Welcome to Elderfield Crafting and Workshop Guide

Welcome to Elderfield separates farm processing and facility crafting from equipment forging. The Prep Table prepares inputs before the Drying Rack processes them, while the Workshop and anvil serve equipment progression. Molly's Workshop dialogue is shown granting a Furnace, although the full unlock path is not settled.

This answer uses the September 5, 2026 research snapshot and treats the Steam store, developer announcements, and directly observed footage as the strongest evidence. Search snippets and unsupported tables are not treated as proof. Where the full game, public Demo, and Patreon alpha expose different content, the page names that boundary instead of blending the builds together.

Demo v0.11.2 added Rawhide, Herb Bundles, and Leadleaf-related processing or forging material, and its recipe menu uses green to show satisfied requirements. Demo v0.11.17 fixed processor progress during sleep, simplified craft confirmation, and added category guidance. These changes make older interface walkthroughs unreliable even when the underlying station still exists.

Confirmed here means either an official source states the point directly or two independent sources agree on the same observable behavior. It does not mean every related number, location, or unlock condition is known. Exact values stay out of the confirmed section unless the collected material supports them at the same version level.

Identify whether the goal is farm processing, material preparation, or equipment forging before choosing a station. Follow the current recipe menu and verify every input name, especially the distinct hide stages. Speak with Molly when the Workshop route opens, but do not assume that one old task order is the only way the Furnace can appear.

Use the confirmed sequence first and check the in-game wording before committing rare materials or long sessions. Interface labels and broad mechanics are more stable than balance values, rewards, and exact routes during development. A step marked Pending verification (待确认) is a research lead, not a guaranteed instruction for the current build.

Facility material costs, placement ranges, prices, Leather chains, ore fuel, and processing durations rely on single-source or conflicting data. Rawhide, Scraped Hide, Thick Hide, and Leather are not interchangeable labels. Exact Copper Bar outputs and times remain Pending verification (待确认) because the collected sources disagree and no official recipe resolves them.

Welcome to Elderfield has a public Steam Demo, older itch and Patreon builds, and an unreleased full game in this research snapshot. A detail can be authentic and still be obsolete or unavailable in another channel. This page therefore preserves build labels and avoids turning historical footage into a launch-version promise.

Sources conflict over whether the Furnace route belongs to Molly, Hans, or multiple task paths. Rain-offering duration and Harvest or Fertility Effigy percentages also conflict within one guide's tables. A complete current recipe list, stable Leather chain, blueprint order, and processing schedule cannot be published as settled facts.

Pending verification (待确认) means the collected sources did not reach the required confidence threshold. It may be supported by one guide, one developer comment, or footage whose build cannot be identified, but it lacks a matching current source. These points are retained because players search for them, while their uncertainty remains visible.