I've been inspired, dammit. I now want to try and overhaul production types, namely machinery and improved things, though understandably I can't mod in -actual- machinery but meh. The basics are to improve homeland production by several magnitudes. Instead of simply "produce stuff" there's a few more hoops to jump through, though I want these hoops to be rather accessible. For instance, you can produce a Breastplate, which is basically a curved piece of metal, or a Plate Mail, which is a series of overlapping metal plates connected by some form of leather or fancy sliding setups. The one is simple, the other affords higher mobility and a bit more protection, but it's complicated so it must be produced along with a few other materials, like leather for the creases and blueprints for the specifics of how to piece it all together.
I'd also like to make books, like for real books, and book cases made from furniture material, with the bookcase containing ~10 books each. With quality reading material, the value of a good bookshelf could be rather high. Different books may do different things. A book on armorsmithing could be used to train fledgling armorsmiths, but then you'd have a lot of very skilled crafters of all types, so there needs to be some balance there...
Anyways, I'd like to gather ideas. Workshops, armors, weapons, complicated reactions (like making molten gold contained in a glass vial or creating clockwork pieces for use in bits of machinery or weaponry, such as oversized crossbows), and even things like new nobles. How about a Grand Mechanist noble, who requires a room with a bed, a coffer, and a steam engine (which would be purely furniture... maybe...)?
I'd also like to point out that it's possible to create fire via a workshop, by generating a product who's ignite point is lower than its default temperature, causing it to instantly ignite and spread fire for whatever purpose. This workshop can also be built of flammable items, like building a small bonfire from goblinite, and dumping the rest of that goblinite on top of it for quick disposal or, perhaps, steam generation if possible.