Basic Engineering Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Basic Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Basic Engineering recipes.

Notes

The Basic Engineering Upgrade is a module that fits into a crafting station's upgrade slot, reducing resource cost and craft time for Basic Engineering recipes. As a basic‑tier upgrade, it works in any room, making it a valuable early investment for players specializing in engineering to accelerate their production.

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)Specialty (none)Basic Engineering Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Basic Engineering 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
Wooden Gear	6	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Wood Scrap	0.24
Garbage	0.2

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	10 min
Throughput	≈ 6 Basic Engineering Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

• -5% Resource Cost when crafting with Basic Engineering.
• -25% Craft Time when crafting with Basic Engineering.

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

• 24× Hewn Log (any)

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

Categories

• Product
• Specialty Module
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Basic Engineering Upgrade

See also

Advanced Baking UpgradeAdvanced Cooking UpgradeAdvanced Masonry UpgradeAdvanced Smelting UpgradeBaking UpgradeBlacksmith Advanced Upgrade