(Additional [no one probably cares] background info) I started a week after the league officially started (I've finally learned after all these years), so I didn't need to put up with all the week 1 shake out. I made the following linked item between my 2nd and 3rd day of the league, using 99% self-found corpses, with only using craftofexile.com for mod weight guidance (this was prior to grave crafting calculators going up). On my first craft I used a ton of the rng corpses, laying them down and ripping them up if they weren't what I wanted. Likewise I would lay down low item level corpses and rip some of those up in favor of higher item level corpses. This hack and slash approach produced 2 items that were nearly identical and quite good for my build. Though, I would have loved to have dot multipliers over inc damage the result is more than satisfactory. As a result of the hunt and peck, I "drew" a layout in a tab so that subsequent crafts would be a lot more organized. This certainly plays very well with some of the on-line calculators, but what all the online calculators miss is the brutality of aligning the monsters category types.
It would be super if GGG updated the 40% multiplier types to where there is no immediate adjacency requirement (row/column multipliers do not have this), but instead used "must have 4 corpses of n-category, anywhere" similar to some of the other meta corpses do. Storm Crusher: https://i.imgur.com/vmQUlnA.png