One minor change to the hidden workshop azone.

[Kotlol]

Danger Noodle sums it up reasonably well. The hidden workshop katana is not meant to be an effective weapon, it's meant to be a cool thing you do because you can. It only needs to be worth doing once for the novelty, not worth doing for the specific purpose of having a sword to use.

It's like, part of going to a theme park. Come to the cool aesthetic azone! Have a souvenir!

Exactly this. The workshop is an easy accesiable and chill Azone. If you can make an actual weapon with use... it will make spotting katana antagonists harder AAAAND...
It would make people meta game for it. Want a weapon? Go to science, find the workshop on the telescope wich mostly arrives in the 1st 10 mins, spend some minutes making the katana, come back... now you are on par with an antagonist.

I'd be hell for security, I'd be hell for antags, I'd be hell for normal staffies who are making them.

Keep em gimmicky.