After a long period away from the game, I came back to notice that there's now a noticable time requirement for crafting items. I don't know when this was added in development, but it really just amounts to pointless dead space in the game. You literally have to sit there staring at the crafting screen doing absolutely nothing. You order up X number of items, you press the button, and you stop playing Starbound for... however long the crafting takes. To what benefit? It doesn't seem to serve game balance in any way. If I'm wrong about that, perhaps it could be changed so that you can order up some items and close the window to let crafting complete unattended. Maybe even queue up multiple orders. Though really, I feel like instant crafting is perfectly justified here. Edit: Uh... this was not the right place to post this and there's already a thread by someone else about it there. Time to feel dumb. Sorry.
I agree with this, farmed fibre like crazy for my first mission, only to stand staring the screen for a loooong time waiting for my salves
