Dev Log 09.03.25

We’re hard at work on our initial crafting offering and want to give you a little preview of what that entails.

There will be two crafting modes in the game: benches and machines. Machines, after receiving input, will craft on their own while you’re off playing slot machines or wooing residents. While machines are for producing (producing ingots, pickles, or tokens, for example), benches are for crafting and will take time to create.

Here’s two benches placed inside a house. The cooking station bench is white and to the left. The carpentry bench is blue and to the right. Let’s just look at the carpentry bench for right now. Clicking on the bench will bring up this menu:

From here, you can select the item you want to craft – provided you can craft it. There will be a multitude of badges in the crafting process that will determine if you have the skill required to craft an object. For our initial release, you’ll only be able to level your woodworking and cooking badges. There are 5 levels of badges and 5 levels of recipes.

Before you can craft this giant oak barrel, for example, you’ll need to be a master woodworker with a level 5 badge! To build skill in badges, you’ll need to craft applicable items. For woodworking, that would be furniture, décor, benches, and machines (but you’ll only be able to craft the two latter to start with). This will make it much easier to collect any furniture you’re after (provided you have the recipe) and much cheaper to collect any machines! Just make sure you have enough time in the day to work on your woodworking projects.

Project length is measured in game minutes. If you don’t complete a project in one go, the game will remember where you left off (that is, how many minutes you have left to completion!). So as long as you have the time and ingredients, you have access to an infinite supply of craftables!

Right now you’ll only be able to craft materials, benches, and machines at the carpentry station. We’ll talk all about the machines in a future post and revisit the benches in more detail later on.