A, I don’t have the resources to Make them. I don’t ever Collect Silver or Gold, I’m too busy mining for Iron in Metal Worlds, or trying my luck at Diamonds every once in a very long while. So I can’t make any alloy.
I also need Enriched Bonding Agent, which is an item I’ll never be able to craft, ever. It needs Glue, which is something I already have a hard time crafting/buying just for Iron Tools, (The one resource I don’t farm myself and instead buy it and request it.), On top of that, now need Fresh and Ancient Vital Essence, and worse than that, Shimmering Orbs, and Spark.
Fresh Vital Essence needs Monster Drops, and I’m not a hunter, I hate combat. It’s why Glue is something I can’t farm, I can’t farm Bones. So collecting a mass amount of Monster Drops? Just for a little bit of Fresh Vital Essence? ESPECIALLY when different parts need different ammount, some need spark and some don’t, and some even need power?! There is no way I’ll ever get Fresh Vital Essence.
As for Ancient Vital Essence, I just looked at my fossil collection. Which I’ve never sold any of, so it’s my entire collection from starting the game to now, through all my hours of mining. And It would net me about 1000 Ancient Vital Essence. Sounds like a lot, right? It’s only enough for 2 Mass Crafts of Enriched Bonding Agent, which needs 360 of the stuff each. And that’s IF I can get the other ingrediants too, which I can’t.
Shimmering Orbs. I’ve read so much about these things. Rare T5+ resources, that are super rare to drop, required in all the End Game recipies, can’t be collected by mining for Diamonds, on top of that since it’s used in everything for high tier items, and so low drop rate, the prices for just 1 is very very high. I can barely afford Glue, No way in hell I can afford 36 Shimmering Orbs from the few people that do sell them, per Mass Craft.
Then there is the Spark, Element in most of these Recipies, and in the Titanium Tool crafting itself. I don’t ‘Mine’ for Peat, and no one sells Peat, and using Peat just feel fundamentally wrong for Smelting and Sparking. Instead I use Coal, which I don’t have the Power needed to Compact, nor the ammount to compact them anyways, and unless I go specifically to a Coal World, and waste a powerful 3x3 Hammer farming just for Coal, no way I’ll have enough to fuel both Smelting, and the Spark Elements.
Right now, Iron is just so much easy for me to farm the Iron Ore, bits of Coal along side to smelt it all, hatingly running around collecting wood, found a place where I can collect hundreds of Fiberish Leaves, (Enough where I’ve got exactly 1600 Sackcloth I’ll be using soon), on top of buying Glue when I can afford it from my sales to keep restocking my shop.