Engineering Workbench

Its cheapest raid is 2 × Homing Missile, 200 sulfur in all. Each of these also brings it down from full health: 1 × Timed Explosive Charge, 2 × Rocket and 2 × Satchel Charge.

Holds up to 10 workbench upgrades, never two of the same. These fit:

Upgrade TypeMin. workbench

Accelerated Workbench Upgrade Accelerated— Comfort Workbench Upgrade Comfort— Defensive Workbench Upgrade Defensive— Efficiency Workbench Upgrade Efficiency— Prototype Workbench Upgrade Prototype— Range Workbench Upgrade Range— Recycle Bin Workbench Upgrade Recycle Bin— Reinforced Workbench Upgrade Reinforced— Salvage Workbench Upgrade Salvage— Surplus Workbench Upgrade Surplus—

Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 500 × Wood and 100 × Metal Fragments.

500

100

Output ×1

Workbench Level 1

Craft time

WB1 15s

WB2 −50% 7.5s

WB3 −75% 3.8s

Craft Speed and Accelerated workbench upgrades shorten these times.

Research it for 100 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Fragments in total.

Research table Burn one copy of the item for its blueprint

1 Item

+

100 Scrap

→

Blueprint

Research cost 100

Tech tree In the level 1 workbench tree

Node

+

1 Blueprint Fragment

→

Unlocked

Total to reach 2

A damaged Engineering Workbench can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:

Hammer Placed repair

×250 ×50

A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 101 × Wood and 21 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.

Repair bench Blueprint required

×101 ×21

Condition lost 20%

Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.

A green recycler always gives back 250 × Wood and 50 × Metal Fragments for one.

RecyclerGuaranteed outputExtra chance output

Green 50%

×250

×50

None

Green (powered) 60%

×300

×60

None

Red 75%

×375

×75

None

Yellow 40%

×200

×40

None

Explosive NeededPer hitDudsRaw cost

Timed Explosive Charge ×1550— 2,200 3,000 200 60 5 2 Homing Missile ×2262— 200 300 1 40 4 Rocket ×2312.5— 2,800 3,900 200 60 80 8 Satchel Charge ×227520% 960 1,440 160 20 2 High Velocity Rocket ×3195— 600 900 60 6 40mm HE Grenade ×862.5—— Beancan Grenade ×86515% 960 1,440 160 Survey Charge ×3614— 2,160 3,240 360 720 180 Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×3913— 975 1,170 195

From full health (500 HP), each one placed on it: damage per hit is after its protection. Duds are throws that fizzle and need another throw, not counted in Needed. Costs are for the whole count, crafted from raw materials.

Experimenting at this bench teaches one of these at random, each time a blueprint you do not know yet. On the tech tree each one costs what Alone says by itself, and With its path from scratch, the blueprints before it included.

Blueprint AloneWith its pathBefore it

Switch 1 1 0 Large Solar Panel 1 3 2 Small Rechargeable Battery 1 4 3 Ceiling Light 1 5 4 Metal Detector 1 5 4 Root Combiner 1 5 4 Small Water Catcher 1 5 4 Splitter 1 5 4 Blocker 1 6 5 Electric Heater 1 6 5 Electrical Branch 1 6 5 Flasher Light 1 6 5 Siren Light 1 6 5 Timer 1 6 5 Audio Alarm 1 7 6 Door Controller 1 7 6 OR Switch 1 7 6 Pressure Pad 1 7 6 Sprinkler 1 7 6 Button 1 8 7 Fluid Combiner 1 8 7 Telephone 1 8 7 XOR Switch 1 8 7 Fluid Splitter 1 9 8 Reactive Target 1 9 8 Fluid Switch & Pump 1 10 9 Fridge 1 11 10 Storage Adaptor 1 12 11 Industrial Conveyor 1 13 12 Industrial Splitter 1 14 13 Industrial Combiner 1 15 14 Hopper 1 16 15 Barbed Wooden Barricade ——– Beancan Grenade ——– Bed ——– Bee Grenade ——– Beehive ——– Boomerang ——– Bucket Helmet ——– Chainlink Fence ——– Chainlink Fence Gate ——– Chair ——– Chicken Coop ——– Combat Knife ——– Compound Bow ——– Cooking Workbench ——– Double Barrel Shotgun ——– Drop Box ——– Engineering Workbench ——– Fire Arrow ——– Flame Turret ——– Flare ——– Floor grill ——– Floor triangle grill ——– Handmade SMG ——– Hatchet ——– High External Wooden Gate ——– High External Wooden Wall ——– Hot Air Balloon Armor ——– Jacket ——– Kayak ——– Longsleeve T-Shirt ——– Mace ——– Metal Window Bars ——– Military Silencer ——– Miners Hat ——– Mini Crossbow ——– Mixing Table ——– Pants ——– Pickaxe ——– Pistol Bullet ——– Prisoner Hood ——– Reinforced Wooden Shield ——– Revolver ——– Riot Helmet ——– Salvaged Cleaver ——– Salvaged Hammer ——– Salvaged Sword ——– Sandbag Barricade ——– Satchel Charge ——– Shirt ——– Shotgun Trap ——– Siege Tower ——– Snap Trap ——– Snow Jacket ——– Speargun ——– Speargun Spear ——– T-Shirt ——– Tin Can Alarm ——– Watch Tower ——– Waterpipe Shotgun ——– Weapon flashlight ——– Wooden Armor Insert ——– Wooden Ladder ——–

Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.

SourceConditionChanceAmount

Sunken Chest 100–100% 1.1% ×1

Scarecrow 100–100% 0.5% ×1

Brown Crate 100–100% 0.4% ×1

Wagon Crate 100–100% 0.4% ×1

Gingerbread Man 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Tunnel Dweller 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Underwater Dweller 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Bradley Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Chinook Gunner 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Cargo Ship Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Excavator Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Oil Rig Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Outbreak Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Patrol Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1

Roaming Scientist 100–100% 0.2% ×1