Primitive Assembler
How to get it
Early Select Building unlock after the first pipe chain.
- Unlock Primitive Assembler from the early Select Building grid.
- Pipe inputs from chests or harvesters; pipe outputs to storage.
- Keep a harvester on milestone resources — processed items do not count toward milestones.


Shared route notes for every building live on the buildings hub — steps above cover this item’s unique path.
Overview
First auto-crafter. Slow and cheap (wood, gears, stone bricks, Wheat Oil on the panel). Processed items do not count toward milestones — keep a harvester on the milestone resource. Extend the wood chain here after chest + pipe.
Where it shows up
Covered in: Nightwater biomes & resources (expand the island), Nightwater first automation (wood chain)
Still unknown
- Full early recipe list.
- Speed versus Workbench; later assembler tiers.
Other buildings
All buildings →WorkbenchEarly Primitive build; Select Building panel shows a wood-logs cost.Research TableEarly tutorial build using wood and planks; opens the research book.Primitive Wood HarvesterUnlock at Wood Milestone 1, then place on trees.Primitive Rock CrusherUnlock on the Stone milestone track, then place on rock nodes.