Crafting Bench upgrade installation: layout, testing, and relocation

Scope and verified upgrade names

This page covers installation, placement, verification, and relocation. Use the upgrade priority guide when the decision is which problem to solve first.

The current source set supports three Crafting Bench functions that matter to this workflow: Portal Suppression for nearby Portal Storm behavior, Item Transporter access to valid nearby storage, and Dioxohealer recovery around the bench. The Enhancement Bench is a separate station for equipment enhancement; it should not be presented as another Crafting Bench module.

Pre-installation layout check

Mark four zones before changing the bench: power, recipe storage, player recovery, and clear movement. The bench must remain usable while players open storage, repair equipment, and leave the room. An upgrade that forces crates or plants into the only exit has not improved the base.

1. Confirm the bench remains on stable power under the base's normal load.
2. Put recipe materials in actual storage rather than display-style stands.
3. Keep one known recipe input available for the transporter test.
4. Identify where players naturally stop after an expedition.
5. Preserve a clear path from the work area to the safest exit.

The 1.0 update notes are relevant to the storage check because display-style stands are not treated as normal transporter storage. The current Crafting Bench page documents a 16-meter Item Transporter range. Use that as the planning limit, then verify the edge with a real recipe because wall layout and a later patch can still make an old room diagram misleading.

Install and verify Item Transporter

Item Transporter is successful only when it removes a real crate trip. Choose a recipe with one easy-to-identify input, keep that input out of player inventory, and place it in the intended material crate. Open the recipe at the bench and check whether the input is recognized.

If the test fails, change one condition at a time:

The pass condition is the recipe recognizing the stored item in the current build. Supported deployable storage includes ordinary containers and examples listed by the source such as Fridges, Toolboxes, and Medkits. Item Transporter also connects nearby Repair and Salvage Stations so they can draw repair items from storage. Display stands are the important exception from the 1.0 update notes. After the first pass, test one supported container near the edge of the planned storage wall before moving every crate.

Install and verify Dioxohealer

Dioxohealer belongs where players already regroup. The linked sources describe passive recovery and the relationship with farmable plants, so the installation should be checked in the recovery zone rather than from a remote corner of the base.

Begin with a player who needs a small, observable recovery and no competing healing effect. The current value is 3 health per second at base. Each nearby farmable plant in a Garden Plot adds 0.5 health per second, up to six plants and a maximum of 6 health per second. The buff does not stack from multiple benches.

Stand in the intended regrouping position and confirm the sourced behavior. Then check that beds, plots, and storage do not block movement through the same area. If recovery works only in a spot nobody uses, adjust the layout instead of claiming that the upgrade is ineffective.

Keep ordinary medical supplies available. Dioxohealer improves the between-run workflow; it does not replace treatment during an expedition or prove that a damaged player can remain in combat.

Verify Portal Suppression as one defense layer

Portal Suppression protects a specific base workflow from the behavior described by the Crafting Bench source. It does not remove the need to control entrances, keep a retreat route, or prepare for other threats.

Place the bench where the crafting, sleep, and high-value storage area can share the intended protection without blocking exits. After installation, record the bench location and the area the team expects it to support. If a later event or enemy reaches the base, identify the event type before concluding that Portal Suppression failed; unrelated threats are outside this upgrade's claim.

Relocate without losing the working layout

Before moving the bench, capture the current working relationships rather than only the furniture positions. Record which crates pass the transporter test, where Dioxohealer recovery is observed, which power branch supplies the bench, and which exits remain clear.

Use this relocation order:

1. Prepare power and a clear work area at the destination.
2. Place the Crafting Bench and confirm ordinary crafting first.
3. Move one known material crate and repeat the transporter test.
4. Rebuild the recovery zone and verify Dioxohealer behavior.
5. Restore the remaining storage only after the boundary test passes.
6. Recheck movement and defense paths with the room in its final state.
7. Re-sync any Personal Teleporter linked to the bench: packaging and redeploying the bench breaks that sync, according to the Crafting Bench source.

This order isolates failures. If every crate, plant, and station moves at once, a failed recipe can come from the wrong storage object, placement, missing item, or power state. One verified transition at a time gives a recoverable move.

Completion checklist

Installation is complete when each selected upgrade produces an observable result in the intended base workflow. It is not complete merely because an item was crafted or a slot appears occupied.

Related planning

• Crafting Bench upgrade priority
• Storage crate organization
• Base relocation sequence
• Power system basics