If you want to build your brewing fast and cheap, and can forage, you
can do so with vegetable oil. Just foraged vegetables and purchased
water. No containers, just water to buy. Everytime I have a load of
veggies I stop and brew some. Still don't know what vegetable oil is
for.

For smithing the best advance with little cost is metal bits. When
metal bits no longer gains advance, make toolboxes. Use the tool
boxes as bank containers.When toolboxes no longer advance, make
skewers. This seems to be the lowest cost and least involved product
to get you up to lvl 85.

At lvl 85 you can begin cranking out banded armor with reasonable
success. Haven't yet looked past that.

Baking is easy to advance if you forage. Fish rolls. Hunt a stack of
bat wings, fish a mess of fish. Combine in oven, one and one. The
level to trivial is around 100.

I am based in Rivervale, so I can do all of this mostly in that zone.
Have to pop over o misty for the batwings.

Haven't found a quick and easy way to advance pottery, yet. Tailoring
has been my primary skill, advancing with my main experience as I
made my own armor. Hope one day to make Misty armor.

Barto Proudfoot