Chop Chop Inc Bober Guide: Auto Furniture Crafter Setup

Bober the Builder is the beaver who turns Chop Chop Inc from a hand-cranked woodshop into a real factory. His Automatic Furniture Crafter is the first machine that crafts furniture for you while you chop, haul, or explore — and it stays your main production system until the larger Work Hall setup takes over later in the game. This guide covers the full unlock chain, the Borek escort quest that supercharges your machines, and how to keep the crafter fed so it never idles.

Who Is Bober (and Who Is Borek)?

Bober is a friendly builder character with his own quest line — there is even a “Find Bober the Builder” achievement tied to meeting him, and the soundtrack gives him his own theme. Later in the story you meet Borek, Bober’s twin brother, who becomes the key to upgrading your automation.

Do not confuse the two machines they are associated with:

• Bober’s Automatic Furniture Crafter — the standalone auto-crafting machine you build near your base. This is your bread-and-butter furniture automation.
• The Warehouse Auto Crafter — a separate machine built inside the warehouse. Some late recipes are auto-only and can only be produced here, so you will eventually need both. To deposit items or characters into it, click next to the Info sign inside the warehouse.

Both stations sit inside a larger roster — see the full machines list and unlock order for where they land in the progression.

Prerequisites: Base First, Then Work Hall

You cannot build the Automatic Furniture Crafter the moment you get the recipe. The build chain confirmed by players is:

1. Build your base (the main house structure, which needs materials like beams, planks, nails, and roof tiles).
2. Build the Work Hall next to the house.
3. Only then does the machine construction menu open — the Auto Furniture Crafter is built from the Work Hall, alongside the game’s other automation machines.

One community hint also mentions you may need to “talk to the fish” to progress the related quest step (verify in-game — this appears in player discussions but the exact trigger is not documented).

Expect some grinding here: the base and Work Hall both demand a large stack of processed wood. Set up a sawhorse routine for birch beams and planks before you start, or the material checklist will stall you for an hour.

The Borek Quest: Step by Step

Once the Auto Furniture Crafter exists, Borek gets his own mission — and completing it is what makes the machine truly worth it. Here is the sequence players have confirmed:

1. Buy the airport ticket

Use your Wooden PC to purchase a ticket for 2,000 coins. This triggers the pickup at the airport.

2. Collect Borek

Travel to the airport area and interact with Borek after the dialogue. He goes into your inventory — yes, you carry a beaver home.

3. Visit Bober

Bring Borek to his brother Bober and watch the dialogue. Bober tells you what Borek needs before he can start working.

4. Grab the safety gear

Return to the PC and collect the helmet and the vest — this is the “Safety first” step of the mission.

5. Place Borek at the assembly tool

Walk up to the crafter and look for an opening right ahead where you can click at the assembly tool. Deposit Borek there. If you are doing the warehouse variant of this step, remember the slot is next to the Info sign inside the warehouse, not on Bober’s machine.

The reward

Players report the completed station grants 50% faster Automation Crafting on all Auto Machines (verify in-game — figure comes from community testing, not patch notes). That buff applies factory-wide, which is why this quest should jump to the top of your list the moment the crafter is built.

Keeping the Crafter Fed

The Auto Furniture Crafter follows the same chain as every automation setup in Chop Chop Inc: input, processing, routing, crafting, output. The machine only works as fast as its slowest supplier, so:

• Pair it with an Auto Tree Chopper. Leave a recipe in the chopper and trees respawn and re-chop on a roughly 90-second cycle, giving you a hands-free log stream — full setup in the auto harvester guide.
• Keep a storage bin stocked next to the crafter. Machines pull from nearby storage but do not coordinate with each other — the saw will not speed up just because the crafter is starving (a known player complaint, so plan buffers manually).
• Queue set pieces together. Furniture sets sell for bonus cash — see furniture orders — and a dedicated crafter churning out one set’s pieces is the cleanest way to farm those bonuses.
• Travel light. Veteran players recommend carrying just your axe and coffee, letting bins and machines hold everything else so automation pulls from the right containers.

Common Mistakes

• Building machines before the Work Hall exists — the option simply is not there; finish the base first.
• Putting Borek in the wrong machine — the escort quest slot is at the assembly tool opening; the warehouse crafter is a different station.
• Ignoring auto-only recipes — if a furniture order refuses to craft at your workbench, check whether it is warehouse-auto-crafter-only.
• Skipping the 2,000-coin ticket to save money — the factory-wide speed buff pays for itself within a few orders.

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