Hardest thing to get in the deck i use will be the hopper cores. By the time u get 18 of those you will (likely) have the other monster parts u need. You can also just buy them for 900-1200 each in a shop
Max luck and tagging along on T6 meteor hunts will get you this pretty easily imo.
Oh yes ā¦ making coins is one of my other big problems. Since I NEVER find request baskets that really have a budget and as good as Never anyone buys something in my shop.
Go on two T6 hunts with an autolooter and youāll be set for weeks. You donāt even have to contribute to combat. Mass crafts worth of trophies
I never get a loot on the T6 hunts, because Iām always dying the group that does not notice it keeps on running and they do not find it anymore ā¦ or come too late and all loots despawnten.
Iāve found Ark&Arts to be the cheapest/best around for trophies.
Perhaps if people actually knew how to find your shop they might buy stuffā¦
Huh, weird, wonder why you canāt see al the coin I stuff in my baskets thenā¦
Usually if i die someone comes to rez me eventually. If you can stick with the group they will rez you 9 times out of 10 from my experience. I once died and sank to the bottom of a river and someone still came to rez me. Just keep at it and it will pay off 
Are you hunting in the big P.U.R.E. and PS groups? I guess I forgot to ask
yes. I do big P.U.R.E. hunts
Alright nice. If you spend the next weeks doing something, dedicate it to leveling a hunter alt or putting some points into tank spec on a new skill page so you can just run around with an autolooter and survive more. Bodies donāt disappear for like 5 minutes and items take around 3(?) Which should be plenty of time even if you die and have to run back
Iām going to add that I did a hunt three weekends in a row, and after a single mass craft requiring wildstock horn, Iām already in need again.
The animal trophy requirements are insane. Who has time for that? The drop rate for trophies needs to be MUCH higher.
Thatās why I donāt use those ingredients in my deck. Seriously, you donāt need them. Just made a lvl9 dmg hammer with my deck, cost me 3k coins in ingredients. I realised the levels I mentioned in my previous post were with 150% effectiveness, even with it I could make lvl7-8 damage aoe hammers.
Iāll have to take a closer look.
Cheaper method for sure but too much rng for me. But this could be a good option for people who are trying to get into forging. Definitely a better option than mine if you canāt easily gather/buy the higher end mats easily.
Youāre playing the same rng no matter the method. The difference is what you do when the rng isnāt favorable.
Deconstruction method restarts from scratch. Gets too expensive if you want 3 specific boons from different categories.
Boon removal method uses somewhat expensive materials to fix the bad roll by buying another roll with stab&vigor.
Boon transmute method uses super expensive materials to fix it with less impact on stab&vigor.
In my calculations I take all the deconstructions in to account. On average I deconstruct around 10 times before I have the boons I want.
Itās an interesting method to consider for some stuff that I really like having (magnetic + light stuff for the off-hand for example).
I should use it to finally make a magnetic torch iron wrench for every one of my alts at some point. 
For regular tools I really like having aoe + damage + durability, that would probably be a bit easier with other methods.
Yeah three specific buffs is close to impossible without more advanced materials. Iāve got durability only with pure luck, itās funny seeing heavy duty pop up with 2 effect and 4 special gums. I mean Iām happy when it happens, but more often if it misses the special category itāll be something from effect category, obviously.
Forging is really more of a near endgame activity imo. Just because you can see the top of the stairs doesnāt mean you can or should have it right away. Really, stairs sums it up metaphorically.
Not all forging is the same, tho.
I was doing gamble-forging on iron tools with nothing more than Pure Boon 1 ever since I was able to mass craft the compound.
(Which took way longer than being able to make a forge, since reactive lamella was a bit of an annoyance around headstart / launch)
Like I said before, any forging that doesnāt add a defect/quirk will always be some sort of improvement, even if itās a minor one, so if you can do it, thereās no reason not to.
More advanced techniques merely reduce the randomness.
Heck, back then I even won the random lottery once and managed to forge a stack of iron tools with 3x3 aoe without using even gums.