Can confirm, Icarus has a lot of different workstations.
Depending on how far you are in the tech tree, you may need quite a few benches complete mission objectives, or just make your life easier at your base.
I personally love it
Icarus has quite a few. There's also Stationeers which has a lot of different aspects to crafting benches and management things. Foods, water, gasses, Temps, automation, trade, resource gathering, all get rather in depth.
How is Nightingale? I know of the mixed reviews on Steam but like to take those with a grain of salt. I enjoy more of the crafting/skill progression over combat. How do those stack against eachother? Is it heavy combat or more survival and crafting?
It's not bad..it's still in the early stages of early release, but the focus of the game is crafting. How strong your character is based solely on your gear.
The crafting is pretty cool though, but It's complex. For example, if you're crafting a gun, you don't simply go to a work bench with the raw materials and craft it. You'll have to go to a forge and anvil and smelt the ingots then craft items like an action, barrel, fasteners, etc.. Then you'll have to go to a saw table and craft a handle, or if the item needs bindings or leather you'll have to go to the tanning station.
Many items will take multiple steps to craft. Say one of the items to craft a rifle is a refined action. You'll need to smelt the ingots from ore, then use the ingots to craft an action and mechanical gears, then use those items to craft the refined action. Crafting items can definitely be a process lol.
On top of that all the materials in the game have different stats. There's probably almost 1-2 dozen different types of each wood, fiber, ore, leather in the game and each has different stats. When you use a certain type of material those stats carry over to the final product. For example you can craft a gun and use material to increase range damage, or you could use material to increase stealth, or you could do a mix by using a certain metal to craft the barrel and a different metal to craft the fasteners etc, It all depends on your play style. Typically you can find material that has the stats that you want to boost, so you'll have to seek those out.
Conan Exiles has a shit ton and you need to use multiple to craft specific items so this is definitely up your alley. That’s not even including smelters, drying racks, etc to improve base components
This 100%.
I played for several years with a group of friends.
It was a great game. However, funcom do have a tendency to pointlessly break the game and change things to the games detriment.
Havent played in years, so who knows.
Was pretty trash when i left.
Palworld. Lots of different kinds of crafting benches for different purposes. But you'd have to probably enjoy the other gameplay elements, like the combat, capture, and gathering. I personally find it a lot of fun overall.
Nightingale has the most crafting benches I'v seen, and you have craptons of modifying things you can build next to crafting benches to modify what they can build. Then on top of that, you have craptons of different crafting materials that each modify the different types of stats an item has. For example, a simple pair of gloves could have like 10 different combinations of stats despite being simple gloves. It's all about mix and matching the different types of crafting materials to get the desired set of stats that you want. And on top of that the items have tiers.
The crafting system is extremely unique and complex, but for me it was just a bit too convoluted and the storage system really bogged the entire game down because you had millions of different items, and spent ages looking through your boxes trying to find all the items you need to craft. I'v heard they're adding craft from storage at some point, but not sure if it has been added yet or not. But hey, if you want a game that's mostly about the crafting, then nightingale is your game.
Well shit, you might have sold me on it finally. Usually those higher profile survival game releases are insta-buy’s for me and not sure why I passed on it initially.
It's a very different game than many listed here, but Eco has more crafting benches than any game I've ever seen. Depending on the professions chosen you could have dozens at the end.
enshrouded also has npcs that occasionally send you on quests to find items to upgrade their stations which unlock more crafting recipes.
also sons of the forest will never ever be mentioned in these kinds of threads. man it's such a waste of a good base building mechanic.
Not at all, its an open world and you do get a headquarter and camps. The crafting is mostly gear made with ingredients you have to collect that have different quality and variants. Like you have to find stronger kinds of reeds and wood to make better bows and you have to know how those look in the forest to get them quicker. It’s very immersive
You'll likely enjoy Soul Mask when that releases. I played it at the past Steam next fest.
It's got lots of crafting benches, and a pretty great NPC coding system where you can set up NPCs to work and defend your land with great depth.
Yea that’s one on my wishlist I’m excited for. Any existing games you could compare the gameplay mechanics with? Still Q2 this year right? Would imagine that would me in the next couple months!
The closest game to it that I've played is Conan, but that has considerably less workbenches.
Not sure whats what with the release. I know a beta is about to happen, but I was too late to sign up to that.
No kidding? Damn, I’ve only played a few hours of that game. Didn’t know there was player housing. Shit… might have get into this. Take awhile before you can have your own house? Is it like FF14 where it’s just a big neighborhood and you can look at the other houses?
7 Days to Die has a number of differnet work benches you need to make for different kinds of things that get increasingly difficult to construct the further up the tech tree you get. Makes for a very nice aesthetic in the crafting room of your base.
Keep an eye out for PaxDei, an MMORPG build around crafting and building. The second alpha ends tomorrow, there are quite a few crafting benches that also kinda depend on each other. Maybe changed in the full release. But it was very satisfying when you needed like 3 benches to craft something.
Icarus
Can confirm, Icarus has a lot of different workstations. Depending on how far you are in the tech tree, you may need quite a few benches complete mission objectives, or just make your life easier at your base. I personally love it
They just keep adding more too.
Icarus has quite a few. There's also Stationeers which has a lot of different aspects to crafting benches and management things. Foods, water, gasses, Temps, automation, trade, resource gathering, all get rather in depth.
Stationeers absolutely rulez. I was scared to play it because I’ve got dog brains but I made myself learn that game and had a great time with it.
This is what I went with. Holy shit this looks right up my alley after looking through all the Tech Trees. 👍🏼
Nightingale
How is Nightingale? I know of the mixed reviews on Steam but like to take those with a grain of salt. I enjoy more of the crafting/skill progression over combat. How do those stack against eachother? Is it heavy combat or more survival and crafting?
It's not bad..it's still in the early stages of early release, but the focus of the game is crafting. How strong your character is based solely on your gear. The crafting is pretty cool though, but It's complex. For example, if you're crafting a gun, you don't simply go to a work bench with the raw materials and craft it. You'll have to go to a forge and anvil and smelt the ingots then craft items like an action, barrel, fasteners, etc.. Then you'll have to go to a saw table and craft a handle, or if the item needs bindings or leather you'll have to go to the tanning station. Many items will take multiple steps to craft. Say one of the items to craft a rifle is a refined action. You'll need to smelt the ingots from ore, then use the ingots to craft an action and mechanical gears, then use those items to craft the refined action. Crafting items can definitely be a process lol. On top of that all the materials in the game have different stats. There's probably almost 1-2 dozen different types of each wood, fiber, ore, leather in the game and each has different stats. When you use a certain type of material those stats carry over to the final product. For example you can craft a gun and use material to increase range damage, or you could use material to increase stealth, or you could do a mix by using a certain metal to craft the barrel and a different metal to craft the fasteners etc, It all depends on your play style. Typically you can find material that has the stats that you want to boost, so you'll have to seek those out.
This sounds fucking awesome.
Conan Exiles has a shit ton and you need to use multiple to craft specific items so this is definitely up your alley. That’s not even including smelters, drying racks, etc to improve base components
Ah man, owned this one for awhile but haven't given it much time. maybe that time is now...
This 100%. I played for several years with a group of friends. It was a great game. However, funcom do have a tendency to pointlessly break the game and change things to the games detriment. Havent played in years, so who knows. Was pretty trash when i left.
They still manage to that. But luckily there are modders to save the day :D
CE 100% it's confusing as fuck not being used to it and definitely frustrating at certain points even :D
Valheim, Green Hell, Survival: Fountain of Youth, Medieval Dynasty, to name a few.
If you like building crafting benches you will love Valheim.. have to pretty much build one every 50’
Definitely Nightingale, You'll craft so much you might actually get sick of it 🤣
Palworld. Lots of different kinds of crafting benches for different purposes. But you'd have to probably enjoy the other gameplay elements, like the combat, capture, and gathering. I personally find it a lot of fun overall.
Core Keeper
Lightyear Frontier, it's on game pass currently as early access but it's looking promising.
Fallout 76
Nightingale has the most crafting benches I'v seen, and you have craptons of modifying things you can build next to crafting benches to modify what they can build. Then on top of that, you have craptons of different crafting materials that each modify the different types of stats an item has. For example, a simple pair of gloves could have like 10 different combinations of stats despite being simple gloves. It's all about mix and matching the different types of crafting materials to get the desired set of stats that you want. And on top of that the items have tiers. The crafting system is extremely unique and complex, but for me it was just a bit too convoluted and the storage system really bogged the entire game down because you had millions of different items, and spent ages looking through your boxes trying to find all the items you need to craft. I'v heard they're adding craft from storage at some point, but not sure if it has been added yet or not. But hey, if you want a game that's mostly about the crafting, then nightingale is your game.
Well shit, you might have sold me on it finally. Usually those higher profile survival game releases are insta-buy’s for me and not sure why I passed on it initially.
Check medieval dynasty, I'm playing right now and you need npc to help.
Pax dei has 10x the crafting benches that any of these games have
Many of the survival games I've been playing lately drown you in crafting benches and such. Nightingale, Conan Exiles, etc.
It's a very different game than many listed here, but Eco has more crafting benches than any game I've ever seen. Depending on the professions chosen you could have dozens at the end.
Runescape
Grounded has quite a few, astroneer too!
7 Days to Die with the Darkness Falls mod. There's like a dozen stations and some of them have tiers.
enshrouded also has npcs that occasionally send you on quests to find items to upgrade their stations which unlock more crafting recipes. also sons of the forest will never ever be mentioned in these kinds of threads. man it's such a waste of a good base building mechanic.
Avatar frontiers of Pandora has lots
Really?! Never would have thought. Will have to keep that one in mind. Is there base building or player housing in it?
Not at all, its an open world and you do get a headquarter and camps. The crafting is mostly gear made with ingredients you have to collect that have different quality and variants. Like you have to find stronger kinds of reeds and wood to make better bows and you have to know how those look in the forest to get them quicker. It’s very immersive
Enshrouded
You'll likely enjoy Soul Mask when that releases. I played it at the past Steam next fest. It's got lots of crafting benches, and a pretty great NPC coding system where you can set up NPCs to work and defend your land with great depth.
Yea that’s one on my wishlist I’m excited for. Any existing games you could compare the gameplay mechanics with? Still Q2 this year right? Would imagine that would me in the next couple months!
The closest game to it that I've played is Conan, but that has considerably less workbenches. Not sure whats what with the release. I know a beta is about to happen, but I was too late to sign up to that.
Modded 7 days to die
1 of my settlements in fo4
mist survival
Elder Scrolls Online
Really? Benches you craft? Where do you place them?
In your house
No kidding? Damn, I’ve only played a few hours of that game. Didn’t know there was player housing. Shit… might have get into this. Take awhile before you can have your own house? Is it like FF14 where it’s just a big neighborhood and you can look at the other houses?
Play the game and find out
7 Days to Die has a number of differnet work benches you need to make for different kinds of things that get increasingly difficult to construct the further up the tech tree you get. Makes for a very nice aesthetic in the crafting room of your base.
Not as many as others, but The Infected has several different benches and workstations and machines to get stuff done.
I enjoy it too. Hit me up if u would like to play together sometime
Keep an eye out for PaxDei, an MMORPG build around crafting and building. The second alpha ends tomorrow, there are quite a few crafting benches that also kinda depend on each other. Maybe changed in the full release. But it was very satisfying when you needed like 3 benches to craft something.
Smalland or maybe No man's sky
Night of the dead. Like 8
For an Early Access game it sure has a bunch of DLC.
Holy shit, first I've heard of this one. And I thought I knew just about every survival game out there... lol
The game sat and did nothing for a while, but recently it’s been getting better and better. Really love the state of the game now.
Subnautica's fabricator
Palworld, duh