Crafting stations

A Crafting Station allows players to craft various items. Entering the inventory screen displays the "Crafting window" 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. There are currently 44 crafting stations in total.

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

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

Liquids
A few items require standing near liquids to appear in the crafting menu. Standing next to any Sink type works if the required liquid is water.

Liquids also produce unique blocks when colliding with each other ( +  =,  +  = ,  +  = ,  /  +  = .)

Biomes

 * Crafting Snow Clouds requires the player to be in the Snow biome (a Sky Mill is also required).
 * Being in a Graveyard is required for crafting various items (other crafting stations are also required, see Ecto Mist for details).

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

Crafting station reach

 * The player can reach any crafting station within ~3 blocks to their left or right, 3 blocks below them, or the 3 blocks of their character's height. This gives a total reach of ~8 by 6 blocks centered below the player. This is shorter than the player's reach for tools or chests of ~10 by 9 centered on the player.
 * Unlike the player's item reach, crafting reach cannot be extended by items such as the Architect Gizmo Pack or Extendo Grip. It can however be extended permanently by consuming the Artisan Loaf.
 * The crafting reach of the player isn't a whole number. If they press against a wall, they can reach a crafting station 4 blocks away, but they will never be able to reach 2 crafting stations 4 blocks away on either side. This can be easily tested by locking the player in a 2 wide space with crafting stations 4 blocks away on either side of them; they will only be able to reach 1 crafting station at any given time. Similarly, the player's item reach will extend to 5 blocks if pressed against a wall. Interestingly, the player has to be closer to the wall to extend item reach compared to crafting reach.

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 Work Bench from Iron Bars/Lead Bars.
 * Sawmill: crafted at the Workbench, from an Iron Chain, Wood, 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