Crafting stations

See also: Crafting 101.

A Crafting Station allows players to craft various items. Entering the inventory screen displays the crafting menu in the lower-left, and when the player is standing near one or more Crafting Stations and possesses the right crafting ingredients, the bar is expanded with additional item choices. Nearly all crafting stations are furniture.

Basic

Pre-Hardmode

Station	Description
By Hand	Items that appear in the crafting menu even when no crafting station is nearby are considered crafted "by hand".
Work Bench	Crafts basic Furniture and building materials. Also crafts some early Wooden weapons and Armor.
Furnace	Crafts Bars from raw mined Ore, as well as some building materials, like Bricks. Also crafts Glass and some Glass items. The Hellforge is an upgraded version that adds the ability to craft Hellstone Bars.
Hellforge
Iron Anvil	Crafts Tools, Weapons, and Armor. Also some furniture and other items. Iron and Lead Anvils are functionally identical.
Lead Anvil
Placed Bottle	Crafts Potions. A Bottle, Pink Vase, Mug, or any Cup variant will function as this crafting station, as long as they are placed, which requires a flat Furniture item: a Platform, Table, Workbench, Dresser, Piano, Bookcase, or Tinkerer's Workshop. The Alchemy Table is an upgraded version that offers a 1/3 chance of not consuming a particular crafting ingredient.
Alchemy Table
Sawmill	Crafts additional Furniture. Also crafts the Loom crafting station.
Loom	Crafts Silk from Cobwebs, and some Silk vanity items.
Chair + Table	Any Table and Chair placed next to each other functions as a station solely for crafting Watches.
Chair + Work Bench	Any Work Bench and Chair placed next to each other functions as a station for crafting Goggles and Sunglasses.
Cooking Pot	Crafts a few Food items. The Cauldron is functionally identical, though visually Halloween-themed.
Cauldron
Tinkerer's Workshop	Combines Accessory items together into new compact Accessories with combined functionality.
Imbuing Station	Crafts Flasks.
Dye Vat	Crafts Dyes and Paints.
Demon Altar	Crafts some Boss-summoning items, as well as the Night's Edge weapon. The Demon and Crimson Altars are functionally identical. These stations are unique in that they are not placed by the player, but instead generate on world creation in Corruption/Crimson areas respectively, as well as sporadically around the border between Surface and Underground.
Crimson Altar

Hardmode

Station	Description
Mythril Anvil	Upgraded Iron Anvil/Lead Anvil, adding the ability to craft many Hardmode weapons, armor, and other items.
Orichalcum Anvil
Adamantite Forge	Upgraded Hellforge, adding the ability to craft Bars out of late-Hardmode Ores: Adamantite Ore, Titanium Ore, and Chlorophyte Ore. The Adamantite Forge and Titanium Forge are functionally identical.
Titanium Forge
Bookcase	The Bookcase is available before Hardmode, but as a crafting station it is only for Hardmode Magic Weapons.
Autohammer	Crafts Shroomite Bars.
Ancient Manipulator	Crafts a variety of late-game items from Lunar Fragments and Luminite.

Specialized

These have limited crafting use and only craft a couple of arguably non-essential items.

Pre-Hardmode

Station	Description
Keg	Used solely to craft Ale.
Heavy Work Bench Template:Pc icon	Crafts Text Statues, along with a couple of building blocks.
Living Wood	Template:Console iconTemplate:Mobile icon Used solely to craft Living Wood Walls. (The Living Loom is used for this purpose on the PC version.)

Hardmode

Station	Description
Blend-O-Matic	Used solely to craft Asphalt Blocks.
Meat Grinder	Used solely to craft Flesh Blocks.
Crystal Ball	Crafts a few animated block types. Waterfall Blocks and Lavafall Blocks require their respective liquids to also be nearby.

Themed furniture

The following crafting stations are used to craft themed versions of various furniture items.

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Liquids

A few items require standing near liquids in order to appear in the crafting menu. Liquids also produce unique blocks when colliding with each other.

Liquid	Description
File:Animated water.gif Water	Crafts Bottled Water and Mud Blocks. Also crafts Waterfall Blocks when a Crystal Ball is nearby.
Lava	Crafts Lavafall Blocks when a Crystal Ball is nearby.
File:HoneyLiquid.png Honey	Crafts Bottled Honey.

Other

These do not use the crafting menu, but produce items in unique ways.

Station	Description
Campfire	The player holds a Marshmallow on a Stick near the fire to turn it into a Cooked Marshmallow.
Extractinator	Silt and Slush blocks are placed on the Extractinator, which causes it to drop random ores and gems.

Basic progression

This list shows the general order a new player will likely need to follow in obtaining the basic crafting stations. This list only covers stations for essential tools and game advancement. Others can be obtained in more varying orders.

• Work Bench: crafted by hand from Wood.
• Wooden Table, Wooden Chair: crafted at the Work Bench from Wood.
• Furnace: crafted at the Work Bench, from Wood, Stone, and Torches.
• Iron Anvil/Lead Anvil: crafted at the Furnace from Iron Bars/Lead Bars.
• Sawmill: crafted at the Workbench, from an Iron Chain and Iron Bars.
• Loom: crafted at the Sawmill.
• Hellforge: found in The Underworld, generated with the world inside Ruined Houses.

Hardmode

• Mythril Anvil/Orichalcum Anvil: crafted at the Iron/Lead Anvil from Mythril Bars/Orichalcum Bars
• Adamantite Forge/Titanium Forge: crafted at Mythril/Orichalcum Anvil from a Hellforge and Adamantite Ore/Titanium Ore.
• Ancient Manipulator:dropped by Lunatic Cultist

History

• 1.3.0.1: Added Alchemy Table and Ancient Manipulator.

• 1.2.3: Added 8 new crafting stations.

• 1.2: There are several new crafting stations.

• Pre-Release: Introduced.

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