By which I mean, you can set a number of steps at once at the beginning, such as your buffs and gums when you know what you want as a pattern. The forge would autospin for as many steps as you add once you press begin forging, then when the programmed steps are completed the forging process could continue as now.
I am very bored of setting 10 gums plus buffs manually over and over on single hammers to avoid costly RNG horror. I am thinking templates here.
To take it a pie-in-the-sky step further, allow forge crafters to craft these recipes into recipe tokens and sell them in shop stands.