It looks like that you are the only one blacksmith in the wasteland, because others are only harvesting them from dead npcs in encouters.
1 metal part 1 wood, with big carry weight or slaves I craft some for my main in no time, of course for lvling 5-10 knives is enough because you can gather the knvies from the ground later, but for pvp where u carry more and rarely get time to pick them all back, yes, it's annoying+1Devs trying to think of ways as it doesn't force players to alts and farm, and when someone suggests something like this you guys backpedal with the typical "lol why craft? or make crafting better? just farm"
LoL? It's more along the lines of farming them is much easier as it is, until it changes of course we will mention its much easier to farm them instead of craft.
Yes, we can just easily farm them. However, the point is to make crafting a little easier to make it more equivalent to farming