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
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 .
Crystal Ball
Crafts Endless Quiver and Endless Musket Pouch , in addition to visual effect items like animated blocks, droppers , Living Fire Blocks . Waterfall Blocks , Lavafall Blocks , and Honeyfall Blocks require their respective liquids to also be nearby.
Autohammer
Crafts Shroomite Bars .
Ancient Manipulator
Crafts a variety of end-game items from Lunar Fragments and Luminite .
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.
Pre-Hardmode
Station
Furniture Theme
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Bone
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Glass*
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Honey
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Ice
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Living Tree
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Sky
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Slime **
Hardmode
Station
Furniture Theme
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Steampunk
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Crimson (flesh)
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Jungle Temple
*The Glass Kiln also functions as a plain Furnace
**The Solidifier also crafts Frozen Slime Blocks
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.
Other
These do not use the crafting menu, but produce items in unique ways.
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.
Hardmode
History
1.2.3 : Added 8 new crafting stations.
1.2 : There are several new crafting stations.
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