Build the Workbench for tools and equipment
The Workbench is your main crafting station for tools, weapons, armor and Chains; hand crafting covers torches, planks, rope and camp structures. Add a Smelter for Iron Rods, a Cooking Table for food preparation and heated cooking stations for meals.
Stations, construction costs and main recipes
| Station or menu | Build cost or access | Requirement or interaction | Main recipes and results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand crafting | Open the Crafting menu; no station required. | Gather the ingredients for the recipe you want. | Torches, Wood Planks, Rope, the Backpack, chests and camp structures. |
| Bonfire | 2 Sticks + 1 Rock. | Make it in the Crafting menu. | Provides warmth and fire; build a Rotisserie above it. |
| Rotisserie | 2 Sticks + 2 Wood Planks. | Build over a Bonfire and remove food before it burns. | Roasts meat, drumsticks, fish, vegetables and algae. |
| Workbench | 3 Wood Planks + 2 Iron Rods + 1 Leather. | Find Leather first; some tool recipes also require finding the tool itself. | Leather, Chains, Hook, Hammer, Pickaxe, Axe, weapons, armor, shields and arrows. |
| Cooking Table | 2 Wood Planks + 1 Leather. | Pick up Leather to unlock its construction recipe. | Corn Dough, Noodles, prepared meat, wraps, raw pies, pastels and Raw Deep Dish Pizza. |
| Cooking Pot | 1 Iron Pot + 3 Iron Rods. | Pick up Wild Corn to unlock construction; keep the fire underneath burning. | Soups, Stew and pasta; Cooked Veggies, Bean Soup and Stew open the Queen's Door. |
| Skillet | 1 Grate + 3 Iron Rods. | Cook 1 ingredient alone or exactly 2 together; 3 ingredients make nothing. | Cooked ingredients, stir-fries, Pesto Pasta, Chow Mein and Popcorn. |
| Oven | 5 Clay + 1 Grate. | Needs Coal and cooks 1 item at a time. | Bakes pies, pastels, Corn Bread and Deep Dish Pizza; also roasts ingredients. |
| Kettle | 1 Iron Pot + 2 Chains. | Add water before brewing. | Healing Potion from Basil; Vision Elixir from an Azurea Mushroom. |
| Smelter | 5 Clay + 5 Scrap Metal. | Supply Scrap Metal and Coal. | Continuously turns Scrap Metal into Iron Rods. |
| Water Pot | 4 Clay + 1 Iron Rod. | Make it in the Crafting menu. | Provides a fresh water source. |
| Food Basket | 3 Vines. | Store food and ingredients inside. | Keeps food and ingredients fresh longer. |
| Forge Anvil | Use the dungeon's anvil. | Higher upgrades use Scrap Metal and Grinding Stones. | Upgrades compatible weapons through level 3. |
| Large dungeon smelter | Use the dungeon station. | Carry the required mold to it. | Each Key Piece cast takes 5 Coal, 8 Scrap Metal and its matching mold. |
| Statue Mold | Use the mold in the crypt. | Supply Clay, then use its Handle. | Uses 16 Clay per statue for the optional statue puzzle. |
Unlock the recipe before collecting spare materials
Find your first Hammer, Axe, Chains and Explosive before trying to make replacements: their recipes require you to have held the matching item. The Great Axe requires an Axe first. Building a Workbench gives you somewhere to craft them, but those discovery requirements still matter.
Look on the Workbench for the Pickaxe recipe. Craft the Hook there too, then assemble the Grappling Hook in your inventory from 1 Hook and 1 Rope. Use the finished Grappling Hook to create climbing ropes on ledges.
For the route to your first Axe, follow the Axe and Bean Gem walkthrough.
Hand-craft the supplies your route needs
A Torch takes 2 Sticks or 2 Bones, while 1 Log makes 3 Wood Planks. Rope takes 2 Vines and 1 Stick; a Nail takes 1 Iron Rod. Make these in the Crafting menu, saving spare Rods until you know what your next repair needs.
You can also prepare basic meat without a station: 1 Rat makes 1 Raw Meat, and 1 Frog makes 2 Raw Drumsticks. Bat carcasses go to the Cooking Table instead. There, a Bat Carcass becomes 2 Raw Drumsticks and a Red Bat Carcass becomes 3.
Build in an order that protects progression materials
- Start with a Rotisserie over a Bonfire for roasted food. Reserve your early Leather and Iron Rods for the Workbench and progression repairs before buying into extra equipment.
- Keep Iron Rods available for prison lever repairs, and save Chains for mechanisms. The prison Mechanism shows “Bring Chains to Fix it”; the boat Mechanism also needs Chains and an Iron Rod.
- Build a Smelter when you need a continuing Iron Rod supply, and feed it Scrap Metal and Coal. Budget those materials around any remaining casts at the large dungeon smelter.
- Add the Cooking Table after picking up Leather, then expand your cooking setup around the meals you want. Have an Oven and Coal ready before preparing the final pizza.
Choose bags after securing your Workbench
A Backpack costs 1 Leather, 2 Ragged Cloth and 1 Rope, and adds storage while being heavy to carry. A Water Flask takes 2 Vines and 2 Animal Hide. Secure the Workbench materials before spending your early Leather on a Backpack.
Backpacks stay on the player after death, while items that are not kept go into a death pack. Treat the extra storage as a packing decision for your next trip, especially when moving camp.
Keep the Cooking Table and Oven for the final pizza
The Cooking Table prepares the pizza, and the Oven finishes it. Combine 1 Wild Corn and 1 Water Bottle into Corn Dough, then combine 1 Corn Dough, 1 Tomato and 1 Cheese into Raw Deep Dish Pizza. Bake that in the Oven with Coal.
Open the complete recipe table for individual dishes, ingredient amounts and cooking times.