Good Heavens Crafting Guide: Stations and Tech Trees

Good Heavens crafting blends survival gathering, blueprint-based base construction, and RPG skill progression across floating procedural islands. Progression does not rely on a fixed character class; instead, you collect dual essences to unlock specialized recipes across six branching tech trees.

Every tool, weapon, and crafting station you build requires transforming raw materials—such as grass, branches, and loose stones—into processed components like rope, planks, and refined metals.

How the Dual Essence and Tech Tree System Works

Crafting recipes in Good Heavens are locked behind tech trees accessible via the tech menu (bound by default to the T key). To unlock new recipes, you must collect two distinct types of essence:

• Blue Essence: Earned through non-combat activities, including harvesting grass, felling trees, mining stone, and building structures. Blue essence funds world-oriented progression.
• Red Essence: Collected by slaying wild beasts, monsters, and hostile humanoids. Red essence fuels weapon and combat skill paths.

According to developer Nowhere Studios, character progression is divided into six separate tech trees rather than standard character classes:

• Warfare (Combat): Covers light weapons, heavy weapons, armor, and direct combat power.
• Trickery (Combat): Covers daggers, bows, mobility, and precision-based combat.
• Sorcery (Combat): Focuses on elemental staves, magical combat (fire, ice, electricity), and spellcasting enhancements.
• Homesteading (World): Unlocks farming plots, irrigation cans, cooking stations, and carpentry benches for storage chests.
• Exploration (World): Expands world traversal, basic tools, fishing, foraging mechanics, and smelting furnaces.
• Influence (World): Governs weaving (fabric and clothing), gem crafting, brewing, and passive stat upgrades.

Core Crafting Stations and What They Build

Early-game crafting begins in your personal inventory menu, but complex items require dedicated utility stations. In Good Heavens, placing a station does not consume completed items immediately; you place a translucent blueprint on the ground using the build menu (B key) and physically deposit the required materials into it to finish construction.

Establishing Your Base Territory and Relocating Stations

Before you can construct advanced crafting arrays, you must place your starting Totem to establish your base boundaries.

• Placing Blueprints: Once your territory is marked, open the build menu (B key) to select tents, workstations, or storage. You can place the blueprint silhouette first and feed raw resources into the frame as you gather them.
• Moving Stations and Totems: Workbenches and totems cannot simply be dragged to a new position. If you misplace a station or want to reposition your boundary marker, hand-craft a Dismantle Mallet.
• Preventing Lost Items: The developer confirmed on the Steam community forums that items dropped loose onto the dirt or floor are temporary and despawn when the area unloads or upon reloading a save file. Always craft dedicated storage chests at a Carpenter's Table instead of leaving items on the ground.

Early-Game Crafting Progression Walkthrough

1. Gather Starting Supplies: Pick up loose branches, white stones, and wild grass on the surface. Hand-craft a Stone Axe (2 branches, 2 stones) to begin harvesting wood.
2. Chop Multiple Trees: When swinging your axe, position your character between clustered tree trunks. A single swing can strike two or three trees simultaneously, significantly speeding up log collection.
3. Set Up Shelter and the Workbench: Use the B key build menu to place a Tent (which establishes your respawn point) and construct a Workbench using 2 logs and 1 stone.
4. Produce Raw Bindings: Interact with the Workbench to turn collected grass into Rope. Rope is a universal binding agent required by almost every intermediate crafting station.
5. Unlock Your First Combat Path: Slay small creatures to accumulate 10 Red Essence. Choose between Warfare (melee) or Trickery (ranged) in the tech tree to unlock the Weapons Bench recipe. Build the bench to assemble a Wood Club or a Slingshot using gathered pebbles for ammunition.
6. Weave Protective Armor: Accumulate Blue Essence by chopping trees and breaking boulders. Spend it to unlock Weaving in the Influence tree, assemble a Loom, and turn grass into Grass Fabric to craft your first pair of Ambassador Grass Pants.
7. Establish Storage: Unlock Carpentry under Homesteading. Build a Sawmill to mill raw wood into Planks, then erect a Carpenter's Table to construct your first wooden storage chest.
8. Advance to Smelting: Unlock Smelting under the Exploration branch. Place a Furnace (4 planks, 20 stone), load logs as fuel, and smelt raw stone and wood into Woodstone to forge durable armor pieces at an Armor Bench.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do you craft storage chests in Good Heavens?

Chests are unlocked through the Homesteading branch of the tech tree. You must unlock Carpentry, build a Sawmill to produce planks, and construct a Carpenter's Table, which houses the storage chest recipe.

How do you move a misplaced Totem or crafting table?

Craft a Dismantle Mallet from your basic hand-crafting menu. Striking misplaced structures or your territory Totem with the mallet breaks them down so they can be rebuilt elsewhere.

Why did items left on the ground disappear?

The item-drop function is intended only for quick player-to-player transfers. The development team has confirmed that dropped ground items automatically despawn after a set time or upon saving and reloading the game. Always store excess materials inside chests.

How do you craft bone fragments for bows and tools?

Bone fragments are processed at the standard Workbench. You must defeat hostile monsters or wildlife to harvest raw bones, which are then broken down into fragments at the bench.