01

Give the bench a usable space

Release-day footage prepares an indoor space for the Research Bench. It then looks at Wood Processing as an early project. This demonstrates an actual preparation sequence without proving every current placement rule. If the bench cannot be used, its displayed requirements matter before an assumed optimal research order.

The September 7 game-tooltip compilation lists a Poor Research Lab with a Research Workshop and at least 9 room tiles, granting +30% Research Capability. The refreshed housing database agrees on the area and modifier. This is a capability modifier, not a measured promise that every project finishes 30% sooner. Check the recognized room type before spending materials on decoration.

02

A documented early chain

Wood Processing connects planks and the Goddess Statue in release-day footage and the refreshed research table. It is a useful early branch when leveling is the blocker. The following additional dependencies come from the database labeled v0.4.19, checked September 8; they are single-source guidance rather than a tested universal build order.

  • Bone equipment: Wood Processing → Hunting Processing → Bone Processing.
  • Farm: Basic Storage → Basic Cuisine → Basic Farming; constructing the Farm still needs materials, including Clay.
  • Copper processing: Metal Processing requires both Wood Processing II and Bonfire. From Wood Processing, follow the Wood Processing II branch and the Wooden Housing → Bonfire branch; Metal Processing then lists the Kiln among its unlocks.

Read the connecting prerequisites and output of your own node before spending books. A recipe appearing in the tree does not mean its workstation or ingredients are already available. Exact costs vary in the database's difficulty views and have not been independently verified here.

03

Troubleshoot a stalled project

Separate a locked node from a project that has been paid for but is not progressing. The book guide distinguishes unlocking from worker labor, while the refreshed database records workload, required items and prerequisites separately. Use those distinctions to inspect the problem in this order:

  1. Bench unavailable: check its indoor condition and whether a worker can reach it.
  2. Node locked: inspect prerequisite research, the displayed rank restriction and required books. Rank gating is reported by the refreshed database and has not been independently tested here.
  3. Project unlocked but idle: check the selected research task and the worker's availability and priorities; watch whether its progress changes.
  4. Research finished but no item: inspect the unlocked workstation, recipe and materials, then issue the production or construction task.

This checklist diagnoses the visible blocker; it does not prove that every idle task is a bug. Exact current book costs, workload-to-time conversion and an optimal complete research order remain 待确认.

04

Tech Book

The refreshed database labels the item Tech Book and describes it as a research book consumed to unlock research. That explains why guides use both names for this function; it is not an official localization glossary. Spending the book does not mean the worker has finished the project. Guaranteed book locations remain 待确认.

Acquisition examples are not guarantees

The collected walkthrough records books from a floor-one chest. The v0.4.19 database also lists chests, support wagons, some merchants and quest/event rewards, with different conditions. These are places to inspect during suitable runs, not a promise that every chest or merchant carries books. The support-wagon entries differ by difficulty, so a screenshot from another start is not your starting allowance.

Names and spending priorities

Official Demo v0.3.21 notes allowed found books to unlock research while inside the dungeon. That historical change concerns access to a research node, not instant completion of its labor. It should not be generalized into a current promise that returning to the settlement is never necessary. Spend around the production bottleneck you can solve, and compare the installed version's book counter and node requirements first.