After a lot of careful consideration, I came to the conclusion that gleam is indeed special and should be treated as such. I pitched an idea to @james prior to the farming release concerning this. I thought of introducing a system called “Gleam Synthesis”. This would basically allow players to grow/multiply gleam utilizing a new machine. This would also allow the option of adding goo pigment for potentially mutating the colour gleam grown. To help balance rarity, gleam could only be grown in small batches over a period of time. I hope something like this can be considered a viable solution in the future.
This is a hard subject for me, so I’ve tried to refrain from diving into it again. I’m just gonna leave this here…