I’ve discovered that the crafting system doesn’t maintain volume. If you craft a dagger and then dismantle it, you get back 4X what you put in
So I took an arcanite axe and crafted with it over and over till I had a full set of arcanite armor, a shield, and a scimitar
Works with carrots too. If you dismantle a carrot into a Carrot Stone, it weighs more and you get more perception out of it
Also you can craft Rune Swords
I had a valpurium rune sword a couple days ago. I died very quickly because I didn't actually have any other good gear