Crafting

Making something takes three things: the recipe, a workbench that makes it, and the materials. Most recipes have to be unlocked first, by a technology or, for a few, by a quest. Most workbenches are buildings you put down yourself at an area’s build desk. How fast the work goes, and whether you can start it at all, depends on your mastery.

Of the 584 recipes, 428 have to be unlocked before they appear, and a page says at the top when no route to a recipe or building can be found in the game’s files at all. The town’s stalls are a case of their own: each one waits on a Market Stalls or Artisans technology, and the first of those is handed to you by the story once the port opens.