Crafting confuses me

[VladTepes]

I don't understand fully how to make crafts or how to use them. I guess one workshop can make only one craft, like tools, at a time? Who/what uses tools, baskets or plows and how to use them? I wish there was a reference guide that showed like "this needs two tools, two baskets and a plow."

 

[Sephi]

you can add crafts to improvements to give them a bonus. For example you can craft stone tools in the workshop and add it to the workshop to produce other stuff faster. You can also use crafts to produce more advanced crafts, to consume them as ammenities in the city (it's like a temporary buff) and to build wonders. It's all very complicated .

 

[xphantomx]

I don't understand fully how to make crafts or how to use them. I guess one workshop can make only one craft, like tools, at a time? Who/what uses tools, baskets or plows and how to use them? I wish there was a reference guide that showed like "this needs two tools, two baskets and a plow."

When you have an improvement/building, click on it. When you zoom in, you will see “plus” boxes. Click on any of the “plus” boxes and it tells you what crafts/items to put there to create something or create it faster.

For example, whatever farm you have, equipping a plow into it will make its particular output faster. If you have silk or cotton, putting it into your workshop rope production will make more rope faster.

 

[VladTepes]

Is there a reference that tells you what craft gives what buff and where and for how long? Does a level 1 workshop only make one thing at a time?

 

[PMF]

Is there a reference that tells you what craft gives what buff and where and for how long? Does a level 1 workshop only make one thing at a time?

Tooltips + the Encarta should have both pieces of info; some items are used as supply, or as a component for something else, or as an amenity directly -- I think there's a lot of info to see so it might be easy to miss. You can jump to an Encarta entry by hovering for the tooltip, then clicking on the icon in the top left of that tooltip (I keep trying to right-click out of habit hahaha) There's also a direct Encarta button on the top right!

The 4th tab of the Encarta should be all goods of each type! (tab icon looks like a crate)

I believe that every workshop/crafting improvement can craft one thing at a time, so you have to build a few of them to keep up on what you need. They can be given a queue of things to craft, or just set one thing to create infinitely as a one-and-done option. I hope that helps!