Stygian War Doctor Workbench

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Greetings Exiles and Islanders,
This one brings back reports from the Stygian front line in progress.

Specifically in regards to the war doctor “bench”.
First of all, it is not a bench. Nothing is crafted there and no thrall can be placed.
Secondly, it has two forms.
Closed, it looks like a cubish box
Open, it looks like a field medical kit.
Third, what it actually does is serve as a specialized storage item for bandages and healing potions exclusively.

The set also comes with a bed and two outfits.

The bed is a bed. It has the function of a bed in game in that it can serve as a spawn point. It takes up a bit more space than the typical Stygian bed. If you place it precisely before packing walls, you may be able to fit it in a single foundation, but this one always found it just a touch too long.
The basin with cloth on a pillar is fixed in the location it appears, it will always be in the same location in relation to the bed

The outfits are both full sets.
Feet, Legs, Chest, Hands, and Head.

The War Doctor outfit has a good number of dye channels. It is hand crafted with silk and twine.

The Used Bandages have none. They are always white with red on them. They are also hand crafted, also with silk and twine.
However, they are noted as “Used”, this one holds out hope for a future set of not already used bandages that may be dyable.

This thread has some images and such for ease of use.

This one wishes to repeat it in general pop just so everyone knows that the “bench” is actually a storage item.

Oh, side note, in creative mode, the “bench” does not appear in storage, it is instead considered a “table”.
This may be an oversight as all other specific storage containers seem to appear in the storage header.

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If we had actual medical gameplay in Conan Exiles, I’d probably get it. But as just a storage device… I’ll pass for now. Too bad. I was really excited for this when I first saw it, but realized its not really “functional.” And that’s a deal-breaker.

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To their credit, at least every item in the set has a function. None are just placeable decorations.

This one would infinitely prefer if instead of Workbench, the item had been named as a Cabinet.
Stygian War Doctor Medicine Cabinet.
That would make it easier to know that it functions as storage rather than a crafting bench.

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Thanks for that insight, very helpful and complete description. You saved me some cc :slight_smile:

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If you think that is strange, know that the watch tower is considered an instrument. :smile:
“Oh look, an enemy! I’ll just offer him a concert!” - plays the watch tower

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This one would prefer if it doubled as an alchemy bench and storage, while bringing
a hot nurse thrall that jumped out of the box in a skimpy costume, since it costed almost as much as a dlc! :smile:
You suggestion is more reasonable though and it should be considered. :wink:
Btw, you can put placeables on top when the box is closed. They will stay there levitating when you open it. :smile:

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I started placind thralls on the set after giving them Elixirs of Rebirth. When their health goes up and I’ll start leveling another, they stay there to recover…
This is a RP item, mostly. It has a great storage capacity though. You’ll know easily where are your healing items. But in terms of functionality it’s just a very well designed crate, two themed clothings and a bed, basically.

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While I think the price is…well you know - my biggest issue is that this is another stygian looking thing in game. I’m not a fan of egyptian-looking (or whatever that is) decors and placing them as a major style of last chapters. I’m looking forward for more raw, savage styles - like mix of arena/frontier/nemedian. Stone + wood + moss on them. Hyperborean slaver armor is something I would like to build upon - pure savagery and barbaric look.

ps. ok - there were also vanir/aesir styles, which suits me much more - although aesir set is too “clean” and bright for me, like those planks just came out of sawmill.

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Likewise.
What we’ve veen getting pressuposes a civiluzation standing behind it. It’s cool if you want to play the game RPing that your band got there and years passed meanwhile. I’m fine with that.
But if you want to be a little more realistic, you would want simpler armors, buildings, that we could actually make. Light stuff for the warm parts, cozy denser materials for the North, etc, and more lore friendlier buildings, something a group of people could actually put together.
I think the later needs emphasis. This game has anazing designers. I am sure they could come up with something interesting.

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Hopefully, in a few more Ages there will be an Age of Savagery (this one has suspicions about what Ages are already in pipeline, utterly unfounded suspicions, of course)
In Age of War, they reexamined the combat system (let’s leave how well that went over aside for the moment). In a hypothetical Age of Savagery we could get back to survival as a theme. Whereas Age of War focused on Stygian and the Nordheimers as the main cultures, an Age of Savagery could look at the Hyperboreans, the Cimmerians, Picts, and others who live beyound the walls.
Perhaps get some Wolf and Bear pelt armour/clothes.
Have an actual rough timber or loose field stone build set with a peat/moss roof.

Of course, that is far afield.
Also, by then, hopefully the formatting and presentation of items in the Bazaar has been reexamined so we know if we are getting a bench or a box before acquisition.

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Friendly Peeps!
Thanks a lot for all the information.
Meanwhile… or nay it’s just if it comes to me - patience is all, till whichever armor I desire comes as a stand-alone → 1.ooo CC.

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Thank you. I had some questions and you answered them before I had to ask.

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This one hopes they do another Chapter based Armour pack.
This one does like the Pirate and Nemedian archer gear, but the rest of the set is uninspiring. Banners, a weird sounding bell, a pretty sword this one will never use, ect…
A chapter or two back they had an armour bundle that was basically just the clothing from that chapter. That is the bundle this one is interested in.

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It would make sense, even if I’m not really into stygian stuff.

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May not be just Stygian Stuff.
We had the Shemite armour, the Nemedian Archer, the pirate outfit, ect…

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Well Stygians looks like - Egyptians more or less, while Shemite are Tuaregs/Berbers and Pirates are like Spaniards/Portugese? Anyway - I would like to see more based on early medieval Franks, Goths, Saxons, Slavic maybe. Less desert style, more temperate climate region ones.

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Have you seen the Nemedian (People of the Dragon) DLC?
While not much like the Howardian versions, they are very Saxon styled.
Unfortunately, the heavy armour in that set has issues.
The mail part is absurdly shiny, like aluminum, and cannot be dyed. The shirt under it is avocado green, which is truly bizarre.
But the light and medium sets are excellent. Other than being allergic to closed toe footwear. But that’s what Vanir boots are for.

Depending upon how far you go to medieval, the Poitain sets may be up your alley (in the riders of Hyboria DLC)

The “Age of War” was heavily focused on Nordheimers vs Stygians, so the armours mostly followed that pattern.
Age of Sorcery was extremely focused on Acheron clothing, it got just a touch samey there, we can only have so many slight variants on the same set of glyph covered bathrobes before it gets just a bit silly.
But they did have the Gurthyanks (or whatever they are called) a wholeclothe group that occupy roughly the same space and role as the Hyperboreans.

Do you have any images of historical (or artistic interpretations) armour that you are desiring in particular?

While the main slate tends to follow the theme of the “Age” and may have a spare set randomly added, it’s always good to have images for inspiration. With some work this one is certain the local scholars can figure out which Howardian culture any given bit of historical gear could relate to.

Personally this one would like to see more armours like the 1982 movie had.

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Oh I have all dlcs and nemedian/arena mix is my way to go when building my base :wink:
I agree that nemedian is anglo-saxon-ish, maybe even a little germanic (or maybe those are the same) - and they are nicely done: combination of leather and scales/mail.
Poitans are very well designed, but for me they are a little too futuristic/contemporary/advanced (can’t find right word to describe it) - full plate on the one hand (same for legion and godbreaker), while darfari and other primitive ones on the other. Ghurnakis vandal set is ok, but it is also a little too primitive with those tusks and stuff. I used to mix it with zamorian thief and assasins set to get wasteland raider look :wink:

I will search for some ideas and post it here - for now all I could say is I will be interested in combinations of fur, brass and leather - something like pictish/scottish ones - more of a makeshift armors, very close to vanir shaman/chieftain sets (my favourites in game), but with less “forest/tribal” look. Nemedian watchtower archer armor was very nice - with dragon on the back and loosely hanging fringes.

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Apologies, this one meant (and continues to mean) no offense.

One thing to note about Howardian/Hyborian/Conan Picts is that they are wildly divergent from the historical people called Picts.

Howard’s Picts had more in common with his understanding of the indigenous peoples of North America than the people of the Northern Island of Britain.
Hence their gear being what it is in game…

Celts/Gaelic gear would be nice (as this one’s username somewhat implies an affinity) but this one has severe doubts we will ever see that outside of mods.

But back on point, you are looking for something more in the Western Rome just fell - Division of Charlemagne’s Kingdown gear?
Carolingian Mail would be a nice touch, especially as most of the Northern Hyborian peoples favoured mail, if memory serves.

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No apologies needed nor expected - not sure why you thought about it in the first place :wink:

I must admit I’m not very well oriented in Howard’s work, but I can bet that there are so many derogations from his work already in game, that few more wouldn’t be an issue.

Gaelic, that’s the term I was looking for creating previous post - used Pictish as I couldn’t find a better one.

Hmm Charles Martel era gear - this could be fun for sure! Definitely not another roman/greek theme, I don’t see them fit well in this game, nor their marble, clean structures.

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