Originally posted by MrDugan:

I keep seeing people say they bury workbenches to lower spawn in certain areas, so I tried it. I dug a hole, put a work bench in it, and started filling it back up, and it broke the bench.

Either I'm doing something wrong, or maybe they patched it? I'm getting completely worked over the in swamps and just want to be able to lower spawn to something more manageable.

We've not be able to fully bury structures like that for a long while now. As others mentioned, just dig a pit and floor board it.