💡 Pro Tips
- The Preserves Jar is the single most important station for passive income — unlock it the moment you hit Crafting Lv 3
- Your starting limit is 2 active processing stations — buy Crafter Licences from City Hall to expand it
- Build your Smelter and Sawmill on day one — almost every mid-game recipe depends on processed materials
- Running multiple copies of the same station processes batches simultaneously — double Smelters mean double the bars per session
⚙️ All Crafting Stations
Makes: Tools, furniture, equipment blueprints
Build: Sapwood × 10
Makes: Copper / Iron / Palium Bars from ore
Ratio: 5 ore → 1 bar ⏱ ~2 min per batch → Mining guide
Makes: Sapwood / Heartwood / Flow Planks
Ratio: 1 log → 1 plank ⏱ ~2 min per batch → Foraging guide
Makes: Basic cooked meals and soups
Key recipes: Grilled Mushroom, Steak Dinner → Recipes guide
Makes: Preserved crops with +35% value added
Run your highest-value crops through this first — it is the single best passive income tool in the game. ⏱ ~1 hr per batch → Profit tips
Makes: Baked goods — bread, cakes and pastries
Key recipes: Celebration Cake, various breads → Recipes guide
Makes: Mixed drinks, brews and sauces
Key recipes: Fisherman's Brew, Highland Tea → Recipes guide
Makes: Seeds from crops — apple seeds sell for ~10× crop value ⏱ ~2 hrs per batch → Crops guide
Makes: Leather from animal fur (13g → 35g per piece) ⏱ ~30 min per batch → Hunting guide
Makes: Fabric from Silk Thread (45g → 120g per piece)
Required for high-tier clothing and furniture ⏱ ~1 hr per batch
📅 Best Unlock Order
Day 1 — Foundation
Build these immediately. Almost every subsequent recipe and upgrade depends on processed wood and ore being available from the start.
Day 2 — Cooking & Fishing
Get the Stove running so you can cook Focus food to boost skill XP. The Worm Farm starts producing bait passively from this point on.
Day 3 — Income Engine
The Preserves Jar is the single most important station for passive Gold. Unlock it the moment you hit Crafting Lv 3 — every crop through it earns 35% more.
Before End of Week 1 — Cooking Expansion
Unlock the full cooking suite, plus the Seed Collector to start converting crops to high-value seeds.
Mid-Game — Processing Upgrades
The Tanning Station and Loom both significantly improve material processing margins — build them once you have consistent hunting and bug-catching outputs.
📋 Crafter Limits
⚡ Batch Processing Tips
Load Up Before Logging Off
Fill every Smelter, Sawmill and Preserves Jar before you quit. Processing runs while you're offline — you log back in to finished batches every time.
Empty Stations First Thing
Make clearing finished batches the very first thing you do when you log in. Full output slots stop stations from accepting new jobs — empty them to keep the queue flowing.
Run Duplicate Stations
Two Smelters process twice as many ore batches per session. Two Preserves Jars handle twice the crop volume. Once you have enough licence slots, building duplicates of your highest-use stations is always worth it.