When crafting an item, here’s what typically happens:
Select the item.
The item menu will show what resources are needed to produce the item and how many.
But commonly, one or more will be ‘gray’ (darker) meaning you don’t have that item or enough of that item. For example, to craft a storage box, one needs wood and twine. But let’s say you forgot you needed twine. You have plant fiber, but not twine (yet).
So, here’s my suggestion: Make it so that if you click on the gray (dark) icon and its something like twine that you craft, it changes the select item instead of having to look through the crafting options all over again to find the twine icon.
A simple change in crafting selection would help improve the quality of life for many players.
Yes, if we have no prerequisites for any feat here on PC we can click on missing feat’s icon and go to it automatically. Why didn’t they do the same for crafting I don’t understand.
And what would be even better is if we can get a specialty thrall for auto-crafting certain recipes, maybe recipes you have to craft before hand.
Could be pretty bold but a new table like “WorkShop Manager Desk” that accepts this new thrall-type and accepts the crafted recipes, which acts as I/O for all nearby stations and storage containers.
E.G.
T1 thralls can craft recipes with 1-steps,
T2 thrall can craft recipes with 2-steps,
etc.
Probably because many of the items you need are not hand crafted and/or are not crafted in the same station as the recipe you want to do.
Example: alchemical base - is used in improved armor smith workshops to make layered silk etc but made in the fire bowl cauldron.
Even something as simple as twine can either be handcrafted OR made in an work station.
But xbox version would be challenging with no mouse.