The Arcanist's Workbench is one of the most important crafting stations in Hytale once you move beyond basic tools and building blocks. It focuses on magic-related items, especially teleporters and combat totems that change how you move through and control dangerous areas.
Reaching it takes more work than early-game benches, but in return you gain fast-travel tools and powerful support items that shape exploration and combat.
What the Arcanist's Workbench does in Hytale
The Arcanist's Workbench is a mid‑game magical crafting station. Its central roles are:
- Teleporters for travel that let you move quickly between locations instead of running or riding every time.
- Support and control totems, such as healing and slowing effects, that help you survive dungeons and tougher zones.
- Elemental staves like Flame Crystal Staff and Ice Crystal Staff that give you ranged magical damage options.
Like other benches in Hytale, it uses a recipe list interface. When you interact with it, you see all recipes you currently know, along with the exact materials required for each craft. Some recipes are unlocked from the start, while others are gated behind progression requirements such as memories and bench upgrades.
How to unlock crafting for the Arcanist's Workbench
Before you assemble the Arcanist's Workbench itself, you need access to the bench that can craft it. Hytale uses a layered workbench system, so you move through basic building stations before reaching the magical ones.
Step 1: Build a Builder's Workbench
Step 1: Collect six Tree Trunks and three Stones. These are early‑game resources gathered from chopping trees and mining basic stone blocks in the overworld.
Step 2: Use your starting crafting options to create a Builder's Workbench. This bench is the foundation for other specialized stations and lets you craft more advanced workbenches from raw materials.
The Builder's Workbench acts as the hub for station progression. Once placed, you interact with it whenever you want to craft higher‑tier benches such as the Arcanist's Workbench.
How to craft the Arcanist's Workbench
Once your Builder's Workbench is in place, you can start gathering the rarer materials required for the Arcanist's Workbench itself. Expect this to happen after you already have some gear and are comfortable clearing more dangerous areas.
| Item | Quantity | How to obtain |
|---|---|---|
| Thorium Ingot | 10 | Smelt Thorium Ore in a furnace |
| Linen Scraps | 30 | Loot from skeleton‑type and other hostile enemies |
| Essence of the Void | 20 | Loot from void creatures, often in tougher or night‑time encounters and high‑level dungeons |
Step 1: Set up a furnace if you have not already, then mine Thorium Ore in suitable zones. Smelt the ore into Thorium Ingots until you have at least ten.
Step 2: Fight hostile mobs that can drop Linen Scraps, such as skeleton‑type enemies. Keep an eye on loot drops during dungeon runs and overworld combat until you reach thirty scraps.
Step 3: Challenge void creatures to collect Essence of the Void. These glowing, corrupted enemies tend to appear at night or in more dangerous dungeons, so be prepared with solid armor, weapons, and healing.
Step 4: Return to your Builder's Workbench (or the upgraded workbench tier that your world uses for mid‑game benches) and select the recipe for the Arcanist's Workbench. Add the ten Thorium Ingots, thirty Linen Scraps, and twenty Essence of the Void, then craft the bench.
Step 5: Place the Arcanist's Workbench in a central, safe spot near your base. Positioning it close to storage, furnaces, and other benches makes repeated crafting runs faster and less tedious.
Using the Arcanist's Workbench
Once placed, the Arcanist's Workbench behaves similarly to other crafting stations in Hytale. The power comes from its recipes and how you combine them with your exploration and progression.
Basic interaction and recipes
Step 1: Walk up to the Arcanist's Workbench and interact with it. The crafting interface will open, showing all currently known magical items you can craft at that station.
Step 2: Highlight any item in the list to view its material requirements. The interface shows each ingredient and the amounts you need, which makes it easy to see whether you are short on a particular resource, such as Essence of the Void or specific crystals.
Step 3: Gather the listed materials from your storage chests or by returning to the world to farm what you are missing. For teleporters, expect a mix of magical and structural components; for totems and staves, expect more combat‑adjacent resources.
Step 4: Once you have the materials, return to the bench, select the item again, and press the Craft button to create it. The crafted item moves into your inventory, ready to be placed or equipped.
Teleporters, totems, and magical items you can craft
The Arcanist's Workbench starts with some options available from the moment you build it, such as basic teleporters that let you anchor quick travel routes between important locations. As you progress, you unlock more specialized items that shape your combat and traversal.
A key milestone is tied to the Forgotten Temple and the Heart of Orbis. By engaging with this content and submitting memories, you unlock more advanced recipes that appear on the Arcanist's Workbench.
One specific progression requirement is submitting 100 Memories of Forgotten Temple. After you meet this threshold, the bench can offer several notable magical items:
- Healing Totem that supports you and your allies with restorative effects in a fixed area.
- Slowing Totem that hampers enemy movement, buying you time and control during fights.
- Flame Crystal Staff that channels fire‑based ranged attacks.
- Ice Crystal Staff that gives you ice‑based magical damage and control.
These items turn the Arcanist's Workbench into more than a travel tool. It becomes a core part of your combat kit, especially when exploring high‑level dungeons or fighting tougher bosses.
Recipe progression and bench upgrades
Not every Arcanist's Workbench recipe appears immediately after you place the bench. There are two main gates on what you see in its crafting list:
- Story or exploration milestones, such as recording and submitting memories with the Heart of Orbis at the Forgotten Temple.
- Bench level, where some recipes only become available once the relevant workbench is upgraded.
When you first open the Arcanist's Workbench, you will see a limited set of basic recipes. As you increase your progression with memories or raise your bench level, new teleporters, totems, and magical weapons appear in the same interface without needing a separate unlock screen.
Why placing and using the bench strategically matters
The Arcanist's Workbench sits at the intersection of travel, combat support, and progression. Placing it thoughtfully and planning your crafting sessions around it saves time and makes higher‑level content more manageable.
Keeping it close to storage lets you quickly test new recipes and adjust your loadout between dungeon runs. Pairing it with teleporters you craft there creates a loop where you bounce between your base and key exploration points without long overland trips, while totems and staves from the same bench give you the survivability to tackle the dangerous areas that drop the rare materials it demands.
As Hytale expands during early access, more magical items are expected to land on this workbench, so treating it as a central part of your base layout pays off over the long term.
