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Every Machine In Aloft And What It Does

Machine Name

Recipe

What Is It Used For?

A character standing with several machines in Aloft.

Machinery in the Home Menu

Home Kite

Claim an island as your home island.

Workbench

Bring raw materials here and combine up to five of them at once to make newrecipes and resources.

Glider Stand

Allows you to make new gliders.

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Sewing Table

Combine processed fabrics and dyes tocreate new clothing, which typically has additional stat boosts or abilities.

Upgrade Station Frame

This is only the base for what will become your upgrade station.

Campfire

A small fire, to which you could add a cooking plate tomake prepared mealsfrom your raw ingredients.

Processing wood into planks in Aloft.

Machinery in the Production Menu

Windmill Connector

Linking Windmills to other machinery to improve and automate said machines.

Leaf Windmill

Placed on islands to generate energy with wind so you could automate your machinery.

Sawmill

Cutting raw wood into planks.

An upgrade station, bone storage, and workbench to make new recipes in Aloft.

Millstone

Grinding materials to process them into other usable materials.

Flax Break

Processes raw flax into fibre, which can then be spun into linen fabric at a loom.

It also breaks down mykter samples into standard mykter strands.

A lost key sitting on an altar on an island in Aloft.

Spinner

Process mykter strands or fibre into usable rope.

Loom

Weave raw materials into usable fabrics.

Using leaves makes leaf fabric, wool makes wool fabric, and broken-down flax fibre makes linen fabric.

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Kiln

Processes clay into terracotta for use in designs.

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