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# Crafting (player guide)

Everything a player needs to know to place a bench, craft, level it up and keep it running.

{% hint style="info" %}
This page is written for **players**. Feel free to link it in your server's Discord.
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## Your bench

A crafting bench is a real object. **Each bench has its own level, XP, condition and stash**, and keeps them when you pick it up, trade it or place it somewhere else.

### Placing it

Use the bench item from your inventory. A see-through preview appears:

| Key                 | Action                                           |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| ← / →               | Rotate                                           |
| ↑ / ↓               | Move away / closer                               |
| Page Up / Page Down | Raise / lower                                    |
| Left Alt            | Snap to the ground                               |
| **Enter**           | Place                                            |
| X                   | Cancel                                           |
| TAB                 | Switch placement mode (if your server allows it) |

If the spot isn't allowed, the preview tells you why (too steep, in water, too close to another bench, no room to stand...).

### Picking it up

Stand next to it and press **G**. You can't pick up a bench while it still has crafts running or waiting to be claimed. Some map benches can never be picked up.

## Crafting

1. Walk up to a bench and press **E**. The camera moves in and you use the screen on the bench with your mouse.
2. Pick a recipe from the list. You see its ingredients, results, time and XP.
3. Pick a quantity and click **Craft**. Your ingredients are taken and the craft goes into the **Craft Queue**.
4. When it's done, choose where the result goes:
   * **Take to Bag**: into your inventory.
   * **Send to Table Stash**: into the bench's own stash (if it has one). **Send All to Stash** sends every finished craft at once.

Press **ESC** to leave the bench. Crafts keep running on the server while you're away, even through a restart, so you can come back later to claim them.

{% hint style="info" %}
Changed your mind? **Cancel** a craft in the queue to get back exactly the ingredients you paid.
{% endhint %}

Some recipes have extras your server may use:

* **Failure chance**: some units may fail. Depending on the recipe, you get all, part or none of the ingredients back.
* **Cooldown**: you can only craft it a few times per period.
* **Blueprints**: you need to own a blueprint first.

## Bench levels

Every craft gives the bench XP. As the bench levels up, more recipes unlock. Locked recipes show how many levels are left. The level belongs to the **bench**: anyone using a level 5 bench gets level 5 recipes.

## Wear and maintenance

Benches wear a little with every craft. The **Bench Condition** goes from *Well Maintained* to *Used*, *Worn*, *Critical Condition* and finally *Out of Service*.

* A worn bench crafts **slower**.
* Very worn benches may refuse the most demanding recipes.
* An Out of Service bench refuses new crafts until it's overhauled.
* Wear **never** destroys your items.

To repair it, carry a maintenance kit, open the bench and click **Service Bench**:

| Kit                        | Restores | Works from                | Repair time |
| -------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------- | ----------- |
| Workbench Service Kit      | 15-25%   | 26% condition             | 5 hours     |
| Industrial Maintenance Kit | 35-50%   | 6% condition              | 3 hours     |
| Precision Overhaul Kit     | 65-85%   | 0% (revives a dead bench) | 1 h 30 min  |

The bench is out of service while it's being repaired. A started repair can't be cancelled. The kits can be crafted on the Tools Bench.

*(Default values. Your server may have changed them.)*

## The bench stash

Open **Table Information** on the bench screen to **Buy Stash**, **Upgrade Stash** or **Open Stash**. The stash belongs to the bench and moves with it.

## Crafting Mastery (your perks)

Bench levels belong to the bench. **Mastery belongs to you.** Every finished craft gives you Mastery XP, which you spend on perks:

| Branch                 | What it does                        |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| **Crafting Speed**     | Your crafts take less time.         |
| **Table Maintenance**  | Your repairs finish sooner.         |
| **Crafting Knowledge** | You earn more Mastery XP.           |
| **Careful Handling**   | Your crafting wears the bench less. |

* **Unlock** a perk with Mastery XP. It's yours forever.
* **Equip** it to make it work. You have a limited number of **perk slots** (2 by default), so choose a specialty. Equipping a higher tier in the same branch replaces the lower one.
* Open the tree from **Crafter Skills** in Table Information, or anywhere with **`/craftingperks`**.

{% hint style="warning" %}
Repeating the same cheap recipe over and over earns less and less XP, and past a daily amount XP slows down. Crafting a variety of things is the fastest way to grow.
{% endhint %}

## Hidden NPC vendors

Somewhere on the map, a few NPCs can sell you a brand new bench. They don't have blips: you need to find them.

1. Talk to them (third eye / ox\_target).
2. Pay the entry fee.
3. **View Requirements** to see the materials they want, then **Deposit Materials**. You can bring them in several trips, progress is saved.
4. When everything is delivered, **Collect Your Workbench**. Make room in your inventory first.

On some servers you must complete the NPC before you're allowed to use that type of bench at all.

### For police

Stand next to a vendor and type **`/policecustody`**. The NPC surrenders and stops trading until the next server restart.


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