Crafting spot

Crafting spot

A place for crafting simple items like knives or bows. Production here is slow because of the lack of tools.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Production

Building

Size

1 × 1

Minifiable

False

Placeable

True

Passability

standable

Terrain Affordance

Light

Facility

Tool cabinet

Work Speed Factor

50%

Creation

Work To Make

0 ticks (0 secs)

A crafting spot is a 1 x 1 area marked on the ground where a crafter can produce certain neolithic items. Crafting at a crafting spot is 50% slower than elsewhere.

Acquisition

Crafting spots do not require a colonist to construct or deconstruct, nor is there a cost, build time, or skill requirements for placing them. Instead, they are simply selected from the menu and placed directly by the player.

Summary

The following items can be crafted at the crafting spot. Note that the crafting spot has a Work Speed Factor of 0.5, meaning that all bills will take 2x as long as at most other work stations.

Name	Materials	Work to Make	Required Research	Type
Smokeleaf joint	4	000,450 ticks (7.5 secs)	–	Drug - Social drug
4×  Smokeleaf joint	16	001,800 ticks (30 secs)	–	Drug - Social drug
Club	40 (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 400 for SMVs)	001,200 ticks (20 secs)	–	Equipment - Weapons
Greatbow	60	009,000 ticks (2.5 mins)	Greatbow	Equipment - Weapons
Knife	30 (Metallic, 300 for SMVs)	001,800 ticks (30 secs)	Smithing	Equipment - Weapons
Recurve bow	40	005,000 ticks (1.39 mins)	Recurve bow	Equipment - Weapons
Short bow	30	002,400 ticks (40 secs)	–	Equipment - Weapons
Tribal headdress	50 (Fabric)	006,000 ticks (1.67 mins)	–	Gear - Clothing
Tribalwear	60 (Leathery/Fabric)	001,800 ticks (30 secs)	–	Gear - Clothing
Veil	20 (Fabric)	001,400 ticks (23.33 secs)	–	Gear - Clothing
War mask	25 (Woody)	003,000 ticks (50 secs)	–	Gear - Clothing
Ghoul plating	70	009,000 ticks (2.5 mins)	Ghoul enhancements	Medical Items - Body Parts
Kid tribalwear	30 (Leathery/Fabric)	001,400 ticks (23.33 secs)	–	Gear - Clothing
Harp	150	018,000 ticks (5 mins)	Harp	Building - Recreation

Note that the War mask and Tribal headdress can only be crafted by Tribal colonies.

A tool cabinet can be placed nearby to increase the work speed at the crafting spot.

Smash mechanoid

The "smash mechanoid" bill converts mechanoid corpses into usable materials. This requires 900 ticks (15 secs) of work, modified by the Mechanoid Shredding Speed of the pawn doing the shredding but regardless of the type of mechanoid smashed, and produces material dependent on the type of mechanoid smashed, any missing body parts, and the Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency of the smasher. This bill is directly equivalent to the "Smash mechanoid" bill at the machining table, with the only difference being that the machining table instead takes 300 ticks (5 secs) of work. The material returned is the same regardless of the method.

With the Biotech DLC, the bill has options to separately specify whether to smash enemy mechanoids and friendly mechanoids. By default, only enemy mechanoids are enabled to prevent the smashing of friendly mechanoids that may be resurrected.

Analysis

While vital in some circumstances, any long-term colony should quickly replace crafting spots with dedicated work stations of the relevant types. While tool cabinets are effective on crafting spots, it is far more effective to dedicate those resources instead to creating those dedicated stations. However, if cabinets are already available and a spot is necessary, then there is little reason not to place spots in range.

They can be useful in caravan trips with mechanoid corpses. Mechanoid corpses will be much heavier than steel and plasteel they yield. Smashing them first will allow you to carry more items out to your caravan.

Crafting spots work slower, so they have a niche in training the Crafting skill. Skill XP is earned based on the time spent crafting. Since crafting spots take longer, they will give more XP. Craft clubs and the like in a dark room, with poor temperature (below 10 °C (50 °F) or above 35 °C (95 °F)), for the slowest results.

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Architect

Production | Neolithic

Art bench • Brewery • Butcher spot • Butcher table • Campfire • Crafting spot • Fueled stove • Fermenting barrel • Simple research bench

Medieval

Fueled smithy • Hand tailor bench • Stonecutter's table

Industrial

Biofuel refinery • Deep drill • Drug lab • Electric crematorium • Electric smelter • Electric smithy • Electric stove • Electric tailor bench • Fabrication bench • Hi-tech research bench • Hydroponics basin • Machining table • Nutrient paste dispenser (Hopper)

Related

Bioferrite shaper • Serum lab