No. I had a campfire, some tier 1 benches, and a bed that was mine. I hadn’t even unlocked the furniture crafting feat yet. And I am the only person on the server as it is my own personal dedicated server. I am in no clans. So other than that singular base, there was nothing else on the map for this crafter to try to travel to.
From the Q&A provided by @Caroll:
I read the Q&A, I kept up to date on the answers provided. Nowhere did it state that if they had no needs available, crafters would disappear. In fact, it seemed to indicate the opposite: if you had nothing for them to do, they’d just do nothing. But my crafter still wandered off to oblivion. So unless it was in the patch notes (it wasn’t) that crafters HAVE to have their needs met, I’d have no reason to assume otherwise.
Luckily for me, I only placed one tier 1 crafter to finish the thrall taker journey (which, by the way, doesn’t work anymore because you can’t actually assign crafting thralls to stations anymore so the journey doesn’t complete).