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Sawhorse
April 18, 2026 at 01:24 AM
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Sawhorse is a crafting attachment for the Workbench in Windrose. Placing it inside the Workbench's Bonfire build radius raises the Workbench tier and unlocks mid-tier recipes.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Recipe | 20 Wood + 10 Copper Ingot |
Parent Station | |
Placement Rule |
The Sawhorse is one of two attachments (Sawhorse plus Toolbox) that together raise the Workbench from Level 1 to Level 3. Level 3 unlocks mid-tier recipes including Ironware, additional building pieces, and several early-to-mid cooking ingredient processing steps.
Place the Sawhorse on its own first if you are trying to reach Workbench Level 2; the Level 3 unlock requires the Toolbox on top. The attachments do not stack in output (Sawhorse alone does not give Level 3), but they do stack in placement (both can sit in the same Bonfire radius without conflict).
Place the Sawhorse near the Workbench for visual clarity, but it only needs to be inside the Bonfire build radius
Dismantling the Sawhorse at the Disassembly Table refunds all materials at 100%, so relocating is risk-free
The 10 Copper Ingot requirement gates the Sawhorse behind the player's first cave-mining run; plan accordingly
Workbench — the parent station
Toolbox — companion attachment for Level 3
Crafting — the broader crafting tree
Upgrade System — how attachments fit in
The Sawhorse is not a standalone crafting station. It is specifically a workbench attachment, a supporting structure that bonds to a placed Workbench and raises its tier. Without a nearby workbench, a sawhorse is decorative and nothing more. With a workbench inside the right range, the sawhorse ticks the workbench to tier two and unlocks a new batch of recipes on the parent, including the Iron Pickaxe upgrade that opens up Sulfur mining.
All crafting stations in Windrose use the same upgrade pattern: you do not craft a higher-tier station; you drop attachments in the parent's vicinity circle. When you pick up a sawhorse in build mode and hover it near a workbench, a white circle appears on the ground centred on the bench. Drop the sawhorse anywhere inside that circle and the bond locks in. Drop it outside and the sawhorse sits there as a prop without upgrading anything.
While you are holding the sawhorse in placement mode, the workbench displays a small green plus icon overlaid on it. The plus cycles through the icons of the recipes the sawhorse will unlock (mid-tier tools, ironware, iron pickaxe, and similar). This is the game's pre-commit preview of the upgrade. Watch the icons before you drop the sawhorse so you know exactly what you are paying for.
Sawhorse is one of many attachments in the game. Each attachment bonds to a specific parent or set of parents:
Sawhorse: parent is the Workbench. Raises it to tier two.
Toolbox: parent is the workbench. Stacks with the Sawhorse and Tool Shelf for higher tiers.
Anvil: parent is the Weaponsmith Workshop (and Shipwright Workshop). See Anvil.
Stove and Pot, Distiller, Reagent Table: parents include the Alchemy Table.
The workbench is one of the most-used stations in the main hall, so the Sawhorse needs to stay close enough to stay inside the vicinity circle without cluttering the walking area. The community build tutorial recommends one of two layouts:
Tucked behind the workbench: directly behind the main building wall, so it still sits inside the Bonfire radius and inside the workbench vicinity circle, but it is out of your line of sight while crafting.
On a back foundation strip: many builders drop a one-tile-wide foundation behind the main building and line up the sawhorse, anvil, shoemaker's bench, and other ugly mechanical attachments on it. The Wall placement trick keeps the interior clean while still giving every parent station its tier boost.
Because dismantling a sawhorse returns 100% of its materials (20 Wood + 10 Copper Ingot), you can use it as a temporary tier booster at remote outposts. If you are sailing to another island and discover you need a tier-two craft on the fly, you can drop a forward bonfire, a workbench, and a sawhorse, craft the item, then dismantle all three. The only real cost is time: all of the materials come back to your inventory through the refund system. This is especially handy for emergency Iron Pickaxe crafts when you left your main base without one.
