Jan 11
Recipes obtained with workbench upgrades
Having recipes being attached to upgrades on the workbench (replacing basic/advance/modern upgrades) would make the same job very different.
Examples: To make Fish dishes you would need a fish cleaning attachment to your (cast iron)stove but in the same slot you could place something for cleaning vegetables for salads or seasoning meat.
Other example would be masonry table having a setup for making statues and removing options to make mortared stone on that table and have furniture as different specialisation.
This would also allow more recipes (basalt or shale statue for black/dark version) or gold/copper statues.
Different type of statues would need different upgrades making resources like gold and copper more useful from the start.
It would be nice when having 10 cooks on a server they are each slightly differently specialized and can be themed that way.
Pending
Do you say the upgrade should be permanent/destroyed on removal? If not I think this would primarily lead to upgrade juggling instead of specialisation.