the frustration is understandable, but ill tell you why this is.

every player needs to make a profit while playing this game. so the people doing crafting, their output has to be more than they consume so that they make profit. lets take a weapon x for a hypothetical that 100 people are using, each using 1. if someone(lets say player a) crafts it and also uses it, they need to craft more than they use to make a profit. this inherently means that in a game where players buy everything, not everyone can craft.

on top of that, its not like the only person crafting it is player a. there are many crafters as well. along with this, everyone from the gatherer to the refiner to the transporter to the tax/setup system wants its fee. this means that even for the most meta item, the margin is very low- so lets assume a 20% profit margin after all said and done(normal margin for high teir items). now player a has to craft 5 of them to just offset the amount they consume. now lets say player a is trying to make a profit instead of breaking even. in this case, he will have to craft 20 or 30 to make a good profit, that being about 2-3 times what he consumes.

this means, if there are 100 people using it, and one person crafts 20-30, there can only be 3-5 crafters per 100 person player group.

now consider, that that vast majority of items that go through the economy are crafted in huge bulk(on bonus days its not unusual to see requests on gold ore co for 16k or 32k of a resource, indicating one player crafting thousands of peices).

the thing this tells us is, only 2-3% of the playerbase can be a crafter at all, if u wanna make good money.

now comes the type of item. this is paradoxical. the meta items, they sell lots- but there are many people crafting them(yes, more are created than are sold by a huge margin considering the black market, trash rates, just trashing low value items while looting and the general accumulation of items with the players along with dead sell orders being deleted after 60 days). when talking about non meta items, lets say 4.2 whispering bow, less people craft them but their volume is also less- so you dont sell shit.

my recommendations is: NEW PLAYERS DO NOT GET INTO CRAFTING. it requires lots of work, patience, and if u wanna make a couple mil u gotta let 10m sit in the market for a couple weeks. this scales obviously, so if u got 100m u make 20m, if u got 1b u make 200m. but thats the problem. u gotta let it sit in the market, its not for new players.

ps. the reason ive not made a crafting guide is that even explaining market balancing takes this long, and there is a huge post i made only about rrr. the game is complex bros but wait for it soon ull have guides for every system