A Little More Hearth: Workman's Boon

[Kubius]

!! This is the second part of ALMH - the first one is on furniture and is aptly titled A Little More Hearth: More Furniture !!

Making things is the foundation of H&H - from the smallest cone cow to the mightiest fortress. The objects listed below, in my opinion, would help with making things.

--TOOLS--

-Workbench-
4x Block of Wood, 2x Plank, 1x Bar of Hard Metal, 7 Branch
A small workbench (crate size footprint) with assorted small tools on it.
Right clicking the workbench (like with an anvil or loom) will increase hand-crafting speed: -10% time spent at q10.
Doing so will also SLIGHTLY decay the workbench over time. When decayed, can be repaired with nuggets of hard metal.

-Crusher, the Quern's little brother-
40x Stone, 2x Block of Wood
A large mortar-and-pestle type setup.
Functions exactly as a normal quern does for normal quern recipes, but has a bonus:
You can crush stone into sand. Quality conversion like so:
(stone Q + 20) / 3
Q100 stone will come out as Q40 sand. How long this takes is determined by Strength. Calculation:
t / cube root(str)
where str is strength. 100 strength will reduce the time to about a quarter, and 1000 will reduce it to a tenth.
Normal time is about twenty seconds.

-Grain Mill-
100x Stone, 30x Block of Wood, 5x Bar of Hard Metal
It's an oxen-powered grain mill. (Yes this is constructed outside.)
Hook your animals up (two or four, four is faster), use shift + right click to put wheat in, and set your animals to work.
The wheat is converted to flour at a reasonable pace - the flour comes out all even quality.
Once all seed has been converted to wheat (you can make an LC full at a time) the animals stop pulling.


Yep. That's about it for the time being. The topic is focused on practical constructions, or so I hope. I'm limiting myself to two threads at a time maximum.

[LadyV]

I like the workbench as a storage item for tools. I think the grain mill fits well. As for extra bonus' no I dont think they are needed.