrete | Constructor 4 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 3 | ||
Copper Ingot | Smelter 2 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 2 | ||
Copper Powder | Constructor 6 sec |
Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment | ||
Copper Sheet | Constructor 6 sec |
Tier 2 - Part Assembly | ||
Crystal Oscillator | Manufacturer 120 sec |
MAM Quartz Research - Crystal Oscillator OR Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Electromagnetic Control Rod | Assembler 30 sec |
Tier 8 - Nuclear Power | ||
Empty Canister | Constructor 4 sec |
Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Empty Fluid Tank | Constructor 1 sec |
Tier 8 - Advanced Aluminum Production | ||
Encased Industrial Beam | Assembler 10 sec |
Tier 4 - Advanced Steel Production | ||
Encased Plutonium Cell | Assembler 12 sec |
Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment | ||
Fabric | Assembler 4 sec |
MAM Mycelia Research - Fabric | ||
Ficsite Trigon | Constructor 6 sec |
Tier 9 - Matter Conversion | ||
Hatcher Protein | Constructor 3 sec |
MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Hatcher Research | ||
Heat Sink | Assembler 8 sec |
Tier 8 - Advanced Aluminum Production | ||
Heavy Modular Frame | Manufacturer 30 sec |
Tier 6 - Industrial Manufacturing | ||
High-Speed Connector | Manufacturer 16 sec |
MAM Caterium Research - High-Speed Connector OR Tier 7 - Control System Development | ||
Hog Protein | Constructor 3 sec |
MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Hog Research | ||
Iron Ingot | Smelter 2 sec |
Onboarding | ||
Iron Plate | Constructor 6 sec |
Onboarding | ||
Iron Rod | Constructor 4 sec |
Onboarding | ||
Modular Frame | Assembler 60 sec |
Tier 2 - Part Assembly | ||
Motor | Assembler 12 sec |
Tier 4 - Advanced Steel Production | ||
Power Shard (1) | Constructor 8 sec |
MAM Power Slugs Research - Blue Power Slugs | ||
Power Shard (2) | Constructor 12 sec |
MAM Power Slugs Research - Yellow Power Slugs | ||
Power Shard (5) | Constructor 24 sec |
MAM Power Slugs Research - Purple Power Slugs | ||
Pressure Conversion Cube | Assembler 60 sec |
Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment | ||
Quartz Crystal | Constructor 8 sec |
MAM Quartz Research - Quartz Crystals OR Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Quickwire | Constructor 5 sec |
MAM Caterium Research - Quickwire OR Tier 5 - Petroleum Power | ||
Radio Control Unit | Manufacturer 48 sec |
Tier 7 - Control System Development | ||
Reanimated SAM | Constructor 2 sec |
MAM Alien Technology Research - SAM Reanimation OR Tier 9 - Matter Conversion | ||
Reinforced Iron Plate | Assembler 12 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 3 | ||
Rotor | Assembler 15 sec |
Tier 2 - Part Assembly | ||
SAM Fluctuator | Manufacturer 6 sec |
MAM Alien Technology Research - SAM Fluctuator OR Tier 9 - Matter Conversion | ||
Screw | Constructor 6 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 3 | ||
Silica | Constructor 8 sec |
MAM Quartz Research - Silica OR Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Solid Biofuel | Constructor 4 sec |
Tier 2 - Obstacle Clearing | ||
Spitter Protein | Constructor 3 sec |
MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Spitter Research | ||
Stator | Assembler 12 sec |
Tier 4 - Advanced Steel Production | ||
Steel Beam | Constructor 4 sec |
Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production | ||
Steel Ingot | Foundry 4 sec |
Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production | ||
Steel Pipe | Constructor 6 sec |
Tier 3 - Basic Steel Production | ||
Stinger Protein | Constructor 3 sec |
MAM Alien Megafauna Research - Stinger Research | ||
Supercomputer | Manufacturer 32 sec |
Tier 7 - Control System Development | ||
Turbo Motor | Manufacturer 32 sec |
Tier 8 - Leading-Edge Production | ||
Wire | Constructor 4 sec |
Tier 0 - HUB Upgrade 2 |
Trivia
- The clanging sounds that play while using a Crafting Bench do not time up with the speed at which the progress bar ticks down - the ratio is about 11 sounds to 10 steps.
See also
Gallery
History
- Patch 1.0.0.0: Moved to Special tab in the build menu
- Patch 0.5.0.6: Fixed SFX missing for crafting on the Crafting Bench and in the Equipment Workshop.
- Patch 0.4.0.4: Can now be rotated 45 degrees when placing instead of only 90 degrees
- Patch 0.4.0.0:
- Keys other than RMB and space no longer work for pressing the Craft button
- Pressing space now holds down the Craft button until it is pressed again
- Patch 0.3:
- Crafting is now 33% slower (the time to do three steps previously now only does two steps).
- Tweaked the amount of crafting steps of many items.
- Clicking the metal area surrounding the Craft button now produces a cosmetic "hammer hit" effect.
- Patch 0.2.1.19: Model updated
Early game development
Prior to the Closed Alpha, there was an equivalent to the Crafting Bench called a Workbench.
- See also: Game Development - Craft Bench