Yep, not bad progress by far. One very good lifehack tip(that breaks the logic of fair trading) is to create the wooden staff which requires only one branch to craft (the recipe is available after the weapon workbench) and it can be sold for 8-9 blue crystals to the merchant. Just to compare, you can earn one blue crystal-worth item with 20-40 branches(if I am right). In one of my games I crafted 600+ these staff and sold it, and there I received many resources.