Advanced Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Advanced Upgrade that increases crafting efficiency.

Notes

The Advanced Upgrade is an Efficiency Module that increases crafting efficiency at a workstation. It belongs to the family of general-purpose upgrades (Basic, Modern, Advanced) that replaced the old numbered tier system in Update 14, so its effect is read from its own description rather than assumed as a flat percentage. Placing one requires the station to sit inside a room of sufficient material tier.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)

Self Improvement level 0Skill level changes labor only.Reset to base

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Engineering Research Paper Modern	2	item
Culinary Research Paper Advanced	2	item
Agriculture Research Paper Advanced	1	item
Advanced Research	5	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Garbage	≈ 0.28
Bio Residue	≈ 0.16

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	3000 calories
Craft time	6 min
Throughput	≈ 10 Advanced Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

• -10% Resource Cost when crafting.
• -10% Labor Cost when crafting.
• -35% Craft Time when crafting.

How the Update 14 module system works

Recycling & waste

• 1× Garbage

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 1024× Cotton Boll
• 200× Huckleberries
• 160× Natural Fiber (any)
• 144× Flax Stem
• 124.38× Iron Ore
• 70× Limestone
• 66× Hewn Log (any)
• 45.77× Wood (any)
• 40× Electronic Scrap
• 32.11× Silica (any)
• 27.42× Crushed Limestone
• 20× Baked Vegetable (any)
• 12.54× Clay
• 12× Medium Carcass (any)
• 12× Salad (any)
• 10× Crop Seed (any)
• 10× Raw Food (any)
• 6× Fried Vegetable (any)
• 5× Advanced Research (any)
• 5× Fertilizer Filler (any)
• 4× Campfire Salad (any)
• 4× Hare Carcass
• 4× Oil (any)
• 2× Bison Carcass

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Advanced Module
• Product
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Advanced Upgrade

See also

Advanced Baking UpgradeAdvanced Cooking UpgradeAdvanced Masonry UpgradeAdvanced Smelting UpgradeAdvanced Upgrade 1Advanced Upgrade 2

Refinement layered upon refinement, until the workbench learns the rhythm of the craft and wastes no motion at all.