Painting Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Basic Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Painting recipes.

Notes

The Painting Upgrade is a Basic Efficiency Module that reduces resource cost and craft time for Painting recipes at any crafting station equipped with a module slot. Being a Basic Upgrade, it functions in any room regardless of tier, making it a straightforward early-game improvement for players focusing on painting crafts. For best results, install this upgrade on the station where you or your town’s artisan regularly produce paint or painted items.

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)Painting Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Painting level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Painting Focused Speed (−50%) Painting Parallel Speed (−20%)

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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
Art Supplies	4	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Garbage	0.2
Wood Scrap	0.13
Bio Residue	0.06

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 Painting Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

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

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

• 74.67× Flax Stem
• 4× Petals (any)
• 2× Wood Board (any)

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

Categories

• Product
• Specialty Module
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Painting Upgrade

See also

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