Building Upgrades?

[Picaro Persona]

So, say you start out with the crafting shack. But then you can move on up to building a workshop. Are there any key differences between these two buildings? Do I need both? Can only certain things be built at one or the other? Or, is the workshop just the crafting shack, but better?

Basically, can I destroy the old crafting shack to make room in my base, or do I need both buildings?

[snuggleform]

They craft different things and use different types of materials to do so. Crafting shack uses the basic stuff you find early in the game, while the workshop uses imbued materials you start to find in the Prairie.

In other words, the workshop is not a strict upgrade to the crafting shop (also, the Occult Lab is not a strict upgrade to the Medicine Hut either, altough interestingly there is 1 item overlap between those 2 which is the tier 2 stealth cloak), You can eventually discard the crafting shack, BUT this is like super long term and you need to make sure you crafted all the Lumber you can from it that you need for a lot of different buildings. The workshop only makes imbued lumber which is not a substitute for regular lumber you need for things like hut upgrades, etc.

I would suggest just keep the workshop around, you're going to need it for a while. If you have all tier 3 gear and hut upgrades and palisades then you can think about decosntructing it.

edit: if space is an issue, look up a recent thread about fitting all buildings in. It's possible to fit 8 huts and one of every other building, which is enough to contain all followers if you want to try to house them all (imo unnecessary as you should finish the game with 5-6 followers, but the pictures give you an idea of how to conserve space)

here I got so bored I found the link for you, there's 2 screenshots of playres who fit everything in so space isn't an issue

https://steamcommunity.com/app/706020/discussions/0/1649917420746796632/

[Picaro Persona]

I was just about to say, how the hell am I going to fit in all these buildings. lol

WSC to my rescue, yet again. <3 Thanks!

[Just a dog]

You need all crafting buildings more or less. A good idea might be to just outright build one of everything right at the start as well as 8 huts and a palisade wall+gate and then just leave the unfinished husks as you won't really have the mats.
Only downside is your followers might decide to build some extra huts or finish the pallisades proactively if they have the mats to do so, but on the positive you won't have to worry about potentially having to demolish and rebuild stuff that doesn't fit.
The crafting buildings kinda require specific crafted mats to build for the most part, so in my experience having their husks is no issue.

[snuggleform]

I like that idea, use one of the pictures to set up all the buildings, but after you set up the shells maybe deconstruct the huts and only have as many shell huts as you have followers so they don't overbuild those. I would definitely do that on a new run.

edit: I wouldnt set up butcher or woodcarver that early either though because they are a terrible waste of time until mid-late game and they divert precious resources from building things you need like huts and crafting shack/forge.

[Picaro Persona]

Originally posted by KucheKlizma:

You need all crafting buildings more or less. A good idea might be to just outright build one of everything right at the start as well as 8 huts and a palisade wall+gate and then just leave the unfinished husks as you won't really have the mats.
Only downside is your followers might decide to build some extra huts or finish the pallisades proactively if they have the mats to do so, but on the positive you won't have to worry about potentially having to demolish and rebuild stuff that doesn't fit.
The crafting buildings kinda require specific crafted mats to build for the most part, so in my experience having their husks is no issue.

Yeah, I just deleted everything and put down the glowing foundations for all my buildings. I got everything to fit! Woo!