Carpentry Basic Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Basic Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Carpentry recipes.

Notes

The Carpentry Basic Upgrade is an Efficiency Module that reduces resource cost and craft time for Carpentry recipes when installed in a compatible station. As a Basic Upgrade, it functions in any room regardless of tier, making it a practical early investment for carpenters looking to improve their productivity. Crafted from its own recipe, this module provides a noticeable efficiency boost before advanced upgrades become available.

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)Carpentry Basic Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Carpentry level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Fine Carpentry (Carpentry Lv 3) Lumber Investment (Carpentry Lv 3) Extra Effort (Carpentry Lv 6)

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

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Dendrology Research Paper Advanced	3	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Garbage	0.22
Bio Residue	0.05

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 Carpentry Basic Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

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

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

• 60× Wood (any)
• 36× Hewn Log (any)

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

Categories

• Product
• Specialty Module
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Carpentry Basic Upgrade

See also

Advanced Baking UpgradeAdvanced Cooking UpgradeAdvanced Masonry UpgradeAdvanced Smelting UpgradeBaking UpgradeBasic Engineering Upgrade