As you complete the crafter main quests with Zerine, you’ll unlock blueprints to level up your workstations in Starsand Island. This is a necessity, as the upgraded stations allow you to craft more items, and you’ll need those new items as components in crafts.
While you’ll always have a use for basic resources, you’ll need to work on increasingly difficult crafts to keep fulfilling errands and working through apprenticeships. Those crafts start requiring materials that you can only make by using upgraded workstations.
Starsand Island – Workstation Blueprints
Once you reach the Junior Crafter level with Zerine, you unlock access to additional blueprints. Interact with the terminal in her general store, then check the “Tools and Equipment” tab to find available blueprints. Under “Junior Crafter,” you’ll find blueprints for the second versions of the Furnace, Cutter, and Worktable. Purchase all three. It’s not a bad idea to get the Gear Smith while you’re there, as you’ll need it anyway.
Starsand Island – Upgrading Workstations
You can go about the actual upgrade two ways. First, you can just make the higher-level workstation. As an example, you would need to make the Worktable II first, because it’s required for making the Cutter II and Furnace II. From there, you’d be able to get rid of the lower-level versions of each workstation, as the better ones also have the ability to craft the same items as all the versions of that station below them.
However, it’s more efficient to actually upgrade your current workstations and turn them into the next level version rather than building an entirely new station. Since you’ll have the lower versions already due to them being required for the crafting apprenticeship, there’s no reason to not just upgrade them directly.
As an added bonus, upgrading your workstations directly requires fewer materials than building the next version at your Worktable. This is because you already used some materials to make the versions you have, and upgrading them is simply done by using the existing workstation as a base and adding to it.
As an example, upgrading the Cutter to Cutter II doesn’t require any planks. But if you build a Cutter II at your Worktable, then you’ll need planks as an additional material. So, it’s better to upgrade workstations once you have the first versions crafted in Starsand Island.
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