Returning Player Question

Im back after I guess a year hiatus, and I was wondering if crafting is completely dead.

Not if you can make ninja tools...

If you finish your cooking, level up your fishing, make a full time gardening mule, and start manipulating supply and demand of food..... you can make a meager living.

I do pretty decently with alchemy, bonecraft and gardening but also harvesting in Giddeus and actually farming beastman blood still brings in a "salary"...... for ninja tools and boltheads and you are no longer limited to pashow and caederva as you can get blood in areas of abyssea too and welcome back.