I really love the crafting system in the game. Combining different materials for different item properties is very cool. My one grumble is that I get tired of going back and forth between all the stations, sometimes forgetting what I needed from one station to the next.
So to address that, I'd love to have the ability to craft everything from the Workbench itself. How I'd envision it working is that I'd still need to have the appropriate crafting stations in the vicinity (and crafting individual materials can still be done at those stations for roleplaying purposes) but I'd just go to the Workbench and select the item I'd like to make. At that point, a tree would open up that lets me select every material along the way (I've attached a quick, copy and pasted mockup of what I mean). After I hit Craft, all of the cook times for the materials are combined, I wait that long and voila, I have an item.
I think this will add a fun element of being able to see all of the different properties from the materials and mix and match them until you have what you want, while removing all of the back and forth and brain tax of trying to remember the different materials you want to use. At the same time, I think that requiring the presence of the necessary crafting stations will retain the roleplaying and realism of the crafting process.
Category Tags | Crafting |
Sentiment | Feature Request |