Here’s a relevant story, for thsoe wondering about the minter, those who think they “can’t afford forged tools” etc…
About a half hour ago someone posted this thread:
I responded with the amount i had on hand but even though I responded in seconds they’re already unresponsive. In olden times I wouldn’t have done something like this on spec, but now we have the minter. I filled my inventory with gleam.
Actually i didn’t realize how close to full i was you can see i basically wasted a mega speed. No problem. I was super efficient, too:
The hammer:
So here’s the deal. I used about half of that hammer. Yeah it’s got some dura but it was leftover from some mining earlier you can see i didn’t even finish a pie.
Expenses for this run were half of a T5 hammer you can readily buy for 5-6 k coins. One persisting pie, and three mega speed brews. Could have done it in two but still, I spent 900c on buffs and maybe 3k on tool wear. Total cost under 4k
23 smart stacks is 20,700 gleam. Ras gleam mints for .3c so I can walk to the uncoiled minter on my base and collect 6,210 coin right away - leaving me over 2k in profit.
Or i can refine it for zero power or spark, refined gleam mints for .5 coins. and it multiplies 36/50. So a little time pushing this into refiners it creates ((20700/36)*50) = 28750 refined gleam which mints at .5 coin each for 14,375 coins.
I know, that doesn’t even seem right. I double checked the math. Plus the levels and cubits and plots for refining 575 mass crafts of refined gleam 
If I take that stuff over to the semi-public minter that’s fully coiled, it’s going to pay me an extra 40%.
That’s 20,125 coins. And bunch of EXP and all that comes with it. For an expense of less than 4k, and barely a half hour.harvesting.
There shouldn’t even BE posts about how people can’t afford to do stuff any more, IMO.
Also i’m sort of hoping that dude doesn’t respond now LMAO.