The Craft Bench is a manual crafting station, allowing to craft all unlocked components, except for:
- Equipment, which must 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 can be made in the Refinery, Packager, or Blender
- Recipes made in the Particle Accelerator
The HUB has a Craft Bench built into it, while additional Craft Benches can be constructed elsewhere in the world using the build menu. In multiplayer, only one player can use a Craft Bench at a time, 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 (currently)[1] seems to have no effect on the game.
Recipes are unlocked by completing HUB Milestones and MAM Researches.
Early game crafting speed comparison[]
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 |
Dual ingredient items are not included as they should be purchased from the AWESOME Shop during a speedrun. Coupons can be farmed by sinking the items looted from the Crash Sites.
Crafting consumable equipment[]
Crafting consumable equipment at Craft Bench takes 2x crafting clicks compared to Equipment Workshop. For example, crafting Iron Rebar requires two crafting clicks at Craft Bench but only needs one crafting click at the Equipment Workshop.
Recipes[]
See above for a list of which recipes cannot be crafted manually.
See also[]
Gallery[]
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The UI of the craft bench, showing the selected recipe and possible craft-able quantity, the item produced and quantity in a craft cycle, the relative time needed and the ingredients required in a craft cycle.
History[]
- Patch 0.4.0.4: Now can be rotated 45 degrees when placing instead of only 90 degrees
- Patch 0.4.0.0:
- Keys other than LMB 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
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