Assembly Station

The Assembly Station is a crafting station for big projects. The Assembly Station was left behind by Pa after the player inherits his Workshop. Similar to the Worktable, this is a one-of-a-kind object and cannot be created.

The Assembly Station can be upgraded to higher levels, allowing for larger projects and automation.

Moving and upgrading
The Assembly Station can be moved and upgraded in the catalog at the A&G Construction. There are two options in the catalog: Move and Upgrade.

When the player click on the Move button, an overhead view of the Workshop will appear where the player can move and rotate the Assembly Station.

The Assembly Station can be upgraded twice. The size of the Assembly Station Level 2 is 12 x 13 squares. The Level 2 upgrade is required to complete many missions, perhaps the earliest being Saving the Tree Farm.

The size of the Assembly Station Level 3 is roughly 21 x 14 squares; it is not a complete rectangle so 22 squares are open along the front side. There are two separate assembly areas. The right-hand side works as before, with the player building an item by adding materials to a blueprint. The left-hand side is automated, enabling players to create multiples of a given blueprint. The assembly station takes 45 minutes for Level 1 blueprints and 1 hour for Level 2 blueprint. To begin production, all materials needed for all requested copies must be available.

The player must provide the materials required to upgrade the Assembly Station and pay a flat rate for the construction. The material cost of upgrading will be reduced by 10% if the player is buddy with Albert. The Gols cost will be reduced by 3% if the player is buddy with Gust and by 6% if the player is his lover.

Crafting
The Assembly Station is where the complex recipes from the Handbook are built, such as other crafting stations and many large items for missions.

New assembly diagrams can be obtained from Petra at the Research Center, received during some missions, or bought from the Harbor Trade Station. The diagrams from previous missions can also be purchased from the Research Center Exchange in exchange for Data Discs.

All projects crafted on the Assembly Station are crafted instantly, provided that all required materials are in possession.

Using the automated Assembly function removes the need to manually add the materials (instead, it will take the items needed from any storage or the inventory like other crafting would) and can be used to queue up multiple items of the same type at once, but each Assembly takes 45 mins or more of ingame time to complete.

List of assembly diagrams by level

 * See also: Assembled items category

Level 2 Assembly Station
These items require the Assembly Station to be upgraded before they can be crafted.

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