Workbench Patch?

[TheRogon]

When will we get a workbench consolidation patch? Honestly there are too many benches and adding more is suffocating. I would like to upgrade benches or have higher tiered benches doing everything the basic bench does. This latest salt prep bench could have been done in the food prep bench. The advanced workbench should do everything the basic workbench does. Both those benches should be able to do everything I can do in my personal crafting menu. The fabricator should be an upgrade, or attached bench to the advanced workbench.

To the 10% that will disagree, because there is always 10%, just keep the systems you currently have and add the option/functionality that way everyone is happy.

[Spaceminnow]

Personally, I believe the benches are fine.
I like the tech tree's simplicity.

The idea of "upgrading" workbenches is new to Icarus.
Bench "upgrades" may make the tech tree too complicated.

Upgradeable benches may "hide" some functions away from the scope of the tech tree.

[TheRogon]

Originally posted by Spaceminnow:

Personally, I believe the benches are fine.
I like the tech tree's simplicity.

The idea of "upgrading" workbenches is new to Icarus.
Bench "upgrades" may make the tech tree too complicated.

Upgradeable benches may "hide" some functions away from the scope of the tech tree.

These are valid concerns and if the change were haphazard I too would be concerned. While I generally dislike comparing different games, the idea of progression is not unique and let us be honest; what I can craft in my inventory would certainty be craft-able in a workbench.

Not every bench lends itself to consolidation but some of these things are just clutter. My main quips are with not being able to craft inventory items in the workbench and the advanced workbench not being able to do what the basic workbench can do. This salt bench is just another thing that could have been in the food prep.. but the cement mixer has a valid purpose.. as does the fabricator.

[1gnite [TRON]]

The size of your built house and what you can fit inside is already an issue. The weather breaks your stuff so you're constantly fixing the walls so you can craft. I understand this is a game feature and I do not mind it, what I do mind is having to build my house so massively oversized due to the addition of so many work benches. Why are more benches needed rather than less benches that are upgrade-able? This makes perfect sense.

[TheRogon]

Now that I see this in writing: The furnace and blast furnace is a great example analogy to the workbenches. The instant I get a cement furnace I replace the stone furnace. The cement furnace does everything the stone one did. The advanced workbench should be the same; it should include all it's function and add the recipes from the basic bench.

[-₪EPIC₪- Fail]

Originally posted by TheRogon:

Now that I see this in writing: The furnace and blast furnace is a great example analogy to the workbenches. The instant I get a cement furnace I replace the stone furnace. The cement furnace does everything the stone one did. The advanced workbench should be the same; it should include all it's function and add the recipes from the basic bench.

agree with this....

[76561198972294167]

Originally posted by TheRogon:

Now that I see this in writing: The furnace and blast furnace is a great example analogy to the workbenches. The instant I get a cement furnace I replace the stone furnace. The cement furnace does everything the stone one did. The advanced workbench should be the same; it should include all it's function and add the recipes from the basic bench.

Same. I would be either we upgrade the workbench in similar to other games or building/crafting a better better that able to do the previous with more stuff so that we can replace the former

[Aleasha]

The same thing needs to happen to the food workbenches, like the stoves and kitchen workbenches. the tier 3 should have the same stuff as the tier 2 plus new stuff. I also think that once you have any tier of cooking equipment, you do not need the cooking station. why should i still need that if i already have a tier 3 stove and kitchen workstation? the same is true for the fishing station. why do i need a new station to do fish related stuff with when it could have been added to the stations already in use. My house now has to get bigger for new stations and i don't want to make it bigger, it is already bigger than i want in order to have all the other crafting stations needed. Please go the way Ark Survival does when making work stations and have higher tier be able to do the same as lower tier and the new stuff for that tier.