The good way to crafting at the beginning of the Darkfall Online

Manufacturing is not what you should do for gold, but gathering is a way to earn gold for you. Basic crafting tools are available for you on the beginner monsters. You can find “toolboxes” near the beginner monsters who also have some crafting tools. Gathering these tools enables you to save a lot of money. Otherwise it costs you 20g a pop to acquire those gathering tools from the Merchant NPC. Gathering tools will return many times that if you are careful, and zero if you are careless and get killed while harvesting.
You first stay in town to harvest crafting materials. There are plentiful wood and stone but currently they are not in high need. Trees are the resources of wood, while stones come from rocks with “stone” in the name. Unlike wood and stone, herbs are less common, but in towns are there abundant herbs. You look for orange bushes that say “herb” in the name. Metal is least common, looking for rocks named “metal”. Metal is not very common in town, but they are in urgent need. Fish can be gathered from any water.
Make gold by selling some of what you gather to other players. And then use the gold to buy better quality crafting tools to process the rest into refined resources to sell to players. Remember that under certain circumstances that processed materials may be worth than unprocessed materials. Do be surprised! That is because you are extracting an intangible resources from the unprocessed resources when you are process it.