seems quite impossible since only the advanced workbenches have a 5x recipe for SK construction frame (carpenter), 5 SK oculars (ceramist), Steam compressors (metalworks) (5x) . Well for a single steam knight you need 1 construction frame, 1 ocular, 1 chassis and two power cores (which itself need 8 steam compressors). I don't see the need to produce five steam knights. Single yield recipes with 1/5 the cost would fit the game much much better.
Have to correct myself... carpentry workbench has the single recipe for SK construction frame ceramist workbench has the single recipe for SK Oculars Smithing forge has the single recipes for seam compressors and sk chassis I was certainly looking in the wrong places for those modules. Better hints on producing them would be helpful
The recipes are (incorrectly) not locked on the advanced workbench. This is fixed in the current dev build and will be corrected for the next patch.