What the Ancient Workbench Does

The Ancient Workbench is a pal-exclusive crafting station that can produce nearly any item in the game in one place — weapons, armor, ammunition, spheres, medicine, gliders, and more. You can't stand at it and craft yourself; instead, its value is consolidation: rather than maintaining a separate assembly line for every item category, one machine and its pal crew work through the whole queue.

How to Use It

• Unlocked at level 67 in the technology tree for 5 technology points.
• Its advanced equipment demands elite workers: Handiwork Lv. 6 and Medicine Production Lv. 6. Only a small pool of top-end pals reaches Lv. 6 in either.
• It draws 2,000 power while running, so plan your grid accordingly.
• Per its in-game description it crafts at the same speed as a regular workbench — you're paying for versatility, not raw throughput.
• Only one pal works its handiwork slot. Assembly lines let several pals crew the same item at once, so the Ancient Workbench can't match their combined output on any single craft.

Tips

The Large Toolbox and Witch Cauldron boosters speed up its handiwork and medicine work respectively. It shines in a compact "everything base": one Ancient Workbench, one Ancient Furnace, and one Ancient Kitchen cover almost every production job in the game with three stations. For mass production, though, many players keep an Advanced Workshop alongside it — with several pals piling onto the same job, its overall output on the items it can craft is much higher.