“Dev: Workstations and Tools Pack” is, exactly as its name and description suggest, a special item prepared for development and testing. When you open it, you receive a full set of test workstations along with the tools and resources needed to use them—in other words, it’s designed as a “verification environment set.”
When to Use It
Rather than an item you find or craft in normal survival play, the intended way to obtain it is to pull it out of the creative menu (developer menu). Its use is likely aimed mainly at cases like these:
- When you want to quickly check the behavior of a new recipe or workstation
- When you want to skip the hassle of gathering workstations from scratch while testing MOD creation or server settings
- When you want to place a batch of workbenches at an event venue or on a tutorial map
Tips on Where to Use It
As the phrase “for test workstations” indicates, this is less a reward for retail play and more of a behind-the-scenes convenience tool. Handing it out carelessly in a normal world could throw off the economy and progression balance, so if you’re going to distribute it, it’s safest to keep it to verification worlds or environments with creative mode enabled.
Since exactly which workstations, tools, and resources are included can vary by version and configuration, we recommend actually opening it and checking the contents before working it into your operations. First, open it once in a verification world and check whether the workstations you’re after are all there.