Workbench

WorldObject

A bench for the basics and making even more benches.

Notes

The Workbench is the foundational crafting station in Eco, used to create the first set of critical tools and structures. It is where you craft key early-game items such as the Campfire, Carpentry Table, and Masonry Table, enabling the progression into specialized professions. A practical tip is to build this bench as one of your very first projects, as having it placed early allows you and your town to quickly move beyond hand-gathering into organized industry.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Wood	10	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	≈ 0.2

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	30 calories
Craft time	0.5 min
Throughput	≈ 120 Workbench / hour (base)

As a placed object

Crafted here

• Adobe
• Adobe Door
• Arrastra
• Boards
• Campfire
• Carpentry Table
• Construction Post
• Contract Board
• Dirt Ramp Basic
• Fishery
• Homestead Claim Stake
• Masonry Table
• Primitive Bin
• Primitive Dump
• Research Table
• Rocker Box
• Settlement Crafting Table
• Small Canoe
• Small Stockpile
• Stockpile
• Storage Chest
• Store
• Stump Bed
• Stump Chair
• Stump Latrine
• Stump Table
• Tiny Stockpile
• Tool Bench
• Torch
• Torch Stand
• Wall Mounted Chest
• Wheelbarrow
• Wooden Wall Torch Stand
• Workbench

Recycling & waste

• 1× Wood Scrap

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

• 10× Wood (any)

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

Categories

• Crafting Table
• On Off
• Product
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Workbench

See also

Advanced Carpentry TableAdvanced Masonry TableAdvanced Tailoring TableAnvilArrastraAssembly Line