to upgrade smelting right now, we would need to spend 150k, considering we are using the cheapest material "cobala ore"
we would need 5000 cobala ore to get smelting from 1 to 500, that's just too much and way more than the price of both the designs we are going to be using, why should we craft things we dont need and waste 150k on them?
smelting is the only crafting skill that takes so much gold, considering we can level up processing by crafting and discarding fish baits for free, and we can level up alchemy by crafting things we need or can use later, in smelting if we use fish crates we would still need 1666 cobala ore and still need to go around for days gather plain stones and it wont be enough, this needs to be changed!!!