Is workbench a pain or am I using it wrong? (minor spoilers!)

[raditz]

yello,

Title. It feels like it's pain in the "there", as there's no one-click way to spread the money on the table, only drag and drop one by one, then fiddling around with the sponge, and repeat, and repeat... While tape and UV and knife feel totally useless...

Am I missing something, or this part of the game really is boring as hell? (and the only reasonable tool there is the sponge)
Even a button to "auto-spread" would be a game changer...

Bonus question: Why inked money stains the money counter, so it inks clean money put into it later on? Feels silly as the whole point of that ink is it's unremovable, i.e. doesn't stain things after dried.

Thanks, lads!

[Squidvasion]

Work bench is undercooked right now, and definitely needs an overhaul, i use it sparingly. It's ok at sorting marked bills but if you have ink covered bills just forget about it, you have to scrub for literally hours to clean them.

The devs are aware of this though and are releasing a roadmap soon as well as other QoL stuff coming in asap, the workbench will likely be at the top of their list.

[stonhinge]

The easiest way to get money to spread on the workbench is either dropping a stack into the workbench, or going into the workbench with a gathered money pile.

If you are holding a stack and enter the workbench, it'll be stacked up. Drop the stack into the workbench, and it'll be scattered.

[DragynDance]

The workbench is useless. Everything the workbench does, you can do a different way more efficiently EXCEPT clean ink. You can avoid money getting inked entirely, OR if you have inked money, just send it to the piggy, because the piggy doesn't care if money is inky. So just don't use the workbench.

[PunishedBastich]

It straight up sucks. I never use it, because I can do everything faster without it. I only use it to clean ink, but that also depends on how much ink there is on the bills. Had a pile of inked money that took several minutes to even clean 100 of them, I said screw it and threw whole stash into piggy. Good riddance.

[Durska]

Yeah the workbench definetly needs to get updated/Automated. It just a horrible pain now and iam about to throw that whole thing into the freaking oven

[Keldric Usugi]

The main use I find for the Workbench is when you're manually sorting stacks of marked bills. However, there's not many quests that call for certain types of marks, so yeah... Also, my blacklight broke, making it even worse than it was.

[WhiteWolfman426]

Originally posted by raditz:

yello,

Title. It feels like it's pain in the "there", as there's no one-click way to spread the money on the table, only drag and drop one by one, then fiddling around with the sponge, and repeat, and repeat... While tape and UV and knife feel totally useless...

Am I missing something, or this part of the game really is boring as hell? (and the only reasonable tool there is the sponge)
Even a button to "auto-spread" would be a game changer...

Bonus question: Why inked money stains the money counter, so it inks clean money put into it later on? Feels silly as the whole point of that ink is it's unremovable, i.e. doesn't stain things after dried.

Thanks, lads!

You basically got to pick up the money in a bunch off the floor and a pallet then toss it in. Otherwise you have to manually move them about.

I feel like the workbench was originally in the demo for the game, when they didn't have all the cool stuff. Unfortunately, it's practically useless unless you are cleaning ink stains and even then that takes way to long.