Major QoL improvement idea

[vatas]

At least I personally feel that while crafting menu isn't worst thing in the game, it could be better. My suggestion is following. When you occupy workstation, you can right-click workstation again to open up flower menu for things that you can craft with it.

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Basically the boxes would read "Grind Flour" "Grind Grist" "Grind Pipeweed" and clicking any of them would open the relevant craft window.

In further example, Loom would open flower menu for different kinds of cloth.

[MrPunchers]

+1
Some stations craft a lot of things, but for the ones that only make 3-4 things, it sounds sweet.

[shubla]

Would be neat, but sounds like too time intensive for devs current schedule.

[Ysh]

Would be neat, but sounds like too time intensive for devs current schedule.

You have change of heart on nice to developer? Mix up tactics?

[Enjoyment]

At least I personally feel that while crafting menu isn't worst thing in the game, it could be better. My suggestion is following. When you occupy workstation, you can right-click workstation again to open up flower menu for things that you can craft with it.

Image courtesy of my uber paint skills:

Basically the boxes would read "Grind Flour" "Grind Grist" "Grind Pipeweed" and clicking any of them would open the relevant craft window.

In further example, Loom would open flower menu for different kinds of cloth.

Though I don't think you choose the most imaginary thing (grinder) for it, the unifying of craft/flower menu was suggested so many times, that J&L should stop ignore them and start to dig in that direction.
This game has too much mechanical repetitive work and sometimes I find myself stuck into trying to right-click on something to craft/finding something in craft menu w/o any success, just because I've used the wrong method of interaction. And any time this happens I think "WTF why do we have 2 separate system for similar actions???". Seems like devs don't know which system to use - right-click flower menu or crafting/building menu, and still using both because of laziness.
You can just right click on item in your inventory - select "craft" and then select needed stuff...
Or we should not have flower menu at all, but get all that right-click actions accessible via craft/adventure menu.
But having BOTH systems seems kinda dumb...

[ydex]

this idea I think is muched needed and good. and then fix trellis as well and its much better

[ekzarh]

But having BOTH systems seems kinda dumb...

IMO - in some use cases menu is really more convenient. Rright clicking is more convenient in others. So having both is ok by me.
But menus work well either when you remember the hotkey sequence or when you have this item on a hotbar. While lots of things (like most curios) cannot be be brought up by right-clicking anything.

But as of original idea - it is really good. and it is ok to have e.g. Grind flour in both craft menu and while right clicking on grindstone.
So +1!
Also, being able to right-click on e.g. oven and bringing up anything that can be baked is also good, even though crafting the unbaked pie does not require to use oven at the moment of crafting.

[azrid]

Another poster that forgot all about pepper

[Granger]

The flower menu may seem to be fine at first glance, but it isn't a good interface:
Just look at a full stone in the moddle of a road when you're wayled on several of its paths and you'll know what I'm talking about.

[ekzarh]

The flower menu may seem to be fine at first glance, but it isn't a good interface:
Just look at a full stone in the moddle of a road when you're wayled on several of its paths and you'll know what I'm talking about.

There has to be some kind of sub-menus when there are too much items. And shorten labels somehow.